skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the fact checkers conveniently ignore controversies that are open and shut bad behaviour on the left

Could be true, I guess. Everyone has "perspective" about what is important. That still doesn't seem to be a reason to disbelieve a fact checker when they tell you that, say, POTUS is lying, though.

> Though I have to say the whole concept of a single self-appointed authoritative source troubles me, what with its Ministry of Truth overtones.

There are literally multiple competing fact checking organizations. How exactly does that have overtones of centrally enforced authority? How in particular given that the actual central authority in this country has made a habit about calling correct but unflattering coverage "lies"?
He isn't highly recommended because he is any good. He is recommended because of his position within the school and program.

He has a special (and corrupt) relationship with the guidance counselors where they only give out his number when a student is struggling in a higher level math class.

This is only one of the issues I have with this charter school. It's really run like a pyramid scheme where almost 80% of the initial freshman fail out and end up having to transfer back to their home schools with bad grades.

Given how the school is run, the corrupt relationship with this teacher isn't surprising to me, but it is a pretty gross situation to witness.
This rings incredibly true to me and I'm glad the idea is spreading. My diet philosophy pitch to people is this:

(Cribbed from my post above:)

THE BEST DIET to lose weight is about psychology 80% and nutrition 20%. Most of the value you're going to get by keeping your weekly calories low. You can try variations of macronutrients, meal timing and frequency, voodoo, etc. but the best one is the one you stick with, and can stick with long enough to reach your goals.

Maybe you'll need to think about essential minerals and nutrients if you're trying something really really extreme. But with even minimal variety you should be good.
Starting from when, Emperor Jimmu?
I really enjoyed Angular 1.x, was not happy with the 2.0 version (other then they fixed some critical performance issues with scaling websites). It was perfect for making simple single page applications for internal use at an an eCommerce company. POS, Order Processing, RMA processing, Research, competition and price controls, inventory & warehouse management, etc. I use ReactJS for large applications these days.
I don’t think so. Earlang tooling, rebar3 and erlang.mk, is not really the best out there.
Artificial – Twitch's first ever original and interactive show
oh, dear. Not this tar pit...
I don't think you could be more wrong.
That predicate falsey assumes "life" can only survive in earth like conditions
I live near Little Rock, Arkansas. There are many interesting headstones around here, and some of the cemetaries have educational sessions once in a while (usually around Halloween.)

It's a little dark, but fascinating. The Free Masons especially have some interesting 'secret' messages contained in the markers.
Linking with GNAT standard library is the problem, it's not about the compiler itself.
Spontaneous Combustion (2006)
As it happens in most things related to media, the left blazed a trail and the right perfected the exploitation techniques.

The internet in the '90s was a fervour of "indie media", "citizen reporting", "the revolution will not be televised", culminating in the Iraq war build-up, which was a watershed of sorts. Now the exact same attitudes are being exploited in a coordinated manner by the right, anti-vaxxers, astroturfers and other special interests.

This is not just a US phenomenon, by the way -- the same can be observed pretty much globally.
Totally understand that a project can't be perfect, and I could be wrong, but I feel that if there are a lot of bugs, the project scope is too big and/or the requirements are not well understood.

There is also the matter of really picky customers; however, if a customer can articulate what you are doing wrong, I don't think that it's a bad thing if they are picky.

Quality should be in step with expectations; selling services that can't be achieved with in a specific time slot is worse than trying to fix all of the bugs.
So, you think our textbooks are chosen because they are good quality at a reasonable price?
What is elixir lacking in terms of timezones and timestamp formatting? Examples?
It doesn't feel like the results justify the 20% drop.

You have to remember one main way analysts estimate what a share is worth today - they model out time-discounted earnings in perpetuity. A company that is expected to grow in the future is worth much more today than a company that isn't expected to grow at all.

The stock didn't drop because they missed this quarter alone, it's because all the analysts models are now assuming future earnings will grow much more slowly into the foreseeable future.
The pessimistic guidance dovetails well with Zuckerberg's recent, wide-ranging interview with Kara Swisher[1]. FB has been the darling of tech and general media, until the last 2 years--turning a great brand to an increasingly toxic one. By Zuckerberg's own estimation, FB's "retooling" needs 3 years, and they are about 1 1/2 years in, so the guidance reflects that timeline. If they deliver on that timeline, a rough 2nd half of 2018 and all of 2019 is to be expected.

[1] https://www.recode.net/2018/7/18/17575156/mark-zuckerberg-in...
Evidence of a second occurrence of abiogenesis would be bad news in that it would significantly lower the probability that abiogenesis is the Great Filter, though it wouldn't rule out a Filter somewhere between abiogenesis and human-level civilization.

But this discovery alone doesn't imply much, as we already know the presence of liquid water isn't that rare. We need to examine it first.
Typescript is super easy to bring into a project. Just rename .js to .ts and turn the validations off. Any valid JS is also valid TS. Build step is one command to run tsc. You can turn things on slowly as you refactor into idiomatic typescript.

React is a PITA to setup and learn, as is Angular. They're the modern equivalent of Java EE. "Heavy" but if you have something complex to do and know your way around they make hard things easy. The learning curve is tough but so worth it
It solves this already and has done for many years (but this depends on what you mean exactly by "the way that Nix does").
thanks, the current state of dialyxir is quite good! I use it in my toolchain.
I mean, when you think about how many people were using jQuery for

(a) cross-browser compatibility, which mostly works now (except for cutting edge stuff, which is pretty optional)
(b) $.ajax (uses that could be replaced by window.fetch)
(c) Sizzle (Replaced by document.querySelector[All])
My grandfather was Akihito’s waiter in the 80s
If you haven't read it already, I strongly suggest reading the original Dremel paper [0]. It's no doubt somewhat out of date, but I believe BQ is based in Dremel.

tl;dr for underlying storage model: distributed column store which pushes computation down a tree to leaf nodes to parallelize disk I/O. Parent nodes aggregate computations before returning to the client.

[0]: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub36632
Our security training vendor requires whitelisting multiple domains and the installation of Adobe Flash. How do I trust a vendor whose implementation requires poking more security holes in my systems?
What if, to some extent, it's simply reflecting objective truth? Reality isn't concerned with being inoffensive. Obviously any system that actively discriminates against intrinsic traits shouldn't be put into production, but if we have to game a system to make it agree with us, there's some intellectual dishonesty involved.
This happens because the players outside the simulation purchased an in-game upgrade.
It's funny to suggest that after hours trading means less. The people trading during the regular session were literally just gambling, whereas the people trading in the after are trading on new fundamental information.

What I'd really like to know about today's regular session is why seven billion dollars worth of shares changed hands on the last tick.
The way Perl 6 makes this more manageable is with grammars.
(See previous post for an example)

Since a grammar is just a special type of class you can put regexes into roles and compose them together. You can even inherit from another grammar if you only need to change parts of it.

Also if there is something that is difficult to do regularly in the regex sub-language, it allows you to use regular Perl 6 code inline.
(A regex is just a special type of method with a domain specific sub-language.)

Also if there is a bug you can use Grammar::Debugger or Grammar::Tracer to help find it.
(I had a bug in the earlier post and used Grammar::Tracer to find and fix it within seconds.)

A Perl 6 grammar can look remarkably similar in structure to BNF.
https://github.com/moritz/json/blob/master/lib/JSON/Tiny/Gra...
https://trac.ietf.org/trac/json/browser/abnf/json.abnf
This. The use case needs to fit Elixir so well that it makes up for the difficulty in hiring devs etc.
Don't work under non-technical people who believe in hand-waving.

Even if they are well meaning and fair, eventually they will hit a comprehension limit. At that point arbitration for any technical debate should be escalated to a board of suitably qualified people, but they will be unwilling or literally unable to do it. Eventually as a consequence bad technical decisions will be made.

That's the best case scenario. In the worst case scenario you're already undergoing, your boss has no clue who's the better dev or why in your team.
There's a reason it's like that: the right side has arrow keys, so I made them all G20. The left side has page up/page down so I made them both SA R3.
I see all those hypotheses but are those verifiable? Did they result in some solid explanations that allowed useful predictions to be made? Or do they play "my idea is better" game?

(edit: yeah, silently downvote people asking questions... people shouldn't ask things. Or is it some sore I stepped on unknowingly?)
For development purposes, I'm deploying it on an on-prem device running ubuntu, inside a singularity container (a little bit laxer on the security front than docker, for dev probably ok, but when we look to productize it we might think about other strategies).

In particular since the final product is on-prem, the highly available, let-it-fail philosophy is appealing to reduce the number of issue tickets we're likely to have to deal with.

Don't take my strategy as gospel - I am on an open-ended, highly divergent branch of our company's product line and have been given a lot of product leeway by management that is.... "open-minded".
I'm not claiming special knowledge here but I think the hypothesis is that there is a complex relationship between caloric intake/composition and metabolism.

So if you reduce your caloric intake but your body reacts with a reduction in basic metabolism or more aggressive storage of fat, then total weight may not go down. In addition this response mechanism is different for different people.
Sergeant course, USMC. 2002

Neosho, Mo

Better than Boot Camp.
^this. I have played guitar for quite some time, starting with basic popular stuff and then progressing to classical guitar. Despite being able to read music and play intermediate pieces I do not have the level of theory/understanding that the article suggests K A gained in his epiphany.
HN is a property, so I suspect the politics of downvoting are beside the point.

I've had one or two vigorously up-voted comments manually pushed beneath grayed-out ones. I have heard others suspect/complain that the points awarded to their posts/comments have not always been one-to-one. Manual moderation is a powerful (and not always transparent) force here.

And as long as everyone knows what the game is, I have no complaints about that. It's YC's board. They can do what they want with it.
Post-mortem: AdWords suspension triggered by Drift chat
Kind of off topic but why do you consider Haml better than Slim?
I've seen something that may be related - a comment abruptly getting downvoted twice. That can happen just by coincidence, but it seems to me that it happens too often to multiple comments in the same thread.

Maybe we need something like keeping track of the IP address of downvotes, and seeing if multiple downvotes to the same comment come from the same IP address? Or seeing if two accounts have a strong correlation of downvotes?
You misspelled Jayson Blair.
Both parts of the title are correct:

* Not all are worth fixing, that is, the (financial) upside of their being fixed is too low compared to the effort required.

* And it's okay, that is, it's something we have to accept and live on, though it's not really nice and satisfying.
Inspector General's Report Re: The NSA [pdf]
Non-technical / ignorant people are also highly likely to put blobs of text content into PDFs as raster images, which pretty much makes them impossible to search/index or deal with for visually impaired persons' software assistance tools. I have seen too many government PDFs that would be impossible to understand if I were visually impaired.
Incidentally, 'doctor' is Latin for 'teacher'.
When a building is being knocked down and replaced with another, the construction workers usually don't clear the rubble. They just flatten the rubble and build ontop of it. That means that cities like Rome and Vienna truly are building up, ontop of centuries of different buildings. If you look at walkways down to the Tiber river in Rome, you have to go down two or three flights of stairs to get to the river. I imagine that Rome was originally flush or close-to-flush with the river, and now it's 3 stories taller.
> Selling it to anyone who pays the price seems like a bad idea. Which is inevitably what will happen here the next time the company needs to "maximize shareholder value" [...]

23andMe is still held exclusively by private capital.

Nowhere in the reporting does it note GSK negotiated the right to resell 23andMe data. Furthermore, it specifically notes "[if an option is taken to extend the arrangement for a 5th year], GSK will become 23andMe’s exclusive drug target discovery collaborator."

Edit: See searine's thread below for a better discussion of why this is critically important to drug development https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17611775
It may be so—as I suggested. :)

FWIW (anecdata warning) two of my friends have since owned dogs, training them using the same concepts. Perhaps it's a combination of breed (some breeds may retain more of their evolutionary pack awareness than others) and the specific sorts of training exercises (e.g. make them sit and wait when a door is opened, allowing the humans to go first and then say "okay" when the dog can go through), but their dogs are always held up as exemplars of "good dogs" when the topic comes up. No anxiety, no destructive chewing, no excessive barking, o impatience, no bolting…

Every lesson and interaction was predicated on the dog's position in the hierarchy of the human family ("pack"), and the only "tool" used outside of verbal and hand commands was a tasty treat (no clickers, no shock collars, no halters, no spray bottles, no physical discipline, etc.)

Crates were used, but never as a form discipline or "convenience holding". That was their safe place to sleep and eat, and that's it.

I guess what I'm saying is: if the theory is outdated, a lot of the concepts that informed the training regimen that I learned back are effective today.

"They're good dogs, Brent."
Think of them more as a variation of literary criticism.

I can't prove with p<.05 that my review of _Schoolhouse Rock_ is 'correct', either.
The article makes the product look to be directed at Google Cloud customers, thus increasing its unique selling proposition over AWS and Azure.
Open Letter from Sandy Hook Parents to Mark Zuckerberg
I wanted to see if anyone ever cited him, seems not [1].

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22C...
Using probability is a good start I think. As I understand it, CERN should be able to find new particles below about 2–3 TeV in energy. It hasn't and physicists say it’s a reasonable assumption that there might not be anything new to find until energy scales of 100,000,000 TeV or more. You'll need to build and accelerator around the Sun to reach those energy levels. With that in mind, does it make sense to build something slightly larger than LHC? At billions of dollars?
AWS and Azure should provide direct support for U2F, too. It's an open standard; nothing stops either provider from doing that.
Why would you trust a Yubikey, then?

To my snarky interlocutor: congratulations, you pried the plastic off a Yubikey and found a pair of NXP MCUs. Now what? Can you even get the data sheets for those things without signing an NDA?
From the article, it doesn't seem that unusual: Dr. Cicoria didn't suddenly become an artist, it still took him a bit to get there. Specifically, the "no previous training" from the title simply doesn't apply.

The sudden part was gaining interest and passion in music - and it can be linked to him being struck by lightning.

As for the musical process - hearing music in his head, desire to listen and play, hearing his own music when starting to play other pieces - that's not at all unique. I can't vouch for everyone, but as a musicmaker, I can say that this is how a lot of people make music.

I think it's not that much unlike the flow state in coding, where one wakes up with the problem already loaded in mind, has ideas about structures and algorithms in the shower, and then figures out how to code it all during the day. Writing down the notes is - literally - coding music.

I think that if you can get a song stuck in your head, you also have this potential to hear new music in your head, and thus to make it. It just can get easily drown in all the other noise that life generates. Some people just need a shake to turn the other noise down.
I've seen a model described in which lawsuits are used to exercise executive power while bypassing the judiciary. I have no opinion on how prevalent this is:

1. An agency would like to make a rule, but that rule would exceed their authority.

2. After some quiet discussion, an NGO which is friendly with the agency sues them for not already enforcing the rule.

3. The agency settles the lawsuit, and the terms of settlement require them to enforce the rule. This bypasses inquiry into whether they're allowed to do so.

If something like this happened, I'd be pretty comfortable describing it as a "4th branch of government" or similar.
Guess they don't want usable features preventing adoption of Pocket :/

Sad times for web browsers on all fronts.
No, it was the right one, I just misread the original post and thought 350k was referring to tripling their salary.
whether I am addressing this to you or the audience: it has come out in the years since that in fact the US intelligence community agreed there was no credible threat of WMDs in Iraq, but they mostly kept their mouth shut when the Bush administration claimed otherwise.
Is the concern that GSK will resell this, or that 23andme will?

I wouldn't be as worried about GSK reselling data to insurance companies. They already have access to sensitive health information for many many people and have had access to this data for decades. You literally cannot get a drug approved without collecting sensitive medical info on patients, because you can't tell if the drug works without collecting this data. Many drugs now require some genetic testing to be done to justify a prescription

There are many laws protecting against this type of data reselling and it also isn't really in a pharma companies business interest to help insurers. Healthcare companies tend to be very protective of and territorial with their data -- especially with enemies -- and pharma and payers aren't generally on the same side

I don't understand why there's an uproar over this but at the same time people are pushing for more medical data sharing among providers / payers etc for "population health". At the very least the absolutely certainty some people are expressing about this data being used maliciously seems unfounded. There is a massive massive difference between how data is handled in tech vs healthcare
> We humans have a biological human desire to remain alive and eat food.

Humans have a biological desire for exploration because it is critical to remaining alive and finding food. Humans are such a physically weak species with such a long child raising process that we could not have survived any other way.

Exploration is how you survive when apex predators grow out of control, forcing you to move to a safer region. Exploration is how you survive when the climate changes, forcing you to find new sources of water and food. Exploration is how you survive when overpopulation puts pressure on resources, like when tribes get too close and too big to each other and go to war.

Exploration is how we survive.
SAP. Oracle's applications. Some of what IBM sells. Etc
I think most people underestimate the amount of discipline that it takes to get good at something, and overestimate the amount of time it takes. I learned WAY more in one summer of programming 16 hours a day than I did in a year of classes where I was supposedly immersing myself in learning. When I say that I was programming 16 hours a day, I was. That was _all_ I did. But I came out the other side with a much better understanding of programming, and a slightly roughed up relationship for it. If I woke up tomorrow with an inexplicable obsession for painting, I suspect I could get _much_ better than I am now in a relatively short amount of time because right now, I've spent a grand total of maybe 20 hours in my entire life painting. The thing that's intriguing to me is the sudden onset of a compulsion to do one particular thing.
Ron Wyden again. He's making a habit of this. Anyone know who Wyden's tech-focused staffer is?
Where did MS get the videos from? Can I buy/rent them?
Pretty much all of them are fully programmable. So you can swap Caps Lock with Ctrl, move Esc to the grave key, and put backspace on the backslash key. If you want to customize the actual size and position of the keys, then that is harder to find.
I don’t mean to suggest that the involved parties don’t know about microarchitectural implementations. Names aside, it’s clear from reading the RISC-V documents that they do. And I don’t mean to imply that they’re wrong about the various “unclean” elements of other RISC ISAs being bottlenecks, either.

All I mean to say is: as academic designers of a license-free ISA in the 2010s, to whatever extent they’re incentivized at all, they’re incentivized towards designing a “simple” and “elegant” ISA regardless of the concrete impact on performance or die space in a way that the MIPS, SPARC, and ARM teams in the early 80s - designing for commercial production and profitability using the processes of the time and their limited resources - weren’t.

That’s not necessarily a criticism - but the consequences of their decisions on performance and adoption are harder to say. You’re claiming otherwise, but without further evidence and based on my personal understanding of architecture and microarchitecture design I believe that ceteris paribus a low-end RISC-V implementation is likely to perform worse and use more silicon than the corresponding MIPS, ARM, or SPARC implementations. A high-end speculative, out-of-order, modern process, etc RISC-V implementation would likely be able to outperform a similar one for those architectures with less silicon. The question for me is whether we get to the point where the market builds one, and whether those potential performance improvements would (alone or in tandem with RISC-V’s other benefits) justify adoption.
I'm shocked. This could have saved people and has been forgotten due to economic structures.