skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you disagree with a new story you can simply claim it’s “fake news”.

Wonder if this is an entirely new phenomenon, or if with Trump we just got some new, and easy to prescribe nomenclature for this phenomenon you describe.

Edit: is there something objectionable about what either myself or the person I replied to said, if so I welcome a discussion on it. There's a LOT of downvote activity happening in this thread over completely reasonable arguments that are worth discussing here.
Rebar makes earthquakes worse, as seen in California's freeway collapse. The rebar depends on the concrete to prevent corrosion, but that is only good for roughly 50 years. Rust causes expansion, which cases cracking. The outer concrete falls away, leaving rebar to get crushed under the load. The obvious fixes, like stainless steel rebar, have thermal expansion coefficients that don't match concrete, so instead you get cracking even without corrosion.

Lots of Roman stuff is still standing in areas that get earthquakes. The solution is to use a conservative design, with arches and thick walls. Domes are good. We can improve on this with 3D printing, using a structure like mammalian bone: solid near the surface, and spongy in the middle.
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The high school I went to (Alvin H.S. in Alvin, TX) was laid out terribly. It was almost 70 acres, and there were dozens of buildings with classes in them.

We were given 7 minutes between classes, and my freshman year I had to cross the campus multiple times per day (more than 2000 feet each way). That meant pretty much running.

On days when it was raining, and you couldn't cut through the grass, or if you were handicapped and had to stick to the 5 foot wide covered paths, you were guaranteed to be tardy and written up or sent to your office (potentially back across campus).

In the nearly 15 years since I left that school, they have consolidated most of their buildings, and only have about 10.

They could definitely have used some sort of planning algorithm to come up with the optimum scheduling for their students.
You can't link a 12 minute audio file without saying what it exactly is. That's clickbait.
A quick thought: There is one actor on Facebook that Facebook can never -- indeed, will never -- consider removing... regardless of how bad or horrendous the community considers the behavior of that actor. That actor is of course Facebook itself.
You're looking at things from the side of the elite and I absolutely agree, that side of the fence looks fantastic.

Business is booming for the elite, the stock market is almost entirely owned by the top 10%[1] so nobody is really seeing those gains except people who already have plenty, employers are hiring but nobody has really seen a wage increase since the 90's[2] and wages are actually slightly falling[3]. Where's the bargaining power as we close in on full employment? It's nowhere to be found, and conditions are getting worse for the people who do the work.

[1] http://time.com/money/5054009/stock-ownership-10-percent-ric...

[2] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/15/for-t...
I mean if you are using interns as a way to find future employees, I'd check out the code they wrote for the best metric.

Most of them are probably hungry for a high paying tech job, and will tell you they want an offer / want to work with you. Even if to just get another offer for some bargaining power. It's probably worth asking them questions about how easy it was to ramp up and such if you are in a position where you can improve those systems.

Check out the code, is it well written? Modular? Documented? Did they go through the proper steps in your sprints / documentation? Ask their mentors if they asked questions when blocked, etc.

If they worked hard, had a good attitude / could get along with the team and wrote good code (remember they are new to coding most likely) - and you think they have a lot of potential than consider giving them an offer.
At first I thought the only way to genuinely avoid these kind of bots is to have reviewers posting videos, maybe hosted on YouTube to save costs. Videos are the only thing that can't be faked as easily (but they can with 'deep fakes'). But this won't actually solve the problem. These reviews may be fake but they're probably real people being paid to write them, and those real people can just as easily make real review videos.

I don't think there is an automated solution to "liars will lie for money". I think the only real solution is brand trust. We have to go back! Back to a time when you knew something was good because it proved that it was good, and word of mouth spread to let you know it was good. Don't trust anonymous word of mouth either.
The creator doesn’t mention that one of his marketing strategies is email spam (his mailchimp account was suspended following abuse reports).
This is freaking crazy! I bet this guy could take his pick of video production shops to work for by sending them all this video alone. Huge props for doing it all open source!
And blame it on an unidentified boogeyman / "bad actor" in the same breath as the Russian internet trolls.
Do people often "work with other people towards a common goal" though, or only give the impression of doing so, by going through the motions, and being trapped into one of the default modes of making a living in modern society?
A good example of this going wrong is described here, with the "spunk" debacle: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/05/time-coca-co...
But it is not even "a lot". $5000 can be acquired by scrapping together $500 from family/friends and giving that to a bail bond company. Not all poor people can accomplish that, but many can.

If $5000 is a better bail for this person than $500, that is a lucky accident. It is not as if $50,000 would automatically be a better number either.

Risky individuals either need to be kept in jail (or perhaps closely tracked). Keeping bail bond profitable is not a successful strategy here.
It seems as though you read only the article title and made a snap judgement of the author based on your preconceptions.

Here’s the first three sentences from the actual article:

“So what would the decline of America look like? I don’t ask the question because I think it’s happening (yet?), but because even the most inveterate optimist should be interested in the dangers, if only to ward them off.”
With zSeries it's a bit harder, but for the iSeries (I still count AS/400 as alien enough to be "mainframes"), you can get machines for reasonable prices. The prices drop precipitously when that hardware is dropped from the last OS release.

For Z machines, you can use Hercules as an acceptable approximation. A couple questions I posted as example are about Hercules.
Arena of Valor is SCARY addictive.

My wife threatened divorce if I wouldn't delete the app.
"research on low-rank matrix sampling algorithms might someday find many other, more economically worthless applications as well."

I'm not sure whether this is a typo, and he means to say that there might be more economically worthwhile applications, or whether he's trolling the people complaining that this is useless by pointing out that there are real economic benefits to it right now.
The alphabet, and punctuation.

Omitting punctuation, or using some meta language for it (e.g: in thai, repeatiting a word can mean "!") makes reading some text extra difficult.
> Don't bullshit me, copying files and applying error correction is trivial compared to maintaining paper copies of books which degrade and burn.

The people who are actually in the business of digital preservation disagree. To wit: I learned the other day that there are businesses that specialize in transferring digital scans to microfilm to better preserve them (and also ones that go the other way to increase accessibility). Digital and analog formats are complementary.

But it's the software engineer's burden to lecture every other specialist that they're doing it all wrong, and computers, only computers, are the answer and way forward.
I have one sore spot about Rust: The Rust build tools are almost unusably slow on small ARM devices like the Raspberry Pi Zero. I can compile a simple C++ program just fine on such a device, but Rust will take ages building dependencies and requires a swap file because it eats up all the physical memory. Meanwhile, in C++ land, my distribution's package manager includes prebuilt C++ libraries and headers. I tried cross compilation but that was a nightmare to set up, and got even worse when Cargo packages depended on C libraries, which then also had to be cross compiled. In the end, I was unable to get it working, and had to give up my attempt at targeting that platform with Rust.
Because it is obvious how the American system has some flaws. A failing healthcare system, power to the corporations, corporate lobby, social isolation, a malfunctioning election system (in addition to being based on donations, what could go wrong). I'm sure others can name a few things which are handled different in other countries and does the way it is done in the USA not benefit the common men.
The press hates Trump? I can find no shortage of press that loves him. How are you defining this mysterious group "The Press" and who is a member, who is not?

I think you are just seeing what you want to see.

I am also curious why you think there is a general cooling of the public's feeling towards tech?
Does anyone know who owns arstechnica? I have noticed a pattern of negative reporting directed towards anything associated with Elon Musk.
Agreed - with better and lower-cost tooling the tradeoffs get steadily more appealing.

Back in 2005ish I put together a panel with Kent Beck of extreme programming fame and Martyn Thomas of Praxis, which was doing commercial development using formal methods and Spark/Ada. We were hoping for fireworks but it turns out they were in agreement on a lot of stuff: formal methods need to be used in the context of a pragmatic development process, sometimes iteratively exploring is the right approach, for high reliability you need to complement testing with other techniques like formal methods. Concurrency was one of the examples where there was general agreement that testing and code inspection just isn't enough.
> GIMP seems like a great project but has a terrible overblown UI

Have you tried the new 2.10 and the single window mode?
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You act like the US Government hasn't already banned Chinese companies from buying or doing business in the US. That would be incorrect.
Thanks.

Even when speaking the same language, understanding each other can be hard. One more reason for a better english support in the human operating system.
> They leave because they are lazy...

Probably sounds better in the original German.

These proofs by anecdotes are really fast food for the biased mind.

Just as a thought experiment, if Brazilians are inherently 'lazy' as you say and it has nothing to do with the environment that they are in and its incentives, then are they also lazy abroad? Do they also forget to put signs when they dig holes? Do they do a worse service in restaurants? Do they work less than their coworkers? Are they also consistently late?
Is this not the case because they are from a biased sample of non-lazy Brazilians that leave the country? Or maybe Brazilians are not inherently lazy?

Just a few questions for the debate.
I also renounced Facebook, Twitter, etc. (for reasons different than yours, though) and I don't regret it one bit.

Now I spend my time learning new things instead of scrolling for hours through a repetitive feed of clickbait and people just looking for attention
I don't believe he is selling 750 pieces per month and has that few reviews.
Electron (while inside Atom) started out its life as a WebView from WebKit.framework, but they realized there are too many downsides to that. So they forked Chromium to add it to a Node process and wired it into Node's libuv, which is all Electron really is. So yes it's heavier weight, but now you have Developer Tools built in.
these results aren't very surprising but i guess it's good that they did a study.

the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is essential for executive functions like working memory, as the article notes. this means that if you have a strong DLPFC, you can more easily orient your attention towards a goal, check your progress, maintain your effort, and monitor yourself in the meantime.

so basically if you are monitoring your own cognition efficiently while doing the task, you can catch dyslexic mistakes and correct them in your comprehension. that's my hypothesis at least. it's very tough to really say these things with confidence because the DLPFC is implicated in an entire smattering of learning disabilities and executive functions and so generalized lower activity/density may have an innumerable quantity of consequences.
> it would undermine the market for CorelDraw, and threaten the whole model of selling separate vector and raster editors.

PSP is only potentially a replacement for PhotoPaint, which was always bundled with Draw. It would never be a threat to their other raster tools like Painter. Nor would Draw be threatened by a tool with vectors grafted on. Corel just wanted to bring in a successful product for the entry level market.

Corel also notably let PhotoPaint wither on the vine even though it was vastly superior to the contemporaneous Photoshop version in its earlier incarnations. They just weren't willing to invest the dev resources to add more sophistication.
The terms are fairly interchangeable. There's no hard and fast rule or law that states "jail" is one type of incarceration and "prison" is another. In the U.S., we lean to referring to long-term incarceration as prison and short-term as jail, but that's a fairly "local" thing.

But to what you're thinking of, I believe that is correct; bail is for short-term incarceration pending a trial. If you've been tried and sentenced, you can't bail.
Steam handles this by displaying the average from strictly recent reviews and the average over all.

For example, No Man's Sky was one of the biggest letdowns in recent gaming releases. It was later patched to be much better.

Check out the reviews here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/275850/No_Mans_Sky/
If I removed bad actors on Facebook I would lose half of the friends I met doing improv comedy.
I remember after deving a 50 player 3d networked multiplayer game in nodejs, that they became interested in interviewing me ( at the time node was only about 2 years old ). Unfortunately in the 4 hour pre-interview demo they wanted me to code, there was a deprecated call to a function I referenced later. Due to the time constraint I missed that one line of code. App worked flawlessly as I had tested it. Thing is I even knew I had a line of code somewhere that was deprecated but figured 4 hours was enough time to spend on a coding exercise, especially given, well , my 2 year demo project of a multiplayer game.

As you can tell from the tldr; I was politely told they would not be interviewing me.

All because of one trivial line of code, in a 4 hour demo done in my own time.

To be honest, I knew the chap was giving me a chance to correct it by giving me a few days, but I thought it would be in bad faith to do it when I spotted the issue.

Anyway, I didn't sweat it, I walked into a job at good startup, literally with gaffa tape on my sneakers and got it.

They obviously make terrible decisions before even interviewing people in person.
iOS safari gets this right, with an exception for videos without sound, I believe.
What statistics should do about big data: problem forward not solution backward
oh God, open office bashing is the new javascript frameworks bashing.

Every other day there is an article about it.

why don't people get over it?
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We do. That's how we stop Broadcom from purchasing Qualcomm, get them to move here, and then still block them.

Just business.

The Chinese do it even better because the government is more powerful there than the US Government is here.
There is, it has been proven that on average, if you select two points in European cities the average distance by road, number of junctions etc is smaller than two randomly selected points in a grid system.

It seems like a grid system is superior if you have no knowledge of the city, but a "organic" european layout is functionally superior assuming people always choose perfect routes.
It's always safest to assume that every state actor is doing whatever it can (get away with) to advance their interests.
Sorry, but a garbage can for your car? Bravo for the success, but this HAS to be only for people who buy all of the "As Seen on TV" garbage.
I've had this conversation with friends, too, about missing LiveJournal. The interactions were much more organic and fully fleshed-out. It was about sharing our internal life in a more intentional way that wasn't corporatized (unless you wanted to pay a few bucks to be able to have custom emojis), wasn't related to ad content or data or profiling.

In these conversations it seems fairly unanimous that people miss it, but changing patterns is easier said than done, plus LJ itself has that whole "now hosted in Russia" thing that concerns people.
What can we do to make our internship program more inclusive and less reliant on the preexisting privilege of our interns?
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I'd consider asking them how _they_ felt about their experience/the company/procedures/etc..

Getting fresh eyes from an intern can provide valuable insight into things you're doing right, and things that could be improved.
Maybe you're right. What life experiences would you suggest that might help me better understand your perspective?
> wages are actually slightly falling

According to your source wages fell, in real terms, between May 2017 and May 2018 by 0.1%. They're up from 5 years ago, up from 10 years ago and way up from 50 years ago. The principal cause of that real decline was gas prices rising unexpectedly.
Congrats on the launch guys. What types of customers are you seeing most benefit from working with JITX versus other contractors?
I wonder how long before he's put out of business by Amazon sold Chinese counterfeits undercutting him:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12061288

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498013
It did. But still, US government controls far less aspects of peoples' and corporate lives than Chinese government.
I see. That is tight. But that simply tests thinking under time pressure. Fewer problems with higher difficulty level may help here (like the Olympiads or Putnam but both being extreme examples). But the challenge would then be to come up with large number of such problems.
It is not going to handle a vast range of inputs, including for example, p(k) = 665, for the basic reason that my code is a direct response to your request for an explanation and not proposed as a complete solution for the request of your original submission.

Corrections requested, please. I would like to explore this paradigm to accurately address the problem in an exact way.
Depression can ravage a person regardless of socioeconomic class. While wealthier people may afford better treatment, the affects are still there. Kate Spade is the most recent example that comes to mind.
Interestingly, Arena of Valor has done much, much worse in North American markets (and nowadays charts poorly on iOS in both ranking and grossing): https://toucharcade.com/2018/07/30/arena-of-valor-world-cup-...
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Returns through Amazon have become increasingly difficult and spiteful in the past two or three of 20 years I've been using them.

Last week I returned a rotary airer that was damaged upon delivery. Amazon online 'help' told me I had to find a courier that could take the outsized parcel AND I had to pay out of pocket for it. They insisted that it be returned. They didn't refund the full postage cost or the cost of packaging.

Amazon are throwing away their hard-won reputation by penny-pinching and treating customers as badly as other retailers. I'm out.
Or you can use two monitors.
One to record, and other to something else!
Microsoft a decade ago would absorb. Today they'd acquire and let it run quasi-independently.
Just look at Huawei and how our Congress pressured mobile carriers away from selling the phone without any evidence of wrong-doing.
> There's just too much money and not alot of places to park it

That's correct. But is all that money a representation of real wealth or is it a bubble?
> Political, partisan, foreign-made, domestic-made, poor taste humor, memes, etc. -- why not just keep all of it?

Because people don't like to participate in a platform that has gone to crap. It's happened on many sites/forums in the past. If you don't weed, you won't have much of a garden.
Here you go. I knew that still-sealed spindle of 10 CD-R collecting dust under my desk would come in handy one day.

https://hastebin.com/raw/pidequjaga
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Why so adamant that the two are mutually exclusive? The reason road work signage has been legislated (or socially defined) into an issue of liability is, again, due to education.
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The satellite will likely have less than 30 seconds to connect to such a tower, upload the data and get new task data. And it looks like the connection in your example used aimed antennas, not just broadcasting the signal onto the surface of the planet, which means you loose a lot of signal strength.
> I think most of the weird power dynamics and discomfort come from assuming something is common knowledge when it isn't.

Other weird dynamics and discomfort comes from assuming when something isn't common knowledge when it is. "Have you tried X"? No shit, X is the first thing that I tried.
> They do not like him so much, that they elected him the President.

As only the second most supported choice.

After Hillary Clinton, who has long been one of the most widely despised national political figures.
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What's the point of a chemical engineering degree? It's to learn to be a chemical engineer, but it's not a trade school degree. Far from it.

And there's degrees in chemistry, for those whose goal is to study the way atoms interact with each other. That's different from chemical engineering, where the goal is to efficiently produce the desired molecules at scale, without blowing up the factory. Two different degrees, with two different focuses, in the same general area.

In the same way, I think that computer science needs to be a separate, different degree from software engineering. At the moment, CS is trying to be just one area, but I suspect that it's often inadequately preparing those who are going to go on to be software engineers - who are in fact the large majority of CS grads. (They may also be inadequately preparing those who intend to stay in theoretical computer science, but I have even less information about that.)
It is not a typo but a jab at wannabe elitists who are sneering at Ewin’s work because of its ready applicability to Amazon and Netflix recommendations — as though the discovery would be more worthwhile if it had no economically valuable uses.