skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stepping back to the primaries is fallacious, as it just obscures the criticism. For 2016 we can easily see that the top-level choices were bullshit. But condemning the process that led to the Democratic primary choices is more amorphous, making it easier to cling to belief.

Rather than retreating to lower layers of the recursive structure, it's more productive to discuss models that cover the whole system - my working one is that there is a general gradient whereby the candidates that have (or adopt) views more palatable to entrenched interests receive more support, both funding and institutional. And that support is the primary factor of how far they make it - both election-wise, and how much they "get done" in office.

> The poor set of general election choices is a product of apathy, not it's cause.

The people voting for the popular-corruption candidates look pretty damn non-apathetic to me. I've never understood this idea that if only more people were voting, the process would get more intelligent. I can only think it is wishful thinking by people who are aware of their own struggle between antipathy and capitulation. You hope that if the disinterested suddenly decided to vote, they would all vote in what you consider the intelligent way. And with those numbers, you could have voted for your real choice instead of the one you've resigned yourself to. But, like the idea of gas molecules spontaneously all moving in one direction, it just does not work that way.
I don't think pilots would be entirely opposed to this kind of tech. While I don't think many pilots trust drone operators to be responsible in any way (I don't, since I don't think many of them know the airspace system or where their nearby airports are), they might be okay with unmanned aerial systems operated by the local airport authority, since they could likely geofence them in such a manner that they'd never cross paths with an aircraft. That said, low level wake turbulence from one of these aircraft could probably still wreck the drone if it carried off the side of the runway.

However, I doubt this would stop another near-disaster like Cactus 1549. They hit geese on climbout at nearly 3000 feet [0]. Thats pretty far outside of what a drone can enforce, or where I'd be comfortable having a drone flying. Current regulations prohibit them flying over 400 ft AGL, except within tight proximity to structures like radio towers.

For background, I'm a private pilot, not an airline guy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549#Takeoff...
It also happens to Trump.
Just accept that humanity will go extinct at some point. This is an eventuality.
I continue to have a hard time seeing the difference between a US prison farm and any other (slave) labor camp.

The UN ILO should have IMO effectively abolished US labor camps in 1957 with resolution 105 [1]. It bans among other things its use "as a method of mobilizing and using labour for purposes of economic development." As such prisoners in the US can be loaned out to private enterprise, an argument should be made. Not to mention, forget immigrants, nothing undercuts wages payable to US workers quite like slave labor.

I actually can't see why the US system isn't in violation of resolution 29 in 1930 where forced labor is only permitted when under "supervision and control of a public authority and that the person carrying it out is not hired to or placed at the disposal of private individuals, companies or associations." [1]

When your system is "universally condemned" by the United Nations, maybe it's time for another look?

[1] http://www.ilo.org/global/standards/subjects-covered-by-inte...
An incomplete history of the QED Text Editor (2004)
I'm referring to the fact that Common Lisp does not have a map and set literal by default. It has a lot of homoiconic literals, and is still very homoiconic. And Common Lisp's reader and printer can be extended by the user to add them back in non standard ways. I still personally consider it as a slight cons against Clojure.
Hard to say at this point. We talk a lot about controlling anger, conquering addictive tendencies, etc. but the real test is when they get out.

Drugs are everything. I'd say 90% of these guys are in prison because they were addicted to drugs of various kinds, and it wrecked their lives as they grew desperate to support their habit. Master the drugs, you master the crime.
It would actually be nice to have more node visualization toolsets for other projects with visual programming in mind out in the open =)
Well sheep have been herded by dogs for millennia and I think it's pretty rare that they actually hurt any sheep.
You vote on more than just the president, though... you still have an opportunity to get your voice heard.

Admittedly, as a statement of fact, it's plausible/likely that the electoral college reduces turnout because presidential elections get people excited (especially when they know their state is in play), but that's not usually a rational response. You still get to vote for congress, state government, ballot initiatives, etc.
But having to spend a lot of time getting familiar with some tool, language or framework is not unusual in IT/Programming. Think of C++, or the .Net framework. When programming in C#, I spend at least 1/3 of my time browsing the API documentation or StackOverflow, TechNet, etc.

With emacs, as with C++ or .Net, the idea is that the effort to get familiar with the environment pays off big time after a certain point.

If somebody asks me (that happens almost never, though), my reply is to tell them about the long term-benefits of using emacs and to give both emacs and vi a try and decide what they like better. And that emacs vs. vi is not necessarily an either-or-decision. I use emacs as my main editor, but I often find myself editing config files using vi. I prefer emacs, but vi/vim is an excellent editor, too. More generally speaking, if somebody tries to frame something like the choice of editor as an either-or-question, consider if a-as-well-as-b is a valid answer, too.
I believe the author is describing the chain-of-responsibility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain-of-responsibility_patter...) pattern. If so then yes, it's a good pattern for service abstraction.
100% of people who receive the death penalty are murdered. This is unacceptable.
> education with a STEM degree,
> There's probably $250,000 of lifetime earnings that I've lost so far because I graduated a year too late.

Curious which degree that jobs vanished after crash. quants?
Thanks for the reply. I'm not an expert in economics and also not sure how much wikipedia is to be trusted, but going by definition: "IMF publication states that "GDP measures the monetary value of final goods and services—that are bought by the final user—produced in a country in a given period of time (say a quarter or a year)", GDP is an aggregate over a time period, more like distance and not similar to velocity. GNP though is interesting, I hadn't heard of it before, I will explore it further.
Except making it easier to vote and register to vote is Democrats’ shtick. Republicans were just fine with paper ballots that young people couldn’t be bothered to use.
It would be much weirder (crazy?) for Saudis to invest in oil. They have lots of fresh income when oil goes well, so the fund should be designed to do well if oil does not go well.
Very good summary of an annoyance I have with this place. So many pedantic know-it-alls that can't wait to tell others why they are most definitely obviously completely wrong.
Tesla shares spike on Musk tweet mulling take-private mov
What the cast of Vikings looks like in real life
Police in Japan deliberately ignore many crimes, to make the numbers look good.

Also, torturing people into confessions is a great idea, until you nab the wrong person. But it sure drives the conviction statistics up!

This isn't a question of culture, this is simply a case of the police fudging the numbers to make themselves look good. The Soviet Union also had "zero crime", and a 99% conviction rate, but unlike Japan, nobody took those bullshit claims seriously.
To be dynamic, "Any" should be able to represent literally ANY type. As you can find, Any is a reflection-wise trait to work with static types. It's not something what you can use when you don't know type and language will dynamically convert it. You can't write

fn example(foo: Any) -> u32 {
foo+55
}

as you CAN do in dynamic languages.
Do you understand me now? Or we will keep talking about unsafe extra special types?
Bird scientists are already devising countermeasures.
> you need to expand on the why

The US Constitution defines treason thus:

> Treason against the United States, shall consist [...] in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

If you assume the US is a democracy[0], ie that its enemies are the enemies of its citizens, rather than its nobility^Wgovernment, then any politician who passes laws at the request of (or otherwise Aids and Comforts) eg Facebook, Dow Chemical, [insert human-rights-violating corporation here], is de facto guilty of treason.

You could certainly argue that treason means something other than what the constitution says it does, but taken at face value this is rather obvious.

0: If you don't, then that's a different discussion.
How much longer will their oil last? They need to invest for life after oil.
Also, this isn't really about new uses of asbestos, despite the name of the rule. It's about making sure that old uses of asbestos which have fallen out of use don't reappear. Actual new applications for it are still unconditionally banned.
Birds are already programmed for that. It's called self preservation.

Airplanes are huge chunks of metal that make a deafening roar. Grown men are rightly afraid of coming near one.
Maybe part of the reason for Golden parachutes.
There is a belief that technology can solve any problem.
Thanks for the comment. Not currently at the moment. But we are going to provide more information on picovoice.ai in coming days.
Dart's history of breaking on browser updates because of weird technical decisions really soured me on the idea of ever using it. It's apparently a really good language for native targets, but for the web...

https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/13285

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027011

I can't really blame the language designers, but it's a good example of how if your goal is to cross-compile you have to be very careful about how your language is going to interact with the realities of the platforms it runs on. The idea of my deployed websites or apps breaking every couple browser releases really bums me out. (I've had to deal with it with other cross-compilers too.)
You're still getting a signature directly from the developer's machine, not from the repository server and as such you're still vastly shrinking the attack surface.
Wouldn't it be interesting to a finance firm, insurance company or potential employer?
I'm curious if you consider a phishing attack a "hack."

More clear: is calling a company, pretending to be their IT, and getting their root credentials, "hacking?"
Giving the articles to another publication would constitute unethical behavior as well though, considering he didn’t own the content and could not claim any authorship over it, though perhaps alerting authors or editorial staff could have spurred that result. And obviously a question about the most unethical thing a person in this field has done isn’t going to be something that speaks well of their character. I don’t think it speaks well of a person’s character to judge someone for the single most unethical thing they’ve done in their career.
Absolutely, it's a source of constant surprise to me that basically every large company (and likely Public sector body) is making heavy use of Open source code and few are meaningfully investing in the security of it.
How Businesses can leverage AI without losing the human touch
What I’ve learned over the past year funding open source
Pretty rich given that violating privacy is Fb's business model.
Makes me think I should start a website called Rent-A-Dad featuring experienced looking model types in the home page. Aimed at lonely single mothers.
Problem is downside risk:
drones get hacked, or someone figures out how to make the drones fly into planes, or herd birds TOWARD planes.

As a society we've been pretty cavalier about algorithmic control. Which can work well for a lot of things. But probably shouldn't be trusted (without a TON of validation and regulation, as we've done over decades with airliners) with controlling stuff that can injure people or damage societies.
Clojure Web Security
Thanks YC for doing this.

>100 companies who complete the course will also receive $10K.

Depending on your location and what position you are in your career , Funding can be a big issue.

This small grant can be a big help to start a business , but 100 companies is quiet limited to be honest.
Since this is ransomware, it's unclear how an OS patch would have helped anyway.
I mentioned I've only tried Dart 1.x. Glad to hear it's changed in Dart 2.
Preaching to the choir here, but somebody should be fucking jailed for that.
> ... to individual users.

... Which is what this tool does.

And while I take your point about aggregate value, I personally have a great deal of interest in data about me.
> I think mostly because they were bit too hard by IE doing the exact same thing just a few years before.

It's pretty simple, in my view: JS developers were happy with the language and didn't want a browser vendor trying to replace it. Remember that it was announced around the time that the new ES6 ("Harmony") features were generating a lot of excitement about the future of JS.
Wouldn't you hit ESC with your ring finger or middle finger instead? (When I used vim, I preferred Ctrl-C so I would not have to move my fingers so far.)
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>> Happy ending for one person. If anything this has scared me away from G Suite. Every once in a while we see an article on how to get away from Google and it sounds like a bunch of kooks, then things like this happen.

> If you read the article, you will see they're working to fix it so it doesn't happen again to anybody else. So it's more than a happy ending for just one guy.

They're just now working on fixing this particular issue, which appears to have been a problem for at least a year. For many of those people, this fix will be too little, too late.

The fact that he had to write up a horror story in the first place to get any kind of support is what scares me away from G Suite, it's too much of a gamble. I'll continue to be scared away until you can get good support from Google with a phone call or email.
- Facebook employs some of the most accomplished and widely respected researchers in artificial intelligence, such as Yann LeCunn [1]

- Every year, researchers from the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (FAIR) present their research at top conferences such as NIPS [2]

- FAIR also produces some of the most capable and widely used open source software in machine learning, such as Torch and Caffe2 [3]

If you'd like to see how Facebook uses machine learning, take a look through its blog posts related to recruiting [4].

_______________________

1. https://research.fb.com/people/

2. https://research.fb.com/facebook-research-at-nips-2017/

3. https://research.fb.com/downloads/

4. https://www.facebook.com/careers/life/machine-learning-at-fa...
I’d bet on it being about the recognition that Google has been a pioneer and thought leader in the scalable systems/hosting space and they didn’t want to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
The reason this tweet is (probably) legal is that (a) it doesn't financially benefit Musk and (b) if he actually is considering this then it doesn't "artificially" affect the price. Even deliberate stock manipulation can be legal if not done for profit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Meyohas#Stock_Performanc....
FB uses ML to do image recognition, face recognition, spam filtering and news ranking. They probably have many many more applications.

PyTorch by itself would be enough to make FAIR a leader. PyTorch is being used in many research papers and was/is a leader in "eager execution" mode for neural nets. But there are many other things, such as fastText (see more projects here https://github.com/facebookresearch).
Before the CA incident became big actually. Most of the APIs used by Cambridge Analytica (in particular, the ones that let apps access data about a person's friends) were removed all the way back in 2014.
Hiring an army of astroturfers to post on Reddit, Twitter, and Hacker News doesn’t hurt.
That doesn't seem to imply that it cannot be copyrighted.

> Similarly, the Office will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author... Example: A claim based on a mechanical weaving process that randomly produces irregular shapes in the fabric...

There is clear direction in the program here; it does not operate randomly without any creative input or intervention from a human author.
If they had better funding they could have afforded 3rd party security reviews, which (if done competently) would have flagged this issue.

If they had better funding they could have hired dedicated security staff, who would likely be versed in the ways of securing DevOps pipelines.

Time is money, more funding == more resources to look at security properly.
Like I said, I don't use TRAMP very often.

The number of Unixoid systems I have to take care of is sufficiently small that installing emacs on all of them is no big deal. I usually start an emacs daemon after booting and use emacsclient to fire up an editor, which is almost instantaneously.
Hahaha, perl.
Time is money. Takes work to set up. Resources are being directed at development.
Those sheep are domesticated and a social hierarchy exists between them and a specific dog or group of dogs. I don't think we can look at that situation and extrapolate that a flock of wild birds will "obey" a random flying robot that they know to be nothing more than a harmless nuisance.

Come to think of it, birds don't even make enough of an effort to avoid existing aircraft that are large, loud, and do pose a threat to them, which is why these drones are being developed in the first place.
Alex Jones got banned for telling the truth.
This would be fine if the dollar-cost value of usage of these toxic materials actually represented the health and wellbeing of a population. Putting a dollar value on health has never been a simple proposition.

In many of these cases, these costs are externalized; they are borne by (healthcare, communal, familial) systems outside the industry where the asbestos is used. Only where a link can be definitively traced back to the industry itself can these costs begin to be rectified.

That the EPA allows this represents a shift in our society, that the costs to life and wellbeing are to be borne by the individual worker exposed to the chemical and not the manufacturer of the chemical or the employer cutting costs by not using alternatives.
I've heard people argue that a much more effective way to do environmental regulation would be to basically not regulate and instead increase liability standards for environmental/health damage.

Right now, in many cases, if a factory is dumping toxic sludge into a river and they're within EPA limits, there's nothing anybody can do to stop it.

If you allowed farmers downstream to come after them for damaging crops (or whatever), or allowed class action suits against coal-burning power companies for cancer and such, imagine what that might do to incentive structures.

I'm not sure I buy it, but the asbestos case makes me wonder.
It's not just companies, it's US people too. The original HN thread on this subject (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17660872) had a truly depressing percentage of comments saying "No big deal" using some combination of whataboutism, false equivalence and simple fatalism. I seem to remember that when Google first pulled out of China the reaction among HN types was much more positive; what has happened to our morals since then?
Except it's likely not a joke?
Overruled. I will charge 42M per minute to unauthorized copies of my DNA. My shadow ninjas will sneak into their vaults and take back every single strand of my DNA.
How often do you find yourself doing this? Probably hard to determine, how frequent when you first set it up, vs after a month of use? Thanks
> instead firms are buying back shares, instead of re-investing.

That's false. Firms have been spending more on expanding capex investment than stock buybacks. There's a capex boom going on with the S&P 500 right now.

Year over year capex growth was up 15.6% in the first quarter, and 18% in the second quarter.

By contrast, capex growth for the S&P 500 was flat to negative for most of the prior five years, and was negative for nine straight quarters prior to 3Q17.

We haven't seen that kind of capex boom since the initial bounce out of the great recession in late 2010-2011. And that was massively juiced by the Fed, whereas we're in a very different Fed environment now.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-26/trump-tax...
New York style pizza is frickin horrible. those thin floppy slices can't support any reasonable amount of toppings. I actually prefer Domino's over most New York style pizza, and Domino's is pretty bottom of the barrel. The worst offender is the New York style cheese pizza which is basically just an oversized soggy triangular cracker which appears to have been dipped in oil. Blech.
"Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world."

edited to say:

It's interesting that on a long enough time-line, all life on earth is destined for extinction, e.g. the sun expands and vaporizes the earth. So, in the long run, our technological prowess is likely the only hope for our furry (and not so furry) friends.
Last year I temporarily enhanced my ancient GApps account by trialling G Suite. I wanted to be able to switch the primary domain from one I'd be retiring. It turned out that the guide I'd been following to do this was outdated and the functionality was no longer available during trials. So, I ended my trial and seemed to get logged out.

Couldn't log back in. This domain isn't using G Suite, or some such message.

I looked around for how to contact G Suite support. There didn't seem to be a way to do so without being logged into G Suite. I tried going through Google Domains, hoping I'd get forwarded. Didn't really get anywhere, all they could say was that there was no G Suite associated with the domain. The only option seemed to be to start another trial, then ask what happened to the GApps account.

I deliberated for a bit before doing so—would creating the account screw up any possible account recovery? And, in the meantime, signed up with, and got my email handled by someone else.

When I did speak to support, they were friendly but I got no clear idea if it was a bug, or if I'd just absentmindedly clicked through the deletion of my account. I don't really know if the account is gone or exists in some weird state. Luckily, I'd recently pruned the data and backed up. I asked if the account could be recreated but it seems like they can't do that.

I'm about to start a new little thing, and I'd like to use Google products, but what if I have another issue like this and I've got to sleuth out a way to get some help?

If you have a GApps account, just live with your goofy domain name and keep registering it.
> 'didnt help'

Why the scare quotes?