skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I provided facts as well, so let's use your own sources shall we?

A person in the same position, involved in the same activity, or otherwise associated with another. [1]

You conveniently ignored that when you attempted to mispaint actual facts in your comment. Here I'll even add another source:

​used of people or a person with whom you share something, esp. the same kind of job, interest, or experience [2]

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fellow

[2] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/fello...
I mean, people usually consider stability to be a good thing, especially when there are children involved.

Beyond that, legal marriage has benefits that (for lack of a better word) "pretend marriage" doesn't. Some examples include potentially lower taxes, employer benefits for spouses (such as insurance), spousal social security, spousal pension benefits (widows/widowers are often allowed to collect their spouse's pension for the rest of their life), no gift tax between spouses, Spousal IRAs, military benefits, automatic tax free inheritance, next of kin status (which matters if the spouse is incapacitated), lower insurance rates, spousal immunity in court, eligibility for FMLA to care for a sick spouse, eligibility for bereavement leave if a spouse dies, eligible to sponsor a spouse for immigration, etc.

Married couples have the "benefit" of going through divorce if they break up. Divorce proceedings allow a (hopefully) neutral third party to order legal division of marital assets. I've seen some incredibly messy non-marriage breakups, where going through divorce once would have been less messy.

There might simply also be a social component of marriage that cohabitation simply doesn't provide. If you are married you may work to stay together rather than just split up when you hit a roadblock. Whereas if you're just dating then you might just break up at the first roadblock rather than try to work things out. No data or anything, that's just my "gut feeling" on the matter, it just "seems" like that's the case. Of course it could just be the people who break up rather than work on issues are just not getting married.
Google your BIOS version strings, perhaps, or extract/dump and disassemble/unpack it.
Buck - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1753549/ - Story of the actual real life horse whisperer.

Chicken People -https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4819510/ - follows three people for a year as they show their chickens at chicken fancier shows. Pretty gentle and just a nice film.
The Queen (or let's say monarchy) is a check on parliamentary powers. They are like the USA president. It's not better or worse, it's just a different way of keeping powers in check. She has the power to dissolve the government and not pass those laws but the people would be up in arms. But if the politicians get locked she/they can fix it. Very rarely happens but it does (see Australia in the 1970s). The commonwealth countries are similar but instead of the Queen they have a governor general which is her representative.

If she went and dissolved parliament now, during the Brexit negotiations everyone would rightly say she is interfering with democratic process.
Rejoining EU would not be automatic. They will have to to again all the accession iter.

EU countries that have issues with independence movements (e.g. Spain w.r.t Catalonia) will not let automatic re-join, because the "You will be out of EU if you secede" is one of the arguments used for saying that secession is a bad move.
[x*5 for x in [1,2,3,4,5] if x > 3]

Though yes, I agree that lambdas in python are crippled. Maybe because list comprehension exists which replaces most uses of lambda, its just that they forgot about all other uses.
PostgreSQL has row-level security, plus embedded languages (e.g. Python and V8). So you can actually give clients access to write raw SQL queries.

Or there is PostGraphile for automatically turning that into a GraphQL server.

[1] https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/
Blockchain: What Is It, How It Works, and What It Means for Big Data
Trilobites: ‘Not All Men?’ These Termites Are Trying Out ‘Not Any Males’
I was looking at the TSLA chart over the past year today and noticing the relatively high volatility. I strongly suspect that the volatility is a big part of what attracts the short sellers. In which case any plan to harm short sellers has now utterly backfired, as having this case hanging over the company can only increase uncertainty and volatility, probably for months or even years to come.
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With all of this discussion in Washington about Russian hacking and Russian voter influencing, why are these demonstrably vulnerable voting machines hardly mentioned? It would seem to me this should be a number one priority to prevent outside interference.
Can’t you vote by mail in month leading up to the election?

We can, that’s what I do since I’m working on election days.
Story at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18092136
Why are elections not held on Sundays ? I assume that on average there are less people working that day that Monday - Friday, so less people would have to take time off from their job.

Edit: Found this

> In 1845, the United States Congress chose a single date for all national elections in all states. The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November was chosen so that there would never be more than 34 days between Election Day and the first Wednesday in December. Election Day is held on a Tuesday so that voters will not have to vote or travel on Sunday. This was an important consideration at the time when the laws were written and is still so in some Christian communities in the United States.

This seems a pretty dated reason. Why no one is proposing to change it ?
Kevin Rose was a TV host at the time Digg launched. He might not have been well known, but he wasn't unknown.
> Assuming we're at step $n on the path to corporatist dystopia, does Facebook care? Do they bait the EU into playing chicken with some sort of Facebook ban? There's a non-negligible chance Facebook might win that one.

Why go through the trouble and scandal of banning it? Just bleed it dry with fines until it complies and/or ban its European revenue streams. The latter might be quite effective and immune from political blow-back: Facebook users don't care for ads and would not shed a tear if Facebook was banned from selling them in Europe due to its noncompliance, however literally the only thing Facebook itself cares about are ads and the associated revenue.
Something weird happened to me when I opened https://www.facebook.com/robots.tx/posts/1198980273583188

After opening the page I hit the back button and was automatically logged out from FB. I was logged in when I opened the page initially. Anyone experienced the same?
You linked to "fellow", not "fella".

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/fella
> Upgrade early and upgrade often

Not sure about the upgrade early. It’s a different kind of pain to be one of the first to use a new Rails version vs lagging a couple of months behind.
All I could say is that if there were a clear way for monetizing their user base musical.ly would not have been sold for that price. But it is not very relevant to Bytedance's valuation or main businesses either way.
The youtube link in the article has a nice animation of how mantas filter: https://youtu.be/2nRN1ZJPs98

This approach to problem solving is one of my favorite. Instead of thinking hard about a problem: observe nature and leverage a few billion years of evolutionary problem solving that's already been done.
ECB Explains “What Is Money?” (2017)
I think this is assuming diamonds are a long held tradition. Pretty sure that is a rather heavy fabrication.
Did you read my original comment at all? I'm sorry, I'm not engaging you on this any further.
Sundar Pichai is in charge.
> Key takeaway is “hobby-based”

That's actually not a bad thing in my book.
When I was at the beginning of my career, the fact that most companies completely disregard any non-work-related experience was extremely frustrating to me. I'd been tinkering with computers my whole life, working on stuff far above and beyond your average "just learned it in class" folks, and it was all irrelevant unless qualified by work experience.

Of course today its commonplace to show off your "hobby-based experience" to employers via a Github page and F/OSS contributions, but back then it wasn't.
I quote liked this documentary. Would be interesting to see the progress around LHC, supersymmetry etc since then. I suppose it's been a couple of years now.
Is attrgetter recognized by static code checkers like mypy and pycharm? One of the benefits of lambdas is that arguments autocomplete even without manual type annotations.
You are mixing two things Intel does with low prices. One is legal and one is not. Intel used both Against AMD during the Opteron and the Athlon 64 era.

Intel is absolutely allowed to compete with low prices and cutting into profit margins.

Intel is not allowed to to pay rebates in exchange of being single supplier, or attempting to restrict access from the competitors.

The difference is between “aggressive competition” and “antitrust abuse” as the source you provide clarifies.

Intel has the margins that allow it to compete aggressively and legally.
It’s not a lot of knowledge, this just intersects with a lot of interests: international trade, economics, market failure, health, health economics.
Monsanto ? Bayer's medical experiments on people in concentration camps is hard to top.
>Second, if they have a $75b valuation and no profit plan, that's not likely a good sign.

For whom? Because the founder will walk out a billionaire, or at least multi-millionaire, whatever happens...
Is it even possible? I mean FB has no such feature as delete account. (I'm sarcastic here..)
Just a small suggestion, but:

> Zig intends to be so practical that people find themselves using it even if they dislike it.

feels awfully condescending to my ears personally, in an I'm-smarter-and-know-better-than-you kind of way, even if you didn't intend it like that.

Just my unsolicited $0.02, but I'd recommend a more objective and non-loaded description something along the lines of "Zig's primary motivation is practicality, and therefore avoids issues with C such as <x, y, z>".
Seems like the growing expense of marriage combined with lower stigma for being unmarried is the driver here.
I just watched a video about them, it's an interesting operation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gADg90GQ-zE

If they could do it all in the truck and cut out the kitchen it would be even better. I guess that's essentially just a food truck that does deliveries though - which might not be a bad idea either.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
The current situation is so depressing. The combined ongoing destruction in the uk and the us of many years of relative safety and peace while claiming it's all to protect us from change or something like that reminds me that the many poor leaders and failures of ancient countries making terrible decisions that lead to the end of their countries can happen now. What a run on sentence. At the same time, I'm extremely fortunate to have a great job and be part of the "programmer class". So many people in both countries have lost their economic confidence and a job that pays for a decent lifestyle.
Dwemthy's Array
Mostly off topic. Why has China produced most of the serious competition to US software titans? In particular, given that South Korea was way ahead of the rest of the world in cell phone and broadband universality for it's population, why haven't they been the birthplace of any social media or other internet companies that expanded abroad (instead they adopted YouTube and Facebook)?
> In fact, I would argue that this new trend of defensive programming in Swift

Swift is not defensive, Swift can be defensive, but it can not if you don't want to.

It's much more "offensive" than Objective-C, for example.

Just a "!" and it's the same as Null Pointer Exception == Fatal Error.
My polling place features first a comparison of photo id to the person and then an amateur attempts and fails to properly frank the voter's signature.
How is it that passing the Real-ID photo-ID hurdle but failing the amateur-verified signature franking is acceptable in this country?
I only know of the company because of PaymoneyWubby, a popular YouTuber who made videos about their Musical.ly/TikTok app that sparked bad press against them and Bytedance tried to censor: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pu3bpqsa7dM
You could isolate some mosquitoes in captivity and wait for the afflicted ones to die off completely.
It isn't.

Since Proposition 13 passed in 1978 (by a simple majority), California has required 2/3 majority votes in the legislature to increase taxes, and 2/3 majority votes for local elections to increase taxes.
He had his dumb thought, broadcast it, and then continued to publicly support his dumb thought for days. I know it's great to be a CEO and say anything you want on Twitter, but you should at least run it by PR and IR first, because they're going to get asked about it. And maybe someone says 'Hey Elon, that's not actually true.' or ' Hey Elon, you can't post that while the market is open.' or 'Dude, we have to send this to the SEC and wait 10 minutes, dummy'
This is absolutely great and needs to happen in many more places. One of the worst parts about the draconian mandatory sentencing laws so many places have is that prison turns otherwise good people into criminals. It's almost like the entire process was designed to be that way. Not only is prison itself a harsh environment that treats people like chattel, and often forces people to make morally suspect decisions to ensure their own survival. But once they're released they're given a scarlet letter that prevents them from integrating back into society. They can't find jobs, and sometimes even housing. They're finances and credit are generally in ruins from abruptly losing everything. It's no wonder so many people re-offend and generally for worse offenses. The system takes away everything and prevents them from even attempting to claw there way back. And to top it off there are these ridiculously long probationary periods where the smallest offense can land one back in prison. Oh and lastly they take away you're right to vote so you become literally an invisible member of society as far as politicians are concerned. But hey drugs are bad, and anyone who does drugs is bad /s.
If they're doing something this blatantly in violation, then I hope the EU comes down hard on them.
Agree. Without multi line lambdas im javascript, promises would never have been invented.

The braces also makes it easier to find the start and end of a anonymous function even if it's just a one liner, compared to pythons where its only delimited by : and ,
This map also completely ignores the Isle of Man. Seems like the same idle whinging that got them into the scenario w.r.t. negotiations.
Appreciate this info. Couple of questions:

1. Are there any probable/plausible examples of such manipulation? I say this from a 100% naive standpoint - literally: I've never seen it myself, so it unfortunately does work. Not to say I doubt it exists; I've read about the concept enough times that I accept that it exists.

2. Regarding (3), do you think it would be possible to cultivate that mindset again, in a different setting/environment, or are these trends influenced by the contemporary status quo? :/

2a. If you _do_ think it might be possible, I'm very interested to absorb ideas on how to create constructive discussions online. People have had more than enough interactions with the current mainstream (twitter, facebook, reddit, here, etc) to probably have _some_ idea on how to massively improve tooling/UX/etc.
Elections are held on Tuesday as a way of restricting who can vote PERIOD.
Poorer voters have a harder time getting off work, and getting transportation to voting site, which is usually close to their home, but not their work.
>Every other founder is virtually unknown before they become known

Not really. Tesla's founder was well known, for example (as a founder and exiter of another company). Ditto for the founder of NeXT.

And "unknown" here also means not born with a silver spoon, no heir, no previous positions eg. as CEO/CTO somewhere, no major tech connections, etc.
I've wondered about this and also the fact that 'hacking' our election isn't terribly difficult when all you have to do is manipulate a very small number of swing counties. My conclusion thus far has been that even the media must be necessarily complicit in the farce of a free and fair election system. There's a strong incentive for everyone to believe this in order to maintain stability.
I remember reading stories from the era following this (maybe the late 2000's) where getting hired by Google was incredibly difficult. As in "You're already a superstar, waste 6 months of your time going through a complicated and disorganized process, and still get rejected" difficult. Made me wonder how they actually managed to hire anyone, let alone thousands of employees.
An Ex-NSA Hacker Who Has Organized the First-Ever Mac Security Conference
This article seems a little misleading... It says in the very beginning

"Back then, the question was how a 29-year-old locally trained software engineer could outsmart the numerous news portals operated by the likes of social media behemoth Tencent Holdings Ltd. and extract profit where even Google had failed."

This seems to suggest that he figured out how to make a profit. But then further down it says "But as with Facebook at the same stage of its life, Bytedance now faces questions over when or even how it will start making a profit."

So now I'm not sure if it's making a profit or not.
It is all written down (in innumerable textbooks, court judgments, etc. etc.), just not in a single official document titled "The Constitution of the United Kingdom".

Of course, if we did have an official written constitution, that would make it immediately clear what was and wasn't constitutional. That is why, for example, there is never any disagreement over such matters in the US :)
> But what are you suggesting Apple should do?

Apple could have spent less time on their new programming language if they hadn't insisted on reverting every single design decision in Objective-C: the way mutability and constness are handled, NSObject as a root class, naming conventions, the string class, creating their own package manager, etc. There's so much pointless bridging going on.

That would have given Apple plenty of resources to iterate on their current UI frameworks. If the IB/storyboard infrastructure leads to nil-heavy and stringly-typed code, why not push a first-party UI DSL? Why do we even need a third-party platform like Crashlytics to debug errors? Why is it so hard to write UI tests and have them run on a CI? Has IB_DESIGNABLE started working reliably at some point? Why is basic stuff like this not a blocker? [1]

And yes, at some point I think UIKit and AppKit should be scrapped in favor of a new framework (with a slow migration path, not a clean cut). I was hoping for UXKit to be just that, but instead we got the monstrosity that is Marzipan. Apple's focus is on the language, when it should be on the frameworks.

[1] https://bugs.swift.org/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/SR-6795
Not to mention Robert Bork well before that even. There is no need for evidence in the first place - just like Congress can technically impeach the president for wearing an ugly tie.
How Dirty Money Disappears into the Black Hole of Cryptocurrency
This changed in the past year, I believe.
> We do have a central registry of every citizen, so I guess that might scare some Americans.

US has same registry. It might not include every american but I'd be suprised if it doesn't have 99.99% of all Americans in it.
Chinese Refugee Developed Fiber-Optic Technology That Made the Internet Possible
I haven't run in to a blog like this, sounds like a good idea! I'd follow it :)
That's a part of the "crisis". In Canada there's also many unwritten conventions. Its just been so that nobody's forced the testing of these, for lack of a better term, "gentleman's agreements".

For example, in Canada the dissolution of Parliament (aka. triggering an election) occurs because the Prime Minister asks the Governor General (who is basically a proxy for the Queen of Canada) to issue a proclamation stating as much.

So does that mean the Prime Minister could simply never do that, causing their party to form the official government indefinitely?

Well... Maybe. Nothing says they can't do that. It's just that no PM has ever thought of trying it.

It must sound loosey goosey and kind of dangerous, but it seems to work fine.

Some rules aren't written unless some jerk makes us write them down.
That would take a minimum of two years, so it still wouldn’t work at this point, even if it were not for the fact that recent opinion polls say 92% of RoI wants to stay in the EU: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euroscepticism_in_the_Republ...
FYI, you can still use ecrypt fs with dropbox. Put the encrypted store within your dropbox, and mount it outside your dropbox. From the dropbox point of view, you have thousands of files with gibberish as names.
The example in the OP notes that every adult gets a voter registration card, by default.

No proposal for voter ID in the US has ever accompanied a serious effort to ensure all citizens have easy access to suitable ID.

Many proposals have been explicitly crafted on the back of data gathering campaigns to determine which forms of ID "unfavorable" groups generally do not have.
Unlike the US which painstakingly separated powers into different branches of government, the UK habit of governance is to fuse powers together.

This gives rise to the concept of the King or Queen in Parliament. That is to say absolute authority resides with the Monarch but is delegated to his/her parliament. Parliament then generates legislation to which the Sovereign assents. The Royal Assent has not happened in person since 1854.
First, you're being rude (both for implying the "same person" and for calling them "social robots" because they disagree with you).

No, calling someone an unknown is not by itself treating someone bad. It depends on the context.

If you say it dismissively ("you are an unknown") to imply your superiority then it's bad manners. If you merely inform readers for a fact (that he came from nowhere to create a huge company) then it's not.

>Just use his name in the headline, how hard is that?!

That wouldn't convey the information they need to convey.
This of course just sets up a scenario where those in charge can make it impossible for any change to occur that they don't like which defeats the purpose doesn't it?