skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the claim itself is probably propaganda, but claiming that there "is no entity inside of Russia capable of spitting off that kind of hidden side profit - just for him - in the time frame in question" is also a massive stretch. Russian Ministry of Defense officials estimate that about 25% of the military budget is literally stolen or lost to corruption while anti-corruption gov't auditors estimate the number is at least 40%. Even if Putin only ever gets 1% of that graft, that's $100-200 million a year in revenue from an industry that accounts for less than 5% of the GDP.

That math almost certainly extends to most of the economy because this kind of corruption is damn-near omnipresent in Russian society. I'd need both hands to count the number of times my travel plans were disrupted because someone stole the funds for antifreeze (in Sheremetyevo International no less) or airport/train/border security. Likewise, you could see at Sochi just how vast the chasm was between what was budgeted for and what was actually built. The sheer scale of it is more than enough to generate a few hundred billion dollars for a single person, after paying off all the levels below to maintain power.

Also, what evidence do we have that the stolen funds are even included in the GDP calculation? Are the indicators used to estimate GDP susceptible to the same corruption or can they effectively?
Those are good finds, but none of this scrutiny compares to what Microsoft got in the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor.... That the Obama-stacked FTC did not take Google to trial is sort of telling.

You got one company, presiding over 90% of the search on the web: http://www.visualcapitalist.com/this-chart-reveals-googles-t...

Might as well call Google the Ministry of Truth. They sit in a very powerful position over information and influence. China understands this, that's why they tightly control their search results.

Anyone arguing that one company should have so much influence without probably being subject to some sort of oversight or regulation, is naive at best.
Except that next time that the left-wing folks are in power, Google is certainly not going to be attempting to ensure fair representation of left-leaning ideas. No, the right wing will insist that Google give fair time to a minority viewpoint and stand up to the government.

This isn't creating a precedent that the government can tell Google what to do. It's creating a precedent that the right wing can tell Google what to do.
Not disagreeing with your defense of first principles, but how does that square with the concern about (social) tech that was used to influence elections? I just wish there wasn't a monopoly. Then we wouldn't even have to waste our time dealing with this.
It literally only compares itself to slow, interpreted languages and other, even slower Swift frameworks, with the singular exception of Go, where they're using Gin, which is a rather slow Go framework. Gin is at literally 10% of the performance of the fastest Go framework, as shown here: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r16&hw=...

So, when you cherry pick benchmarks, it can _look_ kind of fast... but then the unbiased TechEmpower benchmarks show Vapor operating at 20% of the speed of Gin. Which is 2% of the speed of the fastest Go or Rust web framework.

"50x faster to pick a different language" != "even remotely great performance."
Url changed from https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser to the project page, which seems like the canonical URL for this project.
No, QML is a language on top of JS. We need a Babel plugin that can parse the whole QML syntax first, which doesn't exist AFAIK.
JavaFX getting removed from the JRE/JDK is probably the best thing for it, I think Gluon and other contributors will do a better job acting as stewards of it than Oracle.
Updated tweets indicate it deletes the cookies then immediately creates new ones? This is probably related to that login-state sync between the browser and Google account previously discussed; it'd be really weird to me if deleting my cookies logged me out of my browser account, but that means it's also really weird if it logs me out of Gmail if I'm still in my Google account in the browser itself.
I'll echo some points:

- I-25 traffic is crazy bad, even compared to the 405 in West LA. Really, it's no joke.

- Politics isn't really purple in Co, per se. It's a western state, so it's more libertarian than republican, sorta. People are independent as a rule. I think it's something about the long drives and the mountains that keeps up a love of open spaces and a comfortableness with being alone and out of range of emergency responders. That said, as a western state, all the noise in politics really comes down to one thing: Water. Red v Blue is quaint when it comes to the mountain and the eastern ranchers over water rights. There are no fights in Co politics, just squabbles. But with water there is only war.

- If you want to go skiing anymore you need to wake up at 4. The drives are too long now to sleep in.

- Broncos tickets are crazy hard to get and expensive. Rockies tix can go for $4 often.

- You also have to watch out for tornadoes here too. Not so much close to the mountains, but you will get them in Aurora and at DIA. Wildfires and that death-sweet smell are a part of life now (asthmatics beware).

- DIA TSA is crazy long at times, usually, it seems, whenever I am there :(

- Food isn't bad for the middle of the continent. The Asain dishes (sushi, curries, thai, szechuan, etc) aren't bad, but I'm not singing about them. Mostly it's chilies, peaches, and buffalo steaks (in terms of unique foods).
Yeah, it doesn't even show up on the top spender list for the last 20 years:

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php

Alphabet is #9 for the year of 2018, around Northrop Grumman, ATT, and the AMA.
This guide is what got me diving into the world of software defined radio and telecommunications in general. Building this thing has been one of the most rewarding side projects. It really makes you appreciate how many interesting technologies and ideas are there between "the electromagnetic spectrum" and "bits per second".
I'm not sure what that has to do with the topic at hand. Malaria was eradicated from Europe by a lot of stuff that happens when a country moves into a first world economy. Eg: Window screens (a mosquito net for your whole house!), less stagnant water spots (breeding zones), better health care, etc. Malaria was eradicated from Europe because the Plasmodium couldn't reproduce in large enough quantities.
They could be good in some ways but bad in other ways(e.g. censoring information to help a candidate Google favors)
Newsprint, Radio and Television are completely different for two reasons. First, they never had the monopoly control over information that Google has.

But a more important distinction is this: Google has control over what content produced by individuals is seen by other individuals. Television, radio and newspapers are much more limited in scope, in that they are private groups which produce content that I consume. Google, Twitter and Facebook instead provide platforms for individuals to share their own content, which is what makes them part of the "public square", and which is why - combined with their monopoly control of the internet - their politically biased attempts at controlling what we see is censorship and cannot be tolerated.
I stumbled across WasmJIT about a year ago and actually used many of the concepts in the project for my own kernelspace implementation of the portable native client (pNaCl). Projects like these are extremely interesting to me because they offer the possibility of a completely architecture-neutral userspace that can be used across multiple devices without recompilation.
Except, WebAssembly isn't even close to Javascript. They're completely different languages. WebAssembly is closer to C than to Javascript.
If a US DoD vendor is getting cozy with a perceived enemy to violate human rights it is 100% the Senate's business.
At least with cars, I don't think you can trace most of their features back to the Model T. The model T had a completely different control scheme, wagon-like suspension, band brakes (for parking only), and was only available in black.
It does if you install qtwebengine from the sources of most distributions (eg: debian, ubuntu). The one from pip does not come with it though, which the win/mac releases are compiled with.
Yes, Qualcomm is accusing both the Apple and the Intel engineers of wrongdoing. And my money is on their discussion was about some timing or signal format issue that is actually published in a difficult to understand standard somewhere. Which is why an Apple and an Intel engineer thought it was ok to have that discussion with a Qualcomm engineer.
Do not worry, it will be secure. Signed, with verifiable checksums, and gdrp friendly.

Just, erm, load these binaries provided by FB, Google, Microsoft and Netflix. :P
Maybe.

> If you head over to Xiaomi China’s official store (via XDA-Developers) you’ll see three new bundles unsubtly named the XS, XS Max, and XR sets. Included in each bundle is a new Xiaomi phone — either the Mi Mix 2S, Mi 8, or Mi 8 SE, respectively — a Xiaomi Notebook, a Mi Band 3, and a Bluetooth earpiece/earphones, all for the same price as their namesake iPhones.
Both parties in the UK are broadly pro surveillance, and since it's FPTP you're damned if you do, or don't.
i admired your design and content's layout long ago. I didn't know it was developed by Elixir. thanks for the site and nice write up. keep sharing your Elixir experiences with us, you know there are very few articles about it.
You website is a true hidden gold nugget, thanks for putting in the time to write all that up.

As an expert (as far as anyone around here is), what would your pick be for common civil time? Personally I feel like "precise time and simplicity" is almost obvious choice, but apparently it is not quite that clear cut.
I think it's their 90% dominant position over the search market, mobile, advertising, and online video that should be subject to antitrust trials... As for the left/right leaning bias, I think that's all part of the same banana. Their powerful position gives them the flexibility to lean whatever way they choose with few, if any, market repercussions.
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How much faster is Go? Memory usage?

It has to be less demanding on your laptop battery, for example.
Except if it is a too-big-to-fail bank and there is systematic risk, the taxpayers will have to bail it out. A bank that controls half a nation's banking is systematic. The government will bail it out. If things get bad, the EU/ECB will bail it out.

One of the benefits of running large banks ( and insurers ) is "privatize profits and socialized losses". These bankers and insurers can't lose. If they gamble and win, they get the rewards. If they gamble and lose, everyone else has to foot the bill.
What I often like is when production cars have a concept-car like look with features you usually do not have with other cars. (Citroen C4 Cactus just comes into my mind)
Send me a check for my rate and I’ll do it.
If Congress is peeved, then they shouldn't have rejected the VP:

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/404268-senate-intel-in...
Comcast most definitely does this in my area, and even withholds higher speed tiers unless you bundle with TV and phone.

Luckily, I have the choice of getting gfiber for 1/3 the cost of comcast.
Have you looked at Crystal? It has a lot of the same strengths you note that swift has, but with stronger Linux support and a more rubylike expressibilty and stdlib.
Could be very interesting when we have another economic downturn to see if attitudes on this change. It certainly seems more cost-effective to run ones own technical operations rather than offloading onto AWS / Google / Microsoft.
The profound issue here is that Alex Jones' supposed rule violations are far more tame than many things that liberal leaning individuals have shared on Twitter against Trump, Republicans, etc.

There is not equal application of the rules, they are applied in a biased manner.
The Cloudflare Secure Registrar [1] looks really good. They also have a basic domain security checker [2].

I enquired about moving my domain registration to Cloudflare, however it is unfortunately only available for enterprise customers. Instead I went with Hover [3] who seem to be one of the best these days.

It's a shame that many 'consumer' domain registrars don't offer full registrar lock. I can kind of understand why registry lock would be reserved for higher-paying customers though.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/registrar/

[2] https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-security-check/

[3] https://www.hover.com/
Not any random applet, that's where the security manager comes in (in theory anyway).
I've been facing this issue lately. Same company rejected my application twice. Knew someone from inside, got an interview in 1 day.
I think this is a good place as any to plug Monica.

Monica HQ is a personal CRM. It is NOT a social network. No relation with the project. Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295
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COM might have its issues, but I meant using the win32gui, win32api etc. modules to call the native win32 C API for UI. That's hardly a hack, and perhaps even slightly less painful than doing it from C. (I'm only using it for some fairly small things, though.)
I like this topic a lot.

Part of the reason this works is because households in Taiwan are much more likely to be multi-generational - there's usually someone home in the evening to take the trash out at the scheduled time. In higher end apartment or condo complexes with more people living alone, there may be a maintenance fee to use a dumpster.

Taking out the trash is also a vaguely social activity (at least among the elderly people in my area) you inevitably run into your neighbors all at the same time in a way that's very uncommon in the US sans for perhaps block parties.
That happens either way, the discussion is about having an effective fine to discourage people and crediting the person's social security account clearly doesn't do that.
You can soon buy that thing again in an electric version called the „Microlino“.
They could just modify it to show a different name to visitors from certain IP blocs.
> For example it is pretty common in the Nordic countries to have a vacation home where you spend summers and holidays with friends and family. And between saved parental leave, standardized vacation periods and public holidays there is time available to do so. There are certainly people who do have that in the US, but once you or your family relocates it gets a lot more tricky.

That's also common in the United States or at least in the Upper Midwest. Just here in Minnesota there are around 124,000 seasonal properties and the average household income for the owners of these properties is $58,000 which is not rich in the United States. It's also a similar story in Wisconsin next door and other Upper Midwest states like Michigan.

[1]: https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/05/29/good-question-cabi...
They literally set the policy for the nation, they arent Police. It is percicely their business.
Oh yeah, plenty of cameras had a "photo" button, that recorded a single frame to like 2 seconds of VHS tape. You could put the tape into a reader, and project or print the photos later.
You could buy it for a few years for a hundred grand, hand built.
The book I Hate You - Don't Leave Me helped me a lot, especially the SET communication skills.

Learning DBT skills (The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Handbook) helped me a lot too especially emotional regulation.

Having an amazing therapist who was supportive as well as a professional and personal support network helped too.

I have borderline and I think working on myself has ironically made me a much better communicator. So there's hope.

I don't know if this is the right explanation but I think someone with BPD is essentially a burn victim except with feelings. I am super sensitive and extreme. You're either amazing or the worst person in the world. When things get bad, I don't have any memory of good times. I can only see black or white- no grey.

This comes from my childhood. My parents were extremely abusive. My dad told me to kill myself when I was suicidal. That's how I survived my childhood. I needed a clean slate and forget all the bad things. Today it hurts me more than it helped me then.

In the past when I got upset, it was instantly I think we should break up. The pain whatever it was, was intolerable. And all those break up pains add up. Not only do they hurt me, but it hurt my partners. And I didn't feel like I could survive the feeling of being broken up with, so I was always trying to protect myself by breaking up first. It's still my first instinct whenever I get a whiff of something going bad - shit, do I need to end this? But now I keep it to myself. I wait. I put my crazy emotions together. Talk calmly. Use a lot of I statements. When you did this, it made me feel this. I'm lucky to have a ridiculously supportive partner. I think he's an alien or at least superhuman. We've never raised our voices at each other once since we've been together except to say I can't hear you from the bathroom haha.

I've gotten a lot better. I'm still working on myself. I hope this helps a little and I wish you and your girlfriend the best.

https://www.verywellmind.com/support-empathy-truth-set-for-b...
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Increasingly I’m becoming convinced that something like this may become the backbone of future computing.

Imagine truly cross platform code that performs well, and can be written in whatever language you care for.

The web illustrated certain advantages to developing software that can be easily delivered and run on other systems. However, the learnings of the web were always coupled to the browser.

WebAssembly, through projects like this, may soon be able to empower cross platform code that delivers small, well performing programs on whatever platform a user desires to use.
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In Portugal we call them "mata-velhos" (old-people killer) as most drivers are usually old people without driving licenses..
Stephenson is great, but just for the record, the claim that Germans understand "süchtig" as "seeking" goes too far.

Süchtig is the adjective to Sucht (addiction), not to Suche (search), and although the etymological link is clear, there's nothing romantic or compassionate about the word.
Dude has a personality problem if you ask me. The reason he was rejected as overqualified is that there's no way he'd happily work as a junior member of staff. He'd just cause massive amounts of friction.
Saw a mid 90s car that looked like that at a car show this summer:

http://car-from-uk.com/sale.php?id=102913&country=uk
I follow Phillip DeFranco. My understanding is all his videos where he gets demonetized are, just like you said, because they were "lurid."

I've never seen evidence that Phillip DeFranco or Dave Rubin got demonetized specifically because of the political leaning of their video.

Alex Jones got demonetized because he claimed shooting victims were crisis actors, which is an acceptable form of "bias" to me. I actually blame his blow-up as the origin of the "Youtube censors conservatives" meme.

I think this polygon article does a generally fair analysis: https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/9/17101166/youtube-purge-robe... though it doens't talk about Rubin or DeFranco.

The most thrown around quote is this:

"As we work to hire rapidly and ramp up our policy enforcement teams throughout 2018, newer members may misapply some of our policies resulting in mistaken removals,"

Which, yea, hire a bunch of moderators out of San Francisco (I assume) and that can happen. But, the company rectified the issue. The fact that videos lost out on money is due to YouTube's dumb method of content moderation (demonetization immediately and invalidating all those views), not because the company itself has a bias. If the company had a bias, it would not train employees to not remove pro-gun videos merely for being pro-gun, or reinstate banned pro-gun videos.

But, you seem to have the greatest handle on this - do you have any articles or analyses across multiple conservative accounts facing demonetization on a regular basis? That kind of evidence would indicate a trend and would finally fulfill my desire for actual evidence of anti-conservative bias by Google.
My favourite is on there. It has a modular, rearrangeable dashboard: http://oldconceptcars.com/1930-2004/opel-junior-concept-1983...
Apple is pretty good about automating the conversion of Swift to the newer version.

Swift 2 to 3 was a little bit of work but the new succinct syntax was worth it.

It doesn’t sound like there will be many breaking changes in 5.0:

“As with Swift 4.2, the vast majority of sources that built with the Swift 4.2 compiler should compile with the Swift 5.0 compiler”
Oh cool, that's further than I got, thank you! That is very detailed.
How much is the correct amount for settlement?
That's not necessarily a bad thing. A render engine monoculture makes web dev easier---if I could have all the hours back I spent on taking perfectly working code on Safari and Chrome and making it work on Firefox, I'd take them in a heartbeat.
Thanks for your response Micheal. That's an interesting website. I'll take a look!
maybe i was harsh but how do we know the seller is informative? He just said the things that made swizec purchase items. Perhaps he was, but he has an ulterior motive.

I will still gladly ask for recommendations, and still refuse them. This salesperson ignored the customers original request, Swizec seems not to care, to me, that means the saleserson is making it obvious he/she is putting himself and his/her sales infront of making the customer happy,

Also, was this worth it for the salesman? If he could've sold $100 pair of gloves in 5 minutes, instead of $1500 over 2 hours. a 15x multiplier on sales but also a 40x multiplier on time...

> Once upon a time, it was articles on business fundamentals like this that drew me to HN.

I think https://stratechery.com/ is now closer to what you are looking for.
Yeah. Probably because he had 2% of the options, and they wanted to claw it back from him.
Not selling - no trademark infringement?
Nassim Taleb would agree -- in Black Swan he writes: "American culture encourages the process of failure, unlike the cultures of Europe and Asia where failure is met with stigma and embarrassment. America’s specialty is to take these small risks for the rest of the world, which explains this country’s disproportionate share in innovations."
France has VSP (voiture sans permis) https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35210572 , Italy had something similar for age 14 and up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorised_quadricycle

China is simply getting more wealthy. Eastern europe went thru similar transition after the end of Russian occupation (1989). In Poland we had Fiat 126p selling at similar ~$1500 in 1992. Very popular due to price, but soon replaced by $2500 Fiat Cinquecento in 1992 as most popular, then Tico, Seicento, and Lanos. It went bigger and more expensive with time, Fabia, Panda and finally Octavia being the most popular cars.

Chinese dont buy those cars because small and electric, they buy them because thats all they can afford.