skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2.8 million comments were identical and were from a pro-net neutrality site called "Battle for the Net". That's not organic.

Lots of advocacy groups offered a form for users to submit comments with a pre-filled comment field in support of net neutrality. I used one myself. The fact that the text is the same does not necessarily imply the comment is fake.

There are many other comments where the person who supposedly submitted the comment says that they didn't. That would be a fake comment.

> Or what, specific, actions should he have taken?

I don't know, how about something besides "not a damn thing"? How about tracking down the source of the fake comments and fining or otherwise holding them accountable if it's within his jurisdiction to do so, or turning them over to the appropriate authorities if not? How about cancelling the comment period due to the rampant fraud, implementing some measures to verify user and re-opening comments to try to get something accurate? How about giving the tiniest shit about the public he's supposed to be serving? Is that too much ask?
Indeed. What is the solution? Economic sanctions (I'd argue yes)? UN resolutions? (Useless) Boots on the ground? (Physical force, while preferably a last resort, is always an option).

I'm starting to warm to the idea of using tariffs and other punitive measures to drag manufacturing back to US shores.
> "...just alter the density of air so that we don't need to worry about lift for these airplanes we're building; they'll just be buoyant!". By and large, you can do that kind of thing in code...

A wonderful metaphor. Thanks.
Then why does the alw require their collection and evaluation?
This always reminds of the Hitchhikers Guide: "There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

ISS constantly falls down to earth. It is also moving so fast that it constantly misses earth.
No, the U.S. Is Not a Net Exporter of Crude Oil
You wonder what a suburb inmate's idea of a threat is. This is exurban America, not Brazil, where people have a good change of experiencing an express kidnapping or crossfire. Yet still the suburbanites act like that, it's disquieting.
> Would you, personally, pay an additional $400,000 to put that parking underground? Do you think you could convince every single person in that housing complex to do that? I highly doubt it. If that apartment complex was condos, eg, it's likely in that case that each condo unit would be cheaper than the parking spot for it (keeping in mind that, given it's Texas, most units would probably have 2 or maybe even 3 parking spots).

Also, the picture here is from a mixed-use development, not just a housing complex (it's from the West Village in Uptown Dallas; I posted a Street View link in another comment if you're interested). There's retail on the ground floor.

Nobody in Dallas is going to go shopping or out to eat if we can't drive there and find a place to park. I can't even count the amount of times my friends or family have said "eh, let's go somewhere else" or "we'll come back another day" just because we couldn't find a place to park. No parking spots means businesses go under. So not only do you need 2-3 parking spots per unit, you need parking for all the customers of the retail establishments on the ground floor.
There's no clear path from their current style of rocket to "trips into orbit, around moon". It's dead-end tech - VG going orbital would require either a totally new vehicle (for which little of the current one's work applies) or buying rides with something like SpaceX.
> Workers recently started to change speed limit signs on the first segment on the Fourth Avenue line in Brooklyn between 36th Street and 59th Street. Overall, officials plan to change the speed limits at 100 locations by the spring.

The real problem here, as I see it, is that humans are still involved in running the trains. We need speed signs for them to read, we need to hope they follow the rules, we need them to control the train as best a human can. Plenty of cities in the world are running autonomous trains. It's not easy to do, but it is doable. Retrofitting existing trains would be a difficult project, I imagine, but worth the cost.

How much more efficiency could we gain just by shaving those half seconds (or more) at every single start, stop, door open, door close, etc?

I don't even think we need to fire the operators (I'm certain their union would object anyway) so much as change their role to one of managing the autonomous train, providing first aid when needed, keeping a human watch on things.
So what does that feel like? Don't underestimate curiosity.
Ok, which one of you fixed the missing curly brace in "{convert|10|mi}} away" right as I was about to?
Maybe Excel is a good example.

Some people use Excel to do what other people would do with Jupyter, pandas, matplotlib, etc.
Firefox for Android has them!
6 Web Features That Will Lead to Higher CRO
It is water weight being sweated out. Largely because it's a very taxing activity.
Any ideas on what the trick for the redirect is?
It was a feature and not a bug - such slow burning starved of oxygen would produce the coal burning with higher temperature and thus increase the power produced per volume unit of the burner.
Don't ealion here please.
This is silly. When Nixon was impeached, future Presidents didn't keep bugging their political opponents' hotel rooms in some Medusa-like fashion. When J. Edgar Hoover died, the Senate put in mandatory term limits on FBI directors, they didn't just appoint more jedgars. When Napolean was exiled, his revolution died... And when he escaped exile, it returned in full force.

We aren't helpless to sanction the powerful and thereby change policies and practices. Sure, sometimes you need a few shots at it — sometimes it really is a machine — but changing the head does in fact change the organization. If you want a closer-to-home example, just look at Uber under Dara vs Uber under Travis.
Not an interview question itself, but rejecting based on lack of "culture fit" seems to be pretty standard practice. I'm not sure why such a trick question is even needed however, since regardless of how the candidate does the decision to hire is ultimately a black-box that the candidate won't know anything about.
Commercial banks also have access to the Fed discount window, which other institutions do not. This is one reason all the big investment banks converted to bank holding companies during the financial crisis.
The Changelog 327: Untangle Your GitHub Notifications with Octobox
Ubuntu is gtk-based, so you need a matching Qt-theme for that to work, it will look native on kubuntu/kde-based distros.
But wouldn't it be better if your apps supported hot exit, so you could wake up the next morning with updates already installed AND all your work still there?
Mr. Dickens Goes to Washington
I'm not an expert in the topic, but my understanding is RGB is a poor color space for computing color difference. This could be why your mosaics end up so washed out. [1] suggests using a CIELAB color space [2].

Edit: Looking at the code more closely it looks like you were using Lab at one point but commented it out[3], so I'm guessing you're already aware of this.

1: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9019461/185171

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIELAB_color_space#CIELAB

3: https://github.com/worldveil/photomosaic/blob/bb720efda11383...
ah, the link can't be changed.. sorry
Health hazard cockroach infested filthy dishes
Neither do costs.. The concern is that adding a huge new "customer" to the community without adding any additional revenue can be a losing proposition. The roads, sewers, power lines, schools, hospitals etc. all see increased demand and in extreme situations, the municipality sees zero extra money to pay for it. So the existing "customers" in the community see degraded service to make way for an outside organization.
Many of the older homes here are wood (typically, balloon frame) with a sandstone foundation, so you can reduce the amount of heat loss by making sure that the sandstone mortar is in good shape, making sure that all windows and entrances are properly-sealed, and strategic use of insulation. I say "strategic" here because you have to be careful about making the house too tight, which can cause moisture to get trapped and result in very bad things like sill rot.

The key is that these old homes have very good "bones", so even a gut job can use the original structure intact. Combine that with the fact that Buffalo's real estate is relatively inexpensive still (it's starting to get up there, though), and extensive renovations aren't too bad on the wallet.
A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks
There is no such thing as "native Ubuntu" :-). The default widget style of a modern Ubuntu installation is just a GTK theme (which, I think, supports both GTK 3 and GTK 2 -- the two are incompatible, so themes need to implement support for both). You can configure Qt to use the GTK 2 rendering engine, but GTK 2 and GTK 3 look slightly different for reasons that I am entirely unable to convey without an inflammatory post, so Qt (and GTK 2) applications won't look exactly the same as GTK 3 applications.
My Australian relatives say "it's about 50 kay" to describe driving distances, for what it's worth.
Imagine how much more efficiently the Chinese government could identify involuntary donors if it had better access to people's personal information.

Perhaps through a search engine of some kind. One with a harmless-sounding name. Maybe "Dragonfly" would be a good name.
Unambiguously-worded it may well be, but there's obfuscation through overload, particularly when writ in explicit technical jargon.

I consider myself a fairly knowledgable computer user (I've been using computers for 35 years, Windows since 3.1) and the page you've linked there means nothing to me - what hope has the average consumer?
Cool! Though it says it's alpha software?
https://i.imgur.com/Xx0F71p.png
Thanks for the links.

You could also try installing O&O ShutUp10. I've been running it since I installed Windows 10.

You can download it (it's a free app) at https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10.

It nulls out a bunch of telemetry related addresses in your /etc/hosts file, and allows you to configure over a 100 different privacy settings from 1 place.
At least in Chicago, you can already order from Whole Foods on Prime Now.
It has a global settlement (which more or less liquidates all collateral). It doesn't freeze the ETH blockchain that DAI are traded on. DAI could be returned to the main contract for X amount of ETH based on the spot price of ETH when the global settlement is executed. But DAI could still be traded around independently of the global settlement. It's value might have slipped as a result, however, based on whatever ETH became worth following the settlement. The market would still determine that price, however.
I’m not sure that the low quality of Whole Foods is a good fit for Instacarts’s brand anymore.
tried to change the link but it seems like you can only change the title ._.
It's a matter of degree. Fire may be inevitable; burning to a crisp is not.

> the techno-libertarian norm around here

This is the hostile media effect: ideological users see the platform as dominated by their enemies. See for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18664482, where HN is "left leaning, socialist Democrats".

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=13110004&sort=byDate&prefix&pa...
That's how Hollywood studios do a lot of their anti-gravity shots as well. They have to be shot really quickly, in short takes, with custom planes that have movie sets built into the interior. It's pretty crazy and dangerous when you think about it.
Can you use this to build a Windows app as well, given that both python and Qt are cross-platform?
It's using the KMeans[1] library from sklearn.cluster. But this isn't really ML, is it? My ML knowledge is limited. Regardless, it's a cool project. OP might want to update the title to remove ML.

[1] https://github.com/worldveil/photomosaic/blob/master/emosaic...
I would say it means exactly this. If a surplus of people are willing to pay cash on top of appraised value, the appraised value is low.
I also wasn’t clear on that from the article. Is there a pending driver update that NVIDIA is waiting on Apple to approve?

It sounds like the current driver is bad and Apple is a convenient scapegoat to blame for the issues.
Roobios is truly awful.
Long-Range Emerging Threats Facing U.S. as Identified by Federal Agencies [pdf]
These things only work when there's a large asymmetry in power, otherwise the cost is too high. US >> N.Korea, US >> Iran. China's too powerful and important to do anything serious, we will have to likely deal with this on a case-by-case basis like we do Saudi Arabia, hopefully generating enough soft pressure and potential inflammation that they become fearful of creating a Khashoggi incident.
This is it.

I would barely consider random snips about a thing/keyword, scattered over time, to be documentation.

Certainly, a problem was likely solved with this FYI system... but it wasn't a documentation problem.
I've noticed the concept of _information architecture_ is being used in technical communication more frequently these days, borrowed from graphic design. Which covers a bit more ground then patterns, including topics like search, labeling, and taxonomy.

Sure, getting everyone to maintain docs with their features is useful. But given enough time, you'll end up with so many "close but not really close" concepts in documents it's very hard to stay on top of without someone putting some organization into play.
I feel like the problem lies in getting your feet through the front door, after that how you got your education really doesn't matter anymore. You were lucky enough to get an interview with Microsoft thanks to your past work experience, but other people (especially the ones who try academia before going into the private sector) don't have that chance and most of the time won't even be invited to an interview, that's the problem.

I am confident that if big companies actually interviewed people coming from different universities they would find that most top-uni grads are worse that people coming from different institutions who always feel like they have to perform 110% just to level the playing field.
Yes, absolutely. You can follow the exact same steps as in the article; Just use Python 3.5 or 3.6 and omit the `buildvm` and `runvm` steps. The only limitations on Windows are that the app is not yet code signed and there are no automatic updates (yet).
> My little city is alot like Vegas in some ways... half vacant

In what way is your "wacky" city anything like Las Vegas, which has a huge percentage of renters (vs homeowners), and one of the lowest rental vacancy rates in the United States?
I wouldn't worry about it - many of these special offers are basically just the charities trying to leverage big donors into getting more little donors on board. Your donations are just as effective - the matching typically has a limit so it'll only ever reach a certain value.
Taking a closer look at Python support for Azure Functions
This is just phenomenal. Can see this being a a fairly disruptive force in the media industry.

Also, sock puppet factories could use this to create endless numbers of fake personas for social media astroturfing.
> any system that effectively allows decentralized peer-to-peer transmission of money is going to fail one or more anti-money-laundering laws

I think you just proved that cash is illegal
Taking "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need" to its perverse party-sanctioned extreme..
Couldn't help myself but read this as if the last line suddenly changed to be in the voice of ED-209
> At first glance it appears that GCP has a tighter latency spread (when compared to the network throughput) centered on 0.2 ms

Comparing a distribution of two completely different metrics is not particularly meaningful. You can change the histogram buckets to a different size and it will look just as spread out. When I first read it, I thought it was saying GCP has a tighter spread than AWS. This was confusing, especially since the chart immediately above that seems to have AWS and GCP numbers flipped.
Will this be added to Google's Project Dragonfly censorship engine?
I think the author's annoyance stems from the fact that these buildings attempt to look stylish and high class, but are made cheaply. It's kind of upper-class annoyance that lower-class people are getting something that looks nice.

Ultimately, like certificates of authenticity on diamonds, the upper class will settle on some easily identified but hard to fake styles for expensive homes, and the cycle will repeat.
The craft is taken to 45,000 feet by a more traditional aircraft at normal speeds and after detachment the rocket engine wouldn't bring it to boom-producing mach speeds until somewhat above that I think, and the atmosphere is much thinner so the effect would be greatly reduced. So no, I don't think so.
Thanks for your input, I definitely want to set it up asap so that I can start blogging about stuff I'm interested in or ramblings I want to go on about after tackling some of the bigger assignments.
Yeah, lots of other cities, too. I think Amazon was just waiting for its contract with Instacart to run out before it gave it the formal heave-ho.
Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities
You seem to be operating under a severe misunderstanding of the point of the public comment system. It is not to figure out whether or not the public supports a particular action. Polls are much better at that particular goal. Rather, the purpose is to surface relevant arguments so the committee can consider those arguments in their decisions.
It would be interesting to compare the list of names against some of the large recent data leaks as well, to see if it may have been (possibly) an independent actor trying to influence the request.

Also, if half of these are _super_ fake, the server logs should be quite revealing.
Call it a “wireless modem” and see if that helps
I once made a mistake, but it wasn't a just a loop, it was recursive. I was working in an old version of FOCUS, a reporting language, mixed with DCL. (This was a VMS environment)

The details are fuzzy now, but IIRC I misplaced a single "GOTO" line of code. The result was doubly recursive: Each person on the list got the message once for every person on the list, with the content of previous recipients concatenated to the message.

So: person 1 got the message once. Then person 1 & 2 got the message again, only person 2's content was appended to person 1. The person 1, 2 & 3 got the message, with 3 appended to 2, and 2 & 3 appended to 1, and so on.

I was very lucky that it was an old VMS environment with low disk quotas, so my "sent" folder ballooned before the full list could run. I think I got through about 130 recipients, which came out to about 8000 messages.
Read up on the French Revolution and what actually happened. You'll learn who did what to whom and within what legal framework (or lack thereof).

You may also start to see some parallels.
YouTube isn't an independent "company" in the strict sense of the word (even if it has its own legal entities), it is just a division/product of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet.
> "Don't get me wrong; as a net-isizen, I want Pai to rot in hell for everything he's done"

Settle down. The hatred towards him is unbelievably off the charts.
> HN in turn, are left leaning, socialist Democrats

This is the hostile media effect: ideological users see the platform as dominated by their enemies. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18671955, where HN is "the techno-libertarian norm around here".

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=13110004&sort=byDate&prefix&pa...
"-Wall -Wextra -Werror" are you allies :)
This is a great, hilarious story. Something about IRC makes for a really nice story telling platform. Thanks for sharing.
Currency is a tool for measuring economic value, it's not the basis of economic value.

This is why fiat currencies are so useful: you can change the length of the "ruler" to accommodate changes in the thing you're measuring, so the value of the increment remains stable.
I strongly recommend giving Rider a try for F# development - I've been really impressed.
Where I live, Whole Foods tends to offer mid to high grade foods (for the middle class person at least). What makes you think it's low quality? I can get live mussels and clams, relatively ethical and fresh beef, good cheeses, decent produce... There are much worse options. Is Whole Foods not always like this?

I went to one in California (just North of Monterey as I recall) and it seemed nice enough too. I live in Canada though, so maybe in the rest of the US it's not so great.
Per guidelines:

>Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.
Weird, I happened to submit that page to HN and it shot to the top of the front page and stayed there for most of a day. I guess the originators rigged all the HN votes too. You presume good faith on the part of Pai and his affiliations in withholding information from the public about the FCC comment submissions, while simultaneously disputing the right of pro-NN actors to organize and equating such organization with fraudulent submissions.
Multiple Firebase environments with Flutter
"[Kmeans] algorithm has a loose relationship to the k-nearest neighbor classifier, a popular machine learning technique for classification that is often confused with k-means due to the name." Maybe an ML expert could elaborate? I've been curious on my own projects when to actually mention when they use true ML or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means_clustering
Found it ironic that Branson called space 'Virgin Territory'.

There's a very good possibility that we'd be sending ourselves into the dark ages if space debris goes unmanaged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS1ibDImAYU&
It’s a hard sell to say that your experience with your small government is indicative of all small governments and somehow warrants going with the leeches at Comcast instead.
It obviously depend on your niche, but as long as it's not super competitive I've had pretty good success appearing in the top 10 with articles posted on my own (fairly new) domain.

Perhaps the best advice I can give is to don't focus too much on SE algorithms (just make sure you don't mess up any tagging etc), but rather focus on creating very good, well researched content. If you do that, people will share, and Google will notice. Personally, I have had success with writing long form articles. Many of the articles on Nomad Gate is 4-5000 words or more. At that point you will get a lot of long tail traffic as well.
Correct. I never said there was a direct path. I said there might be a profitable path.

There wasn't a direct path from search to self-driving cars, for example. Google makes its money with search ads then reinvests.
American Express Bank has been around for at least 2-3 years.