skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's see what the dictionary has to say:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda

1 capitalized : a congregation of the Roman curia having jurisdiction over missionary territories and related institutions

2 : the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person

3 : ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause also : a public action having such an effect

so.. quite a few things are propaganda.

it's not really so scary a term, and so being not so scary, we can see it more clearly and not be afraid of labeling it.

the question is more "is this good propaganda or bad propganda?"
The Anabasis is available as an ebook from Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1170
So much of this shutdown fight is just ego. We've now lost more money due to the shutdown than would have been saved by depriving Trump his wall. Just give him the money and be done with it. Regardless of its effectiveness just pitch it as a federal jobs program... Just. End. It.
Parent comment also mentions 3 "where"s. Sourceforge is another option.
Is This Higher Education’s Golden Age?
Exponent Podcast: A Significant Shift
Univetsities work to ensure that their qualifications are necessary at every level to get a job, when we have decades, sometimes centuries of experience to tell us that practically they are not. It might be worthwhile if the quintupling, dectupling of costs were accompanied by more teaching and research faculty but instead their numbers have held steady while useless administrators and exploited adjuncts grow and grow.

> Professional master’s-degree subjects like accounting, business, education, engineering, and public administration have seen phenomenal growth. The number of master’s degrees conferred in all fields went up by 60 percent from 2000 to 2014. Universities developed these programs not only in response to student and employer demand, but also because they could price them at rates that made them self-supporting. Rapidly growing master’s fields include biology, computer science, homeland security, and health science.

> Students pursue master’s degrees to delay entry into the labor market, to gain new knowledge or make new contacts, to raise their salaries, to qualify for doctoral programs, or just to try out a field that they think aligns with their interests. Universities, sensitized to market opportunities, deploy battalions of planners to establish footholds in up-and-coming master’s fields before competitors are able to do so. Some of these efforts are simply avaricious, but most speak to the agility and responsiveness of universities under the influence of market logic.
ooh lets post one liner wikipedia links and feel smug!

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic
TSA is useless
> Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

I sunk so much time in W:ET, got to a pretty good level with it, until everyone figured out the wallhacks, and every game became about trying to nail that perfect jump. For whatever reason, no matter how much time I sunk in to those wallhack training maps I could never get the knack of it, which meant I could no longer be where I needed to be to defend the base.
I wonder what the expenses are of the site such that the shutdown warranted shuttering the site?
You were very helpful in this discussion. Thank you. :)
I think it’s more accurate to say the Democrats (and many of their supporters) don’t want a Trump success. Most or all of the current players that were in office in 2006 voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, and the same applies to the 2013 Senate immigration overhaul. It has little to do with the subject of the budget allocation and everything to do with obstructing (for better or worse depending on your own views).

Politics in the US has devolved into a strictly two-party system where it’s more important for the other side to fail than be able to hold their success up, where it has ceased to be about what’s best for our civilization and more about grabbing and holding on to as much power as possible, our rights be damned. I don’t hold the Republicans or Democrats any higher in this.
You don't "become" capitalist, a capitalist has capital, and if you don't have any capital, you're not a capitalist.
You're not alone. I forced myself to read through half the book before asking myself what was the point of solving essentially leetcode style problems using only tail-end recursion and glorified linked lists. At no point did I ever feel that the scheme language had any practical applications.
Can anyone explains how does this computer works ?

Anyway this is really cool. A manual computer is a great project idea.
At one point I was playing Serious Sam, an FPS. I finished the game and let the credits roll by, noticing a quirky name "Derek Smart". I searched for it on Wikipedia and arrived at the eponymous article, describing the life and creative work of a rash and stubborn but obviously ambitious and talented video game designer.

A bit later on, there was Croteam, the maker of Serious Sam, AMA on Reddit so I asked them if the reference to Derek Smart was an inside joke or what. The reply was along the lines of "he's a dear friend of ours and our inspiration". I went back to the Derek Smart Wikipedia article, pointed out the screenshot of the credits with Derek's name, the AMA reply and asked a very innocuous question: "Can we put this in the article?"

I got a reply that what I did is termed "original research" and the only acceptable way to include the reference would be if some noteworthy third party, such as Washington Times, mentions and explains the connection, meaning all the work I did up to that point was in vain. That's when I completely gave up on editing Wikipedia as it seemed to me, and still does, absolutely Sisyphean. Editors of that article then went on to argue how to phrase the incident where Derek Smart assaulted a vending machine to best fit the article.

The implication of "no original research" and "noteworthy sources of information" means a large mass of regional events and persons can't be included in the English Wikipedia unless they clear this arbitrary bar of noteworthiness that can still be gamed with ease: a) be an employee of a mainstream news source, b) publish a biased article on any given topic, c) create an anonymous Wikipedia account, d) create an article on the topic or edit an exiting one to embed the information you published and e) marvel as Wikipedia editors revert the changes under the guise of preventing vandalism.

Automated edit-correction tools are another grave issue for Wikipedia, as they instantly revert an article to its sanctioned version set by a reputable Wikipedia editor. How is Wikipedia "an encyclopedia anyone can edit" again?
> Termination due to non-performance can also hit a performer.

If everyone is meeting the success criteria, then still trying to fire lower 10% is Darwinian view of the world. This also means objective enough criteria exists to judge the poor performers. In reality, that guy in the corner with his head down get fired because he is too busy to make connections and show how valuable he is.

This specific case seems harsher because a lot of these people assembled under Mr. Musk's banner because they thought they were working for a cause. I am sure many of them have took paycuts, toiled above and beyond expectations because they thought they were working for a cause. In my view this is not a fair at all.

> They are. Within the constrains of culture and law.

Agreed but every lawful and culturally acceptable things are not right necessarily.
Did you try archive.org?
During the dry summer season, redwoods rely on the dense fog that is prevalent along the northern California coast to get their water. Since it rains a lot more in Florida, I would say that they wouldn't need to rely on the dew. That said, redwood roots are very shallow, and I don't think they'd withstand hurricanes that well.
Yes, I know. That doesn't make an assertion about the "pitfalls" of `self` less muddy. It's literally a variable. It's a code smell too, but that's another conversation. Are we calling out variables in JS now? Maybe we should just hold ourselves to bootcamp standards, copy and paste StackOverflow or something like that. Programming is hard, etc.
I don't find his arguments convincing at all. The appearance of supporting privacy is not mutually exclusive with invasive behaviour internally, and records - even if supposedly kept private - is still potentially vulnerable to being hacked/leaked. The problem is they collect data to sell as this is literally their business, while true privacy is only achieved when personal data is not collected.
just because you want down syndrome to be possible, doesn't mean that it makes sense to bring a down syndrome baby to term.
i've jumped out of a plane (it was incredible of course), but i have no idea what you're talking about—but maybe I don't understand what "self-actualization" means.
To be honest, I never understood all these discussion about "coding fonts". They pop up every now and then here on HN but it always seems like bikeshedding to me.

Don't get me wrong - I'm aware that there are some folks who may have a vision impairment or some other reason where it really matters. But apart from that, I've been programming for decaded on many different computer systems with many different fonts, and frankly, it really doesn't matter too much to me.

Of course, you want something monospace, and something that looks nice might make an 8-hour day job (subconsciously?) more pleasant. But to me(!), most of the "programmer font" discussions are a waste of time, just choose the first one on your system and off you go.
Perhaps Musk wants to employ only the most committed zealots and pay them in hope.
What were the engineering motivations for moving from KT to Quicksilver? Did that have to do with performance/throughput, or more with tooling and functionality?
Dubstep came out of the UK as well, largely out of the same scene?
Meet the Most beautiful girl in the world
It's funny, I was just talking about this very thing yesterday and got what I feel is some pretty good advice.

The long and short of it is that you are having a hard time organizing the things you want to do because you aren't _finishing_ anything and the backlog is building up. So rather than focusing your energy on organizing all the things you want to do, pick one, maybe two max and finish them. Rinse, repeat. Don't start anything new until you've cleared out the backlog.

Once you've picked, its imperative that you then schedule time in your week to focus on it. Like literally block out time in your calendar and defend it like you would any other appointment.

tldr; finish something and schedule time to do it.
The Freestyle Libre requires a prescription (why?) — is there another similar system that does not?
> Makes me think that studying foreign/ancient languages in order to read is not actually important in the least and might be better left to professional translators.

it really depends on your goals. if you are just reading for pleasure, it can be lovely to just read a good translation as written. if you are approaching the text more seriously, you need to be aware that the translation of many key words can be quite controversial in these texts. to make matters worse, there are instances where the only copies of the text have been damaged and scholars have inferred letters or entire words. these reconstructions can also be controversial.

you don't necessarily have to become a fluent reader to get the most out of a particular text, but I would at least recommend reading the translation side-by-side with the greek, preferably with a good commentary to consult. sometimes the arguments in the commentary can be as interesting as the text itself!
I'd say it's a fundamental language design question of how to properly mix classes and first-class functions, and there's no clear answer. More specifically, if you access `myInstance.myMethod` without invoking it, what should happen? Should it "carry along" `myInstance`, and how should that work? Different languages have different answers:

* In Java, their solution is to simply not have first-class functions, so the syntax isn't possible. Method invocation (`myInstance.myMethod()`) is a special syntactic form; it's not just a property access and function invocation. There's a special `myInstance::myMethod` syntax that's like a lambda and behaves as expected, including allocating a new instance each time it's used.

* In Python, `myInstance.myMethod` always allocates a new function object, just like `myInstance.myMethod.bind(myInstance)` would do in JS. This avoids the mistakes from JS, but is a bit magical and inefficient (though I'm sure the implementation can optimize it). For example, `arr.append is arr.append` is false because simply accessing a method creates a new function object, so you'll get two different function objects. Still, this has a certain elegance because method invocation doesn't need to be seen as a special syntax like it is in Java and JS.

* In JavaScript, method invocation (`myInstance.myMethod()`) is a special syntactic form like in Java that passes along `this`, but `myInstance.myMethod` is also allowed and drops `myInstance`. This is efficient if you didn't care about `this`, but can be surprising to beginners and requires more care than in other languages.

To compare these: Python and JavaScript are flexible because they allow dot syntax, i.e. methods as first-class functions. JavaScript and Java are efficient because they don't do an unnecessary allocation unless you opt into it. Python and Java are harder to misuse because they don't provide a syntax for accessing `myMethod` without `myInstance` bound to it.
The irony that someone had to take the time to prepare that message instead of, I don't know, doing the bare minimum to keep the site up during the shutdown.
That's true, I'll look into having it try more variances on the entered name when it searches Wikipedia
> The humanities have also made important advances: for instance, in our understanding of the culture and history of areas outside Europe and North America. They have made breakthroughs in text analysis, such as demonstrating that the Old Testament was composed in multiple layers, and they have given us an entirely new way of looking at the world as constructed by “epistemic regimes.”

We’ve known the Old Testament was composed in multiple layers since well before anyone currently alive was born. Philology as born out of biblical criticism so that understated the case if anything.
> you believe that curriculum should work for everyone.

Maybe it would be possible to determine which teaching approach works best for a student and individualize/personalize, rather than having a one-size-fits-all curriculum for everyone?
Australia and New Zealand recommend direct sun exposure in the article. They are telling us, it turns out.
> I do wish there was an equivalent that used a statically typed language

Not exactly an equivalent, but a very good book (that uses a statically typed language) is "Elements of ML Programming" by Ullmann.
Tipping point for digital health in drug discovery and development
Why do you have strong preferences about type systems if you've only dabbled in Python and C.
I've been using Input at 6pt for a couple of years. Nothing else looks good at that size.
There might be expenses, but I would also be hesitant to let a site run without a human being able to monitor it, respond to any alerts, apply security patches, etc.
I think this is more a question about prioritizing and time management than a question about organizing
Of course it is true. The curbs are painted colors to let you know if you'll get a ticket and signs are posted.

Most cities in the US make big money off parking violations.
Face to Faces for remote working
I have tried all sorts of methods and software, but in the end always ended up with a single "today.txt" file.

This year I have started to the same thing, split into today/this_week/this_month but also buy, sell, and for repetitive events, monthly (change passwords, upgrade comps, lubricate all the things), spring and autumn.

I try to review most weekly, with a special focus on this_week, this_month, buy and sell.
That's the problem, the amount he's asking for will barely start a wall, a wall is a dumb idea any, and if you cave once where does it end?
Protecting the face is rational, for many people it gets the most sun exposure of any part of your body. Heard from my dermatologist two of the most common skin cancer locations in our community are the lower lip and lower eyelid, which of course are two facets of your face that are most perpendicular to the sun at peak UV hours.

I figure, and this is just me, that if you want to get sun exposure, it's probably best to expose more skin for less time. If the risk is LNT, it's all the same. If it's not, you lower the total risk.
I happen to best learn through video lectures more than reading.

Thank you for your effort. I am starting with these.
Huawei proves its status as major tech company with its patents
I enjoyed the Authors blog post history of:

Tracking Blood Pressure

Tracking Blood Sugar

Chocolate Popcorn

Panna Cotta
SV tech companies aren’t outliers in terms of being money driven, but they are outliers in sanctimony. The only major sector I can think of that competes on that axis is health care.
So you're a prostitute?
I guess the first design crime shown is that the article is behind a subscription-paywall :)
The law has an exception for quotations.
It looks like each of those little bead thingies is a transistor; each has three wires leasing up to it with a little loop at the end. Presumably, a charge from the loop to the side can flip the bead, and this makes it conduct.

It’s surprising that that works, to say the least. :)
First, we haven't. We have hit the point where the amount in the current budget request exceeds the economic damage. The estimated total cost of the wall would be somewhere between $15 billion and $70 billion, depending on who you ask[1].

Second, it still doesn't matter. Giving in to Trump on this matter would only show him that he can expand his racist policies again and again by threatening to shut down the government again. "Once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane."

[1] https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/apr/28...
If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for some milk
Do Not File Bankruptcy Before Reading This
the perseus site is also great. [0] you can easily read the greek and english side-by-side, and every greek word is a hyperlink to a page with the definition and inflection of the word and links to its entries in various lexicons.

[0] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Xen.%20Anab.
Sunlight exposure is more beneficial than taking Vitamin D supplements, ergo there are factors we haven't yet quantified which are not Vitamin D.
>if someone doesn't know what a cartesian product is (high school level math), perhaps they shouldn't be allowed near a database...

This is such an intellectually snobbish position to take. I can tell you that I didn’t know this term when I first interacted with a database, and if someone had told me the above, I would have just felt stupid and given up.

The fact you learned what a Cartesian product was at high school shouldn’t preclude someone who hasn’t from trying to build stuff and experiment with tech. Not everyone learns things the same way, or in the same order, and that’s okay.
JUST was hoping to have lab-grown chicken nuggets for sale by the end of 2018, "subject to regulatory considerations."

https://www.just-food.com/news/just-planning-to-launch-lab-g...

Regarding Mars, I think at this point it depends more on SpaceX internet satellite profits than on overall socioeconomic conditions.
A static type system like Elm doesn't fix logical bugs like wrong indexing, wrong predicate etc, it just finds issues with types. Types do not contain the real logic of your program. Types are somewhat useful for verifying data is passed around in the correct shape in a program, but to say it prevents most obvious errors is naive. Not to mention in Elm you will waste tons of time doing useless tasks like writing encoders/decoders and code that could be moved to macros in a more powerful language.
I feel you could probably make a better case for the Mazda MX 5 being a 'British' car.

The influences for the Figaro are hinted at in the name. Italy.
Yes. What I do is I leave the item in the list but cross it out to indicate I have changed my mind. I have 7 different motorcycle models listed, all crossed out at the moment as I gave up the idea of buying one. I bought an XBOX instead of a PS4, I check marked the former and crossed out the latter.
There was a construction company working on the main road in town (Illinois). The last state shutdown had them stop working... even though the road was 100% federally funded AND they were paid upfront for 3 months of work.

I suspect this was done to raise light to the situation (or they wanted time off). Similarly, I suspect running this website is mostly automated and likely being shut down to raise awareness
Game Programmers and the C++ collapse
This is what I would hope the democrats were capable of performing, a basic cost benefit analysis.
The links seems to be dead and $2500 makes me think the link is better off dead. Haha! On serious note, I'd like to read some materials from his side.
Crypto-Gnosticism does describe the silly-con valley faith.
If that is the case, then the downvotes are misplaced. The HN Guidelines say nothing about humour (good or bad) in comments. Perhaps some users feel that joking is forbidden because we are all serious and important scientists and engineers here, but that is just a personal and subjective opinion.

Now, finding that my joke was a bad joke, I can understand and appreciate, but that business about "this isn't reddit" has got to stop. We are not reddit. Everyone knows that. Reddit probably knows that. The HN guidelines in fact have something to say about that sort of misconception. There's no reason not to crack a joke now and then. To be a serious person doesn't mean to have a stick up one's arse.

Edit: Anyway the point is really not the karma and the downvotes. I was simply worried that my joke was taken as targeting Korean people, which was not at all in my mind. If someone got offended because they don't like people joking on HN, well, guys, are there more of you than my karma? If not, tough.
Clojure at Apple with David Taylor
So if you saw your goldfish being clearly uncomfortable or in pain, would you have an emotional reaction to it, making you feel bad for it? That’s empathy. You don’t need to imagine the goldfish's daily routine to experience this. In the absence of this emotion, there is no incentive to perform the mechanistic actions that constitute “caring for” it.
The Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924
I find that, as a rule, general programming proficiency and (worse still) language proficiency are given too much weight compared to domain knowledge, but it’s most definitely possible to overshoot and end up thinking those core skills are unimportant.