skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/guns-germs-and-ste...

There are also a ton of good critiques on /r/history, /r/askhistorians, and /r/anthropology. I can't remember which I've read. Ones like this are typical:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8nr7xd/thoug...
This seems to be in reply to: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-pale...
Looking at your requirements, what you need seems more to be a PR & communications tool. One example of that is the company I work for, Mynewsdesk (www.mynewsdesk.com), where the stripped down version include more or less what you ask for (more or less, we have our own email integration against sendgrid, and no integration against Medium). But we handle other stuff you list.

Our cheapest nonfree alternative cost $120 a month though, but perhaps that is close enough to be interesting? If not, there are many other companies in the PR tool market - perhaps one fit your needs.
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That is solely because 1/3 of China's population is still living extremely impoverished lives that are equivalent to third world standards. They have 400-500 million people that are still among the poorest on earth. I can't imagine how you think that's an accomplishment that deserves recognition. Their low per capita pollution output due to extreme poverty, is not due to stellar environmental policies by China.
I could type on my old Nokias etc without ever looking at the message. It was flawless. If one wanted to do it whilst driving (not that anyone ever would, of course) it could be done without ever looking away from the road. That's the power of actual physical feedback.

I'm sure there's someone somewhere who can prove me wrong and touch-type flawlessly on their touch screen phone. But in most cases you're relying heavily on auto-correct to make a parseable sentence. Which means you'll need to look at the screen a lot.

The radio/Cassette player in my car is all buttons. I can change stations, volume, switch to tape etc without looking much at all. Some buttons I might no remember their place - but here's the crucial thing. I don't have to keep looking until I make contact. I glance, see where the button is, and then feel for it.

A touch screen simply doesn't give you that, you either need to see yourself making contact or wait for the software to do something you may (or may not) have wanted. If it's wrong, you're now trying to fix that and try again.

I do not believe that touch screens reduce risk in interacting with car functionality, indeed I'm pretty sure they increase it.
I would venture that it does. It’s much, much more likely that forced bit-flips via RH would break decryption vs cause some malicious code execution.
I was going to post the same. Robert Smith, a known lisper, is Director of Software Engineering at Rigetti.

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> I haven't heard any remotely viable way that any even halfway decent alternative to Facebook becomes possible.

Facebook is dominant in social media, but this is mobile gaming micro-payments. Google and Apple are also large in this space.

That said, I've little confidence this oligopoly will do the right thing without regulation.
This is a common theme especially in any country with cold winters. People will commit low level crimes that will ensure just enough prison time to survive the winter when they're either homeless or their home offers little o no guarantee they will survive a very cold night (no money for heating).

Sometimes the prison system is bad enough that most people wouldn't resort to this unless it's a life and death situation. So probably nothing of principle (not wanting to take pity money) or not just as a method to save some more money for a few years.
Wow, what a condescending view point that people can't possibly think through things on their own without other people making decisions for them.

1. Parents need to monitor their child's Internet and phone activity. Why is it FB's responsibility to do that for them?

2. Smoking, seatbelts, and privacy are all personal choices that people should be able to make for themselves. You don't need to know that much to make an informed choice. It's called common sense and it is something that is disappearing and with it so are our rights.
How is the university phony if it's certified by the federal government as legit?

Presumably there is a process that needs to be followed by the DHS before a school is certified as legit.

They transferred their valid visas from a legit university to this "phony" university. How can that result in 'no visa' if the university is certified by the govt as eligible to grant visas to international students?
Oh I'm sure it stopped at one 5 year old - said no one ever. Are you kidding me?
had this guy (ceo) come in multiple times for talks at my university during comp sci undergrad, always seemed a pompous asshole full of himself trying to push a wrong agenda onto future developers
I remember being struck by his anecdotes of Papua New Guineans seeming just as smart as anyone else as supposed evidence of... What exactly?

I don't think Neil Diamond is wrong but it's kind of baby's first reading on the differences between groups in the world.

I think CGP Grey does a great job at communicating the actual meat of Guns, Germs, and Steel here https://youtu.be/JEYh5WACqEk
It's kinda funny how their "fun" components totally miss the point of what made the unsanitized inputs fun: Not having limitations.
A Google search for [Ramminger Knoppe] reveals original sources and an interesting Wikipedia article:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ramminger+knoppe

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/10/archives/3-germans-guilty...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Ramminger
"Washington says that, although Iran has met the terms, the accord was too generous, failing to rein in Iran’s ballistic missile program or curb its regional meddling." - oh the irony!
And yet Google had engineers unrelated to the Maven project resigning in protest. Just speaks to how little morality the people at Facebook have.
Israel was the country that convinced the US to refuse to reintegrate Iran after the 1991 war. Clinton adopted the absurd (and unprecedented) policy of dual containment where both ME powers were consistently suppressed and isolated.

Israel did this because they understood that once Iraq was gone, Iran was their direct geopolitical rival before that Israel and Iran (even Post-Revolution) were all buddy buddy.

The fact is, Iran is a country compliant with international nuclear guidelines and agreements, to a stronger extend then literally every other country in the world. Israel is a rouge state that stole nuclear secrets and built nuclear weapons.

The US supporting Israel against Iran by claiming the crimes that everybody knows Israel has actually perpetrated.
If whales had a poker-equivalent I think it would be the high rollers getting special treatment because it is specifically referring to that last percent who can casually spend 1000x - 10000x more. Capturing a whale could sustain a village through an arctic winter.
FB Employees do get the choice of either 2 Android phones (a Galaxy S9 or a Pixel 3, IIRC) or an iPhone so I'd wager they're just going to make a build system for their iPhone employees to sideload the apps through their internal build process or something.
Some thoughts:

- If there are too many relevant websites to display on one page, search vs. manual directory does not really make a difference.

- The curated model was long kept up by DMOZ, which had an army of volunteer editors but eventually shut down. Some editors took over and built curlie.org, but there is no innovation since DMOZ (which itself had no innovation)

- Curation is a big topic nowadays. Pinterest for example is based on that idea. However, things might be a bit more decentralised these days. I am just thinking about the awsome-* lists on GitHub.

- Manual directories may fail build a "searchable" taxonomy. I am searching maybe for a technical support company specialised in that product, located in this city, offering low rates. This is an easy example, but there are tougher ones. General purpose information retrieval (like Google does) might be a better fit for such problems than prebuilt taxonomies.

- Based on the last two points, curation might be more successful in small topics rather than in a Yahoo-like all-topics setting.
Well, I can't tell. Parts of the world still use cash primarily or commonly. I don't know what they do in the US. If the metaphor is prevalent, that must be because cash still is. I honestly would have a hard time identifying some of the currency around here in Canada because I almost never see it.
On mobile it’s also responding to the accelerometer data. At least on my iPhone X. Very cool demo.
How do you justify working for facebook at this point? Between stealing money from children, selling and abusing your user's data, and allowing your users to invite a literal genocide, where does the "good" come from?
If I had a nickel for every time someone appealed to "won't someone think of the children!" as an excuse to add more regulation and to squash individual rights and responsibility I might be able to afford one of Apple's iPhones.
> discussing whether or not to refund a child—whom they refer to as a "whale"—who racked up $6,545 in charges from a Facebook game

I have a hard time understanding how there could be any discussion at all. It seems very clear to me that you refund. What kind of people are working at Facebook?
> And because deportation isnt a criminal charge

but isn't it entrapment of the recruiters?

I don't know, it may be legal but it's not ethical.
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Even better for your mental health is stop reading news.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-ro...

The truly toxic part of facebook and much of social media today is the amount of news and politics that have been allowed on it.
"Native Congo Free State laborers who failed to meet rubber collection quotas were often punished by having their hands cut off."

This is really heartbreaking. The most heartbreaking photo I have ever seen was a father looking at the chopped up hands of his 4 year old son. The Belgium army had his son's hand cut off as punishment for failing to fulfill the daily work quota.
Correct. The Secretary of State has already said this. You can do business with America. Or do business with Iran. But you can't do business with both.
Your first sentence is correct.

The second is pretty much false. Iran has never tried to build nuclear weapons. Iran has been and always was perfectly in accordance with international law.

If you want to sanction Iran for the reason giving in your first line, then you must sanction literally every single ally the US has in the Middle East.

Please stop claiming that this is some moral position that the US holds.
> wish I had this when I was learning molecular dynamics

Keep in mind, though, that the article only outlines a way to make fluid drops look realistic, and doesn't actually guarantee anything about whether the behavior is realistic.
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It is not an edge case - the PR tool market is huge and there is a lot of business that serve it. Perhaps not super many that serve the micro/small sized segments (which this would be), but there are several alternatives to chose from.
> I don’t think that’s really true. The health effects of a cigarette a week would be indistinguishable from background noise.

Is this true? Can you provide a source?

Brb running to the corner store...
Facebook made their enterprise development certificate a single point of failure and then messed up by abusing it?

That's so dumb that it's actually funny.
Isn't that easy to do with REST as well however?
It also seems like an awful lot of time and money to get 8 indictments.
Also funny how they link to https://usability.yale.edu/web-accessibility/accessibility-y... at the bottom of the page, but the link itself is almost unreadable because it's small, orange font on top of grey. Not arguing the page itself needs better accessibility - it's art after all.
I started out with C and C++ almost 20 years ago, then moved to Java, then C#, and finally "settled" with Python.

They all have their strengths, and some are more suitable than others, when trying to convey certain topics. Some might argue that if you're going into an interview with heavy focus on data structures and algorithms, memory intensive topics, parallel computing, etc. then C++ would be a good choice.

Or if it's a job for enterprise style dev., then maybe Java EE or C#/.NET would be good.

With that said, I think it's more important that you pick the language you know best. Interviews (in my experience) rarely revolve around the technicalities of a language, and more around general topics and conceptual things.

The more you know a language, the less you have to "fight" it, and can focus on the problems at hand.

Python is currently the language _I_ enjoy the most, especially for technical interviews. It's (IMO) extremely intuitive and productive, and frankly almost feels like writing pseudo-code, which I value in the interview-setting. I don't need to waste a lot of time on getting utility code to work, and can spend my energy on the real problems.

TL;DR Use the language you know best / most confident with.
You may have a bias towards humans but nature doesn't care: all the bets are played in parallel.

In fact by your own preference, the unicellular organisms are more likely to successfully spread their DNA (as it's "packetized" into a complete organism) via the surfaces of the robot ships you describe than the multicellular ones are.
I have to post this parody lightning talk because Gary Bernhardt is hilarious and the slides demonstrate some of the (exaggerated) confusion around static vs dynamic types.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/useing-youre-types-...
>"The current regime is there precisely as a result of the Iranian Revolution"

So you are defending you assertion by simply repeating it?

You show a complete lack of of understanding of the power structure of Iran and the history of the revolution. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was appointed to be Supreme Leader after the Iranian Revolution. He used the position to consolidate power and shape the judiciary. There current regime is a reflection of this massive consolidation of power and influence. This has continued with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. These have been the only two Supreme Leaders since 1979. The current regime is a reflection of their outsized control, influence and policy over the country. The current regime has very little to do with the ideals of the 1979 revolution and original referendum.

You link is laughable - Vietnam, Thailand, Jordan, Afghanistan, Ethiopia are all listed in that chart and none of them are dictatorships. Did you bother to look at the provenance of this? Here:

>"About the author: Rich Whitney is an attorney, actor, radio commentator and disk jockey, Illinois Green Party activist and former Green Party candidate for governor.

>"Origins of images: Facebook, Twitter, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Flickr, Google, Imageinjection & Pinterest."

So an attorney, actor, radio commentator and disk jockey compiled some images from social media and "the internet." Brilliant. Perhaps you might read more critically.
> It's good to know that selling a country $29k in goods now equates to "supporting a dictatorship".

It's not just some 'goods', it's military equipment.

Also, you purposely picked a country with a low volume, when there are countless others with a much higher one on the list, including the likes of Egypt, Saudi Ariabia, the UAE etc.

This is based on the Freedom House report, it's not some data that the author of the piece made up.

> The idea that the US is wanting to overthrow Venezuela for oil is just silly. They output roughly what North Dakota does.

I already said it has little to do with the output, yet you ignore it because it does not fit with your narrative.

Also, how then do you explain the U.S. backed 2002 coup attempt, when Chavez was massively popular at the time?

Or are you trying to claim that the U.S. does not in fact 'meddle' in Latin America?
- Common habit

- Probably more damaging to our ears than we expect

- Damage is cumulative and takes a while to show the effects
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I would respond that A.I is the -only- realistic hope we have for reducing the biases in our medical system. The systemic and individual level bias of the medical system is not going to go away due to some sudden enlightenment. It’s true to that to some extent the first wave of AI applications will inevitably carry with them some of the biases that exist in the current medical system.

These biases are going to lead to measurably disparate outcomes. Fortunately measurably disparate outcomes are exactly the type of thing that can be used to train or otherwise guide the improvement of a machine learning model.

As long as we have mindfulness that there will be similar biases in the first wave of applications, AI and the typical associated data slicing and dicing that is done when doing model development will be the best tools for detecting and then mitigating these biases.
I feel it's worth noting that the intention is to remove any "purchasing decision". There is a "allow spending via Facebook" decision, and a key element is ensuring that customers don't question "but hey will my kid buy $10k cost of lootboxes when I'm not looking".

When people of any age click "get coins" or whatever, the system is designed to bypass purchasing decisions, reduce friction completely, make sure they're deep in to the "getting dopamine hits" like a zombie aspect of playing your game.
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I am happy that Facebook endure this organized media smearing attacks. It is very obvious to me someone wants to shape a narrative against Facebook, and it is distasteful to dress such intention under an altruistic disguise, like destroying Facebook could save the mankind. Utter nonsense.
> by a master of the scientific arts, designed to maximize impact and make the Times look like they were unfair to him.

As opposed to the journalists who wrote the initial article, who are not masters of their own profession and do not have incentives besides impartially reporting the truth?

Is anyone under the impression that when someone believes they have been falsely represented by a major news outlet and issue a rebuttal that they are trying to maximize impact and make it look like -- i.e., show -- that the outlet was unfair to them?
> you should always be skeptical, even of nice experts

Ha! You're of course right. A lecture finished right as I was typing so I didn't quite finish. I lead with the comments on his personality because I had intended to close with a comment about how I've never seen him take up such a fierce posture before, and I wanted to make a comment that this was definitely not his usual tone.
Previous HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18960718
Isn't 13 the minimum age for Facebook users?
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Looking forward to the next peaceful discussion about Middle East conflicts
They were not recruiting students. They were recruiting student visa holders to a fake university with the intent to conspire with the visa holder to defraud DHS (or whoever) and that is illegal.

Per TFA the recruiters were themselves fake “students” who spread the word about the fake university and prepared fake transcripts for their recruits to fraudulently keep their student visas while not actually taking any coursework.

The narrative you are seeing is not what actually happened. IMO it’s WaPo’s fault as the article is very badly written to portray the student visa holders as victims in this.
Eh, you're underestimating the "In between Minneapolis and Chicago" aspect. Tech has risen here, and SE Wisconsin is the home of a lot of large tech-based companies like Rockwell Automation, Fiserv, Cherry. MSOE is also pretty well regarded as one of the most prestigious engineering schools in the country.
If females don't get to choose who they mate with and breed with, how would female selection theory work?

If tribe A conquers tribe B and kills all the males in tribe B and breeds with all the females in tribe B, how exactly is female selection involved here? Or even if the males in tribe B weren't killed but all the resources were taken by males in tribe A, where does female selection apply?
>So ICE employed recruiters

The article looks to have made it sound like ICE employed them, but I don't believe that is the case. It seems more likely they (the recruiters) were acting independently getting international students to transfer to the fake school knowing it wasn't a legit school (hence the "pay to stay" statement) and helping them with that process while unaware it was actually setup by ICE.
I was really hoping Apple would yank the certs instead of just the usual “that’s not allowed, please stop and don’t do again” leniency they usually give larger companies. This is the only way to make companies listen
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Haha, recognized that one from the URL, was going to post it too if someone else didn't. Ironic that that's the most famous post on Google+.
I disagree with you. I find that comparing the behavior of Craig Dean to that of her past abusive relationship helped a lot on getting the point across (at least to me). After all, a job is basically a long term relationship.
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Many of us had to deal at some point in our careers with 'legacy ball of mud with no tests' codebases. Furthermore, longer lived products require a certain degree of inertia; it is hard for users to adapt to what appear to be arbitrary changes on a regular basis. Reasonable to understand why so many people are touchy around the subject of testing.

That being said, there is a certain degree of intellectual rigidity when it comes to TDD. The point of a good test suite is to capture the behavior of the product from a user perspective, and not to duplicate implementation details, or test the same behavior at three different levels of the architecture.

Ideally, each path in the code should be exercised by one [and no more] test written from the perspective of the product, but not necessarily using the user-visible APIs. To exemplify test refrain, suppose one is building an IDE. Write one test that the IDE frontend surfaces errors from the compiler to the user, and write a test suite for the compiler to check they produce sensible errors, using code coverage tools to make sure all possible errors are accounted for. But don't test each and every compiler error using the IDE frontend APIs.
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