skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another story even earlier, when I live in Oakland in the 80s. One day, walking over a deserted overpass, I passed by another pedestrian who I somehow sensed vague hostility from. As we passed, quick as a wink, he punched me but just as quickly I instinctively blocked his punch (my history of playground fights came in handy). He simply continued walking as did I.

Which is to say my anecdotal experiences agree with the statistics - violence has been on the decline in the US for a while. Remember, this is a country with a considerable "frontier history" where violence on all sides was common.
Wow, great read. I would love to read more of this :)
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This is something that I am interested in learning about.
What would you say the germ theory of mental disease is?
Behind the Doodle: Celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach [video]
Didn't China ban VPN or at least started to issue fines to people who were caught using VPNs? Unless they backtracked on that..
HN is of two minds on quite a bunch of things, really. I'm chalking it up to different people coming and going―but it's weird, even if amusing, to see the comment section gravitate to opposite viewpoints on different occasions.

Maybe there's a daily cycle of various worldviews prevailing in the comments―I guess here's a toy project for data scientists.
>For Facebook obviously it's different.

What evidence do you have for that? Nowhere in the article does it say facebook "explicity logged" passwords. The logging likely happened through some unintended and roundabout process that is far from explicit.
Why is that even possible to hijack an active ad feed? It implicates that in-app ads are high risk security-wise. I just can't believe how broken the infrastructure for web services actually is, and why the companies doing and serving ads space only act when revenue is at stake. This and many other things are getting out of hand.
I'm using defter.net (ios name should be defter). It's actually an iOS app with a web companion. It can handle from personal licenses to middle-sized businesses.

- It can do double-entry accounting and inter-account transfers.

- It can generate reports about your accounts and money flow, hence allows you to see trends and plan your finances.

It's very straightforward, hence very powerful, and allows me to track my finances very accurately and see my situation clearly.
Thx for the reply, but it doesn't really answer the question: Why is the French government so uniformly for this reform and why are there no demonstrations against this in France, while at the same time in Germany this is a pretty dividing issue.

Does the French use and understand the internet differently? Do they have more trust on the government to not mess this up? Or do they currently just have different, more pressing, issues on their mind?
If you continue to post unsubstantive comments to HN, or flamebait or trollish ones, we're going to ban you.

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I apologize for my previous comment being rather terse. I should have taken the time to write a more reasoned reply.

I was responding to this:

> I don't want to put words in your mouth, but are you saying you think we should go back to the way musicians used to be treated in the past?

> That's a rather reactionary position.

That was just the start...

> Historically, women in most societies were treated very poorly...

> Slavery was the norm in many societies for thousands of years...

And these had what to do with the original comment?

Then the coup de grâce:

> If you want to argue that...

This is the very definition of putting words in someone's mouth!

And it's not a nice thing to do.
Nobody cares, as in nobody cares about using it, much less legalizing it.

Most Japanese people who’ve tried it did it once while traveling to Canada or America.
It didn't use to be better? In TV, breaking movies by ads is a long-established practice (as is product placement); advertisements defined genres as "soap operas" long before internet was a thing; newspapers and magazines were always covered with ads.

Internet used to be different, but not really that much, ads were always there (1-millionth customer is an old internet trope, etc).
that is an unbelievable thing.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't post like this, or do flamewars on HN, again.

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This trend is very real. My wife works with juvenile delinquents and a couple years ago remarked how surprising the change in occupancy in central juvenile hall in LA is. Entire units are just closed off now.

This is happening all across the country.

I still don’t see anything as compelling as the elemental lead hypothesis that Kevin Drum has been pushing for the last couple of years.
They "do things that don't scale", and scaled them with automation! Fun story.
Control doesn’t mean that you need a user interface or an account management. It merely means that MS needs to respond to a request like "I posted this comment, please delete it". Furthermore, under GDPR you don’t have to delete everything a user has written. Only personal information. Although it’s probably easier to just delete the whole comment.
I used to work for a defense contractor and I remember the boogie man of the Soviet Union and how the intelligence community was constantly saying there was likely to be a breakout in new Soviet technology. So our budgets remained fat to fund lots of new spook technology programs. Right up to the day that the Soviet Union collapsed. I started looking with a more critical eye at the supposed threats.
So it's a problem in ActionView, and fixed in 5.1.6.2...then why does the changelog for ActionView for 5.1.6.2 say "No changes"?

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/5-1-stable/actionview/CH...
perversely hyper* deflationary
Sorry about that, will keep it in mind for future posts.
How? Google's last secret bastion of defence was a common opengl driver glitch that was checked from well hidden webgl shader code. Even that was said to be cracked in no time.

Simple explanation is that people on the other side of adfraud war are the ones getting incomparably bigger money than any ad-fraud specialist hired by ad companies (and they both hire pretty much the same people...)

Imagine, the more Google cracks down on it, the bigger is the monetary reward for cracking the protection. I remember reading mid-naughties era Russian computer journals with pics of "advertising specialists" racing off their new Ferraris in Moscow right at the moment it was said a big crackdown was going on.
Hey, I don't mean to pick on you, and I'm not a pilot, but everything in this comment seems incorrect in one way or another:

> It’s an optional extra so I suspect that one led was being charged at an absurd rate

The optional extra is actually an AoA visual display, and the light just comes along for the ride with the display. It's letting you know that you can't rely on the AoA display. It's not trying to communicate danger or emergency. That's not its job. There's already a system called EICAS for the plane to communicate urgent errors to the pilots, and that's where pilots look.

> because it was actually necessary

It really really wasn't. That light should not be used by pilots to diagnose anything. We don't want pilots to have to know how the airplane's internal systems were built. The MCAS system ultimately performs trim operations. We want pilots to notice trim aberrations, which have many possible causes (including purely mechanical ones!), and know how to disable the trim motor if the automatic trim is malfunctioning. If they can do that, they can solve many more problems than just MCAS. And if they can't do that, their plane will nosedive from many more causes than just MCAS.

> I haven’t seen any indication anywhere that suggested that the problem persisted for that entire flight

As I understand it, it didn't persist on the flight the day before because the third pilot correctly noticed that the trim was misbehaving and performed the STAB TRIM CUTOUT that disables the motor, as trained. If the motor hadn't been disabled, MCAS would have continued to use it to mistrim.

> I’d question a flight control system that pushes the nose down apparently without considering altitude

Why? Wing stalls are the most common cause of aviation fatalities. They usually happen during takeoff or landing, at less than 1000ft. If they happened at altitude they wouldn't be fatal because you have time to recover from them.

If one is building a system to try to prevent wing stalls -- and one should because it's the lowest hanging fruit for reducing the fatality rate of aviation -- that system should absolutely operate at low altitudes when you're in the critical period of a stall being effectively unrecoverable once a spin starts, because it takes a minimum of hundreds of feet to recover. That's the time when the system matters most.
You are being misleading here.

If I follow your link, I read this: Over the past four decades, the entire industry has produced about 62,500 metric tons of used nuclear fuel. That's the high-level waste.

The rest of the comment goes on to explain that including all low- and intermediate-level waste, plus legacy waste from military activities, then it may reach the millions of cubic feet you're citing.

Low-level waste is not much more dangerous than the extra natural radiation you receive from a plane trip, so the real danger is high-level waste. And that can fit in a fraction of the space required for a single solar park.
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Then don't move there.
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Why? Someone probably really wants to live there, if they're willing to pay that much to do it.
No ideological flamewar on HN, please. And definitely no personal attacks.

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Could you please stop using HN for ideological battle so we don't have to ban you again?
As the deadline looms I keep searching for alternatives to Google Inbox and I must agree with article. They are none. I guess I am going to have to get used to traditional Gmail.
Just add one cashier.
Could you please stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments here? We ban accounts that keep doing that.

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Is that true to most companies in tech?
I mean granted google has ip behind its tech...but basic versions of social networks like facebook, reddit, twitter could be cloned by a couple of teenagers in a basement in a week.
I sure hope they can afford it. When I asked them how I could integrate my side project with them, they quoted me $10k per year.
Man, Silicon Valley really is the sweat shop of the IT world. Why anyone would strive to go live and work there, is beyond me.
FWIW, many cities in Saudi Arabia including the capital Riyadh ban even tobacco in public: you need to drive 30km out of the town to the city limits to find a cluster of hookah bars.
I have written several similar programs using Python's cmd.Cmd class. Command completion, help messages, etc are all taken care of. All I need to do is to write the nitty gritty for each command and copious log the actions taken their return status to catch any networking, REST, etc issues. It is even possible to nest command interpreters within command interpreters to create sub-commands if applicable.

I should mention that I am more productive in Python than either Java or Go - so this may taint my view of alternatives.
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I misread the comment the same way at first, but he was clearly just being polite and self-deprecating.
Sorry, posted the wrong Reinhart paper, should be this one of course:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w15815.pdf
> The problem is: who decides when a college or university is not in compliance?

The "federal rules guiding free expression"?
Probably the longer I think about it the dumber and dumber things I will remember, but one that comes to mind is unintentionally configuring a test suite to use a live SMTP connection instead of a mock one. When the tests ran, thousands of e-mails to invalid e-mail addresses tried to send for real, bounced, and temporarily affected the "reputation" score on the transactional e-mail service.
This is irrespective of the OS. Basically, on the webview, they are running a downloading and running hidden video with all the trackers going off.
I predict that we will see Dart in top 20 by next year, given that Flutter will become a bigger deal over time.
Dart? All the cool kids use Kotlin, now, dontchaknow.

The only good part about Kotlin getting entrenched is that JetBrains is MASSIVELY invested in not letting Google switch to something else--so we may finally get some stability for a change.
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Comments like this are a bannable offense on HN. Three ways actually: nationalistic flamewar, personal attack, and insinuation of astroturfing. Please don't do any of these here again.

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It doesn't have automatic currying. What code/docs are you getting that impression from?
Not necessarily. You can’t run wild on iOS.
I use You Need A Budget to track my personal finances and budget for the future. I also use it my my company to know exactly how much profit I have. It’s the only app I’ve found that lets me prepare for the future and allow me to make proper decisions.

Whenever I spend money, I record the transaction in the app and import my bank statements to reconcile once a month.
I wrote a whole series of articles on this subject, maybe there is something that is useful to you there:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/categories/consulting/

best of luck!
Remove yourself from the situation. Try to leave on good terms. It’s up to you whether you tell HR why you are leaving.
Is it possible you just don't notice the non-extreme forms anymore, given how extreme the rest is?
Yes, that parent comment must be old information.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/21...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/21...

https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2180960/chinese-vpn...

As well, I think the Chinese government has demonstrated multiple times during "sensitive times" in recent years that they can make commercial VPN services nonfunctional at the snap of a finger. If a commercial VPN service is working, it is because of the Chinese government's mercy, not because of the commercial VPN's technological ingenuity.

It leaves a bad taste in my mouth when I see commercial VPN providers advertising that they are the best or only VPN service to work in China. I remember one time I saw a viral Astrill ad floating around that said something to the effect: "We're happy that our VPN service is working great for our customers. But please don't post that your VPN service is working great. We work really hard to develop new technologies and get around the Chinese firewall, and if you keep bragging about it, the Chinese government could find out, it will make it harder for our services to work."

Super bad taste in my mouth. Come on, you know that the very first customers to download new clients are from the Chinese government working to figure out how to get it blocked. Hate this kind of disingenuous marketing.

edit: I will say that it is true that most commercial VPN services do seem to be used for most of the year and work well enough without consequences; the law seems to exist, but does not always get enforced. Would be interesting to see if China starts ratcheting up the fines over time.
So just because alcohol is bad we should encourage other substances that also have an effect on people’s ability to think clearly and have additive properties? Instead of discouraging the culture of drinking? Regardless of what westerners think of as “ridiculous” drug laws, Japan, Korea and other Asian countries with “ridiculous” drug laws do have way lower rate of drug addiction and abuse. That is no coincident.
For us the GUI story, support for COM/UMP and binary libs still need to improve.
First season renders look pretty bad, but improve by the second season.
Majority of health apps on Android tested shared personal health data
Politicians in Western democracies are demonstrably not more thoughtful, deliberative, logical, rational, or intelligent than their average countrymen.
Anybody using ui-router? I used to use that one in angular and saw they have a react version now. But I'm not yet familiar enough with react to judge it.
Go needs to grow up for it even to be considered by most Java shops.
The prospect of a meteor hitting a major metropolitan area is terrifying.

What would be the repercussions if a rock like that hit Moscow? NY? Beijing? One can only hope that that doesn't happen.
+1 for Wave. I only ever do part time work but Wave works really well for me. I use the free tier because at most per year I send out 10-20 invoices.
rust could be targeting more then "systems" but its hard to write multithreaded networking services. thought maybe that changes soon?

it could also compete with go and python for command line tools but I think the mental overhead of the syntax makes it hard. i would rather write rust then go or python though.

Rust also feel like a very work in progress language, especially with useful features only in nightly often.
Cook often gets credit for introducing pigs, but my understanding is that this is now discredited.

>Pigs (Sus scrofa) have played an important cultural role in Hawaii since Polynesians first introduced them in approximately AD 1200. Additional varieties of pigs were introduced following Captain Cook's arrival in Hawaii in 1778 and it has been suggested that the current pig population may descend primarily, or even exclusively, from European pigs. Although populations of feral pigs today are an important source of recreational hunting on all of the major islands, they also negatively impact native plants and animals. As a result, understanding the origins of these feral pig populations has significant ramifications for discussions concerning conservation management, identity and cultural continuity on the islands. Here, we analysed a neutral mitochondrial marker and a functional nuclear coat colour marker in 57 feral Hawaiian pigs. Through the identification of a new mutation in the MC1R gene that results in black coloration, we demonstrate that Hawaiian feral pigs are mostly the descendants of those originally introduced during Polynesian settlement, though there is evidence for some admixture. As such, extant Hawaiian pigs represent a unique historical lineage that is not exclusively descended from feral pigs of European origin.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.160...

Apparently they also brought along chickens.
I guess it depends on your definition of capitalism but many would argue that it only requires private property and voluntary exchange, both of which probably stretch back into prehistory.
Not so much aberration but a gradual corporatisation and then collapse of the industry of "recorded music".

To a large extent the performance side of music has remained unchanged. For a period it may have become subservient to the recording side where artists "toured" an album, but a lot of what went on was due to artists patronage from the respective recording rights holders.
This thread had already devolved to generic ideological tangent, which is exactly what we don't want here. But you took it to an even deeper circle of hell with snark and personal attack. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site more to heart? Maybe you don't owe your enemies better, but you do owe it to the community you're participating in.
While not 100% reliable, more questions in stackoverflow does indicate higher probability of the language being more popular, if you think in Bayesian network terms. And they call out all such caveats very clearly. Any "ranking" of programming languages is going to be flawed in some way or the other. Using only the github data might skew it towards more recreational languages and hide the enterprise languages, for example.
Automate.io too can work for this!
I guess they've passed this and Gmail Triggers and Actions are working fine.

https://automate.io/integration/gmail
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I hate this idea..
I’m a freelancer and I keep track of my finance by using iOS Numbers default app. I switched to Airtable but it is too slow on the iOS and their offline caching sucks.
The missing detail here is the policy requires a third party audit which is expected to cost ~$100k.

Most small startups won't think that's worth it.
If GC pauses aren't an issue for your app then you're better off with a full-blown GC because it's a lot easier to code for. Reference counting, as used in Swift, forces you to think a lot about cases where you might be creating reference cycles and memory leaks. GCs can figure this out for you and take that burden off the programmer.
The graph shows SO vs GH rank, and if I'm reading it correctly it seems like C is slightly more popular on SO relative to GH while JS falls pretty much on the line.

Wouldn't that imply that C programmers resort to SO more often than they publish code on GH compared to JS?
That depends pretty much on internal politics from other OS groups.
If you troll HN again we will ban you. And no more flamebait, please. We've had to warn you about this already.

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This says that they were reclassified as misdemeanors rather than felonies, which is not at all the same as decriminalized.
Flutter is the next GWT.

Even Fucshia is now adding support for other UI frameworks via Scenic.
If someone spray paints "Trump is a moron." on your house and you cannot tell who has done this, why should you be liable for this public insult?
What a fucking whitewash. Anybody joining an interrogation squad knows what's ahead and those joining the group in Abu Ghraib, especially after the torture revelations really had no excuse. I feel about as much sympathy as I would towards a Nazi camp guard (sorry for the Godwin, but it seems applicable).
This just got onto the frontpage so if you have any questions, I'll be watching for a few hours.
I think that is a different category again. The US govt. didn't share that video to profit from it in terms of driving recruitment, etc. That video was shared in criticism of them.
>long drawn-out campaign by several people has been made to keep him there, mostly without his guidance or really, much of his participation.

I'd say he actively participates in that campaign. Also, he did nothing to discourage fans who came up with that printer hack, which though seemingly innocuous, is still a hack.
Regarding the scarcity thing: I still listen to the same music, but for free. YT, downloaded a while back etc etc.
> is better because it is more free

Citation needed. Freedom isn't all it's made out to be. I'd much rather give up the freedom to consume hard drugs than live free in a society filled with drug addicts. Likewise I'm happy to forgo the freedom to own a gun if it means nobody else in my community has one.
They look much better if they are made to “diverge”, instead of cross, the eyes. Much “larger”, “deeper”... I think one way to describe it is that it’s like you are looking out of a window, instead of looking at an object in your hand, if that makes sense.

As for which one is easier: For some reason, I have always been able to do the “uncrossing” on command, and it feels more natural and more relaxed to me. I sometimes do it to compare almost identical things that are next to each other. Crossing my eyes feels straining.