skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing about Walmart is that whilst the prices are cheap, the quality is actually reasonable. They're certainly not as bad as say Flying Tiger or some of these purveyors of poorly crafted tat. Most t-shirts and bits and pieces which I've picked up at Walmart have been useful and lasted many years.
I think someone needs to leak all Congress people's network history from phones and desktops and Facebook before they will act

it worked for video rental history back in the 80s
Looks like nature is eliminating weak chains in any way possible.
Children with more than two hours screen time daily more likely to display ADHD
Information about can be used against you in many different ways: you can get higher prices in online stores (if, for instance, online store gets data that you are a rich person).

You can get higher insurance price if you insurer knows "something" about you or you can be denied insurance at all if they suspect that you are, say, an addict (and this does not have to be true, some "clever" AI will just qualify you as an 34% addict and good luck if such nonsense data, derived by some SF "move fast, break things" startup, will be interpreted in a sensible way by the insurer).

From the information Google/FB has they can derive that someone has a mistress and those who will learn that might try to blackmail such person. Or someone is looking for a new job and informed person can sell this konwledge to one's current employer.
Possibly traffic lights. The cars more often start their journey in the street at the beginning of a green cycle.
I think the problem is exactly what you mentioned: abuse. Corruption is a hard, unsolved problem. If we had a solution for corruption, I'd be all for everything being connected. But we don't, not even close. Historically, we know detailed information about people is very useful to anyone in power that has a problem with those people.
> Since the beacon, Mark has always been sincerely recognized his mistakes, ask for forgiveness and try to fix those mistakes.

Isn't Facebook's MO that they do basically whatever they want and when called out for shady stuff they issue some sincere apology and try again?
A Simple Tool for Performing String Functions Online
كلمات اغنية يا قلبي خلص يسرا محنوش
Thank you for the clarification. I don't want to further speculate about the issue but as as annual Datacamp subscriber I am wondering what effect could it have on the service.
I guess it means sharp drop in new courses but what about the existing ones, could the authors remove them from the platform?
/offtopic

> It has been a while since the Croats and Serbians have decided that they do not speak the same language and this is accurately depicted above but the Bosnians and Montenegrin also decided that they have their own language.

So much animosity, I did not always quite comprehend why until I met a Kosovar in London during the Championships in 2018 and revealed to them my astonishment over Novak Djokovic's comeback, and they said 'I'd rather kill a Serb' [0] (than be in awe of their accomplishments). I could almost feel their hatered but I implored them to forgive and move on. That interaction prompted me to look up the history on WW2 in the Balkans [1] and the subsequent Yusgoslav Wars and I could see why [2][3] this tragedy of epic proportions among a group only separated by differences in religion has come to pass: It boiled down to how a few were able to sway the many [4][5][6].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Serbian_sentiment

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ustashe

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Horseshoe

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18433883

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1570850

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14190764#14192475
If you could write a blog post on how you bridged two CSS systems and why some engineers are anti-styled components you'd be a 7/7 engineer in my books. Thanks.
None of what you said even makes sense. Doctors aren't withholding medicine when it is needed, they are withholding it when it isn't needed. The point is to ensure your fish medicine will still work. By encouraging others to do the same as you it just makes it more likely you will end up with MRSA or whatever, and if that happens you won't be beating the system with your illegal fish drugs. They won't be able to help you.

Meanwhile in the more likely scenario where you don't catch MRSA, as others have said all you are doing is damaging your health.
Pinterest prices IPO at $19, valuing social media company at $10B
Was there not a news just a few days ago about the research finding that screen time has no effect?
"New session"
Facebook's role in Brexit – and the threat to democracy
You realize that most people in the world don't have a garden of their own. Right?
Yes, 100 Yen Shops.

I wandered into quite a few last week mostly just looking at all the types of goods you just don't see in Australia. Bought a lot of weird flavoured Kit-Kats.
This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 215.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on empty line. Ctrl-X ? for
cheatsheet.
1> [chain tostring trim-str]
#<intrinsic fun: 0 param + variadic>
2> [*1 3.4]
"3.4"
3> [[chain tostring trim-str] 3.4]
"3.4"

No ready example of a datatype that requires trimming after a string conversion! We'd have to write one:

4> (defstruct foo nil
(:method print (me stream pretty-p)
(put-string "foo " stream)))
#<struct-type foo>
5> (tostring (new foo))
"foo "

Okay we are in business:

6> [[chain tostring trim-str] (new foo)]
"foo"

Method chaining syntax is possible, but with actual methods only. Most library functions aren't methods; you have to roll your own:

1> (defstruct accum nil
(val 0)
(:method inc (me : (delta 1))
(inc me.val delta)
me)
(:method mul (me : (factor 2))
(upd me.val (* factor))
me))
#<struct-type accum>
2> (new accum).(inc).(inc).(mul 3)
#S(accum val 6)
3> (new accum).(inc).(inc).(mul 3).val
6

Support for idiom isn't the result of a conscious design decision; it just arises naturally when you have this sort of postfix syntax.

TXR's dot syntax is a very straightforward sugar for Lisp structure. Basically x.y.z == (qref x y z). Whitespace is not allowed around the dot. Numbers are also not allowed: 3.4 is a floating-point constant and a.3 or 3.a are invalid. If the leading element is missing, then it's the uref (unbound ref) operator: .y.z == (uref y z). This compiles to a function resembling (lambda (obj) obj.y.z).
(2013)

A lot of this essay is about "right now", which at the time was November 2013.
They didn’t say they broke after months, just that they’re still working fine now, which happens to have been months.

And if they’ve lasted months already, they’ll probably last just as long as anything from any other store.
I agree with your first sentence. I will make a minor correction to your second one.

Routine vaccinations stopped. Samples of the virus continue to be found (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_virus_retention_debat... ) and it appears that it would not be difficult to recreate. There is therefore a potential for a future outbreak, perhaps even done deliberately.

Some people still get smallpox vaccinations. In addition to lab workers working on smallpox or similar organisms ( https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/vaccine-basics/who-gets-vaccina... ), https://health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/Health-Readiness/I... points out under "Who in DoD is going to get the smallpox vaccine?" that:

> "Smallpox vaccination is currently required for uniformed personnel deploying or assigned to the Korean Peninsula for 15 or more consecutive days. It is also mandatory for certain designated emergency-essential personnel and contractors, uniformed personnel assigned to special units, and comparable U.S. government civilian employees. However, requirements may change based on threat.
Show HN: Timelapse of creating app in Webcodesk – visual builder for React
They'll work at the command prompt on a Raspberry Pi running RISC OS Pico!
It's pretty naive to try and think that people are not the issue. They are. Advertising simply exploits the flaw.
That may be pure luck - there were 8 attempts on Queen Victoria!
Brazilian Sexy Boxing
Check out https://gitlab.com/mbajur/prismo/.
There is no grey area here. There are things that are classified as crime and there are things classified as inappropriate behaviour. The "grey area" happens when people on purpose try to mix the two and manufacture outrage.
This is interesting, but I think these kinds of commercial vehicles are going to be the first things to be automated, long before passenger vehicles.
What part of "Grow some of your own food" are you interpreting to mean "grow all of your own food"?

I'm well aware that the efficiencies of modern agriculture has allowed us to have more than half the global population living in cities for the first time in human history. This not only become true within my own lifetime, it became true within the lifetimes of my children.

None of which is really pertinent to the idea that there is value in having some food supplies outside the chain of industrial agriculture as a protective measure.

Last I heard, American gardens provided about 10 percent of America food. I didn't bother to mention that earlier because I couldn't find a source.

Ten percent of a nation's food is not insubstantial, even if is less efficient than industrial agriculture.
First sentence in the introduction:

> Hi, we are a team at Microsoft called Bling (Beyond Language Understanding), we help Bing be smarter.
They interviewed 28 people.
I was 62 when I worked at Google. I never felt any age discrimination there. It was a nice experience, not my best job ever, but nice.
i completely agree, the tea comment is a reference to this...

https://youtu.be/ijFDkpNma-k?t=64
Winklevoss Brothers and Charlie Shrem Make an Agreement
> If consumption and enjoyment no longer require any effort, doesn't that devalue the entire experience? What does that mean for life in general? Don't you think that humility comes from knowing the effort required to know or acquire things?

This is an interesting perspective, surely. But the premise for reducing effort in some areas, as has always been the case with economic growth, is that we can focus that same limited effort on exploring new horizons, standing on the shoulders of giants, living in paradises of dreams past.

Look to the stars, for they will never limit your ambition.
Yes.

I assume you know some city people grow herbs and veggies in their kitchen window or in a container on the patio.

It also wasn't a suggestion that everyone on the planet must do this.
They search my home or me and find the weapon. If it's clean, I can face punishment for a criminal possession of a weapon. But if a crime was committed with it, I can also be charged with it and I may have a hard time trying to prove it wasn't me.
I wonder if Boeing is going to sue Mitsubishi like they sued Bombardier.
I'm on the fence about flexible or folding displays. I can sort-of see the utility, but I'm thinking they're more likely to end up another technological dead-end. I remember some analysts saying the next iPhone would 'have to' include a mini-projector in order to 'catch up' with competing Android devices that already had them.
Socks on or off?
>> so we're reddit, just without the memes?

HN has memes. Turning unlikely things into SaaS, Rust/Crystal strike force and bikeshedding are all too real here.

And now apparently not reading source material has that potential as well. Which is kind of hilarious.
Do you have to remove a gene from every cell in the body, rather than modify the blood cells so they don’t attack the rest?
I switch from Xubuntu to Fedora/Cinnamon.

I really like fedora and Cinnamon is kind what I imagine XFCE would be if they rebuilt it from scratch.

It's nice to have choices that fit my workflow though.
I don't understand what this is. At first, I thought it was a scraper for links which is the only reason I go to reddit at all. Such a thing would help stop me from getting sucked into the 80% of reddit which is nothing but a smelly pile of poo.

So what does this do?
In the U.S, at least you can argue that the company has some limited responsibility to uphold rights; in a company town, it is generally the case that the company town can not prevent you from expressing yourself by removing you from the place with trespassing statute [0].

As a former Torontonian, I have no faith that the council or the public will prevent abuse by Google until it gets really out of hand.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama
I really doubt american home gardens are providing 10% of america's food.

But I think a large home garden like mine could ostensibly provide 10% of my family's fruit/veg intake. It takes a nontrivial mount of work to maintain, it takes a lot of water and energy, and it takes ownership of a large piece of land, and I could have also subdivided the land and built a second house instead of that garden. Oh did I mention one fuckup with extreme weather pests or birds means you lose everything? Guess who was enjoying my first ever harvest of peaches? It wasn't me, it was the fucking cockatoos that raided it in less than an hour.

All of those opportunity costs to reduce my intake of harmful chemicals by 10%? That's laughable. No one is doing home gardening unless they enjoy it. The health benefits are a minor bonus that comes way down the list after real benefits like proper flavour.
I love this. Hacking is not always practical. Let us have some fun. Or sweet!!!
> The only good thing is that they serve as visual reminders of the books that you've read; otherwise it's easy to forget the titles and authors.

It's possible to create an account on Good Reads or Library Thing to keep track. There's Delicious Library as well (for Mac?).
I think you're mistaking Cython (Python extended with C - https://cython.org/) and CPython (the canonical Python implementation, written in C)
Sorry to hear that, it's horribly frustrating! I know it can happen, I had the same experience with my first pen. It did improve after I re-bent the two halves of the nib and used the bottom of a ceramic mug to smooth the tip of the nib. But getting a new pen was the only solution that really worked.

If you're sure you're holding them correctly, so the problem is not the posture, try to buy either pens with a guarantee from the manufacturer (so you can get it fixed), or a pen in a shop that will let you try it first. Not all nibs are manufactured equal...

A good pen should glide much better than a gel ballpoint.
> Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.’s new airliner is testing the skies just as rivals are moving to sell off their manufacturing operations for jets with up to 160 seats. Boeing Co. is set to buy 80 percent of the Embraer SA’s commercial operations in a joint venture, while Bombardier Inc. last year sold control of its C Series airliner project to Airbus SE and is exploring “strategic options” for its regional-jet operations.

This is completly misleading on the Bombardier's part, they're not looking to sell off anything. Boeing got bitter after losing to them a deal with Delta Airlines so they asked and got a ridiculous tariff in place on the canadian plane for sales in the USA. Instead of accepting the loss of that market / selling off, Bombardier doubled down on that path and they made the "Avions C-Series" joint venture with Airbus (ownership 50.01 % Airbus, 30.99 % Bombardier Inc., 19 % Québec gov), where Airbus got half+ ownership for a symbolic euro and Bombardier got access to the Alabama plant so their sales to US customers would not be affected by tariffs (also, access to Airbus network for maintenance, training, ...).

The plane is now sold as the Airbus A220, which coupled with the A320 Neo is a no small part of the threat that made Boeing take so many shortcuts on the 737 Max so it could have the training advantage.

A newcomer is always great for competition, and a revival of Japan's ability in that area is great, but claiming they come in a field that their competitors is leaving is simply untrue, the A220 is more alive and dangerous as competition than Bombardier could have ever dreamt to be "alone"; and Airbus is now free to concentrate on other areas and let Bombardier does what it does best, instead of having to field their own plane at that range.

The only losing party was Boeing, which from where I stand is Karma (not saying Bombardier was not getting subsidies, but saying any of Boeing/Airbus/Embraer/Bombardier/... complaining about subsidies to the others is ridiculous, especially the two big ones who have their hands in military contracts)
Interview: Austen Allred of Lambda School
Keybase: Slack Importer
When its job is to teach rather than to issue a diploma which other parties would recognize, attending a couple of lectures would be enough for me to see how well do they teach if it's worth my money. There should also be money-back warranty for those unsatisfied with the quality of teaching. At some point, if I were satisfied, I would also recommend it to people I know and such a recommendation would be enough for me to give it a try if I were them.

Measuring such a subject by thyself may seem like a fallacy as many people obviously don't think like I do but I believe there are many (a number sufficient to sustain a business) who do think the same way in such a big country.
>I couldn't be bothered by going to a doctor

Do you live in the USA?

I can't believe "going to the doctor" can still be a problem, unless you're in war zone or one of the worlds' poorest countries but that doesn't apply to the US, does it?
No one is doing home gardening unless they enjoy it. The health benefits are a minor bonus that comes way down the list after real benefits like proper flavour.

I've spent time on an email list where the owner was growing food for their ill spouse in order to have control over everything that went into that food.

Not everyone does things for the same reasons you do them.
If you run an application that needs the KDE (or GNOME) libs and you focus on it (e.g. an IDE, a browser, a document viewer, etc) then it doesn't matter that it uses the KDE/GNOME libs since you can consider them as part of the program itself and they'll be gone once you close the program (still take disk space but that isn't much of an issue outside of VMs).

Auxiliary stuff you leave at the background (e.g. an IM or music player) tend to have multiple applications and you can always find an alternative.

There are exceptions of course but they can be limited in general.

And chances are you want to avoid the latter stuff for the former stuff, it isn't like RAM exists to be unused (even for file caching). In other words, if i run a heavy program as a primary task then there is even more of a reason to want auxiliary programs to be lightweight so that this program will have more resources for itself.

(Also as an extra bonus, sometimes as a programmer i want the primary programs - IDE - to be lightweight themselves since i want the resources to be available for the program i am working on)
'It drives writers mad': why are authors still sniffy about sci-fi?
The company has a shell script running in Cron. If it finds a source file with more than 1000 lines it deletes the author from the payroll.
Someone please for the love of god make a minimalist news website without cookies and all the other annoying distractions! :|
>How can you not mean to?

Indeed. Expect the next headline to be, "Facebook 'unintentionally failed to delete' 1.5M people's contacts, which they'd previously unintentionally uploaded".
>Are there any companies than don't abuse our trust?

I guess you need to look in the direction of GNU/Linux. For example, company https://puri.sm. They have nice laptops and nice Debian-based OS and they are working on the phone (soon to be released).
Local Development on Kubernetes: Draft vs. Skaffold vs. Garden.io
Such a difficult game to get into, convincing legacy airlines who have entrenched and certified workforces and expensive engineering supply chains, the business case of adding another manufacturers equipment is almost insurmountable. Even making a great aircraft isn't enough let alone accounting for what airbus and boeing can respond with if you pose a threat.
I'm in a similar situation right now. In order to install new software onto my computer I have to get IT to add it to a company-wide whitelist, so I don't bother.
First since the original comment was about government employees it is important to point out that Snowden was a contractor and not a government employee.

Although no form of protection from employment retaliation was in place at the time of Snowden's information release the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998 did provide a process for intelligence community employees and contractors to raise issues. Snowden didn't follow the procedures of the act and his direct release of classified material is not protected by the act nor would any laws passed since to strengthen whistleblower protection provide any defense for such a release of classified material.

Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998 requires a whistleblower to raise any issues to the Department of Justice for review. The DoJ evaluates any issues raised and if they determine they may be credible will report the issues and supporting material to the Senate and House Intelligence committees along with starting their own investigation. If the DoJ determines they issues are not credible the employee and contractor can present the issue and any supporting classified documentation to the Senate and House Intelligence committees themselves.
One of the exams for the Light Aircraft Pilot License for sailplanes in Europe has the multiple-choice question "Why is safety improved by submitting an official report of safety-related incidents?", where one option is "because then we can revoke the licenses of unsafe pilots", and another is "because then we can collectively learn from dangerous situations". Spoiler alert, the latter is the correct answer.

I can't speak for professional aviation, but I would be very surprised if the safety ethos isn't similar. Ruining a career after a mistake only leads to covering up mistakes. Why the hell is this a systemic problem at all? It's obvious it won't work.
Mordecai uses SpaCy and is worth a look for extracting place names: https://github.com/openeventdata/mordecai

I wasn't too successful running it against tweets (low hit rate/false positives, low spatial resolution) but geolocating tweets is a hard problem and I'm sure it would work better against more structured text.
I have a feeling that the US govt agencies will benefit from this "unintentional" upload - if they didn't already.
Doing the math by hand might work for some structural problems but isn't feasible for many domains
Top Myths of Cybersecurity: The Reality of Modern Threats
Is this a joke about regular Erlang's readability? :D
Speaking of interfaces in Go, can anyone explain this particular result?
We've done a benchmark recently at work to test which way we would best represent a set. (Linux, go1.12)

map[string]bool
map[string]struct{}
map[string]interface{} // where we put an empty struct in it.

results:

BenchmarkBoolSet-4 5886572 223 ns/op 39 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkStructSet-4 6716685 206 ns/op 32 B/op 0 allocs/op
BenchmarkInterfaceSet-4 4299072 313 ns/op 115 B/op 0 allocs/op

(I'm aware this is a bit of a tangent to TFA)
How to keep your social media alive when you are on holiday
> for a symbolic euro

The world of business sometimes reads like a novel.
C# Access Modifiers
How do you obtain a MBA while being so stupid?
Chelsea Manning's release would still be a crime and not afforded whistleblower protection under current law. There were and are specific processes to be followed to qualify for whistleblower protection.
Liver Illness Strikes Latino Children Like a “Silent Tsunami”