skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.....and $FB is up 6% in after-hours trading
That is definitely a lot clearer. I'm dubious that it's a viable product, but it's at least coherent.
The Dark Ages were very much regional, with separate areas undergoing their own eras of 'darkness' and losing communication with the rest of the world.

Interestingly, Ireland during the 400's to 600's was something of a bastion of Catholicism and 'western/classical' thought in their monasteries. Even though Britain was very pagan and 'dark', Ireland remained 'enlightened' at this time (though the populace was still very 'dark' and pagan in Ireland).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ireland_(400%E2%80%...

Under this regional definition of 'dark ages', even today they occur. Lost tribes in the Amazon, the populace of North Korea, very rural towns in Alaska, etc. all can be considered to be in 'dark' ages to some degree or another.
There’s a funny story about history of the Slavic tribes as it relates to this. Since Slavs didn’t write, the only reason we know their migration pattern into eastern europe and the balkans is by tracking when catholic churches stopped reporting back to HQ.

So at least on that end another reason for the break in history and lineage is that the people are completely different and in fact have no lineage back to Roman times.

Even though centuries later they converted to Christianity and started wondering why they don’t feel as Roman as they should.
Be careful when integrating SEPA payments. The asynchronous payment confirmation and no questions asked chargeback policy for 8 weeks after the payment has cleared can be disastrous.
I don’t know man, 20% of your annual income would be seen as a sizeable fine. That’s 20% of their yearly profits, and it wipes out most of their earnings for Q1.
It clearly does not say biological parents.

A parent can simply be a "caregiver of the offspring in their own species"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parent
Participants spoke sentences while their neural activity was recorded. The acoustic speech was associated with motor movement which was in turn associated with learned neural patterns. As such the final result is a multi-stage model which can translate from patient specific (at a minimum in the sense of electrode configuration) neural activity into audio.

All neural activity (from what I saw in the paper) is neural activity while the individual is reading sentences out loud.
> The Eastern half got renamed to the Byzantine Empire

That's not correct, Byzantine Empire is the modern name we give to that empire during the Middle Ages. They called themselves just Roman Empire, in their minds they were just the same original Roman Empire but headquartered in Constantinople.
So if the ethical thing to do is ever not the most convenient, humanity is doomed. Actually, that explains a lot
Equifax needs to be fined until its existence can only be found in the history books, and its negligent management needs to be jailed for the long-term harm that they have caused.

Same with Facebook. But OP's point is that the collective has too short an attention span to actually hold any of these actors to the law.
The more desirable the employer, the less demands employees are able to make to work there. If Google has a candidate that wants to work from home, and a candidate that will stay on-site for sixteen hours including eating three square meals a day fifty feet from their desk, Google has an obvious choice.

A startup, meanwhile, may need to offer appealing options like remote work to gain similar levels of talent.
I feel the best test was "did you get breached? what data was taken?", if the answers are yes and PII, you were collecting data that you didn't have the capability to protect and should face a fine.

There is a lot a company can do to protect data. If they demonstrate that they were following all those best practices re: encryption, storage, least privilege, etc. then that should absolutely factor in.

At least to hold people accountable who store stuff in plain text and leave it on publicly accessible storage.
The political think tank that promulgated the term "whataboutism" has created a bane on humanity.
Perhaps his enunciation was perfect in its clarity, even if his pronunciation was debatable.
Finding the right fine for actions like this is hard.

On one hand, we (as a society) want it to hurt, to cause the company real pain. On the other hand, we don't want to actually destroy the company. This leads to a "cost of doing business" problem, where evil practices become a preferred path for management, if evil is sufficiently profitable.

The underlying problem is that corporations are NOT people, whatever the law says, and the corporation itself has no inherent ethics or morality. The fire doesn't choose to burn the forest, it just does.

edit: I suppose the problem in part is society. We see a beauty and symmetry in capitalism, so we assume beautiful == good, a philosophical failing going all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Just because it's beautiful and useful doesn't mean it's "good" in a moral sense.
You said “Okay, but they'd also probably be able to understand it", which clearly implies that people wouldn't be able to understand the current text. Then you denied that the text was was "comprehensible" ("I find it neither [pleasing or comprehensible]").

I really don't think you can have it both ways on this one. If, contrary to what you've been suggesting, the style only has a minor impact on your ability to understand what is being said, then what's the issue? Why get so worked up about the fact that some esoteric French alchemist writing in 1929 isn't writing in the journalistic style that's currently in vogue?
Text wrangling techniques for natural language processing
Just a followup now that I've seen some more details elsewhere that has strengthened my resolve: if you expect me to implement a webhook or to poll for completed transactions, you've lost me, and I think you've lost the knowledge of why people chose Stripe Checkout for their websites in the first place.

As soon as legacy Checkout stops working, I'm gone. If I'm implementing webhooks, then I'm implementing it for PayPal instead. Then at least I'd be gaining something for my effort (user-facing PayPal support) instead of just doing extra work to satisfy Stripe's whims because THEY want to do something that I don't care about.
I use OpenBSD as firewall appliance, router, SSH bastion, even a general purpose terminal server that takes care of a few cron automated bash scripts.

For the typical workstation - being able to run Linux VMs, Docker/Containers are a blocker for me to use OpenBSD. The closest I have got to the OpenBSD experience is with Void linux. No Systemd, No frills minimal Linux. It is as safe/bloated/feature rich as you configure it to be.
Only disadvantages, from a health of the human standpoint. https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/bodyinspace
On the long-term, it's still nothing at all for Facebook. Their stock will bounce back.
I know a good VPN with an open service called VeePN works well
Density doesn't matter. As the density decreases the force of the wind does decrease, but the propulsive ability of propellers/wings also decreases. So the net effect is that the engines have to work equally hard.
So what are you saying exactly? We can’t set our eyes on Facebook because someone else is worse?
As someone in college who has had their classes recorded and posted online, I still go to class because its dedicated time to my brain. There is nothing else I should be doing other than being in class.

The people who don't show up would have not showed up class recorded or not. It is very useful though when you have a morning class miss or be dead tired and not pay attention to re-watch the lecture to get a better understanding.
I just took my MacBook Pro in for butterfly keyboard issues and was quoted 5-7 business days, and I have coverage under Apple Care. I haven't taken it in yet because I mostly use an external keyboard and that would be extremely disruptive to my work, maybe I'll try again and see if they can do it in store.
I found this area interesting:

> “A fat cell is almost like a primitive immune cell,” says Hotamisligil. “It can request the assistance of immune cells when in trouble, but if the stress continues, and the immune cells remain, they start changing their character and behavior from helpful to harmful.”

...

> When overloaded with stored lipid, fat cells begin to lose their functional and structural integrity and may start spilling their toxic cargo. When cells fail like this, the immune system kicks in, initially to assist in clean-up. Macrophages engorge themselves on the leaking fuel, and may die themselves during this process. But in the long run, what is meant to be a mutually beneficial interaction between the metabolic and immune systems turns into a very dangerous and harmful relationship. Obese individuals thus live in a state of chronic stress and inflammation; in fact, many people do, because their energy intake vastly exceeds their needs. Hotamisligil calls this chronic energy overload, and the resulting abnormal immune response, metaflammation: metabolic inflammation.

This article brings together a whole host of different areas of research about human inflammation. I would recommend reading it, but it isn't an article you can skim and there's no big bang conclusions, just more areas of keen research and exploration.
The Drumbeat of Impeachment
I don't understand the change. If I understand the history correctly, previously commercial usage restrictions only applied to official binaries downloaded from their site, and now:

>Going forward, only commercial use of ... the download page ... requires a subscription

So now you're allowed to commercially use the official binaries without buying a license, but you're not allowed to acquire them without that license? I don't really understand how that's a distinction with any difference.

Is the expectation that (non-commercial) 3rd-parties will mirror the official binaries, and that's why it's a useful change?
At the same time, anti-inflammatories slow wound healing. Here are a couple of random studies I found.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17319622
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22381097
A modal with Elements could support all the features that old modal Checkout supports. It would not be able to do all the things that new non-modal Checkout will be able to do in the near future.
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar.

Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? You might also find these links helpful for getting the spirit of this site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html
Which is the NUMBER ONE MOST BASIC rule of handling users confidential data. It reflects incredibly poorly on the engineering practices of Facebook that this managed to get through. It should be a criminal liability.
New Private Server Device Showcases Push Towards a Decentralized Internet
Pluggable GC heaps or the like will likely become possible in Rust at some point. We can already see some of the groundwork being provided, e.g. with support for things like custom, user-specified allocators (at a local, not whole-program level - this is not yet in Rust, but definitely in the pipeline!)

It's just a bit silly to couple one's choice of language/ecosystem/etc. to a single memory-management strategy, and the Python/Nim-like choice of obligate GC as an extension to obligate reference counting also seems a bit puzzling. That's basically taking every sort of automated memory management under the sun and compounding their disadvantages - I'd think one can do better than that, in fact even Go or Ocaml do better than that!
What evidence do you have that Amazon intended to trust these people with only voice information and not location?
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17993223
> But... why are you bringing this up?

Because an overwhelming majority of threads like this, someone will use government corruption as the excuse to get up on their soapbox and proclaim that's why government is evil. They'll rattle on about how private enterprise isn't evil at all, and when you point out things they do wrong, they'll shout "regulatory capture!" like it's some bogeyman that keeps the unregulated, free market from creating the utopia that only unrestricted capitalism can.

They're not contradicting you. They're heading off the hyper-libertarians who think the laissez-faire free market will magically solve all problems and lead us Moses-like to some divine land of milk and honey, because somehow the market can solve all problems of corruption, information control, labor vs capital stress, etc. These people haven't read where Adam Smith argued for government regulation, or how unrestrained, unregulated capitalism was already tried in the 19th century and it failed with horrific results and widespread human casualties on an unimaginable scale.
> I think the Scandinavians have a slightly clearer picture of their descent due to the later expansion of the new religion into their territories.

Not really, the oldest Scandinavian kings that historians are pretty certain were real people were Harald Fairhair who was king of Norway around 900CE, Gorm the Old who was king of Denmark around 930CE, and Eric the Victorious who was king of Sweden around 970CE.

And the sources we have for the ancient kings were usually continental scholars, monks, bishops, or missionaries, who most probably had an agenda, and an antagonistic view of the pagans up north. And likewise, when the Scandinavians told their history to the weird people from the south, they probably embellished their stories.

...unlike for example Charles Martel and early French dynasties, who were 200 years earlier than the known Scandianavians.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Scandinavia was a completely uncivilized backwater. :-)
People say this but we have very little knowledge of (and literature from) the time period before and during Beowulf.

However, it would be fair to argue that the Dark Ages ended during the High Medieval period, rather than the Renaissance.
I’m not dismissing the faults of the MacBook. But who would replace Tim Cook that could come up with the next big thing? Some low level employee that no one ever heard of or would it be the CEO or VP of another consumer electronics company who also hasn’t come up with the next big thing for their company?
Hear, hear. QEMU is excellent software, and I don't find that libvirt adds any value to its use.

Instead, one of the more annoying things I have ever done was foolishly installing libvirt and having it do all kinds of whackiness to a previously excellent QEMU set-up. I still cannot figure out where it managed to change all QEMU invocations to be VNC-based.
Firefox should already support ipfs:// and ipns:// with the IPFS Companion extension. See:

* 'Support for Decentralization Protocols' in https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/01/26/extensions-firefo...

* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs-companio...
this is similar to bag-of-words models

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag-of-words_model_in_computer...
Where exactly does that $ go?
Show HN: Announcing Kafkaesque, a Message Streaming and Queuing Service
A decentralized chess tournament using GitHub and Travis CI
Retire Python 2
My own pet peeve in non-fiction, particularly the kind that appears on blogs: the excruciating warmup before the author finally gets to the point of the post.

I know why this happens. When you sit down to write, you don't know what exactly you're going to say. You may even be anxious about it. Then, an idea sparks your imagination and you start writing stuff. The warmup that comes out initially gets you on track. Nothing wrong with that.

The harm is keeping that crap in the post. Delete it! If I don't understand what I'm about to read in the first paragraph, I'm probably done.

Something else I don't like: writers who use too many words. The telltale sign of a first draft is the vast quantity of words (and even entire sentences) that don't need to be there.

A single edit with the goal of ruthlessly eliminating every unnecessary word works wonders for any first draft.

Edit: On the topic of fiction, the author gives a beautiful example from the Wizard of Oz:

> When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothin but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else. [continues]

I haven't read the book but this passage alone makes me want to.
More Store Closings So Far in 2019 Than in All of 2018
When you don't have large civilizations typically most people will be subsistence farmers, so you don't have much time to pursue other interests. You might not have warfare on a grand scale but you still have it. But now you don't have professional soldiers to protect you, so if someone comes knocking you have to take up arms yourself or abandon your home. Travel is dangerous without maintained roads and patrols. Without that you don't have easy communication which means a lack of ideas being spread.

This isn't a refutation, but I can think of plenty aspects of life improved during a pax. I don't think going wildly in either direction is ideal.
Vendor lock-in isn't something anyone, especially at C-level should be ignoring. Yes, there are things to be gained and money to be made,but one should always have some sort of alternative,just in case. I happen to be in a business,which 100% relies on one vendor,which keeps hiking up prices every year way above inflation.
Seems like a pretty trivial automated test for so many PHD's to miss:

create_user('Bob', 'BobPassword123')
assert "BobPassword123" not in logfile
The preview is using a test key, so it's likely they show everything just for testing reasons.
LinkedIn was caught harvesting people's contacts with dark patterns. They settled a class action suit for $13M.
same for NSAIDS (ibuprofen etc) and bone healing
Cloud -> Data lake -> Data stream -> Data Ocean -> Cloud
Curious to where these fines go exactly?
Because all the time spent marshalling and unmarshalling data structures into bags of textual bytes takes up CPU and does nothing but hasten the heat death of the universe. We have better models for that sort of thing. See: PowerShell.
No thanks, I don't want to bow down to the censorship of the EU
What exactly are you referring to? Early Christians didn’t have the political power to destroy Greek texts, and Muslims didn’t arrive on the scene until 600 years later, so they could not have saved Greek texts from Christian abuse. And even then, Constantinople was the major and often sole source for many Greek texts, particularly after the collapse precipitated by the Muslim invasions and subsequent wars; many of them spread to the West when Roman scholars began fleeing wear and revitalized interest in Greek language and learning.

The main reason a lot of classical learning fell into disuse in the West was that the Germanic peoples migrating in didn’t care much, and there was a language barrier - most stuff was in Greek, and they only knew Latin, for the most part. With a very few exceptions, nobody was going around actively destroying stuff. Indeed, the Church is the main reason so much was preserved in the West, particularly some later popes that took a keen interest in the preservation of ancient texts. Easily the worst thing the West did was the burning of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, because again, the Byzantine Empire, even what remained of it by then, was a real center of learning and probably easily the biggest surviving repository of books on the planet at the time, so undoubtedly we lost some texts then.

This isn’t really a religion vs religion thing - the Christians came into an existence in a society and region already steeped in Greek learning, and slowly assumed political control over the region. The Muslims were in an entirely different situation: they were from an underdeveloped region and came into the Middle East via conquest. They simply didn’t know what they had, and the violence of the conquests was a major setback. In some ways, the region never really recovered - that and the Mongol invasions.
You are aware of .net core right? We're deploying services using linux docker containers. And I'm having a blast writing my macos utilities in f#
Bruce Schneier: Toward an Information Operations Kill Chain
If they were focused on reducing costs, they’d be producing hardware of the same quality as most Windows laptops.
"You have a different opinion from me. Therefore you are a snob." Boo. You brought up style and substance, and when I answered you called me a snob. This is not what snobbery means. It is not snobbery to hold an opinion. Nor is is snobbery to think something is bad if you have reasons.

If you don't like to listen to bubblegum pop, that doesn't make you a snob. If you argue that the lyrics are simple and the repetitive beats basic chord progressions are unoriginal or pandering to the crowd, that still doesn't make you a snob. But if you say that anyone who makes or listens to bubblegum pop is an idiot, now you're a snob. Snobbery isn't disliking something. It's looking down on something (or more practically on people who like that something.)

I don't think people who write flowery, dense prose are all snobs, nor did I say that they were. I said the ones who do this and then call straightforward writing "barbaric" are snobs, because "barbaric" is not a meaningful criticism, any more than "idiotic" is.

I gave you specific reasons I do not like the flowery style of writing, and why I find it counterproductive. I think writing in this way is very self-important and I think it puts the reader secondary to the author's ego. I think flowery writing has poor fit for purpose, if the purpose is to educate or even entertain. If the purpose is to demonstrate artistry in sentence composition, then sure, flowery writing seems great for that purpose, but I personally have zero interest in that purpose, and I think most people probably have zero interest in that. Slogging through three times as much text and reading every paragraph twice to make sure I understood the point is not a rewarding experience for me.
Okay, so what's the regexp for finding all the style insensitive versions of myVariable? Something like

m_?[Yy]_?[Vv]_?[Aa]_?[Rr]_?[Ii]_?[Aa]_?[Bb]_?[Ll]_?[Ee]

I never want to type a regexp like that just to find all occurrences of a simple var name. Even if a plugin did it for me, it would still be slower and it doesn't help me on the command line.
Could they be prosecuted for violating the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act which makes it unlawful to "knowingly transfer[ring] or us[ing], without lawful authority, a means of identification of another person with the intent to commit, or to aid or abet, any unlawful activity that constitutes a violation of Federal law, or that constitutes a felony under any applicable State or local law."

There's an element of intent that might be hard to prove. Intent is legally defined as "the decision to bring about a prohibited consequence." If you know your actions will result in prohibited consequences and take them anyway, you are deciding to bring about a prohibited consequence.

Conspiracy might fit, too. You've got 2 or more people intentionally agreeing to these practices that they know will result in identity theft and then taking action to put those practices into use.

I guess they'd have to start with somebody who provably had their identity stolen as a result of the practices, though.