skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to imagine - its because they are at odds with the official government narrative. Make no mistake, this has nothing to do with "right" or "left" or "hate speech" or "graphic imagery" and it has everything about regaining control of public discourse - a control that was lost with the explosion of the internet. Its a concerted effort, across every major tech platform, to use restrictive policies (that are selectively enforced) to ban alternative policies on "service grounds". You could try googling some more information about this, but Google has likewise deranked and delisted alternative voices. Everyone interested in freedom of speech and freedom of thought should be horrified by this assault on free discource - it leads to only one place.

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-silencing-of-dissent/
Technically speaking, no. Real analysis is pretty self-contained. You basically start out by constructing the reals from scratch and deducing continuity as a consequence of the completeness of the real field. You use a tiny bit of set theory to establish notation and define bounds, and then from there you go into limits, derivatives, integrals and maybe the Lebesgue measure. I wouldn't expect a real analysis course targeted at applied math majors to do much other than that.

The reason real analysis is useful is because it's (loosely) a deeper calculus course with proofs. Since probability theory becomes more proof-based (and ventures into measures), real analysis is good preparation for it.
Trans people absolutely are sick. Trying to normalize them is, ironically, dangerous and fringe.
The singular they is quite old:

> The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf.

from https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
How do you manage subroutes and direct deeplink to a subpage?
Can manipulating a ‘social’ hormone’s activity treat autism?
They're in the process of being merged: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/23/17386752/youtube-music-up...
It’s incredibly naive to think that when your house burns down and gets reported in the media, or your device bursts into flames in your luggage on a plane, all the media people sensationalizing the story and all the readers are going to get the key fact that you personally replaced the battery. Information gets distorted and the phone maker ends up looking bad.
I also paid for the Windows Pro license, but I meant the continued maintenance and free (bi)yearly updates. IIRC the license was around 50 € this cannot cover the full cost for the (let's say) 5+ years computer lifetime support.
You're perspective is flawed. You can't assume everyone is equally able to speak for themselves.

One might not speak ill of a tyrant one has no prospects of escaping.
After a 30% drop in units sold (Independent data from IDC 1), Apple revenue was only hit by 5% in revenue 2.

1 https://www.macrumors.com/2019/04/30/apple-36-million-iphone...

2 https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/04/apple-reports-second-...
Personally I think there is nothing more snobbish than post-modern art. It is quite literally designed to insult, confuse, befuddle, and humiliate the observer. Not to say there aren't fabulous works of post modern art, usually the earlier works. But, sadly, I think most of it is genuinely horrible.
"Black", in the "African American" sense we're talking about here, is a distinct and coherent culture, ironically one forcibly created by white slave traders who kidnapped Africans and stripped them of their names, languages, and cultures and left them in 19th century North America to build a new one for themselves, which they did. American Black culture includes jazz and (later) hip-hop, the Harlem Renaissance, a huge chunk of 20th century dance, African American Vernacular English, Black churches (and the civil rights movement), soul food, and so on.

Other coherent cultures include the Irish, Italians, Polish, Russians, and, of course, Germans, French, and English. Parades are held for these cultures; entire sections of major cities are named for them, museums are erected for them, &c.

What people on message boards seem to have a problem with is the idea that "Black" is a culture with similar standing to the Irish --- or rather, they'd prefer to believe that there is a coherent "White" culture that functions similar to Black culture. There is not; the suggestion otherwise is literally an expression of anti-Black racism, as you can see from the way "white culture" has gradually co-opted formerly out-grouped Irish, Italian, and Jewish people, in solidarity against integration with Black people.

Nobody seriously protests the South Side Irish Parade (unless they live in Beverly and care about their lawns), the Polish American Museum, or the New York Columbus Day Parade. They do protest parades of "white pride", for reasons I assume are now obvious to you.
A lot of people have excellent careers within software development without those traits though and it is possible that you would have an equally as good career without autistic traits.
ChapoTrapHouse routinely incites its followers toward being OK with harrassment, property crime, and violence with their class warfare rants and advocating for mass property redistribution. They aren't on FB though.
100% agree. Linux is great for developers or server admins but when it comes to an average Joe from the office,it is 20 years behind windows. It may look similar,it may feel a little similar but it is not.Most of the apps are complete shit, it is difficult to do things unless you an admin or technical user and etc. My job is split in half- one side is technical and I'd be happy with Linux, the other is a business user and this side will never switch to Linux,or not until all the MS products are ported to Linux.
1. Who is talking about unauthorized repairs? I am talking about repairs that are authorized, by the owner of the product, because who else would possibly have the authority to decide who is allowed to do something with a thing, such as repairing it, if not the owner of that thing?

2. Who says the vendor should be responsible for damages caused by repairs not done by the vendor? I was responding to someone who said that a repair not done by the vendor should void the warranty. Warranty only covers defects caused by the vendor, thus what they suggested was that vendors should not be liable for defects they themselves caused if someone else has repaired their product.
Just so you know HN doesn't support reddit markup for links, you can only post the url for the link directly, not highlight text. That's why most ppl here use a footnote index to post links [0][1][2]etc

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I think a lot of responses to this are missing something unsaid here: a single interview day for someone doesn't always give them a chance to be their best selves. That's ok but you do what you can given this fact. The whole thing is about being risk adverse with who you bring on to the team. This is the right thing to do because bad hires are exceptionally costly. It isn't a judgment on the candidate's innate value as an engineer, it's about a single sample of the "is this person a good fit for our team" function, which is different!
Oh? who gets to decide mercy?
No one can say for certain how, and when they delete the data. Even the person from the privacy team said as much.

Moreover, this is a very, very, very small "modicum of privacy". A very small number of users will use that. It makes the company look good, for sure [1], but it will in no way, shape, or form affect what they are already doing, and will continue doing.

Should we celebrate them for being so gracious as to let the users delete their own data? Well, it's literally the least they should do anyway (once again, [1]).

[1] I wonder how much of this is related to GDPR, which requires Google to provide users with means to delete their data.
The point there is that it's not necessarily obvious that sign languages would have phonology or morhphology or syntax, but once you've realized that that's true it absolutely does follow that they are as expressive (in the technical sense) as spoken languages. I don't want to get into an argument about linguistic relativity and the Minimalist program on Hacker News, but the Minimalists believe that the expressiveness of languages stem from their syntax: once a language has two syntactic operations (called "merge" and "move", that all natural languages have[0]), it becomes as expressive as every other natural language. Where you hide the complexity of this expressiveness depends a lot on the language: some put it in the lexicon, others in the morphology, etc. But at the end of the day, if sign languages have a syntax, they fall into the same class of expressiveness as spoken languages.

As linguists started studying how something that looked like phonology, morphology and syntax might manifest in sign languages, it became clear that sign languages did have a syntax. You can see something that imo looks like the "move" operation going on with topicalization in ASL and something like "merge" going on with negations and numerical incorporation, although I don't actually know enough about ASL to say for sure.

[0] Again, I really don't want to argue about this but one linguist named Daniel Everett doesn't think this is true (he believes that a language called Piraha does not have recursion or, by implication, a merge operation). But he's probably wrong, and Andrew Nevins and David Pesetsky at MIT have a very compelling argument about why that is.
> ..when their product category is fundamental to modern life.

FB/YT/Twitter are not fundamental to modern life.

They aren't even fundamental to gaining an audience. Lots of businesses[1] manage to turn handsome profits without advertising on those platforms.

[1] And that's what infowars/milo are -- businesses looking for make a profit by producing social commentary and then selling ad space / books / videos / merch for more than it costs to produce the commentary.
A postdoc is a training position, most people are postdocs for 3-5 years before moving on to faculty track or staff scientist (where you finally get compensated appropriately).
Thanks for the response. Yeah completely understand.
Floating Cell Towers Are the Next Step for 5G
Your analogy works great except that "someone" is actually 1/4 of the humans currently alive, your "house" is now the primary, perhaps only, communication medium for those ~2 billion people, and its a couple million people in your basement calling your daughter a whore.
The Nuts and Bolts of New York's Ambitious Energy-Efficiency Law
That's amazing. Nice work.

You can pretend you're a fireman and throw sand on it to make it stop before it destroys too much.
Thanks! I just used the vanilla GPT-2 model, but I'm planning on fine tuning it on some fantasy data. If OpenAI releases their large model I would love to try it out and see how much it improves it.
If singular "they" was good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for me.

There's not a man I meet but doth salute me/
As if I were their well-acquainted friend.
What's the difference between ACH and debit cards? Do they both debit a persons bank account directly? (I'm not based in the USA)
A subpoena for something someone deleted would be a good way to find out. My prediction is that for something deleted, say, six months ago, the subpoena would come back empty.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, though not on anything like this. Speaking only for myself, not the company.)
Here, "insolvent" would just mean taxes need to be raised. Which need not necessarily be payroll taxes.
I've experienced this too. Are you saying Google's algorithms know (or at least strongly suspect) I'm human but throttle me anyways because I've taken steps to protect my privacy? Out of spite?
> Your suggestion that privately held malls are subject to free speech protections is misleading. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner.

Not misleading at all, I said it sometimes applies, which is true because some states recognize it as a right and some don't.

> Regardless, Facebook is not a public space. It's very much a private space.

A private space that anyone and everyone can freely access, and are, in fact, encouraged to frequent as much as humanly possible, and arguably has become intrinsic to the daily life of many, perhaps most, Americans. In fact, it's probably one of their primary means of socializing with friends and family, and definitely a medium for political discourse. Arguing it's a private space seems increasingly flimsy, frankly.
Can someone please explain how MIT course numbers work? I get that "18" means maths, but why do specific courses sometimes have two digits after the "." and sometimes three, and if the level of study is encoded in it, why does it seem to jump to starting with "6"?
Ethics? Fear of voiding the employment contract if based on false information?

I also don't think it's practical.

Here in Germany at least, the address of residency is used in so many contexts (health insurance, pension schemes, tax things etc.) that I doubt this would go unnoticed very long.

For example the city you live in determines which regional tax office handles your income tax, and I'm pretty sure it's easy to notice for a company if some of the income tax goes to an address that doesn't match the employee's city.
I agree with this. If anyone from GitHub is here, there should be an option to "create new repository and give access for this course" option.
How does letting in stupid people level the playing field? I want a doctor who is qualified to be a doctor, not someone who got by because they checked a diversity box.

The reason graduating from a prestigious school is valuable is because the graduates have some expected level of quality. Letting in stupid people doesn’t do the stupid people much good, and it certainly harms the prestige of an institution that was supposed to be focused on academics.

Would you add an obese minority to the olympic track team because the minority is underrepresented?
I've wondered before how many of the "OMG tons of candidates can't fizzbuzz" anecdotes come down to messing up syntax or forgetting the name of something in the language they're using and mixing in something from another language, or making a plausible but incorrect guess. I could definitely see doing those things in an interview, and I've usually been considered the "smart one" or one to come to with weird/low-level/architecty problems where I've worked. Hell I know for a fact I once used the wrong friggin' method invocation syntax in an interview. That stuff barely has any place in my long-term memory, I mostly rely on context to get it right when doing real work.

I can also see a lot of folks forgetting about the modulus operation and doing something uglier and smug interviewers deciding that means they're a fraud and/or an idiot. I've only used it a handful of times in real code, in... oh man, over 15 years. If it hadn't been (for some reason) among the first things I picked up when first learning to write code it might not be as relatively-well stuck in my head as it is.
Yeah, we're not trying to solve the hiring/interviewing problem yet. We've completely punted on that by only working with people that have a very specific type of experience. We know that leaves out a HUGE number of excellent engineers.

Right now we are focusing on a small niche to try and build a sustainable business. Then we'll have the resources and impact to solve the broader problem.
TrackMeNot: Extension that protects from surveillance and data-profiling
Exactly this. I spend upwards of two hours in traffic every day so it makes sense for me allocate a lot of capital in that direction (as opposed to say, a vacation home I might visit a week a year).
Cue up the posts from people criticizing McGrath for doing this. I expect several variations on "He's doing this for some ulterior motive", "Nice, but why isn't he doing more", "The neighbors who are calling the cops are totally justified in doing so", blah, blah, blah.

Personally I think he's doing a wonderful thing, and hope his example can act as inspiration for others... and that this story encourages more people to think about the problem of homelessness, and to realize that homeless people are people first and foremost.
Except that you don't have any solution for preventing squatting or other kinds of domain abuse. By design, they place this system above the court system. I'm pretty sure this is only appealing to some kind of anarcho-technologists.
If it were only true or false negatives complaining, that would be one thing. But lots of the complaining also comes from true positives. I've gotten every tech job I've interviewed for since college, and have usually been quite successful in the companies I've worked for. I think all of those interviews were evaluating me on the wrong metric. They evaluated something I also happen to be relatively good at - I have a CS background and I'm ok at contrived little programming problems - but I believe the companies just got lucky that I'm actually even better at the kinds of things that are important in my work - problem analysis, solution design, consensus seeking, teamwork, communication, writing, debugging, research, detail orientation, automation, process definition, etc. etc. etc. - none of which has any real overlap with writing little code snippets.
All your theories about blame being properly assigned go out the window when the news media gets ahold of any “Apple device caused a fire” story. You aren’t going to personally be there to correct the facts for every reader and viewer, nor do you have any incentive to be. So Apple’s brand gets put at risk.
Humanizing WhatsApp Conversations
I thought this was just going to be another forgettable "X implemented in Y", but this is actually a Rust-flavored version of Peter Norvig's classic "(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))", which is an absolute treasure. Glad I didn't just skip over this!
I'm pretty sure he edited that comment without noting it, the current text doesn't match what I quoted. I do think I misread his intent, but I don't think he originally said that it was just for resolving disputes or specified that it wasn't visible during play. You can see other comments reacting in line with my original interpretation, too.
I wonder how radioactive this waste would be after just 1,000 years and if that's a level we really need to worry about people being exposed to. That is, how long will it take for the waste to become less dangerous than naturally occurring asbestos deposits, say?
Re Alex Jones: The targeted and continual harassment of the parents of Sandy Hook victims is definitely dangerous. Not to even mention the promotion of the pizza gate conspiracy which inspired someone to walk into a pizza place with an assault weapon. Different types of danger but still danger.
Catching whitespace and comments is no problem in Antlr[1]. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by round-tripping. In terms of how daunting it is, it's much easier than trying to use Flex/Bison or lex/yacc, that's for sure.

1: At the bottom of the grammar, there are rules to intentionally skip over whitespace and comments, but it could have just as easily captured them and parsed them further. https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/blob/master/c/C.g4
Do you know how tax withholding works in other countries? Like if you have two jobs, does one have to know about the other so that they know which bracket the salaries they pay you fall into?
> And if you've heard of him, very likely it was because of the fringe views he has.

I couldn't really tell you why I've been exposed to Paul Joseph Watson. Maybe it's because I watch Joe Rogan and Tim Poole's shows.

> Perhaps I'm wrong, and I apologize. The internet is swarming with people who argue in bad faith to promote an agenda. They feign ignorance of things, hold contradictory positions, and derail discussions all while claiming to be perfectly innocent. I mistook you for one of the trolls. And that's exactly what the trolls want.

No hard feelings, and I apologize for any ignorance I may have on the issue. It's understandable, and I know what you mean about those sorts of trolling tactics. I'd rather people sometimes mistake others for trolls than fall for trolls all the time.
I assume they mean that the darker shades of yellow look like puke.
::quickly commits hotfix::

Gosh, you must be confused, shafyy. We have absolutely no horizontal scrolling problems on Firefox and MacOS.
>This is really not a good argument.

But it is, and your counterpoints do not hold up.
There seems to be a new programming language every day on HN, it raises many questions
I don't know if it's kosher to respond to one's own comment, but I didn't see an option to edit. So I'll just say this:

I choose that phrasing for a reason. Because I know that some people choose beliefs based on how hurtful an idea might be, not on it's logical merits.

There is no link between how a person irreparably in a given situation, describes that situation, and how anyone not in it, regards it. Almost every comment fails that most basic understanding. That is my point.

There is no real debate. Only a lot of modern people without the fortitude to realistically consider unpleasant things. Feels before reals, indeed.
>Did Alex Jones specifically incite his fans or these trolls to do this? If so, then he's legally culpable.

Legally culpable for what?

>If you can't delineate some specific set of clear and reasonable conditions, then it will simply be abused to censor any unpopular views, including progressive agendas.

At least some people can see past their own noses! The people celebrating this news are firmly in the "well surely this could never be turned around and used against ME!" camp.
I try and run 5-6 days a week, mostly in the 3-4 mile range, but one longer run on the weekends.

I mix it up with the routes, so it's not the same run every day.

I also find that running in the evening is better for my concentration on work than running in the morning - but I'm sure that's going to vary from person to person.
I really hope it takes off.
Are there no constitutional protections if you live in a company town? Facebook is effectively the company town of mass real identity to real identity communication. One of the Net Neutrality arguments championed by the EFF was that private oligopolies being allowed to do whatever they want with their own property constituted a threat to free speech.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/attack-net-neutrality-...
The underlying assumption is that Daniel would have been a great fit. Can this be assumed? Even as a good engineer, his claim to fame is founding the Prime Air team. Would there have been a "What started as an idea over coffee with Gur..." moment at Netflix? Would he have just become a random developer instead? Worth nothing that Daniel actually went from Microsoft to Amazon after not being hired at Netflix, so perhaps he would have similarly churned at Netflix.

This really isn't your typical "but whiteboard interviews suck!" situation. (not to say that they don't ....)
”the board remains MUCH more open the whole game”

I think that’s a sign of suboptimal play. The goal isn’t to score as many points as possible, it’s to score more points than your opponent. Opening up a line towards a triple-later or even triple-word square only is worth it if your word scores really high.

Also, there often are high-scoring moves that ‘weave’ new words inside the existing grid. An extreme example is adding the o’s in an existing grid of x’es:

xxxxx
ooxoox
xxxxx
x

(That’s one reason competitive players have to know the full sets of two- and three letter words)

Even if such a move scores 20-ish points less than your points-wise optimal move, it may be the better choice.
Things have been back up for several minutes.
Same. Name resolution is failing but intermittently, changing from second to second whether it resolves or not.
That's just bizarre. This would never, ever, fly under the GDPR.