skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming people are only making minimum payments, they could have had to maintain operations for 20 years or so, even if they otherwise closed the accounts and only accepted credits (to them) and no debits on the accounts.

I dont know what infrastructure amd employment levels they would have had to maintain to service the accounts. I'm sure they probably ran the numbers, compared what they'd receive to cost of operations and probably realized itd either be a wash or a money losing proposition and decided to take the cheaper/expedient way out.

Personally, I'd love this deal. My CC is closed, but still paying down a very large sum. Got married, assumed my wife's debts and struggling to get our heads above water. Should be clear in another 4 years sigh, maybe sooner if I can get a few good bonuses in the next few years.
I think most people would gladly pay a bit more to not have to deal with the annoyance of owning a vehicle. Parking in most cities is pain. Driving to restaurants or bars is a no-go with your own vehicle. The flexibility you lose with having to own a car is simply not worth it.
Trump secretly on the 3fun train gang
> Do I need to say this? Correlation does not equal causation.

It has been backed up by numerous studies which control for that sort of thing.

> I never stated any such support, and that is not the definition of an assault rifle, it's the definition of an automatic weapon.

Awesome, reasonable gun control for all! Don't even need a handgun, really.

You:
> I was talking about political violence

Me:
> political violence in America

> Of course it's perpetrated by whites; they're almost 80% of the population.

White men are around 35%, so it's weird that this very vocal and pearl-clutching portion of the population commits so many murders per capita.

> speak plainly if you have a point to make

Do you feel like if the brave men and women of the American military were ordered to take your guns, they'd do so?

> makes it easier to not think about what I'm saying

What have you specifically said that you think I'm not thinking about?
You can’t claim there was no intent either right? Whether there was or was not intent is unknown.

“It may or may not have been intentional, but I was guided to buy a more expensive option”.
Side-point -- In many towns across Europe, delivery vans also will have restrictions on when and where they're allowed to make their deliveries. I also agree with you. It is very frustrating to drive in these shopping districts and old town squares. I never understood why my FIL would always want to drive in Manhattan given how much longer it took to get around and how much more the parking cost.
Yeah, I think this is what they're doing. It's clever.
It depends on the track. HCI for instance doesn't require those, but other tracks do. CS isn't just about printing software engineers.
Many of these paywalled news sites can be accessed with the Bypass Paywalls browser extension:

Firefox (desktop & Android): https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

Chrome (desktop): https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

It's free and open source.
I was in Denmark where they had that. Unfortunately, they'd constantly let through "special" vehicles, just enough to pretty much ruin it.
Thank you for sharing, I really enjoyed this talk. I somehow missed it when it happened.
Perhaps the meaning has changed, but at the very least that is how the word is used today. As an example /r/skeptic is a large community of people that self-identify as skeptics.
As an aside, it makes me happy that Bink is still around. I remember using their Bink video codec for VJing way back in 2000 or whatever.
> The White House is holding off on a decision about licenses for U.S. companies to restart business with Huawei Technologies Co. after Beijing said it was halting purchases of U.S. farming goods, according to people familiar with the matter.

> ...American businesses require a special license to supply goods to Huawei after the U.S. added the Chinese telecommunications giant to a trade blacklist in May over national-security concerns.

Uh... this doesn't sound like a decision based on national security concerns, right? If the US requires a special license to buy from Huawei due to ties to Chinese state security... what does that have to do with how many soybeans China buys, and why would the latter affect the former? Does Huawei have less worrisome ties to Chinese state security when China buys more soybeans?

This is obvious to everyone, that it's got nothing to do with national security concerns, it's just a trade war entirely unmoored from the previous free-trade consensus? The administration feels no need to hide it? And yet won't actually just say it either, they still provide a cover story they know is unbelievable? What's going on exactly? This really is a new phase of global politics.
There usually is one, although mine was basically "remember not to kill anyone."
I don't know if you're intentionally trying to mislead by not mentioning _which_ candidate, or if you've been misled yourself by fake news, but the violent threats in the video were agains McConnell himself, from a crowd gathered outside his house, and not by McConnell himself against anybody else.
the US withholding soybeans... does what?

There was a piece about this on the radio a few months ago. It's actually a big deal. My memory isn't exact, because of the passage of time, but essentially, China needs America's soybeans because it can't grow enough of them on its own. And it needs the soybeans to feed its livestock in order to feed its people.

The natural thought is, "China can just buy soybeans elsewhere." Which is true. Except that there are not enough countries producing soybeans for export to fill the quantity that China requires.

A more important problem for China is seasonality. When America's soybeans are ready to harvest, Brazil's soybeans are just being planted, and vice versa.

So it leaves China eventually in a position where it can't/won't get soybeans from the U.S., Brazil doesn't have any soybeans to send, and none of the other countries can make up the defecit.

Therein lies the rub.
Shareholders are a subset of the public. I'm probably a member of the class, because I likely hold some shares of Exxon indirectly through index funds.
That's true, but it's very much biased towards the rich[1]. I think what the parent is trying to say is that the only reason this issue got legal action was because the rich were the primary victims. Had it been some other public issue that doesn't disproportionately affect the rich (eg. fracking/mining contaminating ground water), there wouldn't be similar action.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-richest-1-own-50-of-stock...
> Cochrane's point to me seems to be this: claims that "the multiplier is X" are even more naive and disconnected from the real world than Barro's theorem is.

Which is, frankly, wrong. Claims that “the multiplier is X”, unlike Barro’s theorem, tend to be a posteriori arguments from analysis of real-world observations. They may be incomplete or flawed analysis and the conclusions may be wrong (as might the idea that there is a multiplier effect or, if there is, that it can be usefully summarized as a simple single multiplier), but they tend to be far more grounded in the real world than Barro’s theorem, which (aside from being circular in a subtle way) is a priori argument from premises that are both known to be false and which are based not on observation of the real world but idealized fantasies about the way the world (and particularly people) ought to work.
TLDR: kids name dogs
I don't have experience with parsers, so I cannot comment how easy/difficult it is compared to regex.

Regex can indeed lead to issues [1] but so could any other piece of code. So, I disagree that regex shouldn't be used in production. This article [2] by Jeff Atwood gives a balanced view of when to use regex and some nice tips.

[1] https://new.blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-ou...

[2] https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha...
A personal pet peeve of mine is misunderstandings of how taxes work. I'm not sure if you're misunderstanding, but I do want to clarify.

They can certainly take a deduction for some money they wouldn't be able to collect successfully. But they can deduct the entire balance now, rather than writing off small portions over the next so many years. Of course, they're simply not getting taxed on money they didn't earn (since it's a deduction, not a credit).

The mathematically optimal solution is certainly not to write everything off. They could have sold it to a debt collection company and made a larger profit.
Yep me too. It's crazy. I had to consult with a bankruptcy lawyer because of this. I couldn't believe it.
The page reloads when you want to edit a comment.

Yes, and it takes less than a second (checked in Chrome performance console) to do it. I'm happy with that.

Also hacker News is one of the simplest use cases ever.

Note that 95% of Facebook by usage (scrolling through feed, liking and commenting) doesn't have much more functionality than HN.
Bingo. Private rights of legal action make markets work properly.
Isn't it irresponsible for pen test partners to publish the maps with the location markers with such details as they did in London?

It's a good example of how concerning this is but they should have shown fake data there since this is still user's private data...
You're almost right.

According to this past Sunday's New York Times, the play here is that Trump raised tariffs on China this time because it refused to stop selling fentanyl to the United States. Naturally, this will be a big play in rural states where it's a big problem.

For some reason, the Times was the only place I saw this reported. Every other medium I looked at just glossed it over as "Evil Trump is raising tariffs on China and that means your iPhone will cost more!"
Right. Being able to claim (with proof) that you collected on a $1,000,000 bounty, from Apple no less, makes you massively more employable no matter where in the world you live.
Most of American's day to day travel is in the US though. The majority of us "might" travel outside the US for a week or two, but otherwise it's safe to say lyft is in the city you're traveling to.
I never consciously realized, but I actually prefer the broken bar. No reason, just nostalgia, I suppose.

I might hunt for a contemporary programming font that renders the pipe so.
Yep. In my case we were overjoyed having finally worked out a deal with the bank, only to discover that now I was in debt to the IRS instead of the bank :'(

It sure feels like your government is shitting on you during an already tough situation.
Patents aren't needed for people to invent things.
Millions of privacy violations should earn them the corporate death penalty, not a 5 billion dollar “cost of doing business.”
Would you mind sharing what company you're hiring for so that I can actively avoid it?
IIRC (and this was dear to my heart in the UK as a non-motor-vehicle-driving taxpayer), road tax isn't a thing. There's vehicle excise duty, but that's not earmarked for roads (since 1937, according to https://ipayroadtax.com/no-such-thing-as-road-tax/bring-back...).

Also:
"The maintenance and improvement of these roads are funded through local council taxes, fees, and central government grants." - https://www.loc.gov/law/help/infrastructure-funding/englanda...

So rest assured that if you pay tax in the UK, you pay for roads along with other infrastructure and services.

And now for something completely different... I recall being told, by a man who knocked on my door in a college residence, that the van had detected my television. I had no television set. He asked to come in and look. I declined and he went away. Either enforcement by deception, or a creep using a pretext to get into womens' college rooms. Either way, bad!

I do miss the BBC website without ads and BBC iPlayer though. We had a television in later years (and a license).
10 years ago I’d agree with you, but now? Not so much. Such a class would quickly be taken over by SJW-types and turned into advocacy instead of a class with a more philosophical demeanor where there is room for debate and disagreement people generally practice the principle of charity.
"Cash" in quantity usually doesn't mean literal dollar bills or euro notes. "Cash" typically means instruments like US Treasury bills or the bonds issued by other governments.

The negative rates are in essence what investors pay in order to hold their money in "cash."
It's quite amazing that a company this large with so much money can't figure this stuff out. Hilarious. Like every thing Android has done in the past 5 years they are simply doing what Apple does, but in a worse fashion. It's sort of pathetic, really.

And they need a blog post to explain it. If you need a blog post to explain how your basic back navigation works, you are already in the dumpster.

Another consequence of an OS that could have never survived if not for the billions of Google ad dollars subsidizing it.
Does it expose any sort of "device id"? Such ids are usually asked for by advertisers and iOS and Android gladly give it to them. I'm sure there are device-id to phone-number maps out there, and anyone with money can get access to them.
When you send an email to security@npmjs.com, a "security point of contact, who will delegate incident response activities as appropriate." per their security documentation here: https://www.npmjs.com/policies/security

I'm assuming because this package has relatively low impact, it was given a triage rating of `P3` (also described on that documentation page). That means it is "Low severity, fix within 180 days".
>... in needing to attract both drivers and riders.

The are not trying to attract drivers at all, they are trying to eliminate them. The drivers portion of the fair is the largest cost so removing drivers increases margins overall. Self driving cars are the only way this is a good business - which is why there is so much competition from many of the smartest innovators/investors in the world.
It’s getting your taxi driver to take your card in the first place that can be an issue. I guess they’re high risk merchants and pay high rates?

Then you may require the actual receipt for your expense. Sometimes the Corp wants more than a credit card invoice for their accounting.
Bridgewater's Views on China
I hope somone can figure out how the detection is working, perhaps by making experiments and see what is found to do.
There's only one way to find out. And if these kids start dying mysterious deaths, we'll know that someone has decided to go that route.
You’re right. Aviation comes down to being a numbers game. If one aircraft exhibits variances, the problem needs to be understood and if bad fixed before it has a chance to cause a real issue.
We have seen what happens when someone who should receive Government protection is able to get by without them; those protections are removed.

If somebody is capable of providing for themselves, why "should" they be dependent on government services?

They have tips, so they don't get minimum wage.

Employers are required to make up the difference if tips don't reach minimum wage.

Anything which disguised that fact, even a little, should be removed.

Should be ban inexpensive food because it's just disguising how bad the government is at taking care of hungry people?
I sent a report to GoFund.
I don't feel like it does. Everytime I see a NY or CA AG making these cases, I just mostly ignore them and assume they're using it as political grandstanding to run for governor or US Senate to then make the leap for a presidential bid.

At least IL AGs havent been dumb enough to do this. They know if they go national, the corruption will be exposed and they'll go to jail. Typically, if they keep the corruption in state, they can get away with it. We, the people of Illinois, have largely become desensitized to corruption and has become a running joke. I mean, something like 6 or 7 of our last 11 governors have served time for corruption, and that spans both parties.
True but public sentiment on this is not a matter of degree; it's not like Americans go around saying "open borders between U.S. states is only a little bit bad, in proportion to relative economic differences."

In my experience it's most often taken for granted, or seen as contributing to American cultural and economic strength--a good thing.
Apple could use these devices to track the hackers...
It could be explained to people ... But look at the titles that the press is putting out.
Broadcom to Acquire Symantec Enterprise Security Business for $10.7B in Cash
I agree with everything you say. But… This site is moderated by two people and has 5 million guests. When you look at it from that perspective, I think the only conclusion you can come to is that they are doing a remarkably good job.

I say this as a person who feels that his political opinions have been treated with disrespect by the site’s community and its moderators. I fervently believe that the moderators are doing their best to be impartial. And I also see people on the opposite side of the political spectrum from me who have the exact same complaints. When I look at it that way, I realize I literally can’t ask for more from the mods.

As far as your making the distinction with platform companies and back bone companies, I think you have it completely right. I detest racist shit on the Internet, but ultimately no good can come from driving it underground. I think it’s much better for us to be able to see and come in time. Plus, my political affiliation, which is the same as Abraham Lincoln‘s, is considered by many of the powers that be to be inherently racist.

When the platform companies start trying to decide who’s wrong and who’s right, they are forced to use extra-constitutional means. Not good.
This industry has already been exposed to a recession. You just need to let your mind think beyond US borders.
We construct an AI that sees and interacts like a human [video]
Good riddance to www
I'm not sure about machine learning specifically, but I heard somewhere that a data scientist is someone who does statistics, on a Mac, in San Francisco.
I actually find these too verbose. May be because I didn't know about them when I started out, was using regex in cli tools and Perl scripts.

There's also a module [1] which already has collection of common regex to match dates, links, emails, etc.

[1] https://github.com/madisonmay/CommonRegex
Why? Engineers have functioning brains. They can decide on their own what is ethical or not. And act accordingly.
I'm a bit out of my depth here, but maybe you could solve this by:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

According to documentation, 0 (the default) means usually allow overcommits according to some heuristic (which was probably failing in your case), 1 means always allow, and 2 means don't allow.

Edit: It appears from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... that things will go wrong if you try to allocate more VM space in one call than the total free RAM+swap available to the system.
One thing that surprises me is that HN is in fact, full of humanities. The non-technical topics are just as rich and interesting as the purely technical ones. To paint the opposite as this article did makes me think that the world really just wants nerds to be exactly as their prejudices imagined.
Interview: Alabama teenager who just won the PowerPoint World Championship
Ex-Googler here. I found working at Google to be slower pace than the previous startups I worked at due to the code review process (reviewers sometimes being in different time zones or just being slow for whatever reason) and the time to takes for tests to run. (Global presubmits often had to run overnight for example.)

You can get around it by having multiple changes going in parallel, but it's still a lot of overhead. I don't think it was just me either. This seemed to be a common complaint. Maybe it's fixed by now?

This is going to vary a lot depending on the team and where you are working in the stack. Lumping Google and Facebook together and saying "there is absolutely nothing slow about it" seems too strong, though.
There's a limit to that. People still need to fit, and parts need to connect so there are constraints in every dimension.
If Chinese companies are not building their own mobile OS, I would serious doubt their intelligence. This is becoming serious ridiculous situation.

Edit: Missing "not" is a serious sin in writing...
The source for the enterprise features is still open, no?
What’s the Japanese baseball player reference here?
> SPY as we know it will cease to be on Jan. 22, 2118, or 20 years “after the death of the last survivor of the eleven persons” -- whichever occurs first. The structure doesn’t provide those people with a financial interest in SPY.

If SPY ceased to exist what would be the effect on the markets?
This is true. Cabs can be _very_ expensive here.

A 10 min drive can easily cost you $40 - and lots of people do take the taxi when going out / downtown during weekends. Even more so when they're heading back home.

We do have public transportation, like night busses that drive every 30 / 60 mins, and through the most populated routes.

But still, we do have pirate / illegal taxis. Basically young adults that will drive you wherever for half the price what a taxi would take.

But yeah, it feels that we simply use taxis a lot less over here. It's mostly traveling people, older folks that aren't mobile enough, and similar.. and of course the hordes of people going to and from downtown during weekends.

People are very good at using public transportation.
I don't. I don't think anyone is entitled to a payout, as Facebook users did not pay Facebook causing some sort of breach of contract. They are owed nothing IMO.

Yet the legal system gives people an incentive here to sign up for free services so they can one day reap the rewards when Free Service X slips up and breaks State Law Y. Admittedly, the rewards will be small. But nonetheless, it is an incentive and aggregated across society it isn't nothing.

This sort of litigious behavior just slides us further and further into a culture of dishonesty and makes a mockery of the justice system.

Also, let me be more specific given there's another thread on here about this. What makes anyone think they're entitled to "$5,000" for signing up for a free service and uploading their photos to it? This is absurd. Please explain specifically how running a facial recognition algorithm on person's photos is equivalent to "$5,000" worth of damages. Where did that number come from? Why not $1 or $1,000,000?
What do you mean with culture boost?

How do you see CBT could help teams?
DpgMedia2019: A Dutch News Dataset for Partisanship Detection
Google says the fentanyl part was on npr, wsj, reuters cnbc, bloomberg, etc. Trump even tweeted it.

But oddly I didn't hear about this until your post. So thanks for mentioning it.
Judgements like "I'd expect dev to write it themselves" come across as arbitrary. I think there's no shared context wherein interviewers / job-applicants have the same set of assumptions.

Especially since "I'd expect a dev to not rewrite everything themselves, and leverage what's already available" is just as reasonable.

There's not exactly a specific "right answer" about whether you need a personal website, what it should look like, or how it should be written.
Maybe, but they’re right. That is exactly why I prefer Gitlab over Github, and Github is doing their best to catch up now.
I'm glad that the Lisp language has so many derivatives.
Node's flatpack homes can be fully assembled in less than three months
Hell to the yes on your first point. I’m in the same boat.
Thanks for posting this. I think it's good to learn from others work.
Nike acquires demand prediction startup Celect
I think they ban certain IPs. So if you share an IP with someone who got banned that could be the reason.