skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Journalist Glenn Greenwald told Hill.TV's "Rising" on Monday that the news media's response to the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report is "genuinely stunning," accusing the press of continuing to promote the "conspiracy" that President Trump's campaign conspired with Russia in 2016."
...

“The reality is that for three years there has been a conspiracy theory that has dominated our political and media discourse, which is that Donald Trump conspired with Russia over the 2016 election and that he’s an agent of the Russian government along with many of his associates," he continued.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/439989-greenwald-says-medi...

He's been very outspoken that he thinks the Russian interference is bs. His angle seems to be the Democrats aren't liberal enough.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/glenn-greenwal...
Software projects have a much lower barrier to entry and doesn't require upfront intensive capital. The only thing you can do with kickstarter for a software project is to get paid for your own time building the project. Most people don't want to pay for that unfortunately. Doesn't have the same appeal as a tangible physical product that you can showcase.

Kickstarter is for experimental and new things. Software customers are not looking for new things. They just want their problem solved and will not wait for a kickstarter project to do that unless you are building the next AI but then you have the FAANGs doing it already.
> Imagine programming without regular expressions.

I live in this future and it's beautiful.

Steps to programming without regular expressions:

1) find a PEG library for your language of choice

There is no step 2.
> they built it

What exactly did they built? AFAIK, even search engines already existed when they entered the game(they just did it better). The fundamental protocols that makes the web work weren't invented by them. What made you think "they built the web"?
I have a 3.5 year old. Prior to that I have not step into a public library for a very long time. I will admit at least the ones in Gwinnett County (Atlanta) they have kept up and I've gone there several times.

Just last week on a Saturday, I took my daughter to Numbers Camp and it was a librarian teaching patterns. There were activities on patterns (stamps, bracelets to make patterns), and books about patterns. The room was full of families.
What is this backup encrypted with? If I lose my phone, what do I need to restore it to a new phone?
Why are SaaS companies expensive to invest in and why will they always be?
The Real-Time Data Behind Climate Change
My economics is weak, can you break this down for me a bit?

If I'm selling widgets for $10 (USD), and Narnia wants to buy them at 2 Narnian gold pieces(gp) per USD, it would cost them 20gp each.

If the USD "improves", such that it is now 4 gp:$1, my widgets would be 40gp each, making my goods "more expensive" to foreign countries like Narnia.

Assuming you're correct, I have at least one flawed understanding above (entirely likely). Can you explain which assumption that is and why?

Thanks in advance!
I appreciate that, thank you.

I imagine there probably are a lot of FAANG employees on HN.
Though in my opinion, just sharing their view isn't inherently a bad thing. It only becomes a problem when they're encouraged to share from their employers. That would be propaganda.

If anything though, hearing from insiders may actually be more informative, or offer a new context that we can't see from the outside.

You have to be aware of bias, but that's just as true for other comments too.
edit: wrong post :)
Google pays them to be default search engine. Users do have option to switch.
"Imagine programming without regular expressions."

Best of all worlds. I wish there would be a way to get back the time I spent with debugging edge cases of different regex implementations on various OS's.
wikihow is a cancer on the internet, clogging google and google image results with inane how-to guides .for the purpose of generating ad revenue. It is not just that the guides are bad but they are engaging in keyword spamming by creating guides for things that don't even make sense
Yes, in the past the web was able to self curate. People were creating links to stuff they found valuable. Google amplified these signals. These days it is too easy to copy-paste stuff and creating meaningless content is valued over referencing reference material. Google search quality went down.

What we need is a way to get Google and other search engines to index our bookmarks to figure out what people value.
I stopped reading after the 10th historical inaccuracy. This is why economics/economic history is hard folks (not just the actual economics but creating something readable...this is basically unreadable). Germany, in particular, requires a fairly deep understanding of economics.
I like to tell the story of when I was doing some genetics data wrangling and spent three days writing some perl code and I kept failing, then sent one of the researchers an email and he suggested an awk method and I turned 3 pages of perl into an awk one liner that works just fine. Now, its probably because I don't know perl very well, but as an ops type who doesnt have the classical dev/cs education, tools like it are my goto.
> The web is a thousand times better now than it was ten years ago.

I disagree wholeheartedly. I think the web is much worse than it was ten years ago, and the trendline indicates that it will continue on that trajectory.
Does it really need to be a mobile app?
I mean, does a mobile app would realistically really get him more clients?
Pay attention to the time frame for that trillion dollars: 55 years.
"Russia did not try to influence the US election" and "Trump did not actively conspire with Russia" are two very different claims.
Even Wikipedia would be a good start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
ecosia.org .. plant some trees while you search for pr0n!
Right now I am talking about aligning oneself with party that openly threaten violence and celebrates it and openly talks about abusing power if they win (as if that would be cool thing). And whose leadership is very friendly with dudes who have swastica tatoos. And which have very similar ideological arguments.

"Unquestioning fervor" is not there yet.

They are scary, because their appeal and promis is "I am gon na be tough and violent and anything else is weakness".
You don't need iTunes, you can use idevicebackup2 from https://www.libimobiledevice.org/

It's a command line suite for Mac, Linux, and Windows that interfaces with your iPhone through it's native protocols, including for encrypted local backups.
Do you have a link to one of the cheap thin washable pre-filters that I can look at as a reference for what to buy?
If you want to use the roads to Rome example, I'm sure there are some roads that have lots of pot holes. I guess you technically still get there, but there are easier roads that are quicker and safer.
> Bing/DuckDuckGo have the article at around 7th or 8th place,

You should take a closer look at DDG, it has the answer from serverfault.com in an instant answers box for your query and it highlights the required setting in a perfectly chosen excerpt from the correct answer:

As of CentOS 7.2 tuned now has a no-daemon mode which
can be turned on by setting daemon = 0 in
/etc/tuned/tuned-main.conf. This is mentioned in the
RedHat Performance Tuning Guide.
Would love to know when it's opensource (so we can get it packaged for Cloudron). Signed up for early access.
I'm one of the people working on UX and ergonomics. I would say that we aim even higher than what that output in particular shows. If an error could possibly be confusing to people, it gets reworked.

Years past we spent a lot of time honing general common errors to a pretty neat level, then we moved on to detecting specific cases. I would say that the quality of the output is a bimodal distribution with a cluster of really high quality for common errors, and a big but shrinking cluster of confusing errors for more advanced features.

To give an example, async await relies on three things: syntactic sugar (which means there's generated code that's not in the user written code), associated types (that had badly confusing type errors) and impl Trait (that had confusing type errors). The later two features didn't receive much love for a while because they were advanced features that a newcomer would be unlikely to hit, with exceptions for crates doing interesting but confusing things with them to provide a nicer API. But when the dust started to settle aroune async/await it was clear to me that people would be seeing the stabilization announcement, consider trying rust and jump straight to very arcane errors that would now be very easy to hit. This made me and a few others actually spend the time to drastically (if not entirely) improve those errors ahead of async/await stabilization, with the nice side effect that those features are also up to the level of quality that we want for newcomers. The syntactic sugar part also plays a part on how you explain succinctly and clearly that the type or inference error you're seeing comes from a return type materialized out if the aether, but I think we've gotten good at that.

If you will be picking up Rust to try it out, I encourage people to use nightly, not because of features but rather because we have diagnostics improvements daily and they can be the difference between having to read the book to understand how to fix your issue and just following the compiler's lead. As an example, you can see this recently landed PR: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/68267
So having bias necessarily makes one's argument untrue?
May we go on a short tangent about a word and its associated feeling?

I submit to you that you don't sound jealous, because it really doesn't fit the rest of what you express; I suggest that you are maybe "envious¹" in the sense that jealousy means envy + depriving the other of what they have ("it should be me and not them", it's a matter of exclusivity, like being jealous of #1 if you finished second, or jealous of the one dating someone you love, or whoever took your job/offer). You don't sound hostile to them, merely wishing more for yourself (which in itself is a positive feeling?)

I really don't know what the word you meant to use in your own language actually meant (I'm French personally, so English is just our medium translation layer). But I'm curious, culturally you know, about these nuances².

I'd love it if you could just introspect that feeling a bit and share what it really feels like, the complex emotion and what it "touches" in you (does it bring despair, or motivation, or resolve, etc). [if it's too personal, I got email, just ask]

Personally, I can feel "aspiring to" or "inspiration from" people who achieved more than me — I don't want to deprive them of anything, I don't wish they failed, nor do I wish to belittle their accomplishments; however I'd love to eat everything they know, steal like the greatest of artists (the good ones merely copy!), that is at best become friends with these people and let them influence me (the true deeper meaning of that book³, if you ask me). And I know, somehow deep down, that the more I'd be rooting for these friends, helping them go further, the more I'd be moving forward/up as well, taken in by the positive storm.

[1]: envy is “a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.”

[2]: Part of my (personal) research on human nature, motivations, "what makes us do what we do".

[3]: How to win friends and influence people, by Dale Carnegie
Lyft’s Journey Through Mobile Networking
What is the complexity, and what are its costs? As an active user of Rust, I haven't seen the (adverse) complexity or its costs yet.

It's worth pointing out that Rust combats more than undefined behavior. Undefined behavior is a category of bad things that Rust works to eliminate, but Ownership goes beyond eliminating UB, and eliminates a large swath of potential logic bugs.
in this case, I say it's OK
The bookmark manager built into the latest version of Microsoft Edge is adequate and inoffensive

My philosophy is that the bookmarks toolbar is for "tools" and things I want myself to visit more often (a page for a good habit or a project)

Other bookmarks are split into basic categories like "Media" (A/V content), "Vintage" (old/nostalgia websites), "Games" & etc.
This procrastination is actually probably useful. If I go on other social networks the probably of usefulness or random items that an Algo targets me approaches zero
Keeping the wages of workers down is good for workers' incomes if the alternative is high structural unemployment as seen in other Eurozone countries that are not so well managed. The fact that the supply of ready and willing labor has yet to be exhausted (which would ultimately boost wages and plausibly final consumption) is neither here nor there.
There's a big difference between saying Trump didn't conspire with the Russians (what Greenwald said" and saying the Russians didn't attempt to interfere. It's astonishing how people conflate these two things
> If one pollutes water with oil, the oil is also polluted with water, and neither are good for anything as both have had their valuable characteristics compromised.

> the Native French have been essentially eradicated

How are they misrepresenting when they are actual, literal quotes? The posts are viewable by the way, no one is being suppressed here.

> Hacker News is usually great for reasoned argument and debate.

Not for the kind of racist xenophobic "ideas" that the world has long moved on from. Perhaps the post being downvoted and flagged would have been a cue.
Wow, this much design and this less information?
If I could suggest on your last point, that if you are fearful of Audible ever going the way of the dodo, that you look into OpenAudible. I've used it to keep an offline Archive of my content.
I've achieved a high level of expertise in Perl. Even though I can, I won't write complex Perl one liners; instead, I will write tested, documented utilities which someone who has not achieved such a level of mastery has a shot at grokking, maintaining and debugging.

Even better if I can write such utilities in a more modern programming language like Go or Rust, if the organization has personnel with expertise in such languages.
Same here. Amazon is a mess, and in many ways worse than eBay was when it got its (deservedly) bad reputation.

For many product categories, almost every single result flunks Fakespot.com with a D or worse, so it's too much work to keep going in the hope of finding some wheat in the chaff, and easier to just buy somewhere else like B&H Photo or Target.com. Two recent examples: Ethernet cables and sleep masks for airplane travel.

Then there are bizarre things like how when you select "Sort by price, low to high", the results aren't actually sorted by price, and half the results you saw in the default view don't appear in the sorted by price view.
I use Wallabag - https://wallabag.org/en . It's a read-it later style bookmark app. It's opensource, so you can self-host it.
You're describing another sad disease. Or two, really.

1. Story points are only intended as a prognosis tool. If we produce 14p/week on average, we'll probably work through this 80p block in 5-7 weeks.

That's it.

When you start using it to evaluate teams or individuals, Goodhart's law sets in, and it all turns to garbage.

2. The reason you don't count refactoring or bug fixes as points is that they don't add user value. If you spend all your time fixing bugs you created earlier, you are not being productive to the customer. It's easy to get caught up in polishing your toys instead of delivering things the customer is paying for.

Though what's often unstated/forgotten ignored, is that refactoring and leaving the code in at least as good a shape as you found it, is an integral part of what calling a story "done" should mean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
No, that's not "Rust leakage", because that misbehavior has nothing to do with the semantics of Rust as a language. That's the effect of some non-optimized function-scope-level pattern-matching substitutions that LLVM is applying, as applied to the user's very large function body. Quoting a reply in that same thread:

> LLVM is not good at big functions, I have seen this before as well. One of the functions you are generating is almost 100,000 lines of Rust code including tons of internal control flow.

The same would happen if you wrote (or generated) 100,000 lines of C in one function body, and fed it through Clang with -O2.

If you're wondering, there's nothing in rustc that makes it implicitly turn regular code into huge function bodies, either. It's just someone abusing Rust macros to codegen badly, not taking into account how the granularity of units of compilation interacts with the time-complexity of optimization passes.
I think you commented on the wrong post.
Thank you very much OP for the clear title that save me a lot of time not wasted figuring out the reply to the clickbait title of the original article.
If only the guys that are posting New York times articles and co could do the same...
Too big and slow. Also I disagree with the expressiveness, (emacs-has-chosen-a-very-longwinded 'way (to (express things))) that would be shorter in languages with more syntax.
I guess it can help sound passionate, but the list together doesn't sound interesting -- it sounds like an AI read a bunch of minimalism lifestyle blogs and output "interesting_backstory.txt".

Nothing on the quirks list is actually a quirk. They're interesting things he's done that other people wrote books about, received praise for, and then he followed their newer, well-traveled path.

It's not a non-traditional background. He's not a refugee who managed to learn coding. He's not volunteering at a needle exchange clinic. I think that's what's bothering me; he's pretending to be interesting, and taking the room which could be going to someone else.

Thank you for helping me get to why something felt off. Appreciated, internet stranger.
He's referencing this direct quote from the Mueller report:

"Volume I of the report concludes that the investigation did not find sufficient evidence that the campaign "coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election-interference activities"

Seems pretty cut and dry.
It's encrypted with a password you type on the computer, but is stored on the phone. Annoyingly, if you lose the password, the only way to change it (even just for future backups) is resetting all settings on the phone.
Surely there’s a better source than CNN for this?
Tetris and Tetris Blitz are shutting down
America’s Radioactive Secret
Oh, but we should hold it over their head. We very much should. Cynicism only hurts us and leaves us with a poorer way to communicate. Cynicism benefits Medium.
The adjusted title is factual. 2+2=4 is factual. A title is not, because whoever created it had a purpose in mind (I'm being generous.)
As a Linux user, I prefer much more the old Microsoft.

Nowadays Microsoft business shifted from selling licenses to making money selling the user data, that is something far worse and concerning. Take a look at this, they suggest the user to use Word online, buy for what reason? Simple, to collect their user data. Or have you tried to install Windows 10 recently? They do everything to force you to sign up with a Microsoft account, think about a non expert user that buys a computer and thinks that is necessary to register one, also they propose to accept default settings that enable all the possible data collection.

Also they are doing harm in other ways, especially against the FOSS community, despite the stupid slogans 'Microsoft loves Linux', no they don't, they are just trying to get the Linux developers to switch to Windows, they made installing Linux on a computer more complex thanks to UEFI and secure boot, and they offered the solution, why do you have to install Linux first place, we have the WSL, you can run your Linux software inside Windows so you have no reason to install it bare metal.
Why do people care about phone backups anymore? I don't think I have any apps that don't store everything in the cloud. There's nothing of value that's only on my phone. I could toss it in the bin and set up a new one now and not lose anything.
Especially in certain product lines.

A relative uses a particular medial device with parts that wear out. She purchases the regular replacement bits off Amazon which are made in China and only last 30 to 60 days. When she can afford it, she buys from the OEM's online store which has parts that are made in Germany or The Netherlands. They fit better, work better, and last up to six months.

The difference is the Chinese parts cost $10, while the European-made parts cost $25.
I just learned about SE a month or so ago, and it is indeed pretty awesome. I tried out the "vis" editor, using SE to create multiple cursors that I then manipulated with vi-like commands. That was a pretty sweet use case.
May be you are already a data scientist
> Yes, I too have built a subconcious habit of flicking the scroll wheel on my mouse twice after clicking enter on my search phrase.

I hadn’t noticed that I had started doing this, but now that you mention it...
Skip learning of sed and awk and jump straight to perl instead.

$ perl --help
...
-F/pattern/ split() pattern for -a switch (//'s are optional)
-l[octal] enable line ending processing, specifies line terminator
-a autosplit mode with -n or -p (splits $_ into @F)

-n assume "while (<>) { ... }" loop around program
-p assume loop like -n but print line also, like sed
-e program one line of program (several -e's allowed, omit programfile)

Example. List file name and size:

ls -l | perl -ae 'print "@F[8..$#F], $F[4]"'
Actually I don’t think so. We need the social interaction, to belong, to be part of something larger. we are inherently social, and we inherently “mimic” and absorb from those around us.

Watch a child learn. My 1year old will watch me. Then try and do what I do. Children effectively “absorb” language from their environment- by watching and hearing us the parents speak.

Rather than giving up groups understand how the groups you belong to influence you and then apply some thinking. Take what works for you, reject what does not. Do it consciously.
Nitpick: Swift for TensorFlow currently is a fork of Swift, not a library implemented in Swift. https://github.com/tensorflow/swift:

”Compiler and standard library development happens on the tensorflow branch of the apple/swift repository.

[…]

Swift for TensorFlow is not intended to remain a long-term fork of the official Swift language. Language additions are designed to fit with the direction of Swift and will go through the Swift Evolution process.”
I hit a really hard wall when trying to learn for school for things I already understood.

It was very frustrating time because knew exactly that I wanna do it. Like I like doing something like it and saw clear benefits doing it.

I tried everything from the procrastinator handbook.

Ritalin helped immediately
Because the StackOverflow survey which Rust keeps winning defines "Most Loved" as:

> % of developers who are developing with the language or technology and have expressed interest in continuing to develop with it

Because there aren't that many Rust jobs, almost no one has to use it. Which means people either try it and leave, they like the language and stick around, or they never use it (the overwhelming majority of developers). This leads to the Rust being the most loved language by the above definition, which is completely different from "popular" (as in the title of the OP).

If I make up my own language that I plan to never stop using, even if no one else ever touches it, I'll get 100% "Most Loved" on StackOverflow's survey.