skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP: "a fusion center in Missouri listed Ron Paul supporters as potential domestic terrorists"

Report, top of page 7: "Militia members most commonly associate with 3rd party political groups. It is not uncommon for militia members to display Constitutional Party, Campaign for Liberty, or Libertarian material. These members are usually supporters of former Presidential Candidate: Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr."

Honestly, I'm sympathetic to many of the ideologies and ideas that are described in this report, but I actually think the document is important as an internal document for police. They need to be informed about radicals within these ideologies, and knowing who they might vote for for president is very relevant for helping to understand or empathize with them, especially for conflict deescalation.

Say you're in a hostage negotiation with a sovereign-citizen type who's worried you're going to disappear them to some black-ops prison. If you knew enough about the movement to abolish the Fed, about FEMA camps, or about the NWO, and said you're a Ron Paul supporter, you might be able to establish trust. Ron Paul isn't strictly someone involved with the latter two conspiracies, but there is a heavy correlation between the three, and he's the highest profile figure supporting the first.

These documents aren't political, they're tactical information for real-life police work. Police have to deal with the radicals, even if they're a fringe minority.
In a Chinese Orphanage (1996)
> I am assuming the state sends each school district the same amount of money

It does not, not even per pupil since there is a 20% supplement for each designated “high needs” pupil, and additional funds iif “high needs” pupils exceed a certain threshold.
I am mostly in agreement with you. MOOCS are awesome, but they typically require fair amount of motivation ( which is enforced at a university ). I can't say definitively most people are sufficiently motivated to follow a given path on their own.
> And what about US institutions

They're already included in the US number. In fact they are the US number.

Due to the greater autonomy of EU member states their individual contributions and those done by EU institutions (meaning those institutions not belonging to a specific member state) were kept separate in the above link.

It's possible the word "institution" doesn't mean what you think it means.
I think understanding the history of racism why it's attractive to the masses is a great start in continuing healthy discourse over the politics and economics of the matter. You might think that there is no merit, but you can only convince others to rid themselves of racist ideas if you understand where they are coming from.
Don't get me wrong, Oracle sucks, I know—but the article (kind of) acknowledges that and underlines that you don't have to do business with Oracle to use Java.
I didn't read through the entirety of SICP, but I read through the first ~3 chapters, and it helped me to understand the way that functions are associated with the environment that they are defined in and how this fact can be used to construct closures. I haven't seen as good of a description of this up until that point.
Not sure why you need to sign up for a job to learn how to do labor that anyone with a driving license is already trained on.
I'm going to be generous and assume by 'vocational' the parent meant in a CS sense (things like database and network configuration that you usually learn after college) and not in the broader sense (like welding and hair cutting where hands-on is the majority of the value).
If you're at the size and visibility of Hey, you can strike these kinds of compromises. This isn't particularly surprising. The real issue is the smaller guys, who are forced with a "take it or leave it" roadblock from app stores.

You'd hope the bigger players - particularly ones who have hit these roadblocks - to become advocates for developers. Perhaps working in some sort of ongoing developer agency/evangelist fashion would be good for all involved.
True. But also true that that's what it takes to release groundbreaking stuff. Failure is a very possible outcome.

I think the price of Daikatana is well worth the existence of Deus Ex.

Ofc no investor would ever take a risk like that these days. Sad reality for me as a consumer.
I know it's early so you're building for the largest initial audience, but a Firefox extension would be great. I would be even more happy if there was just a website I could use.
Still not clear if this is a special deal for hey or for all developers as well.
If the Earth Was Flat
> But the California State government allocates the fund, right?

It allocates the state funds that make up the vast majority of education funding among the counties. It doesn't specifically direct how counties spend the money.
I, for one, will keep a fish tank on earth in case any better descendents swing by to visit.
Tiny list of things Apple should do, change, implement, or simply fix.
Isn't it illegal to resell non-shelf-stable food without a foodservice license?
This is a great essay, and worth the read. The first part is descriptive in nature, and I highly recommend reading that at least through the "Parenthood" section.

The article is short on prescriptive advice, however, and it really loses some of its steam because of it. This is partly due to the authors frank, humble admission of ignorance about how to build a culture that honestly evaluates itself, an admission which is admirable.

But the prescriptive section also seems weakened because it is devoid of any consideration of religion and spirituality on culture. Both in history as well as the present, one of the "experiments" the author could refer to is the removal of religion from all aspects of public life.

Still, this essay does much to point out the impropriety of our Current Culture emperor running around in the nude, and for that, it's worth the read.
New Way of Testing Device
In this[0] iFixit teardown (of last year's 13-inch, they don't have one for this year yet, but I assume the inside layout hasn't changed much), the cooling setup is a lot more traditional with a heatpipe from the CPU to the fan. I don't think it'd get a lot of benefit from the watercooling that LTT did (at least, without Apple's power profile taking over and throttling).

The only reason I can think of that Apple set up the MacBook Air like that was because it was supposed to be fanless and at the last second they couldn't figure out a way to eek out performance, so they added a fan where it would fit. That doesn't sound much like Apple's engineering though, so I don't know why they did it.

0: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Two+Thun...
I can't speak for others, but I'm between jobs due to the pandemic and can't afford health care without employer-provided insurance. Most people are fine most of the time, which is why it doesn't seem like a problem. But I bet that it will eventually be a problem; chronic issues need to be taken care of, and everybody can benefit from a visit to the dentist now and then.
I'm glad Hey now has a future on the App Store – it's better than not existing at all, but the whole episode has been absurd.

This new version introduces a new free option for the iOS app. Now users can sign up directly in-app for a free, temporary, randomized @hey.com email address that works for 14 days. Think of it like a temporary SIM card you buy when traveling. Or for when you don’t want to give out your real email address, like a short term “for sale” listing, like Craigslist does it.

This, in particular, is just ridiculous. A whole new feature, designed and developed in haste over a weekend, simply to satisfy Apple. But then we've had to do that ourselves in our own apps, and no doubt thousands of other devs have their own stories.
Because every conference is its own bubble of enthusiasts and SW engineering is a lot more diverse than Ruby, from C++ kernel devs to Firmware C and ASM devs.

Even the famous FailOverflow said in one of his videos he only bought a Mac since he saw that at conferences everyone had Macs so he thought that must mean they're the best machines.

Anecdotally, I've interviewed at over 12 companies in my life and only one of those issues Mac to its employees the rest were windows/Linux.
Your argument is black people get killed by police less often than white people, so there is no problem?
So, in the end... is there a link or something, in the app, about upgrading to the paid option?
What the huh? One third of a trip? Which third did you experience, the coming on of the effect, the peak/plateau, or the coming down?
Radar theory and a teardown of an aircraft transponder
> There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions.

If he knows about it, he's responsible. If he doesn't know about it, he's responsible. Certainly you can't have it both ways if it's not willful ignorance?
I think most routers promote how their wireless technology is different than older models (since that's what might cause users to buy a new router).

But, for example, the Netgear Nighthawk[1] page spends a lot of ink advertising that it offers 1300+600 mb networking (whatever that means) and also notes that it offers 5 1000mb ethernet ports. Even without an understanding of the details of a common medium, 5000mb wired capacity is greater than 1900mb wireless.

[1]https://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-router...
Right now, nobody has proof. While aliens can be discovered at a future date, you can never prove that they don’t exist. It is a very safe bet because they can not prove a negative.
You're trying really hard to not understand what he was clearly saying.

"Right-wing extremism" was clearly intended to refer to the home-grown variety here.

And how "tiny" the numbers are is somewhat subjective. Terrorism works by terrorizing, meaning its intended to affect far more people than the immediate victims by instilling fear.

Just from the last few years, everyone will remember the Orlando nightclub shooting, the Pittsburgh synagogue, the Q/MAGA-superfan mailing pipe bombs, or the Poway synagogue shooting. There are many more that you may have forgotten on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States...
On the first read this seemed like a conclusion of the story, but on a second read it sounds like this is another chess move. 1.0.2 was approved (to Hey's surprise, and likely just to ease some PR/legal pressure), but 1.0.3 is still pending. Hey's approach here seems a bit like lawyering the rules to me -- I could see how temporary email addresses can be useful, but the feature seems to mainly exist to appease Apple rather than users. I hope it works for them, but I'm not holding my breath.
This article seems to suggest that because no spike in short-term ailments due to lower frequency of care has been observed in a 5-month span, there is no damage to the quality of our society's physical health overall. That seems incredibly myopic to me.

The real question is whether there there will be statistically detectable increases in severity or prevalence of chronic or emergent ailments in the long run. How many cancers are detected later, how many lower-back pain cases are allowed to degenerate further, etc etc. And further, do those (to my mind inevitable) subtler long-term consequences outweigh the societal gain from less healthcare spending? They may or may not, but this article doesn't even ask the question, let alone suggest ways to answer it. This feels like low-effort clickbait to me.
It would be potentially much cheaper without licensing negotiations, royalties and IP policing adding to the price too.
Small developers wouldn't even get Schiller's ears in the first place...
I doubt that reading a few books will help you materially progress
career-wise. From my personal experience, my interest in Prolog has absolutely
shaped my carreer, but not because I read a few books (or more). Rather,
because it got me interested in computer science as a subject in its own
right.

So here's my personal experience. I first learned about Prolog in a second
year CS course at uni. I got hooked, much like other folks get hooked on Lisp
and Haskell etc. I stopped saying things like "nobody uses Prolog in the
gaming industry", like my classmates, and started asking questions like "wait,
if facts and rules are predicates, then what are queries? [1]". So I started
reading every textbook on the language that I could find in the university
library. Most of them were AI textbooks also, from the time when AI was
basically hand-crafted programs written in Lisp and Prolog. From that I got
interested in AI, in general and -after working for a few years in the
industry- I started an MSc course on AI.

My MSc course was almost exclusively about statistical machine learning (I was
told they were planning to rename it to "data science"). I started the course
(part-time, while working) in 2014, right around the time when machine
learning started becoming a hot issue; a rather fortunate state of affairs. I
didn't go back to the industry with my hot new skillz though. Instead I
started a PhD on Inductive Logic Programming, which is basically machine
learning of logic programs, a subject that perfectly fits my background (in
logic programming and machine learning).

And that's where I am now- I'm in my final year and waiting to hear from the
editors of the Machine Learning Journal about my submitted paper that
describes a polynomial time ILP algorithm (exponentially growing hypothesis
spaces are a bitch, but you can avoid them with One Simple Trick). We'll see
how that goes- one does not simply publish to the MLJ. But if I get that
publication it will be a major step forward to getting my thesis accepted.

Er. Once I've actually written it.

Anyway, morale of the story: don't just read a bunch of books. Find a deep
interest in computer science instead. For me, my undergraduate wonderment at
Prolog led me down the path of becoming a computer scientist, growing my
knowledge and honing my skills. There's no way you can go wrong with that.

(I forgot to mention I'm doing my PhD at one of the top rated universities for
engineering research; not bad for someone who started as an unskilled
immigrant working at a warehouse :)

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[1] Also predicates. Mind blown.
WSL is cool, but definitely not "*nix as a first-class citizen" status.
Which is a better user experience: the new implementation, or the original?
Lab-grown cells develop rudimentary components of heart and nervous system
> Amazon really does not have a history of throwing huge margins on raw compute resources

What? My $2000 Titan V GPU and $10 raspberry pi both payed for themselves vs EC2 inside of a month.

Many of AWS's managed services burn egregious amounts of EC2, either by mandating an excessively large central control instance or by mandating one-instance-per-(small organizational unit). The SFTP example you list is completely typical. I've long assumed AWS had an incentive structure set up to make this happen.

"We're practically selling it at cost, honest!" sounds like sales talk.
Does your business advertise?
I don't have a horse in the race, but watched this closely. The whole situation put Apple in a bad light, and Basecamp got free publicity. I hesitate to say it was planned, as DHH likes to mention he's not THAT smart. Regardless of the drama, HEY the actual product, looks like it does a lot of things right.
American higher education discussion is usually misplaced because it’s a middle class jobs discussion with extra steps.

create the factory jobs which don’t need a degree and many people will be happier and colleges will no longer be a part of a non-normally distributed outcomes market.

People learn in a variety of ways, and the abysmal completion rates from MOOCs clearly indicate that IT enables education does not solve the problem which causes the symptoms.

Gamification, intervention, multiple steps to keep completion rates up still Result in large drop out rates.

Online education will only work for a few people, and will fail far short of its promise for everyone else.
Yes I can imagine Earth financial markets will speculate in space-based industry. Grounders may become 'wealthy' from off-world activities, but without ever actually benefitting from them directly.
Thanks for sharing. the tool is amazing. I have always been wondering if there is a better way to config NGINX.
How to Become a Software Engineer Expert [the Pyramid of Mastery]
There is a difference between using CSS/HTML from 2005 and using server and network security from 2005.
It's just a little sequel and good advertisement for the main-game. Even if they would sold it, I doubt it would make much money anyway considering it's size and very specific content.
> By definition, racism is something only individuals can do and so racist laws are the product of racist people.

Who's definition? Yours? It seems rather obvious that when you start from a basis of assuming that racism is only the consequence of entirely atomized individuals, you fail to have any kind of understanding of what people mean by "structural."

The issue here isn't semantics. It's that you are obviously working backwards from a conclusion you've already reached
Oh I get it. Thanks!
Proving that a problem is NP-complete requires proving that it is NP-hard and in NP. Reducing SAT to regex matching with backreferences does the former. The latter requires proving that any solution can be checked in polynomial time.

The author is also incorrect in stating However the author incorrectly states that only 3SAT problems are solvable. Proof that 3SAT is NP-hard does not exclude broader SAT.
Awesome tool. I've been wanting something that does exactly this
> Most

Isn't the primary point of going to the doctor "anomaly detection" i.e. this thing is bothering me, will it go away on its own or do I need to do more? Most being fine is expected, doesn't mean losing doctors visits was not a big deal. I've heard lot of speculation that we've lost months of early cancer detections due to the lockdown for example. Future date statistical analysis will confirm the long term cost of sacrificing thousands of doctor visits.
It's a toxic community that equates TC to self-worth.
Right, I had that mac and the KB was fine, as is the 2014 wireless model I have, despice neother being long throw. I'm fine with short throw, it's a preference.

The 2016 keyboard fiasco was too far for me though, and even now with my 16" 2019 mac with the "fixed" keyboard, I still prefer the wireless 2014 model, or the KB from my 2014 MBP.
That's because the question has been answered, so it's out of the OP's head I think; what SO wants to do is turn a question into a wiki / knowledge base, but right now only the OP can make the edits and change the accepted answer if applicable. I guess one way to fix this is to relinquish ownership of the question, change it so that highest upvoted answer becomes the accepted answer for example, so it becomes an internet-democratic resource (note: internet-democratic is not real democracy due to brigading, community preferences, etc; the most popular / upvoted answer may not be correct)
Why is it ridiculous? Who wants an app that you can’t do anything with when you download it?

Even Office for iOS lets you view documents without paying and then you need a subscription to edit them.

Name one retailer that lets you hock your product in their store without paying anything?
Lots of people want the walled garden abolished, but it would be HUGE if Apple simply created a set of guidelines—no matter how draconian—and then applied them equally and transparently to everyone, big or small.

If the guidelines are transparent and fairly applied, it's up to you as a developer whether to play their game. But it is ridiculous that small developers are literally spinning the Wheel of Fortune every time they submit an app that does exactly what Google, Netflix, Amazon, &c. are doing.

And speaking as a user, I bought a mail app called Spark. It's great. But now I have to worry, what if Apple decides that the next release breaks their rules? What if they pull the app entirely?

Capricious and unjust application of the rules is bad for users as well as developers.
I think the point is to read it once, then the next time somebody presents you with a waypoint NDA you don't have to read it again.
Iatrogenesis. Nassim Taleb explains a great deal about it in Antifragile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenesis
>Balls of cells mimic an unseen stage of human embryo development

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/balls-cells-mimic-un...
Now im curious how effective a placebo is at ending a bad trip
This is great news Apple and Hey managed to find a way to go foward, but I wonder would Hey get this far if it was not backed up by Jason and DHH
Highly recommend not candy flipping from anecdotal experience if anyone's thinking about doing it.
Most people were also stuck at home, living a much lower impact lifestyle.
>> I don't think this can happen today and I also believe this is the reason we don't see anything close to the original Deus Ex.

> The solution to that is to look outside of the traditional gaming paradigm.

I don't think indie & VR gimmicks are the solution to lack of games that are close to the original Deus Ex. It's not revered for original superb mechanics; most of everything it does was done before. It's that it put them all together and did so many things right to create a polished, immersive experience with a compelling story (rather footed in reality as opposed to all out scifi/fantasy), strong plot focus (as opposed to disconnected mass-produced side quests), rich level design, lots of choice and player freedom, great music, replay value..

Hardly anyone is doing that. But, evidently, a lot of gamers want that.

> If you're only looking at games like Deus Ex then it could be easy to miss all the other stuff going on.

I just don't see anything that really compels me. Stuff is going on, and it's mostly not worth my time (or does a terrible job marketing itself).
The idea of terrorism is to fight an asymmetric conflict with methods that affect many who aren't immediate victims, by instilling fear, i. e. terrorising them.
update, a few min later, it's back to "normal", I guess I caught it in the middle of some change, since reverted. Or I got A/B tested...
If I could get antibiotics for strep or sinus infections without going to them, I'd pretty much never go. Those visits are really dumb because I already know what's wrong, and just need them to say "yep, it's the thing you already knew it was, here's a prescription and a bill for doing nothing useful"

... actually on reflection already knowing what's wrong and just needing a doctor to say it so treatment can proceed is the norm for interaction with doctors generally among friends and family. Including having to gently walk the doctor to the correct diagnosis so they don't waste a bunch of time and get you in for more visits and tests than you need.
It really depends on the developer. Look at Star Citizen. Self funded to 300 million dollars and still it seems to be stuck in development hell, with Chris Roberts creating yet more feature creep.

I say this as a fan of the game but even I can concede that he wants to make the ultimate space simulation game which just isn't feasible with how long it would take in reality.
It’s not “simply to satisfy Apple”. The rule is so that Apps people download provide functionality you can at the very least try out.

This is about providing a consistent user experience, and a consistent user experience is why people trust the store and actually download things from it.
It's like people dont realize that behind all of their JS frameworks and serverless crap, there are people behind these things who actually know what they're doing. They have phds and shit.