skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Totally nitpicking for fun here, but literally every significant thing a person does each and every day is determinable through the analysis of data that gets generated by said act. has always been true, just never possible.

Criminals always left DNA at crimescenes, even before people knew it existed.

In the past if someone dodged work to go to a protest there would be witnesses all along the way - phonecall to work, boss recording them as ill, train passengers seeing them, DNA left on the train, dogs smelling their scent, mud from their home area dropped on the street, coffee shop worker in the city serving them, other protesters seeing them, all sorts of historic record that this happened, and nothing else happened, just no way for humans to pull that together.

History only happened one way. The uncertainty about what happened somewhere/somewhen has always been in our understanding, not in the world itself.
for the $$$$

Though this action by major company's would depress wages across the board so its not a totally worthless suit.
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Obviously we have much to live up to. Democracy has always been more ideal than reality. But societies differ in their place along a "democracy" spectrum, and Russia and the Ukraine are much farther from that ideal than the west.
I tried to edit Google Maps once and had someone ask me for supporting documentation to prove that the road across the street from where I live really was closed. Total nonsense. This heavy-handed moderation was what pushed me to Openstreetmap in the first place.
Plan9's RC shell for Unix
Won't it make more sense to improve openstreetmap since it seems to be already better. It is also open.
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I wonder if any teacher already tried to teach LISP as a first language instead of java or C, and what there was to learn about it.
The "we" would be the CIA. Has their signature all over it.
Marc Andreessen's inspired post about the future of news
> and maybe a little research

Understatement of the year. At my institution administrator hiring has been on the rise for the last ten years and funding for professors and new hires has been declining. Our institution also has a huge surplus of unallocated funds (literally just sitting around) that they refuse to devote to education or research.

The principal got so high because higher education has turned into a market, and the people they hire to run schools are business people. All they care about are profits.
Both of those quotations refer to "conversation", apparently in an attempt to frame the public discussion in terms of being shut out by the privacy advocates. Where was this "conversation" when the backdoors and exploits were being developed? A victim of a privacy violation doesn't want a "conversation" with the perpetrator -- they want the violation to stop and the perpetrator prosecuted.
Imagine if you will a US that is not imperialist; a foreign policy that is one of isolationism. Now imagine Russia as it exists today; expansionist and oligarchical. With no one strong enough to oppose it, how would anyone stop it from pulling off political coups or military invasions on flimsy pretexts?

Or vice versa?
Exactly. If whatever is happening in Ukraine ends up sparking a large-scale war (hopefully not), you will be reading about it in history books. That makes it both new and interesting, which fits the guidelines.
Can't edit the comment any more unfortunately (mods?) but the code quoted above is wrong. It should be "gimmegimme", and it will give you the excel sheet for free. Sorry about that!
No, pretty much the exact opposite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_split
And if we were playing a game of "which of these is not like the others?" the answer would be M
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Is there a part of constitution of Ukraine that allows some region of it to split away from Ukraine?
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Yes, US sent financial aid to Ukraine. And dozens of other countries too. But you talked about setting up the riots.

>>> with Color revolution technique, where large groups of people occupy squares and then capture government buildings.

You must be kidding. That's how revolutions are done since inventing of squares and government buildings. That's what revolutions are - a lot of people gather together and oust the existing powers. Presenting this as if it is some sinister technique freshly invented by US State Department is idiotic - this is how it was done before US State Department even existed.

Of course US supports governments that are not aligned with the dictatorship of Putin and of course US encourages people not to align with the dictator - what else would you suggest? For US officials to tell "we don't care if there's a dictatorship or not - it's not like we in America have any position in regard of human rights, freedom, self-rule and all such matters - those are things we don't care about here at all"? That is, however, a very far cry from "setting up the riots" which you have claimed.
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A great documentary. Thanks.
yeah, I don't know what happened. Weird
Right. Now go back to 1994 and s/Google Maps/CDDB/g [1]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB
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MIT's introductory engineering course used to teach Scheme to the students using the excellent SICP text. I believe they now teach their beginning students Java or Python. I am not sure if there are blog posts or papers detailing the benefits of using Scheme in the class room.
>>There are always places that won't hire you because of your school, that's usually a red flag.

The point is that there are many more places who will hire you simply because you have an Ivy League degree than there are places who won't even consider you because you are Ivy League. Whereas the exact opposite is true for local schools and community colleges.

Heck, forget the USA. Having a degree from a place like Harvard will pretty much guarantee you at least an interview anywhere in the world.
Some fun notes about this shell:

- There is no '~'

- You edit history VERY differently, it's pretty neat, using # and % to edit the history line before it's executed

- The default prompt is ';', so when you copy paste it comes up as a no-op line terminator
Now the rumored Elon Musk talks with AAPL make more sense.
One major correction: "It doesn't hurt any of us to start paying attention."

Do not confuse "not wanting it on HN" with "not paying attention".

Have you read the commentary here? A lot of it is really bad.
Scheme used to be and still is the first CS class taught in many universities. See SICP.
I doubt anyone gives a shit about what Americans stand for.
Does it support proxying through a bastion host?
You guys look cool, are you US only though?
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What I grokked from the quote is Poland as in catholic and more culturally European, not literally Polish.
I can't edit my original post, but, for what it's worth, I received a very real response from my colleagues.
I perfectly well understand how threading works. Read the rest of the comment that you cherry picked that quote from, it's about being upset at how npm doesn't seem to be taking it's responsibility seriously.

If you had some information about Maven callously performing a user-hostile update, the comparison would be appropriate. As it is you're just relying on "lolz, Java sucks" as a form of argument.
No, it gives you the option of a different server that the NSA has also compromised.

There's is no way to square the circle here - Zooko's triangle [1] guarantees that you can't have a decentralized system with memorable secure names. See Dan Kaminsky's analysis of Aaron's system (which was implemented by NameCoin. [2]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
2: http://dankaminsky.com/2011/01/13/spelunk-tri/
Grind grind grind grind
True, I probably will do. But I also forgot to mention its inability to clean up stray processes, ita habit of crashing, and all the other small annoyances...
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80% of firms affected by a major IT incident close in 18 months? BS
I know, but historically compared there were times when the above 4 "non-democratic behaviors" didn't occur (or they occurred less frequently or at least we didn't know).

I see a tendency away from democracy which in my eyes destroys any credibility of the West to spearhead a democratic movement.
Are you looking to hire interns for the summer?
Argument can be also made it's selfish for you not to give me half of your money. So I am entitled to threaten you with a gun, to get cash you're selfishly denying me. There can be a lot of arguments made once you abandon the notion of rights that people have.
JFTR: Austrian German is a protected language within the EU.
Except...Ukraine is in no way comparable to Korea. Maybe there are 30000 American troops in Ukraine that I didn't hear about?
> This issue has already been settled.

Obviously it hasn't.
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Big difference. Serbians under Milosevic were committing mass murder and ethnic cleansing (as they had done with Bosnia and Croatia few years earlier), while here, Ukrainians are not kicking people from Crimea out.

This is just a land grab.
Warren Buffet's Annual Letter Released
Several other colleges have a similar course. Where I went (U of M - Twin Cities), they still use Scheme. I also would be interested in any papers about it.
It looks like it was caused by the os x upgrade I did this morning.

Here's the cert chain: <https://www.dropbox.com/s/mszr4ntkq9srl6f/Screen%20Shot%2020...

Here's one person's fix: <http://benscheirman.com/2014/02/fixing-github-ssl-issue-on-1...

Here's the super user thread: <http://superuser.com/questions/605900/why-wont-os-x-trust-gi...
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> The lesson I've learned is that if one is not willing to fully adopt Apple's world, then one should avoid it altogether.

I use Android for tablet and phone and use MBPro as my main computer/laptop and a PC for gaming and testing.

So I think this is false. In the case of a car however, it probably should have some interoperability with non-ios devices I'd hope.
How does an anti-ballistic shield help against tanks then?

The plan for anti-ballistic launchers in eastern europe are to protect the USA against long range launches, not to protect eastern europe from ground troops.
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Sidenote to the downvoter(s): Please explain. Are marketing freelancers somehow against the rules here? FWIW, I have a background in development and have been part of this community for over two years.