skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many things is Google trying to do, and in how many fields? How is that effectively different?

Also, this comment supports my thesis that any comment using "Period." or "End of story." is overstated at best, and wrong at worst.
Carlsen was in no hurry to sign the contract for the match due to concerns over the unrest in Ukraine, which has been blamed by the West on Moscow.

Heavens. How could they possibly think that?
I can't upvote this story. What's up with that?
Just curious, where can I find stories about how the iPhone 1.0 was developed? I'm not sure what to search for.
I find this comment incredibly ironic considering "ninjaplease" is a reference to an incredibly racist stereotypical saying.
2015. 5 - (1 * 0) - 2 = 3. Confirmed.
We already started to talk how to sell the team, but it is a slow process we can't afford. It is however our best option at the moment.
Phones, laptops & ipads don't have microphones designed specifically to pick up conversations from the other side of the room...
Among the choices of:

a) minimize a current financial crisis
b) avoid future financial crises
c) penalize the law breakers responsible

The feds have done fairly well on a), avoiding a complete collapse
of depositor confidence, but the politicians and rabble-rousers seem
to be focused on c), arguing about exposure and punishment instead
of figuring out how to prevent another collapse.

Structuring a system that is more resistant to fraud and other behaviour
that puts the national economy at risk would help. Either effective
oversight or more exposure to market forces might help. Merely punishing
individual or corporate wrong-doers will not prevent another collapse.

A firm, banking, investment, or trading, that is considered "too big
to fail" is also not sufficiently exposed to market forces for the
market in its shares to reflect the actual risks to the firm.
In other words, the taxpayers are covering a TBTF bank's risks.

We would benefit far more from finding a way to move banking away
from consolidation than we would from jailing or fining the guilty.

The country should be able to suffer the complete failure of any
single bank or firm without much more than a small hiccup in our
economy. FDIC rates should reflect risk for depositors
per-institution, and be public, the way bond ratings are.
Stock-holders and bank creditors would be on their own.

A nation whose banking industry is dominated by 10 banks cannot be
secure, with around 100 banks of size is at risk, and with 1,000
banks may be able to cope with a few percent of them failing every year.

Finding a market solution to counterbalance the ongoing wave of
consolidation would help.
I can imagine a very easy parallel to the tech community: "I taught my daughters their nerd cred would protect them."

It's irritating how the author has to buttress his statements on privilege with "of course, the existence of white privilege doesn't mean all white people are violently racist." White people, and white men in particular, are so reactionary when confronted by the mere existence of their institutionalized privilege that they demand such things. I'm sure this post won't be popular for exactly that reason. It's a lot like this Onion article: http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-dont-support-feminism-if-...
I'm not black though I am a minority and I don't live in a particularly racist area but it was always my experience that education and especially wealth trump race any time, meaning that people discriminate first by wealth, then by education and only afterwards by race, if they do at all. Does it not work like that in other places?
Just because it's an online website hosted on Tor doesn't make it completely unique. We've had black markets before, and we have research on what black markets do.
I never said they were obligated to provide a comments section, but I would have strongly preferred if Reuters was more honest about the decision with a explanation of "we no longer have a comments section because we can't devote the manpower to supporting it."

> (Also I find it really odd that your claim to fame, as you say, is TechCrunch comments. Is that some kind of badge of honor for you?)

Yes.
It doesn't do #4; it just finds one input that makes the program exit with exit code zero (for success)

It is better to look at it as a maze solver that tries to generate instructions for a robot that will lead that robot through the maze, while that robot has its own weird way of interpreting the instructions.
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You are right and we didn't see it. We probably had wrong customers. Identifying the good ones is however a hard process, specially for the service we provide.
Aren't satellite communications a bit limited by the uplink connection? When are we going to have a small enough antenna that's able to communicate with a satellite while fitting inside a cell phone?
You hit the nail on the head. Once you've done it, there's nothing quite like it. It's like the volume knob on the rest of the world gets turned down.

I'm 3 months out of my last CEO role and depressed, despite being depressed in my CEO role. Now I'm depressed because I'm bored. I don't know what happiness is anymore. It turns out that happiness is chasing the dream, not the dream itself. I've lost sight of it. I don't remember what it is or if it even existed.

It's like what Alan Watts said: it's not the end of the journey, it is the journey. Remember that and try to enjoy it while it lasts.
I am not a cryptographer so maybe one of them can chime in and verify this:

If you use a strong crypto hashing algorithm that would be impossible given current computational resources and their growth for eons into the future. For example, there are no known collisions of SHA-2. No one has found 2 items that have the same SHA-2 hash.

Quantum computers / some break-through algorithm could change that. If that happens all encryption on the internet likely breaks then as well, except where quantum cryptography is being used.
1000 Testers for $89 is definitely a Bargain
Even Comcast wants you to run an open Wi-Fi.
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> An exit/entrance node is like an open wifi.

No, it isn't. An open WiFi will most likely not be used by someone trying to do something that might be either illegal or piss off some powerful entity whereas a Tor node will be just that.

So you need to weigh whether or not you want to do this a bit more carefully than you would if you left your WiFi open. On top of that an open WiFi will likely not get you blocked by default from a ton of other online services but running a Tor node will get you blocked from plenty of services in a hurry.

This because Tor for most regular website equates to 'people that we have already gotten rid of using other means' or 'people that are up to no good'.
Speaking of Occupy, this sentence in the article got me all excited

> President Obama, giving in to pressure from the Occupy movement and other reformers, had formed the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group.

I wonder if there is an ounce of truth to that.

Too bad Occupy never adopted a leader. If there is anything I learn from that experience, is that there can't be a leader less movement. Someone has to become the face of it.
Reading your comment I couldn't help but notice the juxtaposition of

>I don't think the problem is OS design.

>a few actions away is a Stargate to another world.

Maybe we should design the OS so that "the stargate" is a whole lot of actions away.
Regardless of the letter beside the person's name, money talks & shit walks. Either party (nationally, on the whole) could truthfully be described as "Centrist-Corporatist".
Yeah, I've never understood the logic that using Bitcoins insulates someone to the normal financial system. If you want a loan, put money in a bank account, or hedger risk, or do anything with your money that isn't just moving it from address to address, it is still needed to have banks.

Or have cryptocurrency fans figured out a solution that I can't think of now.
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I was worried when I saw "I decided to write a little Rust and, because everyone in my world is seems swoony over it, Go."

That's a pretty bad reason for using a language and usually leads to some pretty ridiculous criticism.

This post was not that, I think they nailed a lot of the good and bad things about Go, in fact, they could have been a lot more harsh. There is a depth lacking in just checking out a language in this way though as there's no evaluation of some of the larger reasons Go exists, like concurrency and and fast compile times. Then again, most people probably don't even need/care about these.
I don't think impersonation of a reporter would ever be considered illegal (as opposed to say impersonating a police officer). In the best/worst case, the evidence obtained would be deemed inadmissible. Once that happened, the FBI and other police would be less-inclined to employ the ruse. That would be the remedy that would help the press. Short of excluding the evidence, there is no other remedy I can think of that would help the AP in this instance.
Your instinct about using it in court as evidence is basically good - the 'hearsay rule' forbids testimony of the form 'so-and-so told me that the defendant was guilty,' with a few very narrow exceptions like the last words of a dying person that accuse someone of a crime. Because of teh 6th amendment, informants and undercover officers have to testify in court, where the defense can question them and challenge the veracity of their statements.

Of course this is not perfect. There have been cases where law enforcement or prosecutors told the informant what to say in an overzealous effort to gain a conviction, and sometimes innocent people have languished in jail for years on the basis of such false testimony. That shouldn't be allowed to happen, but when it does it doesn't necessarily mean the entire judicial process was corrupted. For example, a trial may have been properly conducted but if the defense lawyer was lazy or incompetent and failed to challenge the prosecution evidence the judge and jury may not have had any way of knowing about the flaws int he prosecution's case.

One important thing to bear in mind about American courts is that trial courts do not have an investigatory function to discover all the information about a case, but rather a decisive function to select between competing arguments from plaintiffs/prosecutors and civil/criminal defendants. So even if the defense lawyer is an obvious imcompetent the court inn't supposed to pre-emptively assist the defendant - the defendant has to ask for a new lawyer or bring up the issue at appeal.

In many other countries they use a different sort of system called civil law, where the judge is basically the lead investigator in the case. That can prevent some kinds of miscarriages of justice that occur in our system but as you might expect it opens to the door all sorts of other kinds.
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This is great -- I wholly support it. But we've also got a government that's increasingly run by willful know-nothings. So I'm skeptical about our ability as a country to make a much-needed change like this.

(And I wish to be proven wrong.)
Go and read anonymous message boards. Race dominates. At least in the US.

There's a good bit by Chris Rock where he talks about how no white guy would want to trade places with him, and he's rich.

The show Blackish had a counterpoint though, where the black dad is trying to get his black son to be friends with other black kids -- so they can share in the struggle together. Until he realizes that his son's struggle is more about being a nerd than being black.
you pretty much nailed all of my concerns about this (especially the pernicious concern about maintenance drugs), but if it works, hey, that's better than nothing.
Let's Build NSZombie
I confess tiling envy. I try them out every year or two, but I generally abandon them because I can't get comfort functions to work, especially managing power, sleeping, hibernation and the lid, and key management. These things generally/often come with the more mainstream window managers, so I've never had to figure them out (and don't seem to be able to with twms).

I remember looking for solutions to power for awesome (which is otherwise awesome) and finding chains of solutions depending on debian releases, including gaps.

I'll try again come spring, I'm sure.
Oh brother, don't even get me started on that shit. We told their asses not to move to LiveFyre, and we told them not to move to Facebook. I think LiveFyre was Erick's move (may have made sense at the time) and we switched to FB to try it out when it first went live (more happened later). We had outage problems with Disqus before that, which is why we never went back to them (I thought we should). Anyway believe me no one was happy with the comments situation for as long as I was there, and I don't mean that to reflect poorly in any way on anyone I worked with, it was just a weird setup.
The Attorney General of the U.S., Eric Holder, is now acting as an economic advisor by factoring economic consequences into the justice process [1].

This means that, if a crime is committed and evidence exists to prosecute, the Attorney General may stay proceedings to protect the economy.

This is an incredible and fascinating development in the American Capitalist Democracy. As far as I understand, there is no precedent for such logic in any democratic legal system. A corporation that is so vital to the nation that it is immune from legal consequence cannot exist in a capitalist democracy.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this new system is very reminiscent of the mean human society throughout history: oligarchy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3zwhp5-jXA
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Yep exactly. It's already happening. I have a few colleagues that are knee-deep in space law and it's interesting to see how rapidly the landscape is changing in response to the growing threat to essential space-based assets (weather satellites, GNSS (GPS, Galileo), disaster-monitoring satellites etc.).
I don't take money for promotion, as a matter of policy. Partly that is for aesthetic reasons and partly it is because a reputation as being honest and reliable regardless of short-term commercial incentives is very valuable for me.

Also, work the conversion math out if you'd like: 40k visits, 5% will open that link, 3% will purchase, ~8% affiliate fee on $15 book = $72. My weekly rate is $30,000. This post took, essentially, half a work-week to write. It's not worth bothering with.
I saw Joe's strange loop talk [1] a while ago and I get the same vibe reading his post as I did when watching the video. It sounds very cool, but I can't shake the feeling that it only works for 85% of the code. That is to say if you program in exactly the right way, you will be able to do everything you want and it will work with this system, but there are ways of programming that won't work with this system.

More specifically I feel like there are two problems. 1) It feels suspiciously like there's a combination of halting problem and diagonalisation that shows there are an uncountably infinite number of functions that we want to write that can't be named (although I would want to have a better idea of how this is supposed to work before I try to hammer out a proof). 2) I don't understand how it's possible for any hashing scheme to encode necessary properties of a function such that the function with necessary properties has a different hash than an otherwise identical function without these properties. For example can we hash these functions such that stable sort looks different than unstable sort? Wouldn't we need dependent typing to encode all required properties? And if that's the case couldn't I pull a Gödel and show that there's always one more property not encodable in your system?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4 [2]

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8572920 (thanks for the link)
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Python port of Google's Phone number handling library
This is one of the more pleasant unsolicited redesigns of HN, because it keeps a lot of the subtlety that makes HN an easy site to return to constantly: a prioritization of the headlines and a deemphasis on username and points (the position of a story is more than enough of an indicator of the story's current popularity). The bigger upvote arrows are nice, though I guess one could argue that ease-of-upvoting is not a priority.

My biggest complaint is the relatively massive header. I disagree that Search needs to be prioritized...in a news site, even the New York Times, I am hardly ever using the site search...if a news site is doing its primary job well (providing fresh links), then I almost never have the time or desire to search the archives. I'd say 50 to 80 percent of my search bar usage is mainly to complain about how many times a currently-trending story has been posted in the past. The search bar should stay at the bottom of the site, allowing the header to be a little more compact than it is in the OP's proposal.
Instagram for audio is a good description
I really wouldn't want to be in Holder's shoes. I really wonder how he managed to get to this. I don't understand what kind of discussions holder and dimon had, but all I can really understand is that they're only human.

After all, all of this boiled to 2 sides negotiating like in a classic political game, and one side won, and I don't know if the good side really won...

I just pity Holder for mismanaging this. Or maybe there are more horrific details we haven't heard of yet. I don't know which one is the more frightening. One only thing, it's now more than 6 years that all of this happened, and it doesn't seem really over.
Thank you! I had searched but hadn't been able to find this idea this sounds exactly like what I have had bouncing around in my head for a while now!

I just read the w3c spec it seems more like an integrity check, but it so trivial to just use the integrity hash to download the data that the next step is removing the src tags all-together / using them as a fallback.
It seems we here on a HN are a bit more enlightened. The article is at four now (for me).
This is absolutely right. Considering that this is an OpenSource project, I think it would be great idea to send a Pull Request for fixing this: https://github.com/indutny/self-signed ?

If you feel uncomfortable with this, though, please let me know and I'll work on it myself asap.
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I just checked with the Hidden Masters. Year of the Linux Desktop has been bumped to 2016 to make room for Perl in 2015.
Heuristics basically means “best practices,”

heuristic: (adjective) using experience to learn and improve
I agree that it's a bit upsetting that he has to put out that fires, but I understand why he does it. He's speaking to a broad audience, and in order to not get his message muddied by a sea of "but most white people dont do that!" he takes a proactive measure.

Hopefully we'll eventually reach a point that this isn't necessary, but for now I think it's probably a net positive. By including that disclaimer of sorts the author might just manage to reach some people that would have otherwise dismissed him
Having such a huge attack surface is the problem. If there is a word that can freeze you and ruin your day, someone is going to jump over that eventually.

Words should make you laugh, especially when uttered by someone clearly inferior.
this talk about modules as a way to organize similar code makes me wonder- if you had all the functions in a global namespace, you could probably automatically generate some kind of organization by extracting relevant features from each function and doing some kind of clustering. maybe some features could be the function's dependencies, who depends on it, what it returns, its signature, and maybe even nlp in the hope that people are actually using descriptive variable names.
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I haven't touched Perl in quite a long time. For the type of automation stuff you are doing, i'd likely use python or ruby, depending on the nature of the problem.

Would you say people like me should be looking hard at Perl 6? I'm curious what the benefits would be.
I really like Grand Central Dispatch on iOS and OS X. You specify a task to run on a background queue or a main queue by passing a block of code. This block of code gets executed while the rest of the program continues. You can have completion blocks so you can respond to the completed task. The syntax is a little weird at first, but it's pretty powerful and I find it to be very explicit. Async/Await always confused me a bit.
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You have a great thesis. Period.
The problem is, I often need to access that "stargate" in the course of doing actual work (looking up documentation, Googling error messages, etc.).
A definitely-flawed sorta-concatenation of all `if(detect.js){polyfill.js}` files, plus some cleanup, plus syntax fixes, run through http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home gives me just under 10kb gzipped, just over 31kb raw.

Nice guess :) that seems not too bad, tbh.
If any single feature would convince you to use it, then Perl 6 has them all. (Seriously...pretty much every thing and the kitchen sink is in Perl 6.)

I'm not convinced having all the features will do it, but there are certainly a lot of things to like about Perl 6. It is among the most powerful languages on nearly every axis I can think of.
The hard part of redesigning HN is that we're all so used to the current HN. Changing anything major becomes confusing, defeating the purpose of the redesign.

The reason I like this one is because it doesn't break the structure or functionality, but by adjusting the size/prominence of elements it becomes slightly easier to use. I'm not in love with all of it, but it holds true to the core of HN, which is disregarded by most redesigns.

That being said, using HN as it is feels like I'm in a terminal window. Designers would be reluctant to admit this, but the very functional text-heavy interface is very "hacker-like," and I adore the lack of design.
Supposedly, you'd fire another ad tag or be integrated in some other way.