skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Islamic extremism is a relatively new phenomenon, early 20th century. And it has pretty little to do with religion, it's more some kind of revenge for what we, the western world, did to them. Indonesia is the country with the largest Islamic population in the world yet there is little extremism and - it may of course be coincidence - the western world did never much care about them although they have a lot of oil, too. Religion is just the means to an end. All my personal opinion of course, I am by no means an expert on history or religion.
I'll play 'devil's advocate' here for a moment. I'll be sacrificing a lot of internet points, but I'm not in a great position to begin with. :)

Do let me pre-emptively say: I unequivocally condemn the recent killings of the cartoonists. I unequivocally support the right of anyone to say anything.

Okay, so there is something to consider here: indeed there are now more than a billion Muslims in the world who would not have killed these cartoonists, or even approve of the act of killing these cartoonists (I understand some will take issue with the latter part of my statement, this is just my current reading). Insofar as the 'I am Charlie' statement can be interpreted as approval of the supposedly offending cartoons, the statement could be said to be needlessly confrontational. It's turning things into a combative us (non-Muslims) vs them (Muslims) orientation. Look no further than this very cartoon for proof of this -- this is how these Muslim hacktivists interpreted Notepad++'s 'I am Charlie' stance.

I don't think this is strictly a freedom of speech issue. I saw a good example of this in a Reddit comment: when you enrage someone by calling them racist epithets, and they strike you back ... are the rest of you going to take the racist's side by repeating the racist epithet that invoked the retaliation? Mohammad is a very sacred symbol to Muslims, re-publishing offending material (and similarly approving of the cartoons by saying "I am Charlie") is just needlessly insulting and distressing the plenty of other moderate Muslims. The more this is done, the more those moderate Muslims will feel pressured and start to feel the need to also take a position... and guess whose side they will incline towards? They're surely not going to just throw away their religion, they'll probably verge toward an extremist position.

I'm only suggesting that the 'I am Charlie' sloganeering is a little too hastily thunk, a little too unthought. Of course absolutely everyone should have the right to say such a thing, but a mature and reasonable person would practice caution before saying it. I do admit though, that it's a bit of a challenge packing a sentiment like "I don't think Charlie cartoonists should have been killed, they should have the right to say or mock anyone, but I do generally disapprove of content that's racist, antisemitic, holocaust-denying, sexist, etc." into a nice 3-5 word long slogan.
HFS+ is an oddball filesystem among FSes that anyone actually uses. Since the earliest days of the Mac, it's been able to e.g. track file identity even as a file is moved around, and the metadata to support this lives in a volume-wide tree called the Catalog File. So, there's your global lock. (Add an SSD as necessary for better performance.)

OS X already has some pretty high-level file and metadata APIs not found on other systems, so maybe Apple's future plans don't look like a traditional Unix file system at all. They've already demonstrated they know how to make a very weird, non-Unix filesystem look like one. ;)
> "I'm not particularly interested in this civil liberties stuff when it comes to these people's emails and mobile phone conversations. If they are a threat to our society then I want them properly listened to."

Yeah, because that worked so well with perpetrators of the attacks in Paris. These people were actually well-known to authorities as were some of the people who committed the 9/11 attacks. If anything we need to make government and administrative processes both much more transparent and efficient.

I don't think inundating authorities with yet another stream of data they can't possibly make sense of particularly helps the cause.
Careful. These "Little Children" are showing us more and more how violent and ruthless they can be. And the arrogance of your end statement reinforces their point. Clearly English isn't their first language yet you belittle them and call them children. You said it best, big man, writing on the internet.
> I can see this kind of legislation turning any online presence into a horribly expensive bureaucratic nightmare while accomplishing fuck-all security-wise.

One of the sources of a push for federal standards is frustration with multiple conflicting state standards doing the same thing.
Perhaps capitalism, being close to "the survival of the fittest", is actually the most "natural" mode for an economy.
I've used SuperSelector http://caplin.github.io/SuperSelector/superselector/ to find css classes for automated testing before, looks like this could do the same job.
Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXzFCS72QIA intro piano glitch. 4 guys in a small room, 4 track recorder, no edit.
Is this a part of growing up?

A bit off topic: Ive asked myself this question in general for the past couple of months. People dying from wars and incidents that happened a couple of days ago makes me anxious, miserable, lost and helpless.Maybe its media amplifying everything, I don't know but its truly unpleasant.
To be very clear I'm am not defending the attack on Notepad ++!

> Defending yourself doesn't mean attacking ...

Here in the U.S. there's a common sports phrase, "The best defense is a good offense." This carries over into our military policies. For example, while other countries may benefit from our military presence, the reason we send our military into a situation is to protect the U.S.. There may be an immediate benefit of protection or it may be a long-play protection (e.g. "placate the nationals so we aren't contributing to the future pool of terrorists"), but ultimately we send our military in to protect ourselves and this is frequently a preemptive defense that can be seen as offensively attacking.

Again, I'm not condoning any terrorist attack, I'm just not buying your statement that "Defending yourself doesn't mean attacking..." I'm also not saying that preemptive offense is a moral correct policy; just that it is a common policy.
Very cool. The next step would be a vacuum that empties itself. I'd opt for incorporating a docking/charging station into a trash can, so it empties every time it goes back to charge, and vice versa. Though since it's Dyson, it'd probably be a sleek auto-open, compacting trashcan.
Why is it so many bleeding heart liberals (coming from a fairly liberal person) defend a religion that treats women as second-class citizens so much? What's in it for them besides the right to be preachy?
Of course it's a stunt. Google gets some good publicity and if people make use of it it will be harder to bash them. It's good for the people but it's still a stunt - Google doesn't just give out buses for no reason :) Nobody does.
Yes, I think the adjective in it's more modern form usually occurs as 'phosphorescent'.
From the archive of the hacked site: "So you think that Islam is terrorist !"

From the explanation of the "Je suis Charlie" release note: "For this reason, Je suis Charlie, not because I endorse everything they published, but because I cherish the right to speak out freely without risk even when it offends others."

Clearly the Notepad++ team is blanket targeting Islam. /sarcasm
F.B.I. Is Broadening Surveillance Role, Report Shows
Biz Dev positions tend to focus on relationship management and strategic planning across multiple companies. They close deals for cross-promotion, partnership, and endorsement. What pg is talking about ("Corp Dev") is different; at any large corporation that does acquisitions, there's going to be person or department strictly focused on due diligence.
I've pinged the author.
'Silk Road Reloaded' Launched on I2P Protocol More Secret Than Tor
The pitch and tempos are shifted, but more nefariously, the pieces of the songs which don't fit the VI-I-V progression are removed and replaced by pieces of other songs which do fit. It's deliberate and meticulous cherry-picking. The only thing all the songs have in common is that they're in 4/4 and the verses and choruses all start on the VI chord. I should make a table showing the actual chord progressions from each song and how the creator deliberately masked out the parts of each song which are different from the baseline the creator chose.
For background, here's some info on Walt Disney World's Contemporary Resort (1971) that was built with a similar technique:

http://www.yesterland.com/contemporary.html
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Andrew Marshall (“Yoda”) and the End of the World
I know right, we have bootstrap for a reason!
In my experience with cursor:url(); in Chrome at least, fairly large image sizes are allowed, and work fine. I haven't tried on other browsers.

I don't understand why one would want the image to rotate?

Maybe I don't understand what you mean by rotation.
BTW, one other stupidity is that Linux's HFS+ implementation refuses to mount journaled volumes when Apple designed it to be backward compatible.
I see the future. There will be a bunch of dummies that think the word will end when the clocks time is up.
I've been a DD-WRT user for many years now. I have considered the other options before installing DD-WRT on the N66U (which I received just after Christmas), but none of them were offering significantly better functionalities over DD-WRT for what I needed, so I just went with what I knew worked well.

I have 2 routers running DD-WRT (RT-N66U as my main router and TP-WR1043ND as a wireless bridge) and it works like a charm.
You weren't downvoted because you're downplaying a commercial; you were downvoted because you forgot the ponies.
$500 billion is roughly 25% of the entire GDP of all of sub-saharan Africa. It is more than the entire GDP of the countries mentioned here.

Of course it is bogus. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence...

I must say I am quite surprised to see a poorly written propaganda hoax article make the frontpage of HN. It is linked to the general decline in quality of HN? Is it a voting ring? Or is it because the headline pulls all the right triggers in the minds of bay area tech people?

I see a lot of accounts created in the last couple hours posting in this thread, so it might well be a voting ring situation.
The reason I'm personally excited by this is because SV corporations often seem to wash their hands about any significant civic output (other than occasional donations to non-profits) because it should be the responsibility of the government. In the world we inhabit, where companies in some ways can exert much greater power locally (in some specific ways) than a local government can, they should step up and use some of that power to help the general good.

Companies like Google can at the drop of hat move tens of thousands of works into a municipality; if they're choosing to exercise that right they should think about other ways they can make that change responsibly.
You mean "jails should be filled" :) Hey two can play this game.
It looks like voxel cone tracing is becoming popular at the moment. Both approaches have the disadvantage that you need to keep the entire scene in video memory, however with VCT that memory usage is bounded by the voxel resolution and integration over large solid angles is very cheap and has no aliasing. It's probably also a disadvantage of GPU path tracing that it makes little use of the features that graphics cards provide.
I don't understand why the indexes aren't just as fast. Is it basically because smaller indexes are loaded into memory and the loader can reason about what it needs better? Because obviously the prefix used to load the indez can also be IN the actual searching of the index.

I think sharding at the app level is more efficient. I has helped facebook grow to where it is without worrying about whether MySQL can handle trillions and quadrillions of rows. The main constraint there is in the network topology in holdng MxN connections between M webservers and N database servers.
So idiotic. Why do you need to go about defacing the site of a random text editor. I'd be pissed, but not as pissed if it were vim.org ;0
I'm all for the decentralization things like Bitcoin can bring, but Ethereum is a scam (like so many others that are using the word "blockchain" to attract fools' money). That might be one of the reasons you are being downvoted.
Half a trillion is not unrealistic. Take one of the numbers we know with a bit more certainty, Nguesso in the Republic of Congo (not the DRC!) takes only a little over 17% of the oil revenue locally - the rest is "exported" (this low price incidentally is how he has managed to remain in power for so long despite some pretty drastic attempts at changing that).

Africa's GDP is around USD 2.4 trillion so seeing a fifth of that "disappear" seems like a conservative lower bound, actually (admittedly countries like South Africa skew the measure).
> Do you honestly think patient information would be safer without HIPAA?

Quite possibly; the privacy and security portions of HIPAA were included to mitigate the risks associated with the push for electronic systems and standardized data that were more central to HIPAA -- and the enhanced privacy and security features added later in amendments to HIPAA were furthering that in the context of increased standardization and automation that was being promoted in the same legislation; without HIPAA, you might not have as much formal protection of patient data, but you also might have a lot less data in forms that were easy to compromise en masse in the first place.

(Of course, that would also have consequences for administrative efficiency and quality of care, and without HIPAA and the related subsequent acts that included those patient protections as mitigations to potential negative effects of their primary functions, the US might have the least efficient health care system in the developed world by an even larger margin than it currently does, which, even if HIPAA does net some increased risk to patient information, might not be worth the cost.)
Isn't this the city's job? I actually think it's kind of creepy that Corporations are taking the role of the City. The general idea is the City collects taxes and uses those to provide services like buses.
And even if you do things The Unicode Way, you'll get a constant stream of bug reports from people who don't like The Unicode Way, and want things done Their Way, which is, of course, The Right Way.

There are as many Right Ways as there are people, of course, and no two are completely compatible, so if you want to Do The Right Thing, either go see a movie or write your application software to do it like that, because the OS kernel can only do it one way. And, of course, if you want applications to be able to do case folding, the filesystem needs to be case-sensitive so all the relevant information is preserved.
Firstly the model you claim isn't taught as an actual model of the world is - for some reason - exactly the model used to shape national and international economic policy.

The European economy has been crippled over the last few years by bankers and ideologues who plainly believe that this model is the only possible way to describe economic activity.

You also ignore the fact that the few heterodox economists that exist are utterly ignored by policy makers - even when they continue to make correct predictions about future economic outcomes.

>a rigorous intellectual deconstruction

Rigorous intellectual deconstructions have existed for decades. They have a much better predictive record than mainstream 'wisdom', but they continue to be ignored by the profession.

How do you explain this?

I'll explain it by pointing out that mainstream economics has always been a purely political exercise, funded by those who would benefit from it, and created as a deliberate attempt to eliminate the political leverage of those they considered their social and economic inferiors.

I wonder how many fans of mainstream economics know anything about the real history of Hayek, or of the Mont Pelerin Society, or the influence of Harold Luhnow and his administration of the Volker Fund, or how the so-called political consensus around free-market liberalism is a wholly manufactured PR exercise and has absolutely no relationship with honest, objective, evidence-based economic science?
It was criticized on academic and theoretical grounds. In his field (International Relations) there are hundreds if not thousands of people all producing a lot of dialogue and research relating to overarching models for how states interact. They've been at this for a very long time.

If you want a book deal, though, you ditch all of this work and just paint broad, easily-digestible strokes over everything. In this case, he's throwing social constructivist research into norms and sub/super-state influencers out the window and claiming the world runs on civilizations. You can probably think through how this might not be the case by considering the role of economics, individuals, and strategic alliances in international politics.
This doesn't deserve a downvote. While rationality is generally assumed, that's not universal. For example, Mises, in Human Action, explicitly discusses the problem, structuring his argument such that people must be considered black boxes that do what they do. Even any given person himself may not actually understand why he's doing something, or even what his actual preferences are.
I belive this as well.
Darwin wanted this phrase to describe "the fittest" group. This allows individual specialisation, partial/useful weakness etc. and can fit for groups as volatile and work-sharing as human modern-day societies.
UK prime minister wants backdoors into messaging apps or he'll ban them
One night, nine months, and a potentially fatal medical condition.
Very true. I think this can be generalized to a scenario when an investor reaches out to you and you tell them to circle back in a few months as the company is busy in building out the product.

The same happened in Google's case when they asked Ron Conway to come a few months later to invest. And so he did. For sure Google had a good team, product, etc., but this sure enticed Ron to invest in one way or another.
Scientists grow teeth from urine
Point taken, that was very poor phrasing on my part. I meant that Belgium doesn't engage in France-style interventions in Africa anymore.
Well yes, but Mountain View isn't exactly good at anything like that.
Only a bit. When push came to shove, he chose his career over stopping the fraud being used to (mis-)treat patients, who suffered for another couple of years, becuase he manifestly did not blow the whistle when Duke went into cover-up mode.

His 3rd year was already blown (and that sort of thing happens when you get in the lab of an incompetent†); instead of putting the interests of the patients first, he submitted a false affidavit to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in a go along, get along attempt to get funding to redo his 3rd year (I surmise from the article that he was unsuccessful).

I'd be a lot easier on him if this wasn't feeding into patient care at the same exact time he was reporting this. I don't insist every scientist who discovers "misconduct" do a Margaret O'Toole† and move from the lab to answering phones for her brother's moving company (Gentle Giant, they were great in the early '90s), but there was a lot more at stake than research that would get invalidated in due course as people tried to build upon it.

I suppose it's only fitting that currently his life is being turned upside down as a star witness for the inevitable lawsuits.

† I had a girlfriend who found it impossible to do undergraduate research (UROP) in Imanishi-Kari's lab, it was very poorly run. I doubt Imanishi-Kari committed fraud then, just shoddy, incorrect research, but per the Secret Service, the government's experts on paper and inks, she certainly did when the investigation got serious.
Article translated to English : https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev...
Your friend may have had Find my Mac turned on. At that point the only way to get an OS installed on it is to have the original apple ID it was turned on under.
No it doesn't, it devalues effectiveness. You can argue that all of those things make you effective, and while that's true, lets make sure we're on point here.

It devalues effectiveness, not education.
Are you sure about the punctuation argument ?
I'm very interested in how precisely these two speeches ought to differ, in your opinion. If you are running a company in an internally transparent way, what specific differences do you suggest are appropriate?
>Classes adds complexity and reduces composability.

I could easily argue the opposite. Classes reduce complexity, and increase composability. Classes allow you to group methods in a cohesive manner into a single entity. For example, a class named Queue, List, or Vector would imply to the programmer what it does without them reading any code at all.

>With OO you end up with a soup of inheritence and patterns.

Just because programmers don't make clean code, doesn't mean the whole idea is somehow lesser then just using functions. Having a hodge-podge of 2000 line functions in one massive file is just as evil as "dirty" OOP code. At least classes encourage you to group your functions in some hopefully sane manner.

>Functions are way easier to compose and reason about.

Functions are easy to compose and reason about, however, that does not mean that classes and OOP are not as easy. Each have their own clear costs/benefits. OOP, and procedural programming, should both be in a programmers toolbox.f
Can you qualify in what ways they're better? A brief look at them showed they have a nice rain animation but little indication of snow-line; multiple forecast graphs, which strikes me as unhelpful; and somewhat friendly phrasing of written forecast information, but nothing radically better than I've seen on, say, wunderground. They don't seem to particularly care about temperature - in particular they draw no particular attention to freezing temperatures. In terms of data presentation, there's nothing as original here as the 'storm distance' timelines on weatherspark, or the snow depth and wind speed probability density graphs you get from weather.gov.
Or more simply, it ignores that the sum of an hour of labor does not exist in a vacuum, but is instead a product of the time and effort the laborer had previously invested in their craft.

There's the old joke about the repairman who charges $200 to replace a bolt. Outraged, the customer says "that's it?! how can you charge $200 for that?!", and the repairman answers "Well, that's $0.15 for the bolt, and $199.85 for knowing where to put it."
By your analysis, it seems like the value of a tool like Google web search would be the time it saves every one of its users, in total (a huge number). (I.e. take away Google web search and see how long things take)

Since Google was created by a relatively small group of people during a relatively small period of time, wouldn't this imply that one of those hours spent creating Google web search was far more valuable than, say, an hour mopping a floor?

While true that everyone's hours take the same amount of time, don't the results of some people's hours of work save far more hours for everyone else?
Starting the company in the US is actually the easy part; getting a bank account and/or merchant account can add complications. We've created a checklist here: http://www.mynewcompany.com/international.htm
Sent a mail 2 weeks ago (looking for an ML internship), didn't receive an answer.
I've never seen that, and I have a bunch of French friends I communicate with in writing in a regular basis.