skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got 2 problems with DDG:

1) The results I get in DDG are the same results I get in Bing - which means that DDG is for me just a shell around Bing. And even though DDG is not sending to Bing any cookies with my ID, well, being a power user I can and do use the Incognito/Private mode of my browser. Furthermore, your interests can function like a digital fingerprint, so if Google or Microsoft want to identify you without any cookie whatsoever, they can and DDG does not help.

And the bang shortcuts of DDG are also provided by my browser. I mean, if I'm concerned with privacy, why in the world would I want to send my Google searches to DDG's servers?

2) People saying that DDG's search results are just as good are probably living in the US. Outside of the US, like in Europe, non-Google search results get to be like really, really bad ;-)
Yes, with regard to the agenda setting news corporations it's true.
Remember: if you're reading this, this is your world of greed, the world you choose to live in by working in SV technology.

Criticism is marginalized unless it's deemed socially appropriate. Reputation is the means by which money is protected from its own idiocy.

Don't mind me, I'm just on my street corner, invisible by virtue of my assigned station.
The automation needs to be programmed and constantly adjusted for even newer technology. Software development will be a huge sector.
It's hard to point to a particular "language feature" because all the differences stem from the differing evaluation strategy. Any given feature on its own may be interesting, but you can always come up with some alternative approach/representation/encoding/whatever in $YOUR_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE to diminish the feature's value. You really do need to understand term rewriting to understand the language.

There are, however, lots of interesting things that most other languages don't have. For example, extremely powerful pattern matching: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/Patterns.html

And a form of predicate dispatch: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/TheOrderingO...

Or a universal data representation: http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/FullForm.html

Or the ability to extend the syntax by adding to a 2D operator precedence parser's dispatch tables: http://reference.wolfram.com/language/Notation/tutorial/Nota...

This is all to say nothing of the standard library, but beyond evaluation strategy, what parts are "library" and what parts are "language" is so blurry as to be practically meaningless.
I think there's something here. I run a VC-backed company, and though we did that for a specific reason and have no regrets, I still feel like the world hasn't truly seen companies like Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor, GitHub, etc. (before those that raised, raised).

The VC world does tend to dismiss these types of companies, which I now realize is simply out of frustration at the lack of investable opportunity in these high-margin, growing, and sustainable companies.

I think we haven't given enough weight to the idea that what those companies have done is revolutionary, and is actually a lot more contrarian than the existing startup model.
Thanks for the perspective. I read Addiction by Design a year ago or so and had formed quite a negative opinion of all slot machines. You make some good points though, and caused me to lean back towards neutral on the question of whether the world would be better off with or without slots. If I ever visit Vegas some time I'll have the opportunity to form a stronger judgement I think, but I'll hold off until then.
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If they were being honest, the actual reason is that circular avatars have been trendy and the norm for new designs on the web, iOS, and Android for the past 3 to 4 years, and the two primary reasons they became popular were because border-radius became supported widely enough around that time, and because photographs of faces arguably look better in a circular frame, at least according to current tastes.

Here's a quora thread from back in 2013 discussing it:

http://www.quora.com/Why-are-many-UI-designers-using-round-p...
Who makes those arguments? Or rather, who makes them with such little sophistication?

What's being described here is well-known and easily available in typed FP languages. It's a tiny application of the general properties of monads, dressed up to not have to say the word "monad". The novel bit is to give it a link-bait title.
I'm struggling to find a privacy policy, is there one? This could be the cynic in me, but I feel there is more to learn from my unwanted items than almost any other data source (aside from my email?). Gaining information about people from what they discard is possibly a great business model, but I think the situation should be made clear in a privacy policy.

Edit: Changed trash to "unwanted items"
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Interesting. I have it setup on one of my machines as the default and catch myself typing "!g query" by instinct because that's what I need to type most of the time.

Maybe Google has adapted to what I look at, but to me it seems Google is way better as soon as a term has multiple uses (like something is a. a normal household word and b. a library/programming language/...), presenting answers for both, vs. DDG which seems to latch only on the most common meaning.
That's only if the support rep has any way of passing the information that the client was displeased up the chain. I find that unlikely.
>Most journalists would never dream of confronting CIA officials with the same aggressiveness they now direct at Hersh—even though, less than six months ago, the Senate released a 500-page report documenting in meticulous detail the dozens of times the CIA blatantly lied to the public, the press, and Congress about torture over the past decade.

>Hersh’s assertion, which has by now been at least partially confirmed by multiple news organizations, that bin Laden was found thanks to a “walk-in” tip—rather than by tracking his courier as the government has claimed—should be a major scandal. For years, the CIA has said it found bin Laden thanks to information about his personal courier—information that was obtained by means of torture.

An agenda to promote the ethical validity of torture.
few years ago I had exactly the same idea. It's really great to see someone realized this.

I could imagine that this would be a great kick starter project. If there is a kit for me to do this, I will buy!
There is absolutely zero evidence that those first blocks were mined by the author of the software.

Certainly, it's a safe assumption. But we don't know that Satoshi ever mined a single main chain bitcoin.
English is descriptive, not prescriptive. Conspiracy theory no longer means what it says on the tin.
It'd be great if there was an interface that could be used to abstractly express the idea of computations that could possibly dependent on "previous" computations, thereby enabling you to write sequential instructions.

(>>=) :: Monad m => forall a b. m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b

Prelude> getLine >>= putStrLn
blah
blah

Prelude> do a <- [1, 2]; b <- [4, 5]; if (even a) then (return b) else (return a)
[1,1,4,5]

Prelude> do a <- Just 1; b <- Just 1; if (even a) then (return b) else (return a)
Just 1

Prelude> do a <- Just 4; b <- Just 2; if (even a) then (return b) else (return a)
Just 2

Prelude> do a <- Nothing; b <- Just 2; if (even a) then (return b) else (return a)
Nothing
-- depending on a computation that may not have succeeded

Then you could distinguish pure and impure code just from the types by assigning a type wherever effects need to be performed to get our effecty value.

Prelude> :t getLine
getLine :: IO String

Prelude> :t putStrLn
putStrLn :: String -> IO ()

Prelude> :t (>>=)
(>>=) :: Monad m => m a -> (a -> m b) -> m b

Prelude> :t (>>=) getLine
(>>=) getLine :: (String -> IO b) -> IO b

Prelude> :t (>>=) getLine putStrLn
(>>=) getLine putStrLn :: IO ()

Then we could make a syntax to wrap it all up and let you write code as if it was actually sequential, imperative instructions.

main = do
putStrLn "Enter your name please: "
name <- getLine
putStrLn ("Hello, " ++ name)

Maybe we could make a programming language around this, maybe name it after a mathematician that contributed to the development of lambda calculus.
Can this be called RPC? If not, what is the difference? Amaz(on)ing service anyway!
I believe CRTs are normally ~$20 each to dispose. I wonder how many I can fit in a bag.
> Is this still true, with the explosion of Internet-based news publications?

How many internet-based news sites are actually doing reporting, investigation, sourcing, etc.? Versus merely repeating stories from upstream new sites with or without additional opinion and/or analysis added on?
> The US govt. would have us believe that Osama was living the backyard of a Pakistani Military academy unnoticed & unknown to the ISI? This is an inconceivable lie.

Over half a mile away is not living in "the backyard" of the academy. There are hundreds of buildings within a half mile of the academy. They aren't even connected directly by major streets. The bin Laden compound was a couple of side streets off the main road in that part of the city.

Unless Pakistan keeps track of who is living in private residences to a much greater extent than we do in the US, there is no reason to expect that they knew he was there solely based on the location.
Why shouldn't the spam filter look at the IP if that is a good indicator for spam?

(you obviously have to decide if the benefits of blocking outweigh the downsides, but I guess HN did that)
> Other legal measures might include creating a sovereign patent pool and a prior art library to help Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises when they encounter litigation threats.

Can anyone describe how this is different from the Canadian Patents Database [1]?

[1] http://www.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/introduction.html
I remember the response here on HN was generally similar to that of the mainstream media.
BTW, here is a Democracy Now! Interview with Hersh: http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/12/seymour_hersh_details_...

Worth listening to if you care much about this story.
It differs in that you don't have to worry about scaling up that HTTP server, or pay for the machine hosting that HTTP server. With Lambda, you only pay per requests, current rate is $0.20 per 1 million requests.
What is this clickbait bullshit? Scam account: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=letsgetyoufree

Also, GTFO for exploitative nonsense.
That's what I was thinking of.
What are you trying to argue? Using the phrase "conspiracy theorist" literally is not super helpful - it has a specific meaning in the popular lexicon and media. Just because it's pedantically correct doesn't mean it wasn't used as a personal attack to imply that Mr. Hersh is insane.

If we're going to criticize his theory(and I don't believe it at all), the media should avoid personally attacking him. He's earned some respect as a journalist, it's not like he's on the level of Alex Jones, to be dismissed automatically.
That's not a weird quirk. "append" returns a value. One should expect that they shouldn't use the old one.
There is a difference between philosophy in general and thinking and pondering over nihilistic thoughts about existence itself that make you depressed. "There is no point to life, and that makes me deeply sad. I can't do anything about it since I am just an infinitesimal speck of dust in a vast universe, but I intend to take this train of thought to the point of alcoholism and despair nonetheless". That kind of thing.

The guy from True Detective comes to mind.
He didn't sound like a "nut", just ornery. I would be too.
Maybe the SEALs wouldn't have been able to restrain themselves, but in my experience, when people know that very high-up people in their chain of command are watching their actions carefully, they generally make sure that it looks like everything they're doing is by the book. These guys knew that everyone up to the President was watching, and that what they did would be not just reported, but studied.

I don't really buy the idea that they would have used a drone strike as a cover story. Surely they would have realized that sending helicopters into a populated town would attract local attention - and that's exactly what happened - a guy saw the helicopters and reported it on Twitter. Even if they wanted the Americans to kill him in Pakistan, if they had Bin Laden under guard and were cooperating with the Americans they could have just driven the SEALs to the house, had them kill bin Laden quietly, and then driven away without attracting attention. Or they could have moved Bin Laden to someplace remote and had the Americans do it there.

And the business with the Saudis knowing about Bin Laden also seems strange. Essentially what Hersh is saying is that two American allies would have had to have known Bin Laden's location for years without the US discovering it. I can imagine the Pakistanis keeping it a secret (at least for as long as they did) but the Pakistanis coordinating with another government and receiving payments from that government without the US finding out? Not to mention the fact that there wasn't a disruption in the relationship with Saudi Arabia comparable to the disruption in the relationship with Pakistan.

The official story (at least with the modifications I described above) just seems a lot simpler and more plausible.
it would be cool to see this window effect when using splits on vim. Anyone knows if there is a terminal plugin for that ?
I'm not sure that this is as safe as you may think.

EDIT More info. Yes this is better than curl ... | sh. But less has a lot of functionality (more than you'd expect) and a carefully written script could exploit some of this.
"the future is now, and it's down because somebody used the secret key to drain the poster's bank account"

To be sure, the author specifies that the IAM role being exposed here is only allowed to invoke the function. That's great for the security of the other resources on the account, but still allows a reasonably determined attacker to run up a Bill of Unusual Size quite rapidly.

For instance, the rate limiter currently kicks in at 1000TPS. Assuming the smallest memory size (128MB) and requests <100ms, that's a worst-case spend of roughly $18/day per Lambda function. Not the wallet-melting consequences of, say, accidentally posting AWS root credentials but not great either. Multiply that by the number of endpoints you'd likely want in a single-page app, and it gets expensive.
> what I'd like to see is a strong push for North Korea to open it's borders in exchange for a lightening of sanctions.

What would the value be to the NK leadership to do that? Worrying about the well being of the population? I think they've made it pretty clear that's not really high on the list of priorities.

As you said, they stay in power by keeping people in the dark. No one voluntarily gives up power.

Also, you might find the Frontline story on North Korea interesting.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secret-state-of-nort...
This is the takeaway from all of this.

People who are trying to sort out which details are accurate and which are not are missing the point entirely.

The government lied about the way Bin Laden was killed, plain and simple. And they did it to justify torture.

None of us are any safer because of this.
Octane-mandreel-latency inappropriately penalizes lazy parsing
Looking at Rust, Swift, Scala, even JavaScript ES6, I think that Imperative and Functional styles are doing pretty well together.
Eric, Prince of Blackwater? Sounds at least a little bit Crusade-ish.
Every field is safe from automation until it isn't. I agree that software development will be safe from automation for a long time.

But eventually software will be able to reason better than humans; eventually software will be able to communicate better than humans; and eventually software will be able to build and maintain software better than a human can.
Investigative Journalism is Conspiracy Theory.

Period. End of story.

If people didn't conspire to do things there would be no investigative journalism.

So quit bandying about terms that are used to discredit important journalists.
It's sad that in all those conspiracy nuts, there might be some legitimate info that will never be heard. Sometimes I even wonder if conspiracy theorists are not just there to drown investigators in nonsensical noise.

Anyway, what would the conspiracy be about ? Getting Obama elected for a second term ? Or if OBL is not dead, announce him dead to make him get out of his hideout ?

One thing is true, being a conspiracy theorist today is not easy. /r/conspiratard seems to be a stranger place that /r/conspiracy although maybe it aims at keeping the mentally weak away from this stuff. I hate getting involved in things.
Hi Peter, I hope you can see (or will soon see) that a specified polyglot VM for the Web is what I've been working on all along.
It would be great if this hypothetical mechanism didn't have any interpretive overhead too, for the cases when we need to use it for imperative code for efficiency reasons.
I live in Boston and literally just spend the better part of my day trying to make a donation. I packed everything up and dragged my stuff downstairs to the concierge desk in my building, walked 15 minutes to my parking garage to get my car, drove back to my building on a busy street and double parked to quickly load up the trunk. Then I drove what should have been a 10 minute drive to the Kenmore Square Goodwill but turned into a solid 30 min because of all the traffic from BU's graduation ceremony. When I got there, all the parking spots were blocked off and police were forcing traffic to keep flowing. I went around the block several times looking for parking before deciding it was pointless. I quickly Googled the next closest Goodwill store, which is in Jamica Plain, and decided to go there instead. There's no graduation in Jamaica Plain today but the Goodwill store there is also on the main road with very little parking...
When news about bin Laden hit, we in the outside world were wondering:

How can people make a national holiday of (a) death of a lone person (b) that might as well not happen?
There is no overhead here. IO gets erased at compile-time in GHC, IO is kept abstract and interacted with via Functor/Applicative/Monad to cooperate with the linearization.

Monad was introduced to clean up the nesting and give it a nice syntax.
If you gamble regularly and lose money regularly, it's very likely it's addiction that's bringing you back.

It's hard to be a "healthy" semi-regular losing player, the ones I can think of off the top of my head are people with good jobs who hit the casinos a few times a month as a social event and lose what they would have spent at a bar anyway. They may drop $500 each per month, but the problem gambler may drop $10k in a week. It doesn't take many problem gamblers to get to 90% of the money coming in.
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I agree. It's the problem when the other side asks the questions and edits the responses down.

Hersh was clearly annoyed that the interviewer wanted to talk about why the article did not appear in the New Yorker. The interviewer's agenda seemed clear: if the New Yorker did not see fit to print it, then I can safely ignore it. (People really do think like this, of course.)

Why would a writer respect such an agenda? So Hersh lets him have it.

Then, the interviewer appears to back off that angle ("Can I tell you why?"), and gave a different reason: He said he's interested in the publication venue because that would indicate a bias in the American press. Hersh says that's interesting.

At the very end, the interviewer seems like he's trying to catch Hersh up in some kind of logical error regarding the venue question ("I feel like you are telling me two different things.") And then it's over.

There's just nothing there. The interviewer asks questions, with a transparent agenda, that a grouchy reporter has heard before. They are kind of second-order to the actual story (i.e., venue). Hersh gets annoyed and hangs up.
A lot of the USA' historically recent economic success had little to do with ethnic demographics and a whole lot to do with age demographics and the fact that USA's industrial capacity was completely undamaged following WW2, unlike almost every other industrialized nation. It's easy to be #1 for an extended period when your major competitors' economies are literally a smoking ruin. While this is far from the only factor in American economic success during the 20th century, it's nonetheless a rather significant one. If we're going to talk about demographics, you should also consider the fact that the US is facing a shortage of younger workers relative to retirees: http://www.ssab.gov/documents/immig_issue_brief_final_versio...
Does anyone have a link to his full presentation?
Stopping? Not for all of history, but for significant periods of time during the formation of a new government, before it eventually grows out of control.

But sadly, yes, it was meant more as a theoretical possibility rather than one anyone has actually pulled off.
Right, a lexer is a mapping function. A parser is a fold.
I think a huge part of it is regulations. Imagine all the successful kickstarter projects that have ever existed. Then imagine a world where, if each of those people who "purchased" from these projects actually owned a percentage of that ongoing success?

I think, of the many points of attack in leveling the playing field, removing regulations that prevent small-time "investors" from owning equity in ventures is a candidate that's high on my list.

Although in a way that passes the buck (ie. you're still dependent on investors and giving away equity). I am looking forward to seeing how crowd-sourced loans and such will work. For example imagine a prosper.com at scale (catered specifically toward small business loans).

And wouldn't it be nice if regulations didn't prevent a small startup from creating such a crowd-sourced loan program?

How about a crowd-funded VC platform? I imagine alot of things are in the works that will help reduce the importance of the middle-man (ie. the investor). I look forward to seeing how that all comes together. But none of it will get off the ground until regulations are no longer the barrier to entry.
If the question is "who benefits", there's an easy answer for that.

The senate just published a 500 page report detailing the lies that were told by the CIA in order to promote torture.

The actual report was 4500 pages.

It certainly also helps the democrats look good on national defense, but I don't think that's really a root cause of the lie, just a happy accident.
Sorry about that. I was thinking of the federal poverty guideline for a family of four, but mis-remembered it as an individual measure. http://obamacarefacts.com/federal-poverty-level/

I'm glad you pointed that out because it makes the challenge more manageable (about half of what I first suggested), but the underlying political principle is the same.
You wouldn't turn off the device, particularly if you thought that turning it off could make you lose access to information.

That can be achieved by (1) transferring the machine to a portable battery unit without interrupting the power feed from the AC wall adapter and/or (2) imaging the machine's memory and mounted drives in-place.

These are things the FBI has in its toolbox, precisely because "yank the power cable" is how many criminals rely on protecting their otherwise encrypted data.