skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just read the entire thing, good stuff! Interesting to see what's considered intermediate vs. basic and advanced.

Feedback: maybe add a feedback section to the site? Haha. Dissect is spelled with 2 S's, and there's a broken link at the end of the virtualenv section.

Thanks for your work! Learned a few things for sure.
And it's worth it. The alternative to nuclear power is not Living in Peace and Harmony with Gaia, it's coal.
Can with bug spray thrown into campfire
Content Volatility of Scientific Topics in Wikipedia: A Cautionary Tale
I've noticed that a lot of headlines on HN are intentionally vague, to pique reader's interest. I'm not sure what being intentionally vague for an entire article is supposed to accomplish.

What is it that is barely halfway done?
Are You a Thinking Thing? Why Debating Machine Consciousness Matters
You can't print out a person's vote on a receipt an admin could see; that's not a secret ballot. And, using that receipt, the voter can do little to verify his vote was counted.

Edit: the timestamp gives the voter away
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Or you could just use a pencil and a piece of paper.
Correct, and fans of the Voting Rights Act should be there as a reminder that "rights" can be hard lost as they are hard won. There is no inevitably in humanity. The best we can expect is reproduction.
The other thing I wondered about the predictions: she apparently rated all of the dresses, and the top/bottom matched the ratings. Fair enough. But what about the residuals, the missclassified ones - the ones where the logistic regression predicts a high or low score and her rating was actually the opposite? That might be interesting to look at.
I feel the need to share this video again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
Pale Moon, x64:

Test 1: script start; script end; promise1; promise2; setTimeout

Test 2: click promise mutate click promise mutate timeout timeout

Test 3: click click promise promise mutate timeout timeout

Interesting that this is so far from Firefox's responses even though it's a FF fork.
Quantified Self and Transhumanism – A Means to an End
Yep. But it's a closed-source always-on cloud-connected microphone that lives in the middle of your house, which creeps the hell out of a lot of people (including myself and most of my housemates).
Bernard D’Espagnat, 93, Physicist, Dies; Sought Implications of Quantum Theory
Will Your Facebook Friends Make You a Credit Risk?
The NFL really needs to start a proper feeder league, like MLB, the NHL or the NBA has started to do with the D League. Most teams already have a sort of "shadow roster," between their practice squad guys and the unemployed veterans and rookie free agents that are on speed-dial for when injuries or suspensions strike.

The NFL is, despite the bone-headed direction by the league office, a money-printing machine, and that's with a season lasting less than half the calendar year. There's a big chunk of the sports year that is a complete waste-land, between the end of the NBA/NHL finals and the start of NFL preseason, and the American public is desperate for football. Just look at how the completely manufactured Deflate-gate "scandal" has pumped up football, for all its ridiculousness. The wear-and-tear on the athletes would be a problem for a late-spring/summer league schedule - particularly for any standouts that continued on to play in the NFL in the fall. But there's more than enough talent that's just at the edges of NFL-levels to provide an entertaining product.

Of course, the bigger issue is that NFL players have probably the rawest deal in pro sports. Mediocre veteran baseball players can command double-digit million, fully guaranteed contracts, while the average veteran NBA player makes something north of 4-5 million, also fully guaranteed. Meanwhile, even star NFL players have the bulk of their contracts non-guaranteed, and can be cut with little liability if their production dips due to bad luck or injury, in possibly the most violent and injury-prone major sport, which leaves many ex-players walking vegetables.
Without giving details, the author says Diebold machines are 100 time more secure.
American exceptionalism is an extraordinary claim and needs extraordinary evidence to support it. It is far more likely that that our cops have a third-world standard of aggression than that intimidation and violence are that much more necessary when dealing with Americans.
Co-founder of BigCommerce shares 28 things tips for new founders
an ASM optimized chacha20 is faster than AES-NI on newer intel chips.
I am from Brazil, our machines are made by Diebold and a venezuelan company.

I personally think that the 2014 elections were faked, also the machines had been proven to be easy to cheat with, and there are evidence that cheating did happen. (example: in one state election here, the number of votes was higher than the number of voters, one of the candidates complained, and got fined for complaining...)

There is even a video on youtube showing how to cheat elections in a "impossible to trace" manner using diebold machines.

Also the Dutch banned voting machines that don't print a paper copy of the vote (that you then use to put on a normal ballot).
True multicore computation (although that's possible with numba's nopython mode, but it's not as general as what luajit can support).
For email there are various mixmail systems I strongly suspect you're far more familiar with than me.

A recent talk (I don't recall the conference) on de-anonymising anonlymous online communications shows sharp limits to even this, though there is some workfactor required. Better than nothing.
Yup. Nonsense.
Most stylus' have at least one additional button (on a Surface Pro, there's 3).
I certainly understand your point about certain things having insignificant effects. Positive actions too can be insignificant. There is a certain noise level which makes the little things inaudible. On another note, everything a person does, bad or good, should be understood in terms of magnitude. For this reason, the use of derogatory labels over categorical actions can be very harmful to society.

A fair part of what you are referring to seems to be a cultural thing. From what I have heard, in places like the UK and Japan, white lies are often considered polite. But in places like Germany, white lies may be considered rude and inconsiderate. The "Does this make me look fat?" is a curious classic example of a white lie solicitation. Perhaps it's something of a game with an understood message of "Do you love me enough to tell me what I want to hear?". It could also be rephrased as "I'm feeling hungry. Would you kindly feed my ego?".

Back in the day I knew a compulsive liar who for each new person he would meet would make up a new and elaborate backstory of himself and his friends. The majority of what he would lie about could be considered white lies since they were primarily for showing off or for entertaining. The harm may be small, but it nevertheless does exist: A person's worldview and understanding of reality is based in part on the stories he or she comes across. By being exposed to false tales, his victims were being given a false account of reality, which is almost guaranteed not to help them in the long run. They were investing time into learning a lie.

A similar phenomenon which occurs in the tech world is when someone who happened upon lucky fame goes on to tell everyone else how to make it big quickly -- but happens to leave out the details of the 10 failed startups and any uncertainty in the current undertaking. This gives people a false account of reality, which is sure to lead more people down bad paths than good ones.

Another case, which has been scarily common is when someone who was supposedly diagnosed with cancer or something tries some random remedy, sees a remission six months later and goes on to write a bunch of blog posts or even a book about this miracle cure -- but then you never hear from the person again. Hmm, one has to wonder, did the cancer really go away like this person told everyone? Or did the person speak too soon, and now out of shame avoids telling everyone that the advice was unfounded after all. I would like to believe that the harm here is obvious.

The three examples above have two things in common: They all involve a person trying to gain more popularity and self esteem; and they all involve implicitly giving others bad advice about life and reality. Hence, the liar gains while the greater society suffers.

BTW: I appreciate that you have brought up this overall topic. On many sites it is very difficult to find worthwhile discourse on important social topics.
Maybe, but I suspect that the subtlety required in childrens' movies may actually help the delivery. I don't doubt Pixar could make good movies centered around more adult stories, but I think what takes from from "eh" to "good" or even "great" is when there are multiple layers to them, and the layers are subtle but powerful. I think these subtler themes resonate with people as they have experiences that they can relate to them (which is why we can put them in kids movies with a more overt story, the kids usually don't notice them because they don't have an experience that resonates), but when they are overtly part of the plot, it comes across as heavy handed.
Recalculating democracy
I'm having a hard time understanding the way voting machines are created these days. Why are they complete operating systems? Why do they have ports? Why do they look like they're overengineered in so many ways?

What's stopping the companies from producing a closed box with SoC+board connected to: N buttons, display, card reader/scanner, printer, wifi/ethernet. All you need is to take cards, register the result, add it to some continuously hashing database, print vote proofs, periodically upload data (again, public-key encrypted). If they need to be updated, allow only signed code. (ARM SoCs have secure-boot-like capabilities)

Am I missing something? Why do we get multiple iterations of machines with exposed ports, running XP, having hardcoded passwords, allowing admin access, having physical locks which can be opened without a key, etc. How can these things be created without at least one person saying "this shit is unacceptable"?
Starting a hangout often works for me, but I rarely get notification messages. Sometimes it takes half an hour or more to get a notification that was sent by someone in the same room. I switched to SMS for IMs, because people don't get the Hangouts messages reliably.

Hangouts could be good, but it's awful at the moment. I wish they had at least kept the XMPP integration. I strongly suspect that Google would be more successful if they went back to a more open approach. If they had backed Diaspora rather than creating Google Plus, it would now be huge. Google Plus didn't even have a decent API. I have a lot of ideas on how to salvage it, but no one at Google has ever responded to my suggestions.
My take on this is that you are adding common sense, rather than sticking to what is given:

> How is this an ad hominem fallacy? B is not trying to discredit A's argument by appealing to a logically irrelevant characteristic of A. Rather, B is using A as a counterexample for A's argument.

But it's not a counterexample. It would be if someone had said thieves are criminals, but no one did. We only know that from common sense outside of the syllogism.

Therefore the statement "YOU are a thief and a criminal" is a simple assertion without evidence within the givens, and making such a statement about the debating opponent and then concluding they are therefore wrong ("there goes your argument") is in fact a solid example of ad hominem.

I strongly agree that this is a poor example of one, because it allows the sort of confusion that you point out -- it's just not literally wrong.

As a footnote (and certainly not aimed at you), a very large number of people who forgot their high school lectures about "ad hominem" use the term to mean any personal attack or criticism, which I find exasperating at best.

Such mis-usage isn't just language evolution in action, it is misunderstanding rhetorical concepts over 2000 years old, first stated in Greek and then Latin, and quite language independent.

It's a shame.

But I digress.
It's not arbitrary FF hate. It's frustration that the browser that I used because it didn't have any of these problems has decided to emulate the antifeatures of a browser that I don't use because it does have these problems.

As you said, it all comes from Chrome. Well... Guess why I don't use Chrome. And guess why I've switched away from mainline FF.
Stripe is worth $5 billion. I don't think they hired the wrong people.
Was he being arrested? If not, he wasn't resisting arrest. Yet the cops decided to go hands on, even though he's got one leg and he's not going anywhere. It is very likely to have been a case of "disrespect of cop." If a cop has such a tiny dick that a one legged homeless man can ding his ego, perhaps a change of line of work is in order.
For all intents and purposes, I'm the CEO and lead developer. Everybody else is a developer. We are currently in the process of getting a designer. The main problem is getting one that is willing to just join the team for later equity, but this person would need to think long term.
Superconductivity record sparks wave of follow-up physics
Some context: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4683
I'm not talking about people in your situation; I guess that wasn't clear. I'm talking about someone setting the time zone on their personal hardware. They know where they live and what their time zone is.

Besides, for your case there are easier methods, like Googling "current time in San Marcos, TX" (which Google will actually tell you the time and time zone without you needing to click on a results page; if you feel the need to, the first result has all the info you need as well). Hell, the "world clock" app on my phone tells me what I need to know when I enter in that city.
You give the voter a paper ballot that they can visually confirm and deposit, themselves, in a ballot box, that can then be consulted to verify the electronic tallies in the event of a challenge. Honestly though, as an Oregon resident, I don't see why all states don't have vote by mail like we do.
Your cynicism can be easily mistaken for just being a Luddite, but it doesn't seem too off the mark.
That's pretty cool -- I'll definitely start using your tricks. Thanks for sharing!
Wouldn't this allow a bad actor to coerce a voter into disclosing their anonymous number and revealing how they voted?
Resist what? A cop going hands-on gratuitously? After all the brutality was done, a dozen cops could not find a reason to arrest him. So it wasn't resisting arrest. He was assaulted by a cop.
No identifying info needs to be printed. Just a GUID. Use a dot matrix printer with triplicate ("biplicate"?), let the voter take their receipt, and keep the other one on the spool.

Yeah, there's still might be some issue with external coercion on the voter to produce their receipt and prove they voted the way they were paid to. I suppose that could be solved by making the voter's copy an XOR of the audit tape, and by only having both copies together, can the vote be verified. Presumably the forces doing the coercion wouldn't have access to the audit tape. If they did, then we're already screwed no matter what system we implement.

Just a thought. Not sure if there's some fundamental contradiction between secrecy in voting and voter-auditability.
"what I saw around me were great kids who had been trained to be world-class hoop jumpers. Any goal you set them, they could achieve. Any test you gave them, they could pass with flying colors. They were, as one of them put it herself, “excellent sheep.”"

Sound observation. Hoop-jumping has it's place, yet leadership starts when the hoop isn't a hoop, but a flaming hole you have to climb. Leadership is demonstrating your understanding of risk, creating a plan others can follow and providing the necessary motivation to successfully execute.
Am I the only one that longs for what used to be the awesomeness that is gchat?

Gchat with what hangouts has for calls/voice/video would've basically been the win. Instead it constantly feels like this buggy/gimped browser app that maybe/maybe doesn't work.
It's been many many years since I ran in conlang circles, so I had to refresh my memory:

> designed to express deeper levels of human cognition briefly yet overtly and clearly, particularly with regard to human categorization. Ithkuil is notable for its grammatical complexity and extensive phoneme inventory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil

http://www.ithkuil.net/
The only appropriate answer to the IDE part is this:

JEREMY CLARKSON: You mention that you rent a garage.

JAMES MAY: Yes.

JEREMY CLARKSON: How far away from your house?

JAMES MAY: I don't know. Seven miles?

JEREMY CLARKSON: You rent a garage seven miles from your house! How do you get there?

JAMES MAY: On... on my folding bicycle, obviously.

JEREMY CLARKSON: You are mad! Clinically insane!
Good read on gender diversity in the tech world
Ok. I'm not sure the distinction is that important when it comes to team camaraderie though.
> I'm not sure what being intentionally vague for an entire article is supposed to accomplish.

This isn't an article, though. It's someone's personal blog and the continuation of something else; the assumption is that you've read the other ones.

He's talking about the process of saving a huge amount (25k?) of paper manuals from someone who was going to throw them out.
Kudos for putting a link to basic info at the top of your post. I wish everyone did that (just make it part of your blog template).
It's been stated by many posters in this thread that HR is not your friend; they are not there to protect you, but to protect the company from you; and avoid going to HR with any problem you may have.

That's it's better to leave, if you can, than go to HR.

Coming from multiple sources, I'd say that's pretty damning to HR.

About Amazon.. I've never worked there. But I know people who have. I believe the NYT article.
This is a different solution, and less manual - but OralB has a bluetooth enabled toothbrush that will auto-record your tooth brushing in their app (as well as metrics like 'time used too much pressure' and 'total brush time'). You need to manually record flossing and tongue brushing via the app though (using a button on your smartphone like others have described). It's not bad, it's not good, but it's a start.
That is the weakness.

It wouldn't just be that their vote would be revealed, though, it would be that then the bad actor could contest the vote, claiming that they were the voter and their vote was counted wrong.

But if people were in the habit of destroying their unique code immediately after the results are posted, then they at least have plausible deniability. "No, I burned that piece of paper yesterday. Can't remember what the numbers were."
There is also online voting. At least in the most recent NSW state election there was. I was overseas during the election and attempted to vote via this method. Unfortunately my hotel's WIFI kept timing out and I gave up in frustration. I returned to Australia and there was a $57 fine waiting for me for failing to vote.

I think our voting system is good but it has flaws. I recall reading an article a few years ago about somebody who showed up to vote (i.e. Got his name marked off) at multiple polling stations on election day just because he could. He received a fine for doing it but all of his votes were counted.

Edit - googled it apparently you can be charged with fraud for multiple voting or for voting under a false name (up to six months prison - so slightly more than a slap on the wrist and a fine).
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However, there's a big difference between electric resistive heating (generating heat) versus electric heat pumps (moving heat around.) The latter can be 3x or more efficient than the former.
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From an environmental perspective, seafood is far better than beef.
POST support from the URL bar. Let me type in POST bodies and edit Content-Type/User-Agent/etc headers by hand.

Show TLS negotiation in detail by default (which ciphers are supported? which was selected?).

Let me edit DNS blacklists & whitelists in text. Let me turn off the blacklist for trusted domains, so they can show ads and make money. Let me disable JS except for trusted domains.

Render .md/.markdown files directly. Support some extras (GitHub-flavored, for example).

Store my settings & bookmarks in git repos. Let me snapshot my bookmarks manually/periodically and see side-by-side diffs.

Perhaps as a large plugin, let me pull up magnet links to fetch & serve documents over BitTorrent.
Feds allow Shell to drill for oil in Arctic Ocean off Alaska
And still horrendously bad. http://gizmodo.com/200693/how-to-steal-an-election-with-a-di...
Jason Scott is really one of the heros of our time. His dedication to preserving history is seriously amazing. I really hope to meet him one day.
In the list of unreliable messaging, Skype Android app has been nicely random in how it notifies me too. I can never know if someone talked or not. They keep changing the UI though, how touching.

ps: I believe all your points on xmpp/diaspora are right, and that's how Google got popular, bringing good product (mail, maps) for free. Not trying to invent a whole G paradigm because Jobs said 'focus' in an Apple keynote.
If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
I believe it haha
Nice, I've shared it in my social networks.

As for a supposed "Advanced Python" edition, it would be great to compile at least a list of topics that could be interesting. Some have been already mentioned in this thread, like:

- Metaclasses
- Packaging (for pypi)

I'd add:

- Must-have libraries
- Testing
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The History of Magic: The Gathering Online
Funny, GF is what made me reconsider my views! Amazing that a small team of non-ML academics outside the US can beat an army of ML researchers in companies like Google, MSFT etc.
I'm not suggesting we go back to voting with shards in a pot; I am just skeptical that voting machine have been/are secure from tampering. Seems like the kind of question that matters a lot.
Two months after I was hired, I realized I hated my assigned project and talked to my manager. He talked to the site director, and passed back his response to me: "We don't care." Policy is to stay on your first team for 18 months. Exceptions to that are exceptions.
> The company, which last week turned two, just hired its first data scientist, and it’s looking to invest in artificial intelligence. Butterfield acknowledges the challenge, saying his company will need partners with major AI capability.

> “Apple spent billions of dollars on Siri and worked on it for a very long time with hundreds of engineers and a huge dataset of voices – and it’s f–ing idiotic. Siri is nearly useless,” he says. Apple declined comment.

He doesn't yet have a solution and what he does is talk trash about an actual product that does exist and for many people, does work as expected for their own needs.

Right, all he did was lose creditability for me. It makes me think he's using Apple's name to hype his nonexistent bullshit up.

Show us your solution or STFU.
I'd say that for most people if you aren't hacked, or had your identity stolen, it's because no one has tried.
Most of your questions can be answered "Because it is cheaper" and "Because certifying boards are useless"