skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To back up littletimmy's point, I very much as a male have been the subject of it. I was persistently and relentlessly trolled for well over a year in some of the online communities I frequented when I was younger, and it has had an effect on me. I would dare say a somewhat positive one, in that it fueled a certain level of misanthropy and cynicism that influenced me to educate myself on the human condition and thus read on subjects that would nominally be considered outside my age group. I have thankfully mellowed out quite a bit since then, and none of this excuses the original actions, but it's not all grim.

And, conversely, the Internet is not all rosy. The fact of the matter is we've opened up a real Pandora's box. This is the first time in human history we've enabled people to really be bombarded by public opinion in instant, rapid numbers at every moment they express a viewpoint. It's the first time the marketplace of ideas is out there in its true colors. Humans simply aren't used to this. It's perfectly normal that a lot will break down at the immense cognitive overload.

However, one thing annoys me. The idea that this is purely a women's issue, and how it's presented as a culture war over gender and feminism. In fact, this is a very recent development, and it seems to me that the zeitgeist on the subject changes cyclically. It used to be trolling, and it was acknowledged it happened to everyone. Don't feed the trolls, don't share public info on the Internet. But then, as social media totally subverted that, it became "cyberbullying". And though it was still acknowledged it occurred to all, it became a matter of imminent policy decision. Now, it has gone further off the edge. It's no longer trolling or cyberbullying, it's harassment and it has suddenly been morphed into an identity politics issue. What tripe.

I expect that soon this will change, of course. Some other neologism or term with a corresponding narrative will usurp the current gender feminist understanding. That's how it appears to work, observing prior historical precedent.

The way I see it, there's two real options: a) Humans must adapt to this new circumstance and learn to be more resilient in the face of a new reality, one where they are under constant global supervision for their words, or b) We must lower our dependence on the Internet and have decent analog/low-tech fallbacks to how our societal institutions operate instead of marching in full digital for everything. The latter, quite clearly will not happen. This leaves us with a).

Regulatory decisions will not work. The regulatory bodies do not understand the problem. I don't think any of us do. We have to learn to deal with the revolution we have started, as there's no reversing it.
Clear enough. It is not theft. It is violation of the copyright law. A crucial distinction. Theft means you take away someone's legal property so they're not in possession of it any more. File-sharing does not take their copyright away and give it to the thief. Copyright-theft is a different thing. Right?
Why are more people driving? Unless you just mean because of population growth, but we've always needed to build new infrastructure to handle that, and the next 40 years won't be any different.

If anything, self-driving cars will reduce the (relative) number of cars on the road. Several reasons:

1. Since they will probably finish their journey faster than a human driver, they won't be on the road for as long.

2. Once we hit critical mass of self-driving cars, we can get rid of taxis (and Uber and all that), in favor of calling a self-driving car to come pick you up. These cars won't need to be out on the road trolling for passengers.

3. By the time we have 100% self-driving cars I guarantee you there will be multiple companies that are in the business of automatically arranging carpooling, which will mean more people per car (and therefore fewer cars).

4. We'll still have the option to use busses, or mass transit, like we do today. Self-driving cars might even make those options more appealing; take mass transit to the nearest stop, have a self-driving car take you the rest of the way (as opposed to driving the whole distance yourself).

Also, once we reach critical mass of self-driving cars, we can start exploring other infrastructure options for moving self-driving vehicles around besides surface roads. Remember crazy-looking highways for self-driving cars in I, Robot? I don't think we'll end up with something that looks like that, but that's the general idea.
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roup included the name of the author, followed by the quote. That isn't one continuous quote. Ashlee is a somewhat androgynous name. Given roup's comment it seems like the name was included with the intention to highlight that it was a woman writing pejoratively about men. Why else would roup include the author's name? Simply to shame him? I suppose I could be wrong, I'm making an assumption too.
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what's stopping you from putting it on github then posting it here and in the comments of this post?
>> For the above to work you'd have to use a custom JSON-parser when reading the lines.

Not necessarily. You could just re-add the square brackets before passing the lines to the JSON parser.

That would make more work for the machine, because you'd probably have to copy the whole string. But any time you can make less work for the human by making the machine work a little harder, it's usually a win.
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On the contrary, anyone who plays down the specifically threatening nature of some of the online "insults" women like Kathy Sierra have had to endure (doxxing, detailed descriptions of violent acts, photoshops of violent acts, etc.) is being insincere and only propagating their own agenda.
I'm trying to imagine this article written by the NYT, or pre-Bezos WP.

The WP is feeling very vaguely and subtly an outlet for Bezos/Amazon's interests.
Because harmonizing things is what it does, it is bound to make the attempt at some point. It will be very interesting see how member countries react...
For a post that attempts to compare Redis to memcached for caching, it's amazing how few actual numbers appear in the post.
Can I just check: Are you saying "this happens to everyone, so it's okay"? Or "this happens to everyone, and it's not okay"?

If it's the latter I agree. A bunch of people working in open source receive death threats and considerable levels of harassment. That kind of stuff needs to stop, no matter who it's aimed at.
2 is a dead end, 3 on the other hand is the road. Where do you wanna go ?
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These are two separate concepts. The sponsored stories by outbrain are just your regular old "lose 100 pounds per second" blogspam.

There is another, more benign phenomenon, where a company's PR department writes an article about the company, sends it off to a reporter, and says "Hey, we think you might be interested in publishing this (plus, we already did all the writing for you)" and then the newspaper edits it and publishes it as a regular article.

They see it as a sort of win-win situation. Reporters get an article to publish without any work, and companies get free / cheap PR.
> Yes. Over 75% of the writing on Wattpad happens on a mobile device. I know. I find it crazy too.

Ok let's be clear, I don't know what wattpad is -- but how many books worth a damn are written on smartphones, I wager << 1%.

> How is divorce a terrible example? What is more impactful to someone's life than ending their closest lifelong relationship?

Because facebook has nothing to do with that based on the information you've cited. Yes people get divorced, there are usually deep-seated reasons for that,if the cat, the dog, the kids, their friends, their letters, or their facebook are mentioned amongst thousands of words of the filings does not in anyway say something about the particular significance of those factors. I think you'd be completely stupid to insist facebook is a cause rather than a medium amongst these.
"And on an average day, maybe 51, 52 percent of them open it."

Engagement metrics for my status updates! I knew I was missing out on something.
> There’s growing evidence that hiring a top sport programmer is a coup for software companies. Novakovski, the retired sport programmer, brought in Neal to work with him at Quora and then later hired Scott to work with him at Addepar. “Neal was like 18 when he started and, within three months on the job, he was in the top 10 percent of all our engineers,” Novakovski says. “Every time I have hired someone who is good at these contests, they have crushed the job. They tend to be fast, accurate, and into getting things done.”

I'm pretty skeptical. I'm sure they are great coders, but is their skill level at solving math-heavy problems like the ones in these contests really required to build something like Quora?
> Genetically modified rice (golden rice) is a propaganda tool that can't change anything...

Vitamin A deficiency is responsible for 1–2 million deaths and hundreds of thosands of cases of blindness per year. Even just basic Vitamin A fortified rice could literally change millions of peoples lives per year.

See this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2682994/

And if I'm wrong and this has been refuted, please share your research.

> A new type of economy is possible now, one that goes beyond capitalism... Facebook did not change anything; Facebook is squatting on the corpse of real change.

Facebook made the internet usable by normal people for things normal people wanted to do. It is changing their lives right now. DMCA is shitty, but most people find a way to watch shows just fine.
> Parents the world over encourage their children to code because of the wondrous job prospects just about guaranteed by such skills.

Except the United States. Thanks Baby Boomers?
Of course it's not ok - I said it was bad, and that I suffered from it myself.

All I am saying is that gendering this issue, when the data shows it is actually something not limited or even focused on one gender, is incorrect, unhelpful, and sexist.
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> only propagating their own agenda

I am, no doubt about it. My agenda is freedom of speech and dealing with real-world, not virtual, problems.
I think I see two differences in perspective that may be leading to communication errors.

First, I don't see lies OR the science here -- I don't see anyone trying to imply that this is scientifically meaningful, I just see people enjoying a group event of looking at the moon. I suppose I am not sure why it is on Hacker News, though. It's fun, and it is related to intellectual curiosities, but it is not an intellectual curiosity itself.

And second, when you say "even to make something more interesting to the people", it makes me think we have a different perspective on the cause here. I'm not advocating pushing a supermoon agenda in the name of getting people interested. I'm observing that people are interested in this event and choosing not to shit on their parade.

If they start telling me to make life decisions based on the supermoon or any other astrology, that is another matter. I do have a different opinion about the mercury retrograde events, for example -- those I see framed entirely in astrological terms by people who are not using the opportunity to look up or share pictures, who don't even understand why apparent retrograde motion occurs. I don't think that's the same thing.
"Actual numbers" for caching services only have meaning in the context of a particular application.
Not so long ago, we learned that the U.N. is a world-saving organization that can't even pay its own interns. Not because it thought was morally OK to not pay, but because they just didn't want to do the paperwork and rulemaking to offer their interns a pittance. Ignoring the likely possibility that this paper was partly compiled by the kind of work you get from unpaid laborers...I doubt that an institution that can't do the easy, moral thing for its most vulnerable employees is the type of institution that has the patience and attention to detail to double-check its own footnotes.
If data access is equally distributed across keys, then running multiple Redis instances (with sharding) is perfect, since ultimately you want each key to be serviced by a single core, for optimal performance in a system with caches and NUMAs.

However, if data access is read-heavy and not equally distributed across keys, then having shared memory (aka multithreading) is quite essential since you want all cores to operate on the same data, and shared memory is much better than sending the data across especially if the heavily accessed keys vary quickly over time.

I'm not sure if memcached handles this well (it requires a lightweight rwlock/RCU/MVCC mechanism, for instance), but a shared-nothing system like Redis cannot provide good performance in all cases.
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Yeah, I had a similar situation on the Hikey 96board. I ended up downloading their kernel source and building a bunch of additional modules so I could get USB Ethernet, as the wifi was basically useless there too.
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Not to nitpick, but

> Democracy means that people get to live in the society they want to live in.

is not true. It means they have a say, but we don't always get what we want. We might all not want to die of old age, for example. We might also all want to live in a society free of crime, but that will never happen either.
That makes sense. The Russian angle, too: prior experience showed thdm to bd good at programming and optimization. One told me it's because access to good hardware was limited for many and so people got the most out of what they had. He said some even coded and debugged algorithms on paper before going to Internet cafes.

I'd probably try to get more in OSS projects but they can be a rowdy bunch. Gotta have manager or leader that can keep the egos and nationalism in check. ;)
For what it's worth:

"The syntax is borrowed from the old aide program, without any of the disadvantages of aide (GPL, default verbosity, static database usage, no fs flags checking, GNU regexps, unusual digest types)."
Now, only a year later, Ello is nearly forgotten, filed away with other would-be Facebook killers like the open source Diaspora and the near-dead Google+

The problem with this statement is that there is a vast difference in number of users between Ello and Google+. The latter is far from "forgotten" or "near dead." Every time I hit G+, it's teeming with activity. I can't say that about Ello, which seems to be populated by mustachioed German font designers who love custom bicycles and the music of Kraftwerk.

Now, Google+ has had its issues. It might even be going away or abandonware. And it's a blip on the radar compared to Facebook. But that's different from comparing it to Ello! The "Google+ is dead" meme is just lazy tech reportage.
Subvocalising the operations or the current value after each step? I feel like the former would slow me down, but I found the latter important for keeping track and I was getting through them in a decent time.
the minimum was 16KB I think (they used 4116s).
You might be interested in OMeta, whose goal is to make language experimentation quicker and more accessible by providing a kind of interface layer between a declarative grammar and a host language. I'm still reading the paper, so I can't vouch for it yet. But it's from VPRI and has Alan Kay's backing.[0]

[0] http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/
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Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8450769

Informational website by the authors with a good FAQ: http://huh.ideophone.org
Wikipedia page has it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2015_lunar_eclipse
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> Where does Elixir allow mutable variables?

Everywhere pretty much. Learn a bit more how it works. Here is a good resource:

http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html

Here is an example:

iex(1)> x=1
1

iex(2)> x=2
2

x was 1, then it was 2. It mutated.

To compare here is Erlang:

1> X=1.
1

2> X=2.
** exception error: no match of right hand side value 2

Just like in math, once X=1, it stays that. It doesn't get to mutate.
The internet already is a limited speech zone. Women who are not comfortable with the current degree of harassment are not speaking.

If you think that it's important to preserve the internet as a free speech zone for those who are already freely speaking, and not for those who aren't, that's certainly a position you can take. But please say it in those terms.
I think there were hardware bugs on a lot of the Hikey wifi boards too. Mine always failed in the driver and I ended up using USB Ethernet after rebuilding the kernel.

The onboard eMMC is also extremely slow, luckily it's easy to switch it to boot off a microSD instead.

The kernel forked at 3.17 and hasn't been updated since.

So far I'm pretty disappointed, both hardware and software wise. I find it surprising Linaro would put their name on this, I really hope this isn't the "reference" for quality.
Good point, but I could add that case 1 is vanishingly unlikely to happen in a real system. You always have hot keys, i.e. a Zipfian distribution. That's almost tautological for a cache -- by using a small amount of space you can handle most of the reads.

So, not knowing much about Redis, I would conclude based on this blog post that memcached has a pretty big advantage as a cache in real systems (multithreading).
> The standalone website launched in late March, with a twist: The full text of each story published on Esquire Classics is also sent out in a weekly email — the latest evidence that people’s inboxes are gaining appeal as a publishing platform.

My reading of NYT articles (as opposed to a page of links to an article, like their front page) comes from these three avenues:

1. Their morning email to me.
2. Links from HN.
3. Going to their site directly. I almost never do this.

Note that I pay for an online subscription to NYT, but I still almost never go there directly. I like their article pages, but their link pages are redundant and messy.

I'll go so far to say that I wouldn't be a NYT subscriber if it hadn't been for their daily email (free) and HN links. Their general site never made me feel like I wanted to subscribe.
Solar power is booming in India. Will it reach the people who need it most?
I'm not sure which Zones Of Thought book it was (probably Deepness in the Sky), but my favorite software joke in SciFi is when someone deep-diving into the system discovers that at the deepest layers timekeeping is still calculated from the UNIX epoch on the long lost human homeworld.
I find it interesting. It is crime to do crime is a tautology. But isn't "It is crime to try to hide the fact that you are doing crime" bit of the same? If you're doing crime OF COURSE you are trying to hide the fact that you are are doing crime. Does it make it more or less of a crime, since in practice every criminal is already doing that? Except terrorists. They want everybody to know they are doing it. Does that make them less criminal then?
Per 83(b):

In order for an 83(b) election to be effective, the individual must file the election with the IRS prior to the date of the stock purchase or within 30 days after the purchase date. There are no exceptions to this timely filing rule.

http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2008/02/15/what-is-an-83...
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> You have yet to make an argument that...

Correct, I have no interest in arguing that position. Any highschool graduate should immediately recognize "majority tyranny" and the political theory that it is connected to. If I had argued the virtue of representative democracy, it might have been biased by the just world fallacy, but I haven't - so it wasn't.
Sure, but most of the DNN people are just running glorified AlexNets and GoogleNets and not really looking deeply under the hood (I speak from 1st hand experience).

For Caffe is open source. And cuDNN makes it fast. And if it doesn't, just jump and down like the above report did, and it will be fast in the next release.

IMO if you're doing stuff for which cuDNN isn't good enough, you're probably capable of writing your own kernels, and that's awesome. Welcome to the Deep Learning equivalent of the 1%. Meanwhile, incorporate cuDNN into your production workflow to maximize comparative advantage.

Or don't, whatever...
Here's one: http://cr.yp.to/tcpip/minimalt-20130522.pdf
I was slightly disappointed to find it wasn't about data mining the content. Still interesting though.
Forget 'developing' poor countries, it's time to 'de-develop' rich countries
Every good mail client does RSS, including T-bird and Outlook - but they don't sync subscriptions and read/unread posts to the cloud, so most power users prefer a Google Reader clone.
New things? Is Urbit based on Unix/Linux and the Von Neumann architecture? If so, it is just cosmetic coating on top of the same old foundation. I really like what's going on with people trying to create something like Urbit or old Lisp Machines on new hardware (not Von Neumann based). Interim OS, PilOS (PicoLisp on bare metal). I am still not sold on immutable data is the way forward either. I am reading a 1991 book by Peter M. Kogge "The Architecture of Symbolic Computers", playing with Shen, and interested to see what becomes of vector-based computing hardware with a language like J/APL. Lisp Machines still enthrall me, and I think a new take on them can be just what's needed to recreate computing. Not just a copy of the old Lisp Machines, but an entire rethinking of them.
Being the target of sustained harassment is a real world problem. You can't ask the women (And, sure, some men) who have been subjected to the troll-rage of the internet to just shake this off. What online harassers do needs to be treated as what it is: a deliberate attempt to harm another person. It needs to be subject to criminal sanctions.

That doesn't mean I think websites need to become an arm of the state, it means I think the state needs to get a whole lot more tech savvy and figure out how to find and prosecute these idiots.

I don't think that threatens freedom of speech.
But quite often the ground isn't the same level at all points in an installation, so you need to run two wires between the two Arduinos.

Not picking on you, I'm just saying that this is a very confusing item for an electronics amateur like myself. Modbus is the same - many manufactures claim 'works with two wires' but then leave out that you need a ground, so that in pretty much every real-world application you end up running three wires.

So as a constructive feedback, I'd like to suggest that you either make the term very explicit or talk about '2 wire' instead of '1 wire' (I realize that that makes it harder to 'compete' against 1-Wire (which also needs two wires...) before people who don't really understand what's involved, but I think that that price is paid back by the goodwill you get from being 'honest', because 'dishonesty' is what it often feels like when people claim 'one wire' systems that turn out to require two wires, even if for an EE it's obvious what is meant by 'one wire')
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