skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An OT grammar note: if the sentence doesn't seem clear at first, it's possible "wholesome" should be "wholesale". I think.
Look, I agree that the union jack is a poor representation of NZ, and that it should probably be changed, and that it's unfair to represent a colonial legacy and little else, including Maori culture.

But the analogy to the Third Reich just doesn't work. Some countries didn't hesitate to throw off British imperialism - but the white majority of Canada, Australia, NZ and other Commonwealth countries valued their British identity. That never occurred under Nazism, because German colonists never really existed, and certainly never formed a majority.

Including the union jack on the NZ flag is bad, but it's utterly incomparable to including the swastika flag on the French Tricolore.
If I asked Michelle if there were any positives of our gender bias, in any way, across all of western society, what do you think her response would be?
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One of their acquired companies Myntra is now app only. Only have a pc and the internet ? Sorry. You can only purchase from our apps.
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I'm now very interested in making my own bot to generate views? Any code out there?

This comes from a coder that had 100 twit bots, before twitter banned my API access.
It's about time. One of the large gripes which pushed me back to Android from iOS was the lack of Keep!
It's like the shape of a typical manifold drawn in a topology textbook. Weird amoeba looking things.
I submitted it as an example of the sort of advertising we'll start to see more and more of online. Will people block the ad when the ad is the content, etc.
So what you're saying is that you don't have an answer to my question, but you're not going to let that stop you from replying.
Sure it will. GCE just runs containers.
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People have been saying that literally since the 1950s when the very first guided missiles were developed. Then along comes reality in the form of a war and the people that believed it, get spanked by those that didn't.
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Sounds like a very healthy employment culture. I think the highly regimented/quantitative culture of Northern Europe (where I come form) and big parts of the US the US is rooted in an economy built around industrial production that no longer exists, but which conveniently concentrates organizational power (and thus a lot of wealth) very tightly at the top while projecting an air of pseudo-objective inevitability. It is nice to see alternative perspectives articulated so thoughtfully.
With source code escrow of their services, you can presumably use dns redirection of their site and the open source version of their software to run your own local instance of the stack.

Truly Open Source doesn't mean runs without any other components, it just means you can replace any of the components yourself.
Sure, but making stuff at the scale of GE or a big car maker is much more involved. First, if you make a mistake people can die, both due to faulty products or faulty plant processes. Second, you are dealing with thousands of stakeholders, including thousands of suppliers. Third you might be dealing with thousands of products, try keep that as efficient as possible is as hard as running a web service for 1 bl users.

What I am trying to say is that big Corp are still very good at efficiently organizing certain type of processes, on which then companies like fb depend on (servers, etc.).
Really? It seems like there is relatively little objection in the US to the ongoing drone warfare across the middle east. That might mostly be due to ignorance. Unfortunately, the government likes to foster ignorance to prevent embarrassment and outrage, and it seems likely that the powers that be are emboldened to creep one step closer each year to fully autonomous weapon systems. Despite all the dangers and warnings, we're still slipping right into this trap due to inertia.
Many of us liked the Internet in 1996 ;) And some saw its commercialization as an affront, as a violation of fundamental principles. So anyway, I'm not at all attached to the Internet existing in it's current form.
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I would guess the opposite, society needed a much larger share of its workforce for basic necessity. So assuming that the different opportunities to build something were similar, only a smaller fraction of the possibilities got actually build and this fraction had the highest return of investment. So expected ROI was a lot higher and therefore the creditors could ask for a lot more interest.
Besides agility, speed and radar performance are also critical in missile attack and defense. F-22 can super cruise for that reason. The size of F-35 radar is a concern for performance. Given the past experience of F-15 vs Su-27, it is very hard to believe F-35 will be competitive 10 years from now besides the numbers.
'burns through mountain of cash without real business” or some other such garbage'

The writer then goes on to say that they have no real business, they are just cranking out half baked products that are never improved.

There is nothing special about quirky shutting down, it happens to many businesses. If they are bad, or poorly executed they run out of cash and shut down.

The main take away from this is do one thing, and do it well, you can't make up for mediocrity by bundling it together with other mediocre products.
In what way is Uber a "tech company"? Is every company with an app tech now? Like Pizza Hut?
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I mean that sincerely: try to get your average non-tech worker to send a file to your grandmother on their own.

We knew how to send a file, but MegaUpload got shut down.
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Not for the price. $1 trillion is a really step price tag for a "decent aircraft". As for the sensor package and stealth, I'm not entirely sure that suitable upgrades to the F-16 and F-18 series wouldn't have been a better option. Besides, for $1trillion, it should be possible to develop three or four different aircraft with specialist capabilities and use them together.
Seriously, let's be honest, who wants to buy pieces of plastic that are minute improvements over existing products? Their best seller was a multi-jointed power strip. [1] The rest were half baked ideas from inventors that have no desire to scale their business. They were pumping out products that were decided in an echo chamber of inventors, not consumers. It's a great idea, but not enough premarket research was done before shoving it down peoples throats.

Edit: the fact that their forth bestseller was a silicone yolk separator doesn't really set the barrier to entry high. A plastic water bottle can do the same.[2]

They were flying too close to the mirror, not the Sun.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/simple-successful-inventions-...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AirVOuTN_M
To the downvoters. I don't like these things either -- but just downvoting them on HN won't change things.... Vote in your national elections with civil liberties in mind instead.
Whether you keep all your money in your own house or lend it to your neighbors doesn't make a difference if a passing army can pillage and burn everything in your town.

What's different is that the modern legal apparatus make it much easier for you to track down someone who defaults on a loan and force them to pay you back. Just petition a magistrate, and he can magically transfer a portion of your debtors' income to your vault every month no matter where they live!
Whose xterm is it anyway?
Any chance to include and keep up to date an Eu cookie policy block list ? Here's a good one: https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list

I'd add it myself just aren't sure how to keep it updated.
Holy crap. Just checked ebay. I didn't realize how cheaply you could get ridiculous equipment like that. There's an older PowerEdge with 48GB of RAM for around $600. Hmmm... the credit card is feeling warm in my pocket...
It has a feature to download new block rule sets. Perhaps that's where iCloud is used?
Hmmm, I wonder how well this correlates with the placebo effect.

In other words, how deep do the effects of negative stereotyping run? The titular study shows that with concentrated effort to overcome the limiting stereotype, the effects of the stereotype can be mostly overcome.

What if you ignored the stereotype, and tried the experiment again, using an an arbitrary advantage.
For instance, if the groups in the study were performed using a "drug" or other similar placebo.
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I remember some very friendly people in Rohnert Park, CA. We (four middle-aged men) were on a work trip and decided to walk from the Doubletree hotel to the local Walmart, some 500 meters away, just to get some exercise after 16 hours of flight and 8 hours of meetings.

Several people driving by stopped to ask: "Do you need help? Did your car break down?".
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At least in Sweden and Finland it is recommended to refrigerate eggs. This way the eggs are edible up to two months, even though the packaging (based on EU rules) says 28 days.
Maybe one of the air-to-air kills in the Eritrea-Ethiopia war was cannon? idk...
All skills can be learned. That is true. Without innate talent some of them just cannot be mastered.
Maybe I misunderstand you, but:

> We also want to avoid jumping to some bad conclusions like "female humans naturally lack ambition"

Why is it a bad conclusion? Maybe it's the truth (for arguably narrow definition of ambition). You don't want to get wrong conclusions from the research (whether you jump to them or not), but you cannot pick in advance which conclusion is morally good or bad. Preferences simply are somehow.

I actually think we should consider psychological research into group differences to be unscientific, unless it is firmly based on biology. Ideally, these studies should be based on DNA rather than gender or race or religion or ethnicity.

You can research preferences of people if you need to know them, but you shouldn't correlate them to some social group. I don't think society needs that kind of results apart from dinner conversations, because these results cannot inform the policy, which should be to respect everybody's preferences equally.
Interesting thought exercise:

If you took $1 in year zero, and invested it in an interest-bearing instrument which yielded 2% annually, you would have $213,474,546,813,934,272 today. This does not take inflation into account :).

No interest-paying instrument survived that long. It almost makes you think that period devaluations are a must-have.
One can get a preview of the 3D without 3D glasses or a VR headset by zooming out and looking through the screen like it's a random dot stereogram (or "magic eye" picture).
I mean the real economic system that was dominant in the developed world from the late 19th to early 20th Century, which certain of its socialist critics created the word "capitalism" to refer to, since criticising it without a name was problematic, and it was an economic system by which property arrangements, policy, etc., were organized around the interests of the capitalist class.

Cronyism and cartels were certainly not infrequent features of that system.

Fascism is something different and newer.
The History of Rome - actually completed, relistening to the republic / early imperial parts. It's amazing. Well worth the 40 or so hours. Really can't give it enough credit. Romulus to Augustus to Romulus Augustulus in absolutely loving detail,

Revolutions - Mike Duncan's (creator of THoR) new project. He's just finishing up the French Revolution, already covered the English Civil War and American Revolution. Preparing to go on hiatus to research the Haitan Revolution.

The History of Byzantium - Picks up in 476 where THoR left off. Currently in the eighth century with the Byzantines recovering from the Muslim conquests a bit. Different guy, but still very good.

12 Byzantine Rulers - Finished this one, it's a very short series but gives a nice overview of Byzantine history. Much less in depth than THoB.

Norman Centuries - Second project by the 12BR creator, similar concept but covering the Normans. Incredibly interesting, covers the Norman conquests of England, southern Italy, their attacks on the Byzantines, and their crusader state holdings

The History of Britain - finished / inactive, it's pretty good, but never really hit its stride.

/r/AskHistorians podcast - Have only listened to a few episodes. Great content, but I'm not personally a fan of the format.

My list to start is The History of the Crusades, Hardcore History, History of English, History of England, The Lesser Bonapartes, and the BBC inquiry podcast. Hard to find time!
Sounds like racketeering :)
yup, it's totally fixed now
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Bandwidth needed to actually walk is not so small (keeping balance, etc)

It's probably easier to put this in hardware than sending it to the brain and back.
It does depend on the kind of eggs you buy. If you buy eggs from chicken in cages where chicken peck each other to death, I assume that your salmonella risk is higher than if you buy eggs from free ranging chicken in organic farms.

At least that's what I like to tell myself when I buy the fancy eggs at twice the price.
Yeah. This seems like a typical Google half-measure with little thought put into it. It's a shame because there is so much that could be done, but companies like google just don't care enough, yet, to actually put in the work.
Where's the link?
I've read a number of studies that contradict your statement. They say that the ONLY thing that matters is the amount of practice and natural skills play no part in level of mastery.
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Thanks for presenting a balanced opinion. I still find their position quite fair (looks like there lies their real business model) even though I wish they'd be more clear about it. Everything makes more sense now.
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Same applies for web. There is so much crappy mobile web UX out there. Good developers, good designers etc. are all essential whatever the platform
Exceptional engineers? There's a Quirky cable guide on the desk in front of me, and if the engineers who worked on that were exceptional, then I posit that they didn't get enough time to work on the product.

It's a fine concept, no question. But a few more iterations would have helped it. I get an impression that Quirky wanted to push out things quickly, not spend a lot of company hours obsessing over the precise width of the cable gaps or how smooth the plastic should be.
And this person recounts experience of xyr company actually doing that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9794570

See also http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/we... and Stuart Cheshire's article, of course.
I wonder if our preconception of celestial bodies as "lumpy grey rocks" is biased by our proximity to a bunch of grey rocks.

Lumpy grey rocks are common in the inner solar system where rocks (Si, Ca, Mg, Fe, Al, etc.) are the only things that remain solid in the long term. It's too hot around here for anything more volatile to last without a strong magnetic field to protect them.

But as you move further away from the Sun, things that we normally don't think of as "rock", such as water and methane, begin to behave like rock. If ice is rock, then water is lava, and methane rain can erode it! So we get a whole bunch of phenomena that are similar to Earth geology and weather, only with different chemicals.
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...and it's been around for quite a while https://youtu.be/BsTGQbhuL0E?t=47 and here to stay on its way to pulling the curtains on a few social networks
I really can't give very good advice, but I'll try to say something...

There are several different types of open source projects and I'm not quite sure which kind you're looking for.

Firstly there are a lot of (often hugely popular) tools used by researchers that don't involve research directly. A good example is Jupyter (formerly known as ipython notebooks). Contributing to these projects is sure be of benefit to many people (probably more than anything else you could do), and may be a good place to learn skills because they're more likely to have good codebases written by skilled programmers. But if the project is already too large (like Jupyter), it may be a lot harder to get into.

Next up, anything that's scientific and written in javascript is most likely to be for user interface, visualisation, or just websites (PR) for research projects. For example interactive visualisations of algorithms. May or may not involve actual involvement to the research. For example I went to a seminar recently by a group of researchers here who create models for simulating the effects of policy changes for policy makers a number of government departments here. They need user interfaces for their tools, and for one project [1] apparently they're using something that generates forms on a webpage, but it's all written in Java and R, and they want to open source everything and get external contributions (the current code they have up is 2 years old). I'm not advertise them, just giving an example; there must be a number of other projects with similar needs. I don't know how you can find find them.

Finally, there may be projects that actually write the real meat of the research software directly in javascript. It sounds like this is what you want. But I don't think javascript is a popular language amongst researchers. Languages like MATLAB/Octave, Python, R, Mathematica, Magma/GAP, C, Java, Julia are mostly used. Checking my CS department's mailing list, the only mention of javascript is a project to write a Google Chrome extension to use the javascript API for an eye tracker [2]

[1]: http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/our-research/researc...

[2]: https://theeyetribe.com/products/
Bringing up countries formed by British descendants as examples of how the British Empire was harmless is like saying that countries such as Austria and Czechoslovakia were enthusiastic German subjects. What does that have to do with the majority that weren't?
Be sure to remember electricity costs in your calculations.
I was born in the first half of the 80s and the only person I've ever known to use "on accident" is my sister born towards the end of the eighties. It sounds stupid and myself and my family have always corrected her. I wasn't aware this was some sort of societal movement.
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Elon Musk has said he would just put one big engine on a gimbal and just ditch the ailerons and everything. No clutch necessary.
Given the firmware source, it generally isn't too hard to port an existing open-source motion control software (which there are plenty of) to run on this machine. Electronics schematics would help but the firmware source is enough.
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The fact that it is free doesn't mean it costs nothing. I am pretty sure that google's datacentre bill is not a tiny amount, and it takes lots of developers to make a gmail. And you won't be indexing the whole of the internet on an old desktop running in a closet.
Is there a specific field of research you are trying to get into? If so, pick a research paper/topic with practical industry applications, then implement and explain it in an easy-to-understand way. You can write a blog post (or series) about it and publish everything on Github. It may take a while, but personally I found that trying to explain a complex topic in a simple and practical way is the absolute best way to really understand it. Passively reading papers is not going to give you the same understanding. And using JS for this type of project is perfect, because lots of people are familiar with it. You will make research more accessible to everyone, which is something we need. Try to choose a project that's a good fit for JS. For example, something that heavily relies on optimized memory allocation and GPU operations probably isn't a good fit.

Be warned though, there are quite a few research papers, especially those coming out of Academia as opposed to industry, that are cryptic, lacking in detail, or not easily reproducible. And that's intentional. This isn't obvious when you read a paper, it will only become obvious when you actually try to reproduce it. These papers are the result of misaligned goals Academia in, where it's all about publishing as many papers as possible that look good on the surface. When In doubt, I'd recommend focusing on research that has a lot of interest from the industry. That's usually a safer bet.
I've added a reply to my previous post yesterday, because HN wouldn't allow me to write more comments.

I think all your data points actually support my thesis.
I tried this out and watched some Supernatural. My only gripe would be that I wish I could move further back from the virtual screen. At least I think that's what the problem is.
> geometrically [...] exponentially

Cubically and quadratically?
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If the density doubles every 10 years that means we're 50 years to parity. And we don't need to get to parity in order for there to be at least one economically feasible design. there might be some cases where reliability and availability of fuel are at a premium and an aircraft could be viable in half that. Which means now is exactly the right time to start experimenting if you're a plane manufacturer.
Translating bitcode to binary must be done by open-source tool (llvm?) and bitcode must be available for end-user. Then end-user can download bitcode, download llvm, translate bitcode and compare it to the binary he got from AppStore. But it unlikely to happen, because this feature would be hard to sell.
Nothing destroyed the quality of web content as much as AdSense did. So many websites turned into "made for AdSense" and started doing stupid things that actually severely reduce their earning potential.
Makes me think of mud crack patterns.

These happend when the soil contracts. Maybe it's the same type of phenomena, caused by ice contraction ?
You're citing something that you then refuse to cite.

This is not a convincing argument in any way at all. You're behaving indistinguishably from someone just making shit up.
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