skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Identity is a complex thing. It's an interplay of what a person declares about themselves and what society is prepared to accept as an identity. Who gets to decide identity is thus a mix of you and everyone else, and the weighting is dependent upon parts of your identity.

It's kind of a mess, and it's really not fair to anyone.

Anyway. Yes, anonymity carries its own baggage. But it's a separate sort of baggage, out there to be assumed by anyone at any time. There's a long and proud history of anonymous authors affecting politics or writing biting satire that would have been impossible without anonymity.
I know way too much about this to respond, but I'll just say there are a lot of pieces driving this. :)
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That's not the argument being made.
We already provide a repr attribute which controls representation to some degree, though it doesn't do anything like this.

At the moment, I think it would be a volunteer with a mission: I'm not aware of anyone who's even directly indicated that they'd like this feature anywhere official yet, let alone made a proposal. That doesn't mean it's bad, I just mean it's not directly on our radar at this time.
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Python 2.7? Really? Why not 3.4!
There's a conversation to be had about many Americans living in precarious financial situations, but the reason why most Americans don't currently view their savings accounts as priorities is because in the current interest rate environment savings accounts and CDs are products with vanishingly little to recommend them.

The APY my bank offers is one basis point. That's $1 per year for every $10k held in the account. You can imagine that if I suddenly found $100k burning a hole in my pocket I would not immediately think "Sweet! All I have to do is stuff that it the bank for a year and then I can almost afford an entire movie ticket!"
"640K ought to be enough for anybody"
- Bill Gates, 1981

I can't wait to spin up a 64 node cluster of these new X1's.
AWS IoT – Cloud Services for Connected Devices
Nice!

I have to say that ECS (plus an autoscaler to manage a server pool) has proven to be a fairly painless way to run Docker containers in production. As usual, Docker volumes are hard to use effectively. But if all your app state lives in a separate data store somewhere, it's easy to set up the web and worker tiers on ECS.
Not sure -- one question is, why are all those people staying in Dhaka? I've never been there, but I would suspect that their income/standard of living, while quite horrible, might still be better compared to Bangladesh countryside?
Serious question - does anyone know who is going to use this?
It's a combination of that (usually the intermediate language is ANSI SQL) and also used stored procs & UDT's to provide "work alike" behaviors.
Physical servers at other providers are almost universally cheaper than AWS. At AWS, you're paying for it to be in your same account, have access to your other AWS resources, etc.

EDIT: This is not to hate on AWS. I love AWS! (I do devops and infrastructure). Its to say, if you need what AWS offers, buy it. If you don't, architect your solution around other providers.
The civilization most directly ancestral to our own, and therefore the one that has the most influence on our current civilization. That's why.

Other civilizations can be profitably studied as well, of course. But for western Europe and the US to specialize on Rome is quite reasonable.
Because we are all a part of society, and as such we all have some small responsibility to one another (e.g. paying taxes, obeying laws even when there's no risk of being caught, etc).
I'm not going to say the subtext I pointed out in an "other side of the coin" tongue in cheek manner went over your head, but I'm also not not going to say it.

I measure public statements by persons in similar positions to him by how they could be cast as self-serving.
I've done android development as well as iOS development. The big difference is that the xml spat out by the android tools is readable and easily hand editable as opposed to the xml produced by interface builder.

At the start of the article I make be point that interface builder is great for solo developers or small dedicated IOS teams. My main critique of interface builder is its use in a larger cross functional team setting. That doesn't sound like your use case.

Re manual view layout: Have you looked at any third party libraries like masonry, snapkit or componentkit? When I worked at Facebook we used ComponentKit and it was a much better experience than manually calculating the positions of views.
You might want to check your logs...
It seems there has been a great number of Amazon/AWS updates and new product offerings recently. Does anyone know why this is the case? (I.e. why all these releases have occurred over the space of the last two weeks?)
you hit a sensible point which of course we all know but refuse to take into account:

the more AWS provides, the more it does right, the more locked in you are in AWS. At some point everything will be AWS with zero commit back to any other project - stall.

In fact when we reach that point it's going to be difficult for AWS to provide new things since everything AWS does is basically provide open source tools with a scaling, programmable deployment AND management model (basically what open source tools usually lack).

Kinda scary when you think of it for too long.
The same theory as the GPL, why allow people to use your work if you cannot use their additions in return?
I made no such claim. I was disputing the GP's assertion that police aren't broken.
dota was the first game to mute ban me. I came home after a night of drinking and roleplayed troll warlord at 3 in the morning. I woke up to find myself mutebanned (something I'd never heard of). I had won 2/3 games and had the best stats in all three games. Very quickly I realized that this mute system was automated. A game could start with me unmuted, a teammate could report me because he didn't like the hero I picked or the lane I was going to, even if I hadn't said anything to said teammate, and I would become muted before creeps even spawned. The whole system was supper shoddy and lazily put together. Valve actually responded by posting an essay on why they were right and how the system wasn't automated, but perfect in every way. As a long time fanboy of Valve, I had never seen them do anything like this and I had never seen them post an essay like this. That was the nail in the coffin for me.
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Yes. And the two facts are not disconnected.

We are seeing global inequality fall to unprecedented lows. If you're in the top 5% (which the American middle class definitely is), then less inequality feels bad to you.

Global wages growth is quite high, it's just happening in places that need it way more than rich westerners do, as much as that sucks for rich westerners.
Composite HDR shots are supposed to be done such that the shutter at the fastest speed properly exposes the highlights and the slowest speed completely blows out on the highlights, but the extremely dark shadows are properly exposed. In other words, it's about filling in the details when overexposure causes amplitude clipping.

How most people end up shooting HDR, however, the component images mostly all have full detail in the shadows and highlights, meaning the final image really not much more than you've described. You can do that with a single shot and a contrast slider.
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We just setup DataDog, and absolutely love them for all of our charting and monitoring needs. They are quite deeply integrated with AWS.
"I live in drought ridden land locked Africa. Stop teaching me to fish; there are no fish here."
It's hard to believe this given the current state of the tech industry, but until fairly recently, San Francisco was a second tier city.

What I mean by this is that San Francisco wasn't the "alpha" city for any particular career path. If you wanted to pursue law, finance, publishing, entertainment, and so forth, the alpha cities were New York, Los Angeles, and maybe Chicago. Even tech was mainly a south bay thing, and it was smaller.

That's not to say you couldn't pursue a fine career in these fields SF, and SF probably was one of the better 2nd tier cities from a career perspective (the only other one I can think of is Boston, similar in that it has top tier universities that do bring top academics to town), but it wasn't until tech hit that SF became a place you would live for your career, even though otherwise you didn't like it here.

This has changed things a lot. People have always come to SF looking for something new, but in the past, really as recently as maybe the late 90s (just before the first dot com boom), people really only came to SF because they wished to some extent to live in SF. I also think this may be what is behind many of the recent "10 things I hate about SF" posts, often comparing it unfavorably to New York or other "alpha-career" cities. In the past, whoever wrote these would simply be living in New York or another alpha city.

It has been a very deep cultural change for SF to suddenly find itself an "alpha" city for careers in a a substantial segment of the economy - in other words, people who moved to SF specifically for career advancement, but would otherwise prefer to be living somewhere else.
AWS re:invent is yesterday + today: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
>And don't forget, BBC is also funded by a government. So is Canadian CBC. CNN also gets a lot of gov contracts and gov crossover.

I don't know if BBC is, what is your source on that? As for the others, they may receive money from the government but they are now owned by the government like sputnik. I don't think either are remotely comparable to sputnik though.

The source of the news always matters and it's fair to point out if they are heavily biased.
I suspect that regardless of how good a device MS comes up with, they can't win with the consumers, since Windows is strongly associated with the dreadful office computers and the IT-tyranny of the workplace. Who wants to use Windows at home after using it in the office all day?

I'm sure lots of people think of the office when they boot up their Xbox One. Also most offices I have seen don't even run the consumer version of Windows (Windows 8 tile mode).

I think many techies especially techies like myself that live in say Boston, New York, San Francisco are in a microcosm of Apple is everywhere. Other than mobile phones MS is actually pretty damn ubiquitous and is not necessarily going to wither and die.... speaking of which do know how many times Apple has come up with things that have withered and died? Or any big company for that matter? Also wasn't Apple yesterday at one point but then rebooted? Try to keep an open mind.
It;d be nice if someone proposed a comprehensive comparison of google cloud vs aws, including featureset compare, porting-to-and-from compare, and benchmarks.

/dream
MSVC also will report whether vectorization succeeded, and why it didn't if it failed.
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Nah, systematic dishonesty is always detrimental in the long run. You should always make sure your lies are trivial.
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the problem with powershell is that it is incredibly stupid if you're not on a full windows stack (desktops, servers and near enough to everything inbetween) and running the most recent version of windows (ever tried getting winrm installed and reliably working on a 2008 box?)

perhaps if they were not too opposed early on to horrible open source things and just one of the languages that already fit fairly well in that area (python for example) they wouldn't have had to go out of their way to make pretty shitty hacks (i really wonder if anyone in the powershell\winrm team did any testing or development with the machines more than 10 metres away)
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I guess I understand the idea that someone might want to live in a building filled entirely with people in their own industry... but I never liked the idea. They asked me in college "Do you want to live in a building that's composed only of engineers?" No, no I don't. How am I suppose to expand my mind talking only to people who do the same things I do? I'm suppose to sacrifice the expansion of my mind because English majors party or something?

And that is the primary reason I'm in NYC now instead of Silicon Valley. Of course there is proximity to family and my love of this city in general, but the main reason is that at the end of the day, I go back to my block in Bushwick and spend hours almost every day just sitting with my Puerto Rican neighbors who have lived vastly different lives from mine. And I love it.

The other option would have been to be a in a heavily white and asian male dominated situation with a bunch of people just like me, and i understand the appeal of not having to deal with things that are "different", but for me that's the best part of life.

I'm happy to have lived with whites, blacks, latinos, asians, men, women, straight and gay people throughout my life. And I'm much more comfortable in working class neighborhoods than middle and upper class neighborhoods.

So to me, it sounds like Seattle has a helluva uphill battle if it has to compete with the likes of entirely tech worker dominated buildings and wants to maintain any sort of culture at all besides whatever uniform culture that situation imposes upon an area.
Sometimes I like to sit a couple of inches higher when I'm practicing the piano. The Yellow Pages works great!
No...

The point of the survey is that 95% of Americans thought things were getting worse or staying the same.

Regardless of what metric you are using, they are dead wrong. Things are getting much, much better. You are arguing about the specific definitions and qualifications of the terms. You are ignoring what the results of the survey are actually saying about the perception of Americans.
AWS IoT
It seems like the US did have "socioeconomics and underlying political systems that can raise populations that don't resort to violence" or at least was moving that way until 1 to 2 years ago when the decades long decline in violent crime came to an abrupt halt.
Microsoft Announces Azure IoT Suite
AWS re:Invent keynote from yesterday and today's keynote is currently on.
Super duper shit mate. You should definitely have a beta signup or some other form for folks who either visit and its down or don't want to demo right away?
If Wikileaks is anti-US, is then tor project a anti-China project? Most of their yearly talk on CCC is about their success in breaking the censorship in China, much of their success is about how effective tor is against the great firewall, and many news papers present a China vs Tor Project narrative. The Tor project was also initially funded by the US military, so even the money tells a anti-China narrative.
when will you add instant search results in the browser's search box? For example, if i use Firefox and have Google ad the default, and i type "32 * (13 - 9)" it will instantly show a dropdown with the answer 128. I would really like DDG to do this too.
2015 estimate: 662,400

2010 estimate: 608,658

Assuming every one of those 53,742 people was male, the ratio would go from 50% female to 45.9% female.
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Guns and encryption aren't fungible in that sentence.

No one's ever been injured or killed by accidental application of encryption, but thousands of people are injured or killed by accidental gunfire every year.
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German employees generally just don't step out of line like this; it just isn't in their culture.

They have a structured, hierarchical and rule abiding work culture.

I just don't buy the theory that the engineering team under pressure from the execs went off on their own on this.
So, my extremely quick read is this a framework for hiding stuff that consumes data from internet of thing appliances and makes some of that data available via shadows.

I wish amazon would do a better job explaining why this new thing is better than the last new thing from amazon. Many services feel close and similar until you dig into the target use cases. Even the FAQ doesn't have a list of target use cases.
Try breaking that down by age and marital status. See for instance: http://jonathansoma.com/singles/#1/3/2/0

It certainly isn't 2:1 - that was hyperbole - but it's bad. And it doesn't actually take a large absolute difference to produce huge changes in behavior. A standard economic model of this fact is explained nicely here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/02/rev... In the efficient market limit, an arbitrarily small perturbation in the effective gender ratio produces arbitrarily large changes in outcomes.
> That would still make currencies far more stable than modern currencies.

Not really. Let's say we're on the gold standard, and now the computer revolution happens, and the internet revolution, and so on. We've created a bunch of new businesses, which are worth a bunch of money, but the amount of gold didn't change. So the value of money had to change, because the size of the economy changed, and the amount of gold didn't.

For that matter: Which is growing faster, the population, or the amount of gold? That affects the value of money if we're on the gold standard.
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I don't know who James Hansen is. The above is how I think NASA should operate, not how it actually does. I think NASA gets easily distracted by science, when it should be an engineering organization devoted to space and flight (more space than flight these days). Many smart people disagree.
> With AWS IoT, your applications can keep track of and communicate with all your devices, all the time, even when they aren’t connected.

This sounds like magic :)
India and China produced just about everything locally that the West could export, and without having to ship it halfway around the world. Generally, they also produced higher quality manufactured goods, up until the Industrial Revolution. They also had botanical products that didn't grow in Europe, or were state secrets (like serriculture), which were desirable. Until the BEIC hooked a sizable part of southern China on opium, about the only reliable trade good was cold, hard cash.

It's kind of hilarious to read through the annals of the British East India Company[1], for example. On their initial expeditions, they loaded ships full of wool, English broadcloth, leather, and other kinds of trade goods that they might shuttle around the Baltic Sea trade. When they got to Malabar or Indonesia, they realized these trade goods were basically worthless - on a couple of expeditions they were lucky enough to capture Spanish or Portuguese ships loaded with Indian cotton goods that it turned out could be traded for peppercorns or nutmegs, on others they had to use what little gold and silver they were allowed to ship.

The silk, ceramic and tea trade to China vacuumed up a huge percentage of the output of the Spanish New World silver and gold mines. So much Peruvian silver came into Ming and Qing China that it wrecked the conversion rates between gold, silver and cash currency, and much of the mercantilist economic studies of the period were focused on finding ways to get the balance of trade to result in specie coming into, e.g England, rather than going out.

I enjoy that Pliny quote, because it highlights the same problems of international trade in the Roman Republic that the various East India companies experienced.

[1] https://archive.org/details/annalshonorable03brucgoog
There is such a thing as trading on volatility but like the other person said, the volume is so low that it's not significant.
Any time I see a line about a city "keeping its soul" or a company "coming for its soul", I have a reasonable expectation that "soul" is going to be defined myopically. The recent past will be regarded as perfection, not to be tampered with.

Sadly, this article continues that pattern. The past is privileged and the future is to dance only to its tune. No wonder people are upset that things are changing - privilege is being challenged.
What is that line in the Pink Floyd song? "I got thirteen channels of shit on the tv to choose from..".

Netflix is beginning to resemble that. I mean I love Netflix but its becoming a little hit-or-miss. The alternatives (proprietary content from HBO Now) are becoming more alluring.

Anyway I just signed up a year's subscription with MUBI. I haven't had a chance to see "Junun" yet, but I just recently watched "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mira Nair. I was blown away by the quality of the Music/Soundtrack in that.

I don't know the precise style of music in the movie (Qawwali/Hindustani???) but I have never heard anything so amazing.
When will I be able to watch Netflix in Firefox 64? What's the timeline for this to work and who has to make the changes, Netflix or Mozilla?
No, I am not even tho ugh I disagree that it's an anti-pattern. I write a lot of small programs that are meant to deal with large amounts of data, but data that is different enough to require a separate 100 line program. The difference of thinking about these things is the difference between 20 minutes and 2 minutes for the program's run-time.
Hardware MFGRs with little security experience I hope.
Same story for my team.
DockerHub is a mess from a UX perspective and pricing structure which goes against the microservices concepts that Docker enables.

More than 50 container images and I need to "Contact Sales" for an Enterprise contract? Really?
I don't need that many levels to make it explode and you probably don't want to set a very low max depth since it beats the purpose of graphql itself.
Only discovered MUBI today via HN. Looks great! There is one annoyance (which I also have with Netflix): I live in Denmark, but I am not fluent in Danish. Not all your movies have English subtitles though, so how can I watch anything else except the three languages I master (English, French and Dutch)? Are licensing issues preventing you from offering English subtitles on all your movies as a default?
Choose whatever works for you. Interface Builder can save you so much time building some of the smaller aspects of your app (help/about screens) etc. that it's foolish in my opinion to just "do away" with IB on principle.

Sure, if you have 1 storyboard for your entire app, and 9 people are working on it, you will have collisions. 9 people on an iOS project is bound to have merge conflicts in code too, unless it's coordinated.

Xcode 7's storyboard references should help avoid some conflicts here, as it breaks up a single, conflict-magnet file into several. Hell, you can organize them like XIB files before Apple started pushing the 1 storyboard "simple" approach to ease the learning curve.

Side note: The title of this post should have been "Reasons we are switching away from Interface Builder", as it doesn't actually answer the question. But then it wouldn't be interesting enough to click on.
Because we entrust certain actors to be the enforcers of laws in society. This is the way societies have worked since the dawn of time; we aren't all charged with upholding laws, we give that task out to people to have that be their job.
Well that was interesting, if longwinded.

tl;dr: (As you might have anticipated) Women who are primed to imagine themselves as a man perform statistically the same as men. This has implications for other standardized tests too. When people (subconsciously) underperform to confirm to a (negative) stereotype of some part of their identity, it's called stereotype threat. A similar effect occurs, e.g., when a woman is in an engineering class surrounded by men.