skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting how most of the women posses masculine facial structure while the men appear fairly normal (aside from cultural dress, makeup (or lack of), and hair styles). I wonder what selection bias was at play or perhaps self-selection.
Whenever I see a NYT headline that starts "The Myth of...", I know whatever they're pooh-poohing is true.
The picture in that link is the original dev board which is not breadboard compatible. The new version leaves 1 row available - http://www.amazon.com/Diymall%C2%AElua-Nodemcu-Network-Devel... . Ebay / Aliexpress have them for $7-8 from Asia if you're willing to wait on shipping.
Apparently someone ported it, so I took the question out:

https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/esp82...

This board looks fantastic. I don't know why anyone would buy an Arduino, I am just amazed by this.

Well, you'd buy an Arduino for the ecosystem, but this board is much better in many respects. I have a Particle Photon and I was excited because it had WiFi, but the NodeMCU has WiFi and is cheap enough to be disposable. I am pretty stoked right now.
The hardware is essentially an ESP8266 + support.

The MicroPython port to the ESP8266 isn't terribly complete, but it does exist: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/esp82...
Haha...is he suggesting Satya Nadella?
One of the best (and incidentally, very recent) illustration of your point was seen an AMA by Bill Murray [1]. The Reddit mod was simply transcribing sentences as Bill was saying them. Soon after, /u/BillMurrayTranslator (some random guy) rewrote the exact same content in a more coherent, punctuated and editorialized manner. The difference in readability is stark!
Bill's answers were quite hard to understand because of their stream of consciousness nature.

Reading these two types of writing side by side (as in this ama), convinced me that 'write as you talk' can seem quite odd.

The advice does work fantastically well with people who feel compelled to use very formal language to make their point. In those instances,
Write like you talk could mean: write in a simple way.

[1] https://m.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3pommg/looks_like_im_bi...
Oh yes. What could an HN story that involves poverty be without yet another round of "You don't know poor people. Let me tell you about poverty."
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Exactly.

Many web tool chains involve pulling from external repositories such as npm, bower or even github itself. If one of these are down you cannot deploy your application.

Even better many packaging systems such as npm or setuptools allow you and library maintainers to specify a flexible version numbers for your dependencies. If during the course of your build, test and deploy chain one of these dependencies changes your application could break through no fault of your own. You cannot rely on maintainers to not release breaking changes in minor versions, it happens all the time, intentionally or not.
"To my writing classes I used later to open by saying that anybody who could talk could also write. Having cheered them up with this easy-to-grasp ladder, I then replaced it with a huge and loathsome snake: “How many people in this class, would you say, can talk? I mean really talk?” That had its duly woeful effect. I told them to read every composition aloud, preferably to a trusted friend. The rules are much the same: Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don’t say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, it’s very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice."

~ Christopher Hitchens
I'm 1000% in support of work-life balance, and of employers treating employees as humans.

But given that the Amazon that I worked at for a year and a half (in the AWS tree) emphasized work-life balance, and among the dozens of workers I knew personally, none had complaints anything like the one in the article (or the many in the previous Amazon-is-evil article) I do wonder about the other examples given.

Bezos sent out an email company-wide after the story about the stillborn child broke and said that is not something that should ever happen at Amazon, and to email him personally if anything like that ever happens again.

I also have reports from an Apple employee who has worked there for years that he's not particularly overworked, and that he has plenty of time to spend with his family.

All of the referenced companies are big. In any big company you'll have pockets of crappy management. It's no more fair to describe the company culture based on the experience of an individual than it is to describe a human culture based on the actions of an individual.

That said, I'm sure there are companies where the culture is cutthroat all the way down. But I'm also sure that trait is not confined to tech start-ups -- and I would hope that the trait isn't highly correlated with company success.
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The New Yorker is the only place I can ever remember seeing this usage.
The idea is everyone ends up better off because you don't need a giant civil service bureaucracy to apply arcane rules about who does and does not qualify for various subsidies.
This becomes more complex when distributions want to patch configure.ac or Makefile.am -- they need to patch the included Makefile.in files as well.

Trying to balance these two forces is the reasoning behind the AM_MAINTAINER_MODE flag.

These days, I prefer to simply use git archive for a tarball and make users run autogen.sh themselves.

See https://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2011/09/08/am_maintainer_mode-... and the associated comments.
Hey Everyone,

Just wanted to jump in here and say that me and my business partner are making a bookmarking app that falls in squarely in the visual and private corner of all these apps if you look at the article.

It's called Linkship and you can check it out at https://www.getlinkship.com

It's in the very early stages of development, and we're in the process of adding a whole slew of useful features. Would love for anyone to try it out and give us feedback. We're only two people, but we're working hard to do this right :D
Facebook thrives on the lack of privacy, so is this surprising?
Hmm, I'm sorry, I changed my product after I wrote my comment. On the NodeMCU site (http://nodemcu.com/index_en.html), the photo looks like this product:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/201414882109

Is this not the latest version? I just bought two but canceled the order after your comment.

Is the one you posted the very latest version?
>A bit tangential, but I'd also argue that the military as recourse is, itself, an unfair burden on poor people.

Not borne out by the statistics. The average recruit comes from a family that's better educated and wealthier than the average American. The real problem with poor people using the military to lift themselves out of poverty is so many of them can't enlist as a consequence of obesity or a criminal record.
I'm subscribed to Jacobin and the writing style certainly feels as though they are preaching to the choir rather than trying to persuade anyone.
Hah! I just realized that "Kids these Days" would make the perfect alternate name for Hacker News! ;-)

P.S. My lawn: get off.
The article seems to mean "tarballs are obsolete for source distribution", not obsolete on the whole.

> Here’s an advantage of the clone/pull distribution system; every clone is implicitly validated by its SHA1 hash chain.

Given that TLS does not consider SHA1 secure[1] anymore… I'm not sure that's an assumption I'd be making.

[1] in the sense that it's being rapidly deprecated; even if it doesn't trigger validation failures today, the fact that it will tomorrow is telling.
If I were to make a completely blind guess, I'd say it may be the case that drugs which affect dopamine or dopamine receptors directly or indirectly can have some causal or exacerbatory effect on psychotic disorders like schizophrenia.

Lots of different stimulant and psychedelic drugs affect dopamine in some way.
> The OP sought to put [...]

What the OP sought to put -- via conveying it in written words -- is the notion that it (as in, achieving equity and parity between people) would be far more productive if people looked at these issues as group-based conflicts (instead of race-based ones) ... and the primary reason the OP drew attention to human groups as a whole, instead of the narrower set of groups known as races, is to do with the fact that these conflicts -- be they between a taxi driver and a person of African descent, or between a husband and a wife -- are ultimately sourced in the group-identity of the respected parties.

What the OP never put in words (much less sought to put them) are the various forms of discrimination (be it on equal or unequal footing) as the OP was pointing fingers at the deeper root-cause of group-identity and not the superficial facet of discriminations. It is worth bearing in mind that there is far more to human suffering than simply being discriminated at.

Speaking personally the OP is only concerned with his own group-identifications -- how it negatively affects himself and everybody who comes in contact with him -- and (since very recently) not the members of whatever group he currently identifies with. Put simply, the OP specifically points to paying attention to one's own group-identities and not the "Tories."
I think I saw something like this yesterday in Shenzhen, but until this thread I couldn't identify what this is (and locals here don't speak English). I'm probably buying a bunch the next time I'm around.

Arduino nowadays yes, mostly for ecosystem and as a good entry point to electronics for people who know neither it, nor software. Otherwise it's overkill both in terms of price and size (btw. I still find it hard to accept that such big boards cost so little; Arduino Uno clones go for something like $3-4 right now).
I was wondering about the private vs. public position of companies on this. Seeing Microsoft recently flip to the "good list" of companies made me very suspicious.
And what if you find a bug, and want to regress to a previous version?

What is so cumbersome about downloading a project's history?
Here's a drone dressed up as a ghost
> "thanks to .. for reading drafts of this"

What's the Latin for that?
Great post. Thanks for the share.
The article suggests that this is not a big deal anymore now that computers have more storage and networks have more bandwidth.
If not America, then who? The Soviet Union would have turned a lot of Latin America into their imperial possessions, like they did in Cuba and Eastern Europe. Today, the regimes that would fill the void left by an American retreat from leadership are hostile and much less concerned with elections and human rights than the US.

On a personal note, I can only wish that the US had intervened more successfully against Castro in Cuba, the home that my family and millions of others have fled to America from.
I know many here are pretty into electronics - could you recommend any new interesting boards, chips and devices to check out?

I'm in Shenzhen right now, I've visited the electronics markets and was totally overwhelmed. I would love to check out what weird cool things they're pumping out now besides various iterations of ESP8266.
Well, one of the other factors is long hair and the tendency to oversaturate the face. Those factors don't seem independent to me, men are less likely to sport long hair and they're also less likely to oversature the face to measure up to some skin perfection standards (think of it as the photographic equivalent of makeup).

> but it can't be the real reason

Can't? Ontop of the above-listed aspects it is entirely possible that there is a bias that both sexes find female appearance somewhat more aesthetically pleasing.

Similar to how focus group testing for computer voices tends to result in female voices being chosen (at least that's what I often hear, couldn't find a solid source).

Even if the bias is small the correlated factors would amplify it when you're optimizing for a maximum, i.e. for the top selection.
Corporations aren't monoliths, but that's no excuse for the toxic situations known to fester in pockets of mismanagement. If these situations are inevitable in big companies, we'll have to dissolve big companies to get an ethical industry.

Ethics should be a higher priority than profit. Companies should focus on having sustainable business models that support their employees while helping their customers, rather than taking advantage of both groups to drive the bottom line. The tech industry seems to think some kind of positivist exceptionalism frees them from worrying about sustainability, and I think venture capital is a significant negative influence there.
I'm going to go with the opposite in many respects to change consumption patterns - movies can be the same kind of mental junk food as tabloid magazines. But keeping yourself inspired and positive however you may do it is the goal that matters for creative professionals and avoiding burnout. But it's also important to keep trying something new and getting out of your comfort zone sometimes, and this doesn't mean trying some fancy new restaurant especially when you already eat out a lot.

Most of the mentally exhausting problems I have is most of the problems are outside my control and are how I start my day. I'm woken up either randomly by my cats or by my phone due to a production outage I have little power over. Each of these attempts to "reset" are quickly squashed due to the choices others made (I never wanted pets but I inherited them in a way, prod goes out due to services I have no control over and monitoring other people's services is both infeasible and encourages others to sit back while I do what should have been their basic duties).

So for some people, I reckon simply quitting work and purposefully not looking to work until you're ready and itching to do so again is worth trying. Much easier said than done for those not earning handsome salaries, but there are degrees to a full-blown resignation possible for most jobs I believe.
I don't get there on most of my stations. Maybe you just like Coldplay?
> as a good entry point to electronics for people who know neither it, nor software

As someone who knows software but not hardware, I like how modular its shields are. It allowed me to make this[1] with very little effort.

You're right about the price, I bought five Minis the other day because I found them at $1.5 each, and now three of this board, which I am just amazed by. The Uno is huge, though, I agree.

[1]: http://www.stavros.io/posts/irotary-saga/
>Tarballs are just as offline as git repositories...

Tarballs are easier to shoenet into an offline machine. To do this with git repositories, you would either need to deal with transfering a directory structure or, more likely, pack the respository into some sort of tarball.
At least for npm there is a solution for that problem: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/shrinkwrap
The Wikipedia article for it shows only skepticism regarding it, with no professional sources arguing for its existence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi#Scientific_view

Could you show the evidence to the contrary?

Also, potentially beneficial effects of acupuncture do not imply anything about the existence of qi.
Um, I meant the random chance part. If something happens randomly, folks are rarely watching, right?
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And, if you are female, chop off you forehead.
Nice.

I used to watch a lot of movies and in my experience, when a subtitle is out of sync, it is very hard to manually sync it, because of different frame rates and missing sections. So even if you sync it at one point, it will quickly gets out of sync soon. What your tool does can be easily done in vlc player by j/h keys to tweak subtitle delays while playing the movie. But even that does not work. and it will get out of sync with in 5-10 minutes.

What I find the most frustrating is that even after downloading, unzipping and applying 4 or 5 subtitles, you might not find a perfect one. So what I did was to write a tool ([1], [2]) that downloads all the available subtitles for a movie and automatically selects a candidate subtitle from all of them and displays the time at which it appears in each of the downloaded subtitles. You can select the perfect subtitle by finding the time the candidate dialogue appear in the movie and matching it with the list printed out by the tool.

If a dialogue that appears, say 10 or 20 minutes into the movie, is already in perfect sync with a subtitle file, chances are that the rest of the dialogues will be in sync too. And it has worked greatly so far..

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hastily

[2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Titley
To add to this, this is the purpose of the "maintainer" targets generated by automake. To fully clean an automake project so everything is rebuilt, you want "make maintainer-clean".

Running the more common "clean" or "distclean" targets leaves not only the generated Makefile.in files, but also generated source like the generated .c/.h files from a lex/yacc parser. This is important behavior; while C compilers are available everywhere, having bison and flex (or ANTLR, or any other less-common code generation tool) installed isn't as common.
When I was a kid I had a number of Lego Technic sets - they are great! Might not be proper "engineering" but still allows you to touch and build a simplified version of many real-world things, for example a car's drive shaft.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

If he's already pretty skilled, he'll definitely be able to handle even the sets that are marked 10 years old +. I recall I had one of these when I was 6, it was a slight challenge but that was the fun part : ).
I'll have to think about it more, but I don't think your premise is valid, i.e. that there are 2 mostly unrelated supply demand curves. My first thought is that all prices in a dynamic economy are interrelated and are always moving towards a state of equilibrium. This company's actions are disruptive and will either fade or they will change the point of equilibrium.
Another factor, mentioned in the article, is productivity. Henry Ford was able to raise his worker's wages because his manufacturing methods dramatically increased their productivity. I don't know if this company's productivity is high enough to support a raise to 70 G's.
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> Bezos sent out an email company-wide after the story about the stillborn child broke and said that is not something that should ever happen at Amazon, and to email him personally if anything like that ever happens again.

I've worked at places where <some other things that some people would consider inappropriate and are definitely contrary to the written ethical standards of the company> occurred, and if they received enough publicity then certainly an email like that would go out. But until then, the same people (whose responsibility it would be to have their name put at the bottom of such an email) are happy to continue to personally engage in the inappropriate behavior if it serves their career.

I guess what I'm saying is, I wouldn't personally put a lot of faith in such correspondence.
The video at the bottom, though not directly related to the article, is well worth a watch too.
>Aren't government programs in the US globally famous for being woefully inadequate and embarrassing?

Only to people who haven't actually looked at them. US welfare programs are certainly adequate to ensure nobody goes hungry. If children are going hungry it means their parents are spending money earmarked for food on something else.
Wordpress has a larger ecosystem. Ghost's been around for quite a while now, I think they're both reliable. They're probably the two best choices, so either one of them is fine.
The other common places are in names like Brontë, Zoë, and so on and in the word naïve. See the the English subsection of the Wikipedia linked to above: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29#Engl....
I think SPARQL and Wikidata are the way to go.

Regarding Wikidata and DBpedia: to my understanding the latter gets much of its content by scraping Wikipedia infoboxes. Wikidata will increasingly provide data for those infoboxes, and thus DBpedia.

Regarding your fears: I don't share them. Wikidata will greatly enhance the accessibility of knowledge for open access research.
What type of handcrafted optimizations are you talking about here?

The state of the art I've read about* (deep CNNs) in later years rely more on generalized tricks like augmenting the training data (artificially inflating the data set), pre-training and fine-tuning, ReLU, regularization methods like dropout, etc.

For anyone interested, here [1] are some benchmarks.

* Late night here, but often in the vein of this [0] work.

[0]: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ranzato/publications/taigman_cvp...

[1]: http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/results.html
I had to ask the two main people from FFTF that post here and on Reddit twice here on HN and around six times on Reddit, but one of them finally answered my question [1] as to exactly what part of CISA would give companies immunity as long as they also share with the government.

They are basing that on this article [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3q1kgl/facebook...

[2] https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/10/14/time-to-get-very-conce...
I think there is plenty of reason to be concerned about tech giants and startup darlings being run without a moral compass by sociopathic leadership. But it seems myopic to focus your concern on their employees, who'll endure a tough couple of years and then wash out into $100k+ jobs elsewhere.

What about the consequences on society at large of (a) letting these companies accumulate power and influence and (b) lionizing their leaders' pursuit of results at all cost?