skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairness, the activists have done themselves a major disservice for protesting this email. By doing so, they've made that the focal point and it's just not a very compelling argument.

If protests were primarily over the party, then a lot more people would be supportive.
No, it's not. It's yelling. Yelling is not violence. Words mean things, and if you need an illustration, think of all the times the police have used the false equivalence between discourteous or angry speech and violence in order to harm people.
I think that is an acceptable understanding. In a more formal setting, we talk about witnesses [1]. In effect, there is some piece of "knowledge" that will convince someone that you can solve something. With Waldo [2], that would be the actual location (x-y coordinates) of Waldo. If I want to convince you that I know where Waldo is, I can just give you the X-Y coordinates of his location. This has the unfortunate side effect of giving _you_ the ability to convince people you know this knowledge (you now know where Waldo is) - we have revealed the witness to you. In a general sense, a zero knowledge proof is a class of protocols where you convince another party that you know the witness of a problem without having to reveal it to them (they receive zero knowledge about the witness).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness_(mathematics)

[2] http://www.anagram.com/jcrap/Volume_0_1/crv0n1-3.pdf
Bittersweet:

My old Posterous blog is one of the top domains ranked by average upvotes. That says something about the time when I was a better and/or more prolific essayist... And something about walled gardens.
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>>> and have better things to do.

Yeah, like fundraising!
I'd be interested to know what advise you had for yourself 20 years in the future, and how realistic that advice was?
And yet you guys have Apple Pay and we don't. It's "coming real soon" to the three shopfronts in the country that still take Amex.
This is the rub, isn't it? In other contexts, these adults would be raising children, holding down full-time jobs, or leading squads in the Army. That we have contexts -- at allegedly elite universities, no less -- where they are not expected to be emotionally capable of handling a Halloween costume or an op-ed they disagree with is somewhat terrifying.
That's a super interesting thought. You should consider that the sum total of popularity of topics on HN up till today can't be used in hindsight as a predictor. It would be interesting to see if we merely looked for past spikes in keywords and used that to govern investment decisions. Even then, I fear that for every "bitcoin" and "apple", there may be other technologies and companies (especially smaller startups) that didn't work out so well, although I hypothesize a net positive.

Despite it being public data, because the information circulated on HN is at the core of technology, it could prove valuable to investors with limited knowledge of it (and might well be worth packaging and selling, haha).
I didn't catch this at the time, but I will take a look. Thanks.
So you're willing to put the onus on the blockee instead of, I dunno, not blocking their driveway and walking an extra 30 meters? There are words for that, none of them nice.
i did this in about 30 seconds because this remedial challenge was no match for my highly superior brain. jk it took me and 2 other people about 30 minutes to complete this using efficient code. much fun 10/10 would recommend too a friend. if i had any
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He is also a ninja, an astronaut, a master chef, and a damn good fellow!
The diagram at least looks a lot like Max/MSP and PureData, which are data-flow tools for processing MIDI and audio data. Could this be used to implement something along those lines?
Anyone experienced with machine learning want to try this out on some high frequency trading data? I'm in the processing of preparing a data set for more traditional analysis and would be willing to share.

We are in Colorado, but I'm happy to work with someone remotely.
Your reaction seems strong, but I still thank you for sharing the original e-mail (through the annotations).

It seems like both the original e-mail and the response were both within reason actually. Remember the second e-mail was not just responding to the first e-mail, but also to the reaction to the first e-mail.

Email 1 tldr: You might not realize that people find your cultural stereotypes offensive, please be considerate (although the explicit list of costumes felt a little too much like trying to give a pre-approved list of costumes).

Email 2: Not all things that are offensive should be banned, engage with people.

I however suspect that on the student level the discourse seemed much less civilized which is why the whole thing is blowing up.

I actually don't think the blond-haired girl example is a complete straw man. She was just trying to show that there was a large area between "probably okay" and "probably not okay" where people probably weren't able to agree, but people could still put outer bounds on. Also while this might not have been a complaint in the original e-mail, it very well could have been a complained the reaction to the first e-mail generated.
They may have asked because having dental insurance isn't as common in Switzerland (medical/accident insurance is mandatory, but not dental), so many people pay for everything out of pocket. They might opt-out of the anesthetic to save money.
There have been several similar posts to this recently. (Acceptance of boredom, melancholy, etc.)
Maybe drugs should just be legalized (but regulated, quality controlled and supplemented with referrals to counseling)

The war on drugs has high costs to society, and helps to drive up prices of drugs unnecessarily, causing financial distress and criminality in addicts.

Treating drug use as a criminal offense rather than as a disease, means you take a single problem "substance abuse" and then create a 2nd criminal problem on top of it.

Even the billionaire George Sorros crafted a systematic plan, that coupled with legalization, solves nearly all the problems people expect to accompany the suddenly cheap access to drugs.

Why the world will not use logic on this matter is beyond me.

Lets consider all the harm caused by alcohol - believe you me it is a lot - drunk driving, alcoholism, liver scheloris and cancer risk increase plus a ton of other health costs....

But all that pales in comparison to the damage that was done by prohibition.

There's also the recent example of all the benefits of legalizing cannabis.

Drug laws need to be reformed.

The war on drugs IS the problem, not the solution.
I am 32 and have never had to havea filling or root canal. I do not brush my teeth very often or do anything special, except possibly limiting sugar intake somewhat, and maybe rinsing once in a while.

I went to a dentist a year ago and they said I am developing a cavity inside one of my upper treth, and should get it treated. Since then it's been a year and I feel no pain there and nothing is visible on the outside. I don't know.

Is this at all typical?
For starters, the DOM API is horrible.
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I think that sometimes there's another factor that gets overseen when discussing torture.

The "problem" that I believe is also tried to be addressed with torture is the view that the society that "supports torture" (via their government, even if against the opinion of most people) can't let leniency get in the way of righteous retribution against their enemies.

Imagine if someone invents a pill that is literally the "truth serum", and that the subject taking it can't lie for say an hour or so.

Would that end torture? If torture's only objective is to get information then it should.

But what if torture is really filling another role? one that is not satisfiable by information but by inflicting pain on your enemy?

I'm not defending torture by any means, and I do think it should be something that we as humanity should strive to end. But it seems like more often than not you can find people that would not defend torture, "except in cases of extreme need", i.e. when they need retribution.

It would be interesting to do some research on what victims of crime and violence, and their families, think about what it would be "fair" to do to their offenders. Maybe it turns out most won't be willing to inflict pain in others, or maybe it turns out most people are vengeful and would like to see their enemies suffer.

If the case is the latter, then I think the main problem with torture would be not as a tool to obtain information, but as a tool to inflict retribution.

What if a society that is mainly governed by people of the second kind get a hold of the ability to torture? e.g. CIA interrogators, people that sign torture orders, etc? then in their minds it would be justifiable, even if the activity doesn't yield any useful information.

If it does, then they get the information AND retribution. If they don't get truthful information then they still get retribution.

That's why I think torture is a subject so hard for officials to understand the damage it can cause. As long as they think retribution in this form is OK, then it will be very hard to end this practice.
When you look at browsers, web, html, http ... the whole stack. It's pretty horrible. How did we get to this point?

...could be worse. At least it's not E-mail.
I know it's small and probably not worth mentioning, but I created a bitcoin exchange's api aggregator (my first Node.js app). Basically it attempts to wrap multiple exchange's api's into 1 common library, so you don't need to constantly look up the docs across different companies.

https://github.com/jxm262/xchange.js

I built another project to analyze prices across the exchanges using the xchange.js library. Surprisingly both have 13 stars on github :) I'm planning to add _alot_ more functionality over the next month or so to both projects.

https://github.com/jxm262/btc-stats
Yes. See http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/user_literal
> You can use Gridifier for free under the non-commercial license. Non-commercial license is valid only if you are creating non-profit and personal projects. In such cases Gridifier license is GPLv3.

This is not how GPL works. By providing it as GPLv3, you've permitted people to redistribute it as they like under the GPLv3, including to themselves (and anyone else they feel like) for commercial purposes, as long as they themselves follow GPLv3's requirements.
Went through the exact opposite of this while at ${CAR_COMPANY.jp} last year (CF->SP). Even a poorly-run Confluence is Shangri-La compared to the abomination that is Sharepoint.
There's always someplace else to park. The question is whether you're more lazy than polite.
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Right, if the QA didn't catch this on emissions, then all sorts of other aspects of the vehicle quality are in question too. Are the vehicles as safe as claimed for example?
The security of wired.com is bad because User Enumeration is possible
So if something is wrong, you fix it!

I'm not sure that calling for the Christakis' resignation is the correct remedial action, but if you were being discriminated against, wouldn't you be angry and ready to fight? Especially if you were promised a safe haven from racism and discrimination at one of the country's most elite schools?

Most of the stuff I've seen on Facebook from Yale students has been directed towards the frat, so I'm surprised there isn't more of a mention of that whole incident in this story either.
In other words, it's very easy? I've made the equivalent of a browser addon for HN before, the only source of difficulty was when the markup changed.
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> Machinima exists because of how enjoyable experiencing a story through a video game environment can be.

Let's not oversell. That's a minor contribution. A much, much bigger reason machinima exists is that it's easier to harness an existing video game to display things than to animate the same things yourself.
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1. Bogus premise. The students aren't objecting to the idea that adults can govern themselves. They're objecting to other problematic claims in the letter.

2. Bogus premise. The original mass-email offered advice about choosing non-offensive costumes, and that advice was so general that nobody could have mistaken it for "guidance"; it was, rather, a set of questions to ask about your costume choices. It was Erika Christakis who reframed it as a set of guidelines, suggesting at the same time that Yale culture was going to police Mulan costumes.

3. The students are upset that the letter hand-waves away concerns about racial sensitivities and stereotypes by making comparisons between childrens costumes and choices made by adults in a climate where there had been real racist incidents at Halloween.

(I don't agree with the students but you should be able to summarize their arguments accurately if you hope to refute them.)
One of the goals of QA is public relations - that is, to convince customers and insurance companies that "good engineering" is going on. You don't get good PR by axing your entire QA department.
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A story on innovation in Australia by ABC's "The Science Show" made a comparison between the attitude to entrepreneurs in Israel & US vs Australia. In Israel & US it was viewed as a positive thing for an entrepreneur to have had 3 failed ventures as the 4th is more likely to succeed due to the experience gained in the previous ventures. In Australia it is viewed as a negative because past failures are predictive of the future.
Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10535836

The more I read that posters comments the more of a fan I become. Not because I agree, but because it makes me think. I honestly don't say that lightly.
There are already a few university ML courses out there using Theano (for which Tensorflow is essentially a drop-in replacement), and I think this will be a much bigger trend over the next few years. IMHO for a first course it's useful to do some work at the Matlab/numpy level just so you get experience with deriving/implementing gradients yourself, but for larger (deep) models automatic differentiation is an amazing productivity boost that should make it possible to cover a lot of interesting topics that you'd otherwise not have space for.
Exactly. If this is really about black people being turned away at parties or a general culture of racism at Yale, that is what should be raged about. Putting up a sacrificial victim in a politics by proxy is pure scapegoating in the theilian sense:

http://blakemasters.com/post/24578683805/peter-thiels-cs183-...
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My screenreader read them to me?
College is changing so much. Ten years ago college was a place where you went to be challenged in your beliefs, ideals, perceptions on reality and society, and be regularly offended by people and ideas that were not your own. I can't imagine trying to go to college today. We've traded freedom to learn and express ourselves, for the freedom to be free from anything uncomfortable or offensive in any way. WTF.
> zero bug policy.

Oh, why hadn't I thought of that...
Well here's "activism" in a nutshell for you. By screaming, spitting on people, and trying to oust them from their jobs, the protesters have assured that virtually nobody who isn't already on their side is going to care about their concerns.

If the Chisakises had an actual problem with racial insensitivity, their opponents were given ample opportunities to allow Nicholas and Erika to hang themselves with their own words --- the protesters wrote open letters, had campus debates, &c. Instead, they jumped the gun.
> The real tragedy here is how much more power large corporations have over esports as compared to traditional sports.

This just makes me think you have no idea how traditional sports are managed at levels above "let's get some kids together to play in the field". If anything, large corporations have much more power in traditional sports.
In the future we might be able to compile to Web Assembly.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/README.md
I investigate my own stocks and I was recently reading about a refundable / deferred income tax on a balance sheet [1]. Oftentimes when headlines like this come out, I wonder if we're seeing the whole story - that perhaps this year they were only subject to $248 in taxes, but the true tax burden may be deferred to a future year, which is often an accounting nightmare for investors because a "bad" quarter/year might simply come down to deferred liabilities.

This, however, is not the case. And I think this case brings up the ever-present issue of incorporation loopholes [2]. It is clear that in this case, the incorporation of entities of Chevron in Australia and the US, Chevron has managed to evade taxes through such loopholes, which are incredibly disingenuous. It's time to start thinking about this incorporation loopholes and make sure that companies are held accountable for the money they make in the various sovereignties that their customers occupy.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deferredincometax.asp

[2] https://www.quora.com/Would-you-recommend-registering-a-comp...
I'm willing to say the same thing about Richard Stallman (replace entrepreneur with activist, of course).
The concept of cultural appropriation as somehow offensive is misguided in my opinion, but

"with the approval of her Taiwanese and Chinese friends"

Is the wrong argument to make. It's the equivalent of "I say offensive black jokes around my black friends and they think it's funny."
I'm not saying that you have to agree with it yourself, but if you are willing to accept that other people believe there is something wrong with it in the first place, that question seems obvious enough to not even merit asking. We are lenient with children because we accept that they don't know any better, and the cutoff is as gradual as the one for the age where it's okay to ask "mommy, why is that man chocolate colored?" in a grocery store.
But how do you make them efficient? If assignment to any variable can grow or shrink its size requirements, I don't see how you can avoid introducing an indirection that will eat your cache locality, or waste storage by making every variable of maximum size "just in case", in which case you are back to using quad floats throughout.
Who was it that said "You have freedom of speech, not freedom from speech" ?
Well yes. But I think the parent was framing it with reference to the intelligence world conflicts. At least that's how I Read it.

Imagine you torture a guy to get the name of it's cell leader. You can't verify this easily. You have to capture that other guy, torture him and repeat the process. While in any of those steps you have the chance of getting false information without knowing it.

I would think most intelligence from a war zone would be of this type, i.e. hard to verify, and I think the parent was thinking along those lines as well.
MAC addresses are part of the link layer of an Ethernet network. The same link layer segment of a network must have unique MAC addresses so that packets can be unambiguously routed to the correct destination. MAC addresses actually consist of two parts, one part is assigned to the manufacturer, the other part is basically a serial number that the manufacturer generates. So from looking at a MAC address, you can look up who manufactured the device. The MAC addresses are not broadcast beyond the layer 2 network segment that you're connected to. However, that does mean that anyone in range can read the MAC address of your wifi card as it is sent 'in the clear' (not encrypted). Generally MAC addresses are also used for access control (though this is not particularly effective as MAC addresses can be spoofed) and for long-term IP address assignments (same IP can be assigned on subsequent connections).
Actually, not picking up the wallet would be considered rude.

This isn't about property. It's about manners. I'm sorry the sequence of events that has led up to your life at this moment prevent you from differentiating.
What if the rapist already confessed? 1500$ would buy a police officer a nice computer. In many countries the police lags far behind the criminals in technical equipment.

Edit: hit HN's comment limit again. Anyway: consider this - what if the test isn't 100% reliable? What makes you think it is - because you want to believe that 100% truth can be established? What if it has a false negative rate of 30%, so 30% of actual rapists (who might already have confessed) would be cleared by the test?
I think taking this sentiment to its conclusion is a bit more of a drastic change than that.

It would mean the end of the web, not a return to its beginnings. You wouldn't be dealing with marked-up text, you'd be dealing with binary files (text markup, of course, being a subset thereof). The internet (and whatever emerged on top of it to replace the web) would then be concerned with content, sharing, and identity management only, and applications would be built on top of that.[1]

The trick, as you said, is how to securely run untrusted code. That's what the web (well, I suppose more technically, browsers) are trying to solve; the problem is that the same origin policy, which is at the core of web security, just doesn't work very well. There are a lot of examples where this breaks; here are three off the top of my head:

1. Tracking using javascript to look for unique browser identifiers

2. XSS, CSRF, etc

3. Legitimate cross-site communication

So clearly our existing solution to the "how do you securely execute dynamic, untrusted code" problem isn't cutting it. There's a lot of research (and production code, for the record) going into potentially better approaches though, so I think it's likely we'll see change, if we can get past the inertia behind today's hairball.

[1] Incidentally this is exactly the approach we're taking with implementations of the Muse protocol (https://github.com/Muterra/doc-muse), which uses encryption to provide private content/sharing/identity management on untrusted servers.
because there's no mccarthy now and nobody is being asked or nearly blackmailed to identify their colleagues at work as communists so they can be brought to a hearing to make admissions or even answer questions at all. So
Web Assembly
Off the top of my head:

* Modified Stillman's

* Floss properly; "scrape" gently with the floss.

* Water rinse after acidic drinks (like red wine). Brush a half hour after that.
Some of this current mindset want employment blacklists now. In some cases, they don't wait for a blacklist to take effect. They attack a person's employment directly to send a message.
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Likely they would not. That does not mean we should cooperate with them to change the meaning of words to confuse people.
Kozmo did not charge delivery fees and I believe had their own warehouses/inventory. I'm not sure what I think about the economics of these delivery companies, but those are two pretty fundamental distinctions.