skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Academic Assholes and the Circle of Niceness (2013)
Most likely, every IT specialist has dreamed of running his or her own company at some point in their life. Is this really a great opportunity? What’s it actually like? Some myths and answers inside!
"erroneously blocks links for a lot of reasons" is also a problem, whether it's incompetence or conspiracy.
I find if I'm struggling to come up with a word it's because I've lost the conversational flow of the sentence I'm writing, or of the point I'm trying to make. If I try to describe it out loud to an imaginary or, ideally, a real person, I'm usually then able to convey what I was trying to say, though usually by restructuring the form of the argument, rather than by conveniently finding the right word.

Often complex thoughts come to me not as fully constructed sentences. I might forget how I intended to finish a sentence by the time I'm three words in, lost in a forest of opportunities for converting the faint cognitive signal to an established element of prose.

I find I am better able to articulate a problem after I've explained it to a number of people on different occasions. The first person I explain it to won't have the foggiest what I'm talking about, probably because I'm constantly grasping for words, but to the fifth person the problem will seem trivial.
(pip-save) npm like behaviour to pip
It will be cheaper to hire s Postgres developer than pay Oracle licensing
Does Twitter load other web content through a built-in web browser in the app? That seems to be the big "white-washing" problem with the various reader apps (Facebook, Flipboard, etc), that they're unifying the interaction experience.
Wow! What a depraved view they have. I wonder if they would still think it was moral to limit their children to a 3rd world education because it's only fair that education (level) be equal for everyone?

Human progress is made by those who are exceptional. It is only through the efforts of exceptional people that everyone else's lives are improved. Imagine if Faraday and Einstein were forced to not publish, and even destroy their papers because it wasn't "fair" that they had discovered something that other people hadn't.

Is this view of "fairness" fair at all? Should we break the legs of a natural runner, so they can only run as fast as the average person? Should we damage the brains of the gifted so they are equal with everyone else? Rather, shouldn't people have the freedom to excel as far as they can?

The intellectually gifted should be encouraged to excel as far as they can, because their work and discoveries will cause tremendous improvements to the human condition. It would be more fair for there to be special schools for the gifted, so they are not slowed down by the lowest common denominator.

Imagine that you had the intellect to cure cancer, or make solar power more economical than fossil fuels. Now imagine that you are denied from accomplishing these things because it isn't "fair" for you to earn more money than others. Guess what? It takes tons of money to do research and development. The only reason Elon Musk is making the major improvements for humanity that he is, is because he was able to use his intellect to earn lots of money so he could do even better things.

What would become of humanity if we decided to hinder everyone to the same skill and wealth levels? What would become of progress?
Karma should be worth more in the past since there were fewer voters and fewer submissions.
Yes I was going to edit to add that, but you beat me to the punch.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18481926
Tensorflow and monetizing intellectual property
Absolutely, infrastructure is the real solution. Even if the full Dutch-style bike lane is not possible, quite minor things can make a difference.

E.g. around here there are some advance cycle stop zones and advance green lights for cyclists. Both are easy to implement but make a big difference to a cyclist's safety and visibility at a junction.
Glad to hear it works well as I'm considering it.

Curious: Is either your gaming PC, and/or the Steam Link box wired?
I used ManicTime:

http://www.manictime.com/

Edit: Windows-only, so not an alternative for you Mac or Linux users.
That was most useful! Thank you very much.
He's speaking about people in general, not about athletes which eat diets that are highly specific to the task at hand. (runners eat very, very differently from power lifters)
With billions of links being shared on Facebook every day I suspect that they error on the side of caution.
How much does the low powered box in the living room cost? The Steam Link is supposed to address this ($50) as most don't want to, or can't afford (or justify the expense) another PC for the living room.
Downvotes but no rebuttal?
Looking at your list, I tried both ManicTime and Toggl.

ManicTime does the window title tracking too, it's self hosted, but it's Windows-only (I guess it kills it for many).

Toggl is not automatic.
If "Internet points" like karma motivates people, inflation like this is actually useful to keep people in the community active.
I saw a demo of a deep convnet (I assume) running on a tablet at a conference recently. While it's limited to the vocabulary that the net is trained on, it's seriously impressive seeing this stuff work in realtime.

One of the other speakers was giving a tech demo using his webcam. He was looking around for a mug to demonstrate that the classification was good and could work quickly. In the meantime the camera was looking behind him on stage and correctly classified the image as "theatre curtains". It was particularly cool because image processing results are often cherrypicked to show optimal performance and you learn to be skeptical.
If you know the word and you're looking for synonyms, use a thesaurus.[1]

If you know the general idea and want a more precise word to describe it, I'd look into WordNet, especially concepts like hyponyms (subsets of a general word, car -> ambulance) and troponyms (different ways of performing the word, useful for verbs, e.g. eat -> slurp, gobble, peck).[2]

If you know the context and you want a word that "sounds good" in that context, use a collocations dictionary.[3]

[1] http://www.thesaurus.com/
[2] http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
[3] http://www.ozdic.com/collocation-dictionary/pupil
The Unseen Species Problem
Remember how we were talking last week about how people seem to desire crowds and crowd-thinking, even if it literally kills them?

Well that makes sites like Facebook and Twitter predictable and the power they wield.
Real-time behavioral experiments on the web w/ Node.js
A modern diet being better than the past doesn't mean people shouldn't hate on the food pyramid. There's plenty of reasons to.
>>Behind this dynamic is a monoculture of money optimizing for more money.

That's capitalism, what's the fuss about it? It's not possible to have only the good of capitalism and the good of communism. The bad parts will come in soon or later.

The "don't be evil" approach has already proved to be BS so we must choose what do we really want.

An interesting experiment is East Europe, a capitalist society that uses some good communist laws. E.g. Student used to have a large discount everywhere, allowing everybody to study. Discounts are getting smaller and smaller till the day that they will disapeer. Or people that couldn't be fired after some age. Even if people don't want to loose these policies, it's a matter of time. It's very hard to have the best of both worlds.
Interesting stuff. The article is quite verbose -- here is the Cliff Notes versions:

The trie is a well-known data structure for storing string sets or string-keyed maps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie). You can compress a trie by using a DAG/FSM instead of a tree -- this lets you share states for suffixes, whereas trees only let you share states for prefixes. But for large sets minimizing a DAG is too expensive to perform on the whole trie. If you insert the keys in-order, you can minimize the DAG on-the-fly much more cheaply.

If you have a map instead of a set, the DAG is called a FST (finite state tranducer) instead of a finite state acceptor. In this case every edge has some value that you accumulate into the final result. For example, if the map values are integers, each edge can be an integer that is added to the final result. It takes a bit more cleverness in the algorithm to share prefix/suffix states while maintaining the tranducer invariants.
100 years of general relativity
imagine if you didn't wear a helmet, would the injury be worst?
> Mostly, I get my news from Twitter.

This should be the first thing to read in this article. The author seems to not have any preferred publisher anyway. He can consider and write why not, I'd also like to know.

Then don't be surprised with the statement in a paragraph before:

> And that’s why so many articles kinda sound the same these days.
Paywall-free link: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Hawkins6/publicat...
That should be criminal, requiring users to install a root cert is just sad.. nice workaround though!
Someone downstream said "A good trick is to post a solid counterpoint as a reply to the currently topmost comment: people are more likely to vote on comments near the top"

So I'm looking for a counterpoint except that this is actually quite a good analogy (ignoring the quibble that a good driver can move to a new car with a fresh odometer but retain a good driving record. Or that there is no legal odometer equivalent to being downvoted)

Edit: grammar
That's too much work for $10k.
No.

Scare users about reflashing without having expertise in the field. Warn about not having any support, yet still provide some means to support them if they don't heed the warning and fail, so they don't brick the devices - keep a tiny emergency recovery-only bootloader that would allow to reflash system in any state.

But please don't insult their intelligence and don't deny their rights to control their own devices. Sure thing, there are plenty of stupid persons who'd wreck everything and then some. Heck, I hope I'm not too stupid myself, but when I first time flashed a router I screwed things up because of a typo. Let users end with the brick (they were warned, right?), recover it - or pay someone to do so - and learn.

The only real issue that's in conflict with this is theft prevention. A legit use should be able to run any software on their device, but some don't want to give that opportunity to anyone but its legitimate owner. The technological part for this is here, but that's not a technical issue, but a purely legal one.

But please, don't just shift the trust from vendor to some non-profit. Let the device owners manage their trust by themselves and have the ultimate decision on such matters. And for all the sanity still left in the world, let end-users still be the owners.
With small changes to the API, it's possible. Shunter requires a certain `Content-Type` header to be sent in order to trigger the rendering process. But largely yes, if your back-end can serve JSON already you should be able to make it play well with Shunter quite easily
If a student submitted this as a home work, I would not let him pass because of the ommision of important facts.

As this is posted by a company, it must be seen as a great example to study corporate propaganda.

Just compare to the WP article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Ex...

The summary paragraph of the cloudfare post demonstrates an important propaganda technique - build an artificial similarity to something that actually does not compare very well with to irritate the reader and to attach the properties of your product / thing you are advertising to something completely different:

"Whereas HTTPS encrypts traffic so nobody on the wire can snoop on your Internet activities, DNSSEC merely signs responses so that forgeries are detectable."

We should notice that cloudflare will not be helpful in building real privacy for the internet. And never forget it.
If the average person doesn't seem to care if their calls are being recorded, phones tracked and tagged to their contacts, they sure aren't going to be motivated by the news that prisoners are being recorded.
Introduction to Kernel Power Management
Why you shouldn't outsource your software project?
I think they allowed HTTP CONNECT to any port. Not that it would have been hard to move OpenVPN or SSH to a different port.
YCSB is cool for bench!
the exhibition space where the phone lies is well known, it's not a scam.
Evolution is not on rails, so you're right that there's no derailing it. But I think the implications here are pretty clear: we co-evolved in a symbiotic relationship with our gut microbes, the same way that bees and flowers co-evolved, and (per the article) we should worry about antibiotics much like we worry about bee-killing pesticides. I'm sure the bees will evolve pesticide resistance given a few millennia, but we operate on a much shorter timescale, and we would suffer ill consequences from losing them entirely.
It's easy: laws or not, wear a helmet if you value your life (or brain). Every cyclist I know has a story of unexpectedly ditching. Even some of them at a dead stop, embarrassingly. I personally have cracked a helmet and walked away.

You are higher up, have less stability, and as good as you are you don't control many types of collisions (negligent/distracted drivers). It only takes a very minor fall and some bad luck to end up with brain swelling, cracked skull, or a corpse.

Here is a helment advocacy group's take with links to relevant statistics, opposing views: http://www.bhsi.org/shouldi.htm
Line is tops in Thailand and Japan. In S. Korea it's KaokaoTalk. China prefers WeChat. Those are all big markets. So there's certainly no single dominant messaging app.
A look at darktable 2.0
The rules are written clearly in your shareholders agreement. Don't ask hacker news for the answer, find the answers in the agreement.
It sadly maxed out at 99 calls, it's an old brick-style phone.
Indeed. See Luke Leighton's excellent "Analysis of SSD reliability during power outages" at http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html which came to the same conclusion some years ago.
> Half of Twitter is links to other websites

...via URL shortners, which is very unfortunate.
> Helmets are very very useful if you're riding fast.

I can't find a reference with a short Googling, but as I recall helmets only help in a fairly narrow window, something like 18-23 mph or so. If one's going sufficiently fast, they're unable to do much good (because the forces are too much for a flimsy assembly of foam and plastic to reduce enough to prevent injury or death).

> In fact they are mandatory in all cycling sports.

They're the equivalent of a elephant-repelling rock.
They did that for some time but that isn't the case anymore these days, at least on Android.
Despite the fact that there are many different "food pyramids" the USDA food pyramid was basically pay to play propaganda, created by various food industries. Also note how I say was because the USDA food pyramid existed less than 20 years and was retired in 2011 because the science became undeniable. Of course the new "food plate" really isn't much better and is still USDA propaganda paid for by the food industries.
Why Should Your Website Be Mobile-Friendly?
I can recommend "Against Intellectual Monopoly" for more stories about how patents can be as much of a hindrance to innovation, as it is a stimulant.

Personally I don't think patents are worth it. It may help with a few innovations, but it's not worth the massive cost and bureaucracy, and for other innovations they may delay development by years.
What is wrong with URL shorteners? (Sincere question)
Modern diet is good in some respects, but bad in others.

Some populations have famously experienced strong detrimental effects on their health when switching away from more traditional diets. North Karelian heart attacks post-WWII are a notorious example.

Within my field of research, we know there's an enormous budding crisis in Southern US. A very significant fraction of all Alabama population is pre-diabetic. This is a massive public health problem. Corn syrup-driven diets are terrible.
> ...via URL shortners, which is very unfortunate.

This is true for some tweets, yes. But most links are via Twitter's own shortener, which means shortened link rot is impossible, and the actual URL is shown to the user.
Assuming you control your device...

If this isn't the case, then I know that the device operates not in my interest, but in that of whoever controls it. So, I probably won't be entering any sensitive information into it.
Is this trend empowered by SSD? Or should we expect spinning disks SSD hibrid in this model too?
We have those advance stop lanes for cyclists here, cars just ignore them even when there's cyclists stopped in them ...
Without love, the schoolroom is forbidding
Exactly! Which is IMO actually one of the reasons why Twitter is having such a hard time monetizing. I see them more like a router protocol where people are pointed towards consuming content outside of twitter instead of on the twitter platform.

My guess is that they will change exactly that sometime soon. First allowing you to write longer texts as attachments and first then might join FB and Apple in "killing the open web"
Societies that privatize their correction system leading to inmates being raw material for generating profits, are in my eyes not allowed to carry the name 'society' (coming from latin socius = companion or fellow)[0] anymore.

They are not fellows who correct and punish, they are slavers, outsourcing slavery for generating tax revenue and private revenue alike.

I totally cannot understand any rationale behind a privatization of prisons, as it totally runs contrary to what society should want to get out of a prison system (rehabilitation, correcting wrong behavior, punishment).

I know, I might sound harsh, but I really have no idea how a society can want a system like this, that extorts prisoners for privatized gains.

[0]: https://translate.google.com/?ie=UTF-8&hl=de&client=tw-ob#la...
How to Load Test an E-commerce Website?
> Does Twitter load other web content through a built-in web browser in the app?

On iOS, yes, it has a built-in browser. You can go to Safari if you like.

They're not packaging up web content as if it's not web content, though. It's just to access sites quickly.
and this is what makes surveillance so dangerous. It's essentially thought-control for thought-crimes that are not even illegal... Welcome to 1984

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
Sexual selection is still a thing, and unlikely to go away for the foreseeable future. Diet affects appearance, appearance affects chances to pass on your genes.
Encountering Strangers in Public Places: Goffman and Civil Inattention
Dead photographers work again via convolutional neural networks
Parinfer – Let's simplify the way we write Lisp
Studying human behavior is just very difficult for any science (psychology is just at the fore). E.g. in programming languages, there are researchers that are trying to figure out how to empirically study human performance in relation to various programming features. It is quite difficult to get meaningful results, and experiments are expensive (you can't just put people in a box for later use!). No wonder most PL researchers focus on machine performance and theory...it is just easier that way.
Getting content directly through Twitter and being linked to it through Twitter wouldn't change all that much from a monetisation standpoint. The value of Twitter is in the interest graph.
It introduces a dependency on the shortening service, if the service vanishes the link breaks.

It allows the shortening service to track clicks on the link.

It obfuscates the target of the link.
You missed the sarcasm quotes around the "feature" in the grandparent post.
Ask HN: Are HN comments automatically downvoted by algorithms?
I'm starting to wonder if comments posted on HN are examined by algorithms and automatically downvoted. Like an attempt to mute stupidity and block malice.

Has anyone noticed this with comments they've posted?
First off, apologies for the non-fun situation.

"the other founders are asking me to return some/most/all of the equity that was vested up front."

Don't do this. Most likely this will be used to redistribute this share to themselves or the option pool. They WANT this potential share for themselves if the company is successful, and it's not in your interest to give it up.

You've started things, most likely, and if things were standard-ish, you might have been vesting your stock at 1/48 (or maybe 1/36 or something?) of the total each month (founder shares may also not sometimes not require a year's service to vest). You legally earned what you got during the 1/48 and have no obligation to return anything. The pre-vested up front stuff might have also been sizeable, and most likely will be a foundation for future work that this business produces.

The downside is your last comment about "may start a new company", which seems like they might not be above board. In this case you may need a lawyer, but it might not hurt to contact the board if you have investors on it. If there's no investment, you might have a harder position and you may (I am not a lawyer) need to watch them to see if any of those entities exit. In other words, you might have to sue to get what you are owed for the stock games. Most likely this is an empty threat, and you should probably indicate you are aware of your legal options and reserve the right to exercise them if this happens.

I don't have a great understanding of what happened there, but think about Facebook and what it has done with screwing initial employees from time to time, and they seem to have won at least in part.

Given, if the startup is already crippled due to not being able to work together, the chance of success at the end is reduced. Don't give up your shares - but don't count on them being a thing either.

They should be happy that you still have your shares because you have an interest in seeing them still be successful and are not ALSO going to form a company in the same space. Perhaps. Depends what your exit agreements were, if any. And you should be careful what you sign there as well.

But yeah, sounds like they are asking for things that are not in your interest.
Turris Omnia: hi-performance and open-source router (crowdfunding campaign)
So in Northern China, most food is

- raw food is rarely eaten unless it has a thick / peelable skin
- mostly veggies are cooked in oil
- starch heavy (flour for dumplings or baked goods, and rice)
- spice heavy (chili, Szechuan peppercorn)
- sodium heavy (soy, bean pastes, and preserved vegetables)
- lots of odd ingredients from a western point of view (mushrooms, fermented beans)
- no set "breakfast" foods vs "supper" foods per se; more like "banquet" foods vs . "Everyday"

I've been told from my Chinese friends they find our penchant for salads and raw food to be barbaric. Evolved people eat cooked food, or so the saying goes.

I can next talk about India, Pakistan, Bangkadesh and its varied regional diet...

My point is that there are a couple billion people that articles like these completely ignore and treat as if these people are martians...
Many of us are kind of old. Machine learning wasn't much of a thing in the 90s, and I think has only become popular in the last few years.