skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there's actually an inconsistency. On page 8 of the book linked, it describes "the charge, consisting of powder and duck-shot ...". Merriam-Webster[1] defines "duck shot" as "a medium-heavy lead shot used in duck hunting". Muskets used smooth (unrifled) barrels until around the middle of the 19th century [2], so they would have been well suited for firing shot shells.

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duck%20shot

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifled_musket#History_and_deve...
Just shows a Chanel ad for me (iPad mini 2)
Sure, but each of those neural networks has a face and (hopefully) a conscience. If we want to understand them better, we can ask them, sue them, pay them, shoot them, or do any of the thousands of other things we normally do with other people.

Good luck doing that with the algorithm used by a Google car to determine which pedestrian to hit.
Let me ask, why try to control the ugly side? Let it run just as free as the good stuff, and allow people to select what they want.
Garden path sentence
I'll stick out my neck and say that perhaps the dearth of truly innovative startups is because solving real problems are very difficult. Most of us are pampered because we were told that we were smart because there is a shortage of coding skills. But coding skills cannot solve cancer, invent alternative energy sources nor create self-driving skills (that is AI research).

So we all gravitate towards making a web app to do laundry quicker. However since there is no real competitive advantage to whose web laundry app is better, coders are actually the commodity used by the business/marketing to a race to the bottom of who can raise the money the fastest, do the best viral marketing and creating a cult of persona in the tech press.

I don't mean to be negative but I just want to make a point that it is up to ourselves to learn a new skill-set if we want to solve bigger problems vs. carping about scruples-less businessman exploiting coders whose skills due to agile, coding bootcamps and improved programming toolchains are getting increasingly commoditized.
Burma Gives a Thumbs-Up to Facebook
Lisp in one and a half pages of Tandy Color BASIC
It'd be nice to see more coverage of free expression and the Internet in Burma.
strace is definitely a fun toy.

Here's my favourite hack: https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/can-you-get-cp-to-give-a-prog...
South America has a long tradition of interchangeable strongman governments, none of whom had any real interest in advancing the needs of citizens. Plenty of populist autocrats that paid lip service to social advancement, very little actual public service. It's understandable that the US would get a little jaded regarding which regimes to back.

I can easily see how a CIA official, tasked with determining how to best advance US interests in the region, but otherwise having a good bit of autonomy, would come to the conclusion that whichever regime was most amenable to the American way of doing things would also be the best steward of the public interest.

It's not like they had a bunch of upstanding, self-sacrificing public servants to choose from, and they deliberately chose the wannabe gangbangers to support. And Latin Americans themselves weren't much help either, often eagerly buying into the cults of personality that the strongmen built up. Hence the public fascination with thugs like Che and Escobar.

I think you'd find that there's a real, discernible difference between Chinese strong-arming and American interventionism, on both ideological and practical levels.
Interesting read. Reminds me of another article I read here about a store closing down whose link I can't find.

I dislike that my children will never experience the video store like I.

Streaming just isn't there. The quality isn't good enough and the cost is, in my opinion, too high.
You should read more Colin Percival then. :)

It's one thing to trust "peer reviewed formal mathematical proofs".

It's another to assume that these are perfectly implemented.
A component of the solution might be to take appropriate medication. I tried getting over the shit stew with drugs and no intentional internal change, first with prescribed drugs, then with, uh, other sources. It's so easy to believe that it's completely beyond your control, that it's a neurochemical problem that you cannot solve until the state of the system changes.

Meditate on this one for a bit:
youtube.com/watch?v=lGwKXzH6tZY
What is inherently "adult" about makeup?
Funny you and I had the opposite thoughts about torrents. My thought was, "Ya know, the really good indie movie rental places are special; they have films I can't even find [seeded] between TehConnection and Karagarga". Maybe I should look at other trackers...
Back in the day, it was the limitations of PF under SMP. I don't think that's been an issue for a few years now, though.
I would pay someone like this for a quick chat on a Friday evening to help me choose a movie.

I'm old enough to remember going in to a video store and having a chat about what I should watch next.

The engaged staff quite often would send me on my way looking forward to watching the movie, and I wouldn't stop watching half way through either, I'd commit to it because it was a real recommendation by someone I talked to.

The part in the article where it was said we don't pick something to watch, we settle for something on the streaming services hits close to home for me.
Yes. See "The Phoenix Project" (book)
Using Javascript has pros and cons, but the idea that it's fundamentally flawed is amusing. It certainly has had its warts, but the community has figured out how to use it efficiently and reliably. You're views on JS would have been much more relevant 10 - 15 years ago.
>Censorship isn't about total, fool-proof access limits. It's about trivial inconveniences.

That's because we have won a partial victory. They would very much like a total, fool-proof access limit.
Background on depression:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/bas...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder

Please don't guess at remembering something you read on buzzfeed.
The pay per view rental model like iTunes often has a lot of harder to find movies.

A few times for me it's the last port of call when I can't find a title anywhere digitally, at at least then you're getting the best quality sound and picture!
Hi Ian,

First off, thanks for your interest in our work! The tech is a homegrown recurrent neural network (deepx) which is available via pip. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/deepx/
We use theano for compilation to GPU and an original neural network architecture (a concatenated input generative model) to preserve the signal of auxiliary inputs (like star rating and beer category) across long intervals.

To run the model in reverse, we infer the probability of a category via the likelihood of a review. Because the prior over the categories is uniform (balanced dataset) and because the normalization term (marginal probability of a review) doesn't depend on the category, we can exploit the fact that the probability of a beer category given a review is proportional to the probability of a review given a category. In this way we're able to make a text classifier that takes into account word order.

Regarding Google Analytics, we just noticed this ourselves and are fixing it presently. Concerning color, that's a great point and I apologize for the oversight. We certainly bear no malice towards those with protanopia. In future work (and if we have subsequent versions of this paper) we'll do our best to make the lines dotted, dashed, etc to make them more readable to those unable to distinguish reg-green. Generally, I agree with you that a black and white printing should retain all readability.

Thanks for your interest and helpful observations.

Cheers,

Zack
i think dope is going to be around for a while. i know people of all races and ages up to about 45 using it non-ironically without sounding silly.
You know where those evil profits ultimately come from? People paying to have their needs satisfied.

I make a decent living providing people with solutions to some of the problems described in this article (censorship and fragmentation) and I'm not ashamed to say I am driven purely by profit.
He could've learned it reading Less Wrong too :).

That said, I think the relationship network is a huge advantage too. Reminds me of a story about, if memory serves me well, an economic university student, who was bad at learning but good at throwing parties (with lots of vodka). It was in Poland around the fall of the Soviet Union. The guy apparently got very successful because through his parties, he befriended a lot of people people who later graduated and became directors of private and national enterprises.
>All tests were done on Intel Corei7-4810MQ machine.

I think we'd have to see 60fps on a Chromebook or similar low-cost machine before we declared the end of Flash streaming.
There's never really a line between blackmail and anything, only Cantor dust. :/

Blackmail is one of those rare crimes that consist entirely of legal conduct.
>rather than a pervasive and persistent deeply held belief that their body is wrong.

There have been cases of children and young teenagers who have such beliefs, and then change their minds when they're adults. This may not be the norm, but I think it's important that children and teenagers don't undergo irreversible transition treatment. Thankfully, I believe there are many reversible treatments, like puberty blockers.
"The turning point came with the triumph of modern libertarianism, with its sophisticated, Orwellian method of hiding corporate power behind the rhetoric of individual liberty"

Had me until the part about the "triumph of libertarianism," a system which has never been tried anywhere.
You can set filters for the price range on Upwork, and you can use RSS or another type of feed to bring in new listings as they come out. Writing your own feed filtering can really help to weed out the undesirable listings.

I agree that Upwork has some of the stingiest clients around. Guru seems more honest overall, despite having less listings.

Edit: I have seen plenty of RoR jobs locally on Craigslist, so be sure to subscribe to some feeds there as well.
If you'd like to read yogic prospective on depression [0] is a good start. [1] is a book on the same by the article's author Om Swami.

However, let me warn you that this will venture you into concepts of human body you have likely not heard of and which has not been studied extensively by modern medical science. However, it's heavily researched and applied at least for thousands of years in India etc.

>>>
Depression is a state of mind. It is not a physical ailment; it is not a neurological disorder and it is rarely a malfunctioning of the brain. It is strictly a condition of the mind. And mind pervades your whole body and beyond. It is for this reason that pacification of the mind calms the whole body just like its restlessness upsets the whole system. Severity of depression can be ascertained from the symptoms of the patient. While I am using the term patient, that truly is an oxymoron. There really cannot be a “patient” for depression because it is not a “disease” that one can suffer from. It is simply a mismatch of the colliding psychic imprints (vāsanā) also known tendencies of the mind. Mind cannot malfunction for the true nature of mind is pure bliss (ānanda) and beyond all subjective characterizations and dualities (dvanda).

....

A pertinent question: what causes depression? Depression is a state of mind. It originates in the causal body. The mind has become a victim of its own latent tendencies. It can happen from curbing your desires or an unfulfilling life, both of which are caused by ignorance of the conditioned mind. A lot of people lead an unfulfilling life; some choose to ignore the voice of the soul while many others drown it in material pursuits. But, one day it catches up.

....

If you are not taking anti-depressants currently, half the job is already done. Please do not start taking such pills. They are soporific substances designed to artificially pacify your brain creating the illusion of a calm mind. Gradually, their dosage needs increasing as your brain gets used to it.

To not only completely get rid of depression but feel fitter than you have ever been, you need to cover all three aspects: body, consciousness, and the soul.
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0: http://omswami.com/2011/10/depression-definition-cause-and-c...
1: http://omswami.com/2015/08/when-all-is-not-well.html
I am not talking about children playing with mum’s make up - I am talking about young girls being peer pressured into wearing heavy make up at an age they don’t need it. It is an arms race that no young kids need.

On this topic I really hope men can continue to resist the cosmetics industry. I have zero desire to see it become the expected social norm like it has for women.
You know, I haven't seen any good evidence that transitioning causes high rates of suicide or depression. I'd be very surprised if suicidal inclinations aren't present in people that go for physical alteration to a much higher degree. The reason is, if you're happy, there's no need to take such a risky course of action. If you're unhappy, this is one way you might try to fix things. Then you're still unhappy, and you've run out of options.
The site redirects all attempts to read the article to it's main page?
Have you participated in a bug bounty program on Hacker One? We are running one there now.
The author seems to have got his logic exactly backward. Not that this stopped any identity warriors, ever.

The reason humans actually have words for categories (like 'cats' or 'policemen') is because said categories are important and indeed allow for generalizations.

Meanwhile things that lack verbal categories ('people who wear socks', 'people who have funny-looking ears') precisely lack them because language bearers have never had the need to invent a verbal category as there wasn't much generalizing to be done about these groups.

Likewise looking at children's use of words is idiotic because they are @#$% children - ie they lack any sort of life experience. Jewish israeli children (just like arab ones) have no need to categorize people into Arab/Jews because they are not dealing with all the crap their respective adults have to contend with. Same way a 3yo may look at a tiger cub and call him a cat - because she does not possess the mental faculty / understanding of what tigers are and the importance of the verbal category 'tiger'.
Aircraft carriers navigated by the stars right up to the Korean War. Blew my mind when I toured the USS Hornet in Alameda.
No way can I parse 10 hours of PG video. Just rewatched the Calacanis interview and some of Charlie Rose. I vividly remember him speaking about the study, but can't remember if it was an interview or just a speaking engagement (possibly Pycon 08).

Here is him talking about MBA's whipping their meek rent-a-programmers during the interview[0] which is the best I can do. If anyone remembers what video it is in, or better yet, actually knows the (i believe harvard business school) study, would be super interested.

[0]https://youtu.be/YMqgiXLjvRs?t=20m30s
Computational lambda-calculus and monads [pdf] (1988)
Hey your comment sounded lot like the ideas I got from OM Swami's article and book I refered in my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10613241

You may wish to check that out. Extensive reading on Yogic prospective of depression, involving body, consciousness and soul.
Lame self-promotion
How AeroPress Fans Are Hacking Their Way to a Better Cup of Coffee
Wow. How does something like this even get $35m in funding and just burn through that over 5 years, then shutdown because they couldn't monetise?

Were the investors hoping for a Google acquisition?

In Australia I'm struggling to raise $50k for a global product with a clear monetisation and cashflow strategy.
Can he make a GoPro for a sperm?
It sounds like what the author is looking for is accountability. It was difficult, but I eventually found a reliable person on Craigslist to call me daily to check-in on my progress towards my goals and habits.

I had a lot of success with this and eventually started a business to make it easier for other people to sign up for daily personal check-in calls:

http://www.personalcheckin.com/

(I later sold the company when I realized the difficulty of scaling up phone calls, though I still am a happy client!)
How to Unblock Facebook, WhatsApp and Viber in Bangladesh
I just realized I cannot remember the last time I felt happy in any simple or robust way. I don't know what it would be like.
We'll see a lot more of these as groups that had only ever made one prototype raised millions or tens of millions pre-selling products whose bill of materials cost they did not even understand.
Why not just have a timestamp in the query string? This way, each tab could have a different such timestamp of when the page was first loaded in that tab. When the page is refreshed, a new request will be made with the old (previously requested) timestamp. This requires, of course, that you are storing previously used timestamps somewhere, such as in the cookie; this also requires (somewhat) that the buttons on the app are asynch and don't change the timestamp.
I am a woman...

I felt a level of jealousy in school because of the freedom boys had (ex. girls were made to stay indoors to learn where babies came from, whereas boys were sent out to play) but never wished for a "winky".

I have also loathed pink from childhood and fashion crap. I see a little girl's room looking like a Peptobismal explosion and I want to take a flame thrower to it. And anything sparkly. And anything encrusted with fake gems. And anything cutsy really.

I see these assemblages of abhorrent things being passed off as gender "girl" and it's very hard to separate my loathing for cutsy pink crap, and the transgirl wearing the cutsy pink crap. It may come off as transphobia, but I sort of hate non-trans women wearing crap like that too.
One thing I would like to point out is that his app isn't for getting things done. It's for letting his support network know that he might need help, but is unable to directly ask for it.
Maybe the mods really hate the MCU?
Movie Recommendation as a Service (MRaas)? Or curation - if it isn't out there yet it will come.

Something with humans, since it would be easy to imagine algorithms getting stuck in a very narrow genre (like when you give a Pandora channel too many songs and it ends up with the same 20 tracks or covers thereof). Plus giving you that commitment to see the movie through.

Or just head to reddit[1] or equivalent communities.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieSuggestions
Is it normal to get braces several years before puberty? I never had them, but of my friends who did all got them well after puberty.
Using it incorrectly can lead to skin conditions and eye infections. As such, it takes a degree of maturity to use it without sickening yourself.
How is this article considered to be ontopic for Hacker News?

From the guidelines page:

< On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

< Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Hey, I've got a cool tool I want to build at Flexport. Want to work on it with me? - email me Ryan at flexport.com
For the record, I think freedom of speech is more important than anyone's general comfort level (almost by definition).

But it's important to acknowledge there's a huge difference between singleton one-off insults -- where it's easy to take a "sticks and stones" attitude -- vs. being immersed in an environment where you frequently hear insults from a wide variety of people around you. Which also inevitably comes coupled with equally if not more non-verbal slights, ranging from the subtle and physically harmless (locking car doors, being followed by store security guards) to the economically painful (statistical disadvantages in the job market or justice system) and even physically dangerous (e.g. the recent spate of police shootings).

Not being a minority I can't directly identify with that experience, but I have to imagine the "laugh it off" argument doesn't really apply well to a life filled with such experiences.
I came here to post the same thing!

The fuel economy on this was said to be excellent (because it's a tandem seating design), with the downside that the passenger was always relegated to the back seat...

Gyrocars also featured in the awesome science fiction novel Sinister Barrier, by Eric Frank Russell (published in 1943!).
There's a similar tradition of whistled Spanish on the Canary Islands. It was used to talk across mountain valleys and stuff. UNESCO designated it as some kind of cultural heritage, I think.
While I agree with the advice, it's not useless. If you run a normal browser with no plugins via Tor, your IP won't leak except via exploits. WebRTC leaks by design, then handwaves browser fingerprinting as a shield.
> There are so many things to know nowadays.

Honestly... not really. Unless you want to know everything out there. My college classmates are doing fine in their job search just knowing Java (no frameworks!) and SQL, just Python, even just one JavaScript framework, etc. Whatever else they need they'll learn in the job without much stress.

I honestly think this "need" of knowing as many APIs as possible is exaggerated online, partly thanks to blog posts or tweets of senior devs saying "X is this new good thing, Y is old and bad!" (which seem to be a weekly occurrence) and perhaps start ups since they don't have time to mentor because they have to grow ASAP. That works fine for them, but don't think it applies to every company.

Seriously, take some time off the internet and you'll quickly stop caring. Unless you enjoy learning so many new things!
It's not about having people around to hold you accountable. I have dealt with severe depression for about 30 years. You get to be very good at 'hiding' your emotional state from people. What a lot of people here seem to be missing is that lack of productivity is a warning signal for him to share with his support network.

His app doesn't increase or help with his productivity, it tracks it.

I could use his app directly as is. I have a very supportive network, who really help me when I am in the bottom of a cycle. This app could really help me as I only reach out when it gets bad enough that I feel my life is in danger.

And I am surrounded by people all the time. At work (I teach) and at home (I have 2 small kids & a perfect partner). Now my partner is starting to learn the warning signs.

But I am very good at hiding them...
'Gender' does not have consistent usage in the English language, aside from the grammar sense of masculine/feminine words.

Aside from that, it's sometimes used to describe a performed social role, or more broadly anything that communicates "masculine" or "feminine". Sometimes it's used to describe an objective, distinct axis of male/female from the "parts and chromosomes". Sometimes it's used as a synonym for "sex", either out of puritanism or to stop people from answering "yes, please". Some assert that applying "gender" to people or any non-grammar usage is an error.

Just to make things more complicated, large groups of people have attached political significance to one or another of these definitions and assert that the others are Wrong and/or Ignorant.

It's a mess of recent vintage that apparently only English speakers have to suffer from.
Substantive? Maybe. On-topic for HN? No.

(I trust the rule that we're supposed to flag and move on rather than complaining about submissions being off-topic no longer applies since you've turned off flagging)