skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see plenty of similar Uber spam too. We had an election recently, and had plenty of

"Uber is hooking you up with free rides to your election polling station*

* Valid for first time customers only"
You could also have a structured course on interviewing like we run: http://InterviewKickstart.com
I don't know what the grandparent's point was, but I believe that kinetic weapons are exempt from space weapons treaties, hence the "Rods from God" satellite designs.
Consensus of scientists studying a given subject may not "equal science", but it's basically how scientific facts are established. That's how science works. There are always at least a few skeptics and crackpots, can never be free of them entirely.
> [1] Because there's more money and the same amount (or less) of things to buy. Think of it a bit like someone issuing stock: yes, that dilutes your shares.

Why would there (necessarily) be more money?

> People are also likely to start charging more because everything costs them more and people have more money to spend now

It seems like all of this would work equally well as an argument for a policy of depressing wages as a way to makes everyone better off. If you wouldn't support that, why the concern about guaranteed income? Or, what is the difference, in terms of effect on the money and labor supplies? How would lowering wages not be the inverse of this, and (under this line of reasoning) be good for us? Unless you believe we're at some sort of maxima for the ideal share of money flowing to the bottom of the economic pyramid, and that sending more that way will make collectively less well-off. It's also possible I'm just not following what you mean.
One of my thoughts was that if you enter the first room you're only poisoning yourself. If you enter the second you've already polluted areas and/or people that have no interested in your transport.

Bit of a silly analogy though, as many are.
Would not say that is 'anti-intellectual' though.
Rethinking CS Education – Alan Kay [video]
Because. It. Doesn't. Need. It. Email isn't broken.
Or skip the complicated middleman and just learn systemd / upstart / supervisord / ... Start-stop-daemon is not a great solution on linux systems these days.
thats certainly your choice to make, but my point was simply that there is an alternative way to do things. For me, if I could work on my best idea for the rest of my life, and it could go and serve the needs of millions of people (or even just a few thousand) across the globe, that would be pretty cool.
We are totally in! Totally irrelevant maybe but SVG is a great file format for this. Food for thought i guess..
Good fresh home made turkish delight is actually awesome. If you ever come across it, try it.

The pre-packaged stuff is mostly too sweet and not that good.
> As a government organization it is always going to be somewhat capricious and compromised ...

That applies to every large organization. I've never heard of or worked in one that was otherwise.

Contrary to the conservative myth, the U.S. government's large organizations have a pretty good track record of innovation and getting things done. Consider the U.S. military, NASA (did you see those photos of Pluto?), most science funding, my highways are safe and very functional, my water and food supply are clean, prisons effectively hold prisoners, dams don't burst, my lights turn on, etc.

Of course they are very imperfect, like all large organizations, and constant vigilence and improvement is necessary. But I reject the idea that government is somehow innately incompetent and private business is innately superior. It's almost a rejection of the idea that democratic self-government can be effective. Really they are different tools for different jobs.
This is science, not math; there's no such thing as proof; evidence is all there ever is. Seeking proof is to misunderstand the science completely.
Normally when someone asks for feedback here on HN it's because they have created the site and want people's reactions so they can improve it.

So yes, I completely misunderstood your question.

Why might you suspect that it's not legit?
No we shouldn't. I would even go further and would say if it's accessed from a different thread it should better fail immediatly with a hard error that everybody can see.

Multithreading isn't something that should be implicit. Either you design your whole module/library/application around to be used from multiple threads (with all the extra work for synchronization and typically also well defined thread boundaries) or you stay with single threading.
This guy is not very tolerant himself : https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=7828492418...

what he said is worst than anything the present FN has said.
I think the beauty of this video is that there are some simple solutions to these problems that a lot of people (myself included) don't know. Terry Sejnowski is the President of NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems), which is a machine learning conference that is running this week.
There was a great, long-form piece of journalism about this, which I read not that long ago, after saving it for a long time on Pocket, I tried to find it again but failed in my googling, but it was probably by the author of that book, ah found it this time:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/302...
... answered there.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10693418
Here are the main reasons I like trump more than Hillary and Bernie in order of importance (mind you I'm a Milton Friedman type libertarian):

#1, he supports competition. And realizes the governments opportunity to utilize it more efficiently. Unlike Hilary who loves to get in bed with corporations. Or Bernie who in comparison wants to government to run everything.

#2, he's not a politician. He is not running as a career move. He has no one to appease. He does not speak like a politician - who never really speak their mind. He's a businessman by nature. This appeals to me.

#3, he contrary to our overbearing crusade for political correctness

Most of the other issues I do not have as strong of feelings.
I have - mainly for Audible - I've noticed some commenters noting how there's only interest in a given book (in this case, the Arawn Cycle) because Audible did a sale on the series.

Why did Amazon purchase Goodreads?
Pocket looked great until I looked at the permissions it wants on Android. Wi-Fi details? Contacts? Seriously?
I don't think an environmental Pascal's Wager is a strong position to base actions on. Reducing emissions will have a strong effect on our societies and people's lives (and global economics), so it's important to weight things properly.

Not saying you're wrong, just that criticisms of Pascal's Wager have validity.
I apologize then its my fault, i am new to this forum. I am not suspecting that its not legit i was just asking if anybody else used their service so i could know what to expect, but it seems i have asked in the wrong place.
IF you know why, say so, with references. Your appeal to authority isn't very... appealing.
I can't read any of that because I'm distracted by the mental image of Bill telling someone the best books he read, with some conversation, and that person asking some questions while writing notes, then spending hours in front of his laptop, emailing a draft to someone else, who asks Bill a few more questions then returns a draft to someone else who finalizes it and publishes on "GatesNotes" written as if he sat down on his blogging backend and typed it out in a textfield.

I have no idea the process behind this website, but it seems unlikely enough that he'd sit down and write it himself that I can't take it seriously. From what little I read, it doesn't sound like something produced directly from him without first passing through others, at least for formatting and correction.
Honky-American. Whitey. Melanin-challenged. The Man, etc.
It covers the history of Commodore, including the 16 bit era. Very good book. Many present commentators tend to ignore Commodore's impact in favor of Apple's, this history is an antidote to that.
Please let's keep religious flamewars off of HN. Bikeshedding, too, while we're at it.
This is really great. I wonder if something like this exists for perspex or acrylic? I've been trying to find somewhere I can get custom coloured acrylic cut to specific shapes.

What really appeals to me about Lasergist is the worldwide shipping. Now if only I could find someplace that does the same for acrylic.
This is essentially true, though the pricing is quite a bit more complex (implied volatility is important in pricing and that can swing wildly).

The tl;dr is it's a way to be short a stock with more limited risk, but with the added variable of having to be right on timing.
To be fair, opposing interests (the "green" movement) have also influenced people based on economics.

Let's not look at who is on what side of the fight when making these decisions. Both sides currently have entrenched economic interests, both sides are turning it from a practical issue to one that is moral and identity politics, ruining the conversation.
In essence, yeah. Probably the catch is the vending machine style approach just doesn't work in homes or small offices- a Keurig approach, where the user supplies the raw materials packet, would be more suitable.
Supposedly when Europeans (the later arrivals not Vikings) showed up and disease spread killing many First Nations/Native Americans it caused a dramatic environmental shift.

As forests took over the former areas where the first peoples of the Americas lived trees sucked up a lot of CO2 causing the mini ice age in Europe.

Interesting if true, yet of course very sad as well but if true that pretty incredible to think of such a connection.
The Subject Verb Object language design is a really interesting way to parse and understand code.
Nick Offerman Drinking Whiskey Screensaver
> In an era when (white and co) americans devour all kinds of ethnic cuisines, including raw sushi, all kinds of indian, thai, etc. I find this article bordering on the absurd.

The palate differences are real. I (an American) eat "ethnic" foods regularly: Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Thai, Indian, Hispanic, etc. I generally love ethnic foods. The exception is sweets. There are a few ethnic sweets I've had that I like, but by and large I've found, e.g., Indian and Chinese sweets to be unpleasant. Some of them I find to be nearly unpalatable. Others just taste odd.

I doubt I'm the only person with this experience. Lots of "ethnic" foods have been modified to fit the American palate (see General Tso's Chicken), and exposure to ethnic entrees also does not imply much exposure to ethnic sweets.
Sapiens
Student reporter hit with big bill after FOIA request
Yeah, you could just pump CO2 into the atmosphere for a couple of centuries until greenhouse effects make it uninhabitable.
If you are not convinced of something that nearly all scientists say is true, then you need to change your mind because the odds are nearly 100% that you're wrong and your belief is based on ideological footing that is blinding you.

It is really quite absurd to deny something the entire scientific community says is true.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10684262
Religion is a highly personal thing, and for me, saying that you shouldn't discriminate people based on it is far different than saying anything relating to religion gets a free pass. There's a valid discussion to be had in the question of "when does a person end and a behaviour start?" - but alas that discussion is misplaced here because trump did not even attempt to hide his message in softer words.
Can you please comment on the UX ?
Which libraries / frameworks u r using ?

The design looks slick and professional
Call it a conspiracy theory or what not but the rise of the far right looks manufactured to me. There are some really important people want RW stooges in positions of power for their future plans and they know very well how to make them appealing to the electorate by making their opponents look soft on issues of security and law & order. All it would take just to turn a blind eye to ISIS till the threat gets out of hand and then let one or two attacks pass through for the maximum impact on the unwary public.
I'm not a Basic Income expert, but radically simplifying government welfare seems to be a major selling point whenever I read about it. I too always wonder what exactly that means. How much would actually get cut? Will there still be trade tariffs? Farm subsidies? Student loans? etc., etc.
I really enjoy when people take a fresh perspective on things. Climate change has been cited by Pew Research Center as the top greatest threat, and putting a different spin on things will always be nice to try and convince people.

The top reason to reduce carbon emissions is not to reduce global toxicity and prevent climate change. Saving the planet is a bonus. Energy independence creates a stable geo political environment, almost all wars have a root cause of fighting over resources. There's little point in saving the planet if we're going to kill ourselves by the time comes when need to save it.
Also within that timespan, 1.2MB of magnetic film vs 8GB MircoSD card (upto 128GB on a Pi Zero?) That's Moore's Law in action!
there is no wrapper ;-) at least no wrapper generator, we just hand-wrapped some stuff.
Microsoft paper:recognize,substitute 3D pt cloud objects for augmented-reality
Airbnb Officially Confirms Gargantuan $1.5B Funding Round in SEC Filing
It's the right track, but we haven't met the goal yet.
This is great, thank you! I've had many boards made by OSH Park, but I didn't know about a comparable stencil shop!
I'm actually a believer that religions should get no special tax status whatsoever, so at least my beliefs are consistent I suppose. Still, I think this is playing a bit of the semantics game, as a very indirect discrimination like that is not on the same level as barring people from entry to a country based on fairly loosed belief based criteria (i.e. anyone who identifies as a muslim)
Julia and Cython are just two of the languages that already achieve this (albeit with their own warts and bumps) and from what I see at the Ritchie page, I think I'll stick with those.

BTW -- speaking as someone who first learned to program in a dynamically typed language and only later saw the beauty of static typing, I would strongly debate the idea that type inference everywhere is a good thing. The benefit of strict static typing is not so much that it allows a compiler to produce fast code -- there are lots of ways to achieve that. The benefit is that by forcing the programmer to type out the type signatures of functions in advance, you force a level of thought clarity and appreciation for the way that different pieces of code have to pass off data or state to other parts. I find it leads to better software not because of the compiler (although a compiler catching your mistakes is great for productivity), but because it makes you think much more clearly.

It's sort of like the habit of writing down your moves in chess. The benefit is that it creates a ritual of thought and reflection, and potentially makes you more careful.

These days, I see code with enforced type declarations and typed signatures as so much more elegant than similar code that, while having fewer characters, conveys significantly less about the programming intention. Those extra characters for type info are not clutter, not by a long shot.
It has been removed twice now!
Reimagining the electric slot-car racing set
crm114 isn't actively maintained, but it still works great too.
> The beauty of Python

> Ritchie is whitespace sensitive

As I thought. No thanks.
I know when I read it (when I was 7 or 8), I envisioned it as a candied turkey - kind of like the crunchy sweet shell on a honey baked ham. Very disappointing in that context.
I have never tasted Turkish Delight, but it sounds like a unimaginably sweet exotic masterpiece of confectionery.

I mean, I always imagined that it would be something a sultan in his majestic palace would order, and it would taste about the same as the illustrations of some wondrous palace in Istanbul by the illustrations in the book (by Pauline Baynes) looked like.
I agree and I just vouched for this article. Important to note that this was not an off the cuff comment. This policy was communicated in a written statement from the man currently in position to win the GOP nomination.
Chrome Dev Summit, a flashback to the good days of Google I/O
Makes it easy to build EDSLs. Very often, in an EDSL you want your users to be able to use a language that's almost like the host language, but has one or two key constructs redefined.

I'm not sure it's the choice I would've made, but I can see it being very attractive for someone whose primary experience with programming is designing a programming language. Back when I was interested in PL design in college, I was a big fan of this property in languages as well.
Cook should do surveys for these questions too (and include replies from more than 100 people):

If human activity is causing global warming, is that a good or bad thing?

If that is a bad thing, does it present an existential threat to our civilization?

If it presents an existential threat, is it the most significant existential threat our civilization currently faces?

If it presents an existential threat, can our civilization do anything about it?

Where does the danger of global warming rank compared to the danger of, say, population growth? Other pollution? Terrorism stuff? Nanobot grey goo?

If our civilization can do something about an existential threat from global warming, could a cap-and-trade or some other kind of government policy be a good solution?

If etc, could the dynamics of our culture, markets, or technology be a good solution?
It's almost assuredly a splitting of hairs, but having read a decent amount of Lewis, and knowing a bit about the times and places he lived in, I think Lewis would admit to having a conscious bias against Islam, but not a conscious one against Muslims. (A bias against the belief system, not against the people that practice it)

His use of Turkish Delight is, I have heard, thought of as a personal thing, that Lewis as a young boy would have been mightily tempted by Turkish Delight.

Knowing also the yelling that goes back and forth between Christians and Muslims about bits and bobs in the other's corpus of literature and culture, I'd imagine that it is as much planned anti-Muslim bias as unintentional.
> Bad will always bring more bad with it

Eh, we'll agree to disagree there. Find me some good in this world that isn't backed by bad somewhere in history, and I'll show you a situation where pacifist lives could have been saved with a more aggressive approach.
Why are messages separated by transport? That is, why are messages sent to/from me via one transport (e.g., SMTP) read and composed in one application, and those sent via another transport (e.g., SMS, Twitter) read and composed in another? Why, as a user, do I give %#@%! what the underlying transport is?

I think the focus on a particular technology (SMTP) rather than a service (messaging) is why email clients don't advance. Bizarrely, three other transports often are integrated into email clients: NNTP, voicemail, and fax. I can only guess that it's because of a completely arbitrary reason: They are older.

Probably chat clients should also be integrated. I should be able to send my contacts an instant or time-shifted message.
Dietary Guidelines for Americans: Science or ?
Professor Moriarty, is it you? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dynamics_of_an_Asteroid)
Sensual Charters
That article is brutal--thanks for the laugh and the book recommendations!
You don't see too many Mazaks in Europe. Where are you guys based?
Nurse practitioners might have a doctorate in nursing, but calling them doctors is extremely misleading. They function is a very similar capacity to PAs, although PAs often have more capabilities.

All of the levels mentioned here have their places, but calling any of them "doctors" who don't have an MBBS, MD, DO, or equivalent physician-level degree is inappropriate.
And hence we get groped or porno-scanned at every airport check in, and secret no fly lists which are good enough to stop people with names vaguely similar to possible terrorists from flying but which are not accurate enough for use as lists of people who shouldn't be permitted to buy guns.

Do you think that's an appropriate response? Especially since it seems to be almost universally true that every time the TSA is tested, weapons still get through the checkpoints with startling regularity.

Sorry, but I still see this as kneejerk reactions to spectacularly unlikely scenarios of "bad things happening" being proposed and regulated by people who don't care about reducing other people's freedom because it won't affect them personally.

I'm still unsure what you're suggesting "shouldn't be allowed" here? Open sourcing computer vision projects? Publishing on github? SHould all hobbyists leave face detection algorithms to Facebook and Apple and Google, because someone else might misuse the results (worse that Zuckerberg already does)? It's all extremely reminiscent of the "crypto wars" and Homeland Security's new "House Un-American Mathematics Committee": https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/67290345222221824...

Me? I'm 100% for publishing this(and similar) projects - because the tech is already out there and being used. Pretty much every towtruck and repo man has had this tech running for 5+ years, and almost nobody knows. Why is it a problem now that sufficiently motivated geeks can roll their own for ~$100 and a weekend's futzing around? Same with using promiscuous wifi adapters or TV-tuner SDRs to sniff MAC addresses or TMSIs - shopping malls and law enforcement are routinely using that tech to track you, I reckon more art projects showing how simple and creepy it is would be a good thing.

There's another movie-plot bomb detonator for you - an UberTooth One (or $5 Chinese counterfeit wifi adaptor in promiscuous mode) listening for the MAC address of your phone/smartwatch/tablet. What're we going to have to ban in response to that idea?

(I know, lets ban _ideas!_... (Sorry, that's way snarkier than intended...))
As someone else pointed out this is a duplicate. Another reason could be that those of us not in the United States are already fed up of your electoral campaigning and we can hardly believe that there is another 11 months of it remaining.
You said:

> i wanted some feedback as in
> is the website legit?

But now you say:

> I am not suspecting that its
> not legit ...

Not to flog a dead horse, but if you have no reason to think that it's not legit, why would you be posting this sort of question here? If you'd been around for a while I might understand why you would ask a question like this from a group you've come to regard as "your community," but I just don't understand what's going on. Why are you asking us here about this site?

If you don't have good answers then there's really no need to bother, but my confusion, and my questions, should help you understand HN better.
So, basically, the Precautionary Principle [1]

"The precautionary principle or precautionary approach to risk management states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or policy is not harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking an action."

Perfectly sound, perfectly logical, and the basis of (much the same as you) the argument I present when I find people who either don't understand, or disagree with (a subset of not understanding?) the science.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
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