skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make good points. Skepticism is a core quality of being a scientist.

But people are remarkably good at erecting fences in their minds. Many of those brilliant people I refer to (I call them brilliant because of their past good work in science) were able to sort of build a fence in their mind around their work and let irrational beliefs take root around it. So they were not true scientists in all aspects of their lives.

Believing in God doesn't necessarily make you a bad scientist, either.
Well, you are most certaintly entitled to that opinion.
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All policy arguments are political, but not necessarily emanating from a moral philosophy. To the extent morality can be reduced to cause-effect propositions, it can also be subject to analysis.
This is an awesome project. Thanks for making it. My small suggestion (though it's a big task) would be to allow anonymous data collection when there's a seizure. Getting the sensor data on real seizures I am sure would help a lot in improving detection.
One suggestion I have is to be able to select multiple sentences and flip them, or break the text into sections and show the target language text on the opposing "page."

The reason I suggest this is because many non-Romance and non-Germanic languages are not and cannot be translated 1:1 to English, so the sentence and paragraph structures will be different.
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Hopefully there will be a blog post soon with some details and plans.
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That was my comment, and I was speaking strictly about sciences (as the previous commenter said he works in a CS department at a university).

Even so, your counterpoint still holds no water. Just because many of them turn to faith during difficult times does not mean they necessarily perform their job function at a higher level as a result.
Please stop submitting useless comments, thanks.
> “In Silicon Valley people think you can drop any idea these days and get it funded,” said Abhyanker. It may well be true: Share the Air got multiple funding and business development inquiries, he said.

Hilarious!
This is great overall. One nitpick:

> How compilers optimize

This didn't mention scalar replacement of aggregates [1]! This is easily one of the most important optimizations for programmers in C++ and similar languages to know about.

[1]: https://books.google.com/books?id=Pq7pHwG1_OkC&pg=PA331&lpg=... is a reasonable explanation.
Does this have second part ? (I saw "1" at first page in headline). I am asking because I am in love with this . Thank you so much
> It is not clear to me that anyone is doing anything about that (except, of course, in the negative sense.)

Precisely - monetary policy in the English-speaking world has, since the 80s, been focused on avoiding inflationary pressures via avoiding "too much" growth. Anything that would lead to upward income pressure outside the executive suite is "too much".
Cool, any chance you'll write a blog post discussing that? Being a good column oriented DB combined with a decent vectorized language is definitely not something so easy to find - blaze purports to be that system (sort of), but it isn't really living up to the hype.
A well-sourced argument you've got there.
right, my mistake. sorry about that.
Cluster isn't sufficient because you cannot communicate between processes really.
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> Not reasonable once you realize there are people who have well-used nicknames they might not want to go by on facebook

Facebook has made a deliberately choice to be a social network for digitally mirroring your real life friendships, not establishing an independent "online" identity.

If you don't like that, don't use Facebook.

For me, the fact that Facebook is filled with my real friends, using their real identities, is essential to its utility.
This exists, it's at opencongress.org
I'm not going to get bogged down in a "no true scotsman" fallacial argument. People define themselves by these terms and the terms are also widely used. If you can't figure them out, that's on you.
Not at the moment, but we're considering many build outs including our own, or partnerships!
> All policy arguments are political, but not necessarily emanating from a moral philosophy.

Insofar as they can be called arguments at all, they rest on moral -- or at least, "subjective value", which some would see "moral" as a subset of, with other subsets including "aesthetic" and probably some others; these distinctions are not well-defined and, ultimately, I don't think actually meaningful -- bases.

> To the extent morality can be reduced to cause-effect propositions, it can also be subject to analysis

To the extent something can be reduced to cause-effect proposition, it is a fact question, not a value question. Morality consists of the space of value questions. It may be necessary to answer a fact question to address a value question in a particular value framework, but ultimately a question that can be reduced to cause-effect propositions is not a moral question, but a fact question (which may also have utility in addressing a moral question.)
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Good feedback.
How can you be a senior engineer and only asking this question now?
The binaries are both under 1KB, I wouldn't even consider the bandwidth cost.
Minimum wage has been around for a long time, and there are plenty of counter examples like restaurant workers and soldiers who could be studied who often get paid less than the minimum wage that has been around for decades.

You also cannot ignore that when the social safety net exceeds the value of working wages, particularly for women, there's a strong incentive to not work. Given the unavailability or high cost of health insurance, Medicaid makes that a no brainier for any woman with one or more children.
If you go to a feeding room, you're going to breastfeed, not bottle-feed. If the DoT don't want have tits in the pictogram, that's fine, but a bottle is not representative of the activity.

Babies are normally breast-fed, and should be breast-fed. Breastfeeding is one of the most important activities of motherhood. The bottle represents an unnatural and less-than-ideal replacement, and insults and cheapens mothers.

That's my take on the contemporary arguments. Modern arguments would have a slightly different feminist spin ;-)
Like the parent said, it's just like insurance. You can get what you pay for, because almost everybody else is paying for something they don't use, just in case they need it—and there's no situation where everybody's "just in case" will happen at the same time. Aggregated traffic is predictable in a way that individual flows aren't; you can have enough surety to stake your business on giving some of your customers a throughput/latency SLA, without reserving any circuits for them—because you know that even the peak of your traffic's froth is predictably below your uplink's capacity, and that there's no way for this fact to change on a timescale small-enough that your staff can't cope with it.
That's why he said basically, it's pretty much the upper half which yes, includes middle class families and billionaires and is a silly bucket to put in one group.
The basic idea that you're expressing isn't entirely unreasonable--not everyone should spend the time to become a competent auto mechanic just because. And it's not unreasonable to just take your car in to get the oil changed. However, you're probably getting downvoted because:

1. AAA isn't always there at your beck and call.
2. The mechanics of changing a flat don't exactly take years of training.
3. Some degree of self-reliance is generally desirable although that degree may be a reasonable topic for debate.
I like it for its entertainment value
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+ means add and + means higher. Both are incorrect. S3's pricing is 340% higher than B2's. S3's pricing is 440% of B2's. So either "+340%" or "440%" work.
An override or panic mode. Live broadcast of vision of attackers might discourage them, plus immediate reporting to police. It will be cheaper in many cases to replace contents through insurance than perfectly cover for rare events like highway robberies.
> Nobody cares about computers anymore

You're not in touch with reality at all
As a Canadian, it's always amusing to me when a European tells an American that the American political system is inferior despite American having roughly the same GDP as the entire European Union, with a fewer percentage of people below the poverty line, with 3/5ths the workforce, with half the EU's unemployment. Maybe we should be less judgmental.

Of course, the implicit "having a more left-er political spectrum is better" opinion is assumed, which is almost always the case for contra-American political claims, but in your defense, may not be the case here.
Good. A hard dose of reality might make HN slightly less full of aggressively, arrogantly clueless twenty-somethings.
Very interesting article, but the page layout at the top of the page seems broken. There's a huge blob of article titles taking up the first page and a half, followed by a big picture of books. Ends up making me scroll almost two pages just to get to the first heading.
Right wing thinkers don't believe reality exists for the most part. We've come into an age where we can't agree on basic facts; in that environment, there is no real thinking.
I'm guessing that they didn't test this on qmail because it is not vulnerable.
first world problems....
I am using DW 0.9.x. I miss an admin interface like django admin.
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As someone working on digital and physical security for human rights defenders in the field, I've followed this project closely. I would love to have a version of TAILS which had the Windows friendly attributes of ReactOS. Unfortunately, far too often the people most at risk just cannot really make the leap to a Linux based system, so a free, locked down version of something like ReactOS mixed with many of TAILS features, would be awesome. I know TAILS have tried to mirror some of the visual features but realistically it will never be the same.
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lazy-ass first world problems
Good lord, what hackers have become...
I'm confused by the people who are confused whether this is satire, but (like most good satire) it raises valid points.

Being "moral" in how we live our day-to-day lives is complicated, and it would be great if we could somehow offload some of that complexity. We already do this to an extent with organizations that track the effectiveness of various kinds of charitable giving- CharityWatch, for instance. Along the lines of the article, something that monitors your purchases and lets you know things like "that brand uses child labor, this alternative is okay" or "this meat was obtained with an estimated ecological impact of $1.0245/kg" would really be useful (if only in a "now I don't have to google everything to feel safe" sense.) There's a real-live potential blockbuster app in that (if only because, aside from everything else, it would have lots of interesting info about your purchasing habits...)
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Ha. I see it now. For some reason on first read I took the author to have hard-left views and objected to the thought that a right-winged attitude might dare to deem something rational.

I think I just presumed someone blogging about being discriminated against for political views would have left-wing political views.

I didn't really realise US academia was so skewed left politically; completely misread the subtext.
http://www.agner.org/optimize/

for anyone who wants complete series.
In Bruce Sterling's novel Distraction, there's a bot trawling the net for opponents of a particular politician, and posting the names of the leading ones on a blog, where fans (in the original sense of fanatic followers) of the politician would note them, and they would end up assassinated. The novel seems to be coming a lot truer than I expected when I first read it (1998 or '99).
Who says Silicon Valley isn't solving the really important problems any more.
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Microsoft is dragging its users into the cloud. Something like ReactOS would let people live within the Microsoft environment without the baggage of the cloud. A personal computer rather than a glorified cloud terminal.
> the writings of Socrates

I see what you did here
P.S., the reason you don't see as much wrangling or dramatic threats to shut down the government over this budget bill is because a bunch of stuff like this was loaded into it. Because Congress is under enormous pressure by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to undermine computer security in the name of "safety", but they can't be seen doing it because it's extremely unpopular.

What will be interesting is if all the riders on this budget bill are so unpopular that the voting public demands a government shutdown.

Personally, I think everyone here is better off spending time writing software to make surveillance less practical. Even if the U.S. government is nominally constrained by laws (they aren't in practice), there are plenty of other actors in the world that aren't governed by any constraints and will monitor all electronic communications up to their technical capacity to do so.

If you care about privacy and information security you need to be working on tools to make it impossible for surveillance to occur, not petitioning a Congress that is dead-set on screwing you.
Of course we'll blog on this topic! Just not today.

That's what the APL world brings to the table.

FWIIW, you can read about my comparing Jd (another APL related columnar database) to a Blaze like tool (Spark bigDF) on the J list:

http://jsoftware.com/pipermail/database/2015-May/000076.html
Actually, you can just do a Luhn check on the credit card and if it fails show an error message.

Scammer cards will pass the Luhn check, so it won't be helpful for them validating cards. But it will catch many customer typos, thus giving them immediate feedback.
they're very powerful calssificators and from the outside it seems they can learn to distinguish between arbitrarily complex states.

more states? add neurons! more search space? add layers!

except they have unpredictable resonances, especially multi-layer networks:

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligenc...

they're just starting to understand this, but I believe the myth of the 'do it all dnn' is gonna die. it's time to start thinking about cluster of independent neural network, supervising each an independent aspect of the search space and/or each other.
What else is there to say about the GP's blanket assertions of opinion being bought out by corporate think tanks and a link to an article about labor-related strife? It's a predetermined conclusion.
I'll raise you academic homogeneity with political autarchy.

How influential is the Left - not the Democrats, but the popular Left - on Wall St, in corporate board rooms, in Congress, in the Senate, in the US military, in econ schools, on MBA courses, in US intelligence, in police management, and in foreign policy?

If you want parity of influence, let's see it there first. Because I'm really not seeing anything that looks even slightly left-wing in any of the above - at least not by European ideas of what the Left is.

And we did invent it after all, so we have some idea what it's supposed to look like.
Is this a problem most people face? Not to mention a truck isn't gonna be able to run away from anyone, driverless or not.

Kinda sounds like you're inventing problems here and pretending human solutions exist (again, how will any truck run away in the first place?)

I'd imagine a car will hundreds of cameras and sensors in it would be better equipped to deal with crime anyways.
It's unfortunate to see that denial works even at this stage of economic impact.
That is a very good suggestion! Would be happy to accept a patch if you'd like to code it :D
I disagree, but we'll have to wait and see I guess. I work in software and as a result I don't trust computers. I see every day how rollouts of "minor" changes or small oversights bring major production systems to a screeching halt. Google and Apple do not have a culture of the type of careful software engineering that I would trust my life with. The notion that they would bring cars back nightly for "updates" is positively hair-raising.
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> The symbol for "man" is the outline of an adult human. The symbol for "woman" is the outline of an adult human, but wearing a dress. So, male is considered the default.

I'm pretty sure the intent is that the symbol for "man" is the outline of an adult human wearing pants and a shirt -- that the variations like "arriving flights" and "customs" aren't, respectively, a nude figure with a brief case and a nude figure with a load-bearing belt inspecting luggage. If you want to critique the bias, its not "male as default", its "current gender-stereotypical clothing as the distinguisher between genders".
Judging one's work by anything other than the work itself is unscientific.
Type unstable Julia is often slower than python.
I'd be really interested to know what businesses in the United States have more than half of its employees here on H-1B visas.
> Paying down the mortgage with the rates we have now, aside from personal security, don't make much sense to me.

You must be quite young. The 25-30 year window most people are now taking mortgages out can cover dramatic economic swings. Thirty years ago mortgages in my neck of the woods were up around 20%.

Assuming that rates will be this low forever is like believing we were in a "long boom" in 1999.
Elixir feels like the functional language a ruby programmer might create. When you're programming in it, it feels like 90% of the power of ruby with 10% of the features. Instead of being constraining, I find the relative lack of features (compared to ruby) liberating.

Elixir also has a supremely powerful and elegant macro capability that lets you build really powerful DSLs. For example, chunks of the language are written as Elixir macros -- the if 'keyword', for instance. As a programmer, you have full access to the very same macro system. Writing an unless 'expression' isn't even that hard.

phoenix's use of Elixir's macro system is part of why phoenix can feel so much like rails.

And yes, from the fragments I've seen of Erlang, the two are completely different. What Elixir wants from Erlang is primarily the VM and the OTP libraries.

If you've seen Erlang and it scares you off Elixir, you've got it all wrong.
Depends on the circles that you travel in. There are many folks who look down upon any "dirty" work.

It's a pretty common attitude among folks brought up in upper middle class people who end up in professional or other high end jobs. It's a Nouveau riche thing.

As far as heavy religious people are concerned, I've learned in general to not judge and let people demonstrate the capability.

One of the most brilliant guys that I ever met was a ultra-orthodox Hasidic dude. He lived by a strict code, but had an amazing discipline, work ethic and creative problem solving approach. He had great technical ability, but also had a unique way of connecting with people and working out complex people problems.
No no, bitcoin.

Venmo, for example, is extremely useful.
Are you British? (I'm picking up on the 's', not sure if you're just quoting me).

It seems others commenting on negative connotation are all American, but personally I would only consider it thus in the form of a question:

> Oh yes? How do you rationalise that then?

The answer to which is a statement of facts - how it is that I deem whatever 'that' is to be rational.

I would proffer it stems from an assumption that we are rational beings (uh-oh) which may suggest that the very fact it's questionable implies it is incorrect; but we're not rational, people differ - the one thing we all have in common is that we tend to think our own actions rational.

Hence "my rationalisation" is neutral; "your rationalisation" has a negative --ahem-- ex post facto connotation.
What if you dynamically updated the same mp3 file instead of updating the media file URL (and changing the guid.)

As far as cached mp3s that are already downloaded, I don't see why that should have a huge impact on ads. The most important episode for advertising purposes is probably the most recent episode, and if someone pulls an archived mp3 that should have the new ads too. As for already-downloaded, cached mp3s you just gotta let those go.
Agreed all around.
Looking forward. I was about to embark with python on a new long term project, but I might delay that pending the new blog post. If possible do you have a guestimate on what sort of time window we are looking at for this blogpost? Days, weeks, month?
curious what myztic would recommend as well? ubuntu may not be 'ideal' but it works and installs a lot easier than arguably any other linux distro. i have no problem using debian/arch/etc but if you are just trying to get up and going ubuntu seems to always be the easiest.
Telegram reported that 500.000 users signed up in the last three hours.
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Yeah, the problem is changing a tire will take you about 15 minutes to learn. Less time than it would take waiting for the AAA.

Sure if you don't want to do it, there's nothing wrong with that. But many smart people don't learn simple practical things for the same reason many practical people don't learn intellectual things, they put them in the too hard or too boring basket. You tend to be good at the things you work at, and work at the things you like.
This could be asked of any form of discrimination.

That he was grilled on his political views by telephone is sufficiently damning.
Uh, although 'crowded' is leading the witness, "The earth is like a crowded spaceship with limited room and resources" IS an observable fact.
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Ask HN: What would you write for a thesis in distributed systems?
Dear HN,

I need to write a thesis for the next semester.

I have couple of ideas and i would like to do something interesting.

1-) Abnormal behavior detection in containerized environments

In this idea, the hard part is to collect syscall information between containers and OS kernel. After that i will apply a machine learning algorithm to compare current syscall information with the previous ones that i have already collected. So, I can deduce whether a process is working in predefined syscall space or not. Outcome would be a business value that could lead to a startup vs.

2-) Using OP_Return in Bitcoin transactions

In bitcoin transactions, when crafting a bitcoin transaction, you can have up to 80bytes reserved for custom purposes. It is a research topic and some people actually wrote a paper about it. http://fc15.ifca.ai/preproceedings/bitcoin/paper_15.pdf
Outcome would be C++ library that will parse blockchain and build up bitcoin transactions with OP_RETURN values those can be used for custom purposes. So, by building this library, i will have learnt how bitcoin works in low level, understand transactions and protocol and some other cool stuff.

So these are my rough ideas for the thesis. If you have interesting ideas or suggestions about distributed systems, containers ,cloud,security please let me know.
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