skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big fan of animalistic reductionism, for personal reasons. And that perspective tells me, from looking at the way well trained and motivated dogs perform tasks, that socialized sentient beings do appreciate being helpful and useful. Also, being an arm chair evolutionary psychologist, I can easily speculate that a species with this trait would continue better than a similar species without that trait. A bit like the aesop fable of the ants and the grasshopper.

And also personally I get a good old dopamine kick out of solving problems in a group. It may be that I'm socialized to behave that way. But then again a culture that ingrains that kind of behaviour... (see above).
Note the coreutils-single package in Fedora rawhide which can be used to get coreutils down to about 1MB. Details on that change at http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/coreutils.git/commit...
It's absolutely not true, and in fact the #1 book in Amazon's "Computers & Technology" category last week was written by a woman.

Despite that, it's a belief that's out there, and it prevents some women from even trying (which is bad).
Still trying to parse that slide and I am mostly baffled by the line where "(6) Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women."

I know the slide needs more context, but even so, it is a very disturbing statement to make.

Something is amiss and lots of explanations are needed.

PS: now I am more than happy with my choice of keeping my repos on Bitbucket.
This only affects the home button. If you replace the screen and keep your original home button, there is no issue.

I co-own a repair shop. We have known about this for a while. We won't replace home buttons for this reason. But we replace hundreds of screens a month with no issues.
OK, but like 63% of the U.S consists of whites. If it were an even distribution it would be disproportionate. Whites are somewhat over represented based on your numbers, but not as much as you seem to imply.
If you're targeted by a "bad guy" at this level of play, you have much bigger problems than an untrustworthy fingerprint sensor.
So you would essentially be walking around with an AR compatible device and be able to discover messages left by your friends? This is actually a really great concept if i'm understanding this correctly
They were advocating for the interests of labor over the interests of large high tech companies. Any success that group attains against Amazon would also damage Google's interests.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/343469909058478785/
It looks more like these images are procedurally made rather than actual AI created paintings.
Yes, I believe it was Comcat who publicly admitted that data caps are just a way of wringing more money out of you.
Luigi vs. Airflow vs. Pinball
I like the official git documentation. There are many tutorials out there but reading through the official doc always makes things clearer to me at least

https://git-scm.com/doc

I also like Stripe documentation

https://stripe.com/docs
> I don't understand why people would use a dash "-" inside a symbol

No need to use the shift key. At the levels of efficiency that a good language can reach, this matters.

Also, dashes match established lexicographical conventions better than underscores because dashes look like hyphens.
Isn't this already mapped out? For all of its other faults, I know HERE Maps has a feature to warn you if you're above the speed limit.
- "This is not work for white folks to lead"

Well, it's not. It's kind of missing the point if your diversity initiative is being run by white people.

- "Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women"

Second wave feminism, largely led by white women, often leaves out women of color. I mentioned this below, but the publishing industry is 79% white and 78% female. This has a huge impact on the types of stories that get to be published, which subsequently has real results on culture and society.

- "we need solidarity with our Asian friends and colleagues"

I mean yeah, sure, nothing super deep on that one. There should also be solidarity with white friends and colleagues, preferably ones that do a lot of listening and understand how not to take up all the space.
Interesting perspective but a lawyer heading corporate development can make sense, having a lawyer with no accounting or finance training or experience is reckless at best but very scary to any potential shareholder. How on earth is Avalos making investment decisions? Avalos is not technical at all, he knows markdown, yoga and how to spin records. The company is falling apart under his watch, case closed. His purview is HR and Social Impact, he is calling the shots.
It is interesting and sad how quick these kinds of racists are to shut down any kind of discussion that does not align with their racist ideology.

I tweeted a response stating this was racism and was blocked within 20 seconds.
To further extend from the suffrage movement, it is important to note that minorities (men & women) didn't legally have the right to vote until the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

So Sanchez has a point in claiming that historical precedence has shown that "discrimination" was thought to have ended after the suffrage movement when it wasn't until many years later that minorities were legally secured the right to vote. Hence the hierarchy is that white women are the "next-in-line" when it comes to diversity before any other type of minority group.
You know, multi-level boards have a long history in the United States and the world. I would like to see other representatives on boards. I know that Denmark has required employees on boards for years, but I think that system can be improved. I would like to see something more like "corporativism" - where interest groups can be represented on boards in order to force corporations to consider society as a whole, and not just their own obscene profits.
In Racket, you can use "-" and "?" in variable names and I love it.
RedLoud, reads the news to you while you work or drive
You are not being tested, you are the judge. now, if all the judges do no better than chance, the system has passed. I got 8/10, and knowing the deepart pictures from before, I was pretty confident in some of the judgments, so I don't think they pass.
My opinion on best to worst
codeschool(paid, ~$500/year)
codecademy
freecodecamp
or googling tutorials for what you want to learn to do
The 'gogs' project [1] is decent and could use some support.

[1] https://gogs.io/

(not affiliated with gogs, just started toying with it recently)
What, you can't even picture a white person being an ally if it's not as the leader of the group?
Learn ggplot2 for R interactively
> This position is ideologically motivated and profit-driven, though not without merit

They also have a clue what the hell they are talking about.

Politicians should shut the fuck up in the face of experts.

I also don't understand why they think that ISIS and the like would have trouble accessing encryption because the US government says they get to control things now. The technology is freely available.
In fact, when you first reboot your phone, even contacts cannot be accessed until you authenticate with your passcode to unlock the secure element.

I don't have a password on my iPhone. I don't need one, because I don't store any critical data on the phone, or spend any significant time in environments where it's likely to be stolen. And I guess I'm naive enough to assume that no one from the NSA Tailored Operations department is going to sneak into my bedroom at night and install a malicious fingerprint sensor.

So, no, there is absolutely no reason for Apple to brick my entire iPhone if the sensor fails validation. They should act to maintain the level of security chosen by the user... no more, no less.
It's actually written into GitHub's Open Code of conduct. (The 'Open' Code has not accepted any changes for quite some time even though this particular issue was under discussion [1].) The Open Code expressly excuses discrimination against some races and genders, specifically by explicitly ignoring any critique which might fall under a 'reverse'-ism; 'reverse-racism' or 'reverse-sexism' [2]. This line in the Open Code was previously discussed here [3].

[1] https://github.com/todogroup/opencodeofconduct/issues/82

[2] https://github.com/todogroup/opencodeofconduct/blob/gh-pages...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043668
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I remember watching the episode of Simpsons where the Navy produced a series of music videos with subliminal messaging back when it first came out (apparently in 2001).

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

Re-up as a term to re-enlist or re-sign up has been around for at least 15 years.
the same fucking idiots with their heads up their asses will never understand "privilege" no matter how many times people patiently spell it out for you.

it makes you look stupid.
This is blatant racism yes. I have posted this with a mention of here name on LinkedIn and Twitter and asked her to clarify this slide. Maybe a bit of public pressure will do the trick for her to come forward.
At which point you have much bigger problems than a compromised iPhone.
solidarity with asian people is racism, you heard it here first
I think you are mistaken. This is the quote from the article I am responding to: "Adams has figures to prove that countries – indeed US states – that do not require motorbike helmets have fewer biking accidents than those that do."

The research I linked to is also about motorcycles.
Some how I really doubt that Mondarman ever drove in DC traffic. To say that without other indicators, drivers will seek to look other drivers in the eye definitely wouldn't work around here.
She might've been racist as fuck, but I seriously do not get how she could be declared as "one of the biggest barriers to progress". She wasn't even allowed to vote, god damnit.

It's completely incoherent. If the power is overwhelmingly in the hands of straight white man, than straight white women very unlikely to become not some of the biggest "barriers to progress."
SourceForge is open source. The software underpinning the way the whole setup works is called Allura. Paid developers at SourceForge keep enhancing it. It's hosted by Apache: http://allura.apache.org/

Github is closed source.
I remember one particularly annoying one from that era was an analogue clock that used to surround the mouse pointer. I wonder if that still exists anywhere.
Gitlab is one project that absolutely needs to be rebuilt using Java. Both from a performance and a deployment perspective (deploying a jar is a one line step through jetty).

Something like Akka is probably well suited for Gitlab and it's git hooks.
Here are the results so far http://turing.deepart.io:3838/
Apparently we both need to write better, because you missed the point of my example. Most—if not all—local changes that would be destroyed by git reset --hard show up in git status.

git clean -dfx will wipe out ignored files, which do not show up in git status, so it's much easier to forget about something you meant to keep.
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> Do you have an arrest record? If not: there's the magic power. Statistically speaking, a poor young black male is much more likely to have an arrest record than a poor young white male.

> Edit: holy batman the downvotes. I never considered the possibility that maybe #hnwatch is right.

Its unfortunate that you are being downvoted without comment. The downvotes may or may not be evidence that #hnwatch is correct, it would depend on the motivation. It would not be rational for us to assume that the downvotes are evidence that #hnwatch is correct, in the absence of any explanation for the downvotes.
Hell, even if you provide certain services for free you can be held to certain legal obligations.
Well, I'm not really against corporations per se. I work for one I quite enjoy and whose aims I think are good and in the general interest.

The challenge, as I see it, is to have governments with a spine, but governments not so big that they stifle freedom or crowd out opportunities. Governments need to be powerful enough to overrule the biggest corporations so that corporations can exist without the cronyism. Power alone is insufficient though because even a powerful government is peopled by individuals who can sometimes be bought cheaply.

The East India Company is a somewhat terrifying example of what is possible with unbound power for corporations. It's an equally bad and unsubtle endpoint as an all government central economy. Diversity of thought and composition, as in many places, yields better results than homogeneity.

I think corporations are necessary for large-scale, long-term commercial endeavours. Certain classes of services to both individuals and businesses need continuity and corporations are well-suited to providing that kind of continuity.

Where we are today forgives incumbent large corporations too much and (certainly in Canada) makes it far too difficult for entrepreneurs to start small businesses.
I live in Germany, so that does not really apply to me ;)
Your use of "only" is undeservedly generous of the attitude reflected on that slide. Furthermore, the slide actually doesn't even really address gender as a reason to disqualify someone, just race. They aren't talking about having a diverse group of people, including white males and females, leading diversity. Instead that slide near as I can tell communicates a policy of excluding white people.

Furthermore, I don't understand the racist attitude that somehow white or male people are somehow less qualified to lead a diversity program. Interpersonal skills, knowledge of the myriad diversity initiatives and approaches tried elsewhere and how effective they have been, knowledge of hiring practices, knowledge of recruiting practices, knowledge of retention practices, knowledge of the law surrounding hiring, recruiting and retention practices, professional network, etc. are all the type of things that should be relevant when choosing the most qualified candidates for such a position. Discounting all these and elevating someone's race and gender to utmost importance is blatantly racist policy/attitude.
i see nothing wrong with staying in python and just continuing to broaden your capabilities within that language....big data, statistics, machine learning, all that 'new' hip stuff, unless of course you already know all that in which case don't mind me =)
people would find more ways to be useful if they didn't have to go to work
Indeed. We haven't pass yet - that's the first attempt though. Still only 66% of human accuracy is quite remarkable.
I see this is a new document.
I miss Pamela and her interesting point of view though.
I've been using Gitlab for a couple of years, and it's really great. Used a self hosted repo for a team of ~40, and I can't recall any major incidents or any loss of code, ever.
And my reply points out that there's no mention of risk anywhere in the letter. Do they state this elsewhere, or are you assuming?
If PayPal wants to mitigate risky transactions, give us a good mechanism to report fraudulent ones. I reverse dozens of donations to my open source project every month that are obviously fraudulent (testing a stolen credit card to see if it works). I have no way to report it to Mastercard/VISA or the cardholder. I have to reverse it or I get hit with a $20 chargeback fee on that fraudulent $1 donation. And when I reverse it, PayPal keeps their fee, so that has to come out of our funds.
Data was ok on your website and found few good suggestion.
Well camel-case does reduce the length of the identifier without sacrificing clarity. This can help reduce line length, which, in turn, allows more files to be viewed on a single screen in splits, without wrapping or scrolling. I think this solidifies camel-case as the most practical style, if you ignore aesthetics.

The underscore was invented to allow people using typewriters to underline text.

I think that the hyphen is more pleasing, aesthetically, but overall I think that it's a poor tradeoff.
Yay!! A somebody else referenced Goodhard's law so I don't have to.

The concept has an extremely long and storied history. Just look up the 'Chinese Imperial Exams' for more info. Makes me really wish that Eastern History was taught in Western schools. Otherwise, we're doomed to repeat their past mistakes.
Congress (and the US) should quit calling things a "war on X".
How does a GPS fence lead to better management/leadership?

Until you realize their whole reason for github existing (and why Linus wrote git in the first place) is to support product development for large remote/distributed/non-centralized teams or projects. It just happens to also work identically for very small teams/projects too.
UC Berkeley profs blast secret IT monitoring kit on campus
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Machiavelli

"The prince" is the best book I ever read on business.
It sounds small when you put it that way, but try looking at the same stats from the other side: 37% of Americans aren't white, but only 21% of editors aren't. Or to put it another way, white people are twice as likely to become editors as non-white people. That's not a small difference.
No, merely to every destination that can support those speeds. I'm pretty sure YouTube qualifies.

And really, I'd be happy with a mere 10Mbps to YouTube, if for some reason full speed is too hard.
Of course I wouldn't go so far as to say no one has ever used it effectively, but it seems like in the vast majority of cases, it's bullshit all the way down.

It's a surreal experience when you realize how executives are making decisions based on something that, after a moment of critical thought and common sense, clearly has no more relevance than some integers pulled out of rand(). Chuckle and shake your head is indeed about all you can do.

Just try not to visibly smirk if you're ever involved in acquisition talks. Play along.
Excellent. I was not aware of that, thank you!
The second is a quote from a long-term Hacker News member, but he hasn't been active lately. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=danilocampos
National Archives releases coloring book of 'favorite' patents
From a Business Insider article:

"A few months ago, Kayvon Beykpour met a fellow Stanford University graduate, Jessica Verrilli, for coffee.

Verrilli is the Director of Corporate Development and Strategy for Twitter. She asked what Beykpour had been working on since leaving Blackboard, an education company that had acquired his prior startup, TerriblyClever. Beykpour fired up his iPhone and showed her Periscope."
http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0233

>The number of local minima outside that band diminishes exponentially with the size of the network. We empirically verify that the mathematical model exhibits similar behavior as the computer simulations, despite the presence of high dependencies in real networks. We conjecture that both simulated annealing and SGD converge to the band of low critical points, and that all critical points found there are local minima of high quality measured by the test error. This emphasizes a major difference between large- and small-size networks where for the latter poor quality local minima have non-zero probability of being recovered.
Yes of course. What are you waiting for.

However my advice would be to find something truly uniquely different to your business, not just incrementally better or just incrementally different.
>an infinitely deep net (whatever that means) would not generalize on little data, and would get even harder to train the deeper it gets.

Not with proper priors/regularization.

>You've argued some ideas from intuition. There is little theoretical rigor around this, however.

There's this paper which goes more into theoretical depth on the idea: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0233
FYI, there is no mention of "risk" in the submitted article, it's purely about copyright policing. You appear to be responding to misinformation posted by some commenters here.
And you can tell whether one is a chemist by the way they pronounce "unionization".
"Those who prefer speed over safety deserve neither speed nor safety"
"white" people's power is not that they are given money, a job, or great health. their power is that they are the ones given those opportunities. Being white doesn't remove you from being poor, jobless, or in poor health, you just have a lot more options to get out of it.

Being poor and white is a lot better than being poor and black or poor and <not white> because you're not fighting additional problems that come with being a minority.
Seems like you're using libertarian as a marketing buzzword that has no meaning
> ISIS doesn't have the talent to build such a thing.

not sure why you think that. Money would give them access I would think, if direct recruiting fails.
I'm really in awe of this guy. He does so much amazing work.

If you like the Chipophone, you have to check out the little synths he made for Teenage Engineering: http://www.linusakesson.net/music/po-2x/index.php
Do you actually know that, or are you just speculating?
Uber Drivers threaten to strike during superbowl
Not sure where you get that number for Europe. According to Wikipedia [1] it has a population density of about 73/km^2. European Russia also brings that number down a bit because it has a population density comparable to the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
Is this Sanchez a SJW? Is she trying to destroy the company?
Sort of... They have a glib package. Take a look at this Atlassian post to see how you can make your Oracle Java based apps run with Alpine: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/08/minimal-java-do...

I still prefer to use DockerSlim to shrink images. I'm too lazy to worry about the Alpine gotchas :)
I got 10/10 (no Facebook or Twitter account to share this, unfortunately.) Update: my wife got 10/10, too.

Right now neural nets do pretty poorly with "loose/messy" styles (you get noise instead of brushstrokes; if they posted high-resolution images there, I cannot believe anyone would score less than 10/10.) Neural nets do exceptionally poorly with "neat" styles (try copying the style of the Mona Lisa into your photo and it'll paint an eye into your mouth.)

However, I'm pretty sure that an algorithm hand-crafted to replicate an artist's style might fool me (just like a hand-crafted chess algorithm wipes the floor with a neural net plus some tree search; not so for Go, I know - I don't even play Go so I don't have a firm opinion on that one.)

I must say that this whole "photo + style" thing really gets my goat - not the research as much as the sort of press coverage it gets. I project that a stock market crash will improve such coverage significantly.
What's your explanation for the much-observed fact that most of the productivity gains of the last thirty years haven't trickled down to most of the workforce?

Monetary policy is one of the main reasons. Instead of letting a secular deflation emerge with growths in total factor productivity, central banks still do price level stabilization instead. The monetary disequilibrium economists have written much on this. George Selgin has a great and relatively accessible essay called Less Than Zero that discusses this.

No one in modern economic theory belieces the Marshallian tradition is identical to modern neoclassicism - never mind neoliberalism.

But there is no single "modern neoclassicism," that's the point. Yet to somehow deny that Marshall was a neoclassical is to make the term meaningless. The approaches of Marshall, Menger, Walras and others all had important differences despite being ultimately lumped as "neoclassical".

Neoliberalism isn't even an economic idea. It's a political term used by people opposed to it to describe what they perceive as a shift into corporate rule since the 1970s. Yet this narrative is full of holes, not least of which is the history of mercantilism, imperialism and later corporation-state cooperation. I'll be writing a book on this subject at some point.