skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but not particularly harshly. The Electoral Commission's target is 95% of eligible voters enrolled, and it's currently at 93.5%. You are supposed to enrol at some time between your 18th birthday and the next election (which roll around every 3 years or so), so some of that non-enrolled percentage are folks who will do so shortly. A small amount of people are eligible to vote, but not capable, such as people with severe intellectual handicaps. In practice, most folks are enrolled.

The penalty isn't particularly harsh ($20 first time missed a vote, $50 afterwards). I have a 40-year-old friend that's not enrolled, and as far as I'm aware, she has never been fined for it.
>My argument isn't that paying $40 for software a year is obscene, it's that this particular feature set in the competitive space is not worth $40 to me.

That's not what you said, though. It was your argument, then you realized you were overstating your case. Why not just say so?
Note that Seafile seems to still be using a very old and EOL'd version of Django that has known security issues (currently v1.5.12, I believe).

https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/1502
I'm pretty sure last time I renewed it was $24/yr. Sad to see it's gone up. I was on the fence at $24, for how much I use it. At $40 I'll probably look for something else.
8/10, on a mobile device, just going on gut instinct
Those who missed the thread on the Disney outsourcing may want to see this and its parents. Note the video that proves that firms are deliberately posting phony job ads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10970166
"When they are widespread and commonplace the accident rate will go past that of wide/marked roads." Do you have a study to cite on this?
Any call I get that starts with a robocall from "Ann" or "Rachel" or "Barbara" from Cardholder Services, or Account Services, or Microsoft Tech Support is basically fraudulent from the start . Robocalling is stricly controlled, and I use Linux. Next, we have Caller ID spoofing, some of the area codes are non-existent, and maybe the number is of the wrong format. After that, the failure to identify who they work for clearly is a big red flag, as is the use of names like "Edward" or "Candy" for people with South Asian accents.

Even before the no-call list became effective, there wasn't a lot of difference between a telemarketer and a scammer. For several years, I politely asked for a written copy of their no-call policy, every single telemarketing call. I got one. Telemarketing was a very shady grey area business long before the fraudsters made it legendary.
This looks at demand-supply in a vacuum. You also have the other demand-supply curve: will people be willing to pay a huge premium for, say, authentic foreign cuisine? Probably not as much as would be needed to make this system work.
Todoist is half of that price and basically can be used daily without notifications and comments for free.
Great content. I only made it about half way on mobile before it crashed.

It's kind of bizarre how all the sketches before the 50s are available and all that follow were either not available or only available on Hulu's buggy video player.
> I understood that, what I'm trying to state with my rhetorical question was that all his statement served to say was "Germany created the Nazis, you should feel guilt for that".

I think he simply couldn't back up his own argument with any logic, so resorted to a tired cheap shot about Nazis in frustration.
The site was definitely down a few hours go with a terse message about it breaking "terms of service".
It's not hard at all. Find a company with a problem they're willing to pay $100 a month for. Tailor the product to their needs. Sell it to that company.

Can you turn it into a viable business? Depends on how hard you hustle.
Yes, I'm saying it's a wrong categorization, and inaccurate. People inaccurately categorize themselves as well. It would be more accurate to not refer to those categories as race, but as sub-cultures, because then it becomes something that isn't inherent to someone's identity. People of mixed race, for example, half "black", half "white", will often choose to be "black", and identify as such, when in fact, their race is a mix, yet they see themselves as "black". This is clear proof it's all fabricated, but most people can't see this.
Push instead of pull for card not-present transactions would go a LONG way to deal with fraud online.
I thought it was easier to tell which ones were computer generated rather than which were painted by a human. The computer art all seem rather abstract yet uniform.

also the high-fidelity, near-photographic paintings are always human.
Constantinos Daskalakis adapts techniques from computer science to game theory
I do wonder if drivers prefer the markings so that they can, for example, drive faster in the face of on-coming traffic or not give bicycles as much room.
A challenge: find a symbolic system which does not obey a Zipfian distribution or has a heavy tail. You will fail. Programming included.
Ah, yes, I see that now. Thanks for pointing that out.
I got 9/10. Chose the first one incorrectly.

For me, the giveaway for computer-generated images was that they don't focus on the "subject" and have too much detail on the background.

For example, look at the computer-generated boats - they blend into the background. It's hard to tell where the boat ends and the rocks begin, or where the sails end and the clouds begin. Or look at the grey house in front of the dude's face or the pipe behind the glasses lady's head, which bring in too much attention but add nothing to the painting.
Sounds like they want something like https://angel.co/romithq; PayPal for "untouchables" in the current payment ecosystem.
The points you made about programmers aren't invalid, but are taken to an absurd level and also imply the existence of the "other side." I mean, you could have written a feelgood snippet about programming, but I guess a meme is okay too.
Google didn't have to bring a 10x differentiator to the table in order for Google Maps to be worth it for them. They had other reasons for building it than directly making money off of it.

If you don't have to actively sell your product then the rules change.
Your link supports my point, not yours. I'm aware of research showing that local minima are close to the global minima. That does not mean neural nets usually converge to the global minima, only that, the local minima they converge to is close to the global minimum.

> Finally, we prove that recovering the global minimum becomes harder as the network size increases
Ah, yeah, the link to the REPL in the GitHub repository was broken (I figure that's where you got it). I fixed it. As the other commenter pointed out, the real link is http://breuleux.github.io/earl-grey/repl.html
As someone who started a Saas in a niche market that had a long standing leader I'd say this:

Ask yourself not whether there is a leader in the market, but whether that industry is in flux and whether the buyers in the industry are apt to seek and adopt something new.

If you don't get the sense that things are fluid in your target market, then I'd recommend staying away. In some markets people just don't like change.

IMO it's not about whether there is a leader, or whether it's an untapped market, it's all about how the market reacts to new things.

Look for reactions to other products in the same market on social media. Was there excitement? apathy? Why? Consider this a preview of the kind of reactions you're going to get. If you don't like it stay away.
Very interesting account of your experience. I've been toying with the my ideal programming language for some time and am interested. You bring up a good point about people favoring the styles of their most recently used language. For that reason I worry that any language I'd create would merely be a combination of languages I've used previously and not something original. I'm excited to take a look at your work.
Were you part of the DeepSense Right Whale Kaggle team? That was some good shit.
You're right of course, silly me. Stupid things like being surrounded by things exploding and the constant possibility of being trapped underground in complete darkness with no possibility of rescue just pale in comparison to your 40 hours in an office with distasteful wallpaper. The horror.

Happiness land mine wise, I am deeply unconvinced. Nothing new under the sun in that department.
It may not help that case in particular, but there's a _lot_ that ES6/ES2015 add to the table: http://babeljs.io/docs/learn-es2015/

A lot of things in there would need a library for cross-browser compatibility still. That's my point, but I take yours as well. It's still a very BYOL (bring your own library) kind of a language!
I doubt that. Facebook, like many large companies, hires first and worries about H1B later. If you don't make it through the lottery they will put you in one of their offices in some other country. (I don't know if they L1 you later).
You know the corporate rot has set in when you see titles like "vice president of social impact".
> why not just start a newgroup-ish email feed?

Have you ever tried to run a mail server before? It's a nightmare wrapped in a fiasco.
A truly universal basic income would probably allow a diaspora from the currently over-saturated, "the rent is too damn high" markets, into the surplus housing stock and land that sits vacant due to poor local economies throughout the country.

If I could earn a guaranteed $25k for breathing, I sure as hell wouldn't be where I am now, since I could go home and buy a good chunk of land, do some subsistence farming, and happily hack away and read at my leisure.
It goes into theoretical detail to show one fact, that local optima are close to the global optimum. It does not prove anything else.
It wasn't meant to be serious but to point out how absurd it is how seriously everyone here is taking themselves and viewing everything as a personal affront or a call to war. They see this as a war with "SJWs" and "PC police". You're right that I could have written a more serious reply, but when HN goes to shit the best thing to do is shitpost :).
XCode though.
Knowing upfront that one is computer generated does not really work nor showing it to an audience that has seen deep neural net pics for months on the frontpage of HN. Showing them on the street in a non tech neighborhood and ask which is the better/nicer looking painting without saying that one is done by a computer should get some better results.

Prepare for some people actually getting angry about it once you tell that the paintings they liked most are computer generated (from pictures but still).
I don't think anyone is advocating that we ignore racism, let alone that the ideal state is one where it exists and we ignore it.

Rather, we aim to be in a place where racism simply doesn't exist.

I am painfully aware that for many people this is an unsettling proposition as it sounds like rampant fantasy and/or they don't comprehend how (or believe that) any society could reach that position.

But in turn I believe those people exhibit a poverty of imagination, and are exhibiting an ignorance of various historical examples of comparably profound cultural shifts.
There are plenty. For example, phoneme distributions and syllable distributions (as opposed to word distributions) are known not to follow Zipf's law.

Are the sizes of cities and asteroids "symbolic systems"?

Anyway, my point (consistent with yours in fact) is simply that the shape of the income distribution should not be so surprising, or strike us as "unnatural", given how often we observe the same shape of distribution for all kinds of things, both in economics and in the natural world.
Decimal time
Listen to astronaut Sally Ride discuss all the sexist questions from the press
I would. With background checks for criminal records.

People who have the wherewithal to move across the globe are not "the poorest and most desperate people from all around the world", they are the ones with the means to pay thousands of dollars to mafias because we have no better system to bring them in.
Yup. Mark Zuckerberg is really glad he killed Facebook. http://www.google.com/finance?q=fb

There's a good reason they listen to the data and not to the user complaints of a vocal minority.
Ultibo: Unikernel for Raspberry Pi / boots in 2 seconds
Now we get down to it- It's really a call to action. We are both losers, but you want the guys at the winners' tables to buy you a beer first, because you had a harder time, and disregard the fact that you and I are both equally losers.

Of course feelings are important- The feeling you wish to elicit is guilt, not simply acknowledgement.
I'm not sure that highest bidder is a good idea. Makes it very hard for smaller companies, e.g. startups, to compete with Google et. al.. Don't really know a good alternative tho. Prevailing wages are pretty easy to game to a significant degree by tuning the job title.
Being slightly detrimental is not exactly synonym for beating down.
I think it'd have made more sense to very gradually increase the 140 char limit over time, rather than jump straight to 10K-it seems like a ridiculous jump made out of desperation.
The name of the thing is whatever people refer to it as.
Do you accept Bitcoin? Irreversibility is a Godsend for merchants.
This sounds pretty similar to the definition of a species.

If two organisms of appropriate gender can't reproduce with each other, then they probably aren't the same species.

If code from two samples can't be interspersed, then it's probably not the same language.
> Educate yourself before you throw Godwins around.

He's not invoking Hitler or Nazism, he's making a comparison between white privilege and anti-semitism. It's pertinent because of whites and Jews being races; it's not just a random invocation of whatever to win an argument. Not all anti-semites are Nazis. There are plenty of otherwise normal people who just randomly hate Jews for literally no reason.

There's a point there, and I think you missed it. (Please note I am not arguing for or against that point, just that you may have missed it.)

I also appreciate the "Educate yourself" thought-terminating cliche. It's an interesting one.

If you call an argument Godwinesque but turn out to be wrong, who has lost the argument?
I think that's a neat idea. I've thought about it, but I've never used Go personally and I wasn't sure just how much it would help. I imagine it works best for languages with good static properties/tools for code analysis.
It’s Okay to Not Learn How to Code
>> Based on US statistics I'm like in the top 5% of household income bracket but I feel like a slave at work

This tells you everything you need to know about happiness. How hard and how many years a person fought to get to the top 5% may have very different views about how happy they are.
There is a lot of overlap between the HN user base and the delusional SJW ilk that is running Github into the ground. People here are defending the blatantly racist sentiments mentioned in the article. They are performing some serious mental gymnastics to both hold the belief that race is an irrelevant social construct and that too many people of one race (cough whiteys cough) in one place is bad.
Same. I love the idea of to-do lists but every time I start to get one almost up to date I miss out on some tasks, lose track and then it's horribly outdated and I start all over again.

I wish I could find a solution that works. This RTM upgrade just brings it to parity with most other services with features their customers have been asking for for almost a decade.
How we made an iPhone app on the side (and a few tips to help you do it too)
THIS IS AMAZING! I would have never imagined seeing something this useful being made in my life.
I don't get the complaints here. Most of the complaints about the algorithmic timeline are implementation details, not objections to the concept itself.

An algorithmic timeline does not necessarily mean live events are out of order. There is no reason the algorithm cannot be sophisticated enough to detect time-sensitive tweets and preserve the ordering of real time events. In fact, a sophisticated enough algorithm would cluster real time event-related tweets in chronological batches, and surface relevant replies / commentary around it.

I'm pretty sure that almost all the people threatening to leave Twitter will still be there when the dust settles.
But doesn't affirmative action necessitate the exact behavior we want to eliminate, making decisions based on body attributes?
Why don't you go ask your local university's diversity office and see what they say about it?

"The left" as a whole can't have one part banging on about how all men are rapists if not confined by filled-out consent paperwork, but on the other hand they all have the right to go into women's bathrooms if they say certain magic words, which, by the way, it is transphobic to ask any questions about so don't make any silly claims about how this can't be fraudulently used because any attempt to prevent fraud is ipso facto transphobia. "The left" as a whole is going to have to pick one or the other; there is no way to convince the public of both.
Speaking personally, it isn't something I would be willing to spend. It's within my budget, but I've never liked the thought of software as a service for something that doesn't feel like a service. No ill will to the developer, of course. I'll continue to use the original app.
It wasn't uncommon to hear in Eastern Europe a short while ago that "Jews control the world" and that's why we should take their power from them. Clearly absurd, but that's how people felt. (And I'm not making points about the Nazis, I'm making points about Poland in 1989 during the fall of Communism.)

But now we hear "white men control the world," and are expected to take their power away.

Just because they're similar doesn't mean they're the same, I realize. But we should at least be self-aware about that similarity, because it means something.
Give that Facebook's stock skyrocketed after you left, does that mean Twitter's stock is going to skyrocket now? (sarcasm)
"Do you know who robs businesses of money? No one because when you go into business and fail that's no one's fault but your own."

Except that's not true, businesses are subsidized and bailed out all the time.

Grayson and the Fed during the baiouts of the banks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJqM2tFOxLQ

Dailybail

http://dailybail.com
Facebook's email messages used to be pretty useful; they used to contain the actual content of posts. That means if you also turn off remote images, you can actually read Facebook posts without Facebook having realized that you've read it. I've always done this for privacy, until they stopped putting the actual post in their emails.
No, because it doesn't actually address the existing situation. Maybe "I don't want it to be a problem that I'm an alcoholic, so no one should ever talk about my alcohol problem".
You are a cunt.
>Well to be fair, a white man's opinion on racism or sexism is sort of like a Pacific Islander's idea of how cold it is in Siberia.

I hope the irony is not lost on you. What a despicable (and sadly typical) comment.
Sorry if I came off as condescending, that wasn't my intention. I once held a similar position as yours, but it was because I wasn't well read about the subtleties of white supremacy and power structures. That changed as soon as I first read Malcolm X and had my mind blown as a teenager. I thought maybe you also didn't see it, but now I realize you do see it but don't think it's about power. My apologies.

But yes we disagree. Of course all individuals should be given respect and opportunity, no one is arguing otherwise. The fact of the matter is that that's not the current state of the world. We can talk about fairness and equal treatment all we want, but that doesn't address the systemic racism that is happening right this second. People of color don't have the time to wait around for white people to decide to be respectful and fair. I don't see any way to overcome it than from a yielding of power.

I'm down to find common ground, but it has to be on something concrete, not vague ideas of fairness (which are subjective anyways). I personally think it's silly to have diversity initiatives led by white men. What do you suggest?
Yesterday I was reading this blogpost (http://maryrosecook.com/blog/post/scarface-prince-of-the-cit...) so as soon as I clicked this link I thought no way can a computer learn to do what I read yesterday on its own!

I had read headlines about computer-generated images but had never seen them, yet I managed 9/10, anticipating that an artist's technique is not just relation between color etc. but a philosophy.

Edit: Also, it is not a turing test in true sense, since it's one sided. It would be turing test if I tell them what to draw & then it's tough to distinguish between what an artist & computer paints.
Sounds like it has come closer to reaching feature parity to many other services. I've used it in the past but when many other players are on the same (or more) platforms with a lower price and equivalent or better features I'm not sure why I would go back to RMT.

Honestly I've never found a good service / app for handling todos. I start well meaning enough, get some lists with stuff I need to get done then they slowly get out of date, I stop using it and then I'm looking for something else a few weeks later.

I wish more to-do apps integrated better with calendars. It's almost always shitty integration if it even exists.

I wonder if this space is ripe for disruption if someone can find a way to keep people engadgrd and up to date with their lists. Maybe it wouldn't even be a list of sorts? Hmm. Just thinking out loud here.
The publication record shows that "mouse cursor" is completely acceptable. For examples from https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22mouse+cursor%22 :

Smalltalk-72 manual (1976), page 2 - http://mame.myds.me/bitsavers/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/Sma... :

> The Mouse: The little rectangular object with three buttons that usually sits to the right of the keyboard is called a mouse. Move it around while watching the screen. An arrow (mouse cursor) will be moving in response to it. This is how we point to objects on the screen.

Raster Graphics for Interactive Programming Environments (1979) - http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xer...

> Graphical input. The user is provided with a "mouse," a coordinate input device with three pushbuttons. The mouse rolls along a table top and is tracked by a cursor that moves on the screen. The mouse can thus be used to point to objects already displayed on the screen, or simply to identify a coordinate position.

The Blit: A Multiplexed Graphics Terminal ("Sometime in 1983", by Rob Pike) - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.611...

> The state of mouse input is reflected by the cursor tracked by the mouse as it is moved. Usually, the cursor is an arrow pointing to the pixel at the mouse’s location. A program may change the cursor to reflect its state.

A Study in Interactive 3-D Rotation Using 2-D Control Devices" (1990) - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/asellen/public...

> If the mouse button is depressed while the mouse cursor is inside the circle, left-and-right and up-and-down movement of the mouse will rotate the object left-and right and up-and-down on the screen.

Fluid DTMouse: Better Mouse Support for Touch-Based Interactions (2006) - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.416...

> For example, once you have moved the mouse cursor over a small target that is to be dragged, you do not want the act of switching to mouse dragging mode to move the cursor off of the target .
I love the Bay Area, and would have loved to work there, but the draconian immigration laws and the 16-year wait for Green Cards are simply not worth it. I'll get paid half as much in Canada, but at least my future doesn't hang on a lottery, and I can start my own company without waiting to turn 40.