skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't see it as anti-choice. The explanation and reality-show aspect seemed a little dumb, but I thought the core idea was really intriguing.

I feel like in Sci-Fi, there's often this dynamic between Creator/AI as a Parent/Child relationship, so the idea that a nascent artificial intelligence would perceive abortion as threatening or scary is, in my opinion, a super cool idea.

I didn't read his book, so maybe it really was just anti-choice drek. But from only reading his blog post, it sounds to me like a nugget of an interesting idea with not-as-interesting execution.
Would you feel differently if all young Jewish boys didn't know they could go into a tech field because there were no Jews or men in tech?
Twitter User Growth Comes to a Halt
I didn't deny any of those things. You're looking for some imaginary person who said "British colonialism had no negative effects on India at all" - no such assertion was in my comment.
That said, their priority inbox is amazing. Automatically sorting into Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates, and Social helps me manage my day.

Automated, curated lists are great. Manual ones (e.g. folders) just add more for me to do.
U.S. lawmakers seek to bar states from mandating encryption weaknesses
They weren't "abandoned". They were told very earnestly to leave, but they wanted to stay and work on mostly oil fields and continue to make admittedly large sums of money. In general the state department has been warning people about traveling to Yemen for over a decade, and likewise has been issuing travel advisories and other updates to the people living there. Far from "abandoned".
This isn't the same though as handing out jobs to minirities that they wouldn't have got on merit though.

This is attempting to encourage a larger group to get into the field in the first place.
We're in a similar situation except with Amazon being the one banning our books. I am the owner of FAKKU, an English publisher of erotic manga (Japanese comics). Despite there being a category on Amazon for our specific material and previously receiving approval to list our books behind an "Adults Only" flag, our books have been banned.

If you're wondering what that looks like from the customer perspective, you can see (or not see) our banned best sellers here: http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Books-Erotica-Manga/zgbs/...
That is a reality I do not agree with. Strong correlation indicates the high possibility of an intrinsic link, unless evidence states otherwise.

Below is a true story of a man raised as a woman, but unable to complete the sexual transition despite cultural upbringing, injections of testosterone and even testicular castration.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer
If you're looking to have a dispassionate and thoughtful conversation about a contentious subject, referring to other people's perspective as a "leftist agenda of 'equality'" isn't a great way to go about it.
isn't it what technology is about? Commoditizing what was exclusive before.

I'm personally glad to see tools simplyfying building a mobile app. The end goal rarely being producing the app, and more along the lines of producing value through the app.

I hope it has as big of an impact as what WP did for custom CMS…
It's terrible but thinking Amazon is a haven from censorship is wrong. They can and will close your account for any reason or no reason at all. If they didn't agree with this idea, they'd kill the book, guaranteed.
"If you restrict the failures to this class of issues" is exactly where the assumption that clocks behave is hiding in this paragraph. It's a bit like saying "as long as you ignore false, all booleans can be assumed to be true".
Wow! Seems like an elegant solution. Does this work on architectures other than x86?
The purpose I had in mind when I first mentioned the idea was just to provide a convenient way to reason about the law. It lets you re-use laws written with human drivers in mind, instead of having to individually recontextualize each as a type of mechanical failure. So you can charge the car with reckless driving, instead of having to show that an algorithmic failure lead to a behavior consistent with reckless driving.

It's still an abstraction over something akin to mechanical failure, like how corporate personhood is an abstraction over a group of people. It doesn't mean the algorithm has rights, any more than a fuel injection pump does. You also can't murder a corporation, even though it's a legal person.
No, I'm saying we should keep breeding mice until we have a better model of how human body works.

> I was arguing against your absurd statement that since eating bread can kill some mice, doing any kind of research on mice is fine.

I was arguing against notion that somehow removing lab mice will make stuff better, for anyone. Humans won't get data needed to design various drugs, mice overall will continue to suffer, since I believe that lab mice make a small set of all living mice.
Yet another startup solving yet another already solved problem with little to no differentiation.

That's why we need to encourage more kids to do STEM and tackle hard problems, rather than encouraging "makers" and getting them all to be app builders.

I have yet to live the day I will regain my faith in startups.
You all are tripping. You've decided that those women were being patronized? Thats where you start from, your own bias?

https://twitter.com/EricaJoy/status/697237904662204416
www.wix.com

also, might search under bootstrap themes. you can get someone pretty cheap on upwork.com to modify the theme for you. $20-$40 range..
I spend all time online and don't even know what is snapchat...
It may seem weird, but lakes that come and go are a thing. Here's one in Australia that drained in the 1990s and is now making a comeback:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_George_(New_South_Wales)
You may be taking this a bit too seriously. I don't think that Watson would make a particularly good president - I'm not convinced that it can adapt to unexpected situations, or make calls on when to hire or fire people. For example, if the White House Chief of Staff tells Watson that he should fire his Press Secretary, should Watson follow that advice?

Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I'm going to respond to your counterpoint in character.

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If Republican Watson ran against Democrat Watson, for the first time, we would have a debate purely about issues and policies, and not about personal character. As for the platforms themselves, you might view those political platforms as wrong, but millions of Americans agree with them. This is just the ultimate expression of democracy: a statesman whose views conform to those of the people.

>Every 8-bit CPU I know of can be programmed to look up values in a hash table and spit out the expected results, just like human politicians program their brains to do.

That's true. But if Watson is 1% better than an 8-bit CPU, then that justifies spending millions on the upgrade, since the role of President has such a large effect on how well the government runs.
To a first approximation, "zero" is the number of firms that believe they should hire "based off skin colour and not skill". Such a hyperbolic characterization over diversity concerns can't possibly generate a useful conversation.
Facebook Free Basics: Not Free at All
> Now if you’re thinking my novel is about the Pro Choice/ Pro Life debate, hold your horses. It’s not. I merely needed a reason, a one chapter reason, to justify the things my antagonist is about to do to the world without just making him a one-note 80’s action flick villain as voiced by John Lithgow. I wanted this villain to be Alan Rickman-deep. One chapter. That’s all.

It's not a particularly terrible trope. I mean, the I, Robot movie features an A.I. that [spoiler] tries to enslave (and even kills some of) humanity in order to take "protection" to its furthest logical extreme.

Politically-motivated characters aren't always representative of the author's political views, and even if they are then you have the simple option of not reading it.
It's a shame that study appears to have been comparing "weird" black names like Lakisha with "normal" white names like Greg. I'd be interested to see a study that uses "weird" white names like Track or Jairyd or Zaiden for comparison, because I suspect those would also suffer compared to Greg. (Even if an anti-"weird" name bias is all that's at work, this would still probably disproportionately affect black people, unfortunately. I'm just wondering about the causation.)
Cisco beats profit estimates, adds $15B to buyback
I'm preparing for a crash in 2016. Unlike back in 2008, when the FED was able to "balance" it out by dropping the interest rate to almost 0%, we now won't have an airbag to save us.

The crash will come, sooner or later, and compared to that, 2008 was only a road bump, with all of us sitting in a big oil truck heading at a steel wall of a nuclear plant.
“Trust Me,” said the 401(k), “a sucker is born every day.”
> the government could switch to a "utilitarian" point of view - minimize the number of lost lives

There's nothing "utilitarian" about this, unless you assume that:

(a) All people value their own lives equally

(b) Nobody places any value on anyone's life but their own.

(Side note: we know that both of those don't even come close to being true.)

Without those assumptions, a utilitarian point of view will show some pretty obvious biases against just killing the fewest people -- among other things, it will try to kill older people rather than younger people, and to kill people with the smallest number of relatives (who would be sad about a death in their family).
Do you think the government is going to come and forcibly remove them from the country if they don't want to leave? The state department has warned people against going to the country for over a decade, and likewise has issued advisories to all of the expats living there the entire time they're there. Anyone with any sense got out of the country a while ago. The vast majority of those left are foolhardy individuals who didn't think it would get as bad as it is.
You can expect up to low 5-digits of page views -

https://ma.ttias.be/the-frontpage-hacker-news-stats-graphs-a...

http://alainmeier.com/traffic-data-after-hitting-the-hacker-...

http://purde.net/2015/01/hacker-news-number-one-post-stats/

But unless you're selling something most people can enjoy (dropbox, github, etc) it may not be of much value to you -

http://blog.yesgraph.com/yesgraph-tc-ph-hn-omg-bbq/

9.3k uniques -> 44 free trial registrations = 0.4% conversion rate, or 0+ paying customers from 3 front page posts
N.H.T.S.A. Blurs the Line Between Human and Computer Drivers
Positive Space – Simply Converse
Wix, Weebly, Squarespace if you want simple and quick to get going.

If you want to get a little more technical you could find a host (i.e. DigitalOcean, Linode, etc) and install WordPress on a minimal VPS. Either find a free theme or pay for a premium theme.
That's a really, really big (and insulting) leap you made there.
Bokeh – a Python interactive visualization library
Why is this blatant marketing allowed on HN?

This is the same ploy as the "banned" super bowl commercial scam. Submit something obviously unacceptable and then cry foul when it gets refused hoping to get views via the media attention.
That's actually the basis for my teams startup:

http://synaptitude.me/

We provide EEG feedback so users can learn how to turn off/on portions of their brains in particular ways. It's actually used pretty regularly to teach people how to recognize when an epileptic seizure is about to occur. It's also used to improve symptoms PTSD, ADHD, etc.
> there's a very good example of that in Japanese society where it accepted for young children to be attracted or even in love with other children of the same sex.

> It is considered as something they will grow out of even if sometimes they don't.

Sexual orientation and gender identity are two different things (you can be trans without being attracted to people of the same biological sex, and vice versa.)

So, while the example you refer to (if true) might be relevant to discussion of whether sexual orientation drifts from childhood (or, perhaps, whether environmental pressures get people to outwardly conform to heteronormative social expectations when their orientation is homo- or bi-sexual), it doesn't seem anything directly to do with gender identity discussion.
Well, when a firm pressures you into accepting an unwelcome award because you're Jewish, you can leave that job and write up your story. Virtually everyone on HN, regardless of their political persuasions, will sympathize with that story.

Here we have a story about four engineers who seem to be extremely happy to be accepting an award on behalf of Slack, so your concern over how you would feel if you were pressured to take the kind of award you're considering seems entirely synthetic.
For critical time dependent systems, I absolutely agree. I was unclear in that I was referring to far more mundane issues where slight skew can be problematic. I've seen telemetry systems in which the aformentioned deltas would be computed by doing a timedelta() on the recorded timestamp from each machine. With even subsecond skew, you can get some really interesting artifacts; negative durations, that sort of thing.
Ask HN: What's your current most technical challenge?
I was talking to some workers about this earlier today.

Is it deployement? Managing fleet of servers? Code performance? Shitty legacy code? Etc.

Just curious really.
What in holy blazes, 60 gigabytes in a month just for one fucking stupid app?

1) what carrier does that girl have? And at what cost? With German internet prices, we'd look at a 500€ per month alone for data, not to mention other data using apps, calls, SMSes...

2) what the fuck, I use Netflix at home quite regularly and rarely exceed 50 GByte (I'm on a 50/5 VDSL so it isn't a lack of speed) of traffic. How many billions of crappy front cam selfies can be shared in 60 GB of data?
I'm working with the PayPal API right now (send your condolences) and all their documentation is in the form of CURL requests. Just finished converting it to python requests commands and now this gets posted.

TIL'd.
Context: http://www.fastcompany.com/3056581/fast-feed/marc-andreessen...
With the comment that sparked off this thread, I wasn't implying the car had any sense of agency. Rather, that legal personhood might be a good way to sort out the laws.

A corporation is a legal person, which makes it a lot easier to enter a contract with one, but that doesn't imply it has rights. You can own a corporation without it being slavery.
with investment, those skills could be trained
There's something about Win32's C style that just makes my eyes bleed:

static LRESULT WINAPI MCIWndProc16(HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wparam, LPARAM lparam)
{
switch (msg)
{
case MCIWNDM_SENDSTRINGA:
lparam = (ULONG_PTR)MapSL(lparam);
break;

case MCIWNDM_SETTIMEFORMATA:
lparam = (ULONG_PTR)MapSL(lparam);
...

All caps for typedefs in C is just evil. And this example doesn't even have Hungarian notation.
Do you really not get that VISIBILITY is the first step to change and things improving?

I think you've focused on the right question: is highlighting superficial differences now the best way to reduce discrimination against superficial differences in the future?

I don't find it obviously true, but I'm open the the possibility that it is. What's convinced you that it's the best approach? What would convince you that it's not?
I think you can just take that to mean that the response (around some reasonable window) for the real drug was indistinguishable form the non-drug response window, with the assumption that a previous use of the real drug was too far away to account for the non-drug response.

Yes, that's an assumption you should further clamp down later because of such extraordinary results, but it's not unreasonable to make it, especially since it would be really strange for the earlier real drug to cause all its effectiveness spikes right when the non-drug is taken, and in the same amount as later uses of the real drug.
Interesting how I felt total empathy for the author up until about 2/3 of the way through, when I started to wonder if he was, perhaps, just a jerk. Probably somewhere around when he started comparing his publisher to the Nazis.
> I've never heard of such a scheme. In universal education schemes, like what are common in Europe, competition for top schools is extremely high, a single test score determines the trajectory of a student's life in many cases.

I am most familiar with the German system (as of a decade ago). We just don't have that many globally relevant top schools, and for the ones we have, competition isn't that tough (outside of specific fields like medicine).

If you want to study, say, maths basically everyone who clears the threshold can just sign up to any university.

And the `single testscores' aint so, it's usually an average of your last two years of high school grades (=Abiturnoten). These are easily gamed, of course. If you are willing to wait, there's also a queue for eg medicine to get in with worse grades.

It's not all roses---partly because of almost no selection on entry, attrition rates especially in first year can be truly atrocious.
Greek Islands (e.g. Crete) can be both cheap and beautiful.

Central Europe, from Lago di Como (IT) to Konstanz (DE) - breathtakingly beautiful German city that borders with Switzerland - there are lots of amazing places.
Is that how it was before the Internet, grandpa?

> It felt nice when you had to...

Said every aging generation ever, I mean, the last part of that sentence could be any of (read a book|sit down and listen to the radio|watch broadcast television) and someone out there reminisces fondly of the better, simpler times.
If I had to guess I'd say a combination of both.

A big part of it is, what are young people's ambitions? When you're white or asian or indian, society tells you that you should become a scientist or engineer or whatever cool and awesome. You have role models. Examples of things possible, if you will. So you strive for them.

When you're black or hispanic, society tells you that you might become a great athlete or singer or actor. Most people around you work blue collar jobs and your aspiration is to be the owner of a blue collar establishment. So you strive for that.

The expectations we as a society place on young people are a powerful thing. And they're really hard to break out of.

For instance, I grew up in a low middle class family in Europe. How do you think it felt to have started my first startup while at the same time listening to all my extended family and most of my friends that capitalists are dirty scumbags who exploit people. In general of course, you, Swizec, you're probably not like that. But "people like you", those guys suck.
Just don't do it on the front-end. Never do it on the front-end.
Is there a technical reason to limit the content provided, or is it all for commercial exploitation?
I see a few people pointing out that the book wasn't really banned, in the sense that it was not published as a direct result of government intervention. But is this really a meaningful distinction?

The book was prevented from being published in approximately the same way a book advocating communism would have been effectively banned from publication in the 1950s (via whisper campaigns, implied or explicit threats of blacklisting, etc).

edit: sometimes this is justifiable: for example, a book titled 'Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong and Kim Jong Un: misunderstood heroes?' would probably also be effectively banned via social pressure.
Good damage control by Zuckerberg, but notice that his comment says nothing substantial about why Free Basics _isn't_ similar to colonialism.

It is absolutely about growth and user acquisition. They are using their capital to subsidize and lock in a monstrous market. Is that bad? There are reasonable arguments on both sides.

But Facebook is not a charity. Facebook is not a social cause.

If it were, Zuckerberg would have sold his shares and reinvested the cash back into Facebook when announcing his plan to donate $45bn. There's a reason billionaires invest their money in charitable funds, and not all of it for tax reasons. There are some things markets just aren't great at solving.
Stop with this apocalyptic stance. The only effect you will have is to freak out some people.

Either provide data, or avoid pretending you know what the future will be.
Using deep learning in JavaScript for large-scale scientific concept extraction
Santorini is top-notch at every level but I'm not sure if it can be considered cheap and how's the internet connection speed?
Cat In The Hat desktop software?

Hm, I searched and found more than one. Various companies: The Learning Company. Borderbund. MacKiev.

Which did you have?
i.e. Software Engineers and Statisticians and Journalists and Financial Analysts can continue working together, while academics sort out the meaning of "data science"
> That simply isn't true for Asians.

Maybe not until the 1960s, but Asians were treated very badly as well:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/123989795964998211/
Sorry for being an old-ass as well, but wasn't snapchat created to send nudes to other people in a way that they are automatically erased and can't be saved? I don't know if people still use it like that, but do you feel comfortable letting your 12 years old daughter use something like that?
There is utterly no content in this reponse.

( edit: s/this/there/ )
> 60 gigabytes in a month just for one fucking stupid app?

And they don't even look at the pictures!
You lost me with your jargon, not sure what your point is there.

Regardless, being _biased_ is most definitely _not_ the substance of any interesting critique of media. Rather, it's trivially obvious that the production of media is intricately related to ideological beliefs and political agendas - precisely because media is the primary tool of mass persuasion. Look no further than the long, storied history of newspaper barons.

Fundamentally, media functions as a legitimation strategy for normative beliefs; a structure for the normalization of acceptable opinion.
Is this the behavior of the average snapchat user or that of a power user? That's the key question.
Personally, I would rather vote with my dollars than ask for more rules.
Amusingly, I discovered a method very similar to this in college. My method was simpler - stick a 1 in front of one chemical, then you get an n x n linear system of equations for the remaining compounds. Solve it, then figure out what to multiply by to get an int solution. I suspect that my version isn't stable, which I gather is the problem these guys are solving.

I was forbidden from using this method on the final, since it isn't the ad-hoc method that was taught.
Why is znc required for this? Can't mirc connect directly?
> BROOKE: OMG!! 30?? Only NARPs have less than 150.
> ME: What the hell is a NARP?
> BROOKE: Nonathletic Regular Person. NARP.

Wow, I feel old.