skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, but to me that seems like it's along the same lines as saying slavery should be legal if the children are bred for it.

And in my opinion, yes, we should let some people die. My thought had always been that for the people on death row, when the day of their lethal injection comes, they should have the option to either be put to death or to donate their body to science for testing. If they should choose testing, they can also opt out at any, in which case they would be given the lethal injection the following day.
People should check out GNU Social. Lots of people have migrated over to it (quitter.se being the biggest instance) with the whole #RIPTwitter controversy.

It's entirely open source, has a twitter-like frontend you can install, and is federated across instances so even if one node starts with changes you don't like you can switch to another one and still talk to the entire network. quitter.se is moderated against hatespeech and nsfw...but other instances aren't, with ones like freezepeach.xyz being explicitally for freedom of speech. And you can talk to anyone on any instance from anywhere.
I'm surprised 10% of the comments are on the topic of Grenada-style evacuation from warzones. The total number of evacuee's vs total number of expatiates over the last couple decades must be a truly microscopic percentage.

I have a long term goal of moving to Canada; better health care system, I love winter sports and weather, etc. I personally know people in Belgium and Sweden and Ireland. Evac sounds very unlikely, and if there were a military invasion, it would probably be the USA doing it, so I'm anticipating coordination would be complicated to the point of uselessness (First cross the front lines of the battle without getting killed to enter the USA sector, then evac? Seriously?).
Dissecting my first Medium post
No, blood work is not an annual event for most children in the US. It's quite rare, which is why one doctor started testing as many children as she could to confirm that they were seeing spikes in lead levels.
"It own itself?" "Swiss citizen, but T-A own the basic software and the mainframe." "That's a good one," the construct said. "Like, I own your brain and what you know, but your thoughts have Swiss citizenship. Sure. Lotsa luck, AI."
-- From William Gibson's "Neuromancer"
I'm running such a system at this very moment. It has a Phenom II 550 Black Edition (i.e. sold to be overclockable/unlockable), and by toggling a BIOS option, I was able to unlock two more cores. I run it at rated clock speed, and it has been rock-solid since the day I built it up.

I can build a large project in NetBeans as fast on this system as on a hex-core FX-6100 (and I can watch my CPU monitor clearly showing all four cores running during the build).

CPU temperatures stay well within limits with the stock cooler.
I did 20km at -10 this winter here in Berlin and that was already pushing of what i am comfortable with to the extreme. But -30 is very very rare, like once in 10 years and i would not ride the bike in that case.
Iphone monitoring software to monitor all iphone activity
Within the USA, legally speaking, corporations are treated as people:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
How long has it been around? Why is it better than socket.io 2?
> We've already seen that people who use this new feature tend to Retweet and Tweet more, creating more live commentary and conversations

I really don't like this trend. The same thing happened with facebook with notifications. They looked at the data and figured that when people have notifications they tend to open the app more. Then started to send tens of unwanted notifications every day. (Which comes from eg. groups that I never joined, or games etc.) Result: hard blocking notifications from the mobile OS level.

I hope twitter doesn't follow the same path. (Actually they already do this at some level with 'your friend x & y liked tweet z' notifications)

These retention things just kill the apps that I already love. But since the trend is this way, it is probably working out for majority of people and not for me.
We've seen trouble with this in Canada. My partner's investment manager is basically kicking us out because we're living in the US now.
Visual Merchandising: ¿Todo entra por los ojos?
Not to belittle Aaron but the Library Genesis is much older than his JSTOR actions.
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Exactly, it a great way to vent stress from work and results in some nice quads haha.
Entrepreneurs: Are you a Shark when it comes to Business?
This is indeed awesome! I am not well versed in art, and it is always a pleasure to learn more about the subject and the stories it tells.

This probably will net me some negative attention, but I would like to also add this:

Where are the people crying fowl about pages requiring javascript? Here we have an excellent example of the quality of content that can be achieved by embracing a script-friendly internet.
Panorama Education was a graduate of both YC and Imagine K12. Great to hear your excitement!
I know I'm going against the grain here but I think a feature like this actually makes a lot of sense.

Maybe I am not as heavy a Twitter user as other people here, but I hate how easily I can miss important tweets if I just don't check my feed for a few hours. Since I am also on a different time zone than many people I follow, I end up having to catch up on hours of tweets every morning by scrolling down the page for ages. Otherwise, I can easily miss extremely relevant/interesting things.

If this feature allows me to quickly get an overview over the most interesting tweets (and I can turn it off when I am following the feed more closely) that's great!
Right. We had an extensive discussion about this at BarCamp Philly this year. The discussion was on machine ethics and we spoke largely about these scenarios of driverless vehicles.

I made the argument that machine ethics aren't a real thing. Companies will do whatever they can to avoid litigation, then the government will step in with regulations as the closest approximation we'll get to ethical behavior.
You can also try adding some text shadow but I wouldn't add more than 1px. You can try this in conjunction with changing of shading/dimming the image.
Bureaucracy does tend towards bloat and failure, both in the private or public sectors. I can quibble with your examples (I don't think they're appropriate), but even if we allow that they are indeed successes, for each one I can find a handful of very consequential failures (DoD, VHA, HUD, etc). Consider especially where government is tasked with providing a service, instead of shuffling money around to pay for it. This is admittedly a US-centric perspective, but why should I want to trade our poor governance for, say, European institutions with their attendant sclerosis?
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I thoroughly enjoy julia and there's no other FLOSS to replace it, but a fair bit of that rant does still seem to stand (from my own experience).

Bugs are quite easy to come across and updating software feels more like a dice roll than a normal upgrade. Parallel computing in particular has been in a pre-alpha state for ages (which may be more of a documentation issue than an implementation one). Packages were previously very slow to load, though with pre-compilation this was partially fixed (~1 order of magnitude difference). I don't write robust software in julia, so I don't know how the error handling side has been evolving. The API inconsistencies have been getting fixed, but this typically results in broken packages until the compatibility package (Compat.jl) includes some workaround. The core code is difficult to get through and architectural-level documentation was absent last I checked.

Even with these development flaws it's still by and large an enjoyable experience to use. It solves some hard problems and it makes my own work (mainly DSP/ML) move a lot faster. I would recommend it, but as their versioning scheme indicates, there's no 1.0 release yet.
this feels half-arsed at best
As noted in the amended post (link below), this isn't actually true.

http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/03/135919389/a-...
Our cats often make me think of the opening of War of the Worlds:

"intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us"

[OK Not 100% sure about the "vast intellect" bit - but "cool and unsympathetic" definitely].
I ride 30km per day back and forth from home to college. I'm 43, I ride an old steel bike (ca. 20kg). I do this out of necessity, since it's the cheapest and most convenient way to travel around the city I live [1]; but I also do it out of love for the joy it provides me. Granted that the city's overall elevation helps a lot (it's almost plain here, but many people still think I'm crazy for this choice of transportation).

As others have pointed out, weather is only a bummer when you're not properly clothed (I'm over-generalizing here, but you get the picture). It also helps to live on a place where the average temperature never goes down below 24ºC [2]. On the down side, it rains a lot here. When I say a lot, a do mean a lot.

Bicycles are fun. I couldn't imagine myself living without one.

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

[2] http://en.climate-data.org/location/5069/
The thing is how long does that effect last?

Maybe the winning triggers a bit of feel-good hormone so that the participant finds himself in a situation of enjoying a little bit risk.

There are many behavioral experiments these days. And they'd like to produce "common sense" results.

These results can't be generalised and i think it'd be even amoral to use it to justify hating people. Like, seriously, ethical doings are not that clearly defined anymore. The world has changed so much.
A lot of matrix concepts sound a lot more natural to me if I first think of what they mean in terms of vector spaces.

For example, I think one can derive associativity of matrix multiplication less tediously from the observation that every matrix corresponds to a linear transform from a vector space to another, multiplication corresponds to function composition, and function composition is associative.
What's the point of asking if I like something if every single time I say no, they ignore it.

But the one time I accidentally click on promote a tweet, I get ads for twitter in my stream and a followup email.
You forget Dutch, the culture that gave Manhattan its name (among other things). And French, which during and after the American Revolution was probably the most popular and influential culture among US elites.

Apart from that, I agree wholeheartedly. The US phenomenon cannot be reduced to "some rogue British colony that stroke it rich".
What do you mean to imply by this?
Well of course it was a PR disaster, they "fixed" it by removing the original blocking functionality altogether!

Both "don't show me their stuff" and "don't show them my stuff" are useful, they just shouldn't be bundled.
Then criticize him on that basis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11073021

The exercise in measuring charitability is merely academic in this instance.

If we value having any kind of meaningful discussion then does it really not matter that we criticize on the grounds you mention and not just seize on the opportunity to mischaracterize a statement as pro-colonialist?
That he's unconcerned does not mean the problems of undocumented citizens aren't real. It likely means that he's simply not going to make too much of a point of it because it is not in his power to make a change.
How America Is Putting Itself Back Together
An inspired black #Lamborghini_Aventador at the #Houston_Auto_Show 2016
If I remember correctly, a lot of comments on those articles were claiming that those changes wouldn't fix the sinking ship and that it seemed like they were flailing actions with no thought really put into it.
What? Money was literally the reason:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/what-did...

> To save money, the city began drawing its water from the Flint River, rather than from Detroit’s system, which was deemed too costly. But the river’s water was high in salt, which helped corrode Flint’s aging pipes, leaching lead into the water supply.
They also have a nice RethinkDB storage connector and search provider.

[0] - https://github.com/deepstreamIO/deepstream.io-storage-rethin...

[1] - https://github.com/deepstreamIO/deepstream.io-provider-searc...
My Athlon 740k is getting old. I really hope Zen comes to market soon. I can't bring myself to buy a chip as a stop-gap with Zen around the corner.

I'd upgrade if I could get my hands on an AM4 motherboard. Hopefully we'll see something like the FX-6300 on AM4 early this year, so I can at least get ready to upgrade next year.
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The thing is, gender identity is very much affected by sex too. Many outward behaviors that are often classified as masculine or feminine have roots in different hormone levels in the sexes. That's why I dislike that many attack gender roles and other social gender norms indiscriminately. Some of them have a basis in nature and it's healthy for the vast majority of people to embrace them. At the same time there shouldn't be any room for attacking those who don't follow the norms either. And of course some norms are just harmful. It's not so easy to just throw them all out.
I'm an enthusiastic julia user, observer and very minor contributor. IMO a lot of the issues in this constructive rant have been addressed to some extent. For context, here's the previous HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8809422

Going through the post in order:

The stable releases still have some bugs as you would expect in a young language, but 0.4 is now well below my tolerance level. For a rough idea, I now use julia daily and encounter a bug perhaps once every one or two weeks. In 0.4 I haven't encountered any bug which was a real show stopper and couldn't easily be worked around.

Testing has gotten a whole heap nicer with a decent test framework in Base (accessible in 0.4 via BaseTestNext.jl). Testing and package manager integrate in a simple but effective way which really makes the friction for writing a suite of tests for new packages very low, much lower than other languages I've used. I can't speak for actual coverage in Base, but I know it's now actually being measured and work has gone into the coverage tools.

I'm going to skip over the complaints about error handling, because others have already responded to this, for example StefanKarpinski's post to the julia-users list https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/GyH8nhExY9I/0Bzn...

Consistent benchmarking is currently being addressed, with great work going on at BenchmarkTrackers.jl, and a proper setup with dedicated benchmarking hardware for the language itself. I don't have the depth of knowledge to comment on Dan's other complaints regarding skewed benchmarking.

Regarding contributing, my experience is that contributions to Base and the runtime by unknowns (myself, say) are generally met with the fair skepticism and good taste that all good maintainers should display. Sometimes I feel the core devs could do more to encourage new contributors, and the environment can feel slightly hostile when suggesting new features. I'm not sure how to entirely avoid this, when a core job of a good maintainer is to say "no" to a lot of poorly considered requests! Much of the code in Base is still commented in a minimalistic fashion, if at all. In contrast my experience in contributing to packages has been almost entirely positive, with a lot of excitement and energy leading to some really great code and interactions.

With precompliation, slow package load times have really been improved to the extent that they're no longer a major hassle, but there's still room for improvement here.

The real sting in the tail of this blog post is the paragraph about nastiness in the community. There was a couple of unfortunately worded (though not unambiguously malicious) mails on the julia-users list following Dan's post, but the discussion was largely constructive and helpful. I've no idea about the "private and semi-private communications" and I can only hope things were patched up there.

Overall I've found the julia experience almost entirely positive. It's a joy to work with for numerical and statistical problems, and we're moving forward at work to get our first major pieces of julia code into production.
You have to look them up on ark:

http://ark.intel.com/products/36547/Intel-Core2-Quad-Process...
2 thoughts .

Immigrant: person who's moved to a new country indefinitely

Expat: person who's moved to a different country temporarily

Also a 2nd definition from my personal experience

Expat: a person sent temporarily to another country by their company. Usually they are in $300k+ a year job and their company pays their relocation expenses and their rent.

As someone who has lived abroad for 8 years of my own choice, in other words I don't fit that 2nd definition of "expat", it was an eye opener how the 1% lives because there are entire industries set up to cater to them. Before I lived abroad I never saw that but living abroad all the English magazines target those type 2 expats and are full of ads for services far far beyond anything I could possibly afford. Example: ads for apartments starting at $6k a month to $20k a month plus. So, suddenly I was acutely aware of just how big a different there is.
Converting Amazon S3 Logs to Avro with Clojure
Not everyone has exposure to the differences between and the politics of sex/gender identity. I'm sure the author didn't intend any ill will.

The author is clearly writing about something that makes up one aspect of a person's gender: biological sex.

So, the author isn't being as specific/clear as you like, but you're doing disservice to your cause with comments like "What is wrong with this guy?"
Harry Markopolos: Ponzi scheme bigger than Madoff
Ask HN: Cheap Tablet?
Hi all, I'm looking for a cheap tablet to bring with me on the road. There's always a chance of theft on these trips so I'm not comfortable bringing my laptop. I just need something cheap that I can use for emailing / browsing the web that's easier to type on than my phone. Gmail / Drive functionality a must. Any suggestions?
Protecting U.S. Innovation from Cyberthreats (WSJ)
The original Haskell article that is the source for the images: http://adit.io/posts/2013-04-17-functors,_applicatives,_and_...
Pinker is full of shit on this subject. I remember his intro to psych lecture including an example of a how gendered thinking is hard-wired involving small boys playing with guns. Obviously an example of socialization; evolution did not teach anything to anyone about guns. There is a huge amount of sloppy thinking in this subject.
Funny. First the net neutrality activists were accused of being soft on foreign companies: https://twitter.com/_sachinbansal/status/585770383682375680 (This was by Flipkart CEO, Sachin Bansal)

And now they're being called "anti-west".

In case you don't know, the whole movement started as opposition to Airtel Zero and people downvoted en-masse Flipkart's app on Play Store because it was participating in Airtel Zero. Facebook brought attention to itself by a 40m$ ad-campaign, demonizing and slandering the activists AND DDoSing the regulator.
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This stuff is why Adreessen-Horowitz are the Koch Brothers of Silicon Valley. They might think deeply about what they invest in, but everything they say about public matters has a deep sense of entitlement to it.
Gender =/= Sex

How it is so many people don't grasp this is beyond me.
Ouch, blatant false dichotomy.
I don't think this is the right measuring stick.

The only thing growing the incubator does is add to their expenditures, in a small way dilute the 'YC' bump for admitted companies (just think what Harvard would be like if they accepted 20k instead of 1k), spreads the partners a little bit thinner, etc.

The counterargument would be that, if they could expand like this and still keep roughly the same batting avg., all of this would just mean even more returns for YC. The problem is we haven't observed THAT part of the equation yet.

When it comes to these startups, swinging and missing is not nearly as costly as not being part of the ones who do succeed, so at first glance there is an argument to be made that growth in it of itself is a good thing 'cause it allows you to make more bets. But, clearly there is a sweetspot, or else the right VC strategy would be to hardly spend any time with companies at all and just make small bets in anything that's even remotely viable, thereby getting a "market rate" return for startups.

For all I know, that number is negative, so you unfortunately do have to find value by doing better than market basket -- either by selecting companies well or contributing positively to their chance of success. And that, sadly, gets harder to do the bigger you get.

Jury is still out on his effectiveness as VC, but looking from the outside, one thing you can say for sure is that they are working really hard and pushing initiatives which you can't help but be very excited about.
That can happen. One of my colleagues had this problem, except he solved it by not being American (he'd not returned a form which they'd sent, asking him to confirm his lack of American citizenship).

I expect the reporting requirements are a burden for small banks, especially ones competing heavily on price rather than offering a full service. I'm not American, but am a similar burden to a bank, and was strongly advised to open an account only with the country's largest bank.
I decided to stick with Opera browsers & SurfEasy VPN exclusively, this move makes me question my decision.
Why are developers so bitchy?
Help forums are always so full of venom. Why is that? Too much coffee?
They did something like that - they would defer decisions until they'd heard from the representative of the colony (the Governor?) In fact that was all the 'representation' that the American colony wanted in that slogan "No taxation without Representation!" (perhaps the worst political slogan of all time?) Just to be heard. Because our colony rep arrived a day or two too late to speak on the tea tax, designed to defray Britain' expenses for the defense of the Colony.

Ironically the representative would have spoken in favor! But because he was not heard at all (and his objection dismissed as irrelevant), that put colonists in the same bucket as slaves and women - those who were not heard in government. That was what was intolerable.
In a similar vein, I think that Microsoft should consider writing a Windows UI layer for Android getting people used to the Microsoft ecosystem on mobile, while allowing compatibility for Android apps.
This seems very impressive, but I wonder why we would want to switch to it from socket.io in our use case.

We have built an open source platform that takes care of all the usual stuff you need when building realtime social apps. From the client side caching down to the pubsub, message ordering, security, and pushing updates via socket.io back to the client and updating the caches. It is designed to work in a distributed way so things are partitioned based on the stream you subscribe to. If you aren't online you can subscribe to get offline notifications delivered to your device or other endpoints (like custom nodes that would act on notifications like IFTTT).

So, given that we have the infrastructure - we use PHP for request handling, MySQL for persistence, Node for background service to do socket push and notifications... what does this offer over socket.io? We implement our own rules for subscribing to streams.
Is It? I know someone who used a German credit card of a friend to buy a shooter on steam (some recent AAA title, can't remember), and it completely omitted the nazi-zombie mode he was for some reason looking forward to.