skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, but I have to call shenanigans on that claim.
I watched the BAFTAs with my girlfriend last night and I have to say, when Stephen made that comment we both said 'woah that's a bit mean' out loud. Of course, being the general public we're not aware of Mr Fry's relationship with the lady who won the award but from an outside perspective it came across as a bit bullying.

I only found out today about the twitter backlash and I don't think it should be lumped in with so called SJW movements, or the anti-anti-offensive movement, it really sounded like a hurtful unnecessary comment that he shouldn't have made without context or clarifying their relationship. It really seemed un-characteristically mean for Mr Fry.
Sense2vec on Reddit Comments with SpaCy and Gensim
Seems the foundation did a lot of research on economic factors and Singapore is definitely appealing in that regard. In fact, a lot of businesses would do well in Singapore. A blogging platform is not one of them.

Let me explain:

"Ghost was previously subject-to and protected-by UK laws, so what’s the deal when we go to Singapore? Remarkably little changes. As both a former British colony and a current member of the Commonwealth, the Singapore legal system is actually based on British Common Law. In fact, Singaporeans can actively vote in UK elections or run for UK office. They even drive on the left."

Singapore ranks 150th on press freedom [1], below Russia and Burma. The government owns the biggest media outlet and uses that power to control what is allowed to be broadcast or printed. You will become a blogging platform that cannot host blogs critical of the Singaporean government.

It seems to me that not enough research has been done on the premise of "where is it easiest for us to do business" rather than "where will our customers find the most freedom".

I would suggest, based on the freedom index rankings, to consider the Netherlands, New Zealand and Canada.

In fact the UK ranks very high on those 'doing business' reports (6th in the last report [2]). So maybe it's not the benchmark you want to use at all.

[1] - https://rsf.org/index2014/data/index2014_en.pdf

[2] - http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings
No, not this tired, crappy, and not at all connected to the story argument. You do not contribute to anything by trotting it out.
I would have expected any series attempting to address optimizing Erlang applications to have introduced and used cprof, eprof, and fprof.

That said, looking forward to additional installments.

Also, I can totally hear somebody saying, "That's premature optimization, don't worry about it." with respect to that horrible way of getting the application's version number. Stuff like that drives me nuts, and this particular issue is a perfect example of why that blanket statement is so misguided.

Yeah, your broken, slow, locally isolated implementation of a thing is innocuous in and of itself... but then some functionality in the critical path uses it and builds on top of it, and then there end up being dozens or hundreds of similar problems and internal dependencies... before you know it you've got death by a trillion tiny cuts.

In the pathological case those trillion tiny cuts start to look like noise rather than signal when profiling because nothing interesting just jumps out as critically broken, and you're left just assuming, "Well I guess it's slow just because the language/runtime/machine/whatever is slow, not because I've ground performance down to a fine dust through accreted questionable decisions."
I wish I could edit my parent comment but alas.

The key point was missed: we were dealing with very short, small videos.

If you are dealing with longer or large videos, it's simply not feasible on Lambda.

As for costings, unfortunately I cannot retrieve them as this project was mid last year and I've since moved on to other clients. They can be calculated though with a few short tests I'm sure.
For me it was minimum 6, not max 6.
If we applied that to driving laws, people would revolt. As long as people have a reasonable expectation to not be directly impacted, they usually don't care.
Useful links. Thanks.
You are very right, especially places like colonial Africa. However in the context of California, Arizona, etc much of the immigration is from Guatemala, Central America, etc, not the true native tribes like the Chumash, Luiseño, et al who are still here.

Just pointing this out because "division" gets bandied about a lot inaccurately.
At the typical distance and speed of a flying plane and size/angle of cockpit window and obstruction of nose, what is the arc-seconds of accuracy needed to target the window?
I've implemented FlexNet licensing in some of our software and my first thought when I read about this adobe bug was that it was an error in the FlexNet licensing implementation since it likes to just own a folder and wipe its contents before refreshing licensing info from the server (which would make sense after an install/update).

The only thing I could find from Adobe was the basic release notes, which really don't say much. Has anyone seen more details on how this happened? If it is licensing, I doubt they'd admit it.
There is bleeding over from one extremist community to others. (Namely SRS)
People on social media reacted stupidly, but then he tried to engage the horde and prove that they were wrong to be offended by retweeting dozens (hundreds?) of people who backed him up. That was a strategy that could not result in anything but defeat and misery. He worked himself up into a rage trying to change the internet's mind, and when he failed, he took his ball and went home. I was and still am a fan of his, but for his own mental health, I'm glad he's not on Twitter any more.
You're (willfully?) ignoring the implication of a private feed: lack of discoverability (finding new followers), for those of us who use Twitter as a source of promotion for our side projects/businesses/careers.
Well that HN headline isn't editorialized...
>So, we're not going to resolve the question in favor of either #1 or #2. Those personas are like the two daemons on the shoulders of anyone who does programming... or politics... or law... or urban planning... or economics...<

Agreed...it's the fluid center, the moderate, the worker ant that actually moves things forward by taking the best the extremes--idealists, pragmatists--have to offer and making things work on a practical level...the "persona #3" you allude to...

I'm reminded of a quote from Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...

"The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed."

That tranquility...that satisfaction...that's it in a nutshell, whether the "machine" is simple or complex...the route to producing that machine doesn't much matter...the end result does...
Author here: If you're unfamiliar with machine learning, this post gives a neat example of machine learning on binary data.

If you're familiar, jump straight to our technical challenge at https://mlb.praetorian.com.
Which if you have no hidden files .in / ends up being /Applications !
COBOL and Salaries
It is never acceptable to attack and use violence against other individuals.

The fact that you perceive them as making money from their marginalization does not make it acceptable for you and others to attack them to send death threats, and to engage in other horrific and violent behavior.

It is reprehensible and disgusting that you think your hatred and bigotry is acceptable... because somebody might've made money. (and it's only marginally worse when you realize that they almost never make meaningful money anyway).
Regarding point c, is it https://gitorious.org/banshee/windows-binaries ?
My point, was that I am not stupid enough to assume the rest of the world has to be exactly like my immediate surroundings. Unlike author of the article submitted here.

It's a very weak base for an article.
Another anecdote. Girlfriend recently got switched to a different generic birth control, which lead to her have super bad side-effects compared to her previous one. This was due to a Target pharmacy change in providers.

She tried to call the pharmacy to see if there was any other alternative, or chance to get on her old pill due to the nasty side-effects. All she got in response was heartless no's and not our problem.

So I totally agree with the idea that these soft-relationships are a thing of the past.
If you think about it, before AIM and online chat (way before texting), people hardly ever faked their emotions so much

In the late 1980s terms like LOL were used on BBSes and on Usenet. Perhaps you just aren't old enough to remember that? :-)
“We Can’t Live Without Cosmos”, a fifteen-minute animated short film
This is entirely speculation, but some of them might be doing it out of frustration of being kept awake by aircraft noise (noise from aircraft landing or taking off at LHR affects 250,000 - 750,000 people).
I doubt that standard weak laser pointers could harm pilots much at such distances. However it makes sense to ban/regulate stronger laser pointers, since they don't have practical value for an ordinary consumer.
voluntary exchange is not the problem with society. involuntary exchange on the other hand...
The burnout symptoms may be a form of resistance.

The more important an activity is to the evolution of our souls, the more resistance we'll feel toward it.

On this subject, Steve Pressfield is masterful> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdVhG7YUs1w
i consider emojis as the tonal element missing from text

think of it as visual intonation (o)

(o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonation_(linguistics)
As you should be. There is a lot of press out there about "get rich quick" schemes for fusion which have little to no foundation in plasma physics. This is an example of real progress being made in magnetic confinement. It's not promising a burning reactor in less 10 years (ahem...).

All told, the mainstream scientific community has been very responsible lately in what claims they make about fusion. It's the contractors and startups who think career scientists don't know what they're doing that are over-hyping their pet schemes.

I honestly wish them the best of luck, but what I resent is the credibility gap that fusion scientists work under due to their broken promises.
Not to mention the fact that its production is, at various times:

a) The result of cartel manipulation (OPEC)

b) A tool of economic warfare (ISIS), and punishment (Russia)

Unfortunately both of those are happing at the same time as well.
> that which is best suited to the problem at hand

also best suited...according to our understanding of the problem space, our capability/competency to tackle it, our resources presently available to allocate, our worldview and preferences, any external constraints such as customer requirements, etc, etc, etc.
The best and worst traits of humanity have been amplified by computers and the internet.

How can the better traits prevail?

Feels like a sequel to Mike Judge's Idiocracy
C++ in Competitive Programming
Senet dates from the time games were played not just as entertainment, but as a way to divine the will of the gods. As such , the absence of rules robs us of a little understanding of Egyptian religion, culture, and civilization. This is touched upon briefly in the following article about game rules that appeared in Escapist Magazine:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/is...
Nice, and thanks!
Marriages may have ended at a faster rate, but due to greater mortality, maybe?
Something that I've seen is that Twitter claims to be interested in cracking down on people who harass.. But when people come and bully in the name of "social progress" .. they tend to look the other way. I've reported a tweet or two that attacked the reputation of an individual and was told "it's been reviewed but we deem it ok."
Suppose you made a mistake... say you were messing around with your phone while driving and ran over a family. Would you find it reasonable that your kids be prosecuted for your crime because they were in the back seat of your car? Because that's what's happening here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majel_Barrett

Done
Show HN: Reyle – StyleSheet management in JavaScript
Connect your Raspberry Pi to an enterprise wireless network
We've gotten one or two mentions of this before, but our designer really likes it. Creative types...what are you gonna do?
Many times online I see a friend who is justifiably upset. Let's say they like to put their dog in a sweater and somebody said it was animal abuse.

Now I could care less about dogs in sweaters, but I like my friend. I hear them and I want them to know that they have been heard. So I "like" the content.

When you've only got 1,000 or so followers, no big deal. But if you're around 50 or 100K? statistically you're going to end up with dozens, maybe hundreds of likes. Some likes are "I agree!" Some likes are "I like you". How could any system distinguish the two? I have difficulties doing this in small groups where people are physically nodding their head.

I know designers don't want to move away from the one-button like/vote/heart/plus/whatever, but hell if I can figure out how you'd make a system work like that without massive feedback noise (which is what's happening).
Public banks have massive loans to oil producers. When oil goes down, much of this production becomes unprofitable, leaking to bankruptcies and defaulting on those loans. So oil affects the banking sector, too.
It's not that bad; besides, this allows to embed XSLT inside XML documents or transform XSLT using another XSLT.

E.g. I remember having a large project I initially split into multiple XSLT files; in the end I wrote a XSLT to take them all and combine into a single file.
This is the problem. He shouldn't have to clarify his relationship, he shouldn't have to explain everything. In essence, that destroys jokes.

It's not our job to know, but as we should assume innocence until proven guilty we should assume friendliness before assuming ridicule.

If Beaven had a problem -- let her handle it. She's a big girl, we're not her collective parents.
I find it really interesting that the blade lengths are given in inches ((3 inches or less") rather than 7 or 8 cm.
I think Twitter by its very nature promotes that kind of thing. The 140-character limit inherently pushes towards zingers and outrage. Nuance is stripped away by the medium.
Err, "Imperial Earth".
Well California gives driving licenses to illegals:

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/dmv-698896-licenses-undoc...

The relationship to illegals in the US is rather schizophrenic.
Re. your last paragraph, the "different opinions" is exactly what we get, so it's not "instead" but "consequently". As for unbiased sources, that is a pipe dream as it ever was.
It's mostly kids and not-so-smart young adults.

I built a laser show system about ten years ago, and managed to give myself retinal burns with a fairly weak laser. So I'm aware of the dangers.

There are some incredibly powerful devices available now. IMO there's no reason - beyond macho posturing - that anyone needs a handheld laser pointer that puts out more than 50mW.

I wouldn't ban more powerful devices, but I'd certainly consider licensing them. A 1W handheld is an insane thing to be selling to someone with no training or oversight.
If you're going to fork, you have to accept that you have exactly the same burden on you to keep up to date on security patches etc, at the very least. As a number of parties found, libav wasn't doing that, and regardless of any moral or ethical argument (for which I've mostly seen accusations and no actual evidence.. I'm largely taking it on face value that there were issues), security trumps pretty much everything.
I don't know what you're talking about as I've never engaged in violent or horrific behaviour or sent death threats.

Bigotry and hatred are disgusting. Not once did I say they were acceptable.

I think deep down you know you're making vicious, unfounded accusations and that's why you feel the need to do so from a new account disconnected from your real name.
I like your interpretation which ascribes intelligence and meaning to other peoples' behavior instead of the grandparent which seems to imply that the kids these days are just stupid and don't have any interesting thoughts to convey.

You can't find the meaning in other peoples' behavior if you just assume it's meaningless from the get-go.
There is no friendly way to say it, the mass market are morons. It might be derogatory jokes, but this can also include things like spreading urban legends which were debunked four decades ago.

Just like Usenet and countless other online communities, what starts a a small group of fairly privileged and elite eventually degrades in to garbage as the reach increases. This is not so much an overall size issue but a relative one. I saw it happen to very small online communities in the 90s. In some respects, I watched it occur on a community I ran nearly 10 years ago.

Facebook's aggressive censorship along with non-public networks give each user a white washed micro-community. Public forums, such as Twitter and Instagram, do not.
Nice connection! I haven't read that book in like 10 years.

I think the worker bee can very well enjoy having a glass of wine with #1 and #2... dreaming about the astral planes of Platonic perfection, and complaining about the miserable present... and somewhere in that conversation, an idea is sparked, and a couple of weeks later, magic starts to happen!
I disagree. Amorality in an economic system encourages things like Martin Shkreli, and ignoring externalities like pollution, making life worse for everyone else for the benefit of a few.
Old Macromedia Fireworks (and current Adobe Cloud) user here. Fireworks still has not changed in any positive way since Macromedia developed it.

The bright side is that they haven't completely ruined it. I haven't noticed the text box problem, but I skipped many versions before I switched over to OSX and had to get the new one.
> Internet would usher a new age of Enlightenment since every one would have access to many different opinions and unbiased sources

Agreed. Seems like what happened is people could find their own opinion bubble to live it and feel empowered without having to deal with other opinions.
"there was always a bulletin board an on a corner of it there was always some faded-from-to-many-xeroxes bit of humor/racism/sports fandom/sexism/dirty joke or other us-vs.-them thing "

This sort of dreck was as despicable then as it is now, off- or online. If people posting such things now leave Twitter, I'm all for it. They can go back to the stone age where they belong - oh wait, even then most people were likely better than that: http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/geschlechterrollen-fors... (in German).
Looked up how much that is as if a single CPU. 1711 years. 625000 days.

This is beyond any HPC that I have ever witnessed before. Maybe CERN does more, but I don't quite know the details of it.
Very well done. And I like the format -- "here are the steps I took from start to end".

Looking forward for more posts like this.
The status quo is always political. There is no apolitical center.
Everything is evolving all the time, and future iterations are based on, a reaction to, or rejection of what came before.

There are going to be cycles of products, some you love, some you hate, but what won't change is that there are still like-minded people out there, no matter what your tastes or opinions. We will learn from this generation of social media , and future products will solve some of these problems to a large degree, only to evolve into something we detest again - but each time it should get a little better.
These people need to grow the hell up, or wear protective glasses in the cockpit, whatever. Being able to target a plane, at all, and THEN also targeting the cockpit window is well beyond the capability of the vast majority of people. This is like asking that we ban spoons because somebody managed to actually cut another person's heart out with one.
Property rights are involuntary for the have-nots. The basis of capitalism isn't 'voluntary exchange', but property rights and the accumulation of capital.
It's never acceptable to use violence, but the world does contain a lot of violent people, and most of them are on the internet. Welcome to Earth.
Here is a blog post that is a good starting point to develop your own probe to monitor wireless networks. There are many EAP authentication methods, but these are the most common ones I have seen in an enterprise environment.
Three letters: SJW.
Been working with it as well since last summer and following it for a lot longer than that. Glad to see they've reached 1.0!
I often say "lol" in real life to denote "I appreciate your attempt at being funny and agree that it was indeed humorous, but it wasn't funny enough to laugh laugh"

Because, like, what do you do when someone puts effort into a joke and you want to give them positive reinforcement, but you're just not in a laughing mood? Or it was funny in the abstract, but you're the wrong audience?

Another approach I've seen was "Heh, that's funny." ... but I'm not sure if that's better or worse than "lol"
Much the same is true of me, and of my best friend in grad school.
There have been numerous studies showing that outrage is one of the most viral emotions. For whatever reason, seeing something that makes you upset has a very high correlation with people sharing/liking/retweeting. I think this unfortunate fact is what is being born out in social media.

Smithsonian had a good short article on it: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-emotion-go...

Research shows that amazing good news, like a huge leap forward in cancer research, is even more viral. But unfortunately those happen much more rarely up than someone saying something stupid and getting lambasted.

Ryan Holiday's book "Trust me I'm lying" also really opened my eyes to how a lot of this stuff works.
"lol" is an amazingly useful addition to written, casual language. It's the textual equivalent of a smile/head nod in normal conversation. Remember that in physical conversation, body language conveys 80-90% of the message - phrases like "lol" and emojis take the place of body language.
"It is never acceptable to attack and use violence against other individuals."

We're talking about electronic communications here, not meatspace.
"this development is double-plus bad"

You meant:

"this development is double-plus ungood"
Exactly. Ruby would probably have massive adoption with JS-like speed.
Your point has merit, but I would argue that YouTube has a much broader audience than tumblr. I assume this would make it easier to have a centralised sales team. (If they actually do)
Also one of their few friends in the middle-east who also happens to be a big customer for Russian military hardware. But yeah, the Saudi's are engaging in pretty classic cartel behaviour, in response to Iran and US shale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing

It gets more bizarre though. Putting aside economics, the US, the Saudis and the Iranians all have a pretty aligned geo-political reason for pumping the oil hard: ISIS.

Politics and war make strange bedfellows.