skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Background:

I have begun a small project whereby I am looking to (subjectively) quantify on a scale of 0 to 10 different properties of images/situations that may be considered "ironic" by some. The current properties include things like "twinge of irony", incongruity, unexpectedness, etc. My longer-term goal is to play with some data visualizations based on the data.

Some rough notes on the origin of this project are at http://thoughtsonirony.blogspot.com/2016/02/towards-subjecti...

You can submit your own example(s) with your own values for the different properties (you don't have to give values for all of them). The example can be an image or the description of a situation. If you want, you can submit your contact info with your example, or just do it anonymously (for now, these values are being posted into a google docs spreadsheet that will be imported later to the list for the site and used as a basis for future data visualizations).

Also - if there are other properties that you think should be included, please let me know.
The HTML framework I created for personal projects has a special string type that cannot be output (nor even compiled) without specifically selecting which format you want the string encoded as (eg HTML, URL, plain text, etc). While this does produce some arguably uglier code and creates a little additional development overhead (ie code fails to compile by default), it has caught numerous instances where I would have accidentally left myself open to this kind of attack. So I've found it to be highly effective in the long run.
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Just to point out, I enjoyed our conversation. This is a debate that I think needs to happen.
I don't disagree with you - I just mean something else by ambitious projects.

Take politics for instance - can anyone under 30 accomplish anything ambitious in politics? Probably not.

The brilliant minds who've contributed to math/science I imagine oftentimes had great teachers along the way. Not always.

The ambitious projects I have in mind go beyond solving a previously unsolved math problem - I am thinking of something more calculated and long-term like wikipedia.

If we can give a lot of people in the world the best educational materials by the best teachers - that's a massive win.

If we can secure funding for people who show promise and let them affect the real world, not just 'do research' - that's a massive win.

In other words - the problems we're facing are not really science problems, they're philosophical and societal problems that require a willingness of the current ruling class to say ok, this isn't working, let us try something new here.

That'd be nearly unprecedented - another smart kid solving another science riddle, that's cool too :)
Extensive discussion 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11182098
Assuming you have a quad-core and enough GB to spare.

I am yet to see Gradle perform as fast as Ant and Maven without fine-tuning and background daemons tricks .
One thing to think about with iOS devices is that you might be out of luck with some good coding apps because of their App Store policies. I looked at trying to get a python interpreter app on my iPad somewhere around a year and a half ago (maybe two?) and at least then all of the apps had to be IDEs that sent input to a remote server for execution because the App store didn't allow arbitrary user input code execution in apps on the device. I wanted offline operation so I was out of luck at the time, I wish you better luck.
We changed the title from "The Mozilla Bugzilla bug that caused developer.palm.com to shutdown (2015)".
>> "The CTR is typically around 1%"

That's pretty optimistic, on some ad networks representative CTR's are lower by an order of magnitude or two.
I suggest you remove the remaining vowels from that, giving base 27. Then you have no worries about accidentally generating obscenities.
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The psychological challenges are interesting.

Psychiatrists and psychologists often need to vent to a peer to deal with being the person who counsels others.

I imagine or hope that some cross training is performed in the sMARS mission so that one person who is incapacitated doesn't create a cascade of other problems (e.g., the French biologist can't attend to the life-sustaining Cyanobacteria).

A crew member suffering a mental breakdown could doom the mission. Is her medical kit stocked with sedatives? Does increased radiation exposure alter brain structure?

So many risks that we know of and some that we don't.
"""you're only as good as the last thing you did, and no one gives a shit about the last thing you did"""

I'd say the second part of this isn't true in general. You'll often be judged by past success weather that's a good metric or not as long as it roughly fits the domain. The mentioned NFL is a great example of this. Coaches that have won stuff get better job offers. It may or may not be a good indicator but that's how it is. Similarly if you've worked for Google it'll probably be easier to land jobs elsewhere (I'd argue even if the reason for your departure is that you'd be considered a mishire in retrospect).
In the domain of startups, if you've done one somewhat successfully funding gets a lot easier (which is a good advantage since you won't waste much time on it). A16Z are on record saying they'll fund people that have done startups before more liberally (in the Stanford video series).
this reads confused, but i found it interesting precisely because of that...

the whole discourse on the over operator and compositing trees makes a real meal out of something very simple. i'm not sure that "order of compositing doesn't matter" (vs. order in layers) is a particularly deep insight... its the sort of thing we just intuitively know from real-life experience afaik. not worthy of a discussion with trees and equations...

i'd be curious why the author got stuck with compositing frame buffers together though - this is usually very avoidable, even in the cases described, and even on old hardware. i'm guessing there are some /really/ hairy edge case things that are not mentioned...

also, all this talk as if everything is built with dynamic, upload-every-frame, vertex buffers as well, instead of (given that its 2d) some well organised quad renderer... i doubt changing shader/material parameters was the dominant cost somehow.

there are certainly somethings you like to do in 2d (post-processing filters) that are hard in 3d, but drawing your basic stuff isn't one of them - there is no mystical difference between 2d and 3d, one is just a subset of the other - if you ignore the hacky pixel space stuff we do in post (which we can also do over 3d renders) which is a trick of the representation (pixels) and not the geometric space (2d).
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Still misleading. This server responded to a TLS 1.0 ClientHello with a TLS 1.0 ServerHello. That is what I mean by "TLS >1.0".
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Okay we're mostly agreeing here just one point

> Take politics for instance - can anyone under 30 accomplish anything ambitious in politics? Probably not.

Maybe? It's hard to say considering we have laws preventing the young from getting into politics. President / Vice President have to be 35, 30 to be a senator and 25 for the house of representatives. Most states also have age restrictions for many other political offices that I'm too lazy to look up (some are similar to the federal ones, some are simply 21).

Making it not possible for them to do it doesn't mean they couldn't if given the ability. Many politicians are career politicians. That may not be good but the young folks can't be career politicians, at least not right away.

I would be very curious to see the data if we removed all agent restrictions then let 1-2 generations go by and see if the demographic changes much / some / none.
> I was also in banking and financial services before, and I found people tip toe around management a lot more.

Especially around bonus time.

Memegen is internal, but has been leaked and written about. See https://www.google.com/search?q=Google+memegen
I think most climate scientists will tell you they just don't know what will happen that far out.
Really thanks for sharing. Such stories make real a person that we others couldn't personally know.
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Another vote for Montreal. This event sounds like a great idea.

(Already spoke with the organizers about this in another thread. I think they need someone who's organized an event of similar scale. That's not me, but I'm very willing to help out anyone who can take a lead role)
The lengths one has to go in order to do unpack tuples show how a lot of things in modern C++ are built on top of an old boat, sadly.

Without pattern matching - ie structural decomposition - this is prohibitively unreadable and negates any benefits of better code reuse.
Roughly the same amount of land is required by everyone, if the only source of revenue is land then everyone pays the same amount of tax regardless of income.

Given that employees/retail customers would no longer have to pay income tax that same amount of money would be available for land lords to charge as increased rent or retailers in increased prices.

I really fail to see how in a realistic scenario that this really changes anything at all. I would hazard a guess that this would likely be the most regressive tax code we've seen in modern history as large landowners would charge everyone roughly what they are being charged now plus what they customarily pay in income tax, and then likely distribute their own tax burden amongst the tenants.

As a high income earner I whole heartedly support the idea that only land should be taxed, but I don't think it's going to play out like everyone thinks it will, given that land is not a particularly large store of wealth, 200 / 3000 trillion, or about 6%

I think the only thing this tax code would do is encourage wealthy people to build very tall towers and farms in remote areas, and sell each other their property at dirt cheap prices. Vertical farming would also probably become a thing.
Land Value Tax good. NIMBYs bad.
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Might be just me, but "look I made something similar here is the link" without any more info or mention of how it's relevant sounds a lot like piggybacking off of the success of this thread to promote your own project.
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For this reason, I tell college applicants that there's value to going to a school in the economic area you expect to work in (straightforward if it's LA, SV, or NY). Most of your friends are going to stay in that area. I lost most of my college friends when I moved back to the west coast.
The quantum computing market is projected to surpass $5B through 2020
I played around with my wordpress install. It looks like if a post is ever "published", the ?p=id url will always forward to the permalink url regardless of the post status being changed to "draft" or "pending review". Edge case for sure, but interesting to know.
That is a Billion dollar photo app waiting to be published ;)
What about everyone who didn't go to school at all, at least not more than three of four years? They don't have an education in arts, philosophy or languages either.
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None of the hackathons that I've gone to seemed to have any of these problems. Hac Phi [1] in Philly and Hac Bos [2] in Boston are both fantastic and have been tremendously valuable to my career. Last year Hac Phi started to distance themselves from the more recent connotations of the word "hackathon" and started using the word "exchange" instead. This switch makes me a little sad because I think the portmanteau of "hack" and "marathon" is still very relevant to those events.

[1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Hac_%CF%86

[2] (http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Haskell/events/223607923/)
> "But that changed and women weren't hired as much as men and women gave it up and then lost interest in learning."

That's kind of the point, isn't it? By your own admission, hiring patterns might be based on factors other than representation, which then translates into decreased interest by under-represented groups.
What is that tool you used for realtime traffic monitoring?
Anyone know of static analysis tools that find potential XSS/etc issues in your frontend (such as the innerHtml message) and backend code?
Strongly-typed languages FTW.
Thanks for your gentle correction. (I was thinking of Gray code, as taught to me during my Wonder Years. You're right as rain of course.)
Some users flagged this post, maybe because on first look it sounded like some kind of scam. But it's legit and there's an interesting insight in it.

To make it better material for HN, you might want to go into more depth. In any case, welcome to non-lurking!
Is this the same code/algorithm as: https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style?
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> so they aren't true generics.

Why does type erasure mean they aren't true generics?
Or that anyone in the future would want anyone of us have another shot at life.
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It's nice to agree sometimes :)

I'd say moreso than the laws, is just the hierarchies entrenched in every sphere of life are the real mechanisms preventing any real change.

On one hand, stability is good, but at what cost, right?

Something as small as the apple app store - everyone knows it's bad, nothing has been done about it for years.

If Apple tomorrow, came to HackerNews and said hey, we know the app store sucks, we are going to hire a 20 person team of stars to re-build it. We will give you full autonomy, high paycheques, lots of publicity and a full year to do it.

Wouldn't that be an overwhelmingly positive move? Even if a year later, the team failed to deliver, at the very least it'd generate a ton of enthusiasm and new ideas.

This is a small example of big companies not willing to do anything outside the stale old box, even when there is absolutely no downside. It's those old, bored farts earning a paycheque that are the problem every time.

Apple has the money, just not the wisdom to go outside the box every now and again. Politics is 1000x worse I imagine.
Yet the news sites demonstrate how utterly clueless they are with the amount they set their online subscriptions to.

£1 a day for The Times - very nearly the cost of the actual paper. $1 daily to access Wired. Don't make me laugh. No one consumes all their news from a single source any more.

If my usage pattern is anything near representative, 2-5p a day for the Times and .5p a day for Wired, based on how often I visit equivalent sites and how many stories I read whilst there.

Seems like unless it's something very specialised (medical journal or similar), or the FT charging as though it was our sole news source just demonstrates how out of touch they are.

Sure, charge me £1-£2 a day for consumption, but that would have to be spread across 50-100 sites daily, some of which I've visited just once in the last year, for one article. AND, if I am going to be willing to be micro-charged I want a way to NOT pay a specific site (perhaps I visited and the content was poor). Make that happen I'll subscribe today.

Ask me for £1 for your shitty site daily and you'll wait forever, but good luck with your greed - that's what caused the adpocalypse in the first place.
Too many garage bands....

In seriousness, curious about comparisons related to other areas...
"In the past we've looked at PCP and DDT. Pharmaceuticals are the next frontier."

I wasn't aware that PCP was so prevalent in the Seattle area.
Stop calling them ad blockers. They block surveillance features that advertisers put in their ads. I do not believe that ads would be blocked by surveillance blockers if they were just ads. Absent the surveillance, how would they recognize them?
If ads were identical to the ads in analogue newspapers then surveillance blockers would let them through. When I read an analogue newspaper or magazine nobody is knowing if I read the ads or not. They only know whether they get results from advertising in that outlet. And they know that by tracking.
They could run ads that don't spy on people.
I always use surveillance blockers. I never shut them down for anybody.
It is especially offensive when sites that are hardcopy outfits which have gone digital to keep up with the times complain about surveillance blockers. They certainly know how to run ads that are just ads. There is no technical difference between the ads and the rest of the page. The layout is the thing. They have experience with this and professional advertising people know about tracking results.
This is beyond moronic.
Content metadata can be revealing, I reckon that's why the urls in the article say [redacted]. The title of the post gives away information. Even financially significant info in the case of announcements, for instance.
Oddly, nobody ever seems to worry about that with hashes, encryption output or GUIDs... but if it's a worry, then, sure, hey, why not. (By the way, that system has been in regular use for more than 20 years in commercial software.)
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We detached this religious sex war from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11192541 and marked it off-topic.
In this case PCP = post consumer plastic. Think micro plastic particles from ocean debris and trash washed off short.
Google analytics?
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- not all topologies have infinity.

- 'Continue forever' is vague. You will have to specify the direction, as that can affect the knot you get.
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Makes me think of the Romans. Supposedly when they conquered territories, they killed the head of state and his closest supporters, but left much of the power structure intact. Then they put their own people up top, to funnel taxes etc to Rome.
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Really? I actually thought they meant "PCBs". Learn something new every day, I guess.
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Thanks. I never really programmed for the web
> I'm not sure anyone really understands the cognitive processes behind doing math.

As long as we all play by the rules of the symbolic game, I don't really need to understand what's going on inside anyone else's (or even my own) head.

> I rarely write code where I even need to think about complexity bounds! I'd be surprised if that was a dominating concern for even a significant fraction of programmers (systems HPC programmers, for sure, but...UI programmers?).

Invariants still remain, e.g., “the textboxes Red, Green, Blue, Hue, Saturation and Brightness must contain each a number between 0 and 255 inclusive; additionally, these numbers must satisfy the following equations (...)”.

> We don't. But you need to start somewhere. Don't underestimate the value of a few good examples in the problem solving process.

Oh, sure, examples can be a useful tool for finding the general rule, as I mentioned in my previous comment. But they don't replace the general rule.
> "without the suck"

> requires nodejs

All kidding aside though, this looks like a cool tool for navigating/doing filesystem stuff, but comparing it to Cygwin is a completely false as far as I can see.

Cygwin isn't just `sh` for win32, it's a relatively complete POSIX environment for Windows that comes with GNU and other open source tools.

I understand the author probably wasn't being malicious, but it's really not a fair comparison to use as a selling point for their package.
Not really worth arguing online with somebody who'd make a statement about the demographics of a company they know nothing about -- but for sake of clarifying your demonstrably false claim: we have lots of parents and family folk at KA, at all levels including senior leadership.

We do not require that anybody stays at our hackathon until 11:45, but we do require that people get sleep. These decisions -- and the decision to not only host over a weekend -- come from our family-aware mindset.
Is there a case for still using Torch,Theano,etc. and not switching to TensorFlow?
I just bought the Raspberry Pi 2 less than 1 week ago thinking it was about time to upgrade. WTH.
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Ah - that makes sense.

That pattern of cmd driven UI was very common in those days. I think just about every EDA package does that. However, instead of Lisp, they used TCL.

Thanks for sharing this. I think it is always great when people achieve powerful automation.
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A good manager should want to know the whole story, to analyze the reasons why something went off the rails to avoid it happening in future.

"Nobody cares why X happened" is to avoid learning a lesson.
It was in the context of the comment.

"Therefore, in the course of the economic transactions (buying and selling) that constitute market exchange, people ascribe subjective values to the commodities (goods and services), which the buyers and the sellers then perceive as objective values, the market-exchange prices that people will pay for the commodities."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_fetishism#Objectifie...

It's not a personal point of view but it describes well the reality for most people.
I also just bought a pi 2 - integrated wireless sounds great!
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Then you are in for a treat! Pythonista is AMAZING and I have no clue how Ole Zorn got it past the App Store reviewers. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pythonista/id528579881?mt=8
Great news indeed - though it looks like we're still committed to Raspbian?

As much as I love the work the guys behind that have done, is the move to a native Debian distro for this architecture hamstrung by specifications, or something else?
Thank you for that! I could have had a very front-facing "dirty" bug make it into production soon.
This highlights a bigger problem over been mulling over.

How does one without free nights and weekends (eg, has kids and a family) get the benefits (network, exposure, etc) without being able to participate?

That sounds entitled. Let's reverse it. How does a company find individuals who have better things to do than code for free all weekend? This is of course based on the assumption that such individuals are valuable.

The only answer I've come up with is coaching little league.
Hmmm, so you now understand advertising is not a evil business really, right?

It is effectively a way to price the information, how much should be paid for your view. Note in print days, you still pay your subscription, yet you get shit loads of ads. And you have a variety choices of publishers.

So why this is the worst model ever?

The article is laughable that it gives no solution, but asks publishers to evolve into oblivion, which I think they won't.

Some people are so pissed that publisher got anti ad blocker in place, yet claim they won't pay to their shitty articles whatsoever. But then again, if you don't read those shitty articles that much, why are you so pissed in the first place?

After all you need to pay what you consume, and ad is one way of it. It is not perfect, nor evil. Your call then.
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