skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this would be killer.. hope it works good for worldwide calls
This really seems to be a culture problem.

We have long time established custom, that if you want to communicate with somebody via chat, you send him a 'ping' first, and wait if he responds.
combat? The government has sanctioned it. In fact, you can avoid the H1B dependent employer status if you hire those with masters degrees from US institutions. Why do you think a guy that is so embedded in the globalization machine that is also the dean of a US university shilling so obviously for these programs?

The industry has designed this system, with the help of the government and education institutions, purely for their own benefit and because the current US politics is based on the fallacy that good for business == good for Americans they get what they want.
Why is people down-voting this?!
There comes a time when the only competition for a massive corporation is governments. And you can't win that one (AT&T) even when you do (Microsoft).

Tread carefully Google (and Apple...)
She managed to get out early. Others don't:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2501887/Jenna-J...
I thought the article laid out nice examples where the "evolving" can be good in some ways, but harmful in others.

I know teenagers who have never been left alone. I know people graduating high school who have never independently taken care of themselves. And even on an independence scale, when I was 18, my friends and I could pretty much survive on our own in wilderness situations just fine, and we did - heading into the woods and mountains to explore almost every day. Nowadays that would get you on reality TV shows.

Sure, things are safer now... As long as we all stick inside the little boxes society provides for us. But that is not always what is actually best for us.
They already use germanium in their manufacturing processes. It's not all germanium because there are challenges that would create. There are also benefits to mixing a different sized atoms into the same lattice to affect the speed in which the electrons travel so modern manufacturing often implants germanium atoms into the silicon lattices. I do agree that material improvements can change everything so the often spouted doom and gloom of stagnation is often unfounded.
Because Slack doesn't have to write up an RFC and wait months/years for feedback before getting features implemented. People care about features, not interoperability (until they want out, at which point they feel the lock-in burn).
Why not just use Pandoc with GFM syntax options?
Why Bosses and Employees Should Practice Radical Candor
The risk with beef was always pretty low. Actually not eating beef and eating an alternative meat is probably riskier given the prevelance of salmonella and other nasty bacteria in chicken.
Do they use deep learning yet?

"yet" ? Deep learning is no panacea - it's not clear why this would even be on a top 5 list of approaches to try on a putative ML part of the process. There seems to be a lot of confusion on this, generally.

Most likely they just use cheap labor for sorting
Off topic, kinda: is anyone else having problems with nature.com not resolving? Firefox and Safari both fail to load it, but for some reason Chrome manages to find the server. OSX, latest.
>2.7

Welp, I guess I'm one of the complainers. Is there something in particular that prevents creating a JIT for py3?
A friend of mine has a wife and kid ... paying 3500 a month for an average place in Mountain View (2 bedrooms). I'm paying 2500 for a 1 bedroom and am considering finding roommates (in my late 30s .. shesh). You could try renting someone's basement ... nice deals are hard to come by but you might get lucky.

Also consider living a bit further away (Santa Clara or even San Jose). Traffic sucks but it is a necessary evil. You might be able to get a decent 2 bedroom for 2500. Make sure your wife has immigration status that allows working else you will be screwed. I have many friends who had highly educated spouses who ended up sitting at home for a year+.

Edit .. some more additions. I don't want to scare you but want to give you some data.

1) Make sure you budget for a car. While uber is awesome, it is very hard to live here without a car. Everything is sprawled out. A cheap car isn't great value ... you end up spending 20K on a car (you recover costs when you sell it of course).

2) Make sure the uni covers health insurance for your whole family ... it is often a payroll deduction so find out how much they charge.

3) East Palo Alto is dangerous so don't go there.

4) I eat out all the time ... food is not as expensive compared to Europe. With a kid, eating out probably isn't a good idea though. Consider shopping in bulk at Costco (need a car for that though).

5) I see posts on craigslist about professional couples who want to share a house. I hope you get lucky and find one of those situations. Seems like a good option.

6) Find out if the uni has subsidized housing. UCSF does and offers it to post-docs. That can be an amazing deal.

Best of luck to you.
> I don't think that actually follows

Which is why I said statistically and empirically. As to men caring about this too, this is obviously possible, but even if they care, they are less affected, so they may prioritize it less. Like the joke about the chicken and the pig vis-a-vis breakfast: The chicken is involved, but the pig is committed!
Yes, it happens all the time on Amazon. Not only Amazon itself, but also other companies observing hot sellers (there is an API for that), then "cloning" the item and ordering manufacturing in Shenzhen. If you complain to Amazon, your selling privileges might be removed... Amazon desperately needs a competitor.
It's a choice.

Is private schooling for children worth losing out on the opportunity to eat out as a family of 4 at a good restaurant every week (that's 250 per meal, so $1000 a month)?

Is funding your daughter's wedding (2000-10,000), worth skipping a vacation?

I think being middle-class is all about making choices between giving up luxuries of the body (e.g. resturant food), for luxuries of opportunity (e.g. schooling). If you are rich, you can have both your yatcht and private school. You can go to the country club, and keep a maid at the same time.

Being poor on the other hand is about making choices between necessities like "should we have water or power this week? pick one" or "should our food be nutritious or should we clean our clothes? pick one".
Since when can we reliably test for prions? Could it be that those misfolded proteins have been around forever?
It doesn't say that they are firing 12,000 people. Certainly some people will be laid off, but a reduction in head count of 12,000 is distinct from layoff count.

Assuming people stay in a job 4 years, you can get a 25% reduction in headcount per year by just not hiring. Intel has over 100,000 employees. They are likely hiring 10k-25k people per year just to stay at a constant size.
Not that they're always successful, but hunters also want animals killed as quickly as possible (not necessarily painlessly, but are our methods of slaughtering really that painless? Do we give them a nice general anesthetic before bashing in their brains or decapitating them?). Anything but a good clean shot is considered, depending on the hunter, cruel, wasteful, poor form, etc. Most of the people I know who hunt aren't sports hunters. They hunt deer (because there's an abundance in the area, more than were here before the US was founded), primarily for food. A couple decent-sized deer, properly butchered, will last quite a while for them. If they hunt anything beyond what they need, it's to give to family/friends who won't or can't hunt.
If the "right" thing was also the prudent thing, we wouldn't have to make the distinction. Religion and law try to balance out the cost of morality, but in the end, a lot of the world wins by bad behavior, so we will often pay for being good. But we still should.
I guess I wouldn't count it as "social" either but it's definitely "jacked in", maybe a little more so for me since I use my real name.
File formats never die. My first task at my first job in 1985 was to write a DXF import/export library in C
Got it. It's like honey crystals.

They force other crystals to be of the same size and shape.

(That's why creamed honey producers put a "starter" crystal in, which is tiny, that forces the honey to produce other tiny crystals.)
Interestingly, that's exactly what I personally am working on: mobile clients for Quassel, easy deployment (single docket container for everything), quassel-as-a-service for people to just invite others, etc.

A web app also exists, but the discoveravility is an issue.

Packing the things up properly, marketing them well, etc is easier, as we also have the advantage of being open source, which helps in open source communities.
I think the article can be summed up by this sentence:

> We have no retirement savings, because we emptied a small 401(k) to pay for our younger daughter’s wedding.

The author isn't mysteriously broke. Money is not being stolen from his account. Rather, he's spending a lot of money on things which he believes are necessities (like paying for a child's wedding), and sacrificing a lot of things which he believes is optional (like having retirement savings). Some would suggest both categorizations are wrong.

Also:

> we believed [our children] had earned the right to attend good universities

That's actually not how university tuition works, and the rhetorical tricks being deployed here leave me cold. Your daughters did not have the right to attend those expensive private universities; they had the privilege of doing so, because you spent a lot of money you didn't really have to obtain that privilege for them. Which is awesome for them! No doubt it will benefit them (which is why you paid all that money, I imagine). But it's not entirely clear to me how "middle class" paying for your children to go to some of the most expensive schools in the world really is?
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That curled script actually installs the 'proper' distribution packages. It has a lot of clever stuff to figure out which environment it's running on and then does whatever commands are necessary - including, e.g., adding keys so that the external repos where docker is hosted are trusted.

Point being that even if you install "the right way" on linux using package managers it's still a multi-step complicated process that benefits from being automated in a bash script.
Funny, because for myself, reading about these events from a marxist perspective, not a single one of them is surprising. In fact, all of them are completely predictable.

The story that we've been sold about laissez faire capitalism and neoliberal economics is a farce, pushed by the epic levels of deregulation during the Reagan era.

There is no "crony-capitalism," it's just capitalism. That's it, that's what capitalism does. It breeds inequality.
> Yes, the other things I could have meant would have been odd, so I'm not sure why you spent time typing them out.

It seemed clear that you were either confused about what features were supported by S3, or not expressing your complaint correctly. The reason behind typing them out was trying to politely point this out, while describing some of the real-world use cases for using gzip'd files in S3 (partially to highlight why it would not make sense for S3 to gunzip files automatically).

I felt this would be a more useful comment than "you are wrong, you can upload gzip'd files to S3", or just downvoting your comment for being incorrect.
Think of all the things you can get done in the next 24 hours!
Pretty neat demonstration of WebGL technology, but even with 100mbit fiber here at work the map took a few seconds to load from time to time.

Is there no way to preload & cache this data due to using WebGL or is this just this particular app?
There's no legal reason to mandate FSF's philosophy, but banning the Android MADA has some huge consumer benefits, because it changes Google's priorities with Android.

For instance, right now, the Play Store, Chrome, etc. are used as leverage to get OEMs to sign the agreement. Without that, Google's value proposition changes. No longer does it make sense for them to withhold these. Google should want the profits from app or book sales and stuff on all Android devices. Why wouldn't Google want Kindle users to be able to install Chrome? Why wouldn't Google want Kindle users to be able to buy movies from Play?

And if Google opens up availability of their Android apps and services, this changes the dynamic considerably. They'll no longer be able to guarantee that any given Android device they offer apps on has the Play Services malware component. Play Services will need to be unbundled: Google apps will need to include everything they need to run on open source Android.

Not only does this open up the opportunity for Google services on other Android devices, it also means Google has a strong incentive to take some of their existing proprietary Play Services features and contribute them to open source, so that their apps can take advantage.

Additionally, Google has long used security updates as a stick to force OEMs to upgrade to the latest versions of Android. Without Android MADA level controls, Google will not be able to do that. So Google's best bet is to provide long-term servicing of their platform. Android versions will need to receive security updates for longer, and they'll need to be made as easy as possible for OEMs to integrate into their builds. Expect better written platform code.

But the biggest thing is that consumers will have choice. No longer will 85% of all phones in a carrier store be nearly identical clones of Google's preferred configuration. There'll be more reason for OEMs to innovate in different ways. People will have non-Google choices available in store.

Think about what Samsung could offer now that they couldn't before: Customize your phone's OS on order. Maybe Samsung offers a "Galaxy" config with all of Samsung's apps, or a Pure Google config with all of Google apps. And a Microsoft config for people who are going to use it at work with their Windows-based networks! Select the one you want, and Samsung can offer that, they're no longer beholden to an agreement that forces them to preload a prescribed set of apps.
Good day for 0day.today and #Vulners project. 20,000+ more exploits indexed
In the I Am Legend novella (a big contributor to modern zombie), the infected are more like vampires and retain their intelligence. The book is notable for the primary theme it introduces, the otherness of the zombies (in earlier depictions they are largely undead plot devices)

Romero's Night of the Living Dead also plays with the otherness theme, but the dead are numb and more ghoulish than vampiric.

28 Days Later finally has something I would agree is rabies inspired. It probably contributed to the frantic behavior of zombies in several recent movies.
Anyone want to learn more about prion related disease Kuru .. should watch this documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw_tClcS6To
There's also Comedy Hack Day [1], my personal favorite hackathon(s) of all time. I've been to 4 so far and have flown across the country just to participate over and over again.

[1] http://www.comedyhackday.org/
It's true, they could have gone to public school and had a afterschool tutor. It'd have been cheaper than private school by far, and gotten the same educational benefit without the 'rubbing shoulders with the elite' you get from private schooling.

As someone who went to private school, I can say certainly it doesn't count until you go to university. It may count somewhat in highschool, but primary/grammar school isn't quite the place to make connections that people make it out to be.
Bits of it are (or more accurately bits of the population are). Depends who you hang around with. The garage where I used to have my car serviced had hunts go past there.

If you look at the number of hunts in East Anglia vs the south west, midlands or north west, it's nothing like the same number. And when you consider the population differences, it's even more stark. There's hunts in Suffolk, sure. Just not as much as lots of the rest of the UK.

Also, as an addendum, describing people who hunt as "toffs" sort of doesn't work very well once you've actually known the people who do it. 100 years ago, it'd have been an vaguely accurate assessment, but nowadays it's pretty hard to argue. A red jacket does not a landed gentleman make.
Interesting project! Does it really attract more clients?
Yep. It makes me think of programming quines. Except deadly.
A diamond frame is stiffer and lighter, but you can only mount it by swinging your leg over the saddle or over the handlebars. A step-through frame is heavier but easier to mount.
Actually we have big difference here. Callmaker and Live Chat working on a different goals.

So if you have some product that is better to sell via phone calls - Callmaker is must-have for you.
I think the actualy reason for the choice of tense is brevity. Fix is three characters fixes or fixed is five, similar for update vs updates/updated, add vs adds/added etc.
They say "money is the root of all evil". If they rule on that, why not ?
The same consensus on Bitcoin design (although indirect) can apply.
Exactly. If you don't sign Google's agreement and include Google's app bundle, your product fails in the market. You cannot successfully sell an Android smartphone today without Google Apps, unless you're in China where Google Apps isn't available.
I'm Puerto Rican. I've never heard of someone being offended at an American saying futbol. Then again, we say soccer over here, unlike all other Spanish speaking nations. As for myself, I just think it would be silly to hear. I assume an American who does that would merely be trying to be accommodating.
Looks like I've got a new CAD program for my dad! Dad downloaded and installed A9CAD and it absolutely filled up his computer with malware. He loves A9CAD, but every time he installs it I have to get a copy of MalwareBytes and disinfect the system.

Looks like FreeCAD might be just what he needs!
Fresh evidence links Saudi government to 9/11
This article is a bit muddled in several issues. Important and not mentioned, though by no means authoritative, is the enduring "negative liberty" principle and its enormous impact on the American ethos from its founding. An big reason a lot of this "concept creep" makes us uncomfortable is that the "right to be free from harm or negligence causing harm" is coming into diametric opposition with other people's right of expression, movement, and property. For an article that goes so far as to evoke Aristotle, I'm surprised no mention of Locke or JS Mill was made.
These are pre-internet porn careers, the world has changed
You're joking, I know, but just to point out: Chicago is gigantic. Bring it on, Google and Facebook and Apple. We've got more than enough space. :)
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The rule I like here is that things like viruses and prions exist because they can.
STL? What's that?
There are actually a number of parasites that change the behavior of the host. Toxoplasma gondii makes mice try to get eaten by cats.
You can break it down further into two separate surprises:

1) The normal form (PrPc) is mostly helical, while the diseased form (PrPsc) is mostly beta-sheet.
2) PrPsc catalyses the switch from helix to sheet.

I find the first to be more surprising. After all, chaperones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaperone_(protein)) exist to catalyse folding of proteins - although that is from partly folded to fully folded.
So far, Google's way of fighting antitrust suits has been to pretty much claim that the government is wrong and then not change anything. Some countries where Google doesn't like the results of a government ruling, they've just left or closed the relevant service. Google seems to have a questionable understanding that they're supposed to comply with the law.

But I'm not sure they can afford to lose the whole EU market.
Yikes. Makes me wonder what kind of recourse could be possible. Often I see a lot of "death to IP protections!" chants around here, which makes this situation all the more interesting. In my view this is a pretty clear 'derivative' infringment, and if there's enough of them, could there be a class-action approach to signing up those who can make the connection? "Ripping-shit-off" isn't a very pleasant business model in my opinion.
Fox hunting, where the fox is chased around by dogs for a long time before it is finally killed, is torture. Hunting with a rifle, where you sneak up on an animal and kill it before it even knows it's being hunted, is not. I'd say bow hunting is a grey area; if you have to track the bleeding animal down while it is slowly bleeding out, that's cruel. But if you're hunting for survival and a bow is all you have, or if you're training for that situation (and it's realistic that you might be in that situation) then it's ok.
It doesn't have to distinguish, because there's a rather predictable relationship between total use and heavy use - the usual old "pareto principle". Similarly, total use is a very good proxy for harms.
Yup, and they've (as far as I've heard -- could be wrong) threatened to blacklist sellers who move to upstarts like Jet or even if they sell more prominently on eBay.

Perhaps I don't know the definition of anticompetitive, but I feel like this fits the bill.
This is hardly a phenomenon that is limited to the arbitrary boundaries of the US. This "sensitivity" in my estimation is due to the new found interconnectedness of consciousness via the internet. As Marshall McLuhan wrote many decades ago:

"The human family now exists under conditions of a global village. We live in a single constricted space resonant with tribal drums."

"The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations."

Go look at YouTube comments and you'll see what he meant. Never before has the world, with all its highly variable levels of intelligence, ignorance, and ideologies, been thrust into a "room" together and "forced" to listen to other opinions like it has with the internet.

"In the electric age, when our central nervous system is technologically extended to involve us in the whole of mankind and to incorporate the whole of mankind in us, we necessarily participate, in depth, in the consequences of our every action. It is no longer possible to adopt the aloof and dissociated role of the literate Westerner."
> I would feel that it had connected far more and with far greater purpose and meaning.

One of the better discussions of this topic is Vi Hart's explanation[1] of Edmund Snow Carpenter's[2] "They Became What They Beheld".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm-Jjvqu3U4

[2] almost certainly written with Marshall McLuhan
It's the same principle as the nucleation process which turns clouds into rain.
In theory this is true. But it's very hard to find good instruction that is wilfully light on math. Andrew Ng's course for one requires you to be very comfortable with lin alg and convex optimisation.
"The World" is an appeal to some platonic form that doesn't exist. There is no organization of the world that we as a society are tending towards. It's just the system we are under, which currently is capitalism, which is private ownership of the means of production (land, factories, machinery, corporations, etc...), which is fundamentally different from slavery, fuedalism, monarchy, etc.

However, there are systems which 'don't allow' the rampant levels of inequality that we have now, in the same way that capitalism 'doesn't allow' for every working person to become a wealthy CEO. Unfortunately, since the red scare, these systems have been absent from the American consciousness. Though, recently they are starting to repopularize.