skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does it occur to you that the problem here is that Western-exported democracies aren't democracies, but instead puppet states?

I think the relationship between the West and western-supported regimes is a lot more complicated.
I hope that if I turn into what can best be described as a self righteous asshole, my children will be smart and capable enough to call me on it, hard and fast.

There are so many incredibly insulting and poorly thought out half-truths in the original presentation referenced that I'm shocked it was given in the context of a professional environment.
Was a recent article about how the government used to employ nearly everybody on good wages, now with the demise of government jobs and the reality that the golden pay day from oil is not infinite and more volatile in today's economic and environmental awareness climate. The need to invest in alternative industries is paramount. The country has invested lots into education and with that many highly qualified people who have no goverment jobs find the public sector in that country very spartan. The drive to change that and produce TAX revenue outside of oil is the key factor here. Sure the country has other issues, but they are totaly diferent topics and some may see this as PR spin, but isn't any goverment touched or provate company annoucement PR one way or another.

Way I see it is a step in the right direction for the country and a good move, let us not lambaste it upon other area's and surely some praise for the good moves as well as lambasting the bad moves should be equally viewed. This is a good move, nothing to do with other issues and if anything only touches those other issues in a way that helps address them at the core.

After all people without money and jobs are people with time to ponder alternative avenues of life choices with some seeing them as the only way, that is how many get drawn down the darker paths of life. This helps prevent that.

Another way to view this is - what harm can come from this initiative and with that I have nothing to add. So it is a good thing.
> I've seen lots of comments on here saying that it's difficult to get a response for deletion

I'm surprised. Those comments must be wrong. We respond to this at hn@ycombinator.com all the time.

HN doesn't delete accounts. We do delete specific posts that people are worried about getting in trouble from. The reason is because deleting an account and all its comments guts the threads that account participated in, which is unfair to the other commenters in the discussion. The threads are community property and we have a responsibility to preserve them. PG wrote about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226.

Our approach tries to balance that concern with individual needs. Sometimes people post things they later regret, e.g. personal or employer info. In such cases we're happy to help by redacting or deleting the comment. But we do it on a case-by-case basis. That way people can get their specific concerns taken care of, but the community history remains largely intact.

We do intend to implement account renaming, which should resolve most remaining concerns. But it isn't done yet.
Forbes was essentially dead to me after they blocked their articles if it detected an ad blocker.
I really enjoy hn.algolia.com for desktop. I also use the "Hacker News" app on iOS on mobile.
Defcon radio, of course!
https://somafm.com/defcon/
He's a particularly bad exponent of what people feel are actually very widely held ideas in the tech community (ie: young > old, work long hours don't complain, etc).
TechExcel's new version of DevSuite speeds up delivery, development
Negative externalities are a big problem in almost any free market type situation. This is no exception.
They have 20 GB? I downloaded the entire English wiki 4 years ago (just the text of articles, not photos) and it was 12 GB.
No Nobel for Relativity
The comparison was only between illegal guns and illegal SIM cards. Very few people have untraceable SIM cards, nor consider that they need one.

Whether they're right to belive they don't need one, that's an interesting but different question!
Apple's homegrown cloud could power Game Center and Maps later this yea
Male Practice: Gender Inequality in Orthopaedic Surgery
Very slow in US
Glad to see this keep getting attention by way of this site. I saw Vice News also has a long-form piece, and even interviewed and referenced the author and the Atavist piece! This looks like the definitive write-up and account. I hope the potential film rights are lucrative. However, if Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant's screenwriting bible is any indication, the Hollywood system will most definitely find a way to monkey with the formula and deliver some kind of mutated...thing...for us. Many compliments on the fine journalism!
EXACTLY. So many people on this thread have not even noticed that women are not considered as candidates!
It's one of those things that has a kernel of truth surrounded by an offensive and exaggerated wrapper, and which people love to use as a bludgeon to say that you're denying reality if you try to argue against it.

Yes, you recruit and retain the significant other... too. The engineer (who may have a husband or a boyfriend!) actually does have a significant say as well. They both count.

Stuff like "The paycheck goes to HER" is bullshit and demeans both the engineer and the significant other.

If you ignore all the crazy shit, then yes, what's left is true.
If you've got a free hour-or-so sometime this BBC documentary is pretty engaging and describes the opiate timeline regarding use and legal status:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3M1QPoeNMU
Functional language where everything is a string? That's called m4!
> All of the teams’ email communications, with their macho posturing and detailed ops plans, were being simultaneously collected by the DEA’s Special Operations Division.

Would that be the same division here that was pooh-poohed for parallel construction?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130...
What a level headed response by the transport minister. I love that he acknowledges that geofencing rules will easily be circumvented.

That said, I still think it's a good idea to implement. It will make it easier for casuals like me to quickly be warned when I'm venturing into forbidden areas. Sure, I could ignore it or hack around it, but at least it's an easy to implement safeguard that will keep most people away.
Fans.
https://twitter.com/celestialweasel/status/44062951919230566...
You don't get many cases of 20% memory consumption improvements in mature projects...
Things You Need to Know About Call Accounting Software
The should use some middle-out compression.
Wouldn't the benefit be for the employee whose spouse can direct anger not at the employee but their manager? The benefit would thus be employees being less likely to have to choose between their relation or their job.
And yet surgeons are still primarily male. This article[1] I found interesting, since it trots out just about all of the same rationalizing explanations that the programming discussion uses.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3706651/
Here is my counter argument to this.

If there was a way to say, make a $300 washing machine last 20 years for only $100 more.. there would be a huge incentive for a new washing machine manufacturer to sell a $600 washer machine guaranteed to last 20 years.

Sure he only made $200 more profit than the guy selling the $300 washer machine, and he lost 3 future sales.. but he has 0% of the market to start with. Not like he has anything to lose.

I suspect we could make a 20 year washer for less than $5000.. but I bet it would still be a lot. Say $2000. And even at that price, still cheaper to the user to throw away the $300 washer every 5 years.
What is the significance of this? Doesn't Canonical already update the package (lagging a day or two behind the official release) for the lifetime of the Ubuntu version?
A search should automatically trigger a notification to the subject of the search in 12 months. Active investigations could maintain a list of people to whom notifications will be postponed. Investigators wanting to postpone notification by over 12 (further) months should be required to go to a judge for an extension.

In all cases, the default position should be that the subject of a search will be notified within 12 months.
I don't think so. If it was, half the internet would go down for Chrome users.
You should hold off doing in-place upgrades using "do-release-upgrade" until 16.04.1 (due August/September).

However, you can also "upgrade" your stack by building a new image using 16.04 from scratch, and that doesn't need to wait until 16.04.1.
Maybe my experience isn't typical, but working as a SW developer gives me a lot of autonomy, even if am "just implementing features".

First off, the requirements are "what should happen", not "how it should be done" (the latter is up to me, or the team).

Secondly, I often end up discussing the requirement with the product owner. What should happen if this happens? Why don't we do it like this instead? It's often a back-and-forth before we arrive at the actual requirements.

Then comes the implementation phase, where it's up to me how to solve it in code.
So in my opinion, I do get a lot of say in what to do, and get to make a lot of decisions - which is why I still love coding, even after 25 years: https://henrikwarne.com/2012/06/02/why-i-love-coding/
I like how it makes no affronts to being 'objective' and is quite clear that the author doesn't expect to be believed outright due to the content and story, but will go ahead and fill in the holes in time. That's some great serial structuring. It's written very well, which, let's be honest, a lot of journalists are not equipped to do. By nature, reporting wants prose to service it, not the other way around (save for HST and "Gonzo" influence). It is a very captivating subject indeed!
The classic cs229 Machine Learning course is also pretty great, if more mathematically dense http://cs229.stanford.edu
You should see some of the threads about the relative attractiveness and intelligence of various racial groups.
It only looks like conservation of momentum is violated. From the article:

>The cone allows Unruh radiation of a certain size at the large end but only a smaller wavelength at the other end. So the inertia of photons inside the cavity must change as they bounce back and forth. And to conserve momentum, this must generate a thrust.

The new idea introduced is the quantization of inertia at small accelerations. As far as I understand it, from one end of the cone to the other there isn't a smooth change of inertia. This depends on the idea of Unruh radiation, and the reason the article gives for quantization of inertia is that as accelerations get very small, Unruh radiation wavelength becomes larger than the observable universe, forcing unruh radiation to take whole-value wavelengths (quantization). Again as far as I understand it, the inertia of photons on one end of the cone takes a different quantized value of inertia than the photons on the other end. So the thrust isn't a violation of conservation of momentum. The thrust is necessary to not violate conservation of momentum.
Pinterest Reinvents Itself to Prove It’s Really Worth Billions
This site is perfect.

You don't have superfluous information. The highlight is the text, which is easily readable given font and background (including clear accessibility options). There is an accompanying picture which you can click for high resolution, and the navigation is above and simple to use.

What more could you want?
The OTA doesn't need devs and Facebook engineers, they're not developing CRUD apps, and they don't need to know what CRUD is. They need to be well educated, qualified professionals who are capable of advising the government on technology issues that affect the whole population. They need to be well-rounded and capable of seeing things both from many perspectives, including those of tech company engineering departments, federal law, and scientific pursuits.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10505897
Volkswagen Reaches Deal in U.S. Over Emissions Scandal
But the 'transparent issuance' is 'give value to those that piss away the most resources'. That's got to be the worst solution for the planet we could imagine.

Other solutions: issue more value to those already holding more value. Issue more value to those holding less value. Issue more value in the form of credit transactions within the community.

In fact, since imaginary value points are real numbers, just revalue what's there? Its not like we'll run out of fractions. Imagine if you will that only 1 bitcoin was ever issued. Folks trade around ever-decreasing fractional numbers (milli-coins? nano-coins?).
Saudi Arabia using its massive funding to build tech cities have nothing to do with it's foreign policy.
Did I read that right? Complete address required?

First you get rid of the public payphones, then you require a valid address for a mobile. Poof! The homeless truly can disappear.
Because it says explicitly:

> RULE 1: You don’t recruit and retain male engineers you recruit and retain Wives and Girlfriends"

Reading is fundamental
Firefox in snap format coming soon on Ubuntu
It's bizarre to even write this slide. Everything in it (the slide, not the presentation) becomes fairly much a reasonable insight if you just say family instead of wife or girlfriend. Hell, even partner would do.
Why do we all think that a simple list can be made simpler? What is it about the normal layout that doesn't work?
I prefer it because it means less fiddling with tabs/the back button. Plus you can collapse comments.

But by default it's very difficult on my eyes due to the low contrast, so to make it at all usable I make use of a Stylish script to fix the text color.
Don't be deceived. The visitors include search traffic, so this isn't representative of the content creators. I expect the percentage of content creators to be higher than the passing observer percentage.
"Save to Keep" and "Save selection to Keep" are the two features users of my extension, Popup For Keep [0], appreciate the most.

Nice to see those now officially implemented by Google.

[0] Popup For Keep https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/popup-for-keep/fhc...
I figured I can zoom on pages, but that's beyond my point - good design means settings are sensible out of the box, by default.
Almost every person on this planet has committed a crime at some point. Sometimes we do it, because we believe it to be insignificant. Sometimes we are not aware that we are committing that crime.

I watched an excellent speech of a law professor giving examples of people who broke the law without realising. Unfortunately, I don't remember how to find that video.
True, that would be much more interesting. But it's unlikely that the sites are willing to share that data publicly, especially since they have already decided that the world is a hostile place.
Food chain is not something basic or simple, maybe only as a a very abstract concept, because our lives and of other species depend on it and this makes it very important and should be treated carefully.

For example another insect that might seem not important to the food chain, the bee, is crucial for agriculture and for our food.

If you don't understand the domino effect part you should study a little bit about birds, reptiles and other species that feed on mosquitoes and then you can look higher in the chain on what other animals feed on that birds and reptiles and you will understand how many species will be affected.

Scientists unfortunately can't predict effects in very complex systems, not even the most complex computers can simulate something that looks very simple like the weather, this is why we can never predict it accurately and for long periods of time even if we have a lot of data.

As I said effects on complex systems can't be predicted by scientists, maybe only in a very limited superficial way, if this weren't true we wouldn't have fukushima, cernobal, oil spills, plastic island in the ocean, increased ocean acidity etc, scientists would have everything in control.

Science is cool and is a marvelous tool for knowledge but don't underestimate it's limitations.
His advice falls in the same philosophical category as...

1/ use children as Labor in 3rd world countries since they are cheaper and more pliable

2/ cheat in environmental tests (eg: Volkswagen)

3/ dump toxic waste into poor countries since they don't have environmental protections, and it's cheaper than processing/dispoaing them correctly

Basically you can get an edge by doing a lot of ethically wrong things. But should you?
And should we celebrate anyone who wins by doing such things?
This is great! One feature I would love, the ability to edit the markup in the left pane, see it "live" in the right pane, get it the way I like it, then copy.

Nice work!
Not always.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/293930/problematic-...
I tried the auto driving in a Model S and I hovered the brake closely for a long time with some anxiety about trusting it for the reason you noticed.

It was quite amazing and for long trips on the highway and in traffic it really is remarkable. That's why people are getting excited I think.

You still have to pay attention of course and take over fully at times because the sensors don't have what they need.
So how would you put the same thoughts more politely or is the mere expression of the idea implicitly too rude to be communicated here.
I was curious to learn more, but this seems to be one of those sites where you can't learn anything without turning on JS and/or images. Or there is no simply no content there but "coming soon".
Sure there are some spam and useless answers, but there are experienced users as well who contributing with great answers.

Everyone good on Quora is going to get "Church'd" soon enough. The moderators have done everything they can to drive out quality. The ban of Michael O. Church (who was a moderate, thoughtful member of that community, regardless of his divisive presence here) convinced me of that.

I also find it interesting that any Indian or Chinese woman with feminist views that would be considered moderate in the U.S. gets reported as a sock puppet and banned.
How you and your team resonate with each other?
Apply HN: Fix Research Paywalls and Donate Directly to Research Projects/Groups
Expected Outcome (TL;DR):

- More money goes towards research, less money goes to bureaucracy

- The public gets more access to research and is guided by the public interest

- Users get most of their donations back in tax write-off

The Problem:

Research in the U.S. has two glaring issues:

1. Accessing research is usually behind a paywall or obfuscated with complex language

2. Research isn't guided by public interest - i.e. we don't control where the money goes (with our donations or taxes).

[1] http://www.cancer.org/research/infographicgallery/where-does...

[2] http://www.cancer.org/research/applyforaresearchgrant/

The Solution:

A website that allows users to donate directly to a research groups or projects. In return, research groups share their research with funders in a legible/non-obfuscated format.

Users can view individual projects they wish to fund or select a "Tag" or "Category" they wish to fund (i.e. breast cancer). This money will be provided via grants, similar to what the American Cancer Society does it.

To ensure the research groups are valid, we will inspect all paperwork, personal, and potentially facility.

Profitability:

With all business ideas, we need to make money. Rather than taking 26%+[1] of donations for administrative costs, we plan to have a different payment structure. Users will pay a guesstimated $100 yearly fee to cover administrative costs, plus a percentage (estimated 5%) to cover transaction fees.

The goal is to have users donate monthly, to the limit (or above) what you can write off on your taxes yearly. Meaning it doesn't cost users money, they get a receipt at the end of the year to write off on their taxes.
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (“Xenial Xerus”) Released
> Your post is rank with hypocrisy.

This violates the HN guidelines, which we warned you about once already. We ban accounts that do this, so please stop doing it.
"changes one-letter misspellings in DNA called point mutations... it could fix misspellings in DNA that cause Tay-Sachs"

I don't follow. Tay-Sachs is usually (always?) caused by a frameshift, not a point mutation.
afaik this and Keras have identical mathematical methods, backpropagated sgd with some inertia scheme
Bill Orcutt releases open source audio program
He's seen certain results, and been through certain circumstances. Unless he has proof that those circumstances -> results, making conjectures is exactly what he's doing.

This is ignoring the fact that effectiveness is not the only metric for a company. In Tim Cook's words, "if you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock".
Just delete wws from the links, they will start working fine after that.
Thank you! I appreciate the correction!
Maybe the bag was protesting being essentially a 5p class citizen.
Why Tarantino? I'd expect him to pay homage to some obscure filmmaker more than I'd expect him to bend a fairytale back towards reality.

I'd go with a showrunner from "Justified" and yell at them not to make up too much of the mayhem. The "bad guys" on that show ring true to me, they are self serving, nihilistic and make poor decisions.
Wow, this is really great.

I think Bootstrap 4's documentation is even harder to navigate than Bootstrap 3's. It's very frustrating, but this cheat sheet will help a lot.
The error here is actually assuming that learning to code is an obvious opportunity. Many people, especially women, consider other things more worthwhile in life, and they have other options. And we only tend to notice the success stories, too, not the accounts of coders toiling away in windowless basements.
Hello abhi3,

I've been thinking to the same (core) idea recently, but was not planning to launch it on hackernews but on my friends. I'll be glad to talk with you about that :)

If you want to, please reach out at dumon.david at gmail dot com.

David
Sysdig Raises 15M to Expand Container Monitoring
The UI loads quickly for me but the posts take a lot longer to load compared to Hacker News.
I'd at least want a discount for the ugly slide template and terrible use of apostrophes
Any suggestions? I've gotten into arduino recently and am looking to simulate some projects if possible (2 year old leaves less time for bread boarding)
Algol60.js – JS Flavored Algorithmic Language Algol 60
having completely autonomous navigation, and vehicle maintenance, and flights, aboard an ACC would make them EXTREMELY more compact and efficient.
Rock, Metal, OSTs.
She mentions she hasn't been near her father for years, so presumably the collapse already happened long ago. Still, she is probably not unbiased.
Facebook launched an API for this at F8 this year https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform
All top-selling cars break emissions limits in 'real world' tests
Now it's ~55 GB uncompressed and as you said that's without images, audio, and more.