skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't call him a bigot, you called him a gay child molester. Do you understand the difference?

A racist business owner who spends a lot more money to hire white people would, in fact, be displaying the virtue of sticking to his beliefs at high personal cost. Calling him a greedy selfish fatcat would be incorrect.
3nder – Be desired
What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
If I had that much karma, I wouldn't want anyone to know I didn't have a life either.
Ok, so reparations paid. Do you think racism will be solved? If no, are more reparation payments required? Or is this a one time payment that allows us to buy our way out of an obligation to create a racially just society now?

What about racism towards those without slave ancestors? Example Chinese people. Example Irish immigrants who sold themselves into indentured servitude and were historically discriminated against.

What about people with fractional African DNA? Like for example, I could test myself and be 1% of African descent, even though I'm lily white. Or what happens if you are mostly, say 7/8ths, of mixed Mexican descent but 1/8th African descent?
The answer to "Does X contain lead?" is nearly always going to be "yes." It's hard to get rid of all the lead atoms out of the ~10^25 going into a computer, no matter how hard you try. Even bottled water is going to contain some lead, although probably far less than a computer.

OTOH, since Apple gets to pick the question, they could have gone with "How much lead do Apple products contain?" or "Do Apple products contain harmful amounts of lead?" for which the existing answer might be more satisfactory.
Didn't Uber just admit to giving Feds their data on all their users?

What's the thought on Uber having access to such data as browsing and passing that along to the feds too?
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I would also be interested in seeing a ranking in terms of articles read by the user.

While h-index and karma are great to measure, well, measurable contribution to the community, it fails to capture the contribution to the community that consists in (and this is true of a lot of other if not of all "karma policies" too):

- sharing what one sees in this community, and spreading it through
other channels
- or even just using the knowledge gathered here
- or, in the best case, using the inspiration found in this community
to help build a better world

I for one read HN articles and comments about 2 hours a day every single day even now at 5am on a Sunday morning after a party. This made me a better programmer, dreamer, and probably a slightly better person too.

Yet I speak little and have only a little under
300 karma. I believe, though, that I contribute somehow more to the community than what my karma shows (e.g. by spreading the word about a cool and useful technology at work - say functional reactive programming for instance - and seeing it being adopted or experimented with).

I think attendance matters, too :)

EDIT: list formatting

EDIT2: added bit about FRP cuz, you know, redux
Just visit the user's profile and you can see it.

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You can add Kojima and Chris Roberts to that list.
everyone should run burp on their phone at least once! its a kinda terrifying experience seeing how much data everyone collects on you...
Barn conversion leads to amazing find of palatial Roman villa
an example of the logic minefield

i understand your sentiment, it is concise and well developed

but saying 'censorship' is a pejorative of 'moderation', or worse 'curation', seems dangerously disingenuous

censorship is a thing

> the practice of officially examining books, movies, etc., and suppressing unacceptable parts.

that definition lacks any sort of caveat of disapproval or association with moderation or curation

i would suggest you can make the same point in more honest language by saying: moderation is censorship you agree with, or approve of, or tolerate, or enable
Study: Negative words leads to negative impact on stock markets
At the Dawn of the Theory of Codes (1993) [pdf]
Isn't Houston larger than Chicago now?
I've always understood Ramanujan to be known less for "knowing infinity" than for "knowing" all the positive integers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#Hardy.E2.8...
I'm still excited about Python/Django, though everything I have to say about it would be just as true for Ruby/RoR.

It's a great language to work with built on top of a solid framework that's been around for a decade now, and will continue to be around for another 5-10 years easy. I don't think this can be said for anything in the Node ecosystem.

I can get a fully functioning app out the door very quick. These days I care more about shipping and making money than I do playing with new languages/frameworks. Also having a sane stable 3rd party ecosystem to draw upon is amazing.

Unless there is a big technical benefit, I just don't see any good reason to change to something else as I am too damn productive.
President Obama Launches New Pro-Competition Initiative
Lobbying is still a form of corruption. That congressmen need money to buy votes via advertising does not make it non-corrupt.
Aaron, how are you counting the SLOC? I am not doing a simple `wc -l` on all clj files in our project. I am looking for lines that include either closing parenthesis or closing brackets. It isn't exact. A better count would be to count the # of forms.

I get 17k in your project with find . -name ".clj" | xargs wc -l but 8k if I run 'find . -name ".clj" | xargs egrep "[)\]]" 2> /dev/null | wc -l'.

If I just run `wc -l` on our project I get 35k lines.

8k SLOC is still a pretty impressive size project considering the audit of several open source projects that I did were mostly below 8k SLOC.
I take it this plan is going to be executed by the 2% of Indian programming graduates who are employable.
> The first action in Obama’s new initiative is to open the market for set-top cable boxes

I couldn't help but jump for joy at the thought of these things being replaced with something half way usable.
> honestly I'd personally like it if I could sue people for getting me sick by going out to public places when they know they are sick

You definitely can do this. They'd need to have something more serious than the flu. Forcible quarantine for severe communicable diseases is a feature of US law.

> flu only kills 4x more people as cholera

How many people have the flu, vs how many having cholera?
Picturing Don Quixote
A very cursory search would reveal that to be completely, utterly wrong. The Arab slave trade was at least as large (in terms of sheer number of victims), for a much greater duration, and as recent as 50-60 years ago if Wikipedia is to believed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade

Historians estimate that between 650 and the 1960s, 10 to 18 million people were enslaved by Arab slave traders and taken from Europe, Asia and Africa across the Sahara, the Red Sea, and the western Indian Ocean.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2012/10/how_many_sla...
http://www.slavevoyages.org/

Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America.
> are those dudes representative of males who believe in feminism as a whole?

As a single data point, I am a male who is strongly feminist and I am not trying to impress any women. I know it wouldn't have worked anyway. None of my attempts to improve my attractiveness (in the literal meaning) ever worked anyway. It has always seemed to me that you have the best chance of meeting and attracting women when you aren't trying. I assume this is also true for women looking for men.
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It's probably not common knowledge that Hitachi even made (and Renesas still makes, apparently [1]) graphics hardware. To the best of my knowledge, they designed the sprite/polygon rasterizer ("VDP1") for the Sega Saturn, and the off-the-shelf Hitachi/Renesas chips seem to be loosely related.

[1] http://am.renesas.com/products/mix_sig/graphic/index.jsp
I read a book about his life, it was a cool insight into life of a brahmin boy under british rule.
> Countries like Nepal do peacekeeping because it effectively reduces their own military expenditure

Sure, but why would the rest of the world be interested in peacekeepers from incompetent countries who are being fobbed off on the UN to reduce military bills at home? Was Haiti better off after receiving these guys?
JSON Resume: https://jsonresume.org/

The project isn't as active as it used to be though.
File being appended right before outage ends up with trailing zeros on ext4
Will be very interesting to see how this plays out.

It looks like there may be enough support in Congress to make passage of the bill veto-proof.

If the Saudis follow through and dump $750bn of assets, it will basically be economic warfare. If anyone has any links to estimates of how much the yield on Treasurys would go up in that contingency, please share.

I wonder if they would actually follow through, because a natural response would be for the US to withdraw military support, which would be very bad indeed for the Saudis if done to a meaningful extent.
That isn't concatenative either.
The city got the companies to provide information on all the drivers who operate in SF, presumably the city publishes holders of these business licenses.
> Things aren't that bad in Nepal on the whole

> a lot of them are subsistence farmers

These statements directly contradict each other.
This is a proposed policy. The original title is a little misleading.

Good to see the government considering steps like this. Still, the system needs a major upgrade of tech understanding if we're to really introduce better tech within government. We can begin by electing people who understand technology.
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https://asitoughttobe.com/2010/07/18/score-voting/
This is a part of why I'm quite selective about what I post online. The major part is that I value my privacy and don't really want random people knowing everything about me. I don't want to be a public figure. I avoid Facebook and Twitter, too, so that really reduces my surface area for this type of attack.
GP was talking about the Android permissions system, not Uber.
I like how the mount can be temporary based on a process and be removed when the process is killed. I have scripts to mount directories easily but then they hang around, although I doubt it is causing much problem to do so.
> Obviously you have pay anonymously, with bitcoin, for exaple (if youuse it carefully)

Bitcoin is anonymous? Time to go to jail.
I agree. The AI part of the idea is relatively new with respect to the network part. To be specific, we have been working on AI since January and to put things in perspective, we started working in December 2014. All this time, we just worked on the decentralization aspect and the plugin framework.

And regarding the implementation of these two separate ideas, well, Grid is both of them at the same time and how we present it depends on what demographic are we dealing with.

So, yes, it's one thing at a time for us :)
We're one big popularity contest where the most popular ideas win!
For those who don't have access, say through an academic institution, you can get the pdf for this (or any) article through sci-hub.io (though this is a violation of copyright).

The most important thing that isn't immediately apparent from reading the news article, is that this process doesn't appear to be creating carbon nanotubes ~15cm long from shorter nanotubes; it is creating nanotube wires.

These wires a ~0.15mm in diameter and made up of much shorter individual single-walled carbon nanotubes that are held together by various intermolecular forces.

It is possible that the self-assembly process aligns individual nanotubes end-to-end and fuses them together. The paper doesn't shed much light on this. The scanning electron microscope images that show a rather lumpy surface on the wire, which suggests there's a lot of agglomeration going on. At the end of the paper it was described how a laser was used to quantify the alignment of nanotubes in the wire: 64% of nanotubes were aligned within 20 degrees of the teslaphoretic field. It's possible that nanotubes were better aligned in the process of self-assembly but collapsed into a less organised state and got clumped together.

Carbon nanotubes are remarkable in a number of ways, but I think probably the most impressive is their physical properties (which weren't examined in this paper). The tensile strength of a single walled carbon nanotube is on the order of ~100GPa; steel is about ~2GPa, and 5GPa is considered exceptionally strong. These sort of aggregate bundles of carbon nanotubes, however, have strength on the order of 1-4GPa [1], so nothing extraordinary, relatively speaking.

If we could manufacture carbon nanotubes in bulk at an arbitrary length, it would open up some truly extraordinary engineering applications. The proposal for a space elevator probably isn't practical, but imagine how much stronger than a carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer a carbon-nanotube-reinforced polymer would be.

I have a suspicion that it might be possible to use a modification of this process to grow really long carbon nanotubes. If the RF signal from the tesla coil aligns individual nanotubes end-to-end, then perhaps they can be annealed together. Or fused together by chemical vapour deposition. Or perhaps the nanotubes will spontaneously fuse under the high voltages. Or maybe if carbon nanotubes were directly grown in a CVD reactor in this sort of RF signal it could produce a continuous yarn of unbroken nanotubes.

Anyway, this is some really cool and innovative research and I look forward to seeing where it leads in the future.

[1]: Beese, Allison M., et al. "Key factors limiting carbon nanotube yarn strength: exploring processing-structure-property relationships." ACS nano 8.11 (2014): 11454-11466.
It's not widely known but Python supports a certain amount of functional-programming idioms. It also supports event-driven data flow. Was it considered at the beginning of the project? (was it even one of the languages Boeing supports?) Why would or why would it not be a good choice for this health monitoring application?
It bothers me when popular culture uses the term 8-bit graphics for low-resolution no matter what the pallette. They see pixelization and automatically use the term.
The difference with Putin is that calling him bad names and attempting to inflame latent guilt won't provoke the desired response. Said tactics only work on people suffering from pathological altruism.
Are they doing it at the behest of NSA?
I'm not going to argue against the general thesis that the US banking system is antiquated, but I gotta pick these nits:

- Checks are usually free in the US.

- You don't usually get charged to have a checking account in the US.

- The lack of interest on most US checking accounts is due to the very low inflation rate and nearly zero federal rate. Adjusted for inflation, what is the interest rate of your Indian checking account? Back in the 70s when inflation was high in the US checking account that carried interest were not uncommon. I do seem to remember that they were called something else, but I can't remember right now.
I'd like to point out that one's public persona can be different from ones private persona. Lots of public people use that approach, and for good reason.
> Crazies in General

I wonder if, given the social unacceptability of mental illness, it will ever be socially unacceptable to slur mental illness.
Isn't there an HN rule against linking to paywalls? If not there should be.
It's true houses aren't a very good investment over the long haul, but for most buyers with the leverage involved you can end up with quite a windfall if you get lucky.
Tweaking Genes to Save Species
Duplicate of a post from a couple of minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11513207
Is coffee really the second largest commodity? (2010)
I love Fika in Parker. Nice place and a great vibe.
This sounds like it came from a Markov chain with HN headlines as the corpus.
They want to black-box your mind, of course ;)
By "don't care," you mean, "are extremely delighted when Google reminds them to pay a bill on time and avoid a late fee."
When I release a game or write something visible to the whole world, even a tiny something (Warning: Twitter counts!), I am acting as a public figure. A teeny tiny one, but a public figure nonetheless. Public figures have always received hate mail, abuse, threats, and messages from the unhinged, and they always will. Alas, the internet makes them much easier to deliver.

Very true. Years ago I sent a "letter to the editor" to the local newspaper. Nothing too controversial, just an opinion about some local politics. I received several unsigned letter in the mail over the following days, no return address, etc. and that was just from a small town community.
Can someone explain how this would win him customers? "Oh yeah, let's get WebHosting with that idiot who trolled ServerFault. He seems like a reliable and professional fellow."
I’m documenting my own Alzheimer’s disease while I still can
I don't see a slur there.
I'm really worried about this. Not only as far as it impacts computer skills but everything.
I watched a stand-up piece/talk by Stephen Fry and he described how he read the complete works by Oscar Wilde when he was 14. Some books multiple times. I'm afraid that the odds of a 14 year old child will do that have gone down dramatically because of the informational and stimulation overload we are under today. "Smart devices" in particular I believe to be more of a curse than a blessing. I've been trying to limit my use of it and it's been great. Of course it doesn't always work, like right now.
I meant more "HQed in the US" than "do business in the US".

But remember the fights between state tax offices and Amazon. Refusing to do business is also an option.
As a die-hard liberal I think the top 1% should pay 99% of the taxes. The numbers add up (to 100%).
TCS fined $940M in the US
http://financialaccessatbirth.org/
> Being harassed is harmful. It's easy to say, "Just toughen up. Walk away from the screen." until you've actually experienced it.

Now that a man says this, hopefully some more nerds will actually listen to it.
You can trust we give you security because we say so.
Sort of. Those businesses have externalities in worker unsafety and pollution.
Plus this is a very slippery slope. What about loans that your great-grandfather defaulted on ? This is a very clear-cut injustice that may be easy to prove. Already student debt gets special (and despicable) treatment in that regard. We really don't want to "make good" on historical injustices.

Besides we are being very selective about historical injustices. Do we want to restore the Roman Empire too ? That certainly didn't end in a legal and just manner. The same can be said for essentially any empire. Should we lock all muslims into the one place where they spread without an army, Medina, and restore the Jewish states surrounding them ?

"Justice" is just providing more legal rights for whomever screams the loudest, threatens the most violence, ... that sort of thing.
That's what a "hobby" is: a money-losing activity.

A "business" is a money-making hobby.
I work at BAE and we do quite a bit of software for Boeing. DO178 C could allow you to do Agile if the PSAC was set up from the beginning for that. The problem would be the cost points and contracts and customer buy in that would be needed on all sides. But alas for now it is the mother of all Waterfall methods.
What makes you think they don't/didn't work for Uber? Seems a bit speculative to me.
> There's clearly a pretty severely diminished return in chasing further thinness for laptops.

Also, weight is approaching the totally diminished return. As long as I can hold an extended laptop between thumb and forefinger, weight no longer matters. I reached that point several years ago.
What about the $700 juicer that doesn't juice, it uses juice packs, which are so bad at preservation the juice can expire, so the whole point of the juicer is to scan a QR code to know if the juice is expired because presumably the user can't read an expiration date, and then denies using the expired pack? People will still buy that ridiculous thing. Same thing here.
So use the rankings that you approve of. Music rankings aren't, and cannot be, subject to American law, and they exist in infinite variety.

However, I'm most curious about the consumer-hostility that you envision resulting from payola. What is the harm that consumers will suffer?
I don't know because I haven't met the man, but I hear Zed Shaw is a good example of this that a lot of people here could probably relate to.
I am broken; apropos of addiction.
Interesting. Do you guys have any tutorial to read thru?
I believe the browser history lookup doesn't work anymore (I tried recently on 5.0 I believe). Also, many of the Android permissions are unecessarily broad, I think that really would be a good thing to fix. Oftentimes you only need some specific function, but have to request a much broader range.
> Not having the ability to execute it over a network or VM

I am willing to give every new method a try but this is a serious roadblock. Another recently announced solution (blanking on the name) has the same problem. So I'll probably stick with node-inspector which has served me well for years.
Yep, filtering is inevitable.

Lots of early Internet folks started out pro-free-speech and tried to be as hands-off as they could. But even if you're a stubborn libertarian, eventually you find out that it doesn't work.

Sooner or later you're going to need a moderation team (or do it all yourself), and there are going to be tough political calls. The bigger the site, the more crap you see and the more tough calls there are.
The original open source in voting: pen and paper, mechanical levers.

Really, open source software isn't good enough for voting machines. We need open source firmware and hardware. And there even needs to be a spec, with test cases, on how to network everything if it's indeed going to get networked. The entire voting ecosystem is questionable without complete transparency.
Examples? (Especially any for browsing history, bookmarks, or running apps.)
Uber could provide much more than a point to point ride service in its current traditional sense if users are willing to give up more data. For example, it could provide user a tour/travel experience to match with the proper driver if it knows you are traveling. Or send you off to a nice dining experience if it knows you are a foody, etc.
Close to 1.3ft per side, or a 18" diameter sphere

A gallon of gold is 75lbs, almost 10x as dense as water, and worth about $3million
Northeast blackout of 2003