skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yes, because there are special snowflakes who find anything and everything offensive/sexual harassment and the like.

Let's just ignore it then because they're probably imagining it.

>Disclaimer: I do not condone any really disruptive, actual harassment like touching/real verbal abuse.

But you don't seem to give a shit if it happens.
For "being part of the problem", look at yourself. You are profoundly confused, mixed up, misled. The women in the OP are suffering, from "constant nightmares", and I gave them some powerful, difficult to obtain, wise, helpful advice.
How Amazon plans to avoid making a profit this holiday season
It's not necessarily cause-and-effect, but it shows how you can get deleted by an algorithm at the worst possible time.
The operator also has no control over fares and branding, I'd argue that's a big difference too.
Half of all Carbon 14 decays in 5,730 years. So, we're not saying anything about the next 5,730?

Language doesn't work like code. Many interpretations can be sustained by a given text.
Stories like this were one of the most interesting things I learned with home schooling. When you are bringing information to your kids to teach them about history, you want it to be accurate so, if you are like me, you try to find a number of sources about major events. And what I discovered was how these events are slanted, sometimes radically so, in service to a particular narrative.

Of the few things we found that were pretty universal, one was that a lot of people died from disease, before, during, and after people from Europe were visiting the American continents (both North and South), and upper class Europeans were often unashamedly racists and classists.

The origin of these appear to be the lack of understanding about diseases (transmission and virality) and our inability to proactively protect ourselves (vaccinate). And the history of feudal warlords favoring 'bloodlines' over individual competence. Often looking at events from the present, with the benefit if hindsight and greater knowledge, its easy to see how things could have been avoided and so it is easy to believe that they weren't avoided due to malice. And taking advantage of that, a number of historians have painted events to look like either malice of their enemies or heroism of their allies, rather than a dispassionate retelling of facts and figures.

Even today we see tragic events quickly contextualized into a conspiracy of shadowy groups with malicious agendas. when those re-contextualized accounts become the only surviving account, we lose a lot of perspective.
Silicon Valley veteran Bill Campbell has died
The implication is that driving over the speed limit is likely, on average, to be less fuel efficient than obeying it. Due to the laws of human nature, very few people drive significantly below the speed limit, and very few people prioritise their fuel economy over everything else so this translates to a reasonable guideline.
You're still trusting the client. Any system that trusts the client is flawed. Time to read per page varies, and if you read the original article it says the scammers are mitigating chances of alerts by clicking through a book over a three day period. You're going to find people who click through at very cost efficient means somewhere in the world when you're making $60,000 a month from this scam.
I feel like there's no way they aren't working together and sharing that information. I view mattresses on Amazon, and Facebook shows me mattress ads a few minutes later. I post a link on Facebook, and everywhere I go, I see ads related to that link.
But I will wait a little bit more than 9 years before teaching

Why? When I was that age, I would tear apart all of the electronics in my possession trying to figure out how they worked. I never could figure it out, until much, much later. Not because I couldn't have understood it, but because I didn't have anyone to help guide me with regards to electronics.

edit:

I would have killed for someone to have gotten me something like http://www.amazon.com/Snap-Circuits-SC-300-Electronics-Disco... which is listed as appropriate for age 8
...that wouldn't change anything. They'd just change the report file to to sync straight 1s... no, you still need obfuscation and encryption, bloating it to at least 100kb.

but thats still pretty minor
> My point is that determining what constitutes "too far" is fraught with ambiguous subjective analysis.

Well true, but I think we have a massive problem with getting outraged for the sake of being outraged. I actually can't fathom why so many people were able to find themselves getting upset over the floppy disk comment. I suspect that we're mostly just sticking up for "someone else" because it's the right thing to do when in reality, the someone else doesn't actually exist.

> Just keep sexual jokes and commentary to yourself in the office.

I'm Scottish and asking me to behave myself is culturally insensitive. ;)
It needn't be a tracking event per page.

They're already firing {"current_page":3000}. They just need to start doing something like {"current_page":3000,"pages_seen":5}.
Loved the story and brought back many happy memories of hacking simple circuits with diodes and lights in almost exactly the same way.
spot 5 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11521079
But it may give you a different perspective as to how to deal with the problems of native Americans and disadvantaged communities today.
This is the full text of the new requirement, for all recipients of government grants: “The following costs are not Eligible Expenditure:- Payments that support activity intended to influence or attempt to influence Parliament, Government or political parties, or attempting to influence the awarding or renewal of contracts and grants, or attempting to influence legislative or regulatory action.” Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12143479/Charities-... .

Sounds totally reasonable to me. You're free to lobby the government and run propaganda campaigns, but not with taxpayers' money that you're supposed to be using for research.
Amazon Whispernet works in most countries (even down in southern africa) and allows multiple re-downloads of the same book. Most people probably don't download a book ten times, but twice is fairly common for me (multiple readers). Comparing the price with the raw bandwidth price on a single network is not a fair comparison.
One of the central features of jazz (or any music) is rhythm. In the case of swing-based jazz, including bebop you have the upbeats of 2 and 4 emphasized. It's the opposite of rock. The Metheny track here has a typical rock beat, so it's a very odd target.

Also, unless I missed something the clips just play the network's attempt at duplicating the "head" of the track; not the soloing.

As a jazz musician I find this cool but I also feel safe that it won't be stealing gigs from me anytime soon.
Show HN: The Vitriol Generator
> Because no one really wants to see people's travel photos.

I remember my grandfather showing slides from back home in Latvia and finding it super interesting. I've had lots of nice slideshow memories. I remember getting together with friends and swapping stacks of photos after trips.

Have you sat through a lot of bad slideshows? Or are you just repeating the joke?
I love keyword based dialog.

It's the feature I miss the most in modern RPGs, specially in the "total freedom, sandboxy" subgenre.

I remember it in Morrowind. It was daunting at first, coming from more traditional RPGs. But then it clicked. The ability to ask anyone anything is, may I say it, realistic.

As @mratzloff said, voice acting killed this. It is also my opinion that voice acting impoverished dialog in RPGs greatly.
As I mentioned in another post, I'm perfectly fine with the word "crazy" in its use similar to "out of this world". I use it myself all the time since it's a crazy good word to describe a large class of stuff. I think the misunderstanding here is that I assumed you read that post.
Do you have any practical suggestions or did you just want to poke fun at EV drivers?

BTW, Asphalt is 99% recycled (yes, even the binder). http://www.asphaltpavement.org/index.php?option=com_content&...
It didn't learn from Pat Metheny. It "learned" (curve-fit rather) from a MIDI file or two, apparently.

If it learned from a real musician, one of the first things it would have been taught is how to listen to other musician's music. And then, how to listen to itself. And then, how to play a much simpler piece, than then play it right, so it sounds like music... not like someone typing (which is what the SoundCloud samples sound like, to my ears).

But of course machines don't "listen" in any meaningful sense. And they certainly can't tell what it is they like about Pat Metheny's music; or why they "like" his music, but not the music of Billy Joel or Anthony Braxton.

So maybe that's where these researchers should start -- by creating systems that (at least attempt to) understand and evaluate music. And to tell good from bad.

Then, maybe, they can toy around with systems that generate music.
Since whatsapp users do not register using something like username / password the authentication is handled by the app using the sim card and ability to recieve an sms on a given number.

When Whatsapp started whatsapp web, a web client for PC / Mac users, they needed a way to authenticate the users there. This is where the QR code is used. Once the user scans it using the app he authorizes the computer and some tokens are stored in the browsers localStorage.
No worries! :)
It's not real socialism™
Oh, man... I think I'd rather just Buy a dvd and play it with 3rd-party subtitles. Subtitle gore really bothers me.
Recruiting Giants [pdf]
I thought it was neat for a few seconds, but then it got stale really quickly.

But then I listened to the original (the track used to train the network) and realized the problem: the network only knows how to write one song. What you hear on SoundCloud is the equivalent of giving someone a 5 paragraph essay, and then telling them to write a 10,000 word paper using only sentences contained in that essay.

Supposing that this program can accept more than 1 song in its training data, I expect it could produce really interesting stuff.
surprise, its shit
Really? As OP article points out, similar sorts of things have been said about Harry Potter, by definition in the same period.

Besides which, those were the Bush years, conservative Christians were at the highest levels of the government, never mind at some religious school somewhere or other. What I remember from US news in the mid-oughts was serious moves in the direction of teaching intelligent design in schools, and just generally that this sort of thing was not viewed as a ridiculous archaism, but a defined political perspective with a lot of support in red states.

I'm British (and we obviously also have moral panics, but less often overtly religious nowadays), but thanks to the internet I spent a lot of time talking/arguing with Americans, including a few intelligent young religious conservatives, who would share articles around arguing that it was definitely not OK to let your kids go out trick or treating on Halloween (from my memory, the argument was basically that it's all just good fun and games and candy until you're burning in the lake of fire).

When the gay marriage stuff started steamrolling across the states in the last few years, my first thought was how quickly things have changed - that was unimaginable ten years ago.
That's how car taxes work in the US. I bought my car off my parents in Ohio, and registered in (and paid taxes in) Pennsylvania. I'm not sure what Tesla does in pro-dealership states to get around the "not being able to sell cars or have dealerships here" problem, but the tax system would probably be the same.
An Arduino Uno changed mine :( I feel uncool.
I am guilty of being that EV driver myself, but I meant Asphalt is a petro product.

edit: its more about pervasiveness of petro-chemicals we hardly acknowledge, all the while still building cities and subsections for Cars instead of humans.
I'm, personally, strongly inclined to discount the opinions on bullying and harassment and the like offered by someone who uses the phrase "outrage porn" unironically.
Imagine that you are a corp IT and managing a fleet of developers with Macs. You can push a newer version of git to them, and you can even change their default PATH so that the version of git you pushed are before the git comes with Apple. But you still cannot remove the one comes with Apple, and you cannot prevent it from being used.
>In both cases, it's really easy to dismiss criticisms with the platitude "Those things happen to everyone."

see the majority of the comments in this post for examples.
Well that explains why Kindle books typically have maps that are so compressed they are completely illegible I guess.
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal in Google Books 'Fair Use' Case
The neanderthal genocid theory is a bit outdated. Actually they died because of an erruption below the phlegraean fields. Every human born in an area where neanderthals used to live is a far descendant of ybrids. Until today our dna is made of up to two percent of their dna. The mutations resulting in a low melanin levels and blue eyes are thought to be most likely inherited by neanderthals.
It sounds like you want a separate designation for inappropriate comments. Just fucking stop.
this is why I'm a big fan of the command line browser lynx. This is a bit of an improvement over my usual lynx https://news.ycombinator.com (aliased to lynxhn), but not sure it's worth it to add a one-off when my current tool is so flexible. I frequently use lynx to browse not only HN but also reddit, wikipedia and even do google searches.
If the socially awkward male stereotype is to be oblivious to hints and the way your actions are interpreted, then the socially awkward female stereotype is to be misinterpret and overanalyze everything people do and think you're being very clear with your intentions when you really aren't. This is something I've seen repeatedly in many women, in their interactions with everybody in all kinds of situations, yet people rarely comment on it the way they do the bumbling male nerd.

My theory on why tech seems to be an outlier in terms of gender-related disputes (other than that stories about it generate lots of clicks) is that rather than being an environment of "evil misogynistic geeks wreaking havoc on well adjusted females," it's really an environment of developmentally stunted socially awkward people all around, a perpetual comedy of errors of oversensitive idiots overreacting to bumbling fools.
And you don't think that those logs can be faked? It might stop the casual, "hey fans, read this 'book' to support me" but it wont stop the real scammers or people who would buy reads for revenue and ratings.
That, or the revenge of capitalists at the temerity of the poor working class wanting a slightly better life.

Your answer will probably be determined by your preexisting political leaning.
Ah... I see. I suppose that kind of makes sense.

However, as you mentioned, I see plenty of people's personal config files, such as the many sublime text settings folders, or other .xml files.
What makes you think GPLv3 would forbid something like Apple's SIP? Which clause are you referring to?
I think services are using such models because honestly they don't care very much. As the original article states itself, in a first iteration it's not Amazon who suffers but the legitimate author (same with Spotify, it's the legitimate musician who receives less due to this).

These flatrate plans, where the authors receive a 'part of the pie' are actually a great deal for these companies, because a lot of business risk is transferred to the authors / musicians.
Nothing. I like man pages. But it's not some architectural movement.
How not to squander the potential of autistic people
I don't think this is necessary. If this is relevant to you, you will know exactly what it is, in the same way that GoDNS would be obvious to people who know what DNS is.
> wolf-whistles on the street.

What do you think can be done to tackle this?

One of the my buddies got punched and called a terrorist on public transit laste year. He reported it to public transit authority but they ignored it :\
I thought that was the way it worked.
I did say 'may', and I said that for a reason.
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of ocean dead zones, habitat destruction, extinction of species and deforestation.

It all comes down to human greed, complacency and conveniency. We all like flesh, we all like speedy travel. If we sought for the long-term we would reduce or abolish the use completely, on our own.
>(a) How could you reliably track this if the user always keeps their Kindle on airplane mode?

I wouldn't let users always in airplane mode participate in the program. Actually, I'm pretty sure they already can't, as they need to connect to get books from KU.

>(b) How could you track this accurately if the user reads a few hundred pages in the subway, where there's no Internet service?

By using this magic thing called computer storage, and syncing later...

>(c) How could you distinguish that between someone who hopped around a book in that same time period?

By observing how much time they spend in each page (with some allowances for different reading speeds, skipping, speed reading etc) and making sure they've legitimately read a good portion of the book.

Even if they haven't actually read it, but only mimicked the above, this constraint just made the fraudsters' process much much slower to complete.

>(d) If Kindles don't already track page views this way, how do you update the software on all Kindles to start tracking this way?

You simply require users to update their software to continue participating in KU, and give them a deadline.

Users need to connect to browse/get new books anyway.

>When do you switch your billing script to track purchases like that?

After the deadline, only people with updated KU software will be there, so no problem, you just switch it.

In between, you could always switch it on an account basis (like you already have KU and non-KU account and other tiers) -- those who already updated get the new behavior, etc.

>(e) If you're QAing a Kindle and you spot this loophole, how do you do all these fixes? How long are you willing to keep the software from shipping? How certain are you that your theoretical solution is better than what's already shipped?

It's not like this things are rocket science. Companies do such QA an keep back BS products for a few months all the time. Even companies losing billions from doing so, like Apple. For Amazon, which barely breaks even and lots of offerings are loss leaders that's even easier.

>Product development is hard, and it makes me angry when people handwave it as "gross incompetence" from a position of ignorance.

Hard or not, there are always lots of cases of actual, bona fide, certified, 100% legit, "gross incompetence" too...
How Many Eggs Does a Chicken Lay in Its Lifetime?
Publishing papers.
Why would you assume that company survival follow an exponential decay in the first place?

This is obviously not the case
So at the moment I see no reason why Go written BGP would be better than standard Quagga/Zebra. There aren't really concurrency or resource issues with large scale Quagga in my experience.
Job posts aren't allowed in regular threads on HN.
Yeah that worked so well US certainly doesn't have people caring about our past and trying to kill us.
Or compare to the Oxygen catastrophe [1], when cyanobacteria caused death of virtually all aerobic species.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event
Probably a bit before IIRC. Just after the CIA sponsored coup and kidnapping of the democratically elected leader.

Imagine the reversal. Venezuelan secret services kidnapped the US president to install a more friendly regime so they could profit more from the US natural resources.....
One case where you would want to use endl and not \n is if you're outputting to something like a log file that's being monitored with tail -f.
Tech giants must validate $2 trillion valuation
It's called CANVAS. I saw some very interesting things in that contract - for example, 20M of that included a subcontract for paper. It's relatively understandable, but it's pretty clear that someone at an obscure, difficult to research company got a very pretty penny for it.

And gladly - I'll try to keep you updated.
Tesla Coil Remotely Induces Nanotubes to Self Assemble
Is that necessary? I'm not sure how many people are unaware of what BGP is.
Always good to see more computer music projects.

I started on recently - and need to do more work on it - to do some things in a bit more of an object-oriented way trying to model more music theory concepts (like scales) as objects, not so much analyzing existing files but making the primatives you might need to build a sequencer (and eventually some generative stuff).

If people are interested check out:

https://github.com/mpdehaan/camp (in the README, there is mailing list info).

The next thing for me is to make an ASCII sequencer so it's a program that can also be used by people who can't code, and then I'll get back more into the generative parts.
How many languages can you speak or write in?
To give a concrete example, OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) has `/usr/bin` listed before `/usr/local/bin` in `/etc/paths`. This was flipped in 10.10 and up.
This comes up within a single process as well. Algo A might be faster than Algo B. But, if it gets that speed by completely filling your L3 cache with short-term data, it might make your process slower as a whole.
The fact that trying to sound like "yes in principle" while not satisfying that in a detail is just weird on the face of it. If it's a social norm, it's an illogical and out of whack social norm. Grown women are just as rational and emotionally tough as men. If you claim the task of saying no is too much for them, I don't buy it.

I think it's telling that in contexts where consensuality is even more immediately critical, the social norm is for direct and clear communication.

awkward social burden of providing unequivocal rejections

It's unreasonable for people to assume the awkward social burden of subtle second-guessing, with the consequence of being labeled as a deviant if you don't. How is that any less unpleasant and corrosive than women having to second guess how they dress, or be thought of as a sexual target? Both of these situations needlessly eschew clear communications for illogical reasons, and hold starkly severe consequences for not adhering to them -- way out of whack with the cost/benefit analysis of avoiding a little "awkwardness."
I was not implying it did. I was responding to the C++ suggestion specifically.
Is there somewhere where military coups do have a good track record?
They might have more resources, but they also have constraints. For instance a tzdata update was just released yesterday. Apple has a lot of resources but I don't see an updated from them today on iOS nor Mac OS X. Elixir tzdata automatically updates to the new version.

Does Apple even have resources that work on tzdata code? Or do they just use open source code?

I wrote more about the issue here: http://www.creativedeletion.com/2015/12/03/timezone-updates-...

In particular for Elixir I trust the time zone data from Tzdata more than for any other language, mostly because I know it is designed to have up to date data. (And well, I know the code because I wrote it myself.)

Even if a system is good in many ways it does not matter if the data is not up to date.
I'm not aware what BGP is, clicked hoping to find out, was sorely disappointed.