skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen you post links to Structor on HN and Reddit several times over the past few months. For whatever reason, none of the threads seem to have gotten any attention at all. Not sure why.

As for looking for React components, my go-to site is generally https://js.coach, and sometimes searching on NPM.
Approximate Counting and Statistical Significance: 2 Ideas That Don’t Play Nice
Unfortunately, we often see the exact same argument used by both socialists and some of the more extreme Bernie Sanders fans today with regards to Trump.

Why do you consider this unfortunate?

First of all it is not just those groups. Are you aware that the same comparison has been made by Holocaust survivors like Anne Frank's step-sister, national leaders such as the president of Mexico, and prominent conservatives like Glenn Beck? It isn't just a few socialists who are concerned.

That said, it would be unfortunate if the assertion had no basis in reality.

But does it? According to political scientists, the one trait that is most likely to predict you supporting Trump is how much you tend towards authoritarianism. This is why extremely authoritarian groups such as the KKK and neo-nazis have come out in support of Trump. Extreme authoritarianism certainly matches Hitler.

Next there is the question of truthfulness. According to Politifact, over 2/3 of Trump's public statements are lies. In fact he's more likely to issue "pants on fire" lies than to say something that is true or mostly true. (See http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/ for a source.) Furthermore when he lies and is challenged on it, he shows no regard for the truth. Instead he repeats his lies over and over again, very forcefully. This "Big Lie" technique was a classic trademark of Hitler's.

What else is characteristic of Hitler? Extreme nationalism! Do I need to enumerate instances?

How about war mongering? Oh boy. So far Trump has promised to bomb North Korea, Syria and Isis. He has also suggested bombing Iraq and starting a trade war with Mexico to get them to pay for the wall he wants.

What about mass deportion? Hitler promised to deport the Jews, then killed them when nobody else wanted to take them. Trump promises to deport about 11 million people from the USA. How do you think that will work in practice?

You apparently think that Trump/Hitler comparisons are unfortunate. I consider it a quick way of identifying all of the characteristics that Trump has which make me afraid of the possibility of his being President.
Ah, that makes some sense. Still, doesn't solar hack the top off that afternoon peak in the summer?
Does anybody have any insight into Twitter's development structure?
Do they have a separate mobile and desktop team; a single team; or separate teams where the desktop team just keeps the thing going until the mobile team can scale theirs up to desktop? Just curious.
I wonder what would happen to record companies if DAT tape existed in the 1970s (before they really consolidated).
The pilot is deemed at fault, but he usually isn't fired or heavily fined for the accident unless it was a flagrant violation (like he was trying to join the 410 club and core locked the engines). The passengers don't sue the pilots.
Why should we have an advantage ?
I'm somewhat incredulous that anyone needs that, but in that case then you need to budget 40¢/day.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines, which ask you not to call names in comments. We also ask people not to post drive-by dismissals.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Hmmm, interesting. Another problem is memory latency. Actual throughput is usually about 10% of advertised throughput because programmers and compilers can't give the processor useful work to do for most of the clock cycles. My source for this 10% figure is from some slides from Ulrich Drepper, but I don't have time to find them right now.
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Google Slides new feature, talk “with” not “at” people
The company can't "buy itself" into a private company either. It doesn't work for a whole host of reasons, one of which being that they aren't sitting on the ~600 billion in cash that would require, another being that buying a bunch of stock back is fundamentally not the same thing as being a private company. But also, if you buy all the stock back, it means by definition that you have liquidated all value in the company (or else we're assuming that the market undervalued the company so much that it thought nothing but the cash on hand was valuable).

If you assume that Apple is going to borrow the 600 billion to buy all its stock, then you are effectively saying that whoever's left holding the "private" company is holding a 600 billion dollar loan. I do not share your optimism that anyone can get a loan large enough to buy Apple.
What magic data is there? As I said, there are privacy concerns which are already limiting the quality/quantity of data available and leading to more generic ads. Outside of that, it takes ever more data and the required storage, processing and algorithms to derive exactly what your intent is.

You can look at any algorithm problem and see the decreasing returns (netflix recommendations are a good example). This industry is not full of idiots, there are thousands of data scientists and researchers working on this. If it was that easy, it would already be done.
No, I don't. But I feel very strongly that when my tax money goes to scientists to get them to do science, their results should be presented to the public regardless of whether they support the platform of the party in charge, and that no policy be put in place that might hinder that.

If some government egghead is working to asses whether there's lead in the water in Flint, for example, I don't want a GOP party hack to have a yea or nay on whether he talks to the press.
There's a quote I love from the book "The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT":

Freshman double E's take six double oh one (a.k.a. six double no fun) to learn to program in LISP... This is also where they begin to leave the rest of the world behind them in their ability solve problems and make things work.

He goes on to describe how the course instills the virtues and limits of abstraction.
You could go back in time indefinitely with unlimited resources. Would require a big reorg, but still possible.
Example where the pilots involved pushed their luck until that 1% chance finally killed them (and their passengers): http://fearoflanding.com/accidents/accident-reports/how-to-d...
Well, there has been no harassment. Leaving a card on a door or having a phone call with the lawyer is the daily work of law enforcement. Most of this story is made up in the mind of the author - from the motive they had, to the fact she would have been detained any minute.
> ...and this person totally freaked out.

It sounds to me more like old fashioned FBI "bumper lock". This is when they attempt to provoke some sort of action on the part of a person under investigation. This very publicly backfired for them in the anthrax investigation, when one target killed himself under the stress and the other got super pissed off and met them head on with press conferences.
So? It's like mentioning good or evil.

"Nazi" is just a stand-in for "the worst evil" (or sometimes just for plain evil).

It's also a major historical and political even of the 20th century, with tons of analogies and lessons to draw from.

I always found Goodwin's law (and especially the corollary, since the law is just a funny observation) BS.
"There just doesn't seem to be any practical advantage to using TripleByte over any other recruiter."

Except, of course, that the companies who work with TripleByte probably trust them a LOT to provide great/qualified candidates. Most companies don't trust recruiters very much at all-- some aren't terribly motivated by anything other than closing as many deals as possible, and the vast majority don't know anything about coding. And many/most of Triplebyte's companies probably don't work with recruiters.

Why do you think failing a tech screen with Triplebyte would exclude you from top companies? You could still apply to those top companies easily, no? When those companies get a promising applicant, they don't do pore thru Triplebyte failed-screens data. Even if they wanted to, I presume that information isn't actually available to them.

Cost/benefit-wise seems like it adds credibility and saves time going with Triplebyte unless there isn't 2+ YC companies you are excited to apply to.
She contributes to Tor. She's like, an enemy of the FBI. Why wouldn't she paranoid?
There is plenty wrong with hinting that they want to take you into their warm embrace without a lawyer present.
Fat chance that this will inconvenience Obama or the next president over in regard to the ISIS one bit.
What is treatment non compliance?
I don't go to too many networking events but would be keen to grab a coffee. Not ready to start my next thing again but learning to code and have more than a few ideas up my sleeve.

Email in bio.
>In neo-Nazi circles, a code word for Adolf Hitler. The number comes from the position of the letters in the alphabet: A = 1, H = 8. See also 88.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18_(number)#In_other_fields
If you ever are interested in german, I highly encourage the learn section of deutsche welle, it's among the best.

If while you are there, and are aware of any similar websites like that for any other language I would love to know!
Her lawyer should be able to do that just as easily.
> "But... if we happen to run into her on the street, we’re gonna be asking her some questions without you present."

That sure sounds like intended harassment to me.
Again, please follow HN rules:

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In addition, the Microsoft announcement already has been submitted and >100 comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11626886)
No need to raise the false specter of concentration camps, mass murder, and totalitarianism.

For one thing, only item #1 is alarming enough. Anyone who advocates concentration camps does deserve at least a raised eyebrow. Second: logistically, how in the world do you deport 11 million people without ending up with concentration camps? If you do this at any speed faster than "glacial," you will effectively get concentration camps.
Smearing people who work for Tor wouldn't exactly be the worse thing for the FBI.
In all honesty, I think the messed-up banking system in North America distorts people's expectations. How is it a thing that in order to buy a laptop online, I am limited to:

* credit cards, which are only available from for-profit companies that can and will deny a subset of citizens with bad or non-existent credit rating (which itself is provided by other for-profit companies with intransparent, unaccountable data collection & evaluation practices) and charge substantial fees to the vendor

* or, if I'm lucky, wire transfer or cheques - the former being a blatant rip-off with unreasonably high fees, the latter a physical piece of paper that I have to send by snail mail, neither of them instantaneous, both with bank delays.

I think it's quite reasonable to expect from companies at least one payment method that's available to anyone, under any financial circumstances, with no or only marginal cost to the buyer and near-instantaneous transaction time.

In Europe, this has so far been cash for physical retailers. Websites often allow direct bank account transfers, which are possible because free, standardized, non-paper-based direct transfers from one bank account to another bank account are a thing - as opposed to North America where you have certified cheques, void cheques, email transfers, wire transfers, PayPal, Western Union, etc. These are all half measures in one way or another, covering up the lack of a universally available & universally accepted payment system.

I'll be the first one to appreciate a move away from cash, but let's make sure people have a viable alternative, yes?

To be fair, there are things like Visa/Mastercard debit cards which lighten the load a bit. They're still a middleman solution however, relying on contracts with individual payment providers and taking a substantial cut from the vendor on top of what a standardized, direct inter-bank network should be able to do. Cash (as well as SEPA, if short waiting periods are okay) doesn't suffer from that.
Electrolysis is only about 60% efficient. This is why a lot of effort is being put into Concentrating Solar Power which stores heat in molten salt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water#Efficien...
When I first learnt to code I started out building stuff to solve problems around me, turns out it wasn't a problem to people.

while in college
- myrumate.com [2011] I built a basic web app to help students find roomates, especially students coming from long distances.

- thestudybox.com [2012] (I still keep this domain don't know why) question and answer site for students, a cheap stackoverflow clone.

- Snatchh.com [2013] A classifieds sites for students to buy and sell stuff.ly

They all failed but I learnt a lot about building stuff from scratch to completion alone. Code was most procedural PHP(spaghetti) and I experienced first hand the problem with a large smelly code base.

I still build stuff, but it's mostly small personal stuff.

Find the code here: http://github.com/nkudo
This reminds me of a Planet Money episode (a great podcast). http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/07/29/427467598/episo... . In it, they talk about people not wanting to ride elevators not controlled by a human operator, and how companies got people to ride them. In the same way as elevators, people will eventually adapt to self driving cars even if the industry needs something like a manual mode for emergencies or a big red button.
Iatrogenesis - https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Iatrogenesis

I learned about this concept in http://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Incer...
CS61 at Harvard covers that stuff, building your own shell (and memory management, etc) in C and it's an introductory class. There is a lot of hand holding of course but I really loved that class.
Those are not the same plants that generate power for the grid.
Gone is the day of the humble 90's engineer. A new era has started...

The dawn of the Brogrammer.

Software engineering culture is shifting. Nice article, sadly have seen it fairly often.
Are we really going to accept a Trump presidency?
I am getting really concerned now. The Humans of New York open letter to Trump basically outlines how I too feel (https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/posts/1207382856002479)

Thankfully we have the Electoral College, but I feel like we need to start taking the initiative to do what we can to stop Trump. It's shameful that he has made it this far and I am saddened about this. I am hoping you hackers feel the same.

What can or should we do?
Well, all those are simple regimes or dictators etc, whereas Nazi has been relegated to stand in for the ultimate evil, or as a synonym for evil itself.
No, if you want to find out what the police want from you, you direct them to talk to your lawyer, you don't talk to them yourself.
Your brain is also able to calculate the parabolic arc of a baseball someone threw to you whether or not you could ever do it on paper.
NATE SILVER: 'We basically got the Republican race wrong'
+1 to Weave. Have been going on Weaves for last few months and met a bunch of incredibly talented / accomplished people.
I brought my Cherry MX to work...
Yes, Hemingway was a big fan of Cuba. Isis is a contributor to Tor. The analogy here is profound.
I know quoting Jobs is passe, but this seems relevant: "But in the end, for something this complicated, it's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
The point is that there is almost never a single cause for any accident. It is almost always due to a confluence of multiple events. This should be expected. Engineers can be reasonably expected to think of the contingencies related to the system they are actively working on, but generally work under the assumption that the rest of the device is functioning normally. A nonfatal error in a normal situation can become fatal when combined with two or three other nonfatal conditions.
For Android implementations, if you pay attention to the Material Design guidelines, even if you don't have a good designer on the team, it probably won't suck. It might be pedestrian and form-oriented, with less direct manipulation than it should. But it won't look awful.
That's an interesting interpretation. Historically didn't mechanization increase the demand for slaves? The relevant example would be the demand for slaves in the American south after the invention of the cotton gin.
A while back I created this client that lives in OSX Menu Bar also based on the mobile version of Twitter, it includes a few handy keyboard shortcuts.

https://github.com/soheil/BirdDrop-OSX
Tesla  First Quarter 2016 Update: #1.6B revenue [pdf]
She's a contributor to Tor. Refusing to talk to her lawyer and saying they're going to pounce on her uninvited out of nowhere is harassment in my eyes.

I think it's reasonable for them to contact her and ask her questions, but they should go through the lawyer if she wants them to.
Well there's a career that's over.

Next transfer will be somewhere very very cold.

I thought there was a ruling you can't sue a sitting President?

Why does this fall on an officer in the Army, why doesn't Congress actually realize it needs to pass authorization? Every year there is some excuse. Too busy re-naming post offices that they are trying to put out of business.
Fast food restaurants with no human servers existed decades ago, but the Automats were actually killed off by the more profitable franchise outlets that used people rather than technology. And there's nothing remotely new about the fast food industry's investment in process optimization, or indeed their lobbying against minimum wages

"This time it'll be different" is never a good argument, especially not when deployed with condescension in lieu of evidence.
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This certainly sounds like a very stressful situation, and I really hope the situation resolves in such a fashion as she no longer feels threatened.

That said, I don't understand why, once she was in Germany, she didn't call the FBI at that time to find out what the heck was going on. Since she's not on US soil she doesn't have to worry about the FBI physically tracking her down, and if the FBI asks questions she doesn't want to answer she can hang up. Worst case I can think of is the FBI asks a question with at least one potential answer that would incriminate her, she feels uncomfortable answering for whatever reason, and the FBI then interprets her ending the call there as suspicious (I don't believe the right against self-incrimination applies in this particular circumstance).

Edit: As mentioned in another reply (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11631827), I'm not suggesting that she should give information to the FBI or otherwise cooperate. I'm suggesting she should seek information from them, with the proviso that she will not be answering questions (and therefore her refusal to answer after being asked a question will not be suspicious). Heck, since the FBI indicated they don't necessarily believe her lawyer represents her, she could just call them and say "Please talk to my lawyer <insert name here>, he represents me in this matter" and hang up.
Did you mean 4/3 kilowatts?
I think the crowd that maintains statistical machine learning is not 'real' AI should read this study.
That's called getting arrested, if that's what they're planning at all. You don't have the right to set the time, place, and company for your arrest. They'd want a shot at a 1-1 interview. Convincing crooks to spill the beans is a valid part of their tactics. Yes, you have the right to have a lawyer present; they have to stop interrogating you once you ask. You also have the right to not have a lawyer present and answer questions anyway. The FBI of course hopes that crooks are stupid enough to exercise that latter right.
Synthetic fuels have it even worse, I think, in terms of cost. Unless we can get a really cheap form of electricity that is clean (solar) and connect it to a process that it more efficient than simply growing corn (or other biomass), then synthetic fuels will have the same problem. They can't be cost-competitive with fossil fuels without massive subsidy.
They have a similar resistance from electromigration, but nothing more.

The atoms configuration dictate everything in organic chemistry. (And in inorganic too, but you rarely have alternative configurations there.)
The Model X has been plagued with problems. I'm guessing they were asked to leave.
Who is looking for remote software developers?
I don't think I've see anyone argue that they have to be one integrated business; just that both need to exist to make the other useful.
Real World Microservices: When Services Stop Playing Well and Start Getting Real
The democrats used to protect american union jobs by opposing immigration, but now they figured out they can give illegals voting cards and changed their tune on the issue.
Alternately, in order to achieve a human's "intuition, creativity, and learning ability", the AI architecture migh be required to sacrifice most of the narrow advantages we find daunting.

At that point, further "capability upgrades" may be things you can apply to both systems.
Generally in this context, not taking insulin correctly for whatever reason.
> It is Kepecs' thesis that statistics - generated by the objective processing of sensory and other data - is the ultimate language of the brain.

Every time I read stuff like this, I lose more confidence that the scientific method as currently applied, funded, and published is capable of truly conquering complex systems like the brain or nutrition.

I read article after article like this one, where a prominent researcher conducts some experiment that shows some result. But listening to that person talk about their work, it becomes clear that this has become their pet theory that they want to be capable of explaining everything. As if everything we know about some system will someday be shown to be reducible to one clean, beautiful idea.

Here are a few quick reasons why I find this idea to be highly implausible:

- There are a dizzying number of documented cognitive biases in humans. If statistics is the ultimate language of the brain, our software is pretty thoroughly buggy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

- Belief motivates people to do things that have absolutely no statistical justification. For example, the time that the prophecy of a teenage girl convinced a tribe of people in present-day South Africa to kill 300,000 - 400,000 of their own cattle, leading to the starvation and death of 20,000 - 40,000 people. How does a brain built on statistics decide that this is the most rational course of action? http://persistentfrontiers.com/xhosacattlekilling/

EDIT: Several people are replying with some form of: "your examples can still show that the mind is inherently built on statistics if you think about it in way X." Let's do a quick experiment to see if this theory is actually falsifiable. What experiment/result would convince you that statistics is not "the ultimate language of the brain?"
There is no good reason for the FBI to pay you a visit and then refuse to tell your lawyer why they want to talk to you.
Can we all come live in your world? It sounds so much nicer than real life.