skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I refinanced two credit cards for what I thought was a large amount ($9k + I included the LC fees) and I was honestly skeptical that it would even get funded.

It was funded by a single investor in less than two hours.

I've often thought about investing in the platform but I've always been skeptical of the ability to make consistent returns on it - it seems like a platform where unless you have significant capital invested, one or two defaults above what you expect and you could be wiped out.
Mono might work, but the reference source license doesn't permit you to do what you suggest. You can't copy the reference source code into your project and use it. They're very specific about what "reference use" means.
HardenedBSD!
Yes, we had trouble to attract the right community and convert the stars into recurrent contributions, as there was less overlap between the Rust and the general ML community than we anticipated. This bothered us a lot and played a role in our decision to suspend Leaf.
I have no experience diving in caves, I just read about it on the internet, but this stuck out at me:

> But after descending about 85m Kankanen returned. Looking upset, he explains in the film that he slept badly and is simply not in the right frame of mind for the operation.

This happened on the retrial mission, but it hints very softly at the culture in which this group of people went cave diving.

I interpret the comment about not having to have died in the first place, as meaning that cave diving is extremely dangerous, and so planning and execution need to be perfect and require a great deal of mental control.

The first person died after he got entangled by some cord, and then after panicking being unable to switch to a fresh air supply. Why the second diver died is unclear. So maybe they weren't in the right frame of mind to deal well enough with running into dangerous problems at depth.
I'm all for manufacturers being prevented from going back on the deals they struck with dealers; the capital they raised from selling dealership franchises was very important for the growth of the manufacturers.

But if a manufacturer never setup a dealer program? Fair game to them, IMO.
I wouldn't have skipped it, as I learned a lot of stuff that I found incredibly useful. I would have left earlier, that is also true.
You sir are correct. I'm curious though; are there any really good solutions to this type of problem? You can't rewind time and go back and taking away all assets gained in such a manner, while doable, would pretty much put the company out of business even if they're willing to comply. Seems like there isn't really a good way to prevent companies from breaking the law. Well unless you do some sort of regular inspection / auditing but that is time consuming and insanely expensive.

So it seems advantageous to me that, as long as you're not directly putting someone into harm's way or trying to screw with the IRS, you should always break the law to get ahead.
> Why does google (or my neighbor, for that matter) have the right to fly drones with surveillance equipment but the government does not?

This may be inaccurate, but I remember somebody explained to me that only people have rights, governments only have power that is to be restricted. Some groups like ACLU may see their purpose in strengthening people with more rights, rather than strengthening of governments with less restrictions.
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But it should be pretty easy to believe that half of people (at least) are gullible. If "Obama bans Christmas" ends up as trending news because a couple hundred far-out whackjobs clicked on it, then your mom sees that in the trending box, and now your mom thinks that Obama banned Christmas.
I'd be interested to know a little bit more about how this relates to the news sites that are covering the story. Breitbart isn't much better than a tabloid--arguably worse, even. It's equivalent to leftwing sites like Alternet, which I also wouldn't expect Facebook to be comfortable linking to.
Swift is much more type-safe (and modern overall). Also its OO-model similar to C++ with direct method calls instead of sending messages which results to better performance.
Anecdotal: apparently this isn't work for me. My news feed is FILLed with conservative election news. How can I enable this feature ;)
Same here. The discovery that I should only do one CPU-heavy task at a time was very useful.

Also, bosses + coworkers prefer if you always seem busy – so, while planning code, take a block of paper, and draw flowcharts, class diagrams, etc – it helps visualize the thoughts (so you keep them even if interrupted), and it makes you seem more effective.
Although those two points are interesting and relevant, my statement doesn't conflict with them.

Or are you claiming that Europe isn't meaningfully free-riding simply because new drug development just isn't valuable, and we'd be better off with much less drug research? I think that's a defensible claim, but it's very contentious and should be stated clearly if you believe it.
Right. See the recent news about Facebook's curation 'algorithm'.
Lots of languages ARE faster than C, including older languages than C, like Fortran and Forth.

Being faster than C is not anything special in itself.

Most things being equal (typed, optimized, compiled, no runtime etc) C is mostly faster when it does something with a lower overhead than some other language (e.g. a specially written hashmap algorithm targeted to some program vs C++ std map type), not because of its primitives being faster.
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Of course I recognize the potential of this technology; I wouldn't be in this field otherwise. And I probably am jaded, because I think people are constantly overemphasizing and overplaying our understanding of things in order to sound sexy and attract funding.

I think there's probably a fifteen-year lag in this stuff being useful. The insights we're having now are because of the sequencing of the human genome; the work we're doing now will pay off in another decade and a half when we've figured out how to deal with gene expression.

>do the full genome sequences yet actually read every base in your genome even?

Read, sequence: yes. Align: no.
A better title would be, Report: Facebook contractors omitted conservative topics from trending list

The report says that it was the contractors own personal bias, not anything passed down from the company.
Me too. Is something similar available in Rust? I'm familiar with smart pointers in C++ but I love that Swift manages a lot of that mess for me.
And anyone afraid of breaking a few laws isn't a criminal. The lesson: take as much as you can get. Enough money and the lawyers will work it out for you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659676
And junk corporate bonds are probably less likely to default than LC loans.
I have no problem with advertising but I don't want to be tracked. So often these are talked about as a single entity but they really aren't, or at least don't have to be.
Even in the US, it is not really true. The CEO is not allowed to unreasonably undermine the company's profitability, but they are allowed nearly unlimited business judgement. As long as they can come up with any remotely plausible business justification for their actions, no court in the US will stop them.

The CEO of Nestle could say something as simple as "acting in this manner will be perceived negatively and will harm our future sales" and they would be safe from legal action.
If you're willing to completely upend your diet, then you might only look at the nutrition table and buy the things with the lowest sugar.

If you're trying to make a normal diet healthier, then the amount of unnecessarily added sugar becomes much more relevant. It tells you when you need to find a better brand, improving the health of your food without disrupting your diet.

And to do that, you need to read and decode the ingredient list. Doing this for every single food you buy is slow.

When it comes to RTFM: Sure, read before asking, but if something was confusing in the first place it's often the fault of the design. Don't let yourself forget that.
> In some cases its considered hero's work, and in other's villainous greed.

Or both simultaneously, sometimes even by the same people!
A lot of a what passes as conservative topics these days is quite bigoted and racist. I think it isn't a stretch to say that there is quite a fight going on as to what it means to be "conservative" at this point and what the "soul" of the movement is.
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Demurrage money.
Ask HN: How serious is the earthquake risk in southern California?
I know there are some earthquake experts lurking around here as well as generally a more logical crowd so I thought I would ask.

I am thinking of moving to the Los Angeles area. The earthquake risk is still in the back of my mind. I do not want to put my spouse and future family at risk.

If I live, say in the westside of LA, what is the risk that I die in an earthquake? What are the risks that a freeway collapses as I am driving on it?

Assume that I do not live in a "dingbat" apartment building, work in a modern office building, take precautions to secure furniture at home, keep a "go bag" of supplies, etc, should I fear dying in an earthquake?

I am not so worried about the doomsday scenarios that people paint about the aftermath, such as looting and such. I lived through a couple of major hurricanes and in the aftermath people were helping each other and we got through it. I am concerned about the actual shaking though.

I look at the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, and they lost 185 people with only a population of 360,000.
> Last I checked (can't find the stats on mobile), conservatives represented 65+% of the vote in the U.S.

That's basically never been even close to the case. Polling from earlier this year had a 37%/35%/24% conservative/moderate/liberal split [1], with "conservative" having a high since 1992 of 40%.

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/188129/conservatives-hang-ideolog...
I think it's arguable that a battery that can no longer be charged is a "battery". At best it's a "dead battery", and you'd be annoyed if someone sold you the latter as the former. Analogously, I would not call Bob's dead body "Bob", but rather "Bob's corpse".

It's kind of a dumb philosophical argument though. We all know what's really going on, so it's pointless to argue over words.
I was disappointed to see that concurrency support won't be in Swift 3.0.
Do you have a good French accent?
They would have to block their own website then !
Creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible
It seems to me most of this stuff can be done via unix command line if you are so adept... without this app.
It's interesting to contrast this with mountaineering, and the many corpses pointing the way to Everest's summit. Some have nicknames.
It's not the creating of the account. It's then having the account. Some people - me included - have account fatigue, and my heart sinks every time I need to create Yet. Another. Bloody. Account.

Seriously.

Having an account is like owning stuff. Buying it is trivial, then you have to store it, and you end up asking yourself - will I ever use this again? There is an on-going mental costs to having things, and accounts on services come into this category.

Not everyone will agree with me. Fine. But please take a moment to try to appreciate an alternate point of view.
Facebook's trending news algorithm is just Soylent Green, after all?
NEWS sites that filter out news to meet its own agendas? Expected.

But let's stay focused on the topic, Facebook.
Agree. New Media would be a better classification.
Uganda, where a book can cost a month’s salary
Apparently you are too conservative according to Facebook? Or too many friends that are conservative?
Am I the only one as a JS dev, who find it hard with types & casting in Swift?
> It is better to break the rules and profit from it and if caught

I think the point the OP was making is that it might be better for you to do so, it's unclear whether it is better for everyone else.
This is exactly the kind of armchair economics the study was intended to refute.

Complex, nonlinear economic systems can't be modelled using pat, 'village market' ideas.
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Fortran especially. Forth seems to depend on processor characteristics. I seem to remember that Ada compilers routinely produce faster code than C compilers.
The New York Times front page obituaries have doubled since 2012
This isn't good for FB. People trying to compare this to Rupert Murdoch influencing WSJ, FN, FBN, etc... are drawing a false comparison. Those outlets are actually presented as "news", FB is an entirely new paradigm which presents itself as organic, user-generated content (hence social media). If there becomes a widespread belief that the content is in some way deceptive/altered, users will become more reluctant to share their personal information on the platform (who would want to post information on FB, then have FB show said content to your friends after it's deemed the parts of it that are appropriate?), thus removing the largest single variable that contributes to FB's value.

I know Mr. Zuckerberg has strong opinions on immigration (see the pop-up here: http://www.fwd.us/), but he should separate his political views from his business.
It's worth noting that the index there accounts for "business freedom" and "labor freedom" but doesn't really account for what is on topic here: "startup freedom".

Occupational licensing has some overlap, but regulations are often very good for very big businesses since they impede competition from small challengers. Anyway, I'm mostly sympathetic to your points, but it's important to distinguish between being 'business friendly' and being 'friendly to status quo corporations'.
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Darn. Not as original as I hoped. There's a Wikipedia entry for that where they take a wrong turn. I see what you're saying about the similarity. Yeah, that's the exact kind of thing I was thinking of. :)
Obviously keep in mind the various caveats that come with benchmarks, but it seems that Swift is at least capable of achieving C-like performance[1] in some circumstances.

[1]: https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?la...
> Oh come on.

As long as we are using this form of persuasion – come on, this is the company that is trying to say it has rights to collect water from Strawberry Canyon based on a claim from 1865 – http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2016/05/07/n...

How on earth can you think they are a socially responsible company committed to avoiding water wastage?
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perhaps jayofdoom meant LibreSSL.

and yes, OpenSSL is a bit of a code quality difference than the OpenBSD norm.
Generally data lifetime in rust is fully deterministic and the borrow checker can statically determine when data should be deallocated. If for whatever reason you do need reference counted semantics there are options in the stdlib (alloc::rc).
Turning Down $100M
There are many ways the government could raise money for a small program like designing the food pyramid. It's really not relevant which one they picked.
Yes libertarians would be pissed if right-leaners control news. But the topic here is facebook. Let's stay on topic.
Tracking still happens with "safe" ads. Generally "image pixels" as they call em are actually server side scripts that then pretend to be an image that way they can still track the users IP and what they were doing at that point in time.
Interesting! A cursory glance at the source code looks like they are doing some form of stack splitting at synchronization points, denoted by method annotations. Note that they reimplement the class library and eschew compatibility with traditional Java programs, so I'm not completely sure how general purpose their threads are. I tried finding some writeup about them, but I suspect the code is the documentation. :)

I haven't checked in with this project since we last talked a few years ago, so it's nice to see notable progress! Thanks for the pointer.
> You say you are purging your social media accounts, but you here on hacker news, indulging in social conversation. Potato tomato. Gotta get your fix somewhere.

I did say "slowly"... ;) I also don't consider HN to be in the same class of social media as Facebook or Twitter and so on because of its focus typically being a lot narrower. It's a technology news aggregator with comments. Nobody comes here looking for posts by friends and family talking about their day-to-day trivialities. Those would be quickly removed by moderators, whereas on Facebook and Twitter they're expected...
They quantify the difference in samples here:

HMP GG PGP AGP
Total Samples 4,788 531 683 4,658

http://americangut.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mod1_main....
Except all of the media companies are scared to do that, because they fear that not enough people are interested in their 'content' to pay, and they don't want that point to be proven.

There's more content these days than most people care for - to be honest, if 99% of sites were paywalled, I'd probably be far more productive and not surfing 'information' that is free for the sake of just existing.
You shouldn't complain about aggressiveness when you start with it. You opened with an extreme position and denied all possibility of nuance. When multiple people suggested other possibilities, you made sweeping denials based on your imagination of how the program worked.

If you want nuanced dialog, start with nuance and make room for other people's opinions.
>With Apple sales and market share dropping like a rock in the last 12 months, that might not be the best position to put yourself in long term, career-wise.

Like "a rock"? Where exactly did you see that?

Apple STILL sold 50M frigging iPhones in its "failed" quarter -- and had more profits and revenues that 3 next competitors combined.

And that with supply constraints for mobiles, Intel dragging its feet with laptop/desktop CPUs, and an atypical extraordinary last year-over-year quarter to compare to.

Here's the relevant chart: http://www.statista.com/statistics/263426/apples-global-reve...
That's what I'm thinking. Commenter talking like the situation in China and in the U.S. are equal seemed way, way off.
What's "Yukky" about it? Seems fairly well designed to me for a product of this size.
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What's wrong with putting companies out of business?

I understand that it ends up having impacts on people that aren't necessarily involved in the misbehavior, but it provides officers and investors a significant incentive to avoid wrongdoing.
My email is trivial to find via the information in my HN profile, as several people have already. Doing that gives you more information about me as well, in case you want to find out more.

However, for this project you can contact me at

TopicsInMaths_HN (at) solipsys (dot) co (dot) uk
Stop telling people what the topic is, please. This is a public forum, you can't control other people's conversations, or determine the validity of their interests.

Post a comment about Facebook that's worth replying to if you want to steer things away from politics.
From the abstract - "Spatial association rule mining is a useful tool for discovering
correlations and interesting relationships among spatial
objects. Co-locations, or sets of spatial events which are frequently
observed together in close proximity, are particularly useful
for discovering their spatial dependencies. Although a number
of spatial co-location mining algorithms have been developed,
the computation of co-location pattern discovery remains prohibitively
expensive with large data size and dense neighborhoods.
We propose to leverage the power of parallel processing, in
particular, the MapReduce framework to achieve higher spatial
mining processing efficiency. MapReduce-like systems have been
proven to be an efficient framework for large-scale data processing
on clusters of commodity machines, and for big data analysis
for many applications. The proposed parallel co-location mining
algorithm was developed on MapReduce. The experimental result
of the developed algorithm shows scalability in computational
performance."
I think you aren't following.

I said the only thing I like about Trump is that he's shining a light on the flawed decisionmaking process that is democracy. The specific flaw is not that various anti-discrimination laws exist, but that laws exist due to a sequence of emotional reactions of the mob and historical accident rather than due to reasoning from a core set of principles.

I don't know what you think changed - I've always favored reason over religion and moral philosophy over doing what feels good. Consider various comments of mine on moral philosophy over the years, on a wide variety of topics (free speech, public access to beaches, corporate forms, internet shaming):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7068509 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4230649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8365554 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7068509 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9901225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9126192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6819575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818871

I also truly don't understand why you are so offended by the idea that I consider anti-racism a consequence of my anti-violence position, rather than a core principle. Why is it so offensive that I oppose what you oppose, but I oppose it with different ideas?

Isn't it good that multiple chains of reasoning lead to the same conclusion? To me that suggests robustness in the conclusions. If you were willing to actually advance a logical argument in favor of these conclusions, I'd certainly be happy that something I believe is robust and not just a weird quirk of one set of axioms. Similarly, if a mathematical fact has multiple disparate proofs, I'm far more convinced that it's actually true.

Or is this simply religious hatred of an atheist who happens to live according to the principles of Christ cause they seem like a good idea?