skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I probably should have tossed "uneducated backwater hicks" in quotes - I was attempting to speak from what I perceive to be the left-wing point of view. But you are right, the social tribalism is driving a lot of this. I live in a very liberal university town, and many people seem to see republicans this way.
[Aristotle], on Trolling
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The translator[1] was apparently pals with Eco and translated several of his books. I got curious and ended up finding a paywalled diary of his experience translating the book[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Weaver

[2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/43470168?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...
"Linux has always been interesting because it's portable, not because it's easy or streamlined or standardized."

Pretty sure Tanenbaum would disagree. That said, I do agree that portability really is important. For that matter, I'd really like a decent FOSS microkernel.
The very next sentence they wrote (after what you quoted out of context) is in alignment with the studies you linked.

Their point was that consumption behavior causes Type 2 diabetes, not the substance alone.
Ask HN: What modern scheduler system you use?
Do you use a all in one software or choose a messaging application and develop an api around it ?
Yeah, I learnt about it from a fellow co-worker and have been using it for the last 6 months. It's pretty seamless to get started with it and has offered better returns for me then the LC's own auto investing strategy.
> Confidence can be based on many things (evidence, social pressure, etc) and can change over time. So you are absolutely free to choose what you believe is true or false.

No, The second doesn't follow from the first. Sure, confidence can change over time. That doesn't mean that you can make a conscious choice to believe something. (With skill, you may be able to identify the factors that influence your belief and then chose behaviors which will lead to experiencing the factors that will influence your belief in the direction you wish, but its absolutely not directly and simply within your control, even before considering that a belief that something is true itself generally precludes the belief that you should believe that it is not true in the first place.)
In addition to what others are saying, for many types of secrets (API credentials, salts, keys, etc.) it's good practice to make them different in production vs development. This has the advantage of keeping your production secrets in the domain of ops, and your developers never even need to have them.

This is built on the assumption that you only ever have one set of secrets, or that you don't mind distributing your prod secrets to your engineers, both of which I would consider to be bad practice.
A much better method than those that are shown in the video is to optimize over the subtour elimination polytope by using a cutting plane algorithm. The necessary separation problem for the set of the subtour elimination inequalities can be solved by computing a minimum cut.

This gives a usually very good lower bound for the value of the minimum tour. Unluckily the optimum solution over the subtour elimination polytope can be fractional. This problem can for example be solved by branch & bound (or even better branch & cut) algorithms or by randomized rounding (a more heuristic method for which in general one can nevertheless often prove strict mathematical results).

Full Disclosure: I currently write a PhD thesis in mathematics on some geometric questions in the theory of cutting planes.
Consider your own argument:

"Oh give me a F*ing break. You CHOOSE to be a conservative. You aren't born a conservative and face true harassment, discrimination, and death threats because of it. Oh, right thats what YOU would do to someone who is gay probably now if you could get away with it."

It's been shown that DNA is a pretty good predictor of being conservative or not. AFAIK, this hasn't yet been shown for being gay! Conservatives don't have a choice.

Now that you know that conservatives are in fact born that way, at least more so than gays, can you spare some compassion for conservatives? You can make them feel really weird with affirmative action quotas for conservatives.
He's saying what happens when there's a battle for civil liberties and the corporations aren't behind it?

But another posted pointed out the EFF and ACLU which are at least a start in terms of organizations motivated by civil liberties as opposed to profit.
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Its amazing how the characteristics defined in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual_learning) apply directly to this scenario. (Learning from a master )
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He's not oversimplifying. He's not saying that all Hep C patients are IV drug users.

He's just staying that a lot of Hep C care is taxpayer funded, and that Gilead is therefore price gouging the American taxpayer. That your dad is also being price gouged, over in Europe, is just icing on the cake.
The README is a bit out of date. It support MOS 6502 and parts of x86_64 too. I currently writing the lifting code that translates x86 opcodes to a simpler intermediate language: https://github.com/flanfly/panopticon/blob/feature/rreil/lib...
Crazy world where JS is considered server-side but C isn't.
Hmm, that's probably also a good place to start an analogy about code maintenance. Weed by hand first, then weed using good tools, then automate your weeding if things get out of hand.
For those that are wondering the next halvening is projected to be in mid July. 75% of all bitcoins will have been mined. See more here:

http://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/#
Those conflicts would be limited in their scope and their destructive potential, so arguably the world as a whole would be safer. How many cities can one nuclear-armed submarine destroy and how many such submarines do the nuclear powers of the world have? A thousand conventional wars are preferable to one full-scale nuclear war.
Love the Taxi article!!
Exactly. Texts are either free or extremely cheap for almost all cell phone plans sold in the US.

Providers in many other countries are still attempting to engage in rent-seeking behavior by levying absurdly high fees to send texts (relative to what it costs them to send the text). It seems that US providers got over that about 10 years ago.

As a result, people in those areas are simply ignoring text messaging and using WhatsApp instead.
They should add this to Diffoscope <https://diffoscope.org/>.
> Why does choice matter?

Honestly, I don't think it does; traditional protected classes, after all, include things that are just as much choice as political ideology (particularly, religion.)
re: your last bullet point, I put my password as the only thing in a text file, then point the environment variable to that. Same effect, although it is one (small) extra step.
They're not plausible for a human, even out in the desert far from civilization. Light captured by a sensitive camera and long exposure do not represent what a human would see. Nearly all night time starscapes are enhanced past what a human would see in any situation.
>SQL query planner

Viv has to disambiguate the intent with user profile and context, normalize the schema across partner databases, rank partners which support the same verbs, build a partner system which lets them add verbs and domain-specific NL training… there's a lot of grunt to make it work.
Indie cred? I mean, you're not cool on HN unless you're making undermarket at a startup for a number of years.
How is Hebrew homoiconic?
Is that worse than it being available to logged-in users?

Sure, you can't control what randoms on the Internet might look at your public profile, but you can't control who signs up for OKC accounts and looks at your private one, either.
I said it's less objectionable, not that it's not objectionable.
> a homoiconic language like Hebrew

What does "homoiconic" mean in this context? (Google doesn't help.)
Shameless plug: We're also working on an on-premise custom analytics platform that can be deployed either Heroku or AWS with Cloudformation. https://github.com/rakam-io/rakam
Could you either 1) simplify the explanation using simpler english
or 2) provide a paper or thesis which illustrates your point?
> Am I the only one concerned with the concept of billion-dollar publicly-traded corporations going to bat for individual civil liberties?

As opposed to the billion-dollar taxpayer-funded government agencies going to bat against individual civil liberties?

Maybe the problem is the NSA's dual mandate. If there was a large government agency whose only job was to improve the security of American communications against criminals and foreign attackers then they would be fighting the fight, instead of the NSA's effective "no comment" because their mission is self-compromising.
I'm currently working on an AI customer service Desktop/Web app solution. We're a team of two.

Initially, it was going to be only desktop, because we were targeting big enterprises who still rely solely on phone for customer service. So, pretty backward companies. A Desktop app would have been perfect and not too "revolutionary".

But, then, we decided to not limit ourselves to that market alone, and have since made the transition to include web and even mobile solutions.

My advice is to: Stop hesitating. Write code (MVP?). Run private and open betas. Collect feedback. Make predictions. Make decisions. Maybe your market will rejoice over your desktop app and maybe they won't. The point is, you won't find out until you actually test it. If it works then that's great. Now, you can focus on marketing and growth. But if the feedback that you get points that your customers would rather get web, then that's also great. Because, now, you've gained an important insight about your customers, and will have a choice of either to switch to web (if it's a true market need (also from customer feedback)) or to start something new.

TLDR: Based on our market research alone, you CAN definitely make a living off of a desktop application; it depends on your customers, that's why it's paramount that real customers test your app asap. Don't worry about the future too much. If your desktop app is successful and somewhere along the line, customers demand a web app instead, you can always scale and adapt.
Being cool is nice, making rent is nicer.
You could always put it under the AGPL 3 (or later). Your prospective customers would probably still want to buy a less restrictive license from you, because they are irrationally afraid of the GPL, especially GPL3, and even more especially the AGPL 3. But free software would still benefit from the source code being free.
> I have no great love of conservative politics, but there's a convincing argument to be made that their ideas and views are routinely suppressed by media outside of explicitly partisan media outlets (i.e. Fox News or talk radio).

Fox News is not "explicitly partisan", they are purportedly neutral ("Fair and Balanced").

They are widely recognized as extraordinarily partisan, but that's different than "explicitly partisan".
Interesting. Thank you.
I'm curious, why do you feel the need to encrypt every single file instead of just secrets (to keep reviewing possible)? :)
There was once a movement to try to do this gasification for many scientific problems. The problem is that turning arbitrary problems into fun games is really hard, and only works in some domains.

However just now AI is getting good enough to beat human players at most games. Perhaps most of this work could soon be automated. And even the games that aren't very fun for humans could be automated. The computer doesn't care about fun.
Viv tries to get partners to register their API, domain specific verbs and NL training terms in Viv's back end.
> The Mac OS is pretty, well-designed components for GUI/desktop on top of a hybrid between a microkernel and UNIX (BSD). Let's ignore their bad choice of microkernel.

Is it necessary to ignore the microkernel choice? Isn't MacOS X -not- microkernel, even though (or "because") it uses an old version of Mach? [0][1][2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_%28kernel%29

[1] http://www.roughlydrafted.com/0506.mk1.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RwlEZ88rKM&t=445
A typical high end phone has 2-3GB of ram. Half as much as a PS4, and vastly more than a PS3. It should be able to handle a couple doubled buffers. Overall memory use doesn't go up very much.
Yes but they let third parties create the ontologies. If they're smart they'll do auto query optimization.
I think so, assuming the web app has full keyboard shortcuts. But if I notice response time, we're in bad shape - I'm admittedly ADD and will likely switch to another tab while waiting for the page to load.
Body cams on kids, striped across each grade. It's the best way.
I'd add writing compiler optimizations as well. Common subexpression elimination, dead code-elimination, copy propagation, register allocation to name a few.
You're confusing the way things are now with the way things must be, for some reason. Just because things are one way right now doesn't mean they won't be another way in the future. Especially if new technology comes along that disrupts the field.
I'm not following most of your points here (standalone maybe but not with respect to my comments). No one is saying you don't need to ID signals in the noise or define quality indicators of skill.

But if your company is taking on the diversity challenge then yes, start with the fact that there is 7+ billion people, (or at least the ones with Github profiles, to your point). And yes, canvas all available channels so you don't miss out on people "drummed out... for institutional reasons (there's an entire industry that does this). Then start over in defining your signals and indicators --in this case some sweet spot between the people they hope(!) exists and the false positives they wish they had missed.

If you're not willing to take these measures, simply sit back, do work and try to make money (or in this guy's case leave the company since he's not in charge). Otherwise, let's give retirement to diversity in this year's tech hall of fame.
Bing tests showing tweets in search results, just like Google
Wearable workarounds for “Defensive Architecture”
Yes, it is a serious issue

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
> feel a lot safer

What's more important, perceived or actual safety?
It was as recent as 1960 the government was stealing children from their families. Even now, they are behind on every metric, life expectancy, education, employment, homelessness. Everyday, the only indigenous I see are homeless on the side of the street begging.

I wasn't even born here, and I feel guilty.
Taxation is theft. Avoiding taxation is just self-defense. Personally I'm all for it, by any means necessary.
They really hated Apple slowness and canceling existing partner deals. So they want to be ubiquitous on their own, if they can hack it.
Meal delivery service Nimble Foods shuts down
Very much a problem. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome]
I guess if you live in SV you might not have direct experience with this, but English has a lot more than one word for "snow".
> There's been a large migration off of mysql to postgres

No there hasn't:

http://db-engines.com/en/ranking

Which makes sense since they aren't really playing in the same space. The benefits of PostgreSQL are largely lost on typical MySQL use cases (light load, simple CRUD access patterns, limited use of JSON/BSON etc).
OOC, how much of the complexity for implementing this was getting the data out of the formats, and how much was implementing the diff once you had the data?
The question is whether lawyers and clients should be accused the same. Whether we assume guilt or innocence while accusing them is a completely different topic.
Obligatory VAX jousting video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYP-F7XxrDA
I highly recommend Vox [1] as a lightweight alternative to iTunes.

I've used it as a compete replacement for iTunes with the exception of when I want to add music to my iPhone.

[1] www.coppertino.com
A someone who spent considerable amount of time in his youth at dark sites observing with the naked eye, those pictures are not off by that much. To be fair, these are obviously pictures taken in very dry areas where there is no haze. But I have seen similar scenes with the naked eye in the winter before. I'm lucky enough to live in the countryside near the ocean and even though there is a fair amount of light pollution, in the winter I can go down to the beach and see the milky way in all its glory by looking out to sea. People really don't understand what they are missing. :-(
About eight years ago, I came up with an idea for a tattoo I wanted: a pair of stylized dragon wings stretching from one elbow to the other. I drew up a first version of it, made a stencil, and got my then-boyfriend to draw the thing on me with a magic marker. It took a week or two to wash off, during which I could get used to the idea of having a pair of wings on my arms and decide if I liked it.

Ultimately I ended up taking another four or five years before I finally settled on a version of the design I liked, and spent eighteen months getting it tattooed on me. It's been finished for about two years and I'm still delighted to see it every now and then.

If you've wanted the same design for most of your life, I say go for it. Iterate on the imagery until you have a version that you look at and say "yes, this is perfect, I want this on me now because I have been waiting long enough already". If you're not an artist like me then find one whose work you like and ask if they're taking commissions. Then put it on yourself: stencil it on with a magic marker if it's a tribal thing, get it done in henna, or even print it out on temporary tattoo paper. Which is a thing that exists, that you can shove into any inkjet printer. No need for hassling with the incredibly slow and painful process of having needles stuck in the same part of your skin twice.

Take ownership of yourself by putting your own mark on your body.
Again, what does that have to do with "being green"?
You have plenty of places to live, you just don't want to live there.
The poster can delete their post within 2 hours, right?
>No one bothers to experiment because the old way has always been good enough.

If you are a manufacturer though, you have all of the incentives to come up with something more efficient though. Wind turbines aren't controlled by a monopoly are they?
And while not Apple-sized, donors enable the ACLU to run a $100m annual budget, which has allowed it to have a substantial impact on civil liberties in the US over its history.
> Isn't lack of nutritional education more to blame?

This is so easy to blame though, it is a cop out. Yes, lets spend more on education, but lets not raise taxes.
Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful
And it does appear Google just blankets this into it's general API terms of use that they can "use submitted data" in accordance with their general privacy policies. So yeah, I guess they can use it as part of their tracking. :/
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In the US at least, you are responsible for ensuring your vehicle is street-legal when you drive it on public roads. You, not your mechanic, get the citation if it's not.
Yep it's only going to get tighter and tighter (legitimately so, IMHO).

Just like we fetishize the Napster era.
Sometimes, HN commenters realize that their own comment was ill-considered and use the "delete" link on the comment to eradicate the ill-considered post.

Since the basic, overt user-facing functionality of the site can explain the action without invoking heavy-handed moderation, I see no reason to suspect the latter.
Wow, this brings back memories... I was building an IM bot back in 2006 and AIML was something that was suggested to me to "look into". I ended up deciding against it since the project took a turn that required less AI and more "specific response to specific command".

But, wow, did we go through a large phase where the "XML Hammer" was being used everywhere resulting in bizarre languages with XML syntax that could have been far more easily written using a less structured DSL.
I think this story shows why it's so important to remember how credit-rating agencies and investment banks added so much fuel to the fire of the last crisis. Otherwise you will think the whole problem was silly people taking out mortgages they couldn't afford and say "this is just like 2007".

Anyway, I could buy the idea that once again some portion of homebuyers can't really afford what they're buying, but there won't be the crazy systemic effects that happened last time, unless once again bad mortgages are being sold as good ones, buried in financial derivatives.

Personally I think the situation is worse than a bubble- I think this is just how things are now, if you want to live in a city. The demand really is there to sustain these crazy valuations, and young people and those of us who don't own are just screwed.
I'm glad that blackbox is gaining in popularity. Future directions for the project are listed here: https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox/blob/master/Versio...
Newspaper Chain CEO 'Pleased' to Announce IT Plan, Then Fires Tech Staff
Not Okcupid, but another dating site I went to had one profile message me. In her hobbies list it said "I really enjoy: NULL"
I think the reality is – we do have some limited degree of choice in our beliefs. For example, I can choose what books I read. If I choose to read two dozen apologies for Marxism, that is not guaranteed to make me believe in Marxism, but it almost certainly increases somewhat the probability I will end up believing in it compared to if I hadn't chosen to read all those books. (Substitute for Marxism any other belief system – Islam, atheism, Christianity, whatever – and the point still holds.) At the same time, I can't wake up tomorrow morning and decide out of the blue "I'm going to believe in Marxism today". Beliefs are ingrained habits of the mind – we have some conscious power over our own habits, but it requires a desire to change them, and a willingness to make concerted efforts over time to change them, and even after all of that there is no guarantee of success. (It's unusual for people to actually want to change their beliefs, but not completely unheard of; while most atheists are quite happy to remain atheists, some of them actually do want to believe in God, but can't; some of those try to make themselves believe it; many of those who try fail, but I'm sure some of them actually do succeed.) In most cases when people change their beliefs, it happens without any conscious effort to do so–the ideal of rationality says on the basis of new evidence or better arguments; however, given the reality of human non-rationality, I'd say that social and emotional factors are often more important in changing beliefs than rational or evidential ones.

Now, when it comes to the actual topic at hand – political liberalism vs. political conservatism – I don't think the vast majority of people's political beliefs are the result of a conscious choice to believe one thing rather than another – they are primarily the consequences of social and emotional and personality factors (reason and evidence do play a role, but far less than either side would like to think.) While in theory a person could consciously choose to try to make themselves believe in a particular political ideology, I doubt many people ever actually make that choice in practice.