skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My argument to Google has been that independent controls for tagging content topic and controlling distribution are what's needed.

In the real world our informational transactions are largely determined by place, and we assume different roles by those. Home, work, gym, mosque, store, school, concert (performer or audience?), beach, etc. And how and who you (or others) are known varies -- the idea of single unitary identity is often quite absent.

Size of groups also matters hugely, and I think often of how dynamics change with scale. See the old Budapest String Quartet joke. Expertise, qualifications, and intent of participants also matters.

Simply mashing bodies into a room, not so much.
> It is made from recycled chemicals

Is this a joke? So are apples, people and cats.
In the end, the only safeguard against unethical business behavior is an informed consumer.

The point of food safety regulations is so that the consumer doesn't have to do a boatload of research every time they eat out to protect their health. This reduces friction and expands the market for food products and services.

We would have significantly higher standards of food safety if instead of state agencies doing it restaurants sought certification from highly respected private firms that do such inspections, because then the reputation of both inspector and restaurant on the line, and consumers can dynamically create or trust any number of inspectors to meet demand.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. A government agency can force a restaurant or food distributor/etc to shut down if it falls below standards, meaning lost dollars, meaning a very strong incentive to maintain standards. They can also require the restaurant to post the results of the inspection on premises, which is a strong, immediate, and visible blow to the restaurant/food distributor's reputation. Meanwhile, a private inspection agency can...say bad things about a restaurant? And this will magically cause customers to avoid the restaurant? Assuming that said customers somehow are informed of the private inspection agency's report? We already have something like this, and it's corrupt as all hell: the Better Business Bureau, and Yelp, both of which are known to remove negative reviews in exchange for money.
Having seen how the Texas board of education works at adding creationist and revisionist junk to science and history text books, I absolutely trust the federal government to do a better job selecting a textbook than most states.
Interesting that is contains Ethoxylated Tallowamine.

I would like to know what other "inert" ingredients are commonly found in it. Also, is it true that it contains heavy metals?
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Good on them!

There's a cool line in the questions section in response to "But how do you know if the second day is real?":

"You don't measure a beach by counting the grains of sand."
It would make the MSDS fucking useless. Since these are regulated (at least, in the EU) I find it hard to believe that monsanto puts any of shit into a barrel, and some glyphosate, and then puts a Roundup label on it.
Writing an iOS app in Objective-C was the first time I remember thinking, "Goddamn, this is beautiful" since I was 12 and found Basic.

One fucking language.

Looked the same on every device.

And it wasn't hard to get a project going. We are making a fucking computer application, not boiling water for tea.

Now everyone thinks it's progress and noteworthy and oh-my-fucking-gods-amazing to do this shit with fucking HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. What. The. Fuck.

Can't Silicon Valley startups afford developers who can...you know...learn technology and write some code? Is SV only able to disrupt the world by leveraging a browser every damn step of the way?

We are fucking modern-day wizards of techromancy who bend electrons to our will. We are the closest we've ever been to magic (since 1969). We come up with ideas. We make them something fleshy bags of water can poke at with their greasy, grubby, sausage-like fingers while they chortle and snort and spit their Cheetos on their screens. All by just futzing about with some incantations we spill out via keypresses. We can make just about anything that doesn't violate the laws of physics, and we keep defending HTML/CSS/JS as anything other than a horrible fucking wreck that steals our babies in the night, and thus our joy.

Nothing about the browser stack is a conceptual framework that is closest to what we humans understand. That CSS has made slower progress in not being a shitshow than Python 3 is fucking abominable. That everyone is clamoring for JS to get all these proven-to-be-holy-rocket-ship-to-the-heavens features other languages have had for-fucking-ever, and had better, is just sad.

What we seem to be creating is an entire decade of developers who can't seem to work without the browser stack. And that's a problem. Because we are going to be reaping the rewards of this for a long while. Browsers need to move beyond, developers need to move beyond. HTML is great when all you want is a motherfucking website.[1] CSS is fine if you're looking for a better/best motherfucking website.[2] JS was cool ... once upon a time.

All three being the primary path taken for building every new thing just feels sad.

[1]: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com

[2]: https://bestmotherfucking.website

[3]: While it's always good to use the best tool for the job, that shouldn't mean we stop creating better tools. Right now, the browser stack just seems content to keep adding more tools into the toolbox, instead of inventing the fucking cotton gin and automated harvester.
Getting to Know the World's Super-Rich
Carelessness and open flames are in many ways unavoidable. Badly wired light switches are avoidable.
Uber, Lyft leave Austin: How people are finding rides
This is totally not what I'm asking, thanks.
Weren't the beginnings of cross-US rail lines laid back at a time where regulatory frameworks (esp. cross-county/state, and noise emission) weren't that strict as today?

Also, back in the time it was customary to create stock companies where people bought shares to actually BUILD something of value?

When was the last time that a stock company was founded to build long lasting infrastructure?

Stock companies, these days, in my opinion focus WAY too much on creating short-term gains on the back of employees and unsuspecting investors...
It's Charisma, Stupid (2006)
I think you meant to comment here instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11714340
Google Cloud Test Lab pricing published today: $44k/device/year
Wow. Reading that story annoyed me. Someone really wrote that with all of those obvious inaccuracies in it and someone actually believed it? THen I remember that people share shit 10x worse than this on FB and I got sad instead of annoyed.

Someone please educate someone. Please. lol
> It took 32 months between having the grant awarded and dosing the first patient, says Nutt. By comparison, it took six months “to get through the machinations” for his team’s previous studies using the equally illegal drugs LSD and MDMA, he says.

I thought we were making progress...
What about the massive environmental impact that flying has?
>But most of criminal law turns in large part --- mens rea --- over a court making decisions about what's in the head of the accused!

That doesn't stop all these uncertainties affecting the outcome ("and the prosecution would like to note that the accused didn't provide the password, pretending that he doesn't remember it/know it" can turn jurors against someone, even if its BS).

How many people were accused and convicted with BS technical certainties (but actual scientific uncertainties) like the bogus "hair matching"?
Maybe. It used to be amended every 10-20 years, depending on how you count. It has been 25-40 years (again, depending on how you count) since the last successful amendment attempt. I think that, to some degree, the amendment process has been abandoned because people think the government can hack around it with good results.

I think it's worth considering that this sort of corruption is a side effect of that approach versus the cleaner debate-and-amend process that the U.S. practiced historically.

I think the U.S. government will be ultimately doomed if the U.S. can't figure out a way to amend the Constitution again. All sorts of new wrinkles have popped up since the early 90s and we have abandoned the process for democratically deciding how to deal with them. It really erodes the legitimacy of the process.
He surgically implanted magnets into his ears to use as built-in headphones
For me, it's all about the details, and I just can't come back to Firefox for silly reasons, even if I appreciate their stance on privacy.

The tabs shape is repulsing me, I know that's a strong feeling and I can't explain it.
The disymetrical back and forward buttons bothers me as well.
I can't find how to whitelist domains accepting cookies in Firefox.
Switching profiles is much easier with chrome.
I'm used to chrome developper tools.

I don't like neither safari neither MS edge.

If it wasn't for the missing onenote extension, maybe I'd be using opera. Again, all about the details.
There were things like Tweet Longer, and TwitPic (before Twitter had images) and lots of other little services that built on top of Twitter.

Twitter then started doing a lot of that stuff on its own and tried to kill off the other services (3rd party clients like Falcon Pro, TwitPic, etc.)

What was once a beautiful ecosystem to support this interesting 140 character thing got gobbled back up by a company that realized it needed to monetize.
Thanks for picking that up, I had misread it as saying both happened then.
Currently the sample image for each font is small. Would it be possible for it to be more prominent?
I have no problem with the state punishing someone for failing to provide something that has been deemed lawful to solicit, but failure to comply should result in another trial of some sort (possibly after a set period, so it's not immediate and abused). Based on the bill of rights, I believe you should not be detained indefinitely without a trial for the charges you are being held for, full stop. That the offense happened during a trial, and a judge was present is irrelevant. Otherwise, the charges you are being detained for have not had a trial by peer. Not to mention, you've now been denied a speedy and public trial. You could try to make a case that you've prevented your own speedy and public trial, but until there's been a conviction on whether you need to comply, I don't see how that reasoning is sustainable.
Does anyone have definitive information on how all the Slack clients are built?
From this, you need an LED sign in your yard "Your speed is: [speed] MPH and your car is being photographed"
The linked article is largely about Ethoxylated Tallowamine.

If you believe that the US system for hazardous materials is effective, then no, it won't contain anything more than traces of other materials, because those things aren't on the safety label.

If you don't believe that the US system for hazardous materials is effective, why would you believe me either?
Can't you trust people to use their own judgement as to whether they can do it sensibly or not?

No, you can't. And it's not a matter of "sometimes you can't trust people to do the job right", it's that more times than not an amateur will cut corners, or more accurately, won't know enough to even know that they're cutting corners. For example, my wife and I bought a VW Westfalia camper van a few months ago. After 35 years it's been through a few owners. I wouldn't let any of the previous owners anywhere near my house wiring. Stuff works, but it's half-assed in a lot of places. Twist two wires together, cover it in tape. I'm a solder-and-shrink-tubing guy myself, but c'mon, at least use a Scotchlock or something.

I've owned houses with outlets that had no ground because the person that put the outlets in couldn't be bothered, so they snipped the ground wire so that it was out of the way. Yeah, you plug stuff in and it would work, but would you trust the culprit to wire your house? And so on, and so on.

The summary is, I've seen enough half-assed work over the years (and some of it from "professionals" that people paid money for) that I do not trust people to use their own judgement. Do I think a license should be required to install a light switch? That's a different question. Are you going to trust the person that took a database class a few years ago to "use their own judgement as to whether they can do it sensibly or not" when it comes time to write the backend for your contact management system? I'll bet you they'd eventually deliver something that mostly works. Do you want to maintain it?
According to the current Wikipedia article on the Sentinelese language [1], it is not mutually intelligible with Onge. This is more like what I would have expected from a strictly xenophobic and (presumably non-literate) tribe, but it doesn't square with the account in the article...

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_language
How to format Python code without really trying
There's lots of preparatory ML reading lists, e.g. metacademy.org roadmap, Goodfellow et al. DL book, Shalev-Shwartz/Ben-David ML text (both books freely available content), review materials on Stanford course syllabuses by Socher, Ng and Karpathy.

Usual recs are Strang or Axler Linear Algebra, Ross or Tsitsiklis for Probability, Spivak Calculus, Boyd Convex Optimization, and other folks will recommend real analysis, diff eq's, topology, etc.
It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.
Finally! Here's where my extensive background in concrete construction pays off! :-D (Seriously though, my father and brother run a concrete construction business and I have worked on both residential and commercial jobs for 10+ years of my "youth")

For starters - $60k is a LOT for a driveway. My brother's company charges $10 per square foot (at the top end) to remove and replace a driveway. This assumes the ground is appropriate (drainage is acceptable, no need for fill, etc.) This is based on 4" of concrete and steel reinforcing mesh and no subgrade prep. As with anything there are "price boosters" but that's a reasonable estimate. Average driveway is maybe 20x40, so that works out to be $8 grand max. This is in suburban South Dakota, so it might be more in larger metro areas.

A highway is nothing like a driveway. As others have pointed out, the thickness of concrete alone is double or triple (probably a minimum of 8 inches - more like 10 inches) and the reinforcement is considerably more (3/4 inch steel rebar mat 16-18 inches on center). You have to also consider that the subgrade needs at least a few inches of gravel, which is fairly expensive. It doesn't stop there - once the concrete is poured, there is typically a curing agent applied on top of the surface, and then the expansion joints have to be sawed and sealed. This is just for the road surface. I'll bet this cost also has to take into account curbing and sidewalks.

I've personally worked on both kinds of jobs - residential driveways and suburban streets. It's at least 10x more work "per foot" to do a road over a driveway. It's the difference between building a weekend "hacker project" and a production ready ecommerce website.
Unfortunately, no. Just what my distinguished chemistry professor told me almost twenty years ago.
You guys are in the Do Well by Doing Good category on this, and unfortunately few companies in any business sector maintain this philosophy as they grow.

The boardroom is so divorced from the showroom that it's not even funny how big he disconnects can get.
Of course uncertainty affects the outcome. Of course the system makes the wrong decision on occasion. It's a human institution.
They needed a study to show that magic mushrooms make you happy? That is why they are called "magic" mushrooms
My point is that New York HAS strong unions, especially for the MTA. And regardless of their salaries (which are higher than their European and Asian counterparts), they have to employ 4x more people to complete a similar job.
Yeah, I was thinking of auto-increment database IDs actually :)
Anyone else remember Widget Workshop?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_Workshop

I loved this game as a kid and, while it's not really a programming language of sorts, it's great for getting you to think in a programmer's mindset. Logo bored the crap out of me, but I could make neat things with it. I feel like it was completely forgotten but something like it could have a real educational use today.
You stated "I was a biology major" in another part of the thread as justification for your claims, but you indicate that you got this information from your chemistry professor, not a biology professor. I'd say that's a bit deceptive in itself. On top of this, you can't seem to cite anything, and you are the only one here claiming this.

I challenge you to buy some Roundup and test it for heavy metals, then make the results available. Otherwise please do cite equivalent research.
>There is the constant narrative that the government is out to get us all.

And historically, from Jim Crow laws, to J.E. Hoover and McCarthy, and onwards to Snowden, this is wrong, because?
Wouldn't the stated 10 million write cycles be without wear leveling?
Whenever pot-culture words come up in "reporting" about medical treatments I immediately tune out. That's not to say there aren't any potential health benefits but "toking herb" (or whatever) isn't the best way to present them to people who still demonize it.
How and what do you check for?
Huh? Providing a password was made mandatory here, and, as I pointed out, the state's case is based on evidence establishing that the accused knows the password and is simply being intransigent. The state was not able to, on a whim, suggest the accused had a password they didn't actually have.
At last, an open source alternative to Firebase.
> Another would be for the national government to leave things like building roads and funding schools to the local governments.

But then you'll have people from poorer neighborhoods/towns drive on worst roads and sending their kids to crappier schools compared to wealthier parts of the country. The roads' problem let's say is not the end of the world per se, but the fact that your kids will have less chances in life only because your neighborhood is not as wealthy as the one 5 or 10 miles down the road seems moraly wrong and a misallocation of resources.
Your first sentence is correct, you're right there. But it does mean they're not allowed to point weapons at people and threaten violence without probable cause or reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. That's what presumption of innocence means, you treat innocent people like they're innocent. Pulling a taser on someone is not presumption of innocence, that's presumption of guilt.

Police are allowed to investigate, and that's exactly what they failed to do in this case. They should have done some basic investigation before they drew weapons and detained someone. The fact that they didn't investigate, and didn't attempt to find probable cause, is precisely why what they did was illegal.

Your second sentence isn't right. It is not legal in the US to detain people for no reason. Arbitrary stop-and-frisks are illegal, arbitrary traffic stops are illegal, arbitrary searches are illegal. That is precisely what the 4th amendment is saying - you have a right to privacy and a right to not be harassed by police without them having a specific reason. And those things are illegal even when weapons aren't involved, but when police draw weapons without reason, it crosses another line.

I'm really not sure why you're still defending the actions of the police, who clearly did something wrong in this case, and dismissing the experience of a citizen who did absolutely nothing wrong and was threatened. What would you do, and how would you feel, if you were surprised and stormed by police and detained with weapons pointed at you while you were minding your own business? Do you want that to be allowed and normal? We've already decided as a country we don't want that. I don't want it, and I think you don't either. So why are you arguing?
500,000 users =/= 500,000 Active users, I imagine.
I recommend a shaman to guide you through the journey. Someone who has been there before. Otherwise, you'll spend way too much time looping around one topic or idea. let them give you the hints to jump loops and go beyond.

<3
Launch blog post: http://horizon.io/blog/horizon-launch/
Except in that parable, Twitter doesn't sell cardboard houses, they used to live in one.

And that cardboard house provided enough shelter for them to survive and at some point, go to the bank to get a loan for a bigger, sturdier house. I understand that Ruby can be an issue at some mega-scale, I've experienced how slow, memory-hungry and not a concurrency natural it can be. But the thing is, for 95% of the people building businesses, they don't need mega-scale. They just need enough. And Ruby on Rails provides just that. It's fast to build a platform with, it's easy to think about, it has a huge ecosystem and it's worked for a lot of people.
ABET has separate accreditation for Computing and Engineering.

http://www.abet.org/accreditation/
Well, at least that Harrier story was somehow good-natured, and not just uneducated filth like the glyphosate thing.
Subcontracting out work + massive federalism creates $200 textbooks. Now I know national textbooks are a bit much, but I would be interested in seeing a state completely co-opt the textbook creation process and produce some textbooks and learning material at cost.

The ultimate cause is regulator capture. A series of large companies extract massive rent through their ability to direct state funds into their coffers.

If the US as it exists now tried a Federal textbook, those would cost $200 again at the very least and would be put together by all the major textbook companies combined (unless one of managed a clever end-run). We see this in military contracting for example.

The capture is probably strongest at the State and Federal level just because centralization is easiest but these hand-down regulations that force the hand of local authorities - not controlling them entirely but preventing any tactics that cut-out the mass of rent seeking monopolies that now count on state funds for their sustenance.
Great Snowden interview (by Neil deGrasse Tyson) where he explains why collecting "only metadata" is no excuse: https://soundcloud.com/startalk/a-conversation-with-edward-s...
In the case of matrices with real coefficients, these matrices constitute the famous ortogonal group. The ortogonal group is a Lie group of dimension n*(n-1)/2. A table of Lie groups with their dimensions is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_Lie_groups

Every Lie group has an associated vector space with the same dimension, so many question about Lie groups can be addressed by studying the associate vector space.

To suggest an application of Lie groups and their associated vector spaces, in machine learning one can reduce the number of parameters when a group act over a space (rotations and the like), so you obtain new features to train your machine in a more efficient way.