skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Person of Color' is a different way of saying 'non-white', to group together people who suffer in similar ways from not looking like the majority in Anglo-dominated countries. The thing is that 'non-white' describes that group by something that they are not, where as 'People of Color' describes them as something that they are.

Perhaps a simile - it's a bit like calling an egalitarian a 'non-white-supremacist'. Yes, the egalitarian is not a white supremicist, so it's superficially accurate, but it's not really a description of who they are.
But it's not online gambling. (And the taxes on it are lower.)
I detest Windows and touch it as rarely as possible, but this week I had to make an emergency trip to a client's office to re-share a folder after a server had "upgraded" itself from 7 to 10.
True, though I guess I'm explaining more the continuous nature of the spectrum. LEDs are very notchy or peaky, while light produced from glowing tungsten is a smooth output across the visible spectrum that it covers. The fact that bluer light is scattered by the atmosphere also helps bring sunlight closer to incandescent light in terms of color temperature though, right?
Articles by Tim Redmond are usually full of misinformation, and that one (link #1) is no exception. I could go on forever, but eg., he says:

"The problem is that the building and real-estate industries have a huge lock on California politics."

San Francisco is the #1 most development-hostile major city in the world. According to World Bank data, even in places like Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, it's still much easier to get planning permits than it is in SF. Blaming the power of the real estate industry for San Francisco's rents is like blaming the Chinese famines on capitalist saboteurs.
Show HN: For $250 teleport yourself to any event in US through telepresence robot
A: "Thiel financing the lawsuit against Gawker is a thread to freedom of the press."

B: "Twitter, Facebook etc. 'curating' political viewpoints is not a threat to free speech because it's not the government."

The intersection of people arguing A and people arguing B.
There is a third group - landlords. Those are the ones that have the means to scoop up multiple properties and collect the rents. I believe this to be the main problem in the build more housing plan...
I don't feel like you're really trying to engage critically here.
>He and his daughter apparently thought Australia spoke some sort of pidgin English

In all fairness, there is a certain view that most English dialects are pidginized to some extent. et lest tha leksografee iz konsistent with thee observayshun.
I remember reading an article which explained the pragmatic reasons for the MS purchase of NOKIA.

Namely that MS wanted to bring back some of the billions they have offshore without it getting heavily taxed. Taking this into consideration the acquisition of NOKIA and eventual write down as a loss is not that bad. Especially considering it has kept it windows phone alive, and most likely moved any essential expertise to their other departments
The kind of situation you mention is more likely to happen in situations where the laws are so numerous, anyone who is an enemy of the government can be legally imprisoned for something.

And while the US certainly is in that situation, this is clearly not such a case, because Bollea v. Gakwer was not arguing some obscure legal esoterica.
Think about -
1) A time when you wanted to attend an event overseas but were worried if you will have enough money or time to attend the event, or if will you be able to take a leave from your work.

2) Or about a time when you had to travel or send an employee thousands of miles for one or two business meetings and spend thousands of dollars on the arrangement of trip.

3) The time when you had all the right documents, invitations from the event, a paid trip but still could not attend the event or meeting due to immigration issues.

Did you wonder in such situations if you could use a magic spell and teleport yourself to the event and experience the awesomeness? Afterall it is only about changing the surroundings in which you are currently present. Well you can definitely access the live telecast of the event but it doesn't allow you to experience a very basic human characteristic – freedom of movement.

Thus we created Splinch, a telepresence robot rental service. Splinch enables you to have a physical presence at events, for $250, when you cannot attend an event in person. It not only helps you save time, money and energy, but also helps in reducing your carbon footprint caused by air travel, hotel use, taxi rides etc.
That fungal paper was very tenuous. I would have rejected it if I was the reviewer.
Unpopular and distasteful speech is the entire purpose of press freedom and free speech.

Keep in mind that while many people would agree with you that Gawker is scum, various communities take offense and find tasteless all sorts of other things.

Freedom is either near absolute or useless.
The mapping for a self-driving car needs to be much more detailed than what you see in google street-view. It includes things like the height of curbs. Here's an overview: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel...

Also, errors in street-view are minor annoyance; for a self-driving car, an error in its internal map could be deadly.
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I can't take Bitcoin seriously because its community, at the same time, holds strong anarcho-capitalist ideals, and supports various companies which are trying to monopolise various forms of Bitcoin transaction.

The community isn't one person.
Same can be said for the surrounding areas of some of the other cities on the list.
Thiel is also apparently financing Shiva Ayyadurai's lawsuit against Gawker. He is the guy who claims to have invented email as a 14 year old. Both Techdirt[1] and Gawker[2] wrote about his nonsense claims, but Shiva and Thiel are suing Gawker.

The sex tape is a little more black and white as a moral argument, but i'd love to hear justifications for defending a man who is clearly so full of shit in a case that with Thiel's support he'll likely win.

[0] http://fortune.com/2016/05/12/gawker-lawsuit-shiva-ayyadurai...

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=shiva+ayyadurai

[2] http://gizmodo.com/5888702/corruption-lies-and-death-threats...
> arguing that it is always fair to use "augmenting the resources of someone with a legitimate legal claim" as a tactic is not uncontroversial in the general case.

In which specific cases is it illegitimate? The only answer I've been able to come up with is "when you don't like the person or cause."

I mean, if anyone wants to condemn the general case, please remember that you'll be condemning the EFF, ACLU and many similar organizations.

He could not have done anything at all to them if the cases were not meritorious. Now, there is a serious problem wherein access to the courts is effectively gated by wealth, but I don't think anyone can seriously argue that Gawker was unable to afford lawyers.

One can, however, point to their violation of court orders, along with their admission in court that they would publish sex tapes for anyone over 4, as evidence that they have no one to blame but themselves for their loss in court.
One common mistake made by westerners is treating lack in language proficiency as low competency in work or study. Native English speakers take for granted the ability to speak English fluently but do not realize it takes years to master spoken English as a non-native speaker.

Although this is tangential to the issue being discussed here, but you can see this mistake appearing in lots of comments here.
Credit Suisse just copied the numbers from Global Trade Alert. Did you even look at the reports on the Global Trade Alert website? Or did you just read the "About" page?

Mentioning Trump is just FUD and indirection. You can mention him if he's elected and if he manages to enact protectionist policies.
Ah, in that sense I agree, yes. His help should not have been needed in the first place.
we are using [cat](https://github.com/dianping/cat).
Shhh, we're trying to keep it a secret. :)
My understanding is the bill has weaker requirements (as little as 5%) on affordable housing than alternatives. Think of cities and negotiating with developers over affordability, and this is a more developer-friendly offer.
Good point, that's a tricky one, especially when you add in pedestrians and bicycles.
Trump has support in a lot of places that you wouldn't expect, few will admit supporting him in public because they get responses like it is 'unimaginable'. Thiel has the money/power so there's nothing for him to fear.
Get Warning for Font Substitution and Retrieve Form Fields in Tab Order Using .NET
This new release of Aspose.Pdf for .NET 11.5.0 supports showing warning for font substitution. This is a useful feature in tests, as it allows failing the tests faster if the font is missing, rather than having to track down why the result looks incorrect. It also supports retrieving form fields in Tab order. As well as the enhancements and features discussed above, there have been specific improvements regarding PDF to PDF/A, PDF to HTML, XPS to PDF, HTML to PDF, FootNote rendering, Text manipulation and Image placement/manipulation in PDF document.
can I use it to attend dinner parties at my in-laws?
Which is a perfectly accurate description of many architectural improvements in deep learning (e.g. residual networks).
From the article, the reason we know that Thiel was funding this in the first place:

"[...] an unusual decision Mr. Bollea’s legal team made: It purposely excluded a claim that would have allowed Gawker’s insurance company to help pay for its defense as well as damages."

That speaks quite loudly to the intent of the deterrent, otherwise they wouldn't be concerned who was paying, since insurance company money is just as green as Gawker's.
The thing about bangs is that it's a curated, auto-updating list of shortcuts though. I could install my own but with ddg, I just throw a ! in front of the site and usually it works!
The feeling is mutual, sir.
It's just a name. Like "World Series" or "Anti-Defamation League".
> Using your extreme example, the the $2k option is wrapping half a roll of duct tape around a leak. The $50k option is buying warrantied parts directly from the factory (not OEM).

You haven't seen some of the things I have. There are some extremely dishonest people in this industry that would literally be in prison if they pulled financially comparable stunts in an industry that isn't so opaque.
Given that our courts are publicly funded and have limited bandwidth and throughput, your suggested solution faces serious resource constraints.

Additionally, Thiel is altering the normal course of how these cases would have gone and specifically notes that here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/business/dealbook/peter-th...

It's one thing to say that funding a lawsuit is fine, and another thing to say that its fine to target an organization to ensure that every grievance against them does not settle out of court and goes to trial.
I don't know seems pedantic to me. I see a very minimal difference between the two. Doesn't even seem like a worthwhile conversation to be honest.
I think they're hoping that eventually, investors will get tired of paying the high salaries needed to locate their engineers in the Bay Area (or salaries won't increase commensurate to cost of living, and they will stop finding engineers willing to move there).

Whether the city's culture or the tech community's attachment to the region will break first is, of course, an open question.
I feel like ddg's instant results for 'npm foo' is a lot more accurate than both of these suggestions.
Spending lots of money on lawsuits has the effect of increasing the demand on lawyers (making them more expensive for other people) and courts (making them more slow for other cases).

The resources the justice system spent chasing Thiel's personal vendetta could have been used for cases other people think are more important. That's why other people complain about it.
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As an Australian, I can confirm that in some parts of the country this is probably true! Seriously, our elocution is nothing short of atrocious: we drop words, use frequent contractions and then just roll everything into one mumbling, rolling wall of noise. Witness "owzigoin?". Known in more respectable locations as "How are you doing?". FWIW I'm just as guilty as the rest.
It doesn't go against it. The question is how elastic is the demand curve. If it's not elastic enough to make SF affordable for low-to-mid income residents then we may face bad macroeconomic and cultural effects. That's where price controls come in.
Are you sure that only 30% of SF voters are homeowners? Maybe in presidential elections (with 70% turnout), but in all the other elections where turnout ranges from 30-50% I wouldn't be surprised if homeowners make up more than half of actual voters.
It's really no use criticizing some random individual for using their money to buy something that's for sale. If you don't want a thing to be bought, you have to find some way to make it not for sale.
He is very much doing something under-handed to destroy Gawker.

Gawker owns insurance to decouple financial harm from existential harm in the case of lawsuits like these. The civil system expects that victims who are harmed will try to maximize expected payout in case of a suit. If Hulk's legal case is indeed robust, he should have included every possible harm in the suit to maximize his payout.

The decision to structure the suit in a way that excludes Gawker's insurance coverage is an under-handed technique which turns a civil suit into an indirect tactic to destroy Gawker. It is underhanded because, at the very least, it violates an expected principle of the civil suit system. This signals that the goal of the suit is not to compensate Hulk for damages, but to put Gawker out of business.
Should Gawker be able to publish a 'sex tape', ignore a court order to take it down, then pay a slightly higher insurance premium which to them is just 'cost of doing business' at this point, just because they are 'journalists'?
Is there a way to install packages on user space without proot? Why does it need /nix?
Denton and the people in his employ have their right to free speech, and Hulk Hogan has the right to use the beautiful system of Anglosphere common law -- certainly the best legal system in the world -- to deal with Gawker's poison.

(Goebbels and Stalin is a bit too hyperbolic, I think. Maybe try and scale it down -- say, Joe McCarthy.)
>Also, why the dead weight? 500 tons is easily doable with a (smallish) hydraulic press.

Sure, but how do you know the hydraulic press is applying 500 tons? You need to have a universal standard for length (to determine the area of your piston) and for force (which doesn't exist), and consider the friction in your hydraulic system. We can generate a universal standard for the kilogram, then duplicate that log(500) times, and create a very well controlled mass that we can hang from stuff. The level of accuracy that is needed would surprise you.
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Okay. Why would I want a currency in my programming language? This obviously isn't the same as having a library for using a currency.
I'm calling BS. Where's your source that Seattle has the highest average salary to cost of living?
Which is why this is a state bill. That would be consistent with Redmond's claim.
This is equally true of parts of the USA, and probably most other countries.
I don't know that I entirely agree... and while an interview is a bad time to make this, getting to know someone often includes getting to know their political views or sexual alignment. You don't always have enough insight into another culture to even understand, and sometimes it can be helpful.

I don't necessarily think of this as a race thing, so much as a culture thing. People with similar physical appearances from different cultures will have very different viewpoints and personalities. That said, there are some racist motherfuckers out there on all sides.
Feds spend billions to run museum-ready computer systems – SFGate
Yes, influence of extremely wealthy should ideally be limited to financial, and in consumption, instead of in information and politics.
Awesome Flexbox
I'm not sure you got my point. Everyone, the author included, agrees that his work is absurd. What I am adding is that additionally it's done in a way that's unfunny.
I'm certainly not rich or famous in any stretch of the imagination, yet Gawker felt inclined to personally slander me multiple times. So implying that only folks like Thiel have a reason in stopping the bullying that they do isn't accurate.
That's not nice and quite false.

You've been posting many unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. Please stop.
How hard is it to run a "canary watch" though? The overhead has to be pretty low. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to pull the plug.
If you are putting forth the argument that merely financing a lawsuit is a corruption of the public trust, then we have much more serious problems with our legal system than Peter Thiel having it out for Gawker

Larger crimes don't excuse smaller ones, which is also known as the Fallacy of Relative Privation. I'm also having trouble figuring out (or even learning) what public interest is served by this result? Does a rich guy shutting down a publication enter into it at all? I think it does.
Opposing the construction of more housing will just maintain/accelerate the rate at which residents of SF will be driven out.
Contact the developer (say, over IRC, Slack, email, GitHub, etc), and ask them to sign a sentence you provide with it. Then you can sign their key.
This is exactly why I wish these cars would be banned from being on the road at all in their current state. Some people are assuming it means you don't have to pay as much attention. In the hands of your average consumer, these cars are not safe. As an above average user of technology, I would not trust myself to remain in constant control of such a vehicle. I certainly don't trust the average or below average consumer to handle it!

Most who claim they would remain attentive are not aware that they are making false claims, and this likely includes a lot of HN visitors. The better the cars get at remaining on autopilot, the more complacent drivers will become. A really good autopilot is training its users into trusting it to handle everything. If your average commute results in autopilot practically never kicking in, your brain will naturally - regardless of your intent - find something else to occupy your attention. Reading a book in your lap, checking the weather, grooming yourself in the mirror, or even just spacing out and daydreaming.

Frankly I'm of the opinion that self-driving cars are something that will happen in 50+ years. When cities are built with "roads" that are actually tracks; tracks that are designed to handle only these cars and nothing else. I imagine we will not own such cars; they'll be more like subway/metro public transit systems, but with individual pods that hold a small number of people and with hundreds/thousands of small stations to embark/disembark from.

These vehicles should not be allowed until there is no manual takeover. If the vehicle cannot operate at all times on autopilot, it should not be on the road.
Associative arrays aren't about phone books. They're about providing key value storage. You can use an associative array to record phone numbers, but you could also use it for any key value pairing.

Why the same hash table for two different things? Why the same block chain for two different things?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11772966
If you close your account, they'll probably still use your data and then you won't have a way to tell them not to.
> I'm terrified of anyone but me having access to this kind of data, though. It's nobody's business but mine.

This is by far the biggest problem with this kind of tech. If there were a way to guarantee the privacy of the recordings, it would be a super useful tool. You could basically have a perfect photographic memory. Not to mention all the cool processing you can do with the data. The idea really excites me, but equally terrifies me.

But I think given enough time and progress in encryption/speech recognition/legal issues, I think something like this is inevitable. It's hard to see a future where we record less. I think another key part is having access to data of you. That way you don't feel like it's being recorded to be used "against" you.
In Hawai'i this is just "howzit?"
It rains too much, like 14 months per year is just rain. And the Seattle freeze...ya, people in Seattle don't like to talk to other people, it is like Northern Europe. /s

We've always made up crazy lies just to keep the Californians away, but ultimately it isn't working. Seattle is a nice place to live/work, and has plenty of jobs for techies.
OnePlus manufactures in India.

http://wap.business-standard.com/article/companies/oneplus-p...
I keep that in mind. And this court decision was not made on the basis of how repugnant, malicious or vicious Gawker or Nick Denton are.

If Gawker goes bankrupt, it won't be because they're horrible people, it will be because they overstepped the bounds of the law.
If you use the gmail interface you can show the FROM field to the proper email address. For other email clients, as long as it allows you to set the FROM field you are good to go.

Another option is to create a default email address for each domain under the account so if you have DomainA.com and DomainB.com in the account, create user@DomainA.com and user@DomainB.com. Then create the aliases under those two users. That way if you forget to change the FROM field, at least the email comes from the same domain. While it costs an extra $5 a month for the added user, it is a safeguard if you are concerned about forgetting.

The other benefit is that Google surprisingly has decent phone support for Apps for Business. I have had a couple issues over the years and a quick call got them resolved quickly. There is typically no wait time and you speak directly with a support person. Not really a deal breaker, but it is an added plus when evaluating products.
>They care about your competency.

Grad school admissions cares about your GPA.

Incidentally I found it freeing to know I wasn't going to grad school. Didn't have to run the grades/stats rat race anymore, and could do the work for the right reasons.

Doing undergrad knowing you are trying to get into competitive PhD programs and doing undergrad knowing it's the end of your education are very different beasts.
Hm. Can you elaborate on why nix is a compromise? Nix is effectively building from source, but with lots of caching in place to avoid end users constantly having to rebuild every last package from source. Nix and Apt are very different in this regard.

>But they are ultimately about the degree to which we allow binary blobs, not whether we do.

I don't agree with this assesment of Nix and Nix packages at all. My local system evaluates the package definition (a description of how to build it from source) and merely is smart enough to retrieve a prebuilt binary with the exact same source inputs and configuration. Sure, I'm still trusting the remote party to have built it as described, but that's true of any system where pre-built binaries are distributed.

For another explanation, I could disable the NixOS Hydra Cache and could theoretically rebuild my current system state without their binary cache and still wind up with the exact same bits. At least, that's the idea behind Nix.
The moral problem I see with this, is that actually pursuing a lawsuit is so inordinately expensive, that someone like Hulk Hogan, who presumably earned some cash in his life, can't pursue it on his own.