skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same point could have been made with a completely different tone.

You cannot have meaty discussion amongst people with diverse points of view from diverse backgrounds without an expectation of civility and respect. If that isn't enforced, then minority viewpoints have no hope of being taken seriously. It becomes an echo chamber and the oxygen gets sucked out of the community. This can also drive away your most valued contributors and/or make their contributions toxic in a way they can't stop.

There is all kinds of problems with saying that it is okay to express a valid point in a nasty fashion.
Only if it smells like athlete's foot.
We're in touch with them, yes, and we have a proof-of-concept node.
I must ask, where on your scale does the tobaco companies ends up? If we are comparing the potential damage that an ISP can do vs hitler, I think it just fair to bring in smoking as a counter argument that government causes more damage than private enterprises.
> Many younger people today find it hard to fathom, but the suburbs and fast food car culture were not (entirely) a capitalist plot executed by General Motors and McDonald's to brainwash the populace into unwitting wage-slave servitude.

Yeah, a significant part of it was about race rather than capitalism.
Well here in Slovenia I see this approach does not fly with old people. They will simply take their time to bag their stuff properly. What is the cashier going to do but wait? Throw stuff on the floor?
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What's sad is that this culture shames people into questioning whether they ought to depreciate their own precious happy childhood memories, simply because they took place at a now-stigmatized restaurant.

You were a kid then, you had no role in choosing the venue, and you certainly don't bear some kind of moral responsibility for the putative evils of McDonald's as an institution just because you ate a hamburger there when you were six.

Be happy that you got to have fun on a playground with your friends! It is not tainted.
Primates are not the only game in town.

http://youtu.be/uZOjwzInj2g
It never hurts to send them an email and ask them what the price of their services is.
"This hasn't gotten FDA approval yet, but be sure to ask your doctor about it!" is a bit of a non-starter. As a culture we're generally leery about "disruptive" startups that affect our bodies surgically...
(This is a good question, but as asked it's so broad that it's akin to asking "What kinds of things does P2P work for?" and we're still discovering more answers to it every year.)
Luckily, my compiler writes large piles of tests for me. I call it the typechecker.
I'm sorry what? Your interpretation of the comic is that it's claiming that poor Americans all live in the worst 3.3% of homes and have dying dads and bosses who look like dogs?

The comic is saying that poor children have reduced access to resources and opportunities. That is testable, and widely accepted as true. Are you saying it's false?
It's 1999 all over again, I guess.
Why would a VC firm IPO?
It's kind of a big field by now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_humanities

One of the earliest triumphs (from the scholarly point of view, although it's also super-scary for privacy) is the success of stylometry for authorship attribution of unknown books, letters, and manuscripts.

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

I had a high school teacher who (as an English grad student) used a concordance to make an argument about Mark Twain's vocabulary, showing either when a particular work was likely written or when Twain likely read some other work (I forgot which). But that kind of thing and even more impressive inferences would be pretty routine today using computer tools.
The Economist is a publication that has always taken an editorial stance.
I think you meant to say empathize as opposed to emphasize.
Why is it obviously dysfunctional or consumer-harming?

Can you imagine Apple, Google, Facebook existing without the model? Because each needed large capital investments before turning a profit. Equity investment was the only obvious solution for that large upfront capital, as tech companies normally don't have collateral with which to secure debt. Such equity investments are high-risk by nature, so investors want high potential rewards.

Thus, it stands to reason that such companies wouldn't have succeeded if there weren't a mechanism for high-risk, high-reward equity financing. I'd argue that all of these companies are functional and also that they've made consumers' lives demonstrably better.

Maybe few question it because it's worked so well?
I know it's not a statement of intent, but the quote nonetheless makes them implicitly sound like they'll be taking on Youtube, Twitch, Snapchat. Those are some big crosshairs. On two of those platforms, you can consume content without being logged-in. The third, Snapchat, you're always your pseudonymous identity. All of them allow you to cultivate a personality that's distinct from your real-life one.

I think they overestimate the likelihood and volume of people with real-name identities posting video content.
This is incredible, looking forward for the release of the engine, what is it that you'd be doing with openAI?

(:
Full disclosure I know the CEO. This is the real deal. You can participate in a clinical trial without waiting for FDA.
Don't quit, keep interviewing.

Think how insanely stressful interviewing would be if you didn't have your current job. Having a job makes it easier to find a job. So relax, be confident in your interviews, and keep interviewing till you find a good fit.

Save up an emergency fund.

You can work on polishing your skills start a personal project using new technology or a stack you're interested in moving over to.

You don't need reteaching, most jobs you aren't going to use everything you learned in school anyway.

Good luck.
> you could order, let's say, the set of all cat pictures by how cute they are

This would be a very, very popular web site.
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Linux/TOSZ.html

God says...
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CIA surrenders to IRA within 6 months.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/supreme-court-get...

The police state is dismantled and we return to 1990. No TSA, no NSA, no CIA. God is perfectly just. In God we trust. Complain to God on the phone. TempleOS has phone to God. World is perfectly just. "God, why dsid this happen?" "You get credit for suffering." "Okay"

Highs and lows balance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-wSdbB6O4
I often get people visiting my profile who I cannot identify, despite my having the paid plan.
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No, but that's exactly what an "exit strategy" is, and an awful lot of startups are built around finding an exit. More often than not, that means building enormous hype and growth on a model that you know isn't sustainable, then selling it off just before it hits the apex and starts to fall, so the buyer can either dismantle it for parts or pare it down into something more realistic. Either way, you're leaving your users out in the cold.
It's pretty easy to do this yourself as you put the items onto the conveyer, with large items in the cart at least getting the UPC code up.

I do this at WalMart when I'm in a hurry.
A match made in "heaven" with systemd then...
"Yes, github sticking it to the most oppressed of minority groups: straight white dudes."

Are they trying to reduce the percentage of straight people there as well? I thought that gay white males might be an unintended casualty of the racism and sexism at github.

There is an argument to be made that poor white males may indeed be one of the most disadvantaged groups, at least in the US. It depends on how you weight various criteria.
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Ii tend to do one or two longer road trips for vacation a year driving... There are a lot of places that just aren't covered at all b T-Mobile, that's what I was mostly referring to.
Ask HN: Productivity
I worked 3 years for a startup remotely. The major con was the lack of social interaction, while the pro was the ability to completely immerse myself in coding and solving problems on a deeper level. For the past year, I've worked onsite at a great startup with a great culture, but an open floor plan. Things that are perfect with this setup: ad hoc meetings, fixing the build, grooming sessions, small/medium size stories with relatively simple scopes, responding to slack, doing code review. Things that are terrible with this setup (in my opinion): any sort of truly deep coding/thinking/tinkering.

When I honestly evaluate my last year, almost all of what I consider my best work was done at home at nights or on the weekends. I've also noticed that a really good senior engineer on the team almost always comes in with his best new/gamechanging code when he took a Friday off and hacked over the weekend. There's something about the hustle of people constantly talking around me, having impromptu meetings, etc that triggers a part of my brain that keeps it in a very shallow mode (which is sometimes appropriate).

Btw, I'm not even antisocial or anything, I could sit around and hang out all day in the office, but I'm trying to get to that 'deep work' (to quote Cal Newport). Does anyone have any advice on this?
I've always wanted to write a distributed ArchiveTeam torrent server that, instead of distributing crawlers for ingestion, equally distributed IA torrents to distributed end-user storage (in a VM most likely). If seeding for a torrent dropped below a threshold, that torrent would be advertised to other client nodes to download and then serve themselves. Client VMs could come and go, and the announcer would always ensure remote storage was handled in an orderly fashion.

Perhaps this year is the year!
I hardly think imgabe and my posts constitute an attack. I'd call them a polite rejection of an idea.

Ignoring an idea in the context of a discussion about the idea seems pretty weird. Disagreement is part of discussion, and disagreement is not, in and of itself, impolite.

Losing a universal port on one of the most common phones doesn't really seem like an "option." It hasn't happened yet, so it's still a "possibility" but it is a possibility in the sense that the future is unknowable, not in the sense that it's something you have a choice in (beyond abandoning iphones). It's something Apple wants to do, but it isn't like a person could go buy an iphone with the "backwards compatible audio" option
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I recently ran into this. I was putting an SVG into an <img> tag and sized it with CSS. In every other browser, it worked as expected. The SVG filled the space and stretched to the set dimensions. In EDGE, the SVG appeared tiny at the top-left of the space the <img> took up. I could not figure out a way around it. Had to convert it to a PNG. It seems that it handles SVGs as background images just fine.
The posts below explain the normative policy problems with your view, but fail to point out the biggest flaw: you're simply wrong, as a matter of fact, about what this decision entails.

The majority opinion directly addresses your concerns.

The majority opinion explicitly and unambiguously REJECTS the line of legal reasoning you claim it upholds, and definitely does NOT grant the FCC "plenary" regulatory authority over the internet.

The court carefully points out that is not granting the FCC any authority that was not explicitly granted by the legislative and executive branches. If you don't like net neutrality, take it up with the legislative and executive branches.

There is no slippery slope here, any more or less than democracy itself is a slippery slope.

In short, your reading of the majority opinion is patently incorrect.
Apple, Google, and Facebook were not born looking for an exit.
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You could talk about whether something is unique. For example, Social Security Numbers, telephone numbers, and IP addresses are designed to be unique. By contrast, given names, ages, or favorite colors are not unique in isolation.

Unfortunately, that turned out not to be a hard-and-fast distinction because things that are not unique in isolation are often unique in combination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-identifier

The Netflix deanonymization paper discusses how things (how much you like a movie) that are very non-unique in isolation can be very unique when you have an extremely large number of them. Arvind Narayanan (one of the authors) has given a few discussions of the problem of dimensionality for privacy; one way of thinking of it is that there's an unfathomably large amount of volume in a very high-dimensional space, so there's an extremely large amount of opportunity for points in it to be very far away from each other, even if there's nothing especially "atypical" about the individual points.

This is closely related to the "curse of dimensionality"

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

although the curse is often stated from the analyst's perspective when hoping to find patterns, whereas the phenomenon Narayanan is describing is more from the perspective of the individual whose data are in a database and who hopes to appear similar to other individuals in order to retain anonymity, yet turns out to be very distinctive merely because of the number of dimensions.
What field presence do you have to carry out this work?
Fair, I actually find it weird that dev conferences have become press events for enthusiasts (so that now there's a real dev event after the press one), so my comment seems strange.

I really meant two things: mainly that here was someone who didn't look like everyone else at apple. Secondarily I think it's good to have less of a sharp dividing line between marketing and development, so that marketing at least has a chance of understanding what's being built and the dev have some idea about what marketing thinks. Many companies do pull that off internally these days (for a long time it wasn't really so) but if you're going to have a word press event, why not make it quite as dry? Frankly the other guys couldn't convincingly get excited about large emoticons. Nor could I.

In the same spirit: I really never liked Ballmer at all (or the Windows programming model) except when he came on stage, danced, and screamed "developers developers developers." He was right and what a relief it was to see someone in senior management so enthusiastic -- I believed it. He did a lot of stupid and evil things, but for that I loved him.
Types in JavaScript aren't very expressive. When you encode your business logic in the type system, even business logic can be "tested" via the type checker.
Meteorites are made from different material from what is common on earth, whereas lab diamonds are chemically indistinguishable from mined diamonds. Plus, carbon in both manmade and mined diamonds is the same age...
Thanks, memory can be a bit leaky at times.
May I ask what you'll be working on at OpenAI? (congrats, btw!)
That doesn't contradict grandparent. They could be doing so by increasing recruitment and hiring of non-whites and non-males. I expect that most people in this thread believe that's exactly what they're doing.
Well that's an interesting idea. What sort of programming language would let us build a package repo that could survive a Wikipedia-style edit war?

Wikipedia works because articles are mostly independent. There are links, but if they're broken it's not fatal. There are also a fair number of stub articles and a bureaucracy around what counts as a notable subject.

In practice, projects have owners, and they're looking for help, but not just anyone's help.
I agree. Even clicking the plus icon suggests there'll be more than one type family resource (something you'd want to avoid by default).
The joys of IT. Back in the day, to wipe years of records you had to burn or shred tons of paper in multiple locations. Now you just crash one little system... Despite 20 years of Microsoft-induced crashes, clear best practices and yadda yadda, most organizations will still have a single backup system for any given data repository -- if they have one at all.

And the answer when shit happens is "outsource! Go to the cloud!" -- so that local managers won't be responsible when the snafu happens and data is lost (if it happens to Google, it can and will happen to anyone).

Progress, eh.
This article is udderly fascinating. An excellent break from being bogged down at work.
You don't have to look that far. http://foodforlife.thorntonsrestaurant.com/foodforlife/2014/...
Because it costs money, and people don't typically pay their community centers every time they visit.
Couldn't agree more! Although sad Gavan will be passing on the torch, seeing this make the top of HN and the overwhelming support from people is such a positive surprise.
This is always a cool thing to see in Silicon Valley. Way to go, Dropbox.
Here's me from before:

> No, I'm being specific about what Comcast should be obliged to do.

What I don't see is anything from me that says "Netflix will now, as a result of this ruling, be able to peer with Comcast for free."

The closest you can come to that is this:

> Comcast just can't charge them for access to the last mile, and neither can it charge anybody else (like the transit providers who provide service to the little guy).

But that was in response to a post hypothesizing that Netflix getting free peering would be problematic, i.e. argued under the hypothetical that that policy was in effect.

You're arguing with a straw man.
FP and OOP are totally not irreconcilable. Most modern languages offer both, including the most highly used dynamic languages. Javascript really cracked this nut with its function expressions. Scala's main contribution here is applying static typing to that mixture in a largely coherent way.
The comic explicitly claims:

Panel 2: Paulas house is full of people and not much else. It's damp and noisy and she keeps getting sick.

My interpretation of this is that Paula's house is overcrowded and has severe physical problems that make her sick. How do you interpret it?

Panel 3: That's why they're working two jobs.

My interpretation of this is that Paula's parents are working two jobs, and as a result cannot help her with homework. In contrast, Richard's parents in the left side are doing exactly that. How did you interpret it?
to call IBM a "smaller tech company" is a bit of a stretch.
The history of scurvy is pretty interesting:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/24149/how-scurvy-was-cured-th...
Ah! Indeed. Need to watch how much beetroot I eat.
Maybe this shouldn't have been called a law. Maybe, "Moore's observation" or "Moore's postulation" would have been more apt.
There is no such thing as objectively squicky. I find it squicky.
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Ah, the great flood of '76. Thousands of records were lost.

Very convenient, that flood.
Sure. But you write unit tests for those.
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> What sort of programming language would let us build a package repo that could survive a Wikipedia-style edit war?

Really, the programming language isn't important, its the package management and repository system that matters for that. And, a repository that keeps history and a package/dependency management system that lets you specify the particular version of a dependency would seem to suffice to address the particular problem you relate.
That's a good idea. I recently put my phone screen on greyscale and inverted the colours. So much less obnoxious.
That particular Blogger theme (and other dynamic themes) are among the most reading-hostile abominations foisted on the Web.

I've come to appreciate the two-gear overlay that pops up in advance: they tell me it's save, and a good idea, to close my browser immediately.

(On platforms with JS blocking enabled, all that shows is a blank page. This is also an improvement.)
Anyone have suggestions on how to block sites like this from downloading without permissions?

edit:
So blocking XHR requests seems to do the trick.
>They're getting bought

by who, though? There's not many companies that could acquire dropbox unless their valuation drops dramatically. Microsoft, Apple, and Google, and Amazon all have worthy competitors already, and don't seem too interested in investing a lot more in them. I can't see why facebook would be interested. Who else out there is acquiring companies with multi-billion dollar valuations - Maybe yandex or alibaba?
Pretty much "as a cautionary tale" is as far as I see it going. They pretty clearly fabricated results; in the healthcare field, this is the kiss of death.
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I was very disappointed to find that synthetic diamonds are not that much cheaper than natural ones. I'm not sure why you'd buy a synthetic since it has almost no resale value and you're not saving much on the purchase either.
In the US, only Aldi and some urban based supermarkets where homeless people and drunks will run off with the carts use them.

More often these days, they just put an electronic wheel lock on the front wheel to disable the cart when it leaves the lot.
What costs money, a community center?

Well yes, community centers are literally buildings, and as such, have expenses. Most US communities still have them, however, so it's probably not the money that's preventing them from existing.
Interesting. Is the story online? Do you want to share?
Yes, but "cash-flow positive" is the relevant milestone if you're worried about whether the company will be able to stay in business if there's a freeze in the private equity market.
Like I said in grandparent, I interpret it as saying that poor children have reduced access to resources and opportunities. Which is testable and widely accepted as true.

The comic also explicitly claims that poor Americans are all named Paula, have been recommended Eazee Finance, and work as cater-waiters. Why didn't you take those literally? I'm no scientist, but I'm pretty sure at least one of those is also false. I think I met a poor person once who said she'd never heard of Eazee Finance. She might've misheard me, what with her poor hearing because the house she grew up in was so damp and noisy. Her name was Paula though, so anecdotally that checks out.
My Version 6 (OS X 10.8), Safari is rejected as well, I should be using 'Chrome, Firefox, or Safari' apparently.
By incrementing the useragent I discovered that it loads and all works just fine when I pretend I'm using Safari 8, there's no 'proceed at your own risk' link so I can only chalk it up to google being dicks.
You also gave them money, in that analogy
Thus I give you my first Rust program ;)

// needs in main.rs or lib.rs #![feature(const_fn)]

use std::os::raw::c_schar;
use std::mem;

const ALLSET:usize = (-1_isize) as usize;
const MAXCHR:usize = u8::max_value() as usize;
const ONES:usize = ALLSET / MAXCHR;
const HIGHS:usize = ONES * ((MAXCHR+1)/2);
const ALIGN:usize = 8; // mem::size_of::<usize>(); // mem::size_of<T>() is not const fn (yet?)

pub unsafe extern "C" fn strlen(s: *const c_schar) -> usize {
let mut i:usize = 0;
loop {
if *s.offset(i as isize) == 0 { return i; }
i += 1;
if (i % ALIGN) == 0 { break; }
}
loop {
let v = *mem::transmute::<*const c_schar, *const usize>(s.offset(i as isize));
if v.wrapping_sub(ONES) & !v & HIGHS != 0 {
break;
}
i += ALIGN;
}
loop {
if *s.offset(i as isize) == 0 { return i; }
i += 1;
}
}