skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not reshares, it's from the publishers themselves. I must have 'Liked' them at some point.

The thing is I don't want to prune those publishers because if I have to see any non-Friend posts I want to see it from them. But I just wish that real humans were weighted higher than another LeBron story by ESPN.
It's not only about formatting or naming. It's about how you break down the problem. I sometimes write functions for a certain problem and later realize that I have written the same thing 3 years before. When I compare the code it's almost the same. Almost same function name, same parameters, same result type.
I understand; I'm just pointing out that "benefits each party equally" is not necessarily true.
(I again find myself on the other side of most comments) I think it is obvious that we think in a language, or more specifically the vocabulary. Try to imagine thinking without language (yes, you can do it), e.g. think about an apple. When I tried it, I was picturing the apple and imagined the smell and taste. That was a lot of details. On the other hand, when I think about with the word "apple", the shape and color, smell and taste does not come on so strongly yet I still have the feel that I got the (idea of) apple. So in my opinion, language vocabulary is an abstraction over a collection of ideas that allows us to focus our thought without recollecting (flood our limited short term memory slots) all the details. There is this saying that our short term memory only have 7 plus or minus 2 slots and this short term memory is like our ram that enables our thinking. Vocabulary allows us to abstract complex ideas to fit into a single memory slot, thus it is essential for us to be able to have complex (when we have multiple components of ideas interweaving) thoughts.

Now, I do not distinguish one language from another. Different languages may accidentally possess different power of abstraction in particular area due to the culture behind the language, but in general, I believe the abstraction power is similar -- if not, we can always invent new vocabulary and we do. So whether you are thinking in English or Spanish or jumping back and forth or mixing in between, but the abstracting aspect remain the same. For those bi-linguists try think "apple" in one language and "eat" in another language and try think anything that involves eating apple. For me at least, I do not have trouble use either language for either apple or eat, but once I start my thought, I do not swap it -- that is, if I started thinking apple in English, I remains thinking apple in English. It is the function of words as abstracting that is key to our thought (not language as typically a language teacher would define).

Then there is grammar in addition to vocabulary. I don't think grammar is part of our thought. They are more like cues. We don't think about grammar, but grammar automatically comes as we use the vocabulary. The grammar do not really occupy any memory slots (except when you are learning the language).

It is not that we have to think in a language -- we can think in pictures and imagine playing a movie, but thinking via a language allows us to think in a more abstract way and I believe it is essential for us to develop and grab complex thoughts.
It would be closed for being off-topic ;)
If you're correct in that the same users are presenting different tones (which I don't necessarily agree with), then perhaps it could be summed up by, as you say, impressing our own values on the situation.

Perhaps we think it's fitting for adulterers to be outed & shamed, but we don't think it's fitting for them to be attacked or jailed or executed.
I never had one, and you'd be surprised how many don't. This has caused me to miss camping trips, parties, dinners, and weddings. Of course it's possible that I'm just such an obnoxious person that nobody wants me around, but if that were the case, I doubt I'd have received such abject and clearly heartfelt apologies from people who didn't invite me to things because I wasn't on their Facebook friends list.

Of course, such apologies always come with the implicit "...but if you don't get on Facebook, it's going to keep happening." I actually started to create a Facebook account, but refused to continue past the point where it asked for my email account credentials in order to construct a friends list from my correspondents.

Yes, I'm aware that's optional and can be bypassed - but when the relationship starts out with a boundary test as blatant and extreme as that, I'm really not interested in hanging around to find out where my new abusive partner is going to decide to go from there.

So I still don't have a Facebook account. As a direct result of this, I also don't have a meaningful social life any more, which is a shame, because I rather enjoyed the one I did have. I'm hardly alone in this. Is it any wonder there are people who want to kill Facebook with a hatchet?
Once having studied, for example, rational arithmetic, or predicate logic, it is difficult NOT to think in those languages. Yet we are perfectly capable of performing rational or predicative inference if we have no knowledge of those languages, if less precisely. Presumptively this is due to the abstraction of rules from experience facilitating a branching sequence model for abstractions and hypotheses represented during inarticulate thought - abstractions being holographic summary statistics of concepts derived more directly from the sensory manifold.
People are willing to do that, but without a significant number of arabic-speaking westerners, how do you do thatin a way that is actually effective?
On the client side there is already a vast amount of C-code that is interpreting file data, the brotli portion is a minimal part of that security risk. Porting brotli to rust for the purposes of increased security is like optimizing the part of your program that takes the least time. Lots of effort for minimal gain.
Not exactly a good argument for mutual funds being the same cost as ETFs though. It's only technically a mutual fund from what I can tell. I see your point though.
Hi, I wrote a blog post recently that answers this question.
http://visabuilder.com/blog/escape-from-h1b-hell-5-things-im....
Hope this is helpful.
The SpiderOak folks seem to know what they're doing. But if you don't trust them, here's a completely open secure communications tool:

https://github.com/Spark-Innovations/SC4

It's based on TweetNaCl, libsodium's smaller sibling. It can run standalone, i.e. no server required.

No group chat yet, but that's a relatively straightforward extension. I have two-party chat working in private beta. (Chat does require a server, though.)
What's the benefit over, say, https://www.dreamfactory.com/?
And here a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxBEsTet6w8
Oh really? Expand on this?
I presented a version of this at a meetup! Presentation and supporting materials here: http://planspace.org/20160629-presenting_hello_tensorflow/
> The smallest droplet is 5 dollars a month, do you pay 50 cents a month for your shared hosting?

Yes.

> Have you even looked into DO or are you just making assumptions? You can create a ton of apps with one click (One-click apps) and install a full stack with WordPress, Drupal, Django, and much, much more, and it just works.

My company manages servers for non-technical people whose small business or hobby websites have outgrown shared hosting. I often get clients who found out a little too late that running a Linux machine securely and efficiently is much more complicated than deploying a one-click app on DigitalOcean (or a similar service). I sweep in, optimize the hell out of everything, and occasionally patch some gaping security holes. So no, it doesn't "just work". At least not in the long term.
Thanks, I didn't realise that it was possible to hide it; if it is possible to conceal both date and year then that leaves only the timeline, sinister data collection and general tediousness as issues.
Do you know any good SMS providers for India with a nice API? I am looking for one and can't decide which one is good.
Monsters of such scale should be viewed from different points, including social responsibility.

BTW why do you bother as a shareholder, do you receive any dividends?
Considering that Twilio hosts with AWS, that will be a tough price war for Twilio to win.
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"Do not hash passwords with:
...
10. Plaintext"

It's a shame that sites still do this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodynamic_tether
Another way to learn Javascript: letzcode.com, using text chat.
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Wow. This has been a long time coming, eh?
> It kind of is, though, isn't it? The online ad market is theoretically super efficient - if the market clearing price for an ad is $1, and then you add a 10% sales tax, it no longer makes sense to bid / pay $1 for that ad, knowing that you will be out of pocket $1.10. Instead you would bid about 90-91 cents, knowing that it would get marked up to $1 with tax. Net effect is that Google only makes 90 cents on that ad instead of a dollar, even though they aren't directly paying the tax.

Not if you have to bid against people in other jurisdictions for the same ad spaces. Then the people in the taxing jurisdiction have to bid the market price or lose the auction to someone in another place that doesn't impose the tax. In theory this could have a negative impact on ad prices, but it isn't going to be anything like the entire amount of the tax.
The question isn't, but being paperless and cloud-based seems like it would make it more difficult to investigate for the folks investigating.
EU would be angry and probably wouldn't let us back under exactly the same terms. I suspect we'd be offered (and begrudgingly accept) slightly more inclusive terms such as taking more refugees, no rebate and still out of Schengan/Eurozone. We'd be back in and somewhat back to normal within five years but considerably worse off. Well, the working and middle classes would be worse off.

Worth it. Crossed fingers for it.
Tens of cents at most. It is still much cheaper than any competing funds transfer mechanism here in Canada.
Link to the PDF: https://www.gitbook.com/download/pdf/book/bagder/http2-expla...
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I don't think there is a justification for big corporations to do what they do and they have to be pursued. I've been working for a bank in a tax haven in Europe and I've seen that financial engineering powerful people use has been a known and accepted tool for the governments for a while, and now that Europe is living a financial crisis governments start asking.

These companies play in an absolutely different league than employees, self employed and small companies in Europe where they make you pay strictly all the taxes to mantain our social structure. They have big teams of lawyers, financial experts and advisors specialized in tax havens just to make grow their revenues in billions avoiding to pay taxes in the countries they have presence.

Totally unfair for regular people like me.

http://www.uspirgedfund.org/reports/usp/offshore-shell-games...
It's exactly the kind of people who use Muslim Match that are at risk. I'm not suggesting that people will die, but there will be awful consiquences from this - especially for females.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090106224426/http://www.bbc.co...
I think the point is that fullnodes / holders would raise their own hashpower and mine the spinoff coin themselves.
Perhaps maximized cognitive potential isn't compatible with most corporate jobs.
> You can drive through old neighborhoods near me with 1000 sq ft houses that sell for $40k because nobody wants a house that small.

Sure, but a $40k house will need anywhere from $90k to $160k worth of additional repairs to be safe to inhabit.

And since that cost isn't in the equity, most people in most areas can't qualify to finance that. (A $200k mortgage is not identical to a $40k mortgage and $160k reno loan).
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Don't forget that Cleanly.io is shutting down, so now your dishwasher won't run at all anymore.
I'll have to try this out when I get home from work and see how well it works.
Nothing I said contradicts what you've said.
this is why you don't have a comedy show.
I didn't try checking out, but if you search for a .top domain on Namecheap you can put them in your cart: http://i.imgur.com/JIhDi7g.png

Currently on sale at $0.88 for the first year.
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We haven't started developing the product yet. I've tried to ask him what his role will be and he has become hostile at the question.

He hasn't defined his role, but has said he is the "Founder", and has said that he should haven't to argue with partners to get his point across.

Is asking what his role will be a valid question? He answered that question with a question:

"what do you think it will be? I'm the founder haha my role is everything"...

He also has never written a line of code, and has said he doesn't have time, but has said that he knows how to manage developers.

He wants to outsource all development to India.

He claims the product is "already designed", just step 2 is developing it.

He keeps talking about building a unified platform with API's.

I'm tempted to ask him to define an API, but wouldn't want to upset him.

I've also told him that without working fulltime, the thing would take at least 9 months to develop. He counters, saying that if we can increase head count, we cut the time in half.

"theoretically, if there are 2 of you, we can cut the time in half".

After that, I pointed him to read the book "Mythical man month".
On sunny days, London's 'walkie talkie' building makes the sidewalk nice and toasty (and melts plastic bits on your car) with its south-facing concave glass wall: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23944679

Not quite a solar furnace, though.
The video at the end is neat to watch, and after that video, there was another that showed "Improved Seam Carving for Video Resizing" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJtE8afwJEg

The video starts off not very impressive, but once they get to the forward energy method, it' pretty cool how it is able to show video with objects and edges that are smooth frame to frame.

One of the neat use cases was to remove shaky camera effects.
> Novel Activity—>triggers dopamine—>creates a higher motivational state—>which fuels engagement

Is there anyone else that doesn't get this reaction?

I usually just feel tired and then ennui sets in.
He wasn't joking, his dish washer is a local Stanford graduate student trying to make some extra money.
You missed the point entirely. I'm not saying everyone who read this missed the point entirely. But you clearly did.

The $100 hard drive is being used as cold storage for $500k btc.

I won't apologize for having to spell everything out for you here, because you didn't think things through given the context of the post.

The post's message was "bitcoin is not a medium of exchange" and "bitcoin is a highly speculative gambling vehicle."

The point was, and again I'm not going to apologize for having to spell things out in this level of detail since you did not 'connect the dots' -- the point was, if you gather 20 people who have $500k to $1M dollars to invest, no one will bid on the $500,000 hard drive.

The vast majority of people with $500k to $1M dollars to invest will seek a reliable asset like gold or other legitimate asset that is backed by something.

Would a gambler bid $500k for the hard drive? Maybe. But then again, if you go to Vegas or Reno, you will find lots of gamblers who will never gamble on card games in the casino due to cheaters (cards being the easiest game to cheat at as everyone knows). So even gamblers are selective and may not put money on btc.

The point made was -- the vast majority of the population are NOT GAMBLERS. They want to see lots of evidence that the value of their $500k+ will be recoverable in a traditional manner that is widely accepted.

- such as precious metals, which cannot be wiped clean by exposure to a magnetic field (unlike cold storage for btc)

- such as real estate

- such as an ETF of higly-liquid stocks

On the "safest to mostly gambling" continuum of placements of your money in search of a good return, precious metals are at one end of the spectrum.

Poker chips, the craps table, and btc are at the far other end.

My entire point was, the profile of a btc 'investor' is that they're a gambler. And with the U.S. government seeking to curtail efforts to use btc as 'money', only gamblers willing to lose everything overnight use btc.
But how many Android users do you know that actually have a strong password? (Speaking of which: Google's decision to not allow strong encryption passwords together with short screen unlock PINs/patterns is not helping here. It's actually possible, but they don't expose the user interface to change them separately, probably for usability reasons.)

Also, while I would agree as far as PCs are concerned, moving the eMMC to a new phone's mainboard is probably also not a likely scenario.
Milking the multinationals is too bold a statement.

Consider that Europe has had austerity in several countries. The average person was told that they needed to suffer fiscally for a few years (in terms of social services being trimmed and taxes not going down, sometimes going up) in order to redress spending imbalances and show the bond markets that things are under control. Meanwhile, we learn that the very largest, cash-rich, profitable companies in the world are paying little tax compared to other companies and small businesses, all because of special tax treatment in some countries. Is it any surprise that politicians have to act on that? This is the connection.

And someone below said that the HN forum is far left. That's a little rich, pun intended, given that many of the people who contribute are directly related to venture capital, or own lots of stock or are self employed, or just wealthy. Sometimes the world can't as easily be broken into left and right.
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The more scientific posts seem to be at https://hackaday.io/project/5596-em-drive
Sure, that's the ideal, but that's not the reality on the ground. People treat logins to websites like it's a guarantee of privacy, and it's just not. Maybe once we have standardized and widely used end-to-end crypto (keybase), have some real authentication (extension of end-to-end crypto), and take computer security seriously (stop using C and C++, to start) we can start to consider things communicated via the Internet to be private. But we're not there yet and we need to get across to people that if you put your name and photos up on a dating site, that information is public and you should be prepared to deal with the consequences.
Isn't that still an open question?
Sorry, but where exactly did I blame the victim? And where did I weight the guilt of the hacker vs the guilt of these societies that engage in such horrific acts?

Is there even a point in doing this? I despise both and that's what I said.

Besides, people would get hurt after such a leak even in the West. In most cases emotionally, but still there's a lot of people out there that could snap if they find out their wife has been cheating on them. It still happens.
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All bandwidth has a physical limit. Without seeing the books on capacity planning for your average wireless provider it is impossible to know what the current situation really is but with what I know of telcos if they can get away with billing for 'air' they definitely will.

Note how it is just about impossible to get any usage statistics other than 'per person' from the various providers.

See also: 'roaming charges' and 'air time'.
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> Not if they have to keep information on paper to comply with the law.

This really means print on demand.
I did, yes, over-formality got the better of me.
Why are you blaming the companies for acting rationally, rather than the governments for creating absurd tax environments?

I agree it's unfair, but I can't fault anyone for trying to legally minimize their tax burden. Tax law should just be simple enough that anyone can do it themselves.
You are right. However, as with everything, he (Montoro) does as he wishes: they started doing this just last year... the Law comes from 2003.

Last year we started the cycle of these lists. Last year was... election year!

Edit: last year, not two ago.
Àwèsomé!
French is not my native language, however the wikipedia link adds absolutely nothing to what I already knew. And don't get me wrong, I don't claim to "have total understanding of a concept".

To see what I am talking about, imagine instead of the link this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion
well, they still have well over a billion active users. They've alienated some, but it's barely a blip on their radar it seems.
Thank you. Wow.
I wonder why they don't use golang.org/x/crypto/nacl instead of bindings to C library (libsodium-go). All primitives in it are implemented in assembly (for amd64 arch), so speed shouldn't be a concern.
That's pretty much what the carriers want you to think. Their main talking points to convince you.

https://levels.io/korea-4g/. He used 4 TB of 4G data for $48. Yup. In high density South Korea.

Or maybe you'll want 200 GB plan in low density Sweden? 699 SEK/month (~$82), rather expensive as Nordic countries go, but at least no one can say I'm cherry picking. http://www.tele2.se/handla/mobilt-bredband-4g/.

Please don't buy the propaganda spread by the carriers. It's just full of excuses.

In their material you'll hear about how difficult it is to provide service for some unusual special case, like a stadium somewhere during a huge event and that's why. Stop asking, just buy our overpriced plan.
The NIMBY phenomenon is strong in America.
You are presenting a completely biased and anti-european view, looking at multinationals with the most rose tinted glasses.

Google, like many other multinationals pay absolutely minuscule taxes. They have eradicated large parts of national advertisement companies across Europe, who all have to pay normal tax rates, while Google pays close to zero.

You are not a leftwing nutjob just because you want companies to pay taxes for the money they earn in your country. A free market relies on a level playingfield and when multinationals can exploit loopsholes in this manner it distorts the competition.

I am not sure why you single out Euro countries as not interested in modernizing. I can't speak for other European countries but I can speak for Norway where I am from and our taxation system is decades ahead of archaic mess found in the US e.g. The fact that a large part of the American population have to pay professionals to fill out their taxes says something about the complexity and backwardness of the system.
agree that he probably did not mean it as a universal law, but rather meant that he prefers reading books that confuse and bewilder him. As an example, here's a really short story of his, "A Little Fable":

"
"Alas", said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I am running into."

"You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.
"

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