skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is both used for like/dislike AND for marking things as spam/troll/off-topic/unconstructive.

You aren't supposed to up/downvote something because you like or dislike it. According to Reddiquette:

"If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to the subreddit it is posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it."
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Probably because enterprise was writing the web of 1998 in 2005. Outside it Firefox was gaining traction, web standards movement was in its golden years (IMHO what we have now is a big regression), AJAX was a fresh kid on the block… Fun times.
Can hardware accelerated GC be generalized enough to make it useful? Isn't that what killed previous efforts?
I think the progression was something like this:

1. Advocate: "GMO crops altered to be resistant to herbicides have problems and some people are getting sick!"

2. Advocate: Hmm, that's a mouthful, we'll just say GMO and people will understand. We can also foment fear in GMO in general, which won't hurt us. "GMO crops are making people sick!"

3. Consumer: Woah, this is GMO? But I keep hearing GMO is bad!

This became clear to me after the wife of a friend who is a nature educator at a state park posted something about stopping GMO crops. I was confused about what was so bad about GMO crops, so asked. She explained that "GMO crops" refers to GMO engineered crops that are herbicide resistant, and that's what causes the problems. There was a war over terminology at some point, and the side of accuracy lost. This is the outcome. Our educators use terminology that imply a lot of unfounded negative connotations because that's the common parlance, and the public doesn't know how to disambiguate. This is not a new problem. Politicians use this to their benefit on a regular basis.

In the meantime, we're all slightly worse off.
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Yeah, the Finance Report does have a 2 year delay, though, so some guesswork is still necessary...
A neighbor told the city's investigators that Murdock had just split up with his girlfriend and was facing eviction

How is someone so well known in the software industry so hard up for money that they are facing eviction? Far lesser engineers than he have never had problems earning enough money to get by. The whole thing is very sad, and clearly money wasn't his only problem, but it's one issue that someone with his resume shouldn't have been facing.
Generally good but it makes it sound like what it calls the dynamic typing penalty is a matter of more instructions. If that was true Python would only be a factor of 2 slower or something like that. Instead the problem is that the cost of getting the value of an integer is first of all that after reading the type of the variable Python has to execute a fairly high entropy branch which will probably cost the branch delay penalty of 20 cycles or so. And then the extra memory lookup will cause a slowdown as well.
Having done some QFT, now doing hydrodynamics, I never knew that lattice people use a staggered grid for the fermions and gluons. Do you know if it's for the same reason as staggering velocity and pressure in CFD; to avoid checkerboarding of the spinors (pressure)?
> which means piling five categories of material possessions

Life is a series of boxes. Be it Scrum or Marie-Kondo-ing or dieting or GTD or cleaning your house.

If you feel you're not in relaxed control of your life, produce a handful (and not more) "boxes" (metaphorical or real) that have sufficiently sharply defined edges, and sort your things into them.
If the boxes become large, subdivide, but keep the edges sharp.

Revisit your boxes on regular intervals.

That way you don't have to think about things that you don't need to think about right now and have enough space to tend to the things which don't yet or maybe don't at all fit in boxes.

You're welcome, I would like to have my book-deal now.
It is lattice based so the state of the art to attack it uses LLL lattice reduction, I believe. I wrote a python implementation of both and, with pypy, it is quite fast at encrypting and decrypting. The LLL reduction was rather slow, but impressive that it could be done within a few minutes for some low-rank lattices.
We moved to Canada from Japan about 5 years ago. We only started downsizing 2 years ago, and now we have way less stuff than we ever did in Japan.

See my old apartment here: https://chadkohalyk.com/2016/01/22/our-japanese-mansion/

I wish we here in North America planned our spaces much better.

Downsizing is not just about space. It is about lessening stress, having a smaller environmental impact, increasing financial freedom, and many other things.

I recommend it.
Define "real". Cygwin has been an option on Windows for a long time. It has its complications and issues, but isn't exactly "fake".

Besides that, Windows 10's Bash on Ubuntu on Windows is a very interesting step in this direction. It's going to increasingly be a "real" option.

ETA: Also, Virtual Machines and Remote Login are blurry edges of "real" that aren't dual-booting.
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The article doesn't mention any solutions bwm owners can take to prevent their cars from being exploited. I wonder if the HN community could make suggestions.
I didn't know it was different when I offered him a cup of tea. He'd already kicked in the roof hatch and was inside the house.

I'd have done the same if he'd been kicking the door.

> Offers of tea are reputedly less effective in that case.

No, they're not less effective, and this might by why the US police kill hundreds of people each year, especially people with mental illness.

You might want to read some of the de-escalation stuff coming from the English NHS at the moment. Lots of it comes from forensic settings (where people are there with a criminal justice involvement) or settings for people with behaviour seen as challenging -- exactly the kind of behaviour Ian Murdoch is described as exhibiting.

Obviously "kill the patient" isn't an option. But people still talk about the need to reduce frequency of seclusion and length of each episode of seclusion; or about reducing the frequency of rapid tranquilisation and reducing unplanned injection into buttocks vs managed oral administration.

Positive and Proactive Care: Reducing the need for restrictive interventions:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/positive-and-proa...

Physical Restraint in Crisis care: https://www.mind.org.uk/media/197120/physical_restraint_fina...

Violence and aggression, short term management in mental health, health, and community settings: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng10

None of this guidance says "escalate it".
I've honed the discipline you describe as a byproduct of living in New York City. Long-term storage is limited to 1 bag of camping gear and 1 box of souvenirs. Anything else is used monthly at a minimum.
>>what constitutes that homework for you

This is the homework we do:

https://www.zillionize.com/data/

>>do you feel like you can complete that homework prior to demo day

Yes the time is very tight so we have built an app to automate that.
And that’s why environmental regulation – and other regulations dealing with external factors – are so important, and why treaties that try to prevent that are dangerous.
Relevant:

JavaCPP, the glue code that acts as a bridge to C++/C

https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp

JavaCPP's creator works with Skymind, and we use it for our open-source deep learning framework, Deeplearning4j

https://github.com/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j/

We're push the limits of the JVM (and we love Cliff's work!).
> It's really average suburbia

from what i can see, it doesn't look like average suburbia in the US or china, which are basically just copies of the US suburbs (large mcmansions, cul de sacs, sterile landscaping, etc)

it has a very specific english quaintness to it.

fwiw, german suburbs (i was in bavaria) also have a very german quaintness to them.
The stable marriage problem has two natural algorithms that produce a stable matching: one algorithm give priority to women's choices and one gives priority to men's choices.

This is true under two conditions: 1. Marriages are heterosexual; and 2. Marriages are monogamous.

While startup/VC relationships are heterosexual (err, heterofinancial?), they are absolutely not monogamous, so the analogy to the stable matching algorithm already fails.
> users will ever care?

Then make them care.

> track with ga and gtm

That is a far bigger problem than advertising. I'm fine with sites that track the pages they serve, because that is local only. The problem is when these per-site events are aggregated into a single database.

If someone has the event log of every website you visit, not only do they have your entire reading list, they also have a very accurate picture of your pattern-of-life. Google can probably estimate e.g. when you sleep or the length of your commute simply from the timestamps of the GA events they can correlate to your account.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern-of-life_analysis
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A whitelist, blacklist, greylist solution works well for this, possibly with the addition of a "backlist".

Whitelist: Inbox. High-priority senders.

Blacklist: Trash / treat as spam. One model is to add an address to your blacklist as you unsubscribe it. Any further messages feed spam filters.

Greylist: Previously unseen. This goes to a bucket for sorting through. You can apply more heuristics to this (keyword / sender / references, etc.).

Backlist: Known low-priority senders. It basically goes into the "deal with it later" file.

Anything that's specifically sortable (e.g., technical mailing lists) goes to its own space.

My fundamental problem is that few tools offer the means to do this type of sorting.

Gmail's filters are, the more I use them, increasingly pathetic.

Procmail is powerful -- I've built up highly extensive filters with it over decades. But it's also a pain to use, largely unmaintained and unmaintainable. It lacks a simple means to, say, point at a list of addresses and say "good, bad, or ugly". Adding addresses specifically to rulesets is somewhat tedious. And as with other cleint-side tools, it doesn't work with IMAP services in a reasonable way (you can treat IMAP as POP, but then you lose filtering for all other clients accessing the server).

There are some other tools -- there's a ... Perl? based tool, Mail<mumble>, which is cleaner than procmail but also different and I've not wrapped my head around it. There are IMAP-based tools, but I've had little luck with them.

Email's generally simply getting crufty. I've resisted calling for a replacement for a while, but increasingly, it's time.
Wow wow wow indeed! This is a gem of a way to experience a most heralding moment of "mankind".
The whole KonMari system always sounded rather animistic to me. Shinto connection?
See? These are the types of reasons why the-moon-landing-was-staged conspiracy theories keep cropping up.
There are other reasons to get evicted besides not paying rent. We don't know why the landlord wanted him out.
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>Just ask black people you know, observe what happens on the street in a black neighborhood

Have you asked any white people who live in deprived neighbourhoods, or latinos? I can tell from first-hand experience that a lot of white people hate the police. No racism was involved though. It has more to do with gangs not wanting the police to interrupt their crimes, high crime in general in those areas, real danger to the police putting them on edge, etc.

> I can tell you that policing an inner city neighborhood exposes you to the worst society has to offer on a daily basis, and it can lead to police forming some ugly opinions

I think this is the key problem. Not racism. Blaming it on racism just causes further problems. I'm sure there is some racism, but it doesn't appear to be the main problem.

>BTW, you linked to a Washington Times article. That's a very different newspaper from the Washington Post.

Fixed, thanks.
I've been one of these weird foreigners taking pictures of "boring landscapes" for no appreciable reason.

For me it was on the backroads of SE Asia. I just found everything -- the farms, the houses, the roads -- to be beautiful and interesting compared to what I experience in America.

I'm sure some of the locals thought I was a weirdo for taking pictures of water buffalo and dirt roads and farms, but to me it was all completely novel and interesting.
Unsurprisingly, and just like with their affiliate link set up, they did it poorly. You can track links with a tiny bit of js and no redirect.

Although at their scale, I think things are very very different.
Strange does not begin to cover it. Santeria, hitmen, embezzlement and animal sacrifice in a huge, doomed Caribbean bank...
I don't know, your answer very wrong to me.
What do you even know about math.

Did you even win the Putnam, if not then please don't be bolder than the parent poster.
I wouldn't want to run an alarm system over UDP, which provides none of the reliability guarantees of TCP, so I'd have to implement it myself.

XMPP classically runs over raw TCP, but can also run over HTTP, and there's a newish proposal for XMPP-over-websocket.

Protobuf, bson, json, etc. are all good building blocks that nonetheless require you to reinvent message/framing semantics. Why not use a premade protocol that already has that figured out, like XMPP, or AQMP, or MQTT?

The vendor in the example had the right idea by picking a protocol designed for this kind of thing, instead of trying to roll their own. They could've used it better (hence the blog post), ie. more idiomatically and over TLS.
I think you misunderstand. In this case for once the profit-maximizing thing is the thing we want them to do and vice versa.

You can make a legitimate objection if the algorithm predicts that 20% of black people will default on their loans and in reality only 10% of black people default on their loans. But if the algorithm is doing that then it's losing the bank money. They're giving loans to some other less creditworthy people instead of those more creditworthy people, or not giving profit-generating loans at all even though they have money to lend. A purely profit-motivated investor is not interested in that happening.

But if it happens that disproportionately many of some group of people are in actual fact uncreditworthy, giving the uncreditworthy people credit anyway is crazy. It's the thing that caused the housing crisis. An excessive number of them will default, lose the lender's money and ruin their own credit even further. It only hurts everybody.
I recently read an article describing how NK was way more willing to get on board climate change proposals than, say, curbing their Nuclear ambitions. This is because they're peninsula is particularly sensitive to ocean and climate change.
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Possibly not phones, but a tablet-with-keyboard: Termux will give you access to an apt repo which includes emacs.

I've yet to incorporate that as my central interface, but I am oh so fucking goddamn tempted.

(The biggest problem: early in my nerddom I learned emacs, after having learned vi ... then took a gig where the boss didn't believe in adding anything to the Unix server that wasn't put there by God Himself (a/k/a the vendor). So no emacs. Lost all my finger memory. It's been too painful to recover it since. I really should just lock myself up in a room and get on with it, no?)
Okay. How do you differ from open source frameworks that are completely free and not attached to a service?
I'm showing my age here but I remember when Google started doing it. It still annoys me because I can't Right Click->Copy Link and get a proper url for the link.
Chief Operating Officer is rather high up. 108m for 15 months is not actually that crazy depending on their role and risks.

PS: I know it seems crazy but CXX jobs other than CEO can really make ~85million per year. Often because they could be the CEO of another company.
Maybe someone reading this can enlighten me on the utility of thinking about virtual particles in the vacuum. This is not related that directly to the article, but it is mentioned in it.

Feynman diagrams are a perturbation theory expanding around a problem we can solve - non-interacting free fields. The lines in the diagram represent the particles in the free theory, not the interacting theory. Renormalization does allow us to make some correspondence between the two, but that can only be taken so far, at least to my understanding. (And perhaps this is my limitation.)

There are lots of vacuum diagrams, for example. These represent the difference between the vacuum in the free theory and the interacting theory. That does not mean there is frothing going on in the interacting theory that is not in the free theory. The vacuum wave function is still a combination of field configurations each with an associated amplitude density. (And, relating to the article, of course, this creates an associated non-zero vacuum energy.) It looks just like the vacuum in a particle Schroedinger equation model, but just a lot more degrees of freedom.

What are the virtual particles? I'd appreciate if someone could explain what people mean and why when they talk about these.
If I remember correctly, there is no way to obtain a gauge invariant discretization if you try to put the gluons at the lattice sites. I can try to find a proper reference.
Sensationalist title, the existence of the technology doesn't mean it will be used by police. Flamethrowers exist and they are seldom used by police.
Efficient Replication of Large Data Objects
On a related note, during the Chinese cultural revolution Mao declared war on sparrows(Great Sparrow Campaign) and billions of birds were killed (not only sparrows...). It's considered as one of that catalysts of The Great Famine that killed 15 million Chinese. They had to import birds from Canada and USSR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign
That joke ceased to be funny about 8.5 years ago.
Thanks! Guess I should have searched on youtube for the title - I searched on google for the conference mentioned in the slides and didn't find it.
Did you check out The Macro - http://themacro.com/ ? Yes the info disclosed by YC for each startup is still limited but better than nothing in the before.
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US dysgenic trends are not accelerating
>People who write the asterisk next to the type often have a hard time understanding this.

Why do you think so?
Does the Amish country count?
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Well… it's honestly because I don't give a shit about LZFSE and Apple can fix their own code.

But I could also say that I'm lazy and it's not a big deal anyway.
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Safari performs much better than Chrome and Firefox, and uses less energy.

Apple releases a major version about every year, so it's a bit less cutting-edge, but it's very standards compliant contrary to IE in the past.

I know it's not a popular opinion, but I believe that for regular browsing (on the Mac) Safari is the superior choice...
I'm aware. But Reddiquette doesn't counteract how the site is used, with how popular it has become most people there now don't even know what Reddiquette is let alone are voting that way.
Caveat emptor. The WWDC macOS Beta was so riddled with serious bugs that I was forced to either downgrade to 10.11 or give up using my Mac for real work.
Yes, the core product is free and we intend to keep it that way. We are adding premium features later this year.

The documents are stored on TeamInk servers -- Slack provides the authentication and interface mechanisms only.
I think wax has a pretty simple structure, so probably not very high (but also a fairly high energy content? idek what I'm talking about). Feathers seem like they would be more difficult.
Can't decide whether it's ironic,sad or just plain unfortunate. The WHO offices in New Delhi are on the banks of a sewage drain running foul. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/28%C2%B037'19.2%22N+77%C...
It's not an app.

It's a terminal to a bunch of different application services, none of which talks to each other well.

In the Emacs (or unified use case), I could snarf in content (as text / JSON / whatevs) from one messaging queue / stack / channel and post it out to another or others. On mobile, options for copying and pasting text alone are horribly crippled, to say nothing of the fucking pathetic editors.

E.g., G+ does not support highlighting and copying selected text or URLs from its Android app. Yes, you can copy an entire message. Then, say, past that to the six line editor window HN offers me.

I've got emacs and vim on this system (Termux offers both, also a freestanding Vim client). But I cannot copy to/from the system clipboard from these. Instead, I save to the App-specific directory of another editor, open the file there, copy text, and paste it.

Yeah, I've done that. Yeah, it fucking sucks.

At least on desktop I can install, say, "It's All Text" as a browser extention and pop up any textarea-editable content into a preferred Real Fucking Editor and muck with it.

(Infinite Internet Pointz to anyone who can suggest a way of invoking Vim with a specific set of arguments, say: ":set tw=0 linebreak wrap syn ft=markdown" just as an arbitrary example.)
Definitely helpful, but AFAIK only about a dozen startups from the 100+ startup batch have been covered so far (https://www.google.com/#q=%22meet+the+batch+s16%22+inurl:the...). I can imagine the coverage will double or triple by demo day, but I'm skeptical that all startups will be covered. Btw, I love the /data subsection of your website!
Maybe they're visiting it because it's "average suburbia" aka how people really live in an English suburb and not some town that goes out of its way to be tourist friendly.

Someone in China may have very well chosen it specifically because it represents normal and not an image projected by a place that is already a tourist destination.
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Yeah, I don't quite understand that either. What I know is that the for-profit is a subsidiary of the non-profit, and they only have it, because non-profits have some legal restrictions which they couldn't quite work with. I think, that's for example how much cash they are allowed to have on the side.

And while I would like to understand it better for curiosity's sake, I'm personally okay with it being the way it is, on the basis that people who understand this stuff better than me don't seem to complain about it.

Like, seriously, journalists just love to report how evil the innocent-thought Mozilla is, and often even drift off into pure nonsense to do so. So, if there really was anything to be said about their for-profit side, I figure, I would have heard of it by now.
That's a very interesting comparison.
> This is moronic.

Please don't break the HN guidelines with name-calling like this, no matter how wrong another comment may be.

Your comment would be much stronger and more convincing without that first bit.
I'm pretty sure there is a joke here, and that the article's author is not in on it.
Presumably you should be generating that much of value. It's crazy because I'm pretty sure a single person at Yahoo isn't generating $108m worth of value.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12051299 and marked it off-topic.
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