skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree with it when put in the context of when the product launched.

I wouldn't have paid for Google in 2000 when I first discovered it; while it was better than all the other search engines out there, it wasn't better enough that I'd break my rule of never shelling out money to visit a website. I certainly wouldn't have paid money for Facebook; I was a poor college student when I got my FB account in 2004, and all you could do was poke people. I can poke people in real life without shelling out money for it.

I think many people confuse the value they get for a service now, after it has had a decade to refine its product and become deeply embedded in our lives, with the value they get from a service at launch, which is often virtually nothing.
That's not the situation I posited. I expressly said that in this hypothetical scenario, the behaviour did not reach the level of criminality, and so there's no way for a court to find the individual guilty. In that scenario, should Tor be allowed to say why they fired them?
S2 cells and space-filling curves: Keys to building better digital map tools
Being mediocre is a choice. It's the choice of the lazy and unemployed.
The handling of security is anything but simple. Hence, a simple solution is anything but secure. This is Security 101.
Apart that Android was bought by Brin and Page without consulting Schmidt, Schmidt was invited to the Apple board in August 2006.
You're welcome, and I hope everyone realizes that they can get answers by emailing hn@ycombinator.com as well. Posting on the site is hit and miss, but we see all the emails.
Just put together a research pool so you can generate a solid baseline. I'm sure you could use Amazon Mechanical Turk to get a large number of able participants at minimal cost to your wallet and pride.
You can retrain your distributional knowledge and keep your lexical knowledge. Moving to a new domain shouldn't mean you have to forget everything about what words mean and hope you manage to learn it again.

The whole idea of Numberbatch is that a combination of distributional and lexical knowledge is much better than either one alone.

BTW, ConceptNet is only partially expert-derived (much of it is crowd-sourced), aims not to be rigid like WordNet is, and is in a whole lot of languages.

"Retraining" ConceptNet itself is a bit of a chore, but you can do it. That is, you can get the source [1], add or remove sources of data, and rebuild it. Meanwhile, if you wanted to retrain word2vec's Google News skip-gram vectors, you would have to get a machine learning job at Google.

[1] https://github.com/commonsense/conceptnet5
I wouldn't necessarily consider Reddit mainstream either. Sure, it has a lot of users. But I don't hear people on the streets telling each other to look at their subreddits.
This account would be more believable if "severe and possibly child-endangering criminal charges" weren't such a common trope of USA divorce proceedings. You're complaining about the cost of lawsuits? By prolonging the case as you describe above, you are part of the problem.

The reason no one else "gives two shits" about a father spending time with his children whom he loves and supports even though his ex thinks he's a cretin is because that's how it's supposed to be. If he were really such a horrible person, she shouldn't have chosen him as a father for her children. There are lots of kids who've never even met their fathers. Lots of them would be happy with the cretin.
> Is there anything in the emails that hasn't been discussed to death already?

Nothing really; its not like the fact that the DNC leadership in general, and DWS in particular, were all-in for Clinton was news (it had been talked about from very early on in the campaign, including when at least one DNC official that disagreed with that resigned because of it.)

> Benghazi is a pretty much settled issue after 8 or so enquiries failed to turn up anything of substance.

And, anyway, its not like the DNC's emails were going to reveal anything about that.
Those are two extreme positions, most of the substantial conversations I have lie in the middle. We typically assume that humans are not well-adapted (yet) to communicating in a digital format, and so we're still developing norms and ways of communicating tone and so on.

We're not all good little boys and girls, but we do want to have good conversations with one another, and so we try and do what we can to make things better as we go.
If only the planet weren't so big.
Negotiate a better job offer by saying YES
Well the actual quarterbacks, in the form of its owners, are selling. Today it's down 14%. It's lost 1/2 its value in 12 months. It's not profitable.

Now maybe they just haven't discovered, or innovated, a business model that'll at least stop them from taking on more water. Nevertheless, I'm curious how much it's worth to you, in dollars, per day, per month or per year. Because $0 isn't working, clearly.
Only if you are Verified ;-)

I did suggest some time ago that Twitter could monetize by charging a high fee for verification (with, say, passport scans and other personal details). Sadly, they do it free.
Depends on the personality and relationship with music. In the past I had gone through periods of listening to the same two or three tracks over and over again, day in and day out while driving to and from work.

I play music, which requires listening to yourself practice the same things over and over again. Sometimes just a couple of bars. I like it.

Even if you get bored, that is not the same thing as the music suddenly sounding "bad". It sounds exactly the same.
Best not to ask why downvoted. Those people's responses will rarely teach you anything. The kind that would will usually reply instead of downvote. Plus, a few already explained to me it's common for a post to get hit with a few negative votes followed by corrective action as other, open-minded people show up. Happens all the time with mine.
If your beliefs change all the time, they can't have been held very strongly or justifiably in the first place. Maybe you should stop having beliefs like that. That's direct evidence that you shouldn't be confident in many of your beliefs, given they change so often. A person with stable beliefs, even if they aren't ever challenged, has no such direct evidence to suggest they should be less confident, they can only have the same general blow to confidence as everyone else with arbitrary unchallenged beliefs.
I'd say fuckwaddery or whatever is more proportional to the distance between the user and the person they're communicating with. If someone lives in the same town, you'll be a lot more hesitant to insult the hell out of them than if they live on another continent.

That might be why Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc are so screwed up. Because the userbase knows that there's a very slim chance they'll ever meet the person they're attacking online. That there's a slim chance there'll ever be any genuine consequences for their actions.

Of course, making it easier and more convenient like on the sites (or limiting people to only 140 characters) definitely makes it easier to be a douche. But you're not going to send a threatening SMS message to someone sitting next to you.
The page could only see a mutation event and get a reference to the element if the element was attached to the document. If the extension never attaches the anchor element to the document, then the page's code can't get to it.
From a "job security" lens, the sysops crew needed to keep the site up will be the last to go during downsizing.
Competetion.
At least for me, the most novel item in here, the one thing that makes the whole article invaluable, was the 14th point on Eco's list: the use of Newspeak and simplified language. I had never heard of this, but it's not surprising; it's internally consistent with the rest of what I know about Naziism and Fascism in general. It also reminds me of "Kids Against Trump", founded by a 9-year-old who could understand every word in Trump's speeches and was, accordingly, thoroughly creeped out. (http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/07/why-are...)

Of course, Trump isn't likely to murder dissidents, and he has no desire for us-against-the-world unwinnable wars of conquest; likewise, I don't see a timeline in which Marine Le Pen revives Napoleon's ambitions, so the current alt-right moment has its advantages over historical fascism. (Alt-right-ness in general seems to be about staying home and hating/expelling foreigners, rather than looking for glory outside one's borders.) But these are unsettled times, all the same, and if you'd told me in the 1990s what I'd be seeing in the 2010s, I would never have believed you...
This is not criminal prosecution.
> The victims

These accusers only become "victims" after an impartial jury of Appelbaum's peers weighs the evidence and pronounces him guilty.
While JMAP doesn't work particularly well in a one-to-many relational structure it can be made decidedly less awkward in a one-to-one relational structure if you are willing to invest some social cycles up front.
Its not about whether or not he did it, it is simply about the fact that what we as a group are talking about is the actions (or at least accused actions) of a person.

"This sort of event" is an incredibly passive expression of what he is accused of doing. Such language is incredibly common [0] in rape and sexual assault cases, because it removes actors from the conversation. You can say "The actions that Appelbaum people have accused him of" and be much more actively voiced while also respecting your wish to present him as simply the accused.

[0] http://web.stanford.edu/class/linguist156/Bohner_2001.pdf
Quoting: "The language of headlines that participants generated for their reports also reflected judgments of assailant and victim responsibility. Implications for the non-reactive assessment of responsibility attributions and directions for future research are discussed."
No, the upside down part of it is that our systemic mechanisms for research funding are so limited compared to the scale of the problems we face as a species that we need to fall back on silly internet campaigns to fund this work.
You might be interested in this http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/jul/06/NIH-scr...
> The poem from which those familiar phrases come, William Blake’s “The Tyger”, has a lovely cockney rhyme at the end of its first verse:

A lot has been written about the rhyme of “What immortal hand or eye / could frame thy fearful symmetry?”.

Long story short, these words were probably pronounced with the same final diphthong [əi] in Blake’s time, or they had been pronounced that way recently enough (the past century or so) that it was still accepted as a rhyme. Poetry often relies on somewhat old-fashioned language to fit the meter and sense of a piece.
Next headline: "Bruce Schneir's wallet lifted!"

Schneier keeps a list of "very secure" passwords in his wallet, but surely he has backup?
No, I'd say not. If they aren't willing to uphold their claims in court then they shouldn't be permitted to levy reputation destroying allegations.
No, you were getting downvoted because of your indignant hysteria and outright harassment of a commenter over something completely irrelevant, and now I suspect that will transition to being downvoted for complaining about downvoting. Don't do either.
No but Apple innovated and made them a thing, after the Macbook Air, the PC industry scrambled to release ultrabooks (a new category then), after trying to push horrible netbooks on people.
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Great code is not enough: 10 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics
The military has databases like this that could lead to a lot of interesting research, in theory. They do DNA testing for body identification purposes as well as tracking long term health through the VA.
I thought the same thing. A quick google search shows a pretty large variation in reported statistics depending on what's being sampled.

W3Techs checks the top 10 million sites on the internet and they report something close to 1/3 Windows, 1/3 Linux, and 1/3 unknown Unix. My guess is that a fairly large chunk of unknown Unix is Linux.

W3Cook checks the top 1 million sites, and they report 2% Windows and 98% Unix.
Asus is particularly adept not only at providing a good value but actually innovating in the Windows ecosystem. The Vivo AiO, for example, is a fantastic hybrid—part iMac, part Wacom tablet and with a wireless phone charging ability to boot. It doesn't seem like that should work, but the screen is actually rock solid and without wobble while drawing on it with the pen.

https://www.asus.com/AllinOne-PCs/Vivo-AiO-V230IC/
If you want to buy a million dollar home using shares, you have to liquidate them and pay capital gains. By getting a mortgage you lower the amount of income you 'realize' on a year-to-year basis, lowering your taxable income. There are details on capital gains vs income taxes, etc, but in general I think the point was that the less income you realize in a given year, the less taxes you'll pay.
There was a lot of publicity a while back about Facebook and Google shutting down their XMPP endpoints. I'm reasonably sure Facebook is MQTT internally and just used XMPP as the public interface, but I don't know about Google Talk (or Hangouts, or whatever the new thing is called): Are they still using XMPP internally? Also I'd love to know about the toll machines if you have a reference!
Then you did yourself a disservice, and now have trumpeted your laziness and ignorance.
Ok, thanks for the tip with the Who is Hiring thread. Will post there.
Investments in innovation are a much harder sell. The HN crowd is a minority. Most people alternate between fear and incredulity regarding anything new.
I think this report is excellent. Even for those who don't believe the statistical evidence it provides is conclusive in this case, I think no reasonable person could disagree with the improvements it suggests:

Quoting from page 8:

1) Exclusive use of hand-counted paper ballots in all future US elections.

2) Automatic voter registration with same-day party affiliation switching as a mandatory condition for all elections that are publicly funded.

3) Restoration of voting rights legislation which would ensure adequate access to polling sites.
This whole thing reminded me of protected vs non-protected speech in the definition of First Amendment law. There's a really good legal precedent on why violence-inducing speech is banned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am...
Newspeak is so old news. Try Cognitive Infiltration for size: http://www.salon.com/2010/01/15/sunstein_2/
> While my experience doesn’t always jibe with the ideas in the book

Care to elaborate, @emmett?
"Tor" is not a company. The Tor Project is an international organization responsible only to its members, not to any investors.
It's better than a syncing approach because most people can't utilize the full extent of their sync-based storage due to local hard drive limitations.

An example: if I have a 320GB local drive and Dropbox keeps all its files on my local drive, I can't store the full 1TB of files in Dropbox that I'm paying for. However, I probably don't need all of those 1TB of files at the same instant, just various subsets which change over time, meaning that a cloud storage solution which doesn't require constant client-server sync lets me actually utilize the full volume of the service.
Excellent blog post. Thanks for the link, I was going to ask about it.
Those "minority" populations were forced out of Kashmir by the "majority" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing_of_Kashmiri_H...
What is the roundest country?
Going through this now. It's worth highlighting that Flux is just one pattern for centralized state management in React. I see a lot of new projects being built on Redux, and Redux is (technically) not Flux: http://redux.js.org/docs/introduction/PriorArt.html

If you do decide to go the Redux route, I recommend taking a look at redux-form: https://github.com/erikras/redux-form, as complicated form logic is one of the biggest reasons for us to work on a centralized state store.
First the wine and paint party sounds fun and a bit stressful. But that is what the wine is for.

My kids (they are adults) drag me to Shakespeare plays which I usually dread the thought of it in advance. I usually have a great time because of the twists and turns.

I don't draw often because I could get consumed with it. I an analytic, program, do system integration and lead a moderately high performing team. A few years ago I took an art class and realized that drawing is easier than you think if you see it as a journey from bad to better. I can't wait till I retire to get really practiced at it. Then painting is next. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
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You're just expecting too much out of an ultra lightweight form factor. You can't get the power you request, out of a laptop designed for maximum portability.
> making it conditional on revealing how they got in

Do you mean obligatory?
If you really mean conditional, could you elaborate why?
> Why wouldn't everyone ask for the maximum amount your company is willing to give?

Is there really a problem with that? Shouldn't everybody be getting this already?

I bet the GP's company can retain good people, and can afford to train them, so they can retain even better people.
Do you mean China

1. Not leftist

2. In Europe
How do you uphold a claim in court when there's no criminal activity involved? Are you seriously arguing that companies should not be permitted to say "We fired this person because they never showed up to work"?
I recall somebody describing retweets in a sentence:

A dog barks. Several other dogs bark.
I've not read the book version but "How Buildings Learn" is one of my favorite things ever (a great case-study for looking outside of software for lessons that can apply to well...software).

Stewart Brand (of Longnow fame) produced a really lovely 6 part series for BBC in the late 90's and they are on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/brandst/videos -- highly recommended (Warning: there is a very loud and obnoxious beeping during the first 10 seconds or so)

A look at "the evolution of buildings and how buildings adapt to changing requirements over long periods" -- replace buildings with software and you’ve probably got a best-seller from Pragmatic Programmers!
How an Indie Developer Could Have Built Pokémon Go
How is that different than sequencing genes from individuals and correlating that to their (fairly detailed) recorded medical history? If I'm not mistaken, that's what's currently being done.
I personally don't think this is the correct way of looking at this situation.

Good code as it stands is code that produces an application that fulfills the requirements without breaking until someone naturally thinks to replace it. If you can achieve that you can achieve something better then most "good code" I've seen in my lifetime.

Good code is something that isn't obtrusive to the end user (the most important user of the code).

I don't know of another way of putting this but "easy to maintain" code is a different thing. Some small piece of software could have been messily globed together and thrown into production. This piece of software could have been running for 15 years+. I still think that's good code, but it is not inherently "easy to maintain."

We shouldn't be striving for 1 goal, we have two that are close to similarly important. We have maintainability by a programmer, and you have ease of use from the client.

To make the small fraction of people who are software devs live's better, we focus on "easy to maintain' code. To make everyone's life better we need to focus on that and making functionally sufficient code.

Very few projects I've seen do both. They either aim to be 100% clean code while sacrificing features that greatly improve UX or either 100% functional while being globed together unorganized messes.

I think we need to think of good code as a project that fulfills it's entire reason for existence while being documented and maintainable (on both the UX and maintaining side of things).
Lenovo actually has a moderately good track record here - they have shipped firmware updates that fixed Linux-only issues.
All good points. I guess it's not Zuck's loan that troubles me the most, but the idea that similar lenders in SF are giving 100% loans and setting up inside tech companies.
At the very least, Lenovo and Dell are innovating and making attractive, eye popping products that don't copy Apple at all. Copying is a poor strategy that in the end run gets you nowhere, you end up not being able to differentiate yourself other than being a copycat that's one step behind.
More likely than not he/she is probably reading this thread.... his nickname might even be on HN, ha!
I feel like problem intractability would be a hol' up.. on the other hand I just remembered that 23andMe is sort of attempting this
Indeed; Trump has said on public TV he would “take out” the families of terrorists. But the current administration has already done that, intentionally: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team...

As a German, I find it very weird that so many americans support politicians who boast about assassinating people.
France has over 80% nuclear - there's no shortage of that in the EU.

But actively seperating out the required materials is the same processing step as is required for building nuclear weapons, and that's something that's a political problem, and will cost you a lot of money to prove and inspect everything every few days to ensure it's only used for civil uses.
I found the author's usage of the term eye-opening rather than myopic!
I think killing the 140 character limit will severely damage Twitter and turn into a tumblr-like website. I do agree with the author on some of the technical aspects he mentioned like filtering. I'd add to that list how conversations are structured, they are a complete mess. It gets worse too if you're building a product that leverages their API.
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Yes. The calculator is almost exactly what my current salary is.
Haha that's funny, imagining this self-aggrandizing asshole forking Tor and then getting anything done.

[EDIT: still I upvoted, because every other top-level comment is bonkers.]
Wrong.

Not every judicial system uses juries.

"Victim" is not a predominantly judicial term, unlike "defendant" or "felon", so the everyday meaning of someone who suffered something applies. That's a factual thing, not procedural as you claim above.
>The REAL way to go about this is to discriminate at the referral/reachout stage.
>If you go to your all male engineering team and announce "We are hiring! Refer all your friends!". What you are effectively doing is discriminating against women, because you are going to receive 20 male referrals and 1 women referral. But THIS isn't illegal.

God this hit me like a sack of bricks. It's exactly what I would do and I now realize, dudes gonna have dude friends, just like how ladies are gonna have lady friends.
Or just work on the east coast. I commute 45 minutes total a week in VA. I make dinner, take courses, work out, play video games, do personal projects/art, and spend quality time with my family, it's great.
Keep in mind, wrt Trump and conquest, he thinks we (the US) should break international law and claim oil (and other resources) from the countries that we've already invaded. And he still wants to take the war to ISIS. Even if it's not a war of conquest, it's still a war outside our borders and a major talking point of his campaign and his disparagement of Clinton and the Democratic Party (their apparent refusal to reference ISIS in particular and Islamic terrorism in general).
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