skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People obviously also want heroin, because if you give it to them, they'll take it and ask for more.

Heroin induces desire for a harmful substance by exploiting the chemistry of our brains. News platforms induce desire for harmful information by exploiting cognitive biases and heuristics.
> most ancient societies were blatantly misogynistic

Ancient Egypt was more liberal than US in 1950. And do you have any concrete evidence that 'Kushim' is not a female name? I think it is sexist to assume it could not be a women.
Same here - I don't even recognize my immediate family in a lot of situations. I've had people accuse me of being a snob and pretending not to remember them, but once I know their name I can usually remember a ton of stuff about them and that usually makes them feel better about it.

It's not super uncommon, but a lot of people make it to adulthood without realizing they have it - and some lifestyles make it easier than others.
I don't think I can code my way out of a paper bag, actually.
Uh, do you honestly think that estates never include equity holdings?

I agree. It's not worth continuing this discussion if you believe that it takes 10 years to sell off $50 billion of stocks.
Wow, what an abysmal failure by UPS (or whoever does most of Amazon's shipping). You had one job.

CEO should step down.

He should have kept Bezos happy. Lowered rates. Lowered own costs.
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If they are smart they would raise prices now (for anticipated lower volumes) while they have a small time window in which Amazon needs them while it scales. If they don't they will be toast.
Thanks ! Now my weekend is booked.
> fail to properly protect against unapproved cross-origin requests

It is not standard to block cross origin requests, in fact it rare or impossible in many cases.

It is standard to block cross origin requests that perform an action, usually a POST request.

But a GET request that just gets data is normally perfectly allowed cross origin. If I click a link from Google search results to the reddit homepage, that's a cross origin GET request, but reddit has to allow it, and recognize me as logged in. Also anything that could be embedded (such as an embedded Facebook comment box) would be required to allow cross origin GET requests.
Show HN: Robots Reading the News – The Podcast
tldr; Podcast of well-spoken robots reading recent news, here's how to listen in iTunes: http://i.imgur.com/67VFszI.png

Here's the podcast link you see in that pic: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8948326/podcast/index.rss

FADE FROM BLACK - COMMERCIAL GUY SPEAKS

Is this you?

(Imagine a frumpy looking fellow sitting at a computer screen, trying desperately to type in CNN.com or FoxNews.com or NPR.org or RealUltimatePower.net into his browser, but accidentally spilling a can of paint all over himself instead. [cue sad sounding trumpet] )

Reading the news is hard! Wouldn't it be better if robots read the news to you?

Now they can!

Introducing "Robots Reading The News"! The podcast that has my mom saying:

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And my dad saying:

"Who would ever want to listen to a robot read the news?"

With reviews like that, you've gotta try it. Just follow the instructions at the top of the post.

ORDER NOW - ROBOTS ARE STANDING BY!!!!

I built it using Node with: request, cheerio, unfluff (parsing out articles) and say libraries. Python's sumy for NLP summarization plus some text thesaurus spinning, and Ruby's dropcaster for RSS creation in Dropbox.

request
https://www.npmjs.com/package/request

cheerio
https://www.npmjs.com/package/cheerio

unfluff
https://www.npmjs.com/package/unfluff

say
https://www.npmjs.com/package/say

sumy
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sumy

dropcaster
https://github.com/nerab/dropcaster
> The living expenses of current residents are currently subsidized at the expense of landlords.

I don't know why this is such a common assertion. Rent control raises the average rent for vacant units, which means a lot of the burden is falling not on landlords, but on _tenants_ (those tenants who aren't lucky enough to have stayed in the same unit for a long time). Landlords had to buy into the building at some point, and the cost of the building is adjusted for the fact that it's rent control: this means that rent control at most (on average) contributes _volatility_ to landlord's balance sheets, not costs (though this does translate to some "frictional" costs).
> I also found it interesting that this article is hugely concerned with making someone feel loved for expressing a desire to literally have everybody killed who had an abortion. I think at some point, the severity of an ideology has to outweigh the desire to accept a person as who they are.

If you are faced with a world that is hostile to your worldview, and you want to move people closer to it, do you think you'll be more effective by disregarding their motivations and telling them how wrong they are? Or by coming to understand what motivates them and having a conversation as peers?

While ideologies may propel any number of evils, by and large people are not themselves evil. They're just complicated and conflicted and sometimes ignorant, with a lot of motivations and incentives that are not always immediately obvious, and a ton of baggage.

Humble empathy isn't the same as immunizing bad ideas from criticism. Communication doesn't have to be combat.
I have a friend who used to write down everything he spent money on, then tallied it up weekly to see if he was on track. Over time he stopped doing that and transitioned into what happened that day, and now he keeps an interesting and concise journal.

So if you need additional motivation, think of it as journaling. When I travel, I still write down my expenses and what I did that day. I figure it'd be useful when I'm old to tell the kids how much a 1GB prepaid SIM cost "back in my day."

But seriously, keeping track of your expenses is a fundamental step in financial literacy. Hook everything up to Mint if you can't be bothered writing daily logs.
Calling it serverless when there is in fact a server feels weazily though. That taints your product.
This is why we cannot have nice desktop tooling unless it comes from Big Corp getting their revenue from licenses and what have you.

FOSS has spread so much that IT is probably the only industry where people nowadays expect to sell their work using tools they got from others for free.

It is very hard to make a living from donations and books (which tend to get pirated) alone.
OK, well a joke doesn't have to be 100% accurate in every technical sense that you can think of for a lot of people to find it funny, like me.

The aura of smug that permeates Apple marketing and culture invites jokes like this. Whether you find it funny or not is completely irrelevant.

The main point here is that complaining about what you think is a bad joke is the thing that derails conversations here. Just vote and move along if you don't like it. What's so hard about that?

Of course, you can say that I should have just voted on your comment instead of responding but that's not quite the same thing because the subject has already been changed and this entire sub-thread is now about people getting offended about a jab made against poor little old Apple. Boo hoo.
How do you identify people who "can't code their way out of a paper bag"? What is it about their skill level that makes them seemingly incompetent?
It seems to be working. Fedex is investing a lot of money in improving their distribution centers, claiming it will make them 25% more productive.
I find this hard to believe.

But there a again, I don't collect patterns about my behaviour so it could be true.

Sometimes I look at Amazon and then buy the product elsewhere, say if I spent 3 occasions over a few days looking at a product, does that breach some threshold somewhere for them to say "we have one on the hook, lets start moving this to a warehouse near him just in case"
That's right; my point was that the time to zero memory was considered significant overhead regardless of where it occurred.

> I think that your concern is valid, something that a lot of people aren't aware of, but it probably doesn't really apply in a lot of cases most people deal with. Unless your dealing with entities that take up a page or more, then chances are the rest of the page is being used by something else.

vardump's objection addresses VM pressure, to which you respond. But zeroing objects on allocation is likely to have negative implications on the cache, slightly mitigated only in the case where you immediately initialize nonzero values. RAII can in theory alleviate some of that but I am unaware of any compiler that does this.

> All that said, if such a thing [large objects] is actually a worry then you should probably skip the default allocator move to an interface like `mmap()` anyway, which can provide pages of memory that you can be sure are untouched and read as zeros.

... zeroed by the mechanism of this patch!
American humor
Subscription Taxes! Interesting idea and had never heard something like that.
Yep, just pull yourself up by your bootstraps! Poor people are simply stupid and lazy. I would know, being an intelligent member of the upper middle class.
Those are the same states that would be for a flat rate tax or even more so a flat fee tax, but I'm sure you wouldn't be, so where's the hypocrisy? Progressive tax rates exacerbate the issue you're pointing out and they are strongly opposed by conservatives, and supported by California, New York liberals.

Being a liberal and complaining about high tax rates, while blaming those against high taxes is kinda rich no?

Another point, those places also would be more amendable to pushing more responsibilities on the states away from federal govt reducing even more the imbalance of higher federal taxes paid by higher cost states.
haha he can take the Amazon "talent". we in the bay can stick with Google, Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, and Stanford talent.
They did not miss their sales goal, but their delivery goal. Tesla cars are sold when they are produced, but they only book them, if they are delivered. Which takes time, as the car has to be physically moved. If they are moved outside of the US, several weeks of transport times add to it.
Conceptnet Numberbatch (https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/conceptnet-numberbatch) is a pre-trained model that outperforms the results reported in this paper (and of course far outperforms the pre-trained word2vec models, which are quite dated).

Here are the almost-comparable evaluations:

fastText Numberbatch
en:RW .46 .601
en:ws353 .73 .802
fr:rg65 .67 .789

The difference actually should be larger: Numberbatch considers missing vocabulary to be a problem, and takes a loss of accuracy accordingly, while FastText just dropped their out-of-vocabulary words and reported them as a separate statistic.

I'm using their Table 3 here. I don't know how Table 2 relates, or why their French score goes down with more data in that table.

What's the trick? Prior knowledge, and not expecting one neural net to learn everything. Numberbatch knows a lot of things about a lot of words because of ConceptNet, it knows which words are forms of the same word because it uses a lemmatizer, and it uses distributional information from word2vec and GloVe.
Do you have any sources hinting at this causation? I tried searching, and most of the articles I came across mentioned that Japan had a housing bubble, and now it's popped.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/01/29/business/economy...
I put them on https://www.lastchallenge.com. Nice work!
I've seen it called dumb auto-completion. Where intelligent auto-completion is called "intellisense".

intelligent auto-completion knows the variable type and available methods/properties. Whereas the dumb auto-completion just match the words.
Its easy to believe if the marginal cost to ship the item approaches 0. For Amazon, this might actually be close enough to true to matter. Especially after this move.
There's a SpongeBob SquarePants episode that covers this. "Sailor Mouth". Highly recommended. The swear words are bleeped out with dolphin chirping and other maritime sound effects.

Patrick: Hmm... [dolphin chirp]! Oh, hey! I think I know what that means. That's one of those sentence enhancers.

SpongeBob: Sentence enhancers?

Patrick: You use them when you want to talk fancy. You just sprinkle it over anything you say, and Wham-o! You've got yourself a spicy sentence sandwich!

http://spongebob.wikia.com/wiki/Sailor_Mouth_(transcript)
...much less abandon her family and friends
maybe i dropped a zero or something, but i think you're needing about double that to cover the $4T. $4T/350M workers /12 months =~ $1000, per person. if you just count 160M workers, it's more like $2000
On this front Walmart is so much better.
$500 per month sounds like the ultimate wage slavery. I prefer being exceptionally underemployed. Reducing almost all my expenses. Forced income tax seems immoral.
No, I'm not changing my argument. "Spending $X per Y" inescapably means "you get Y of something and you have to spend $X". It is division, it's not taking a derivative.

Analogy: say going to the zoo costs $50 for your family of 4. But it's a family rebate, so anywhere from 3 to 5 family members costs $50 total. The cost per person for you is $12.50. But the cost of one more ticket if you were to have another child, the marginal cost, is $0. That is, however, irrelevant to you today, because you can't have another child today.
I have no actual knowledge on the topic, but I presume it's not calculated on a purely individual level. If 100 people live within the range of the local distribution warehouse are interested in this book, and they say "this one is 87% likely to buy, this one is 43% likely to but..." they can work out a model that results in very few over-shippings.

But again, I know nothing, other than thinking about it a bit when the patent app became known.
why not call them by name: google
Answer of this question may vary depending on your goal.

Ask this question, in the way you describe here, to the person you are reporting to, who is responsible reviewing your annual performance. Depending on your target, you may say yes to all and ok be late for deadlines and no to everything else and just focus on one task, and deliver before the deadline.

However, answering colleague's 5-15 minute long questions is different then the above. You should do it even in the expense of doing overtime. If it takes longer then that, you should return to your work.
What a load of crap. It's good because it carries 'risk' and can be used as a sign of trust? In what universe does swearing carry 'risk'? Might a puritan cultural thing. In which case the 'benefits' probably don't carry over to less puritan cultures.
Now that is a properly researched and presented well-actually! Thanks, this is cool. :-)
I have always hated the idea that it's the communicators job to make sure people understand them.

This is of course true in any professional setting like advertising, PR etc.

But in a debate between two parties this insistence and demand is killing most possibilities of actually having a debate.

The first problem is that if someone is arguing from a position we have predujize against we will be interpreting the worst possible intent of what is being said while if it's something we agree with we are much more forgiving when interpreting.

So we are biased either against hearing the argument or from hearing the flaws depending on whether we agree with the original stance of the argument.

So much potential for actually learning something is lost because of the idea that it's only up to the communicator to make sure they are understood. So many insights are lost from demanding other people make themselves understandable rather than trying to understand what they are trying to say.
Unlike ISP service, parcel shipping is already dirt cheap. Amazon has already had a large impact in that space by pushing its carriers to optimize and making things like Prime possible, but I'm not sure what they could do for parcel rates at retail. I feel like they're already bottom of the barrel.

Automated trucks are probably going to be the next big thing that could potentially decrease retail shipping costs (at the expense of laying off all those truck drivers).
Funny: I implemented the exact same thing, with a focus on AWS and pagination (albeit less well-documented):

https://github.com/rix0rrr/libbruce/blob/master/README.md
Surprisingly, it's pretty true. Amazon talent is pretty bad.
New CSS naming convention for those of you sick of BEM and OOCSS. WIP
that would be against the terms of use. from the article:

You have the freedom to use the network for any purpose as long as you don’t harm the operation of the network itself, the rights of other users, or the principles of neutrality that allow contents and services to flow without deliberate interference.

You have the right to understand the network and its components, and to share knowledge of its mechanisms and principles.

You have the right to offer services and content to the network on your own terms.

You have the right to join the network, and the obligation to extend this set of rights to anyone according to these same terms.
> I love English slang.

I had to read that a few times to spot the slang.

I grew up in a poor part of London, on a rough estate, crime everywhere. Aside from the slang (which is typical) the thing I always liked about the interactions with police here was the "hands-up" moment. Obviously not literal as our police don't have guns, but once identified very few people flee, and "it's a fair cop guv'" is also a typical response and rational too.
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not well, big flaw with the ubuntu shell is that there is no reliable way to interact with the linux filesystem from a windows program ( like vscode ). You can work on the mounted C: drive /mnt/c . However, I have found a number of dev tools don't really like working with it ( meteor / mongo ). Thing crash. They work fine on the linux filesystem though, it's just you can't reliably use windows programs to access files, you have to use things like vim inside the shell to edit stuff.
It's not saying the other person's beliefs are justified, it's saying that if you want to change their beliefs, you have to understand how they got there in the first place. If you approach it like a logical debate you're not going to convince anyone. It's not about saying all the facts, it's about helping people reprocess their feelings into more reasonable conclusions.
I contributed to your Kickstarter and am perfectly happy with this outcome. I'm excited to see what what you do next!
Don't feel obligated to put any more of your most valuable resource (time) into this project!
Okay, all plausible, until the last paragraph.

> Instead, here in Seattle, I work with amazing people -- who came from Amazon, Boeing, Microsoft and other area startups.

Hold the phone, did the author just call Microsoft, Amazon, and fucking Boeing startups?? The Valley really did get to him, didn't it.
> One other consequence of this is that a cleaning lady in San Francisco may make $70K per year and be near the poverty line, yet be in the same tax bracket as a professional living in Nebraska who is living well above the poverty line.

That's true, but market forces modulate this, in particular because the barriers to entry are low. So a Nebraskan cleaning lady probably doesn't make 70K (lower demand and probably plenty of supply) while my cleaning lady lives in a nice neighborhood (college terrace) in Palo Alto (she rents, but owns two other houses in the bay area), has put three kids through the Palo Alto schools, and has a good health plan. So for her taxes she's getting a lot. My gardner lives in RWC -- I ran into him once at the OSH and discovered he lives around the corner also in a nice neighborhood. If their income didn't allow them to live in the area the income would have to rise, else the supply would dry up.
The tone used is indeed not the proper one, but while I'm a big asyncio advocate, I think it would be beneficial if you would split your project in 2, separating the IO from the rest (like hyper does https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper).

The rational being:

- Python is not just async. It currently majoritarly sync. A lot of the community would benefit from your awesome project;
- You'd have contrib from the async and sync community;
- async may sometime not be worth it for db (http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-an...
- some people will prefer to use threads or gevent;
- you will see compat plugin created for current ORM;

That aside, I will use your project as is, since I'm deep in asyncio these days. Thank you.
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Only USPS ships everywhere. If you go to UPS/FedEx/DHL, they will tell you they ship everywhere and take your package, but if they deem your package not profitable enough they will hand it over to USPS.

The shipping market is incredibly complex with USPS and FedEx actually being each other's largest customers.
I'm pretty sure s/he said "motherfucker". No need to censor swear words / insults, we're adults here, we can use mature language.
Mayonnaise is almost never made with 100% olive oil. It will dominate the flavor (sharp/grassy/bitter). A dash is fine, but a neutrally flavored vegetable oil like canola, rapeseed or sunflower oil is typically used.
Thanks. I know about that but was not separating tech leads from other engineers. (To me they are just more senior engineers.)
Amazon most probably does tons of backend optimization in all its activities.

What I have found more amazing is the selection of books in Amazon "brick-and-mortar" bookstore compared to Barnes & Noble (B&N) bookstore in same Seattle shopping complex previously. I typically visit that shopping complex few times a month. Every time, I have visited Amazon bookstore, I tend to pickup couple of books to browse that I find interesting. When I used to visit B&N in same complex previously, it was rare for me to pickup books to browse in repeat visits. Amazon is able to achieve in 1/4th of the one floor what B&N couldn't do with books on two floors, make me pick up books on repeat visits. Amazon seems to refresh books more often in its store. Amazon might also be using the browsing/purchasing habits of users living in the area to determine what books to stock at the store.
I like to think a bit before swearing at work, so instead of going "it's shit" like ol' Steve did, I prefer "it's suboptimal" or "there's room for improvement". But in a sarcastic tone, which makes it funny. I hope.
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Or just offer it generally, forget about testing for it.

How many people had any kind of accounting or personal finance in high school? More than 1 semester?

Not me. And if that's generally true for many, than that is a tragedy.

How practical, and helpful would that be for students?

And yet it doesn't seem to be a focus of our public schools.
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I worked my way through college. If my kids try to do the same it will take them more than 14 years if they match my work.

The snow you walked uphill both ways in wasn't as deep as you think.
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I think it is wrong because the people advocating cutting the pie differently are not poor, spendthrift vagabonds but people with jobs who believe that they are not getting a fair cut of the wealth they create.
This is why most of the code I write controls actuators... Just in case.
> I have been teaching all of my children, and ranting about it online occasionally, that a lot of younger people are financially illiterate, including so-called smart or tech people.

You are right on the money. And that is true even in third world countries(I live in one).

Financial literacy was assumed to be taught by parents. Unfortunately, not all parents are financial literate either.