skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>for an increasing number of issues, in the end, the beliefs themselves are so polarized they leave no room for compromise.

That's quite true. But what is often going on in this sort of a situation is a self-perpetuating pattern in which poor listening, anger, fear, attacking the other side, and rigidly clinging to extreme positions all reinforce each other.

What mutual listening can do in many cases is change this into a much better self-reinforcing pattern in which people calm down, become more understanding, and become more fact-oriented and realistic in their thinking, and this in turn makes it possible to reach a good agreement such as on governmental policy.

I am not saying this always works, but I think it should be one of our standard approaches, and everyone ought to know and practice it, as appropriate.
I really like Hampton Creek products (I'm vegetarian, and my girlfriend is vegan, but Just Mayo is a high quality product regardless of whether you eat eggs or not). I'm honestly excited to see it show up in local stores, and have been known to go to stores that I know stock it specifically to buy it. But, this is pretty sketchy behavior.

I guess investors will be forgiving if the growth of the company ends up catching up with the faked numbers, which seems to be what's happening, but I dunno if the stores will be as quick to forget. Then again, if demand catches up quickly, they may not mind, either.
That's excellent. So succinct, so valuable. Thank you.
This might make the VRML included in MPEG4 useful. Could possibly use it to pass along the physical constraints and other data needed to make it interactive. ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_11
> I said her beliefs are her beliefs and that they are unlikely to be shaken purely because someone listened to her.

Less likely than because someone didn't?
If you're going to order your employees to do questionable things you'd better make sure they're treated right. You would think it goes without saying...
It's awesome that Valve is doing this! They have said from the start that they were going to open up Lighthouse (the codename for the tracking system) to hardware manufacturers and this is the first part of that follow-through.

Should be exciting to see what kinds of devices come out of this. I know I saw a few devices (like gloves) at SIGGRAPH that attempted to reverse engineer tracking with the base stations, so this should speed up their development considerably. I wouldn't be too surprised if we see at least an announcement of wireless Lighthouse-tracked gloves for VR by the end of the year.

It's not just controllers or HMDs either. I expect to see a beer coozy with tracking so people can pick up drinks on a desk while remaining in VR, and maybe a collar for pets so you don't step on your dog/cat while the headset is on. The possibilities are endless!
MS Chakra JS VM is already open source: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore

Like all high-performance JS VM's their JIT's already emit efficient machine code. If Google, Apple or MS could get JS running any faster they would've.
I bet it's not interactive. Interactivity powered by near field RF is impractical because power is lost when the card is out of range. This would result in some very awkward UX as users have to hold their card close enough to the reader for power while they verify the transaction metadata and enter their PIN.
The US was originally founded as a Confederation:

http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/am_rev_ti...

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/confed.h...

This emphasized state powers. The central government was extremely weak. The constitution came about in 1887, more than a decade later, strengthening the central government.

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/creating-new-gov...

http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/1700_1800...

The initial form of government under which the US was formed was a confederation of independent nation-states. This form of government never survived long and the newly born country was foundering until they made some critical adjustments, thereby strengthening the central government.

I am not going to research this further. Off the top of my head, the central government initially lacked teeth in terms of ability to a) raise money and b) raise an army. This was threatening to cause the entire thing to collapse until the form of government was fundamentally altered. The confederation was put to an end when we ratified the constitution, iirc.

We are talking about very early American history, if that helps.
Indeed, I've seen at least one paper where they used Mecanical Turk and aggregated results (by showing the same examples to multiple people) to check for quality. It sounds like they did almost exactly the same thing here.

Paper: 'Antisocial Behaviour In Online Discussion Communities' (Cheng et al., 2015)

Link: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.00680v1.pdf

(Search for 'Mechanical Turk' / section Data Preparation -> Measuring text quality.)
Yes, if the gender ratio is very imbalanced, it wouldn't be impossible for men to have had more partners on average than women. In fact it couldn't be equal, since the total number of partners would have to match.

But the ratio of heterosexual men to heterosexual women is close to 1:1 and not 7:4. Therefore the disparity in reported numbers is impossible.
They have placed themselves on the wrong side of the line between growth hacking and actionable fraud.

Worst yet, when Josh Tetrick (CEO) was called out on it, he tried to justify it rather than coming clean and promising not to do it again.

He'll be lucky not to be sued by investors since funding was granted based on falsified data.
What's the definition of a hipster? Someone you disagree with?
I work for a company that puts culture first. Our core values of positive, supportive, self starting have always existed since the early days at the company. These values have led the company in difficult situations and force individuals to look at things differently than otherwise.

However, they are very realistic. For example, positive is about finding the path out of trying situations with a level head. Not "everything is great" when it's really on fire.

I think it's very important because I've seen the difference it makes. It is also why we're at nearly 5 stars on Glassdoor with 100% CEO approval. We've grown so much and putting them at the forefront is key.

Nothing to do with ping pong.
How is this different from other guerrilla marketing tactics? If I'm a small company just starting operations, of course I'll do whatever I can to make myself look to be more in-demand. Not defending the accounting or payment/expense irregularities, but if they were only spending a small amount that could otherwise be spent on advertising, I would consider this an effort to help them take off in the marketplace.
Evidence for the world's second oldest profession?
That link led me to this page: https://www.sourcelair.com/blueprints/sourcelair/xterm

I tried to sign in with Github, but the site requests full read/write access to my account details, my private/public keys and all repositories. Wat.
Even with expertise, you need labeling of some kind for supervised learning.
Very well put. I would just add that I usually find that, while I may disagree with the course of action the person is advocating, I can still see that the deeper ends they see it as achieving have some legitimacy.
Creating a New Government
dillon's guess:

<dillon> [...] I did a ton of testing. all the pre-zeroing stuff was reducing performance instead of improving it
<@dillon> not sure where the crossing point was, but probably somewhere around core-2-duo
Almost anyone in a highly competitive market doesn't play by the rules.

Isn't it sketchy when egg-carton has a chicken freely roaming the grass on it?

Isn't it sketchy to write cage-free when the chicken is in a dark large container clumped together with hundreds of other chickens?

They are selling a product that has to compete with billion-dollar businesses that already have plenty of sketchy and untruthful marketing.

They spent a meager 77k on this and somehow that is unacceptable.

It's just the same if not less worse than what their competition does.
No, your response was totally justified, and it in turn informed mine. I think I said that contempt is easier than compassion, and I guess I demonstrated that, too. It's not always easy to keep a level head and remember that cruelty is almost never a constructive response to cruelty, and sometimes I'm really bad at it. Next time I intend to do better, and I'm glad I managed not to fail entirely at getting my point across in spite of doing a poor job this time.
Show HN: Iosevka, the Coders’ typeface, and is code itself
I did it in one move ;). Pretty neat game.

http://imgur.com/f5sryfs
I've been using VSCode for C development fairly successfully, although I don't recall if I ever got the debugging working (due to the same reasons you describe). I do remember getting debugging working was a nightmare and had only minimal success on various different platforms (linux, OS X).

I'd suggest installing the clang extension, this was the best out of the box experience for auto completion etc in VSCode.
Lending Club: Not only that, they also misrepresented the terms of the contract and legal clauses present in them by falsifying the date of loan forward to one that was after they made changes to their language (I believe Jeffries was the counter party). Blatant securities fraud.

edit: since I seem to be the target of downvoting by people presumably with a stake in LC, here are some sources.

"he falsified dates on $3 million of loans that were bought by Jefferies"

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-10/jefferies-...

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/05/10/2161309/the-legal-twea...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-final-days-of-lending...
> You can get a feel for what a big deal this was in the fact that it felt radical and expensive for Stroustrup to decide that all new objects would be zeroed. Or you can see in the original posting that there was special memory handling support for special devices -- finally eliminated by this patch!

That's a pretty different issue. Zeroing freshly allocated memory in usermode causes all pages to become committed. Actual zeroing won't take much time, but getting all those pages physically mapped... that's another issue. On memory pressure, that can take arbitrarily long time.
Hey there,

Sorry you didn't get a reply. We respond to every inquiry, but sometimes the responses end up in one's spam folder. We run our own mail servers and despite our best efforts (DKIM, SPF, never being on any blacklists) some mail providers bin us.

If you give us a call (415-974-1313) we can look up your address and give you a better idea of what to expect, though we tend to under-promise and over-deliver.

The website is a bit... dated, but we're working on a new one with a new coverage map[0] and more details about our service in buildings that are already on-net.

[0] A slightly better representation of coverage can be found on our outage map at https://monkeybrains.net/map/
One salient detail that's a bit difficult to pick out of the article: Hampton Creek gave cash to contractors with instructions to use that cash to purchase Just Mayo. However, they recorded (some of?) these cash payments as wages on those contractor's 1099s, meaning those contractors had to pay taxes on that "income" when in truth this was (at best) a business expense.
I think you should open a bounty for it. As questions like "Can I use this with Django/SQLAlchemy/…?" showed, people love drop-in replacements that speed up their code, especially when it is at a low level like this.

Do not want to sound ungrateful, though. Thank you for your work also on you other contributions. Would definitely use this when applicable. Are more performance related projects like this and uvloop planned?
Primary author of node-postgres (both the JavaScript & libpq versions) here. Very good question. I'd say part of the relative speed is because it's been a mostly 1 person (me!) project for a loooong time & I haven't had a lot of time to do perf analysis to find where exactly to make it faster. I would absolutely love some help! My time for open source is pretty limited, and I try to spend most of it focused on triaging issues. If you'd like to help out please don't hesitate to open an issue, a pull request, or send me a gchat (contact info is in node-postgres readme) and we can discuss!
It reminds me most of print newspapers "circulating" more copies of its paper than actually needed by readers, so that they can charge a higher price per ad towards their advertisers.
Seems like we're not that far apart, at least.

I won't lie. Interviewing is tough. I've been involved with some bad interviews from both sides. I wish there was a better way, but I'm not convinced that any of the alternatives typically proposed are actually better.

I gave some interviews when I was at Yahoo that I recognize in retrospect were pretty terrible. Questions with clever/trick answers, trendy topics, etc. The only thing I never did was the pure brain teasers (a fox, chicken, and farmer need to cross a river...). I try to do better now. :\
It's totally different. It wasn't disclosed to investors and distorted the results in their favor. It probably violated vendor agreements. They purposely cut the paper trail to hide it because they knew it was sketchy.
This is a standard for smartcards. They often include certificate-based authentication. You don't power the radio - the radio powers you, so that's not a big issue. OCSP seems irrelevant - it's pass-by-default, so if you're a bad guy you just pretend you can't reach the OCSP servers.
(2014)

Entertaining, as always.
I don't see any problem with this. If it's illegal, then prosecute them. If it's not illegal, then it's up to the shareholders to hold the executives responsible. I don't see how consumers were defrauded or deceived in any way. Major food producers pay huge buckets of money to be on those grocery store shelves. And we know the major food producers have been trying to put Hampton Creek out of business since it started. I like Just Mayo and I say good for them.
They lied to investors about it and won financing based on the results of falsified sales data.
>It is the first step, but it only works if the other side is also willing to take it with you. If you are the only one changing your position, it is not a mutual compromise, by definition.

That's true. However, once the other person feels well understood, they often get more interested in trying to understand your side. And then, once you and the other person side each have a better understanding of what the other wants, it may be possible to come up with some third alternative that makes both of you happy.
Oh man, that's right. You just made picture rather vividly.

Probably time to see if I like that movie now as much as I did when I was ten! :-)
Good job!

I think it's pretty amazing how good you get in this game once you play it a little more. At first it's simply impossible, but you start to recognize the patterns pretty quickly and you can usually beat the 3x3 ones in less than 10 moves.
> that's great, you've written a very fast driver. My benchmarks are comparing psycopg2 to itself,

OK, I ran the asyncio suite (with uvloop event loop):

Python3.5.2 asyncio+psycopg+uvloop -- avg 8356.84 recs/sec

Really not that slower. There is also an important detail that you forget to mention: the threaded benchmark uses notably more CPU time (about 30% more).
One week, and only for a subset of articles; some articles are available to everyone immediately.
I've been using VSC as my daily driver for a few months now and it's great -- even on nightly builds. The most powerful features is the tasks.json. Once I learned to use it (the docs aren't good on it), I was able to utilize it to bring a more cohesive experience across many code bases.

I enjoy the fact that it gives an integrated experience and allows community extensions. This is a big change from atom where everything must be cobbled together, hope that it works and will break. My hope is that the MS team will pitch in on the most popular extensions per language and take them to the next level as well.

To top it off, it's one of the most open development processes I've ever seen. They have a clearly defined roadmap, release schedule and even tell you exactly how they work in the wiki (https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/wiki). It's fantastic to see such a large company open up like this.
It's sketchy to call egg-free-white-flavored-oil-mix Mayo. It's sketchy to put a giant egg on your egg-free mayo.

"While Just Mayo is egg-free, Hampton Creek Chief Executive Josh Tetrick also emphasized that it doesn’t use the term “mayonnaise,” only “mayo.”"

It's mayo, not mayonnaise you silly consumers.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/just-mayo-reaches-agreement-with...

edit: You know, of all the things I could comment I talk about eggless f'ng mayo. I wish I could delete this :)
TL;DR Those concerns are reasonable given our current implementation, but if we want to solve this problem we must liberate ourselves from the constraints of that implementation.

It's like talking about whether a feature should be part of the Linux kernel or left to userland. You can say that ideally some functionality ought to be in the kernel without asserting that the current implementation of the kernel is compatible with such ideals.

I think that most people shy away from this thought exercise ("assuming an ideal implementation were available, what would government look like if it were re-imagined from the ground up to address the challenges our society faces today?") because it ignores enough details about the current situation to feel like a complete departure from reality.

If there are objections/concerns regarding some piece of the spec, identify the general solution, even if it sounds like a tautology - then get more specific until you have a solution.

In this case, if your concern is based on the assertion that "we have not proven ourselves capable of implementing government that adequately services public works", we can examine that assertion. I'm not certain that it's true, but if it is, we can ask "why?" until we can form a hypothesis. Then apply the scientific method and repeat until you _know_ why. Then follow the same process for hypothetical solutions. ???. Profit.

Sorry I didn't really answer your question, but hopefully this provides a framework for answering it and any others you should come up with.
Edit: I misread your proposal - I thought you wanted more intelligence in the peripherals. It sounds like you're actually proposing putting the light source on the tracked device. I suspect Valve made the decisions they did in part looking towards a wireless future where sensors can operate far longer on batteries than light sources can.<end edit>

UNC Chappel Hill developed a system like you describe a number of years ago [0]. The position-evaluation software they developed was amazingly cool but the size of the tracker (a bit larger than a golf ball) and the cost of the tracker were both far higher than the cost of the SteamVR sensors, while the cost of their "light houses" was much less than the cost of Valve's lighthouses. The UNC system works great in the case where you want to track a small number of high value devices in an extremely large office-building style environment but it scales much less well if you want to track a large number of inexpensive peripherals in a room sized environment. The approach you describe is great for many applications, but packing the complexity into one or two reusable base stations as both Valve and Oculus have done scales much better for a consumer market that is in part interested in additional "inexpensive" aftermarket peripherals.

[0] https://www.cs.unc.edu/~welch/media/pdf/scaat.pdf
and it's just as frustrating to those of us that do use asyncio (because it really is excellent) when someone needlessly ties it to not use async. it's harder to maintain something that does both
Visual Studio Code is currently my favorite editor. Fast, informative intellisense, great debugging environment, good git integration, faster than Atom, etc.
Pun intended? If so, nicely done...
Check with people who already use this: https://newsroom.mastercard.com/press-releases/mastercard-in...

Producer: https://www.nidsecurity.com/products/solution-financial.html
You ever tried building a wireless mesh network?
Ask HN: How to start a successful side business
I'm a business oriented Computer Science college student who's been trying to come up with an idea for a profitable side business for some time now. How do you find the right idea to build a business off of?
http://www.programmingformarketers.com/automatic-twitter-fol...

It's dirty but it works.

I'm of the opinion that it's important to maintain a good ratio of following:followers

If you follow 10,000 but only have 100 followers then people will assume you're spam and not follow you.

You can also use something like http://quuu.co/ which automates the posting of content via Buffer.

Alternatively, you could just join Twitter conversations naturally and build your following that way.

In my experience, Twitter doesn't give the best traffic (both quantity and quality) compared to other acquisition sources.
China's constitution is all about equality, free speech, etc...but China's system is not based on constitutional law so they just ignore it. You know that.

People all have the same standards enshrined in the political system, but it is a low bar, and everyone makes out in the economic system instead. It's basically what a libertarian society would look like if they kept the government to a minimum (sans the occasional persecution of a dissident).
Publishers who write clickbait headlines obviously care about the wording, so why would they be any less "worried" about rewriting? Facebook is simply changing the math about what gets clicks.

This article seems to presuppose a lot of human intervention on the part of fb. I was under the impression that it was automated (with only initial human help for training some classifier). Is that wrong?

And finally web search companies have solved this (to a greater extent, at least) in their search rankings. It seems there are a lot of signals to indicate crappiness --- I can't believe that fb only just started using bounce rate. That puts them what, 18+ years behind the times?
Sounds interesting. Can these tools work on character n-grams as FastText does?
To me, LWN only seems Linux-centric to the extent that FOSS itself seems Linux-centric. I've seen articles on LWN about major new developments in the BSD world (for instance, https://lwn.net/Articles/651700/ ), as well as notable developments about FOSS for Windows or OSX.
Ah well that's pretty much true of all old myths and stories. I know what you're saying but personally I think the variation we get on these stories in modern media is pretty incredible.

From the cheesy to the epic a lot of the books, movies, games etc. we enjoy today are just modern variations of ancient stories.
I remember doing the exact same thing as a group project while in University. Anybody else remember writing Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) DOS programs?
Back in 2003-2005(!) I wrote a thing called classifier4j[0] which also did summarization. HP Labs in Brazil did a fairly comprehensive benchmark[1] of summarizers last year, which classifier4j won[2].

I'm quite surprised that (a) they found classifier4j at all, (b) they bothered to test it, and (c) it won, but anyway...

[0] http://classifier4j.sourceforge.net/

[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Quantitative-and-Qua...

[2] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Quantitative-and-Qua...
The trick is to both come up with the money and survive over long time horizons. Neither is that easy.
what you are saying is known as the "fallacy of relative privation." yes, it's not as bad as another imaginary company's potential trespass, but that's neither here nor there.