skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will admit I was overstating for comedic effect, and that was somewhat unfair. However, I disagree with your defense here.

I would say, semi-seriously, that one can definitely find a story in a pair of shoes. It may not have quite the same complexity as the story found in a book, but I'd be careful to avoid implying that that somehow makes it less. Consider the job of an archaeologist/anthropologist, for example.

However, I'll concede you that there is a possible hierarchy of things that convey 'more' (ehhh...I hate to use that word here, but for lack of a better one at the moment) semantics. And that No Man's Sky could be placed higher on that hierarchy than a pair of shoes. Even given that premise, I don't really see any strong arguments presented in the piece that No Man's Sky is any different from any other game in that sense.
I used to do olympic weightlifting, and compete in amateur boxing, brazilian jiu-jitsu.

I used to be hardcore at watching my diet and working out. Just because I like to compete. Also the dating scene was more forgiving when your athletic.

But I stopped doing all of that during my second year when I realized it will never pay my bills and will not help me out financially.

Now, I'm a recent grad. 80% of my employable skills I've taught myself. I feel like there are many things I should know to become a really really good developer and to catch up for not starting programming earlier. As a recent grad, it feels like you need to learn everything in a very short amount of time. Furthermore, I only got serious about programming this past year.

By skills I mean:

The language and library you'll be using

Frontend (Android, Swift, Javascript)

Middletier (node,golang, frameworks)

Backend (sql,nosql)

Devops

Algorithms etc.

Design (non-programming)

Unity

But, I've started doing exercising, meditating, eating well, hanging out with friends alot as it helps improve the of my quality of life.
These are separate issues.

From the perspective of a social network operator who is interested in personalized data to collect an accurate social graph and ultimately sell ads (or data), spam accounts are arguably more of a threat than trolls, as spam accounts will never exhibit 'normal human' behavior like providing truthful data about their lives or presenting a truthful network of influence.

Troll accounts may in fact promote more engagement (in the most clinical definition of the word), since both trolls and their victims are actual humans. But being harassed drives people away so it isn't just a user retention risk, but also a reputational one.

Outside of social networks, a frequent solution to curb harassment is community moderation like downvotes, which only works if the majority is on the side of the victim and not the attacker. When no such consensus exists, all involved parties will be in disagreement with the opposing side, and any administrative to adjudicate a decision on who's in the right will wrong at least half of the participants.

ML may be able to filter out blatantly spammy content, but moderating adversarial content is something us humans haven't quite solved either.
The course itself uses Octave; the OP just ported the code to Python.
"How is facebook supposed to make money" Is not my or your concern, unless you're a facebook employee. If their business model is not profitable then it should not survive. That is the nature of free market capitalism.

It's not stealing to block ads on facebook. They are offering a free service. Another way to see this is that offering a supposedly free service and then forcing people to watch advertisements is dishonest.

This is really about big corporations being unable to adapt to new technology. Every time that happens what you see is the corporations choose to use anti-consumer tactics which are hostile in nature. Evidence, perhaps, that the corporations have always looked on their customers with contempt. When they get into a bit of hot water because of their failures, they take it out on everyone else.

I agree with folks saying "just don't use facebook". There is literally zero reason for anyone to use facebook, it is a terrible service, and a terrible company. Big Corporate Social Media is never profitable, it is going to die, and it should die. Personally, I wish it would just get it over with so we could all move on to superior technologies.
Sure - so you're factoring capital appreciation in to the total return for your 4% after tax number? Which would imply that you're not holding these to maturity though right?
I never even thought to check alphabet.com until your post, surprised to find it wasn't them. I am not to concerned about changing the vernacular, but looking at the history of Google as a verb, it looks like Larry Page first did in 1998, but it didn't become popular until a Buffy the Vampire episode in 2002. Also looks like out of concern Google might be generizied (lose its trademark protection) in 2006 Google asked the public to only use Google to refer to the company/services.
U.S Total Factor Productivity [pdf]
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Exactly, and the machine isn't telling a story, it's just running the numbers; something humans are very good at identifying given a bit of time. I'm not sure how cutting the scale way down, and adding some more human touches wouldn't have improved matters tremendously, but then, that would be a different developer skillset.
I made a "Show HN" post a while ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6681238), found my current job thanks to it (https://nylas.com --- btw we're hiring) and moved to the US.

Definitely life changing and I'm very grateful for it.
We liked Hyper-G because it had a bi-directional link model and the Harmony browser was able to render VRML.

Maybe 2016 will be the year VR takes off (again)
Are you browsing with Javascript disabled?
I think part of the problem was the unclear and frankly, half-assed way it distributed itself. Some of Google's subsidiaries became Alphabet holdings, but very little of Google broke up into separate companies. When it was first announced many people were thinking "oh, okay, S is for Search, Y it for Youtube, X is for X-Labs, M is for Maps, okay maybe each of those should be separate concerns".

But instead it's just Google, and a bunch of highly experimental, low return, high risk other random companies with no particular strategy. How many labs are separate Alphabet companies? Why not just 1 lab that's supported by R&D concerns from the rest of the conglomerate? What isn't L for "Labs"? Does GV really need to be a separate company? Why isn't it just part of Google? Or why isn't GV "V for Venture?" That's okay, they also have Jigsaw, Google Capital and probably a bunch of internal investment arms.

Do they really need two genomics/life sciences companies?

Why are there so many different video companies, but youtube stays part of Google?

The approach is entirely disorganized and without any seeming strategy.
Why not parse each timeline item to determine the originator? If the originator's name (or some other attribute) matches that of someone on the user's friend list, show the content; otherwise, don't.

Using the official Facebook API, doing this is very much possible in a custom client. To do in with a browser addon, you may not always have access to internal user IDs, but can still fall back to imperfect name comparisons, which should still give decent results.
I used !!1
Nobody said it's easier. But it's definitely more decoupled with a more well defined and reproducable binary image state which you can spin up and shut down in large scale easier. Nobody is saying that this is something you, your Postgres or most people need. Over 10+ million Docker hub pulls of the Postgres images saying there is a use case of using Postgres Docker images.
That's why its "The Web" no? Many almost randomly interconnected threads? That's how I think of it.
Academics seem prone to what Language Log terms "nerdview", the baffling but usually implicit assumption that lay audiences are intimately familiar with the terminology, idioms and house style of your academic niche.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4509
Yep, I remember years ago Inventgeek made diamond heatsink paste [0], nowadays you don't even need to make it yourself, they have commercial stuff as well [1].

[0]: http://www.inventgeek.com/diamond-grease/

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/IC-Diamond-24-Carat-Compound/dp/B0042...
I'm asking if it is really a good idea for a language to provide equality/inequality for floating point numbers when it's often mistake to do that.
Every example seems to be animated. I find this kind of off-putting. The animation just serves to demand my attention before I can really make any use of the graph.
Thanks, that clears it up. I'm apparently not nearly as sensitive to attribution of items when reading about financials, since I rarely deal with that realm.
Obligatory Bob the Angry Flower educational cartoon link: http://www.angryflower.com/247.html

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genitive_case
> Without that train living in the suburbs and working downtown would be shit.

I second that. I live in the suburbs of Chicago. When I moved here - I thought I would drive to downtown (my work location). Everyday, my one way drive was taking about 2 hours. It was pathetic. I switched my commute to train. It was about 30 mins ride along with the benefit of either taking a nap or doing my work.
That's what OCR is for right.
They're not fake by that metric either though. No one can tell the difference between a synthetic and a high quality natural diamond - certainly not with the naked eye. So you're free to pretend your diamond came out of the dirt if you so desire.
There was a period of time, after the bubble and before ad-blockers, when the world wide web was a parasitic minefield of flashing imagines and clickbait and malware.

Then someone invented AdBlock and the web was suddenly fun to use again.

People who've grown up in an ad-block era have no idea how bad it used to be. They didn't have to watch this amazing new "internet" being destroyed by greedy crooks who themselves barely understood the technology.
The value of a diamond in an engagement ring doesn't have anything to do with how it looks. What has always mattered is what you spent, so as long as they can create reasonably fixed pricing tiers people will spend large amounts of money on diamonds.

It would make a lot more sense for a suitor to give his sweetheart a wad of cash and say "I love you this much", but that's a little too transparent.
I started working at IBM ~3 months ago, as a DevOps Engineer. Joining IBM was probably the worst mistake that I have ever made. My group (IBM is a big company) is a complete cluster-f. No leadership. Managers have no knowledge of the technology that they are in charge of. Worst of all, we are forced to use IBM's proprietary, shitty tools (Notes, SameTime, Rational Team Concert, UrbanCode Deploy, IBM-specific JRE, Retain, ect, ect.). I started looking for a new job after two weeks. I would not buy anything from us.
An Electoral System in Crisis [pdf]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI
So what does this all mean for people currently purchasing shares of Jet? It's still a penny stock...but will this change later in the year when the merger is complete or perhaps in 2020 when Jet claims it will be profitable? Based on the valuations of the company's worth, where do a analysts estimate Jet stock to go?

Thanks!
Warm is certainly always better, but given how opaque ATS processing is and the number of submissions they get, I'm not sure that you're worsening your chances by taking a shot at direct. Look at it this way - if the manager just deletes it as spam but HR screens it in, they'll see it, or vice versa. And if the manager opens it, I don't know many people that would can a resume from a qualified candidate because it came direct. While ATS'es and HR screening are seen as huge obstacles from the outside, on the inside we're pretty happy to get a qualified candidate by any means. And if the candidate isn't qualified, no harm either way.
FWIW, I didn't mean that as an attack at you personally. But rather all of the folks I see who say his rhetoric is too extreme, or that giving up proprietary software would be too inconvenient. I apologize if I offended you.
I never knew that damn. What if I added a random delay of a few ms after I compare them?
Pandoc just make me happy. Thanks John & contributors for your work!
Proxima Centauri has a Earth-like planet
I've watched a lot of old cartoons (it comes with the territory when you want to be an animator) and to be honest I'm not sure it was seen as "mocking" back then. It was just How You Drew Black People back then - a caricature based on a caricature.

If you want a complicated viewing experience, track down Clampett's "So White An' De Sebben Dwarves", which is positively bursting with energy and love, for both the craft of animation, and the jazz scene of the day... and a whoooole lotta visuals that just aren't okay any more.
I question the premise. I cannot think of anything I do online at home that is essential to my being a productive member of society. 90% of my internet use at home is for entertainment. It's today's cable TV. It's not essential.
The real issue here is there may not be any way to report the "facts" such as they are. The jargon, the mathematical models are the sine qua non of the facts. Without them you're just playing sophistic games trying to engage lay enthusiasm with overwrought analogies that never really approximate the truth.
I have no idea what action you're suggesting I should take. Obviously I've asked myself that question, which is why I brought it up. Is this some sort of hacker koan?

I'm pointing out that very few charting library authors seem to have any interest in providing a clear path for supporting live data (by that, I mean charts that update in realtime when new data arrives). It should theoretically be automatic in a library based on react; updating the data that backs the ViewModel should update the View. But, I don't see any examples of that or mention of that capability in a cursory read of the site, or how it is handled when data is updated (like is it smoothly animated, does it just hop to the new status, or does it not do anything at all, breaking the reactive pattern and making building it for react a pointless exercise?).
FWIW, pretty much every country in the world has a policy of only allowing entry to people with visas. Where and how you acquire that visa varies, naturally, but requiring one is the default position.

Yes, plenty of countries let you turn up at the airport and obtain a visa on arrival - but if you look like you're moving in (no onward tickets, etc) you're at the very least going to have an interesting discussion, and maybe get a free flight back.

This particular situation is undeniably complex.

> ... sends asylum seekers who tried to reach Australia by
> boat there, regardless of age or legitimacy of claims
> or anything else.

Obviously all or most governments would rather determine legitimacy of claims prior to people arriving in-country. There are, clearly, massive and deplorable issues with the implementation of this system, but again, the principle is similar to how most nation states operate.

I think a big part of the problem is language. Like the life/choice descriptors used by people with strong opinions on abortion in the US -- hey, who doesn't love life and choice?

In AU one side will call these people asylum seekers, or refugees - the other will call them illegal immigrants. In many cases, both appellations are technically correct, but I think in almost all cases both appellations are non-helpful.
> Do they really need two genomics/life sciences companies?

Presumably this is a reference to Verily vs. Calico. AFAICT, yes; or at least the two have distinct enough missions that it makes sense for them to be separate efforts. Calico is a very long payoff window effort starting with basic research aimed at lifespan enhancements, Verily is a shorter payoff timeline (but still fairly long window, given medical device, etc., commercialization timelines) medical device and treatment development effort.
We've found these to be extremely effective. We don't do them all the time but if we feel like we're losing productivity we'll do a few days of them and we're back on track.
Or criminals don't use guns because Police is not using them. It doesn't mean they don't have them.
If you look at Sotheby auction stats, most things don't meet the reserve bid.
The battery is on the outside.
This is a beautifully written piece. Lucid, absorbing, compelling, with a great sense of pace and timing. Brilliant piece of work.
They turned 4 & 2 while we were there.
Eh, splitting hairs, but it's 'fake' only in the sense of art forgery -- one of the paintings is in fact painted by the big-name artist, while the other one, no less marvellous in its execution and visually indistinguishable, isn't. Since only the two painters know for sure, the rest of the world relies on other people's word.
If proper due diligence is expensive, let the merchant pay the fee for it.
Differential Privacy has its limits for small data sets. Luckily, more research is on the way to run arbitrary calculations on multiple datasets that remain private in its entirety (basically homomorphic encryption, but efficiently) [1]. Algorithms that work reasonably well are simple statistical tests and ridge regression [2].

I think these innovations are rare instances where technology can really solves a social problem.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/microsoft-researche...
[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
No scientist will ever use a database like that and no government agency will fund it. Data provenance is absolutely vital for getting your work published and good data accessible is infinitely more valuable than garbage accessible to everyone. I say this as someone who is dedicated to open data and open science. Privacy is something that science has to deal with. There may be a set of questions that can still be answered with degraded data, but I bet that if such a system were built scientists would still try to used the degraded data to answer questions which it could not answer, wasting their time and federal money.
My guess is that they were talking to some kind of business support (as opposed to technical support), and it's a way of saying "they didn't know what they were talking about", when the reality was probably "I want to do something that their company doesn't want to support, and I'm upset that they didn't buy my argument".

They mentioned being a "case that falls outside [Stripe's] remit", and that Stripe didn't "give them the benefit of the doubt".
Simple Generic Sum Type in C++
SpaceX JCSAT-16 Hosted Webcast – Aug 14, 1:26AM ET
What is UX Design?
If you know anyone who is too poor for the Internet, if they live in public housing, please let them know about http://everyoneon.org/

This is a program that gives people in subsidized section 8 housing super cheap broadband. It's a bout $5 per month and gets you top quality broadband, such as a cable modem. Very similar to the old lifeline phone lines.
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I'll counter your anecdote with my own: internet access allows me to be paid handsomely for being a productive member of society.
I, for one, look forward to the day I can learn to swear in languages other than Russian and Tagalog.

But why is it relatively more expensive? Have Indian companies rigged the rules such that they don't have to compete with each other? I thought Indian labor was relatively inexpensive.
Don't worry, I was just poorly joking about being intrigued by that product description.. It does sound like an interesting place to work though.

Mind sharing what you do, and/or how you ended up there? :)
People that write articles about computers most certainly cannot. Words are often misspelled and their grammar is atrocious. It's so sad...
Any Github page?
Not quite sure I'd be allowed to talk about that stuff anymore, although depending on the records you guys keep my name will probably pop up in some calls/emails if you searched for it.

And look, I entirely get what you're saying, and I know you guys probably mean it, but again, you're missing the perspective of people who have a distinct impression of the financial services industry and who _know_ what happens when you go down this road with PayPal, Braintree, et. al. They don't necessarily care if you guys are making a best effort on a case by case basis if you're still hampered by contractual obligations to play by someone else's game. And when you try to make these moral stands but almost immediately point out where you were contractually obligated to compromise said stands it doesn't give people confidence in the moral stands and makes it look like grandstanding (holy run on batman). This is where the disconnect and (seeming) disingenuousness arises.

This is also why I emphasized that you guys should really just tell people to contact support first, because that clears all confusion and miscommunication without having to make moral pronouncements and before you guys are put in a position that forces you to compromise these bright lines.

Anyway, I really support what you guys are doing and don't want to seem overly critical but I wanted to communicate a disconnect that seemed to get lost in translation.
The Rag Man: Revisiting America’s Master Musical Miniaturist, Scott Joplin
It's wonderful I believe, a great social experiment in the shape of a small nation. Just look at their reaction post the 2008 crisis, they'll be ok. When education's free..
I'm new to programming, and am attempting to work my way into a software development career. While I'm continuing to produce a fair amount of code for my portfolio, I sympathize with those who are saying the amount to learn is overwhelming.

This by itself is enough a challenge, but there's also the question of whether coding will be a thing in twenty years - given the recent advances in AI and the question of whether jobs in general will be a thing after AI become sufficiently advanced. I enjoy coding for the creative aspects and the pride I feel when completing a difficult task - but lately my technophobia has been winning over my affinity for the creativity involved in the task.

There's also the feeling I get that with the accelerating technology curve, software development is becoming even more of a 'shapeless' profession as the years go by - it's difficult to find a sense of identity when the technologies I'm learning could be obsolete in a couple of years.

Trying to find a way around these thoughts, because they've really become a barrier to myself really enjoying the learning process - but I think they're worth consideration.
It read as if the author was trying too hard.
I was under the impression that Alex practices each free solo route multiple times while roped.

I'm by no means discounting his accomplishments and skills, but rather highlighting that it isn't quite as reckless as it first appears.
Diamond Foundry ain't that much cheaper than the real McCoy. I thought synthetic diamonds were gonna save me a bucket of money?
Does HP now represent about every company that was going to use Itanium? DEC, Compaq, SGI
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I think a lot gets lost in SEO and developers and marketeers miss the forest for the trees. They spend so much time trying to understand how they can game search engines they forget the number one ingredient for making it to the top : Good Content.

It doesn't matter how optimized your website is, if the content is useless, you will not rank. If you want to rank you should probably spend 90% of your time and effort on content optimization, 10% on SEO.

Check out what we are doing at YourMechanic (YC W12). We introduced an advice section earlier this year and now it drives 50%+ of all our organic traffic. https://www.yourmechanic.com/advice/