skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "When you read something that makes you angry, stop for a moment and answer two questions: who wants you to be angry, and why?"

Something my father once told me, that has served me well over the years.

There's a lot of money (read: clicks) to be made by manufacturing outrage, and there's far too much to be angry about in this world to be inventing any more of it. Maybe this is something you should be angry about, maybe it isn't. But unless you like being mad you owe it to yourself to think about those questions before making a decision.

For this thing in particular, it doesn't make any sense without context. I'm not at the University of Chicago, and nor is anybody I know. Are "sjw pc trigger-warningers" a problem there? Or is the university being ridiculous? We can argue back and forth forever whether "safe spaces" are good or not depending on your definition -- which definition is the one that is relevant at the University of Chicago? This letter may make perfect sense in the context of current issues going on at the university. Or it may be a load of bull. But, at least from where I'm sitting, I have no context. And whoever uploaded this didn't provide any. What was their purpose? Who knows. Definitely not enough justification for me to worsen my mood about it.
Reactive Extensions for Java- Overview of Some Concepts Behind the RxJava
Don't think it would be hard to argue that housing prices in major cities affect interstate commerce.

Anyways, you can tie HUD/DOT/etc grants to the conditions. Don't play ball = no funding.
> Add support for Dual EC DRBG from SP800-90. Update DRBG algorithm test and POST to handle Dual EC cases.

WTF?
San Francisco requires that a certain percentage of the apartments in new construction be two or more bedrooms.
Around 1975, I loved TECO and totally embraced it strange, compact set of commands. I even expected my students (second semester CS majors) to develop a reasonable level of skill with TECO as it was at the time, on our systems, the most efficient way to write code. I programmed in it keeping my program in my head as much as I could, because like ed you had to issue a command for it to print out lines of the file you were working on. It's hard to imagine that it was possible to write real programs like that.

Before TECO I was punching cards so it seemed like a big improvement. My use of TECO didn't last long; there was a full screen editor of some kind that I can't remember running on the KRONOS OS (CDC 6600 mainframe) that replaced TECO and shortly after that I discovered Emacs. What strange and interesting days those were to be programming.
Yes, the two key things: population of drives (model/version possibly, but ultimately not publicly known what the sample size is), and the rate is generally a maximum. i.e. use of "less than" symbol with the rate. Therefore, it's wrong to say every x bytes you should expect an unrecoverable read error. We have no idea how good the drives actually are, the reporting is in orders of magnitude anyway so it could be 8 or 9 times more reliable than the reported rate; or even multiple orders of magnitude. It's not untrue to say < 1 URE in 10^14 bits, but for the population to actually experience 1 URE in 10^16 bits. Why not advertise that? Well, maybe there's a product that costs a little more than advertises 1 URE in 10^15 bits. And other product classes that promise better.
For lightweight containers that improve on the built-in namedtuples consider using the excellent boltons library's namedutils: http://boltons.readthedocs.io/en/latest/namedutils.html
Not entirely - the work hours were self reported but there were actual, validated measures used to assess cognition. At least that's what the abstract said.
I agree that using a firearm to commit suicide is still one of the most reliable methods, but it is not failsafe, and certainly not nice for the cleanup people, or discover(s) of the body... Like, It will stick with them for life.

"estimated the lethality of suicide by guns as only 91.6% effective, and Farberow and Shneidman (NL Farberow and ES Shneidman, The Cry for Help, 1961.) had it as low as 84.7%. The Hawaii Department of Health (1990) had it even lower at 73%. The same studies showed the effectiveness of hanging to vary between 77% and 88%."
Well, right, that would remove the Moral Hazard.

And instead of insurance companies, it appears Social Media mobs are being effective at collective bargaining, which in other countries outside of the US has shown to be effective at keeping prices lower. Unfortunately it's a very selective outrage.
We probably hired ~7 altogether. Some were great, some mediocre as you'd expect. Honestly I don't know that they would have been any better at answering the questions you referenced, but I do think that on average they would have done better than others who applied but didn't have any secondary education. That indicates to me that the value of the ITT degree is >0. Whether or not the value of the degree is enough to make up for what they paid, I honestly don't know - although several of them had used military money to get the degree so they weren't really out much.
Maybe we could actually let people work remotely, and not waste billions of hours commuting. Then we could leave these fucking urban and suburban hellscapes, and go live somewhere with green grass, and trees, and mountains, and human-scale communities. Maybe people wouldn't be so neurotic.
More than that ($500k) for 9 years. Sorry, will not reveal niche. Douche move, I know
I noticed a massive write performance hit when I enabled this. Note that it'll only compress data after you enable it, it isn't retroactive
I agree 100% with the article.

I've just written a script which makes every one of the mistakes listed in the article. I am consuming a JSON based API in a long ugly mash of code, exactly as described. It doesn't look pretty.

In my defence, I wrote the code as I was trying to understand the API. I had not read ahead and didn't really know which API's I would need or how fiddly it would be to bring it all together.

I am now exposed to pain if the API changes or if anything breaks. Time to go back and tidy up the code!
St. Jude Heart Devices Vulnerable to Hacks
Cycling Matches the Pace and Pitches of Tech
This is exactly what is happening. The whole South Bay is slowly imploding.
Withholding DOT funding has been done before: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/07/four-tim...
I want to start a blog
> but you don't have to know all state of the arts techniques to be dangerous

Often times you can be dangerous with just scikit learn, xgboost and Keras if you can do data prepping, pipelines and stacking/ensembles. Besides wonderful frameworks such as TF, Theano and Torch there are also "zoos" of ready made models, word vectors and such that can be used out of the box.
Bleep – Slack for Doctors and Healthcare
You might want to look at the burden of proof needed to remove a child from a family; or at the disruption a family experiences with a full on CPS investigation.

And that's ignoring the huge cost involved.
Pretty much sums up a lot of my feelings on progressive culture.
I've been had surprising good luck ordering automotive parts from Amazon.

I stripped some caliper bolts on an 90's truck. I needed a heli-coil(odd size one), and a new bolt. When ordering the program suggested new caliper bushings. Everything fit perfectly.

I thought, if they can keep accuracy of orders spot on, and prices cheap; they will put a huge dent in the automotive parts market.

That said, I've noticed when Amazon goes into a new market, they nail price, and accuracy of order.

They then seem to raise prices slowly. I notice those price increases, and will shop elsewhere, but as of now--I will buy all my auto parts from Amazon.

Whomever programmed that automotive garage did a really good job.
There are. "(Kernel) address space layout randomization" is one of them. It was circumvented here; that's part of why this is impressive.
Thanks for that post, I'm in that waterboy place you're talking about and have been trying to find a way to the next level. If nothing else, sharing your experience was confirmation that helped me realize I'm not suddenly going to start doing ML at work if I'm paid to be doing other things.
I am reading the opt out agreement as far too specific. It says do not share info with Facebook for improved ads experience. MEANING SHARE info WITH FACEBOOK anyways, even if you are not interested in ads.

I don't want any of my info shared. Yet there is no way to opt out of it.
The app would run on the user's local PC or phone, and it would access data directly from their mailbox (and create a local DB from that data). So no backend server to worry about.
I'm against the parking aspect for this...

UNLESS: The municipality becomes the 'building'. If you have parking silos at the edges (or in dedicated locations within), and excellent human scale transit (like people mover belts through commercial areas) between there and housing then I'm more for /centralized/ parking.

America is simply built on cars, and no matter how much you get rid of the need for a car in the city (and PLEASE reduce that as much as possible!) the car is /the/ interface for accessing the rest of the world, where families, lower density industrial, and other aspects live.

If you want to go out and access parks and other features that involve more trees, more natural animals, and less people that is also a requirement.
Thanks, but I read the article. Do you have any additional insight?
It's pretty much a 'bend over and accept all the learning you're going to do'. Agreed w/ both of you though, that school changed my life in a very, very good way.
GCC wasn't started from scratch either. It was heavily based on the PO project by Jack Davidson and Chris Fraser.
Almost all email clients have some sort of filtering. And the email messages would all have a keyword in the subject line, so filtering could be accomplished by that (or via an x-header). The app itself could automatically create the filters for various web hosted email systems too.
I'd like to know what a hardware program costing ~US$38 billion in 2016 dollars would look like.
Because there are too many people that think good communication is important and that good communication is comprised solely of face to face meetings.

IME these people are universally poor communicators in the much more important text medium.
My main issue with Slack is that with sane-ish notification defaults (only for my name), group direct messages default to that as well.

They're fundamentally perceived by everyone (in my experience) as an extension of individual direct messages, which do trigger notifications, and yet I find myself missing these for minutes/hours at a time, sometimes when it's important, all because I've finally trained myself to ignore the non-numeric notification badge.

I've contacted the support about this and was basically told to go away. :/
Don't go your phone while you drive.
The Fed is already rather audited... from Bernanke's blog:

The Fed is already thoroughly audited in the usual sense, by an independent
inspector general and by an outside accounting firm (currently, Deloitte and
Touche), and the resulting financial reports are made public online. Every
security owned by the Fed, up to the detail of the identifying CUSIP number, is
also available online. Moreover, the Government Accountability Office (GAO),
which does in-depth reviews and analyses (“audits” of a different type) of
government activities at the request of Congress, has wide latitude to review
Fed operations, including supervision and regulation as well as other functions.
For example, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, the GAO conducted
reviews of the Fed’s emergency lending programs during the crisis and of the
Fed’s governance structure. Since the financial crisis, the GAO has done some
70 reviews of aspects of Fed operations.

What other sorts of auditing do you want?

It's also worth mentioning that the US Fed acts as central bank to the world -- US taxpayers are not on the hook for that $6T.
Weren't those mostly in place before most people who currently live in those places moved there, and don't people often chose where to live based on the rules and regulations of that place?

I wouldn't call moving into a place being forced to live under the rules and regulations of that place.

Changing the rules and regulations on people who already live there, though, I'd say is forcing because it can be a major effort to move somewhere else, especially if they are an owner rather than a renter.
Ancient Egyptian Stories Will Be Published in English for the First Time
Giving away free keybase invites for karma
As the title states. i have 22 to give away.
It would seem that the current release from FB does top-down and bottom-up integration:

> To capture general object shape, you have to have a high-level understanding of what you are looking at (DeepMask), but to accurately place the boundaries you need to look back at lower-level features all the way down to the pixels (SharpMask).
Yeah this seems to be an error: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12361104
I'm curious about this to. Does anyone know if there are steps that one could use with Xcode to see if any of these files exist?
Could vertical take-off electric planes replace cars in our cities?
I'll start the bidding at 33 cents.
The Octobot Soft Robot – No Wires or Batteries Necessary
The Wild West. Algorithms to Improve #NeuralNetwork Accuracy
As long as we do simple data processing, it won't become the dreaded Skynet. When we stuck a Reinforcement Learning system on top, feed it with reward signals and let it loose on the net or in real life robots, then it could become intelligent and develop its own goals/interests. So the Skynet part comes after reinforcement learning.
> I don't mind discussing things, but sometimes you just want a gallon of milk (or degree).

It is a clever metaphore, but I don't think degrees are like gallons of milk at all. It is more like Louis Vuitton bags.

There are USD$600 LV bags, and there are others that cost twice or even 3 times as much. But, as many people that would love to snatch a USD$100 bag as there might be, LV cannot sell to them; if they did, all the > USD$1k customers would never buy LV again. Then the < USD$1k customers would begin to ask why they cannot have a 50% discount in the first place. And before long, LV would be selling at Walmart, competing with the (much more experienced) other players in the $20-$30 bag market.

Degrees are the same. Lots of people who only want a job want those. But the people who already have one like to believe that their degree says something about them; among other things, that they have the ability to dispasionately discuss subjects they find personally offensive. Every successful university has to stay in speaking terms with their alumni, if not for no other reason than to have then send their kids to the same university when the time comes.

At the end of day, University of Chicago is branding itself as "the place to study if you are an actual adult". Sometimes you want to sell regular milk, but sometimes you want to sell organic, grass-fed, free-range milk. And it is a good thing to have both options available.
Animation Policy does this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/animation-policy/n...
> So, although I believe the model is appealing to some (or many), I do like the guiding hand of a salesperson to help me navigate many makes, models and options.

Then you should pay for someone to offer you that service. He would be more likely to be impartial too.
I agree with what you and others are saying in general but "credits earned may not transfer" might as well apply anywhere. Between state/city university system, community college, and top-tier private college I had a hell of a time getting any credits to go anywhere. (Including for very run-of-the-mill, non-"core", non-specialized subjects.)
Oh awesome, I can't wait to buy a knock off truck from "Ford-Motors" that has a handful of fake 5-star reviews and doesn't meet safety standards. Thanks, Amazon!

(See here for explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939829)
> If that's the case, why didn't Amazon include older model cars?

Given that I can add an 1896 Duryea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duryea_Motor_Wagon_Company) to my garage, I think it's safe to say they include older model cars.
Many state colleges have low 6 year graduation rates too (as they vary widely), should they be shut down too? Is there any reason 25% or 30% are unacceptable, but 50% is fine?[1]

[1] http://collegecompletion.chronicle.com/
Cities are inherently places where wealth begets wealth. I can say after living in LA I see the process of its Mahattanization. My guess is my kids won't even understand a suburban LA other then as a historical artifact mostly represented in old films and TV shows.
This is what happens when the concepts of security, DRM and commercial restriction get entangled.

This reminds me of the PlayStation 3. It remained an un-hacked console for so long and the theory goes that the people who wanted to tinker with it could do so without being forced to fight on the same side as the bad guys, because Sony allowed 'Other OS'. When Sony closed off 'Other OS', this gave incentive for people to actually try and jailbreak the system [1].

Yet now the people that just wanted to tinker had to take the same route that people who just wanted to pirate would have to take. By locking the platform down further, Sony only succeeded in merging the two camps (benign tinkerers and pirates). I think there's a lot of validity in this theory.

It's a tough choice. As an iOS user I've long since come to the same acceptance as you - that the added security is worth the extra restrictions. Yet it doesn't have to be this way. Protecting your platform from hackers shouldn't be the same as protecting your platform from SNES emulators or games with adult themes.

[1] I believe it was this talk where this view was put forward, but I might be wrong (at work, can't really double-check): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR9tFXz4Quc
Is there anything wrong with that though? Shall we not be held economic hostage and instead build New Cities? If I recall, YC even has a project for this!
Let me see if I can clarify. Here is a summary of the situation you described before any push or pull.

origin repo: M (master)
your repo: M---C1 (master)
other repo: M---C2 (master)

If other pushes `master` to origin we have:

origin repo: M---C2 (master)
your repo: M---C1 (master)
other repo: M---C2 (master)

If you then run, from master, `pull --rebase` we have:

origin repo: M---C2 (master)
your repo: M---C1
\
C2---C1' (master)
other repo: M---C2 (master)

Your master branch will be positioned at C1'. As you can see from the diagram, the `pull --rebase` didn't change any existing commits, it just added C2 (same SHA as in the origin and other repos) and added C1', which are the changes in C1 applied to C2 instead of M. If those changes can't be made automatically, you'll get a conflict that has to be resolved before C1' can be created.

I don't think it is helpful to describe this as adjusting the order of commits or re-writing history or any similar language that suggests some sort of mutation to the commit tree. The only thing that has happened here is that additional commits have been added to the tree and the label `master` has been moved to a new leaf commit.

I realize some other commenters have said I'm being pedantic but I would instead say that I'm being accurate. You can't really understand how rebase, rebase -i, rebase --onto, fixups, reflog manipulations, and so on work if you don't have the correct mental model of the git commit tree.
The State of JavaScript: Front-End Frameworks – A Few Preliminary Results
The last few things I've bought from Amazon were all knockoffs--Hanes socks that wore out and the fabric pilled up immediately and gave me blisters, boxers, sunglasses, etc. Pretty disappointing. Now I try to avoid any Prime products fulfilled by third parties, but I'm not sure if buying directly from Amazon mitigates the risk.
I would argue some of the most difficult problems in ml is data prep/ preprocessing.
Dominos is testing a drone delivery program that drops pizza from the heavens
(From the lookout paper): "In order to maintain its ability to run, communicate, and monitor its own status, the software disable's the phone's 'Deep Sleep' functionality."
Amazon has the ability to search for it, but doesn't seem to have any products: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sx_as?keywords=tires&rh=n%3A156...
It was added in C++11 when they added decltype(), so that you could reference arguments when computing return type. It's slightly different though, in that you need to specify the return type in the usual position as "auto" first, and then you can use "->" after the parameter list. So:

template<typename A1, typename A2>
auto foo(A1 a1, A2 a2) -> decltype(a1 + a2) {
return a1 + a2;
}
The gifs are how the author expressed emotion. I felt they added to the experience of reading the article.
Just remember you're in good company! I find a lot of coding involves you trying to do something, getting an error, you look up the error, you try the solution you find, you get a new error and so on. Many people will give up after a few hurdles.

I tried to port an Angular 1 to Angular 2 recently and fixing issues to do with just getting the JavaScript modules/files to load drove me up the wall. I was close to giving up but after working through several layers of issues it eventually worked. Sounds like it was an similar experience to you...there's so many permutations of JavaScript stacks you can use that isolating the issue is like finding a needle in a haystack sometimes. What I mean is that sometimes all you can do it be persistent and realise that switching to a new framework could just introduce lots of new issues.
I live in Toronto. It is mind-blowing the number of condos being built. More are in progress now here than exist on Manhattan. But as far as world cities go, the condos and rent are both very affordable. So I think to a certain extent it does work to build more, but it is not 1:1, and lots of people come here because of the (relative) affordability.
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A quick google search brings up [0] telling ECC RAM is just as necessary as it is for another filesystem.

[0]: http://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-yo...
Such a plan needs a good, clever name.

We could call it, "The great leap forward." Or maybe, a "Five-year plan".

Certainly the locals shouldn't have a say in what the feds do to their own cities.
by some of the logic presented here, mountain climbers should climb naked to ensure the legitimacy of (wo)man vs mountain, anything else is cheating.
What's the "unbiased site"?
Is it safe to assume this release, as well as fastText are meant as PR for hiring?
Small price to pay for living in the future ;)
IIRC, Samsung Pay is planning to add support for transit cards. Theoretically it would be possible to use something like your Clipper card to pay for a BART ride through your phone. (http://i.imgur.com/JXdsxcr.jpg)
Dropbox is resetting passwords for accounts that haven’t changed them
Linux Took Over the Web. Now, It’s Taking Over the World
Why would a corporation maintain an espionage team for any other reason?
Alphabet is putting serious pressure on Google Fiber to cut costs
The example you are using of someone that keeps interrupting is really not a safe space issue to me but really a professor allowing someone to be rude.

There's no need for safe spaces just a professor who can allow for ideas to be exchanged in class whether they are hurtful or not and keep the discussion civil and moving forward.
What actually happens does matter. You can't understand how lots of git commands work if you don't understand that the git commit tree is an append-only data structure and that branches are just labels of leaves in the tree.
I wonder if they don't have a separate categorization for "electric vehicle"