skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> high-quality content you disagree with

I think we need to unpack this a lot more in order to work out what it might possibly look like. I mean, if it were truly high-quality wouldn't it change your view so that you agree with it? That's a gross oversimplification of course, but there is a real problem in that people's politics tends to proceed from their values, and there's a very fine line between being "challenged" and being grossly offended. Could a "high-quality" argument for genocide exist, or is that the sort of thing that should be vetoed because it's an unacceptable conclusion no matter what the logic?

The only way to have a discussion with people with extremely different views is to go back and find out what points of moral convergence you do have. Or from what background people have developed their views. This is time-consuming, personal and doesn't scale, because it depends on digging to the individual privilege or trauma that embeds people's strongest views.

The middle ground is probably something like the Economist, where I'm to the left of it but it's sufficient quality that that doesn't matter. They also avoid advocating for truly stupid things for tribal reasons, which causes most of the left/right noise problem.
> It is not illegal to carry a firearm inside a business that has a no gun policy.

Absolutely. But Cinemark prohibited firearms. http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2012/07/no-guns-policy-at-cine... http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/10/did-colorado-shoot...

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Granted, a "gun policy" without a metal detector is like underwear policy without a strip check....if they know you're in violation, you're not doing it right ;)
It is always an after thought, you finish cooking and the grill is super hot from the charcoal. Its late at night, you want to eat and relax. By the time the grill cools, you are sound asleep.
Can confirm entertainment levels. Used similar magnets for a research project. They would start to shuffle and move ~30cm from any large magnetic metal piece. The fear was real when handling them.
This is a fantastic idea, and I'd love to see it tested out. Unfortunately I can't see HN or Reddit actually implementing this feature. They already have the monopoly over their respective communities, and thus have stopped toying with new features and innovating.
Why should LO have an interest to switch to an OO core/library? Just to gain the OO name back and be present on the website? Tough deal. Also, I still think the code bases are too different by now [1] and there is little to gain.

Without at at least one 'consumer'/UI (which you do not want or cannot provide) there is little point in developing an OO core/library, or is it? Which leads to my snarky comment about end-users and their role...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12413218
It sounds like a reasonable call on sparkpost's part. 99.9% of the time, sending 10,000 e-mails to 10 recipients is a sign some of your code has gone wrong, like an e-mail sending loop getting stuck.
In my opinion it is not really possible to have a good comments system when voting is simply up or down. The definition of up and down varies too much by person to really be all that useful for anything other than creating an effective echo chamber. I think we need easy, one-click ways of classifying a comment with a more specific assessment.
I'm going to guess this is for patenting strains that are bred or genetically modified? E.g. to provide better disease resistance or higher quantities of substances?

I had meant the 'original', 'natural' plant, but a fair point.
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Linkifyjs: An auto-linking plugin with React support
Well, the receiver would also be pretty dumb. Definitely no networking. You'd hook a Chromecast (PS4, Xbox, etc.) into it to actually stream stuff. The receiver would provide UI for TV tuner switching, arbitrary audio/video routing, an equalizer, that kind of stuff.
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Oh, that's right. I'd totally forgotten about it.

https://slashdot.org/faq/friends.shtml

I stopped reading it when I couldn't find interesting articles [EDIT: 0]. I think the firehose style of HN or Reddit is, in many ways, better than the curated submission system of /.. User directed submission moderation + scanning /new is usually enough for me, paired with going to direct to certain news sources (for whatever particular topic or category).

The comments were also pretty annoying. For those not familiar: See the strong anti-Microsoft posts that periodically show up here, and imagine that as the only thing that makes it to +5 when MS announces something. A ton of rhetoric with no substance.

EDIT:

[0] There were interesting articles. But there was a period (not sure about today) where the updates to the frontpage were incredibly slow. Perhaps I could've dug more into the topic areas or set some different display options, but things changed too slowly and I'd end up seeing the same articles for most of a day, or days.

On the one hand, this is a good format for some sites (and maybe for /.) as it allows things to remain visible for extended periods. On the other hand, it wasn't good for my usecase. /. was an aggregator, I wanted to see it update frequently. If I wanted a news magazine that totally cycles its front page only once a week, I'd be on that site.
Ask HN: How do you optimize your time for side projects?
I have 1-2 hours during the week to work on my side project. I usually like to list a set of tasks I hope to accomplish the night before.

What tips or tricks do you use to really optimize the limited time you have to work on side projects?
Ask HN: Your monthly (side) project update
It may be interesting both to publish and follow monthly updates of our (side) projects. Please share any metrics you like, the main goal is to motivate
It's not a witch hunt because it's not looking to destroy someone. The end goal is reconciliation, not punishment. In fact the blog post doesn't advocate for any punishment at all. It's hardly us-vs-them when she says that Jake's friends should form a support group for him! Obviously the victims want him kept away from conferences for a time, which is only prudent given the nature of the accusations. It's a little more than "administrative leave pending investigation" but not by much.

Here's another account, followed by a more detailed description of the process the victims are asking for and how that's gone so far. https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/the-forest-for-the-trees.... Again, no "vengeance" or punishment.
Sounds like a gravity powered human rail-gun.
> interest in NoSQL-style computation seemed to be on the wane

Well that's just ridiculous. With machine/deep learning and big data analytics unquestionably on the rise there is actually more demand for a heterogenous architecture. And since in these fields you are often doing lazy-schema application having tools that support this paradigm are important.

In fact what does seem to be on the rise is having SQL on top of NoSQL stores e.g. Phoenix/HBase, Spark SQL. And they support all of SQL 2003 which by the looks of it this doesn't.
You know, there is such a thing as a middle-gound between "especially buggy" and "bug free".
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UPDATE [2 hours after initial post]
I heard from compliance who asked a ton of questions and said our email was flagged as spam by their system. Keep in mind, we send to the same 10-15 people and not a single spam or bounce. I wrote back immediately with the info they wanted. As I mentioned, I will update as this progresses.

UPDATE [3 hours after initial post]
Thank you for that information. I have re-activated your account.

So it looks like a response time of about 5 hours. I find that response time more than effective. The issue I still have is the automated block on a paid account + static IP at 4am. It was inconvenient considering we had been sending for almost a full day. I am still looking at staying with mailgun as you all seem to really like them and from what I can see after my tests with them, are quite nice.

So 1 day of usage of a service you are paying for on Sparkpost could get your account suspended. My feeling is if they are going to be THAT overly sensitive, they should do some initial questions prior to signing someone up to a paid account. Not that a paid account should be exempt but it should certainly grant some warning with a few hours before they just block your account. They could easily throttle the paid account for 12 hours with an email that the client needs to email them with info. Atleast email would still be going out even if its slower...

Since YC has slowed my comment down, I wanted to check on speed. I am really really surprised at how slow sparknews is. We are using smtp but here are some stats:
# in outgoing queue	Time checked
2848 (starting point) @ 8:45 am
2849 @ 9:01 am
2830 @ 9:19 am
2823 @ 9:25 am
2816 @ 9:30 am
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This is wrong. Modern TV follow standard 'bathtub' curve for failures.
If the TV hasn't had any faults when new, it's not very likely to develop any new ones as it hasn't got any moving parts and things that wear and tear.
The exceptions are capacitors quality and pixel burn-in, but even after 18 years they might work, you just won't like the picture quality.
Yes:

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I'm pretty sure it would be fantastic for the majority - but not for a vocal minority who have a large amount of power.
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Sat internet, which is pretty common in Africa from my experience.
This [0] is the first thing that comes to mind. IIRC the elevator had an OOO sign on it but this women went on it anyways.

[0] NSFL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcpjOIH7bG4
We do have an API for HN. I wonder if someone could create a variant of the content here. Show everything like normal, but pair it with this sort of friend-network based meta-moderation + the ability to hide individual posts (rather than just whole threads and subthreads).
You're positing some new notion of complexity, without a definition, where lists are somehow fundamentally different than trees. Sorry, but that kind of claim requires more than just just an appeal to intuitions about how they might be implemented on a typical CPU. They're both just initial algebras.

The fact that your grand ideas about machine and language models doesn't apply to the lambda calculus should be a hint. We know how lambda calculus relates to typed languages: it's a degenerate case with a single type. Any differences in the complexity of type-inference or checking are between language models. You can't (without wildly waving your hands) formulate a meaningfully comparable problem for TM states.
If it's implemented correctly, an american national health service would work fine. If anything, it'd do some good to the country (healthcare being shockingly high on reasons for people defaulting)
> Loyalty to your oaths is part of "universally accepted human values and ethics".

Not at all. It's part of some human values and ethics, but definitely not universally accepted.

In fact, when I took an extra-curricular class in Ethics, it was literally the textbook example of a situation when Kantian and utilitarian ethics differ about what is right and wrong.
> not possible on Android Nougat anymore, to prevent MitM proxies for adblocking or debugging apps you didn't develop

That certainly makes the Nougat taste a bit sour. And Chrome doesn't even support ad block on mobile.

Let's hope Firefox gets its act back together.
I would still prefer a physical ballot to an electronic one.

Something that can be scanned and verified.

I think having the information scanned should be distributed and maybe the block chain tech could help in some way to verify it.
Well, the phablet form factor - the Samsung note range did create (or perhaps reveal) that particular market, which Apple eventually decided to move into.

Software-wise, I have no idea as I've never really used an iPhone.
This is an interesting opening, coming from the Wall Street Journal:

"Millions of young males have left the workforce and civic life. Full employment? The U.S. isn’t even close."

If the USA is not close to full employment, then the USA does not have to work about inflation. And yet, in other commentary, the Wall Street Journal has been obsessed with the risk of inflation, for many years now. They have urged the Fed to raise rates to head off a surge in inflation. But if there is hidden unemployment, then rates can remain low longer, with little risk of inflation.
> The premium for the "smart" version of TV "x" is getting lower.

That's great, as long as it isn't because they are making money on showing ads, replacing ads, or selling your viewing data (without proper disclosure, of course).
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That's the idea behind cloud free password managers (like KeePass) and their browser plugins.
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At that point why have EV instead of actually doing real security and prompting the user to verify the certificate (and remembering what they approved)?
This is going to be released today!

Here is a link where for our fellow hacker news readers where you can already access the game:
https://www.airconsole.com/#!play=com.bighutgames.bh11
Consider that leaking their past passwords only matters if they reuse them elsewhere.

If they reuse passwords, then chances are you will expose them just as much if you don't force them to rotate passwords, when they end up putting their password into a scam site or run by people who store plain text.

And if you don't check for reuse, you are not forcing them to rotate passwords.

In the face of that, you can't do much better than to make it harder for them to keep reusing passwords on your site so at least a password leak elsewhere won't expose their account with you.

(And re-using the salt is a mistake; don't do that)
It's about safety, but not so much of investors. You have a choice when running an English-language forum of whether to allow racism, homophobia, sexism and so on, and to what extent you'll give people the benefit of the doubt on those.

If you do, then it's like spam, it will become the "default" content of the forum. If you don't, it will end up left-leaning as a "safe space".

There are genuinely incompatible populations for audience/contributors and you have to pick one.

(And if you have a hardline free speech policy where you refuse to delete anything, you'll end up hosting child porn. You have to have a deletion policy in order to have a functional forum.)
So my suggestion would be to have the service registered via a license key that can only be used on 1 IP or an email address. Then you can turn off the license remotely and offer the refund.

We did this with my VERY last product working at Humankind (Bullet Viral Traffic). It was a WordPress plug in, and you bought site licenses for it 1 site, 10 site and unlimited.

Every function call did a "phone home" to validate the license. When it came back unverified, we would only print an error message to the screen.

Can this be subverted, yes, but 99% of the time it wasn't, and, honestly, it was just a lead-in to training.

I realize this is your bread and butter, but maybe work training in on the back end for a little more money. Lead them in with this outrageously low price, then stun them with offering a recorded seminar/webinar for only a couple hundred bucks.

My company dropped $20k on training for InfusionSoft AFTER dropping $1200/mo just for the service. There is more money to be had in training than the product (99% sure).
LocalBitcoins is one way.

Another would be to only store the centralized currency, and only facilitate transactions. So the person with USD deposits USD into the facilitator's account and provides a Bitcoin address to the facilitator. When the person with Bitcoin decides to make the trade, they make a Bitcoin deposit to the facilitator's account. The Bitcoin deposit automatically gets forwarded to the person who deposited the USD, and the USD gets forwarded to the person who had Bitcoin.

At no point in this transaction does the facilitator store Bitcoin.
Wages must rise. They have not risen for nearly four decades in real terms. Major life expenses are unaffordable to all but the wealthy, such as housing.

This single fact explains lots of things in the present. It appears we're trapped in a local maximum while journalists and politicians blithely ignore the plateauing of growth, wages and technology outside of computation.

If you think everything is getting better and better, you've taken your eyes off the road for a while now.
Prison admissions in counties with fewer people have risen
OpenOffice uses name 'office' for 30 years, 5 longer than MS does.

Wiki:

> OpenOffice.org originated as StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed by German company StarDivision from 1985 on.

> MS office 1.0 released : November 19, 1990[1]	Office 1.0
That's a good new that ive read today so far
Disney Robot with Air-Water Actuators Shows Off “Very Fluid” Motions
Scroll to the bottom to see what you're missing out on, or open incognito for a neutral view. I guess the system could throw in some randomness if it's necessary.

On reddit, I switch between sorting by top, new, and controversial to try to see different views. It's something but still crude.

What would be great would being able to see comments as ranked for e.g. creshal. If someone's yearning for the good old days of civil, insightful commentary you could give them a link to that view.

Also, how would /r/space posts look as ranked for/by an astronomer?
Stay-at-home dads explains 2 million of this article's main statistic. So even if the remaining 5 million of the "needs work", the employment number is closer to 89%.

Edit: there's a reason economists usually use "looking for work" for unemployment numbers: it's really hard to gauge why people don't look for work.
Going from (what would now be considered "old school") an original Xbox running XBMC to a friends Playstation 3 with DLNA felt like a monumental step back

With the Xbox, I simply mapped a Samba share (something like \\NAS\XBMC\) full of content and it brought it up without issue and simply played it

DLNA meanwhile every time something changed, I'd have to restart the whole thing to regenerate the "index". It also played maybe half the file formats XBMC did, despite being newer and an order of magnitude more powerful

Things have finally more or less come full circle again, these days I can run "Plex" on my NAS to just spew out media to everything, as long as it runs the Plex app anyway (which covers my Xbox One and Phone, at least). The only downside is having to pay for it, of course
The companies only add the software as a way to make more money. If a smart tv costs more and offers free Youtube videos, then people see it as a added value. But technology changes so fast that sometimes the smart tv sets can't keep up.

My wife got a smart tv from her employer out of a catalog for being a loyal employee for a long time. It has Roku built in. One day that will be obsolete.

My son is thinking of an Amazon Fire TV stick to use and cancel our Cable TV subscriptions. It is only supposed to be $40 and plugs into an HDMI port. So if you need to buy a new one, it should be only $40 later on.
I don't mind the ad, but the other complaint doesn't seem to be true. You must have clicked on the scroll-to-the top icon.
Full circle to the Wright Flyer then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Flyer
Inflation can still happen in sectors that have both investment-like and consumption-like qualities, such as real estate, when massive amounts of investment capital try to look for safe and/or high-yielding havens.
Wow, this is something I've been thinking about recently. Would be very interested in seeing how this progresses.
Ah, I didn't know, it seemed dangerous enough by the amount of logging and tracking we had to do.
18:17 is when it gets really good

i think referring to it as a lookup table is self confounding

the whole thing still regretfully relies on the random

periodicity is the way to go but periodicity in place of the look up table

i was stunned to see the graph at 19:53

to come by that graph through such a probabilistic method is validating

those etched silicon photonic quantum gates shown following 23:14 are awesome

the variable temperature controlled index of refraction phase operation reminded me of a previous link using optics to solve np-complete problems(o) and someone compared it to a sleep sort

when he put up the results at 22:14 comparing with monte carlo i wondered what the time difference was for each calculated result

i understand that energy requirements for the kind of state control necessary, like the low temperatures, the 2 degree kelvin quoted at 26:53, for single infared photon detection, make these physical quantum computers impractical when compared to classical computations like the monte carlo example.. he also talks a bit about decoherence issues as an unfortunate race saying 'so long to finish the program' how long is so long?

though the clear consistency between the classical and physical quantum computer results is definitely more than 'almost interesting' i do wonder about what time was spent to get each result.. the goal is to optimise for speed, right?

the simulator(i) is really cool

(o) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12362044

(i) http://qcengine.com/
Good point about robustness, it makes sense in the general case, but if I have a container of integers, I think the chance that I replace int with a more expensive type while not having to modify the rest of the loop is pretty unlikely. Chances are the more expensive type would no longer behave like an int. I think there are cases where the robustness approach shines, and cases where it's pretty safe to just use a const copy and a reference would just add noise. Imagine a simple function where I initialize an array of integers, then iterate over them. const auto or just const int makes sense, const auto& requires more explanation and invoking what if's that are unlikely to ever surface.
Here's the part that made his point clear: "in jail for life" - it's the law that causes the danger.
I don't think my mother knows how to verify the certificate and certificate chain.
Exactly this. I would absolutely love one of the new high end LG OLED panels with none of the smart tv features and no network connectivity (privacy & security). I'm really curious how big of a market this would be.
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https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf

It has no benchmarks so that's not a good sign. But there is another time series database that also allows you to use basic SQL: InfluxDB.
Not even slightly, sorry. It was a year or so ago.

I'll certainly give Mate another try the next time I upgrade him.