skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, all fair enough and stuff I can agree with.

I was trying to remind the parent poster that 'saving the planet' is a metaphor at best - ordinarily it should always involve saving humans.

An accidental reversal of the situation as you describe is quite different from the parent's even joking suggestion (as in Dan Brown's 'Inferno' :P) that it would be good to introduce a disease to stop humans from doing more damage.

Aside from the basic moral problems with that approach (genocide?), it would not be surprising if any such disease became striated in its spread along wealth or other social lines, or simply borders and it could stall our progress in finding useful solutions to the problems we've already created.

From a utilitarian perspective, we can turn the problem around and look at, as you suggest, 'a disease which may reverse the situation'. In consistency with my above perspective, I'm all for doing every bit we can to stop such a disease if it crops up - even at a detriment to the biosphere.

Now whether we'll be able to or not is a question we don't yet have an answer to, perhaps. :)

(that said, saving the planet for future humans would be a worthwhile endeavour, if we were any good at looking even a moderate distance ahead - whether we can usefully predict the medium-term effects of almost anything at all is highly debatable however, as suggested by the sibling poster commenting on plastics)
This isn't a work place issue, it's a marriage issue. If your wife beats you for talking to women while she's not around, you need to document and prolly get a divorce. This is not okay.
1. Did you have [what shouldn't be] atypical interests as a girl?

Sort of? I read a LOT as a kid. I bought a book randomly as a third grader on interesting sites for kids on the net; this led to my Dad teaching me how to get on the net and my older brother helping me set up my first web page for my "online pets" via AngelFire. It's a website, so one might think atypical interest for a girl. However, I soon was teaching myself basics (aka copy pasta) so my site (moved over to Geocities :P) could be the prettiest in these online communities...which were dominated by girls. The USE of our technical knowledge was very typically female (caretaking games of animals, story-telling, community driven, pretty-all-the-things, etc).

However, I also I played Diablo online and other video games with my siblings and Dad which is not considered normal for girls I believe. Comic books were also big in my house, so Batman was my favorite thing ever as a kid. Barbies and him had many a storyline together in my backyard.

2. If yes, did other girls discriminate against you because of those interests?

No. Not at all.
Why loss aversion? People don't want a black person in their home because they believe that black people are more likely to mess up their home than white people. They would rather not rent out their home at all.
Noterized letter of intent works too for domestic sales. Not anonymous but keeps people honest, and gives you option of small claims court.
> As I prepared the cards to ship them to him I sent him photos I uploaded via my open source image hosting service: PictShare. This fact is very important later on.

I think I must have missed something. I read the whole story and I still don't see why the photos of the cards mattered.
"truffles have not been successfully farmed"

that's not true, but it's hard to grow them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArqhhVnxZG4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlpQGExn4pw

Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2zboif/e...
Agreed, but I'd put it that way: most companies I see are very interested in pretending to improve their recruitment processes.

What they don't really want, is to take on people who are noticeably better than (or different in any way from) the people already working there.
Weirdly the problem is most hires have it backwards.

Before going out to the market and discovering what talent exists and consequently what salary it will take to get them to join (ie negotiate) most organisations decide on a salary range, usually reflecting the current internal structure not the current external market.

The longer an organisation has existed the more out of whack with the market its internal set up is.

As such companies decide on their price point first, then go looking. Which is of course backwards.
I believe if the two units are attached to either other (such as in a duplex or triple-decker), then they are allowed to discriminate on any basis they choose.
But it is a valid point that this kind of drama at home impacts male behavior at work in a way that is exclusionary towards female colleagues and I appreciate the fact that some people are willing to admit it here.
Instant bookings have been going for a while and it's basically a business decision for the host as to whether to accept them. More hassle and risk but more bookings. They probably appeal more to people who are doing airbnb as a business rather than letting their home for a week.
>His IP address from opening the image I sent him (also confirmed his location)
I've only read up through the executive summary thus far but this looks like it's going to be a fascinating read.
That is light speed as far as the government is concerned.

You couldn't get an FOIA answered in that time period.
Useless article makes no mention of how this gets into the system at all. Plus its not all that sophisticated or a backdoor. Nor do they point out that Apple was notified before posting this.
deepmind, openai, or robotic companies like Boston dynamics,

or my own if I have a good idea.

I'm tired of solving engineering problems, I don't seem to learn too much, because the difficulty of engineering problems come from unfamiliarity or complexity of a system.
for most of the time, solving engineering problems doesn't really mean making any break through.

I hope to work for a job that requires some domain knowledge. deep learning is what I'm very interested in.
It's not popular as Ramadan because it's not a must. Its called "ayaam albeed" which translates to "white days". It's called that because the moon is full on those three Days (13, 14 and 15th of each moon calendar month). The fast is from dawn to sunset and you are not allowed to drink water during that period.

[1] https://pearlsofamuslim.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/white-da...
As a seller never ever send something first before payment. Never send samples and never accept partial payment. Scammers know all the tricks and have the upper hand.
> Discrimination in housing has been illegal since the 1970s.

Certain types of discrimination are illegal since then. Others are not. That's the point being debated here.
> It also commonly referred to such kits being used by hostile parties.

I suspect that's exactly what he means - a rootkit is deployed by an intruder so that when the admin discovers the host has been compromised and patches the vulnerability, the rootkit, if not addressed, will grant the intruder root capabilities once more.
Same thing. All comments are about backdoor vs rootkit vs malware vs etc, as if it was important. Hey guys, you really want me to go through a link and read that article myself? Where is the discussion? Where is tl;dr comment upvoted to the top?
To my Australian English ears, the babbling sounded vaguely Scandinavian.
I can hear some distortion in the piano notes - which may be an audio compression artefact, or it may be the output of the resynthesis process.

If you train NNs at the phrase level and overfit, then you get something that is indeed more or less the same as cross-fading at random between short sections.

Piano music is very idiomatic, so you'll capture some typical piano gestures that way.

But I'd be surprised if the music stays listenable for long. Classical music has big structures, and there's a difference between recognising letters (notes), recognising phrases (short sentences), recognising paragraphs (phrase structures), and parsing an entire piece (a novel or short story with characters and multiple plot lines.)

Corpus methods don't work very well for non-trivial music, because there's surprisingly little consistency at the more complex levels.

NN synthesis could be an interesting thing though. If you trained an NN on $sounds$ at various pitches and velocity levels, you might be able to squeeze a large and complex collection of samples into a compressed data set.

Even if the output isn't very realistic, you'd still get something unusual and interesting.
If only they were able to capture the process in a stunning time-lapse video :)
Why does this read less like a comparison and more like a "this shouldn't even exist they should have just went with our thing"-type pitch? (With proper consideration to the possibility of bias you mentioned)
> Nice, why the hostility?

Because your original comment wasn't innocent or genuine, and you already know the answer to it. It's a comment that gets made every. single. time. something like this comes up, has been answered a million times before, and it's not worth pandering to.
Perhaps a more exact personal observation would be that hiring managers always hire the same type of person.
"We're pretty much locked in to some degree"

I'd say so! [1]

[1] http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/temperature-cha...
"they"

> As the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, we will work with our colleagues in the minority to exercise effective oversight over the federal government and will work proactively to investigate and expose waste, fraud, and abuse.

Have you tried asking them nicely?
I have as yet been unable to get the code completion working. Were you able to?
> Your conscience is what stops you from doing things that feel good, but hurt others.

It also stops you from doing things that feel bad, but are rationalized backward to be the "right thing".

I assure you, both Clinton and Trump in the White House will be equally bad. Just a different kind of bad.

Vote for Gary (or Jill)!
I'd love to know where to find these people to interview. Where do I go, the supermarket, the park?

Also I don't think my network is big enough to hit up a significant number for a new software idea aimed at a specific niche (ex used cars sales).

Those are the pieces I've never been able to put together in all my time with the Lean Startup methodology.
Why did the Falcon 9 Explode?
Go, R and Play are in higher demand today than Java, JavaScript, Python and PHP
Ah, yeah, I'm sure you're more in the right, although I suspect you underestimate people's resourcefulness.

Somehow I missed the "this is the 1665 plague" (and forgot about, for example, Newton went back home when Cambridge University closed as a precaution), and was thinking back to the big initial wave in the 14th Century (the Black Death) when England and London weren't quite as advanced; kinda scary it kept hitting in waves for 3+ centuries....
Hey all, just found out that we had an email issue for a bit, so if you've emailed us and haven't heard back, please re-send!
As per the article the issue influx tries to solve does so by trying to jam non-ts data into a ts database. You gain much more by simplifying things with say a constant increment mirror mmap file with another simple KV that maps offsets for tags and such. I would bet this would be immensely faster except for contrived update-tag-on-every-entry.
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I appear to be the top ranked woman on HN. I have a Certificate in GIS. I have dealt with quite a lot of crap that I am confident is due to my gender.

I am aware that men are not welcomed with open arms merely for being male. But women can do everything "right" and find it still isn't enough.

It is a genuine and frustrating problem for me personally. It is a problem space I have worked on for some years.

I am sorry you remain unconvinced. It is extremely real to me.
A big part of my role is getting out there in front of business partners to keep the things that we do well front of mind. If you manage this work in the traditional sense, you'll be invisible when things go well and shat-upon as soon as anything goes wrong. At my current organization, I've really had to work at this. Here's a story:

Once upon a time I managed (and, frankly, also wrote a lot of the code for) a project integrating half a dozen sources each managing a block of our business (billing, coverage, claims). The data was awful coming in and we managed to get a bunch of business processes changed in addition to some pretty heavy cleansing steps that we wrote. In any case, this big fragmented mess of monthly and weekly stacked data became my integrated, clean warehouse. For the first time ever at this organization, I had coverage and claims records tying up at a rate of 100% without any manual intervention. We did this so that we could implement a modern finance ops process on top (being intentionally vague) that would allow us to manage this block more efficiently, save time, and even let us better invest - it was a 2 year project including my data work. A handful of actuaries and analysts got promoted out of this as it was a BFD to the company. Yet, at the end of the year, when I got my review I got our equivalent of the average rating, 3 of 5, etc, and like a 3% raise, and a shitty budget for my people too. From then on, I spent almost as much time out there promoting our team's work as we did doing the work. We did considerably better the next year, and that's been the way I've operated ever since. I market the work.

This kind of work requires a manager who will actively market it within the organization.
At this rate, no matter how coding interviews change, there will be a new bootcamp or training program created to assist applicants to pass them.
Progressive neural networks
> I'm actually confused by your assertion that men are better able to handle danger.

When the poster said, "significant danger and hard physical activity, and for men are generally better able to handle that", they may have been saying that men are generally better able to handle the physical activity, and not necessarily the danger too. English is ambiguous about grouping clauses sometimes.
I didn't realize they ported Scratch, factored in OLPC, and weighing OCR. Latter is especially smart as cash-strapped schools or states might find it desirable so long as it has necessary learning materials and software for instructors with it. I agree on compatibility benefit. I didnt realize they had put this much effort into the chilren angle.

Well, thanks for telling me! You got any links showing good progress or case studies in educational use where replication is doable without ultra-talented teachers?
> Nazism is in many ways protected. Cities cannot deny permits to neo-Nazi groups to assemble, for instance.

That's a straightforward First Amendment issue.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

You can't prohibit neo-Nazis from peaceably assembling. You can't prohibit people wearing purple shirts from peaceably assembling. In neither case does that make neo-Nazis nor purple-shirt-wearers a protected class.
>virtually no one disagrees with "the ability to learn grammar is hard-wired into the brain".

No, this is exactly where the field is split. Chomsky says that if a child socializes with people speaking a language with each other, the child will learn that language without teaching, punishment or reward. I.e. the human mind is not a blank slate buy has innate capabilities. Ideologically, this is an individualist take on linguistics.

The other side says that children have to be taught to speak a language properly and that language is difficult. Ideologically, this is the collectivist take on linguistics - children are blank slates to be filled in by society.

The people that have a problem with Chomsky's ideas are authoritarian collectivists. It's not about science.
No, the point of government is to protect your rights from violation by others.

Those unalienable rights you are born with as outlined in the bill of rights.

It's not to overcome the failings of humanity (an impossible task if ever there was one).
Zero risk? The human race has come close to extinction already by our own hands directly. To say that there's zero risk, adding in all the chaos that will spawn from the climate change projected, is simply laughable. More and more people will have nothing to lose, and they'll go down fighting.

And besides, there are more catastrophic risks on our plate than just climate change.

Even then, if some small number were to survive, the modern ways of living would be over and it'd be a much harder go the second time around, with so many things we take for granted now already spent, or tainted.
> Climate change isn't a binary proposition

In some ways it kind of is. If we hit the threshold of a particularly nasty feedback mechanism then we go from little impact to severe impact quite quickly.
Probably because interviewing companies have stopped giving performance feedback.
Install GPU TensorFlow from Sources with Ubuntu 16.04 and Cuda 8.0 RC
This isn't the "official postmortem". It's the official report of the GOP-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. It's a partisan political document.

A better title:

Republican House Oversight Report On OPM Data Breach.
I think that would be the worst for a woman: working in an office where nobody talks to you in fear of being misinterpreted.
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If only we had an agency in charge of protecting and securing these kinds of systems.

It seems NSA has spent all its budget on cool hacking tools and programs, exploiting hard drive firmware and routers and other crap. Yet the all SF-86 forms (except CIA's +) got stolen right under our noses. But again, nobody is going to feel cool defending and securing stuff, everyone wants to be on red team.

Stolen stuff includes millions of fingerprints. Those are obviously not hashed, so that's just the raw data I imagine. They'll learn lesson to not rely on fingerprints as much. Maybe that's one good thing coming out of it.

[+] CIA could still be affected, if for example some people there started at other agencies, or in the military (CIA likes to hire ex-Marines for example).
lol at all the mansplaining goobers in here.

"i'm incapable of empathizing with these issues therefore they aren't real, just b urself "
A mesh network can use fiber. A mesh network is just a network where there are redundant connections between all systems on the network.

This does not limit us to RF for everything. We CAN use fiber in a mesh network.
Ask HN: Which widely popular software or app today will be irrelevant in 2032?
This is fascinating to me. I recently did a resume swap with an American lady I know (I'm Australian). We're both around mid thirties. She's in SF.

Her resume was 1 page. It's the first time I've ever seen a 1 page resume in my life except for someone out of highschool with no history or experience.

Mine is 4 pages. I've worked really hard to cut it down to that while including relevant things and nice formatting/readability/white space. Compared to some of the 10 to 15 page resumes we get here for people who have done so little, it's positively succinct.

We had a chat, and we just had to agree that it was a cultural difference.

But still, I admit, if anyone asked me here, I'd say "you can't have a one page resume, unless you are literally applying for McDonald's and have done nothing with your life, this isn't twitter"
What's terrifying is that people don't connect their behavior to global warming and spew the most ignorant garbage justifying their airplane flights and so on, including the most knowledgeable people.

We can't stop what's happening now, but as sure as we wish past generations had reduced polluting, future generations will wish we had. But almost no one does. How many people do you know haven't flown in the past twelve months versus how many have?

Everybody cares about the environment until they want to see the Eiffel Tower.
I appreciate you taking the time, and I get where you're coming from. That's also a very poor comment of mine that you're responding to. I've left it as it stood because otherwise the longer one elsewhere in this thread would probably not make as much sense. That one may be more worth your while than the one to which you responded.
I feel we are comparing apple to oranges here: sublime (a text editor) will simply list files & directories in the top level folder when you add a folder to the projects while an IDE (thinking mostly of Eclipse here, but I assume other IDEs aren't that different) will parse every single file to build ASTs, symbol lookup tables and all these things that you either love or cannot stand.
Open positive feedback loops are very difficult to estimate where they will end up. We could easily end up in a range of climate where it's difficult to impossible for human kind to raise food or conduct civilization in the nearly the same manner as we do now. In the really far out outcomes, who knows if the atmosphere would stay in any sort of human habitable range.
> But in time when all the snow stops and the climate here is subtropical the warm waters of the bay of Texas will lap onto the shores of what are hills today.

And a decade or two later the same houses will be under water.
The safer bet would be on farmland in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Nowadays it has all but reverted to secondary forest, but back in the day it was the breadbasket of the nation. Unlike Kansas or the Central Valley it is rain-safe.
Right - by his own choice as justification to eliminate the 3.5mm port.

That's a ridiculous reason to claim we should get rid of one of the most widely used ports in existence. If he didn't want to have a cord and a battery he should've bought different headphones... Nobody forced him into having both. Nothing apple is doing will change the fact that some headphones will require both a cord and a battery either. So it's a borderline irrelevant comment.