skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, please find me a generation that hasn't had to hear about one crisis after another. First world Gen Y'ers haven't seen nothing when you really look at it.

I think this is easily explained by economics alone: We're "printing money", only for the bulk of it to end up in fewer hands. Gen Y has no sense of future solvency based upon the miserly behavior of their parents and grandparents. Who basically were handed everything and decided really it was all theirs and no one else's. That their offspring should go out and rebuild the world again, while they hang onto all the useful capital. It's theirs, they did it on their own!

It makes sense for Gen Y to hang onto everything, cause really they have very little. At least, much less than their parents did. I don't have the link, but a study recently suggested Gen Y is going to make nearly $100k less over their lives than Gen X.

A ridiculous sense of entitlement is the problem when you're talking about the problems with our economy. Some how providing basic broadband service to everyone is not a right, never mind the real value it would bring to people that need it most (with bullshit arguments about how it's hard to run wires across the country. Was easy enough to build these giant concrete freeways though!). But being wealthy enough to own 7 homes and two dozen exotic cars is. Somehow, releasing a new iPhone every 12 months is a necessity (and all the efforts that make it happen). But the much smaller chore of proper mental health services are not. Somehow releasing a barely improved fleet of modern cars every year is a necessity. Basic healthcare is not.

We keep seeing bubbles because we keep putting tons of effort into ventures that benefit fewer and fewer people. We "fixed" things after the last bubble, but people are still becoming more and more disenfranchised. There's less buy-in, so a new bubble comes along of hype, the economy is getting better.... Oh wait nope cause we're letting too many people fall beside the wayside. They lose interest, quit investing, stop caring. Whatever it is.

The economy as a whole is only going to remain stable once we act more inclusively. Or we'll just keep seeing these financial bubbles, that are, IMO, really caused more by quickly getting buy in and turning things around, only for our shitty attention spans to kick in and realize 5-10 years later things are still shit in the real world.

All this extravagant bullshit we're told will improve us! Staring at this shit is important! Get pissed over headphone jacks! So we keep pushing for these bullshit things, and protecting that pipeline, which I think people are maybe realizing is just a sick joke.
> Is "Mexican" considered offensive?

In certain contexts, yes, particularly, its not uncommon for non-Hispanics to use the term to refer to any person whose features seem to suggest Latin American descent, a practice which can be offensive, for different reasons (some of which I'll note for each category) to all of Mexicans (whose identity it genericizes), Americans of Mexican descent (whose Americanness it erases, making them part of the alien "other" within their own country), and Hispanics who are neither Mexican nor of Mexican descent (whose entire identity it erases.)

(No doubt, some people -- particularly outside of those groups -- who are part of the crowd that treats offensiveness of terms as something independent of context have noted that there are some contexts in which "Mexican" is offensive to some people, and concluded improperly that "Mexican" is, therefore, categorically offensive and inappropriate.)
Your responses are all combative and (from my perspective) seemingly off base; meaning I have difficulty parsing your intended meaning from your statements.

He/she's trying to have a discussion and you're trying to win an argument.

>My qualm was never that someone would put humans needs before animals, but that that should be the only consideration made is extreme - that its the very nature of existence to do so is beyond extreme.

If your initial comment had been solely about 'that religion that thinks the world is solely for us and us alone', that would make some kind of sense, but given the following statement(from the same comment) I didn't interpret it that way.

>To presume that one (or ones species) is the most important thing in the world (or universe) is basically the definition of narcissism

^this is the sentence that people were responding to.^

On this point I also agree with other commenters; narcissism is excessive interest in oneself, not in one's species. I don't think it's narcissistic to say your species is more important than any other, especially given the dearth of evidence to back that assertion up(in this case).

I think it's definitely interesting that we as a species have been so successful that members of this species are quite literally advocating for it's demise.

We all have to build up our own framework of morality. If your framework says to save the animals at the expense of humanities advancement that's fine, but you won't have much company and from my perspective you're not a 'better person' for having done so. (I also don't think the people espousing this "humans are evil" narrative would _actually_ save more animals)
> Why not displaying a simple yes/no popup

Because granting accessibility access is far more dangerous than granting access to contacts / calendar. The latter just exposes some of your user data. The former gives the app a huge amount of control over your computer.
Got a good alt suggestion?
I have been trying to understand advantages of DC/OS over Mesos. Why should I even consider it? All I can understand is that it has a better(?) UI. I understand that even this and the DCOS CLI and packages work with Mesos too? So what's in there in DC/OS?
> Come back to me when battery technology has gotten even close to that.

Define "battery". Pumped-storage hydro is literally hydro as a "battery".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

Also completely ignoring the fact that every joule provided by solar is one less joule that hydro needs to provide, which in turn extends their stored energy life.
> apps can act as key loggers

I thought that required accessibility access?
So in earnings known and earnings unknown, both groups predominately looked after their own self interests. Thats always the predominate factor in groups.
Who's your merchant services provider?
That was actually designed to avoid typing credentials into "faked" password dialogs. The above mentioned "Secure Desktop" with dimming is not designed for that, but for the, rather hilarious, fact that it is trivial for a Windows program to hit any button on the screen it wants to. Having the permission requests pop up on a "Secure Desktop" prevents a malicious program from hitting the "Allow" button for it's own permission request. The funny part is that this is the exact kind of functionality dropbox is "hacking" itself access to.
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Debit cards, which are huge outside the US, never have reward programs (that I've seen anyway.) Visa does not charge different fees for different product types for them.
Agreed, but then it's harder to blame the tool they use instead of themselves.
This kind of thing is just done using a graphics debugger. It runs fine on the original binary: http://i.imgur.com/GmeqKT5.png http://i.imgur.com/TXksZJj.png
What kernel extension? Dropbox has a Finder plugin for badges, but what would they need a kernel extension for?
Oh please. I am honestly curious. Why is the PM of Norway posting a graphic photograph of the Vietnam War?
Does anyone know if there has been any work in formalizing incremental compilation? It would be great to have some sort of theoretical framework to use as a guide when implementing various incremental compilation strategies.

There is some (ongoing?) work on low-cost incremental computation by differentiating lambda calculi [1] [2] [3], and it seems like an incremental compiler could maybe be a good use case for it.

[1] http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/~pgiarrusso/ILC/

[2] http://bentnib.org/posts/2015-04-23-incremental-lambda-calcu...

[3] http://ps.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/research/ilc/
> Yet, keeping someone locked up in an unproductive cage, to watch them wither away is somehow "rehabilitating" them.

I don't think most people claim its rehabilitation. I think the "rehabilitation" angle is political word play and would bet that most people who support harsh prison sentences see it (and support it) as punishment.
VW engineer pleads guilty in emissions case, will cooperate
Volkswagen engineer pleads guilty to criminal charges in emissions cheating case
Every single male has a goatee.
Aurora RDS vs. Google CloudSQL Benchmark
Living in Two Time Zones with Google Calendar
What kind of breakdown? The game engine does the same rendering process for any scene. You need a specific example to follow.
There were class action lawsuits in both Canada and the US over the anti-competitive nature of the agreements merchants had to enter into. I can't remember all the details, but in the US merchants rights to charge consumers higher prices or fees for using rewards cards was confirmed. But I've never seen a merchant actually doing this online.
How about unspecified order?
Speaking of DC/OS, not related to the article at hand, but I noticed this repo in there:

https://github.com/dcos/lashup

Just wanted to say that is some seriously good stuff -- a CRDT based, distributed masterless database, and what seems like a failure detector as well.
When'll we see theoretical and mathematical foundation for deep learning?
"thus the eradication policy."

There was no 'eradication policy'.
Yes. Working on some different regularization techniques.
Spideroak, if your reason for switching is privacy.
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1435.html

You can barely even discuss the facts much less publish them because of histrionic accusations of racism and eugenics. Also, it hasn't been a few thousands years, it has been tens of thousands of years at the low end.
I saw this study by the folks over at Google and their 2nd Generation Cloud SQL.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/Cloud-SQL-Secon...

The results they posted didn't exactly mirror what we saw.

You can get the raw data without the "Gated" access page too.
https://github.com/2ndWatch/aurora_benchmark

Everything was stood up using Terraform, the benchmark tests were conducted using Sysbench, and all data was plotted using R.

Since we didn't have access to Google's original data, we provided some overlays in the post as an easy visual comparison. However the data used to produce all of those graphs as well as additional data is in the repo.
The worst part about it, is that 5 or 10 years ago, these sorts of shrill arguments weren't nearly as dominant or widespread.

But most unbearable of all, within the past 1 or 2 years, all of the same hideous internet conversations (same theme, same points, same tone, all on the same shrill topics) are now invading real life encounters. No longer is the bullshit confined to a few shitty websites.

Now, everywhere you turn some asshole is whining or complaining about imaginary problems they've conjured as a fad, and maybe half the time they are surrounded with sympathetic dipshits, their faces contorted with concern and mirrored sadness, nodding and patting sad person on the back.

So, somewhere along the line, people have figured out that as an introduction, when meeting new people, a good strategy for choosing friends among peers is to zoom to the bottom with a sad story, dominate the discussion with how bad everything feels, and then wait for hugs.

People test their audience for warm reactions to sad tales, and then based on the degree of empathy, polarize their response and etiher wage total war on enemies, or cuddle snuggly with their new surrogate therapist best friends.

Only some forms of sadness are lauded as acceptable. Others are correct in their suffering and are expected to remain penitent, and ostracize themselves for the greater good.
And some folks will look down on you for being a female. Guess we are in the same boat?
Well, in theory they might, in practice they don't.

Almost all of the viruses reported for Macs were in fact Trojans.

And even if there were a few legitimate viruses over the years, none went very far as to cause much trouble to any sizeable number of people. Contrast with the barrage of Windows viruses and widespread mayhem they cause, on a platform were almost everybody uses an antivirus too.

It's not "just" due to the Mac being less popular either. Mac OS up to 9 got lots of viruses back in the day, and Macs had just 1 to 2% market share in the US. Nowadays they have several times that.

So yeah, on my Mac and Linux boxes, I'll care about viruses to the point of running an antivirus or such when people actually start getting some...
People who find nudity offensive are utterly delusional.
React Storybook Knobs
"OwnCloud or a similar self hosted solution would be better."

Perhaps better for limited use cases that don't really apply to the vast majority of Dropbox's user base.

You start off comparing apples to oranges, and with your latter solution, you aren't even comparing to fruit anymore.
First, thanks for the excellent blog, it gave me a better idea what was happening

As far as the ARG-> transformation goes, maybe that's just something I don't get, I can see how one goes from sparse encoding to repeated ARG-type transformations and how this repeated application approximates the solution of a sparse encoding problem. And it is suggestive that these application look like a layers of a neural net.

But when you switch to stacking, what are you doing? Solving one sparse encoding problem then another? What analogy is there to say this works ... or that it would work better than just single sparse encoding? At that point, is it just "try it and see?"

One of the impressions I got from scanning the literature is that deep nets are kind of generally treacherous beasts - just getting a locally 1st layer may not be desirable off the bat. People have settled on backpropagation for very subtle reasons. See "Overfitting in Neural Nets: Backpropagation,
Conjugate Gradient, and Early Stopping", Caruana, Lawrence, et. al where backpropagation finds better solutions than the "more powerful" conjugate gradient method.
Ah. My mistake.

16s is not a big deal, but I'm assuming it would get much worse for larger repositories.

Personally, my searches are either:

1. Restricted to all files that end in cpp, h, py, pl, etc.

2. Explicitly exclude .hg directories.

I'll confess: I use a nice tool to do my searches than typing it out in grep. Much handier. And it remembers previously used filters (.cpp,.h) and is usually the first item in the drop down box. Much quicker than typing out a grep command.

Still, I feel if our team used git instead of hg, we'd lose a lot more time due to people not grokking git and making mistakes than the time lost in longer searches.

My point still stands: Things like search time are not a productivity bottleneck. If all our searches were 100x faster, there would be no difference in our output.
> Yet the career path is still set to go through management.

My current company (Google) and my previous company (Electronic Arts) both have job ladders for technical people that let you continue to progress without having to take a management position.

You are expected to have influence among other people, of course. Your work should have higher impact the higher you go. But you can get that impact without having to have direct reports.

It's one of the things I really like about both companies. I like working with people, and I like feeling like my expertise has wider impact as I get better, but I've never had any desire to manage other people.
GlusterFS was pretty much the only damn thing that I could get to work in a reasonable amount of time (Tried NFS, Ceph, Gluster, Flocker).

Basically the solution (until we get PetSets at least) is to:

1. manually spin up two pods (gluster-ceonts image) without replication controllers because if they get down we need them to stay down so we can manually fix the issue and bring it back up.

2. each pod should have a custom gcePersistentDisk mounted under /mnt/brick1

3. from within each pod, probe the other (gluster peer probe x.x.x.x)

4. each pod should preferably be deployed to it's own node via nodeSelector

5. once the pods have been paired on gluster, create and start a volume

6. make a service that selects the two pods (via some label you need to put on both)
I clicked on the link just to find out what a "Quant" was. Answer: quantitative analysts
Ford Buys Chariot (YC W15)
no, only if you use the cocoa/carbon apis. Using IOKit it doesn't need access to the Accessibility API. However IOKit is blocked for sandboxed applications.
Comparing America, which since World War I has been the wealthiest, most powerful nation on Earth, with some backwater country in Asia or Africa which has oppressive, racially motivated policies is not really honest.

The South has a lot of problems many of which it created for itself by not keeping up with the times and instead violently opposing those changes. This pattern plays out again and again and again with a multitude of important issues: Inter-racial marriage, gay rights, gay marriage, climate change...

Attitudes can change if the extremist activists stop creating an environment where there's such tremendous social pressure to conform to these extreme views. It's difficult to be an outlier in some parts of the US because you'll be persecuted, shunned, all but run out of town. The loud, angry Tea Party crowd puts everyone in a difficult position.

So congratulating yourself that South Carolina isn't as racist as South Sudan is really not helping.
" Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and the other tech luminaries in their generation would have gone to segregated "

I'll bet you $100 that Bill Gates' private school was 'de facto' segregated with almost zero, or in fact zero Black kids.
Honestly I think you could say any conflict ever was/is/will be about power -- possibly even by definition.
> But again, why bother talking about the south at all?

To specifically cast the experiences of people growing up in different parts of the country with different against each other to highlight how their views on race and racism may differ. The South is not being used for the purpose of vilifying it, but to explain how as a country people over a certain age may have had very different experiences with race in different areas of the country. It says absolutely nothing directly about the current state of the South, that's something you seem to have inferred from the comment (and whether it was meant as an implication is debatable, but it is not factual).

A statement could be made comparing and contrasting experiences of certain citizens of the United States 150 years ago and some other country that did not allow slavery. I wouldn't necessarily think that's meant to cast the US in bad light, but to use it as a tool to illustrate a point. It's obvious the US of today is not the same as the US of 150 years ago. It's also obvious the South of 40-50 years ago is not the same as the South today.

I think perhaps you're just a bit more emotionally invested in the perception of the South, and have seen the South as it currently is denigrated unfairly to a degree, which I'm sure happens, and you are conflating that type of occurrence and this. I just don't think they are equivalent.
How the Oil and Gas Industry Awakened Oklahoma’s Sleeping Fault Lines
Here's my standard recommendations:

* Learn Git Branching (gentle introduction to git's UI, with a visualization of the DAG) [0]

* Git for ages 4 and up (beginner-oriented, teaches you how to model git's internal concepts, 90m video) [1]

* Git from the bottom-up (high-level overview of git's internal data structures) [2]

* My Git Habits (sophisticated, you will have to study the man pages used to completely internalize the workflow) [3]

[0]: http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/

[1]: https://youtu.be/1ffBJ4sVUb4

[2]: http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf

[3]: http://blog.plover.com/prog/git-habits.html
CNN is not Democratic; for example, they hired Trump's former campaign manager. MSNBC is a Dem/Left/Progressive outlet.
I'd rather pay for privacy and security with compute cycles. To whom else do you give your root password and hope that nothing bad happens?
The idea is you use a reseller for all your products, they manage the relationship with the manufacturer or publisher and work to get you the best price/service. If you have doubts about using a "middle man" keep them honest with a 2nd or 3rd quote, sometimes direct every now and then. But working with one rep for all your products can be a huge boon to doing business in savings of money and time.

Disclaimer: I work for a VAR
Has anyone tried sync.com? From their website they claim end to end encryption and seem to take privacy ands security seriously.
There's a philosophical question in the fact that something just became more treasured because of DNA testing results, but I'm not even going to attempt answering that.
Can you provide a source on Visual Studio being re-written from scratch? I'd like to read more on this.
This can't work however, there's one manager to a team of 15 developers, so you can't have all 15 move up into management. Not unless you have 15 layers of management...
The "subjugation of the negro to the superior race" was actually one of the stated objectives of the Confederate movement. They didn't even hide it.
Yes, just as ABP has been good about accepting PRs to add "unobtrusive ads" - until they started demanding money.

NEVER give this power to a central authority that's not democratically controlled.

And yet, some people still do that mistake.
I went through many interviews with Rocket Fuel. I did one 8 hour take-home project, probably about 5 phone interviews and the whole day on-site. It didn't seem like the recruiter was going to call me back either, but thankfully I followed up with him. They didn't give me any real feedback as why I wasn't getting the position, so that was disappointing.

That being said, I thought the interviewers were very pleasant to meet and talk to. If I had to give feedback to Rocket Fuel, I'd say that they need to streamline their interview process (several unexpected interviews happened in my case). Also, more feedback should be given to the interviewee, especially after such a long process.
No discussion of terms.
The Senate passed it by a voice vote. Did nobody vote "nay"?
>the users without Facebook are the same society, just using another software

When the software shapes your interactions to the degree that Facebook does, I'm not so sure. You don't think Facebook has changed society?
I mostly agree but there are cases where some definition of sanitization is the only appropriate thing. For example, if you allow users to create content with a lightweight subset of HTML for the sake of formatting control and want to render that html in your page. And in such cases, the correct way to sanitize it is not via regexps but via a DOM parser that takes user input and builds a DOM and then emits rendered html according to a whitelist of available tags/attributes. So you might argue DOM parsing isn't sanitization and so still matches your assertion, however, in general it's common and not really inaccurate to call this sanitization.
You might want to switch to katex instead - and katex can also be run on the server to return HTML directly.
My bank eventually relented when I demanded an ATM-only card rather than a debit card. The person helping me was like, "no way we'd ever allow that" and then, "oh wow the system says you can have that, let me find that box of ATM-only cards."
There aren't just two ways to go in this possibility space, I'm quite happy ruling out both of these ideologies.