skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree. Its a complex game. If the US pisses off Israel there one true friendly in the middle east is gone. Israel's presence and allegance in the middle east gives the US a bigger military influence into the region.

In regards to game theory it's better for the US to have Israel as an ally and make an enemy of Iran than the opposite. Don't forget that Israel has nuclear weapons and the country would not hesitate to use them in self defense. Also while the Saudi's are scum, you'd have a situation worse than Iraq if you removed them from power.

In the end there's no great answer, just one that has a not as worse outcome.
Just to serve the browsing public.
I keep my hands off the wheel all the time and it hardly ever gives me the warning. And the blog post says that it only stops you if you ignore the warnings i.e. Presumably don't put your hands on the wheel. In reality it is pretty nice to relax in the car and put your hands down while still paying enough attention that you can instantly grab the wheel if nessecary. But yes, it does worry me that this might be annoying.
Have you made positive experiences with linking fairly long Wikipedia article to people who disagree with you?
Hacker News' Exceptional Reaction to Iranian Propaganda
Iran is the inverse of most middle eastern countries. The elites in Iran hold anti-western sentiments while the common people are a little more liberal in their views towards America. Most middle eastern countries have the situation reversed.
Also for "Hercules" with the governator.
Chasar – A lightweight library health monitoring for remote computer's
How would you compare it to, for instance, Meyers' series of books?
In other news the sun rose this morning. How do these stories get upvote?
Irwin Shaw "Rich man, Poor man"
Most maps products get traffic data from the same external vendors (like TomTom). I think they get it from dedicated sensors like counting cars on street cameras.

Obviously you see Waze info on Waze itself but it has to work without any other users nearby. (Btw I don't think Waze and Google really share all their data, Waze doesn't even have lane routing.)
Self-driving cars are entirely reliant upon mapping data for all sorts of functionality. For example, how is it supposed to differentiate between curved roads and on/off ramps? Decent navigational maps require huge amounts of manual intervention, which is why Apple's mapping software initially sucked. The maps for self-driving cars will require an order-of-magnitude more data.
I'm pretty sure properly written GUI toolkits can be much smaller...

Given that as far as I know, there are no examples of tiny fully-featured GUI libraries (it's all either trivial like cgui or a massive bloated mammoth like qt/wpf/android), isn't that a bit of a rich statement?

Like, I'm sure you can write a procedural generator in a handful of lines of code that spits out the full works of Shakespeare. It's probably possible, if you have the right seed and the right algorithm.

...but practically speaking, how do you actually build one?

The same goes for UI libraries; certainly it should be possible (in theory) to have a minimal beautiful GUI libraries with an excellent API; but every attempt to build one seems to have failed.

Perhaps the problem domain is actually more difficult than you're giving it credit for...
Interestingly, her Wikipedia page, mentions that a lot of things article credits her for was found as incorrect.
What sorts of considerations are important for the ceramic coating? I'd assume that the coating is not under the same types of stress as the alloy core, and so thermal properties would be more important. Is that true, or is load as much of a factor there too?
Thank you :) I'll try check it out. 4 hours is fine after flying there 14 hours.
Hah, I worked in government as an engineer before I moved to a startup doing something completely different. If you're ok with being a slave and fighting the very people you're working for to get the benefits you need to live a decent life then yeah government work is for you. That mindset that we're in a tech bubble is what I was worried about when I took on a city position but it's just fear. I thought it would happen for two years and nothing came. If you want to be scared, fine but how about you try and make an educated prediction and see if it will come true instead of just hand waving it.

On a broader note, I thought the fact that you make less at a startup was established. Big Co almost always pays more.

https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
> because

While it's reasonable to bring up issues of moral hazard, blaming the national debt on startups has no relationship with reality.
Thanks for your detailed reply, i'll try to see as much as I can!
I really liked the following quote, I certainly needed his upbeat mood and view of the future.

" The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy. Orion was obviously crazy. So I said "yes" and had a great time."
I hope that never happens. I don't want to be tied to a specific Facebook account and computer for everyone I do online for the rest of my life.
> Don't forget that Israel has nuclear weapons and the country would not hesitate to use them in self defense.

Pakistan also has nuclear weapons, Israel's use as such is probably mutually assured destruction, not 'self-defense'.
Good to see Jim having success in the U.S.
Someone should write a good book on Rust's approach to OOP and how it differs let's say from classic C++ when doing actual library design. Despite all the good documentation on Rust, this topic is really lacking clarity.
Nothing surprising here. But now that America has killed more than 50K Afgans, more than million Iraqis and 80K Pakistanis in the response, now that America has harassed completely law abiding immigrants to insane levels I doubt think the rest of the world gives damn anymore.
If USA can have Saudi Arabia as an ally white house can even call Devil their ally.

I never understood Iran-USA hatred for each other. Iran is not worse than Saudi Arabia or Pakistan from any angle.
As of right now, we provide uptime and visual testing. If you have advanced functionality that varies by region, something like IP spoofing might work best for your needs.

But for most companies use GeoIP targeting for things like:

Currency and Dynamic Pricing
Locale (date time formats, languages),
Dynamic translation functionality
Determining visitor origins
Custom ads/messaging
Redirection to local websites (Amazon, Google, Craigslist use this)
IP-based blocking (for cyber attack protection)

I would think that something like Hotjar is more useful for studying user behavior (how it varies across regions) than testing website functionality.

I will have to to more digging to see if they do the actual recordings from servers in those particular regions, or if they just map geo-filtered data over a standard video recording (with the assumption that it renders the same everywhere)
I think the GP was saying KSA is Iran's enemy.

Edit: brain failure on my part.
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Didn't the US originally provide those nuclear weapons?
Can they still do it the old fashioned way with a telephone to coordinate and an oscilloscope to line up the phase?
the people of Iran also have every reason to dislike their own dictatorial government [1]; empathy towards the USA might also be a way to display attitudes towards their own system of government, such a display would otherwise be suppressed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Islamic_Re...
Beautiful output and great, light summary of each process! I've been watching the pieces Anders has been posting over the past few months and freaking love his aesthetic.

There's been HN threads on it before, but just in case anyone hasn't seen it and wants to dive down the rabbit hole that is biomimetic / natural systems influenced generative work, check out Dan Shiffman's awesome http://natureofcode.com/.
> Many (not all, maybe not even most, but definitely a good amount) libertarians are environmentalist and see the EPA as a valuable tool to ensure that people's rights are violated.

In certain narrow situations where there is an identifiable property right at issue (e.g. dumping waste on private land). But there aren't a lot of libertarian theorists espousing a general "right" to untouched wilderness, preserving endangered species, or having clean rivers.

> To rephrase, Libertarian's generally agree people should be safe at work.

Libertarians generally believe that the level of safety in the workplace should be set by the market, rather than by a regulatory agency. I.e. if a workplace is known for being unsafe, it won't be able to hire employees (or will have to pay a premium for employees to take on the extra risk). Liberals in contrast believe that the government should impose a safety floor on all workplaces, irrespective of the market.
I don't see what's so strange about this. Let's say you were lending money. Would you prefer to lend it to a person with an established history of taking out and then paying back loans, or a person with zero history either way?

I don't think it's accurate to describe the system as starting out not trusted. There are many levels, and misbehavior can easily give you worse credit than the default. You start out neutral and then go up or down depending on what you do. Which seems like exactly how it should be.
It's a great paper. I really enjoyed it. Keep hitting them with reality checks they need! :)
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia
What are you on the record saying when you were 19 ?
FWIW you can learn how these algorithms work without a very deep understanding of calculus or linear algebra. I did it, although I'm trying to catch up on the math now. And really for the average ML user, you don't need to learn the exact math or calculations, just a general understanding of what it's doing.

Above all have a good understanding of over fitting and best practices for test and validation sets. Then you can use algorithms as black boxes and at least know you aren't doing any harm.
I was so hoping that China had decided to build a gigantic flying boat from wood.
Speaking only for myself, my total credit limits are huge because my wife likes signing up for new cards to take advantage of special offers and rewards programs. We don't use anything like that much credit, but it's available to us.
Who seriously believes that the marginal value of money increases as you have more?

There are plausible arguments that money can often have increasing marginal utility for poor people. Google "bee sting theory of poverty".
Then again we could just believe what they're saying and doing as a genuine expression without imputing ulterior motives.
Crazy idea: Crowdsource it.

If we can gamify protein folding (https://fold.it/portal/) and find scientifically useful answers, why not the same with cetacean languages?
I don't think "camel herders" was meant to be taken any more seriously than "cheese-eating surrender monkeys".

One generally ribs one's regional neighbours. There are obvious exceptions, but I wouldn't necessarily assume it was meant with the tone you seem to be attributing to it.
I'm also not quite sure on why exactly it is so complex to distinguish between objects (including vehicles) on the road and ones above/next to it.

In the case they're talking about here, it's because to do so you need to predict where the non-visible road surface is going to be.

Consider travelling up a continous, slight incline. Precisely at the crest of the incline is an overhead gantry sign, positioned such that for an observer travelling up the incline it is located directly in line with their current direction of travel.

The only way that you "know" that the road actually dips under the sign rather than the sign being on the road surface is experience.
Nobody wants to admit it but we are in a tech bubble.

On the contrary, people love to claim Silicon Valley is in a tech bubble and have been doing so continuously since 2011.
So how does an effective leader "actually, effectively lead" other people to believe that a better life doesn't require releasing more CO2? Any concrete plan that doesn't require a massive dose of wishful thinking?
The reason that protein folding and other large-scale projects (e.g. SETI@Home) work is because there's enough data to go around. I think that these projects are likely bound by the fairly small bits of data they have available.

If we could get an open dataset of cetacean sounds along with a tagged assessment of the scenario (i.e. how many were around, were they agitated, etc) then this kind of project could be very interesting.
It's nice, but I don't like how the comments view wants to keep scrolling sideways. I wish it worked more like the articles view with swipe to vote. I'll never use the readability mode so I'd love to just disable it.
You're not very familiar with history are you?

The whole idea was to establish the model for two states living peacefully and productively side by side. No one seems to remember that simultaneous with the Gaza withdrawal, Israel dismantled four smaller settlements in the northern West Bank as a clear signal of Israel's desire to leave the West Bank too and thus achieve an amicable two-state solution.

And how did the Gaza Palestinians react to being granted by the Israelis what no previous ruler, neither Egyptian, nor British, nor Turkish, had ever given them – an independent territory? First, they demolished the greenhouses. Then they elected Hamas. Then, instead of building a state with its attendant political and economic institutions, they spent the better part of a decade turning Gaza into a massive military base, brimming with terror weapons, to make ceaseless war on Israel.

Where are the roads and rail, the industry and infrastructure of the new Palestinian state? Nowhere. Instead, they built mile upon mile of underground tunnels to hide their weapons and, when the going gets tough, their military commanders. They spent millions importing and producing rockets, launchers, mortars, small arms, even drones. They deliberately placed them in schools, hospitals, mosques and private homes to better expose their own civilians. And from which they fire rockets at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

source: http://www.aish.com/jw/me/The-Truth-about-Gaza.html

To me it's pretty obvious the Jews just want to live in peace and have made concessions for years to do so, but Hamas wants nothing but an endless war. It's kind of hard to make peace, when the only thing your opponent is interested in is your total elimination.

Like the Israeli prime minister said:

"'Here's the difference between us," explains the Israeli prime minister. 'We're using missile defense to protect our civilians and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.""
Accurately predicting your likelihood of default is worth a ton of money. If every company makes bad assumptions like you describe, then a new company could make a ton of money by correcting those bad assumptions and giving out loans to people who can't get them otherwise.

That doesn't mean that systematic failures can't happen, but they're pretty unlikely. It's much more likely that you underestimate the correlation between these disparate defaults than that the banks overestimate it.
Iran was THE ally of the United States until the Revolution. We didn't trust the Israelis, who made it very clear they were in it for themselves, the Saudis in the 60's and 70's were not very amenable to US interests - Iran was a stable, regional power with a westernized populace and enough power to counterbalance Soviet influence and Middle Eastern stubbornness. They were such an important ally that when they elected a moderately socialist president who didn't want to play the Cold War game, the US and UK freaked out and installed a monarch.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein
Using handles / indexes instead of pointers is a type hole and introduces similar problems of memory safety through the back door. The problems will be semantic in nature rather than more fundamental but will still be bugs.

For the article author, I'd recommend going down a virtual DOM like approach rather than traditional OO toolkit. Rust meshes a bit more closely with functional ideas than OO.
Not dangerous, in my experience. It doesn't take deep theoretical knowledge to provide value (i.e. value to a customer or to a business) through machine learning. Assuming here that one knows how to cross validate, check for overfitting, etc., and not shoot themselves in the foot.

EDIT: Note that it's still EXCEPTIONALLY difficult to provide true, lasting value to a given organization with this stuff and takes years of experience (note I didn't mention deep knowledge and experience with the latest techniques aboard the hype train).
I don't think that's what the parent implied.

Besides, the existence of an ulterior motive does not necessary imply a lack of genuineness.
Some people are not going to extra lengths to get more money now. Those people might be happy with their current income, however low it is. These people will prefer to stop working.

You are also confusing money with wealth. Basic income may give people more of the first, but its inflationary nature does nothing for the second.
You're a hacker!
He seems to also be saying that the US is an enemy of Saudi Arabia. Otherwise "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" doesn't make sense.
Properly done opinion polls represent the American voters, for example this one [0] which states that 41% of American voters think that it would be a good idea to elect Trump. That is more than a tiny minority.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-holds-lead-o...
Actually, the US didn't have much to do with Israel's early development of nuclear weapons. It was the French who helped them setup a nuclear reactor originally. They also had many (Jewish) former Soviet scientists who fled to Israel. The strong US-Israel military relationship is a more recent development.
Doomsday clock tells when Japan's sex problem will cause country to go extinct
Sure, it's possible. After all, it's easy to misunderstand an online comment.

However, parent did say that persians had a great and ancient civilization and don't like to be compared to camel herders. And calling arabs camel herders is an actual insult, so "frogs" vs "cheese-eating surrender monkeys".

I considered the ribbing angle, but looking at the parent's account he doesn't look persian or arabic.

Regardless, since the comment was flagged, the point is moot.

It's probably for the best, since the parent has his real identity tied to the comment/account. To that end, I'll happily delete my comments if he wants to delete his :)
> That's probably true except for Israel.

Jews and Persians are natural allies, and have been allied in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_relations

It's not out of the realm of possibility that as shale production diminishes the importance of both the House of Saud and the declining declining value of Russian energy exports, Israel pivots back to Iran. Many sharp analysts predicted the US's pivot to Iran for over half a decade before it visibly started to happen, and many of those same analysts don't subscribe to the prevailing media narrative that Iran's religion necessarily constrains it to alignment with Arab nations, rather than Israel or the US.
>>If the US pisses off Israel there one true friendly in the middle east is gone.

I'm not sure I'd call Israel a "true friend." At a high level they may be ideologically aligned with the West, but they're simply using the USA to advance their own interests.
I love the idea of using data to train a machine to recognize patterns and classify things. It's kind of a bummer though that the application is to help sales people do their job.
My guess is the same time that the Model 3 launches (July/August)
The cost of the end-of-lease parts and repairs is pretty specific to BMW.
The 1953 coup [1] probably has something to do with that, followed by the hostage crisis in 1979 [2], and the downing of an Iranian passenger airplane by the US [3].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
Iran is effectively our ally already. Both of us are aiding the same Shia militias in Iraq (the US through the Iraqi government).
The grid size and the location of the inputs and outputs are fixed throughout the process. Are you suggesting the connections could grow left to right as it evolves? I think that'd be interesting, but I'm not sure if it would be useful.
On average? Of course not. It's a power-law! Averages mean nothing in power-law situations.
I have worked with Redux as well, and write functional JS pretty much exclusively, and agree that it's actually very pleasant to work with these days, especially if you're also in an environment where you can take advantage newer language features like async/await.

My #1 pain point with functional JS though, is that using a persistent data structure library like ImmutableJS or Mori removes the ability to use some of the awesome new syntactic sugar introduced in ES6 like the spread operator, destructuring, etc, for making code less verbose. So you have to make that tradeoff between being able to use a succinct syntax for common operations vs having the optimal performance in terms of memory efficiency and garbage collection pressure.

I'd really love to see native persistent data structures as a first class citizen in JS so they can make use of all new language features. Until then, I'll probably continue to choose ClojureScript for my own projects.
That's not really the relevant range for this discussion.
Changing my behavior to pollute less is easy and rewarding.

Changing others' behavior unrelated to polluting less is easy and rewarding.

Changing others' behavior to pollute less is hard and punishing. People get angry and defensive about it. It's one of the main areas I'm trying to develop.

(Other things I do myself include not owning a car, using subways or walking nearly everywhere, not eating meat, avoiding packaged food, not using air conditioning at least at home, and a few things like that, although after doing them long enough, I generally do them because I prefer them to their polluting alternatives. I like walking, eating fresh fruits and vegetables, and so on).
In USA and in the rest of the world, $1 million dollars is a shit ton of money. Full stop. Please, let's go back to reality.
As a Tesla owner I always keep a hand loosely on the wheel and I never get a warning. In fact the only time I've seen the warning was when I deliberately kept my hands off to get a feel for when the warning occurs and what it looks and sounds like. I still haven't been brave enough to let the car trigger the fail safe "come to a stop" scenario when ignoring multiple warnings, I also wonder if doing so might cause a black mark against my Tesla account ;)
I'm curious about those body counts. Why is it so low for Afghanistan compared to Iraq?
Squeezed to death (2000)
Your comment made me think of the episode of the show Silicon Valley (in the current season), where the engineers want to build a scalable platform rather than a box (appliance). The negotiate with mgmt to let them work on the platform after they have worked on the box :)

As an aside, I thought this episode was very well done. The engineers believe their algorithm will get better over time as it ingests more data (hence, a scalable platform is the way to go). A box won't learn, and benefit from these improvements. However, large companies want boxes (servers/appliances in their data center) and aren't in a position to have their data leak out (for statutory or competitive reasons in many cases).