skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Personally I will not miss the car dealer trying to pull every stunt on the planet to get me committed

I think this is a relic of the past. My last two car purchases have been straight forward: I walked in and told them what I was willing to pay for the car. One dealer couldn't do it, another could. In fact, this dealer showed me their little spreadsheet of costs associated with the car and said, "This is what we'll make on this car at this price. If I go any lower than this it is no longer worth it for us to sell to you." I make the purchase and pick the car up the next day. The car dealer business is pretty competitive, at least where I live.

There is so much information available to consumers that there's no longer any reason for the process to be very complicated or opaque. Sure, you might not want to "negotiate", but then you're welcome to go pay retail ("sticker price") like you would anywhere else, including Tesla. If you do that you'll be out of there in a heartbeat at that price (and the dealer will love you).

I don't car what happens to car dealerships, honestly. I just don't find them to be such a problem.
I agree that the comment was a bit off-putting.

In addition, the assumption is that you're camping in an area where the area itself is inhospitable to life. There's a ton of camping and hiking opportunities on the east coast, and unless you break a leg or something, you can pretty much just pick a direction and walk ten miles and end up in somebody's back yard.

You should be able to walk through the woods for a few hours without having to gear up at the local outdoor's shop.

(Of course, that's not to say that there isn't a lot of damned good reasons to tool up, or that folks don't get dead even on the east coast. There's just a level of awareness that's involved in being outside that shouldn't come as a surprise to most. Our species is bred to be outdoors. Take it slow. Pay attention. It'll work out.)
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This is really cool!

A little story-telling + 'help' section would be great to onboard new players.

A share button, for twitter + facebook where with a description (where the cool story-telling could play a part).
Lower carbon footprint of construction, more expensive, lower noise during construction. I read it, none of those benefits are worth the risks to me.
What about saying your tool didn't handle all the edge cases? The only reason a kernel is technical debt is coz of all the variety of apps people want to run on top of it.
I'm not sure if it is mentioned in the article, but perhaps one of the soothing parts is that most of these people probably didn't even know what really happened that day.
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> "No one claims to be able to tell what a particular person is voting based on whether they are in job or not."

No one claims to be able to be completely certain who someone will vote for, but people do claim to be able to predict who someone will vote for. What I'm saying is that making this prediction is not without consequence. In other words, the prediction and the action taken as a result of this prediction can influence the result of an election.

By characterising the 'type' of people that are likely to vote a certain way, you build up social norms. These social norms then have a limiting effect on reasonable debate. In a more robust democracy there shouldn't be such a thing as 'safe' states (in the sense of states that always vote Democrat or Republican), yet those states exist. I'm saying that a large part of that is because people have become conditioned to voting a certain way by the society that surrounds them, and the way that voting along with peers is normalised.

As a light-hearted example, take a look at this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3VLqLLWxbQ

It's fairly tame from a political standpoint, and it's clearly done in a light-hearted way, but one of the main reasons it's safe because people vote with their peers, the artist can be fairly certain he's not singing to people who (for the most part) would vote Democrat because that not part of their identity.

Statistical analysis of voters can feed into identity politics, both from the perspective of how parties advertise themselves to would-be voters, and in the case of statistical analysis that is frequently repeated in the mass media, of normalising divisions and guiding people into where they 'fit in'. I don't think these divisions help people engage in politics in a reasoned, respectful way as the moment you bring identity into politics reason and logic can go out of the window. Therefore, whilst statistical grouping may seem innocuous on the surface, it can lead to a fairly sizeable impact over time.
If you're eligible for USAA, they also have such policies.
Yea, I don't buy those as being sound arguments. I'm sorry I don't just accept everything in a sales pitch. I've seen a log cabin burn, and those were 12" logs, so....
I am astonished how geo-political squabbles over resources such as oil and fishing may destroy the great reef ecosystems of this region. Ecosystems, that are far more valuable than the things these nations squabble about.

The cold war was messed up in so many ways. It reminds me these developments.

The type of people that advocate such nationalistic projects in favour of international, peaceful and reasonable exploitation should be removed from power.
I'm a little worried Yosemite might be closed in the first week of winter or something? does it get snowed in?
Previously:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11608100

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588698
There's a lifecycle issue which isn't accounted for here. Steel and concrete last almost forever once built - how long do you trust your glue-laminated, termite-sprayed, fire-sprayed timber floor? Especially after a couple of cases of water or impact damage over time...

Reconstructing towers (particularity residential towers) in-use is an incredibly problematic process.
I'm not sure which parts of my posts you think are passive aggressive.

No insecurities on my behalf, and I'm happy for her success, but success does not automatically give someone a free pass on criticism.

The criticisms I have made also all stand on their own regardless of my or her respective successes.
Even ancient substantial ruined stone structures in some areas of the UK exist without much notice being taken of them - e.g. the hill forts at Cademuir south of Peebles. Apart from the fact that the name might mean "great battle" there seems to be relatively little known about them.
I'm sorry for anyone who has to read this or any other "playbook".
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And all the bills look identical, have identical colors (although the latest series finally introduced some variation) and are the same size!
I thought it was more. I suspect a lot of married couples don't have sexual relationships anymore. I also see a lot of single persons that have a hard time (or don't even try) to find someone and so on...
"...You are talking about people like they're almost subhuman...."

Anything but. The fact is, I am not looking at individuals. I am looking at the population. A population is not a human.

You make a good point. When we talk about UBI, the relevant examples should be the independently wealthy. Many have done great things with their lives. Some have destroyed themselves. Some have had positive effects on others, encouraging them to also do better. Some have had negative effects on others, causing despair or disillusionment.

Why the difference?

Beats me. So let's experiment.

On a personal level, we should always be kind and treat people with respect and love. But that doesn't make any of these population questions go away.
This is what commercial editors for Docbook and DITA allow for, yet you don't see many keen in embracing them.
Does a “fair online advertising” platform exist?
I am wondering if there is any way to display ads that do not track people. Also, I would like to choose a category that has a positive impact in the world (for instance, education).

Ideally, I would host the ad myself, and just link to the advertising company. They could keep track of how much traffic I'm sending, and I could keep a click count to make sure it matches.

Does something like that still exist?
CSP is way too ambitious and complicated for its own good. It's like SELinux for the web. It's one of the best examples of a pursuit of perfection getting in the way of what's good enough.

What's a CSP one-liner that you can copy and paste into any webpage to prevent execution of all inline scripts, regardless of what external scripts, styles, fonts, and other resources it loads? I suppose it will look something like 'default-src *', but even this most basic usage (and its possible side effects) doesn't seem to be clearly documented in any authoritative guideline. All the documentation is so obsessed with whitelisting this and that CDN, blocking non-https scripts (don't all browsers already do that?), and all sorts of other tricks that they scare away someone who is just looking for some baseline level of protection.

If, instead, we just defined a simple header, meta tag, or even an HTML attribute to block run-of-the-mill XSS attacks on a typical webapp or open-source CMS, the Internet might have become a much safer place already.
You call an URL and it executes a script?
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The statistics about sexual assult of men by men in the military are very vague and shrouded in secrecy, but even the most 'optimistic' number paint pretty dismal picture.
Previous discussion on the same topic (different article but might be based on the same press release, the 3D renders are suspiciously similar):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12190537

Safety was the first to pop in mind there too -- I guess it won't be easy selling those flats.
The Falling Man has a name.

Though not officially identified, it is thought to be Jonathan Briley. A lot of people were killed that day. This is just one story. [0] You can view a documentary about this image here ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3gbxJ4xUDE (1hr 11m)

RIP Jonathan.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Man
I think that the just world fallacy is an enormous contributor to the existence of religion in the first place.
Hi-Seas crew journal entries: http://livefrommars.life
Wikipedia probably mentioned it, but & is a combination of "e" and "t", or "et" - french (or perhaps latin?) for "and". Thus &c is short for "etc", or "et cetera". I wasn't aware of the form "&ct", I presume it stands for "ET CeTera", but I'm not entirely clear on why that extra "T" would ever make sense. I doubt anyone ever used "etct"?
It is amazing how badly Excel handles CSV files. My favorite thing is where it will decide for some goddamn reason that a numeric or string column is actually supposed to be a date, or a currency, or some other random thing, and automatically format the column. Cue the calls from customers that don't know how to turn this "feature" off, when they export something as CSV and think it is corrupted.
I just don't get it why everything needs to be encrypted. It gives some false sence of security/privacy.

Pages that need login or personal details must be encrypted, that I understand.

But, if a news site that I am browsing is encrypted and still loads google analytics, facebook, twitter, $othertrackingjavascript what is the use?
Presumably, having not read any, this is what building codes cover. So in many structures the effect of impact damage would be the same. With water you have more of a point.

Reconstructing towers in use seems like a ridiculous thing to add on to the article.
Roman concrete lasts forever. Modern concrete reinforced with rebar and exposed to the elements lasts about fifty years.
Nice to see this incredible cold war era plane not go the way of the concord. But in its case there is still a possibility of a profitable market for transporting very large and heavy machinery via aircraft.
That only works if every single shop/service tracks the serial numbers, otherwise you have no way of knowing if they were exchanged somewhere in between.
It's often surprising how much of building codes are about fire safety. Occasional hazards practically define your day to day environment.

The most fire sensitive part of a high building is the staircase. You want long burn time in fire but also have very little "fire load". (Amount of energy released from material that can burn in typical fire. Typically MJ/sqm.)

Steel staircase gets you 0 fire load but relatively short "burn time". Because steel gets soft at relatively low temperature and more importantly conducts heat very well.

Pure concrete stair case is better, but you get cracking that shortens the burn time.

Wood is surprizingly good for burn time, but you greatly increase the likelihood that the fire will start form the staircase. Which is really big no-no. Sometimes even burning a complete house (starting from somewhere else) is lot better than just burning the emergency exit.

The only really good option is reinforced concrete. The concrete insulates the steel, which provides ductility to the whole structure. With reinforced concrete staircase and stairwell, it's questionable how much you benefit from wooden load bearing structure.

I think it can be done. And it can be done really well too. But you may need to step away from typical architecture and step into something more modular.
You can bet they are discussing everything in great detail internally. Just not giving it all to the press.
"Stoked". Sorry for the nitpick.
I don't think he's being metaphysical. Much of what we now call China was other countries a couple of hundred years ago. Is the little core that we call ancient China the true China or are all the newly added provinces just as real? If some land changes from being under control of one set of politicians (one country) to another set of politicians (another country), is that really bad for anyone? People usually feel the politicians that control their own place are somehow superior to all the others, but that's obviously nonsensical because they can't all be the best. If part of China was taken over by Russia, it's still just a place where people live, but with a different name and different laws. None are clearly better or worse than the others. If they were, then people from some poorly governed country would be clamoring to give their territory to another country so they can benefit from becoming part of the better one.
I work for a major international corporation which official powerpoint template has hardcoded numbers on each slide, no auto-page numbering...
No joking, I find Sublime Text brilliant to work with humongous CSV files :-)
Lotus also got bought out by IBM, and quickly moved their product lines to life-support mode.
Haha, I thought Chinese shared that with Americans, but maybe they are more extreme -- I feel like living in France you get some selective bias of the type of tourists that go to France... It's France after all
> why wouldn't I want one if my only choice were to splat or char?

That isn't your only choice because the scenario is exceedingly unlikely to happen.

If safety is your thing, you'd be much better off spending the several thousand dollars on doctors visits, healthier food, gym memberships, and/or public transit throughout the year.
The keyword "wolfram" appears 146 times in that page.
From the guidelines:

> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article.
Perhaps "depersonalization" can explain the state some of these people were in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization
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Extremely frightening. Took just 11 days to mutate to an antibiotic resistant strain at 1000x concentration from zero resistance.
Oh, I think these were just people who were sexless by choice (so, OK with it); there's probably many more who want to have sex but don't.
> Take some correct code that works with int16_t, and replace the "int16_t" with plain "int". What breaks?

Memory. Defaulting to 16-bits when an 8-bit variable will do can be incredibly wasteful on an 8-bit µC. Keep in mind that we are not just talking about one variable in isolation. We are talking about all the integers we pass between functions. We are talking about code space, data space, and stack space. There are compilers that can optimize their arithmetic operations to 8-bit registers when they can be sure that that's all their operands need.

> Would you suggest a uint29_t?

If you are aware of a machine that provides that, yes! Otherwise, I'd suggest uint32_t. Yes, "long" is guranteed to be 32-bits wide, but it can also be 64-bits wide. I would not recommend defaulting to "long", as that could be wasteful. Here's an interesting discussion about the meaning of "long" and "long long" for their compiler: https://www.dsprelated.com/showthread/comp.dsp/42108-1.php. I see this discussion as a failure of the C standard.

I would much rather the compiler provided int64_t or int40_t or whatever else they can, that is not inefficient.
Try defending this as "moral and just" with a straight face:

http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/67616000/gif...
I have done similar crazy things with Lync, back before Microsoft opened up their APIs on the Office 365 side so that they were marginally usable.

I wouldn't recommend it...
Partly true; India for example is infamous for not having history. But China has a long tradition of carefully curated history; "historian" was a profession of some respect.

I've read one analysis that said you don't get so much emphasis on Chinese ruins because the Chinese mostly built in wood rather than stone. Stone ruins remain impressive for a long time. Wood... rots.
This is obviously a click-bait article, but did get me thinking.

Laughing at failure isn't good, but talking about it more is. Apart from CEO compensation, which I still find ridiculous, I find the difficult question is "were they doing their job?" Not if they were doing it well, but were they doing what is usually expected of a CEO?

Hindsight is 20/20, and it seems to me a lot of failure and success can be luck. So is there anything other than calling the market/future wrong that makes these CEOs bad? E.g. with Miller, shutting down the acquisitions seems like the quickest way to dissatisfy devs, and I'd argue an awful idea in any case.
Is this really meant for civilian usage or does anyone think China is trying to match the US military forces projection capabilities?
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A highest wooden house is in Bergen, Norway - http://journalofcommerce.com/Projects/News/2016/1/Norwegian-...

It is 14 floor apartment building and owners had no problems to sell the apartments there. Personally it looks rather ugly especially when looking from near bridge. But then a lot of modern architecture is ugly for my taste...
Awesome whiteboard app. Collect everything in one place
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Reinforced concrete suffers from carbonation. The concrete is base, but slowly get's neutralized by carbon dioxide. Once this has been done, the concrete no longer chemically protects the rebar inside. Then if we take into account that most concrete is porous and has moisture content, that rebar is going to rust relatively quickly. When it rusts, it expands breaking away the covering cement.

Typically reinforced concrete has lifespan ranging from 60 to 150 years. Wood in colder climates often has similar lifespan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_cover
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Perhaps a bit of both? The article cites both humanitarian and military power projection capabilities.
"84 meters ... 88 meters ... 250 tons ... 300,000 lbs"
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What about lightning and seismic zones?
Press Shift-F2 and at the prompt type "screenshot --clipboard --fullpage" to copy the current page to the clipboard.
> based on whats trending on the web

Kardashians?
All those people have decades to see it coming too. They too can start changing their dependence on it if they really think it'll affect them. Of course most people don't think ahead nearly that far and won't actually look for a new job until their employer literally goes underwater. But maybe we just need a bit of public education about the predicted future to help those people who aren't thinking about it themselves.

Still, my point was focused on landowners, which the article seems to be too. Of course there are public services and so on that don't follow the free market and they're a different issue. I just don't think we should be fearing for the poor troubles that the owners of NY city property might suffer in 50-100 year's time. Those people are smart enough to evaluate risks themselves and make their own decisions long before anything is forced on them.
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> If some land changes from being under control of one set of politicians (one country) to another set of politicians (another country), is that really bad for anyone?

Some people would call that the definition of bad itself. And I can't blame them.

You sound very american. Would you give U.S. governance to Mexico? No qualms about it?
> I'm just trying to understand how singular and plural work here, and to have some fun with the discussion.

Hey, that's my kind of discussion :)

There is no one "how singular and plural work here". Singular and plural inflections are a tool speakers can use to express a dimension of their thought; syntax isn't capable of fully determining which will appear.

Consider the sentence "my family are all Buddhists". "Family", the subject of the sentence, is unambiguously a singular noun, with plural form "families". The verb in the sentence is, also unambiguously, inflected for a plural subject. It's inflected that way because the speaker wishes, for purposes of the sentence, to conceive of their family as a collection of several people. In another context, it would be unsurprising to see "family" with singular verb agreement.

People may say "spectrum" or "spectra" based on what about the situation they're describing they want to provide focus on.
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The integer types are all specifically sized, e.g. int8, int32, etc. Same thing for unsigned integers.

https://capnproto.org/language.html#built-in-types
You arrived at your conclusion that "Microsoft was the worst company designing formats" through multiple logical fallacies. I suggest you beef up your knowledge on logical fallacies if you want to strengthen your arguments.
>> I was dubious about this particular example and searched for [computational zoology].

>> There's nothing really there ...

Not anymore :) :)

Right now the 1st result in https://www.google.com/search?q=%22computational+zoology%22 is some guys on HN talking about how "Computational Zoology" is certainly NOT viewed as the future of zoology!

http://imgur.com/a/dW4kx
Well, I think since we now have frameworks for doing this kind of stuff (Tensorflow and similar) the barrier of entry is much, much lower. Also the computing power required to build the models can be found in commodity GPUs.

On a hunch I'd say an absolute beginner may be able good results with these tools, just not as quickly as experts on the field who already know how to use the tools properly. That's why I'm going to wait for something to pop up on GitHub, because I have zero practical experience with these things, but I can read these papers comfortably without the need to look up every other term.

There are a number of applications I'd like to throw at deep learning to see how it performs. Most notably I'd like to see how well a deep learning system can extract feature from speckle images. At the moment you have to average out the speckles from ultrasound or OCT images before you can feed it to a feature recognition system. Unfortunately this kind of averaging eliminates certain information you might want to process further down the line.
Can computers read through a book page by page without opening it?