skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word you're looking for is "nationalist", not "authoritarian". Authoritarianism is when you're commanded to do the stuff you quoted. Nationalism is when you do it of your free will or out of peer pressure from others who do it of their free will.

Nationalism is more insidious than authoritarianism. When you have an authoritarian government, you have an enemy you can clearly identify and the resistance feels morally justified. Resisting nationalism often elicits negative reactions, such as branding you as "unpatriotic" and such.
If you're interested in this tech, come work on something cooler with us at Asteria: https://getasteria.com/ We're based out of San Francisco and have plenty of need for people interested in building the future with us.

https://getasteria.com/careers
Burritos are also wrapped in aluminum foil, which helps with heat retention.
Very cool, looking forward to getting a deeper look at the source code. Nice work!
All talks were recorded, we'll have them up at some point.
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88 and 18 are the ones to watch out for with these types. They sure do love dem small numbers.
Journalists who are doing it right
Except that it is definitely NOT wrong in life overall.

There is a big difference between saying "violence doesn't solve anything" and saying that "violence solves everything".

There are many situations in which a person needs to defend themselves, and reacting to physical violence with a physical response is the right thing to do. Just because this gets out of hand because some people take it too far doesn't mean that all physical responses are wrong.
It took me many years to realize that Maciej was the author of that brilliant article.

For those who haven't seen it, http://www.idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burri....
I also wondered how this could work. Maybe et people vote against abusers and have some local teachers with veto power (usually they know who is bully and who gets bullied I think).

Especially positive votes could be less likely to be faked, it would require more work to fake reputation than to abuse the abuse-button.

edit: A much easier solution: Educate the bullied on how the system could be used against them and that they simply have to glance over if it's the bullies sitting at the table or normal kids. I think most bullies are just joining in, but wouldn't initiate setting someone up. The worst however will initiate such a thing, but those are probably already known to you as a bullied.
Not easy, but do you think it's more difficult than speech recognition?
That QuickStart does not appear to be very quick.
Generative Visual Manipulation on the Natural Image Manifold
Resilio Sync 2.4 (ex BitTorrent sync)
Hi,

I work at Lyft. To answer your questions:

1) There is added cost, though it varies depending on how many things Envoy is configured to do (e.g., logging, tracing, stats, rate limiting, health checking, etc.). Even in complex scenarios (Envoy being used to proxy both inbound connections into a service, as well as proxy outbound connections to Mongo or Dynamo), we measure Envoy overhead to be < 1ms, which for almost all applications is negligible. There are definitely certain cases where this might be prohibitive, but in general we find the common functionality we get (again stats, tracing, etc.) to be invaluable in a production setting.

2) Envoy supports hot restart (https://lyft.github.io/envoy/docs/intro/arch_overview/hot_re...), as well as graceful drain of existing connections, so there is limited/no impact to existing clients. There is one enhancement that we would like to make to our HTTP/2 graceful draining to make it even more seamless, but that is more complicated than I can type here. :)

3) Right now Envoy does not support HTTP/2 priority so all streams are treated equally. We are currently working on priority support at the routing layer, with different connection pools available for high and low priority traffic, as well as circuit breaking settings. In the future we will likely merge this back into a single HTTP/2 connection with proper priority support. In practice though, within the DC, head of line blocking at the TCP layer isn't too much of an issue.
My grandpa had one of those, and I thought it was the so cool. For a general commuter car, it worked perfectly for him.
That site managed a breakthough in bad behavior with tracking blocked. The page turns black every five seconds, then reloads.
GitHub Octoverse 2016
This is exactly what's happened here in Boston after the Big Dig was finished--traffic is still bad. Now, there were some advantages--no one misses the elevated southeast expressway--but the roads around here are often still jammed.

A similar process happens with housing too--as more is made available, people want more of it, which contributes to there never being enough, no matter how much you build.
Please comment civilly and substantively or not at all. We ban accounts that continue to post this way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Snowden used journalists (really just greenwald) to vet the documents."

But isn't that the crux of the problem?

Let us assume the best about Snowden: that he did do this for noble reasons, that he was acting on his own initiative, that he did attempt to restrict the documents he took to those dealing with unethical or unconstitutional espionage that a fair and impartial Inspector General or similar authorized party should have reviewed.

What happened if something completely unrelated (but classified) was also in the dump (say, information about Russian nuclear forces or Pakistani cooperation with a terrorist group) that ended up being vetted not by him (in an authorized facility prior to his flight) but by Greenwald or another journalist (out in the wild)?

At that point, regardless of his intentions, he has disclosed classified information to a non-authorized party and has broken the law.

At that point, whistleblowing has nothing to do with it.

Note, I'm not arguing against a pardon for Snowden-as-whistleblower. I simply think that such a vetting argument doesn't hold water.
Finally, a good use for smartphones.
Can Carla Hayden Reinvent the Library of Congress?
Raise the top marginal tax rates, strengthen social safety nets (social security, welfare, etc). Use Congressional authority to raise wage floors (minimum wage, threshold for overtime), thereby pushing corporate profits into labor's pocket. Perhaps even reduce the work week by 8-16 hours, considering the massive productivity gains over the last 40 years, which has gone primarily to corporate profits.

Scandinavian democratic socialism.

EDIT: This is just to start.
> Toyota couldn't get the software for an accelerator pedal right, so I have zero confidence that the 2030 self-driving Prius won't just e.g. drive 15 mph under the speed limit everywhere, camp out in the passing lane, stop for at least 30 seconds when switching from reverse to forward, and gridlock in shopping center parking lots.

All the things you describe are as likely to cause accidents as wrong turns or over-acceleration. If Toyota can't get this right (my bet is they will) then they won't and shouldn't be doing autonomous cars, despite their "change of heart".
Just seems like another piece of code in search of a problem and ways for things to go wrong, because someone didn't take to time to research how things work now.
Sorry didn't see this yesterday. Don't know if you will come back. Here is some a page that helped me with the wiring: https://web.archive.org/web/20150908054150/http://blogs.fsfe... and https://github.com/bibanon/Coreboot-ThinkPads/wiki/Hardware-...
Fly to canada / mexico and then take a bus?
Oh, cool. Can you expand on that? What kind of logic had to change? I mean, SQL queries are SQL queries? Is that because you were using low level C Oracle drivers of some sort?
Also if you could say a couple of words about the MySQL failure it would be rather helpful because I might have a friend who might be currently deciding on whether to migrate to MySQL or Postgres from Oracle.
If you have an employer plan, maybe your employer cut benefits?

I know several people that had that happen recently.

I'm more concerned that the inflation calculations don't account for decreases in product and service quality. It's not really a fair comparison.
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Pardoning Snowden would still leave too many unanswered questions. If he's innocent, then a trial would clear the air.

Otherwise, future IT workers will believe mass exporting SharePoint/file servers as leverage is acceptable.

While "rule of least privilege" is a good default access control policy; Gov and corporate IT departments are now over compensating their sharing policies due to the precedence Snowden has set.
So they wash, dry, and fold your clothes for you? I've only seen/heard of places where you throw in coins and return for your things later.
People on H1B, Green-cards, who might be dealing TSA, USCICS, IRS for any reason etc. better not sign this one.
First employee of startup? You are probably getting screwed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949323
That's right, but the missing element would be a set of widely-respected testing firms. An "A" from the "Harvard of test companies" might be as impressive as attending Harvard itself, which would benefit autodidacts.
Quite. I find this short interview with Pete Seeger is interesting in this context:

"Pete Seeger on being Black Listed in America, 1965: CBC Archives | CBC"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0_IME9WsHQ

I find it hard to believe anyone would seriously say that Pete Seeger should be on the list of people that should be feared for their "un-American" leanings today, but in the past apparently several people thought he was worthy of that label.
Abstraction for robots isn't a unique idea(see ROS.org) . And i think it's part of the reason we see growth in robots sold for businesses. But The constraints(cost/size/safety/envirnment complexity) are so much bigger in the home - so probably the tech isn't yet mature enough.
No, I am just self-employed (insured through a small-business association) and need to cover the cost increases myself. The reason other people may not see as much, is because their employers eat up most of the increase.

Also:

From Politico: (10/30/215)

"Rates released by the Obama administration Friday and analyzed by consulting firm Avalere Health found that the lowest cost “silver” plan – the most popular option in the law's insurance marketplaces – will rise 13 percent, about four times the increase for plans this past year."

"Premiums for bronze plans, which cover 60 percent of costs and offer cheaper premiums than silver plans, are also rising sharply this year. The cheapest bronze option will increase by 16 percent on average across the country, according to Avalere’s analysis. "

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/obamacare-cost-increas...
Usually a bubble is just about to burst when the last hold out becomes convinced and buys into the hype. The enthusiasm stems from a belief that it will always continue and apply to everyone. Then destruction and chaos.
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This is addressed to new PhDs. Look what they're comparing it with:

"According to the Start-up Genome Report 92% of high-tech start-ups fail. ... If you can get as far as investment this number falls to around 40%, and your chance of making it big within that sits at around 10% (Pitchbook). This adds up to a 0.48% success rate overall. Interestingly, this is the same proportion of PhD students that reach professorship."
Only 7% of Office Workers Are Productive
There's only a handful of countries capable/willing to resist a US extradition request. Your choices are extremely limited.

Sure, you could try to go "underground" but you'd then become a top assassination target for the worlds most powerful security service. No one would ever know of your assassination either - you'd just disappear.
Bootcamps in our industry are a fraud and I sure hope that such fraudulent activities aren't the answer to a classic college education.

And online courses don't work well, being effective only on adults that already have an education.

You can talk about disruption all you want, but there's no substitute for an old fashioned college education. And in many European countries this education is subsidised by the state.

Even in the US college would be affordable if you would cut the evil from its source and that would be college loans.
Ask HN: Stay in touch with professional friends or former colleagues
How do you keep your important professional relationships alive? What tools do you use, if any?

If you're failing to keep in touch, what can we do to fix that?
No, it's a good indicator that there are "Tesla Fanboys" out there, and they exist and some of them like any other fanboy are pretty fanatical and not all the time logical.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/09/leaving-edwar...
Good people? I believe the argument is that these "good people" would be counted as sheep compared to those that would be against the powers that be. So yes, you would be counted as "good sheeple"
"The researchers found that attempting to move at a superhuman pace (eg one action every frame), resulted in a subpar performance."

Moving at extremely fine-grained timesteps can make learning much more difficult, because now a reward arrives millions of timesteps delayed rather than hundreds or thousands. It's like trying to teach a NN to compose piano music by starting down at the 1ms raw audio level. This is part of why audio synthesis was so difficult up until recently with DeepMind's WaveNet. In theory, being able to move every frame should enable extremely superhuman performance, but in practice, you can't learn your way there. So often people will chunk data to make it easier to learn the higher-level concepts: operate on words, rather than characters, for example.
I tend to agree with Chomsky's views, but sometimes I feel he's too extreme and that makes him lose credibility. Maybe it's my misunderstanding, but he often sounds like there is a bunch of people, "the elite" that plan together how they are going to control the rest of the world. I see this instead as a natural, non-coordinated phenomenon caused by various powerful people trying to serve their self-interests.
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My apologies. What exactly is your position here?
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Of course no one wants to be poor or lonely, but that doesn't mean they want to be better than everyone else. Just being equal is fine for me.
"Because of the damage caused by the collision, the car was physically incapable of transmitting log data to our servers and we therefore have no way of knowing whether or not Autopilot was engaged at the time of the crash. We have tried repeatedly to work with our customer to investigate the cause of the crash, but he has not provided us with any additional information that would allow us to do so."

So maybe autopilot was engaged, maybe it wasn't. I say Tesla needs to start logging remotely any time the autopilot is engaged and disengaged.

And until the actual status of the autopilot is known this is just another kid driving dad's car too aggressively.
This article fails to mention the exploding student population size.

Over time the per-student funding from states has gone down significantly. But that doesn't mean the state slashed funding for higher education! For University of Washington the budget from the state is almost entirely flat. Up about 3%.

Student Size: +100%
State Tax Revenue: +40%
State Higher Education Funding: +15%

What would you consider the "dominant factor" here? It's several factors. But I would not consider, and I quote, "a steady decrease in support for higher education on the part of state legislatures" to be the dominant factor. In fact, that statement is flat out wrong. The state legislature hasn't decreased support at all. They're providing more support than they were! The state, and the state's coffers, have no way to keep up with the growing number of students.

http://f2.washington.edu/fm/financial-report-archive

(I did a little digging last night specific to the University of Washington. Numbers from memory and a little fuzzy. But within the ballpark.)
Making Up Ground
I have a feeling that we're talking about a little different things.

My meaning was that I rigorously try to put a price tag on my free time, just like my minutes are counted and paid for at work. This really helps me to put many priorities straight immediately. Like GP's "oh hey let's fetch gas from 39 mins away to save a penny" example, it is usually very easy for people to give zero value for their own time when making such decisions. Putting a virtual price tag for that extra 25 mins helps to prioritize those things in life that are all lumped under the category of "free time"; family, kids, friends, just relaxing at sauna, whatever.
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I don't understand the question. Yeah, you (royal "you") pay with money. I don't pay for it, since I wouldn't get the value out of it.
Echo Dot project should be renamed to NSA@Home.
Side question to the side question: what's the term for that verbal habit some in the UK have developed in recent years, where the pronoun is restated at the end of the sentence? "That's good, that." Never found a good definition or analysis of it.
>So maybe it's not "lack of planning" quite so much as willingness to kill your darlings, again and again.

And here I am rewriting my frontend for the 7th time.
Your comment makes an important point though: who will take care of people who are visually impaired or who need other accommodations?

The online MOOCs aren't going to introduce braille.

I am kind of glad they spent that money to accommodate those students. Aren't you? That's not what is raising the cost of education.

EDIT: I did work on a mouse that provides haptic feedback including texture years ago, so I am aware that it is possible to provide braille like feedback over the web.

EDIT2: Many people have pointed out that MOOCs do add accessibility features. This is true, and good. I think the MOOCs are largely run by well meaning people.
What happens when your side-project can’t sustain you?
I'm curious: What did they assume was okay that horrified you?
But if the engine speculatively loads modules, doesn't that counteract the developer's intention to increase performance by loading a module only when needed?

This is not a problem in HTML loading, because HTML doesn't have `if` statements.
A pet peeve of mine is when an article displays data to bolster an argument but then cites the source to something extraordinarily large and generic (e.g. "SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION") which makes actually finding the primary data nearly impossible.
I always wish there were a way to vote "no" on these things.
In the book Santaram by Gregory David Roberts there's a quote that provides a different perspective to "No good deed goes unpunished". It says "Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved."
What's wrong with threads and synchronizing? async I/O has its own level of complexity. But to be frank a better option is go-routines + channels + select construct like with go. That's really what makes both Go and Erlang unique.
There's the potential that people will look at you a little funny in the future if...

I'd say "potential" is being charitable at this point. We're now in a world where prospective employers have been demanding access to candidates' social network profiles. We're now in a world where national governments seriously propose requiring anyone visiting their country to disclose all of their social network profiles in advance. Privacy-minded individuals have objected strongly to these kinds of practices, not least because of the inferences that might be drawn if someone didn't provide such details (honestly or otherwise).
Note that "inflation" and "inflation adjusted" are not what you'd expect.

http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/lance-roberts/inf...

This is a natural consequence of tying social security (and other benefits) to inflation and Goodhart's Law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

I've been meaning to do an analysis of inflation based on hours worked. It;s hard to redefine hours but I'm sure politicians will find a way!
> Espresso is the ultimate form of the beverage.

I might have been more apt to at least lean in this direction a few years ago, but now I just disagree. It's like saying that a Ferrari is the ultimate form of an automobile. That's not true if your test is navigating the Rubicon Trail[0].

Very rarely (1 in (maybe) 20) do I have a single origin[1] espresso that isn't disappointing (that's not 1/20 shots, but 1/20 different single origins, from different roasters, from various shops).

Enter the pour over[2]. A Chemex[3], Hario V60 dripper[4] or similar and a good Ethiopian or Kenyan makes absolute candy in my cup. The pourover is what introduced me to what a single-origin bean can be; certainly the espresso machines never did them any favours, and I tried every chance I got.

Edit: formatting

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon_Trail

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-origin_coffee

[2] https://bluebottlecoffee.com/preparation-guides/pour-over

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemex_Coffeemaker

[4] http://www.hario.co.uk/coffee/dripper.html
This small Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco
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"We have always been at war with Eastasia."
Yes my relatives had a house fire caused by an unattended clothes dryer, probably something to do with the exhaust (exact cause couldn't be determined). I wouldn't leave a dryer running when I'm not there.
First of all, bravo for standing up for yourself. I think when you grew up and given you being a guy and physically able to fight, that was probably very effective.

Unfortunately schools have changed policies to so called zero tolerance policies, so that any violence can result in suspension, expulsion or event arrest and juvie. This is applied unfairly, it's worse for people who are racial minorities (studies show they are significantly more likely to be suspended, expelled or arrested, and suspensions last longer, this is why brown kids get arrested when they build clocks, and white kids get scholarships), and poor kids, who's parents are more limited in defending them because they have to work, can't afford legal representation, etc.

And remember bullying doesn't have to be physical. Responding with violence may get you expelled and nothing happen to the bully.

Also for people with disabilities or just physically weaker then the bully, violence may not be feasible as a response. And if girls are doing the bullying, or being bullied, violence may violate gender norms and not be the right choice.
Got me wondering if one's PGP fingerprint (or other cryptographic fingerprints) are "selectors" in XKEYSCORE
None of this creates new jobs. In fact, it destroys jobs (higher minimum wage, higher taxes).

Do you have any thoughts on how to create jobs?

There are lots of studies that show that welfare dependency is destructive to goodwill; it's not JUST about giving people dollars.
This is probably true for going from novice to mediocre in many things, and there might be some skills where you can become great by constantly starting again.

But in software development, the most valuable skills you learn are not those you pick up when throwing a quick CRUD app together, but those you learn when debugging, refactoring and optimising legacy code.

I see too many junior devs get frustrated with something, throw it away, only to rebuild it with very similar problems because they didn't really understand the root cause in the first place.