skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s true that these companies have the legal right as private actors to censor whatever they want. But that proposition ignores the unprecedented control this small group of corporations now exerts over global communications.

I've had my differences with Mr. Greenwald over the years. But he's exactly right about this. I cannot imagine a clearer or more concise statement of the essential issue here at hand.
Haha that XKCD was hilarious. I'm was totally surprised my comment even made it through the spam filters. I was seriously considering spelling Hitler, H*tler or something.

Yeah, I should setup pushing to a remote repo, that could be really helpful. Phabricator can also be configured to push to remotes automatically I think. Either way, thanks for the great product!
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Mike Rothenberg’s VC firm was young, splashy, and loaded with cash
Surely that's the whole point of a belief - here is something I know to be true.

As compared to a hypothesis - here is an idea that should be tested by investigation, I make no prior judgement to its truth
Have you ever made a mistake? Did you apologize afterwards? Was that apology meaningful?
Hello. Nice to meet you.
Never heard that expression, kitchen-sink, what does it mean?
We took a slightly different approach. Have a 3 month emergency fund, then pay every extra dollar towards the student loan. Paid it off in 3.5 years instead of the 20year plan NelNet wanted. Now we are building out a 6-12month emergency fund and putting money into retirement. Maybe in the short term we are behind in retirement saving, but now we have a lot more cash every month to put into savings and investing. I would still recommend this approach because it emotionally feels wonderful to pay that last f*ing payment :)

But sometime emotions get in the way of financial strategy.
Collision resistance implies onewayness for compressing hash functions. You can invert a hashed value, and if your inversion procedure is randomised, then there is a high probability that you'll end up with a different input.
I think the idea of offering loans only for 'vocational' degrees is extremely damaging. It leads to people taking 'Software Engineering' degrees rather than computer science or maths or physics when really these less directed degrees generally allow people to explore what they are really most passionate about.

The idea of a university is not a place where one goes to get a piece of paper that certifies one as competent to perform a job - that should merely be a side effect - university is a place where people should go to learn about things that interest them and inspire them in the company of other like-minded people whilst simultaneously growing as an individual. I acknowledge this is a rather idealistic view of our higher education institutes but I think it's one we should strive to make a reality.
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They could just offer a switch to change the behavior in the app itself.
What is the encyclopedic value of an article that can only be evaluated by experts in the field?

Maybe we're trying to use Wikipedia as a dumping ground for all knowledge that can be catalogued without really thinking if there are more appropriate locations for it.

An encyclopedia article is normally about starting points. It's supposed to begin the process of unpacking a concept and introduce some ideas, papers, books and actors, to serve as a vehicle for an in depth reading on the subject.
BTW, where you said "save" and "savely", you meant to say "safe" and "safely" ;)
I think it would be better to say "obscenely become rich" rather than "become obscenely rich." I personally don't think there is anything obscene about being rich in and of itself.
Didn't do anything for me. F5'ed maybe 10-15 times but no dice.
Yes, yes it is an unlikely "if" – but it was interesting to see the ceiling for the model, given current supply.
Competition is good.

Losing a competition is not so good. History is littered with countries, cultures, civilizations that lost. And I suspect there were many more that are simply forgotten until an archaeologist digs them up!
You seem to think that having your data hosted in Moscow is a worse privacy concern than in USA? That's a joke. You realise that google just made location tracking mandatory for anyone using maps or app store, right? The USA is way worse in this respect. Or let me re-phrase that: we know for a FACT that the USA is very very bad in this respect, whereas Russian just has a bad reputation.
> As a sailor I would never rely on my autopilot to get me anywhere except in a straight line.

Doesn't this support my argument that this is the real meaning of the term? Which makes 'autopilot' distinct from 'self-driving' or 4th gen?

If you as a sailor can understand this then why can't drivers understand autopilot as a glorified cruise control?
> enticing violence

So, professional wrestling?
Yes, eventually sales will slow down as the price becomes too much. But in the interim the pricing model creates a sense of urgency that is likely to increase sales now. With the site most likely being used to market and sell custom logos (in and for the log run) his current pricing model doesn't seem that bad. Not to mention the pricing model also has some baked in social proof... someone paid $xxx for one of his cookie cutter logos! "Someone else found it to be worth it, I won't be outlandishly foolish if I buy one too..."
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Sales psychology

1 - Start pricing extremely low, and word travels fast

2 - Temporary pricing causes buyers to act quickly, with less consideration

3 - Buyers who wavered in their decision making panic and pay
more than they originally would have in order to not miss out.

4 - Designer knows what is left is both over priced and no one really wants.

With static pricing, #1 doesn't happen, #2 doesn't happen, #3 doesn't happen, #4 does, albeit much more slowly.

#1 is a core piece of both Google & Facebook's sales psychology. You can see them move the sliders from totally free, to really good deal, to your fucked without paying us lots of money as they launch ad channels.
Why can't they release an FP16 card without FP64 cores?

Currently, P100 wastes about half its area on dedicated FP64 cores, which no one needs for deep learning.
"I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been 'lucky.'"

— Oprah

I'm not sure how often Oprah gets quoted on HN, but this statement resonates with me.
Quote: "When the tug of gravity is strongest, they added, "the probability of a tiny rock failure expanding to a gigantic rupture increases"."

The article's author clearly didn't understand the original paper. It's not gravitational force that was being examined, but its first derivative -- changes in gravitational force from one location to another and/or one time to another, i.e. tidal stresses.

In fact, any change in gravitational force -- either an increase or a decrease -- could produce the effects being examined. So it's not the strength of the gravitational force, but the fact that it changes over time, and from one location to another.

Consider Jupiter's moon Io as a classic example. If Io were in a circular orbit, it would be a cold, dead world. But Io's orbit is elliptical, which causes perpetual changes in tidal force (the first derivative of gravitational force) across Io's diameter. The result is a very highly seismically and volcanically active body.
Wow, I haven't heard that term in so long, I'd forgotten about it. You're 100% right though. And the Wikipedia article on the subject is quite interesting. One thing I didn't realize was that Steve Mann coined the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
It sorta reminds me of this one:

http://www.horriblelogos.com/
Just curious since I don't use a mac, doesn't writing the mappings to .inputrc work? IIRC, putting your readline bindings there makes it available for all readline enabled prompts, not just bash ie: Python, pgsql, mysql,.. Etc
> loss of data, loss of time, loss of money and loss of privacy.

Not really. There are certainly plenty of books which will lose you money and time.

More importantly, if the sole concern is "hostile payloads" then the acceptable ads program should be exactly what you support. I'm fine with ads on sites like Facebook where I know it's not going to take over my computer or launch a massive popup, and I support ABP in pushing more publishers towards acceptable ads.
In this case it means uprising. The choice to use that particular word, especially in English, deliberately links current acts of free speech to two previous brutal civil wars.

This is neither a real event nor a reasonable use of terms. It is an abuse of terminology to engender in the reader a particular set of emotions, which leads to a desired set of actions.

In politics, language matters.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kitchen+sink
We don't like plugins because they are a bad user experience, make it hard to upgrade, and make it hard to improve the product. We rather see people contribute features to GitLab itself including tests. This way we can make sure they are nicely integrated in the UI and that they still work when we release a new version of GitLab. This allows users to upgrade with confidence and it allows us to make major changes to GitLab.

I'm not sure what you use case it but GitLab CI is pretty extensive and I hope it has everything you need. Please let me know if there is anything missing. If you want to host your code somewhere else you can still use remote mirroring to have GitLab do the deploy.

The GitLab Runner is a simple piece of software on purpose. This allows us to port it to many platforms. All the logic is in GitLab itself so it is easy to provide a lot of feedback about the status in the UI.
Immutable-js: higher performance data structures
it comes from the phrase "Everything but the Kitchen Sink." So "kitchen sink" becomes a shorthand reference for the above phrase, which itself means, "a whole bunch of random stuff all collected together"
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Presumably if the President decides to pardon someone, as opposed to commuting their sentence, it's indicative of a feeling that they shouldn't have been prosecuted or punished in the first place. So there's at least some reason to question whether they're really criminals or not, particularly if they haven't been tried and convicted of anything before receiving a pardon.

Commutation of sentences is actually much more common, particularly at the state level, because it doesn't really carry with it any indication that the person didn't commit a criminal act (and thus is less politically risky), only that the punishment was either too severe or that there's no reason to continue with it. I believe it also doesn't block further civil penalties or suits, although I'm not clear whether a Presidential pardon actually does (haven't ever seen any examples of that).
Same here. And... the number of sites has shrunken quite a bit.

I think the thing that had me, was Reader was a great way to expand you communication in the groups you were already in. I didn't have to join a new community. I was bringing new topics into mine.
There is super work going on in your camp, kudos! I really appreciated your review of fluorescent imaging in NHP, which is absolutely going to be, along with advancements in implantables, a major enabling tech for prosthetics. In our lab, we've recently started down the path of light field imaging for whole-brain, single neuron recording in the larval zebrafish - supplementing existing work in developing very large, dense ephys recordings. As crazy as NESD/MiCRONS programs are, it really does feel like the field is transitioning to stitching pieces, many years in the making, together towards bona-fide clinical applications. Exciting times!
It also has baked in social proof. Someone else found value and paid $xxx for his logo(s).
This will impact every other aspect of our consumption economy...home sales and even car sales will be impacted as working adults have to dedicate more and more earning potential to paying off student loans...far in excess of any real economic value these degrees have provided.

I hate to get all "Zero Hedge", but this really does stink of some conspiracy to turn the middle class into lifelong renters instead of owners. The independence the middle class once had by achieving a debt-free existence and owning their own residence is being wiped out, and as a result, the middle class itself will effectively be destroyed.
Landlords are by definition rent-seekers peddling a highly constrained resource. At scale they tend to self-organize into local cartel business models, and thus trend towards the asshole side of the behavioral spectrum.
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I don't know sphinx at all, and my knowledge of lucene is very limited. Which means I don't know how they would compare to DeuSu.
This makes it look like getting a logo is easy and quick. And it can be, probably.

It's not my area of expertise, but I would expect there are some pitfalls just like with company names, app branding and other branding/trademark stuff.

I would not want my logo to be too similar to somebody else, and researching that is probably tricky.
I actually watched a YouTube video the other day where someone used a similar programmer to test all the logic chips in his ZX-80: https://youtu.be/qqUxXrh_xgM (Spoiler warning: it didn't find the failure.)
> I don't use !!, or !$

Neither do I, intentionally at least.

This week I encountered a very bizarre problem when running GHCi (a Haskell REPL), invoked from bash in an Emacs "shell" buffer.

In Haskell, "!!" is a function for getting an element from a list, e.g.

> let myList = ["a", "b", "c"]
> (myList !! 1, myList !! 2)

This would normally return the pair ("b", "c"), which GHCi prints to the screen. However, for some reason it was performing bash-like subtitution, giving me (on subsequent retries):

parse error on input 'let'

(myList (myList !! 1, myList !! 2) 1, myList (myList !! 1, myList !! 2) 2)

(myList (myList (myList !! 1, myList !! 2) 1, myList (myList !! 1, myList !! 2) 2) 1, myList (myList (myList !! 1, myList !! 2) 1, myList (myList !! 1, myList !! 2) 2) 2)

and so on exponentially!
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Charisma is the best and worst thing that you can find in a money manager.

It allows you to raise money, get deal flow and network with what looks like almost no effort.

It also allows you to get way in over your head.

I mean, this could describe maybe 10% of hedge funds that get started. Charismatic young leader, raises money, has a good year or two and then success gets to their head.

They take their eye off of work and start believing their own hype, they throw lavish parties, and fly in private jets.

Then the CFO quits, investor questions aren't answered in a convincing manner. Requested documentation is harder to find that Trump's tax return.

If you wanted to look for fraud in a fund, you could probably get to 80-90% success rate just by looking for

1) CFO or general counsel resignations.

2) CEO's who go from spending 16 hours a day working to 3 days a week working.

3) A pronounced decrease in fund transparency in the form of financials and reporting.

This is why countries have accredited investor rules. Fraud, even if it doesn't start out that way, too often creeps in when people who have initial success find that sustained success is much, much, much harder to keep up.
That is a good thing. USA's ridiculous immigration norms is a big problem.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll try and clarify "sync" wording in the future.
Technically, the author already verified their statement by examining the extent of their knowledge. Personally, I would not be surprised if the author chose their words with an eye toward ensuing social media interactions and the nature of the blog's readership.

It is not a technique about which I believe I am unaware or have not employed on the interwebs to dampen the apparent appeal of argumentative replies, and I suspect that I am probably not mistaken about that belief. YMMV, but I feel it is probably sometimes advantageous to write in such a way.
I find most consumer-grade Wifi routers make more than adequate ACCESS POINTS, but they suck at being an actual ROUTER. My TM-AC1900 (rebadged RT-68U with a T-Mobile logo on it) would need to be restarted daily, after I finished setting up my homelab two months ago I put a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X in front of everything and just connected the old router to my switch and put it in AP mode, I haven't had my network die out on me and require reboots in months (with the exception of my cable modem going out).
--edit-- I can't help feeling we've wandered off-piste here.

The point I was trying to make is that the origin of a hypothesis is not really important, just that before it is accepted as true or false it is tested.

--edit-- this wasn't actually an edit so much as a reply. Oops!
Blanket bans on advertising favour market incumbents. It's true that some companies will prosper through word of mouth but in the early adopter stage you need to reach those early adopters. If you're small and your early adopters are distributed, you'll die before you catch on through people talking about you.

I'd wager the net effect would be to entrench big brands.
Experiments with disabling the ME on Sandybridge x230
They may not seem that large, but I suspect that compounding interest effects and the fact that the debt is there very early in peoples lifetimes make them very heavily weighted in terms of the effects on lives and economies.
Why not price items accurately rather than relying on the deception of cheap food and expensive drinks? Wouldn't that make every item profitable?

Reminds me of how UK banks have no charges and just hope you make a mistake so they can earn money off you.
To expand on your explanation of semi-intentional murder: in Iranian law, instead of first degree and second degree etc, murders are categorized as:

1. Non-intentional murder: when the defendant did not intend to harm the victim in any way. This is almost equivalent to manslaughter. The penalty includes financial compensation for the victim's next of kin and potential prison sentence. Example: vehicular manslaughter

2. Intentional murder: when the defendant knowingly and intentionally kills a person, whether premeditated or not. This is the closest to fist and second degree murder in US law. The penalty can be up to and including death sentence.

3. Semi-intentional murder: when the defendant did intend to harm the victim but did not intend to cause death. The penalty includes financial compensation and prison time and is more severe than non-intentional murder. Example: a person pushing a man during a fight, inadvertently causing him to fall from a balcony to his death.
We both see the value of all-in-one solutions for new companies. I think that for existing companies there is a comparable amount of value. All-in-one solutions make it easier to switch to a new team and be effective immediately. And it allows for company wide processes and tools.

The 20% missing features can be added via API's (we're trying to add API's for everything people need https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/api/ ). Or even better, by having people contribute code to the project itself.
Why can't there be two reviews on the front page? They are (or should be) genuinely unique pieces of content that could be more valuable together than apart ... having two perspectives on such a widely used piece of gear might be 10x as useful as one, no?
It technically means 'everything, whether necessary or not' [1][2], but the subtext and context I intended it in is that their range of services is forms an extremely wide spread, which could be mistaken for a lack of focus.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/everything_but_the_kitchen_si...

[2] http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/everyt...
Would you elaborate on the terrible job we do?
Its nice that you earned your black-belt in self-discipline, but it doesn't benefit society much for you to become a miser to pay for a piece of paper. We are in a consumption economy...we need you spending money on things that create jobs for others, like homes and cars.
Roughly half of all earthquakes are within one week of a full moon.
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I don't think a true null hypothesis exists as long as humans are involved in concocting them, the person could want, consciously or subconsciously, any output from any experiment.

Maybe one outcome leads to more research that's a major paint to secure funding for and one is much easier? Maybe the outfit funding the study clearly wants one particular result?

Which goes right back to what I'm saying: humans are not purely logical, true null hypotheses don't exist, and the only difference between a "hypothesis" and a "belief" by what you just described is the degree to which the person with the idea wants a specific outcome - a variable which is completely unrelated to the eventual truthiness or falsity of the output.
For the comments pointing out he can release despite the audit, there's no benefit to releasing right now.

For one, he's using it as a negotiating tactic in attempt to get something out of someone else he wishes to be made public. I believe it has come up with "release your medical records" or "release the transcripts" and "I'll release my tax returns".

For a guy like this and what he does, it is most likely there is something the IRS will complain about in the return. It could be something small or something big, it does not necessarily mean it is proof of wrong-doing. Mistakes are made all the time with complicated returns. There have been examples of the IRS giving incorrect advice on complicated returns after all. So, why not wait until the audit is done and all the IRS complaints have been addressed before releasing? Why hand over talking points to partisan political hacks that would likely make every little incorrect thing to be an example of alleged illegal activities?

For all the conspiracy theories that's he attempting to hide something in his returns assumes that the IRS is complicit or incompetent. I am more than satisfied that if the IRS finds something illegal they will be more than happy to conduct a criminal investigation. They have done so before with much less.
dd-wrt has gotten pretty bad. They don't publish new releases anymore you just pick a daily build from one of the random people who publish builds and hope it doesn't brick your router. Learned this after bricking my router :(
> I wouldn’t be surprised if the news stories and pundit hot takes about jet black iPhone scratches and scuffs outnumber those about the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 literally exploding and hurting people.

Haha, probably so.
The author of the article, Vivek Wadhwa, is one of the most famous academic proponents of the H-1B visa. When I read the title, I initially thought the article would be about innovation and the startup climate in SV, but as I was progressing through, it confirmed my suspicions--it was another veiled opinion piece for increasing H-1B visa numbers. Maybe there is some value to his observations and arguments, but other readers should be aware what the ultimate goal is here...
The Norway thing amused me because I imagine many (most) of the people who were outraged by that would be perfectly happy with censorship of things they do consider offensive.

As Facebook stated, there is no way to please everyone on this. Even a simple policy of "we censor nothing" is bound to piss off huge numbers of people and many governments
They moved most of their hosting to Amsterdam (and Stockholm?) 2-3 years ago, I heard. Since then the founder has been forced out by Putin, so I guess it might be back in Moscow now though. (Haven't really had any semi-inside information for the past year.)