skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Actually, I'm pretty sure I didn't...

The only line from your post that even begins to reference the Holocaust is "Roma do not (except, perhaps, with Germany, but you'll note that they behave the same way everywhere... even in Romania!)". In my book, that's glossing over.

> Are you claiming that they're sociologically comparable to Black Americans?

No, African Americans are a pretty different case.

> I have to wonder what your point is.

> Surely you aren't claiming that this justifies their all-but-systematic prostituting of their women, exploitation of their children, larceny, fraud and violence...

I just wanted to correct what I thought was a gross oversight of your writing, which doesn't mention the long history of persecution of Roma that continues into this century. That's important context if you want to talk about Roma culture.

> Black Americans are by-and-large law-abiding, hard-working

I agree, but I'm curious what you mean when you say "by-and-large". You used the same phrase to say that the Roma have an issue with criminality. What do you mean, formally, by "by-and-large"? When you say "People X are by-and-large Y" do you mean that more than 50% of X are Y? Do you mean being X is positively correlated with being Y? Do you control for other factors, such as Z?

I'd just like to see a little more pedantry in this thread, a few more firm statistics.
The big shift has been from managing complexity to avoiding it where possible, encapsulating it when not. In my current favorite webstack, every logical view is abstracted behind an API (which happens to be a React Component). Internally, everything about that component is encapsulated -- the internal implementation, the sub-components, even the CSS thanks to CSS Modules. In fact, if I really had a reason to write a specific component in Angular or jQuery I would be able to: it's easy to embed non-React code inside React, and as long as it exposes a top-level React Component I'm hunky dory. I refer to React because that's my library of choice -- but you can say similar things about Angular and Aurelia.

This has only been something we've gotten right over the last few years. jQuery trampled all over the DOM, data-binding heavy frameworks like Backbone were impossible to reason about, Closure Library turned your Javascript into Java-flavored spaghetti, Coffeescript was basically Perl, and CSS was global by default. Now React lets me write perfectly performant abstractable code. Redux lets me manage state in a functional, reproducible way. Webpack supports CSS modules which let me write sane styles and code-splitting so I don't need to worry about managing resources. Typescript lets me write code that's safe and easy for others to consume. ES6 modules allow me to actually architect my codebase without shoving everything onto window. And the ringer is I'm not married to any of these technologies -- I can scalp out Redux for another data store, Typescript for Babel, go back to global CSS, etc.

Writing UI code is hard, and I'm not sure why some HN folks assume web developers are ignorant. Web apps are a HUGE hack, and it's funny to me that a forum dedicated to hackers has so many who shun it for that reason. It's not "flavor-of-the-month", it's finally making progress towards a really hard problem in really exciting ways.
> If I used my personal email address for all communication with my companies clients for work, they'd demand all of those emails when I left the company.

But they wouldn't be able to get them, no matter how hard they demanded.

Personal email addresses exist. Companies have to deal with that fact.
It's going to be mildly amusing when our bizzare micro-obsession over State Department email retention policies leads to domestic ethnic cleansing.
I don't see how you can have those benefits in the suburbs. Restaurants fail at a very high rate. How can you afford to run a restaurant in the middle of the suburbs where the population density is so low? Other business face a similar dilemma. Can you afford to build a shop in the middle of a sparse neighborhood? Will the residents shop there or just drive to the big box just past the edge of the development?

And on the off chance you manage to build a successful urban-esque neighborhood in the middle of the suburbs, how do you prevent the massive influx of traffic that would undoubtedly come from the nearby suburbs? And how will you justify preventing that traffic when it impacts the livelihoods of the shop owners who took the risk to open there?

I don't believe that you can build a mixed-use, walkable neighborhood in the suburbs where lots are a third of an acre each. Density is what makes mixed-use possible.
Meta-analysis is not a form of rigorous independent verification in the vast majority of cases. It is usually a statistical veneer placed, lazily, on top of a smear of vastly different experimental results, giving the appearance of rigor.

Replication is a rigorous form of independent verification.
No one pays the full cost of their trips. Transit users are subsidized. Pedestrians and cyclists are subsidized as they pay nothing at all for their infrastructure. Plus, every "drivers are subsidized" argument ignores the fact that drivers shoulder the entire capital and operating expense of their vehicles--a cost borne entirely by governments for transit. Even transit systems with high fare box recovery rates do not come close to paying even one penny of _any_ of their capital expense, whether for guideways or for vehicles.
> Yep, but it became under their jurisdiction when it was discovered that she did government business via the private server.

No, it didn't.

It's still her private email account. They can request nicely to see them, but they can't forcibly see them without a warrant.
It doesn't rhyme with holla, but we've also been asked not to disclose our pricing agreement, as we have a custom deal.

I can say that we aren't processing anything close to Lyft levels of revenue. (I wish.)
In a fair number of cases they are, or similar road structures will be considered "private roads" and the residents along that road will provide a mutual easement and pay for maintenance, plowing etc. I grew up in a rural area that connected through some trails and dumped out into a private cul-de-sac road that was exactly as described -- it was also very poorly maintained.

In my current very suburban neighborhood there's dozens of cut outs "eyebrows" and private enclave segments in the development that are privately owned and maintained by the residents.

I personally wouldn't buy into a situation like that though, neighbors tend to make for terrible mutual cooperatives.
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Why is it the opposite on Wall Street? Higher risk equates to a bigger return.

Because we value money more than lives.

My ability to build an app that generates revenue is more valuable than CHPatrolman ability to save a life.
White nationalists support him more than any other Republican candidate and it's largely because he panders to them with thinly veiled or occasionally overt racism.
I know of a few large scale projects successfully implementing conversational UX with huge economies of scale. Most of the customers haven't even realised they are talking to bots.
True. But users don't care. Not only that, such ease had only created more noise and less expertise. Piss all you want about MS and Apple back in the day but they understood quality control. Today? Ha. We just have lower expectations. We accept shite because we have no other choice.

Furthermore, free isn't free when my privacy is sold and/or my eye balls are subjected to even more ads. This is progress? No fucking way.
>Regarding "not looking good on paper" - that is probably because you are looking for wrong jobs: managers in big companies do want to hire people who ran their business before. It does not really matter if you are VC or not-VC funded: you are "trouble maker".

But from what I've seen, if you are primarily technical, large companies pay vastly more than smaller companies... so I guess I don't really see what that changes, other than the idea that if you are right, even being more successful would not have helped me.
News anchors on TV appeared to have received the alert with a picture attached...
What's not to like about "What's Aleppo?" Gary and his RINO running mate?
> I think companies that have a lot of suburban employees are moving to the suburbs (including my employer).

Probably so. It's cheaper than urban office space, and they probably figure everyone's driving anyway (which is pretty much guaranteed true after they move to the suburbs).
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His answer is 'no they do not have to pass the normal Google screening'
I have $lastname.co and used $first@$lastname.co for a while... I should have known better. Obviously people would end up sending it to $lastname.com, because they thought it was a typo or I've even seen people just add the 'm' from muscle memory. Then I bought $lastname.xyz, and people just think I'm giving them a completely fake email.
Maybe you should tell the State Department that:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0801b24d47274f0fac60beedc5f2e...

^ Former Secretary Hillary Clinton failed to turn over a copy of a key message involving problems caused by her use of a private homebrew email server, the State Department confirmed Thursday...The email was not among the tens of thousands of emails Clinton turned over to the agency in response to public records lawsuits seeking copies of her official correspondence. Abedin, who also used a private account on Clinton's server, provided a copy from her own inbox after the State Department asked her to return any work-related emails.

The State Department did not get a warrant before asking Clinton and her staff to turn over emails that went through Clinton's server.
That's wild. Jazz blows my mind!

I've heard it said that it's fundamentally actually very tonal, in the sense that the underlying progressions are typically 2-5-1. Which has always been hard for me to imagine :), but I guess it simply dispenses with the slavish dedication to a particular scale of the tonic. "A Geometry of Music", which I've linked to elsewhere in this thread, digs into jazz practice a lot.
There's a difference between immigration law and immigrants. Your comment doesn't address what the parent commentor said.
To what others have said here I'd add that, in my observation, the prevalence of guanxi is connected to a lack of fair, functioning, transparent social systems. You often need connections to get things done, because the existing systems (legal, administrative, etc) simply don't function. This could be anything from getting your kid into school, to being seen by a (competent) doctor, to protecting your company from frivolous, malicious legal action.

I know plenty of Chinese people who are highly annoyed or disgusted by the necessity of cultivating guanxi, but know that they're not going to get what they're after otherwise.
Wow, I'm pretty impressed… Some of those I don't even know how I would describe...

"A woman's foot on a pink spiky floor"
I don't care much for Hillary or Trump, Democrat or Republican.

I think noting Bush's similar actions does not make Hillary's actions right. The old 'Two wrongs don't make a right' bit here.

There was plenty of anti-Bush press during his term too, so I can't answer to the lack of public outcry specifically on his email doings; perhaps, there was just too much other low-hanging fruit. Although, suspicions were raised blaming the Bush administration for the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that devastated parts of Indonesia and Thailand, and other earthquakes [1,2]. Sure a lot of them are flat-earther types, but you'd be surprised how some of the links I googled on this were just political forums.

[1] http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/03-17-05/discussion.cgi.81....

[2] http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/306992.shtml
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Until the incentives change in academia...
Virtual reality may help you control your dreams
I don't have a real conclusion to offer, but I'd like to suggest that his argument might be a tad more nuanced than that.

The claim may not just be that bad data is mixed in with the good. It might rather be that we can't verify sources and facts on social media effectively. In other words, I question the assumption that traditional journalistic methods are effective when examining social media.

To be clear: I haven't formed an opinion on this. Thanks for the thought-provoking question, in any case.
If you owe taxes, the government's actions to reclaim those don't constitute theft.

If anyone is stealing, in this hypothetical where you aren't paying your taxes, it's you, from the rest of us.
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I'm surprised people still aren't aware of the massive talent transfer from AWS to Oracle.

This is much larger than just compute. A constant stream of principles and SDE3s have been moving for well over a year. Most of the senior engineers on my team have moved with 60% raises. I'm just waiting for their non-competes to expire.
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This Trips app, Fi, family sharing, their "spaces" app are all locked out. You can use Google now but it won't use anything but search history to customize.

It's mind boggling.
Why is this games only. How about movies, books, TV, Netflix or maybe even pizza?
I have `echelon at gmail`, and I've received similar. The volume of mis-delivered email outweighs my own legitimate email at this point.

- Multiple PayPal transactions sent to me (up to $400), several of which I've reversed on my own.

- Résumés (Not blindly sent, mind you! They think they know who they're talking to, but they didn't do their homework on the email address.)

- Dozens upon dozens of architectural renderings from several parties.

- Shipping information.

- Order confirmations.

- Screenplays, some of them with actors attached to them in an official-sounding way. ("My client wants XYZ, ...")

- Random legal documents that are marked as "privileged". On a few occasions I've had people realize their mistake and ask me to dispose of the emails.

- Trip itineraries and flight information for several people traveling internationally. (I hope this doesn't put me on some kind of list.)

- Random personal photos.

- Stuff about fire department codes (a few times).

- People signing up for just about any service you can think of. This alone can be bad in several ways:

1) Services that don't do email verification essentially grant me unfettered access to the account that was created under my email address. (Dropbox, Snapchat, etc.) Zero friction, right?

2) Sony won't let me register with my email for PSN since someone in another country "claimed" it. That account is in Portuguese or something, and I've been unable to get US support to free my email address since I need to talk with supporters in that country. I don't speak the language, and I haven't gotten any help.

It's pretty crazy what people are unwittingly sending me or blindly trusting me with. If I were a malicious person, I could do lots of evil. I try to respond to many of these with "I'm not the intended recipient", but often I just don't have the time and I don't want to set up an auto-responder.
At the age of 12, I learned BASIC on a TRS-80 Color Computer 2, using the books that came with the machine. When I was 16, I ditched GOTO and GOSUB by learning QuickBasic on a PC. QuickBasic was essentially the DOS equivalent of VisualBasic, and compiled to executables. It came with its own IDE. I made a decent amount of money selling a kiosk-style menu system using it. QBasic, which came later, was an interpreted version of QuickBasic, so I never bothered with it. That was 27 years ago.

These days I'm doing Python/Django mostly, but am getting into Elixir/Phoenix. I have yet to take a formal programming course.
Have you tried $lastname.sexy?
Very good comment. Those that choose the regular slice of meat at each 8 hour interval are making a trade for smaller yet (more) predictable rewards. They give up their freedom to sell their time to the highest bidder. It's well explained in the hypothetical universe where pilots are all freelancers [0].

[0] http://romansnitko.com/blog/freelance-pilots.html
Cops record themselves allegedly fabricating charges with suspect’s camera
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I agree 100% with that too!

The point is that even if you are posting innocuous things, it builds up a profile that can identify you in ways you do not expect. This example was for something serious.

Who knows what the next example will be like.
Occam's razor doesn't apply when the involved party has made malicious intent explicitly clear. Her own campaign has made it quite clear that they're doing this.
Literally the first thing you see visiting her site is an attack that you are forced to join in on, rather than talk of what she's going to do for the country.

"Guy B is bad, elect me." is not as strong an argument as "I can and will do X to improve Y, guy B can't." And you still get to attack in B!

How can I in good conscience vote either party? I would be infinitely amused if everyone without talking about it voted for a third party out of spite and it was a total shock the day after. "Green party, bafflingly, wins election", or whatever.
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Fixing a broken, oft-abused system is contemptible now?
There's a similar surge over a similar time interval for 'scary', so maybe it's just correlated with other properties of the content they're sampling (not unlike https://xkcd.com/1138/):

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=scary&year_sta...
eh, I dunno. I think that as a technical person? trying to change things based on "business impact" or based on micro fundamentals is probably going to cause more problems for the company than just doing what I'm told. (At the very least, it's going to cause a lot more problems for my career.) - I mean, one would hope that the big company could afford to hire a businessperson who could more than just eek by.

I do think that experience of managing people has made me a better employee, even if maybe I'm not ready to really be a manager again yet. I've got a lot more empathy for the boss than I did before starting this. I've been a bad boss, and I know what leads to those bad boss behaviors, and it's not maliciousness. Managing people is just hard.

And there is a bigger picture that you don't see as an employee. I now can accept that when the boss asks me to do something a stupid way, if the boss still tells me to do it that way after I explain why I think it's stupid, well, sometimes there are other issues outside the boss' control that make the stupid way the only way.

If anything, running my own company has made me way better at 'staying in the box' when necessary. Or, at least, it has convinced me that there are times that I ought to stay in the box.
I've wanted to implement a better C compiler myself, and I think it would work better if it were built from the ground up instead of from Small-C, as cc65 was.

I would split the parameter and computation stacks, instead of using one as cc65 does. The parameter stack would work the same as cc65's, but the computation stack would be a FORTH-like stack indexed with the zp,X addressing mode.

Second, I would have it build an AST instead of having the parser generate the code. This would open doors to big optimizations, such as automatically detecting when to use 8-bit ops (complicated by C's promotion rules), etc.

Finally, I would implement far pointers for memory-banked systems--most prominently the NES, which cc65 doesn't handle banking on as far as I know.

Another think that could be done is using the zero page as a bank of 16/32/etc. registers and treat the 6502 like a RISC.

cc65 is an amazing project that's enabled many developers. It's Small-C pedigree is limiting though, and inefficient on a machine that it wasn't designed for.
They were skipped for unknown reasons. US Highway 50 and 60 exist though. Could possibly be why. An Interstate 50 and a US 50 in close proximity would be...confusing.
I didn't do this much work and effort to be dissed by idiots and 13 year olds online that couldn't hack themselves out of a paper bag with a machete. Unpleasant maybe, man of the year haven't entered, discussing a modern day method, focus on the material not the delivery.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12535872
If you don't mind me asking, how did you cope with loneliness?
They may not all be interested in it ("weeaboo trash") but I would hazard a guess that the vast majority would openly laugh at the idea that someone is offended by such things.

The people that write about games in the West have little in common with the average player. They project their bubble's academic norms of identity politics on an audience that they hold in undisguised contempt. I wouldn't trust them for critical analysis or social commentary on any group but other angsty liberal arts majors.
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This, this right here is the EXACT situation that causes all the bioinformatics guys to be EXTREMELY NERVOUS using biological analogies like neurons for machine learning topics. They are NOT actually analogous except in the shallowest ways.

First off, there's substantial evidence to suggest that in a biological systems, an activation profile of the neurological system is more analogous to what a Neural Network in machine Learning considers a 'neuron'- that means that when you consider the spider, you're not looking at 600K nodes, you're looking at 600,000 FACTORIAL. As in 600K!, or approx. 2x10^3,200,000.

Second, even THAT number may be substantially too small, because the STRENGTH, as represented by the number of connections a given node in a biological Neural net has to another node, can ALSO variably affect the performance/recall/whatever of the organism. I don't recall what the higheat known number of connections between two nodes is in humans, let alone spiders, but it is not only 2 or 3, it can be many more.

Portia and other insects are operating on an entirely different level, with different hardware, and a different operating system, than your Neural Network ENTIRELY - trying to compare the nodes-to-performance ratio of the spider vs. the DNN is not even wrong, it's like the Twilight Zone of every computer competent neuroscientist on this planet. Utterly and completely meaningless, except maybe in an inspirational sense, to flagellate your statisticians into feeling so inferior that they magically squeeze greater performance out of their networks, not because they cleverly utilized the fundamental differences between biological and silicon computer systems, but rather because they feel so bad about the comparison.

I apologize for my snooty tone- in college I argued with a professor about this, with me asserting that clearly, no one would every REALLY equate biological neurons with machine learning neurons one-to-one, and yet here you are, clearly he was right and I have lost our bet, I shall have to go back and eat a hat. ;)
How do you build guanxi?
Oh, yes they could.

The easiest route would simply be to refuse me referrals. If I had a golden parachute deal, it would be invalidated by such an action. Any vested stocks I had would be in jeopardy. They can try to blackball me. They can cut off insurance benefits unexpectedly.

And all that before lawyers get involved...

If you do work on a personal email, your employer may later demand access to those emails. So don't do it.
Congrats to the api.ai team.

I love when great companies do well.

I'm a happy customer (and wish I were also an investor, but I'm not).
There's a simpler explanation. It's a pre-existing route that was adopted by the federal highway system. US 50 is well known enough that resigning it would be more trouble than it was worth.