skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you link to a story that reports a 'fact' that is proven false? Because yes, I see the political-right spin on the facts on Breitbart but I've never seen them report something that is flat-out wrong.
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Could someone please explain (perhaps using a practical example) what does the word "repair" mean in this context?

Someone in this thread made an example which involves repairing a mobile phone, but I am struggling to find a meaningful connection between repairing a peace of hardware and copyright laws.
It wouldn't be surprising if the timeline stuff comes down to measured engagement going up while a modest number of vocal users make noise about change being bad.
Hi, yes we are aware of this and plan to add it in the future.
Thanks, we will go through the list and fix all issues.
There's an "or" in your definition, so...
We currently offer 10-year fundamental data for free, and we plan to expand it to a longer time frame and add more regions like Asia and Europe. We are building a comprehensive stock screener right now with 400 fundamental indicators. Next we plan to add more detailed business descriptions for each company, portfolio tracking, notes, social functions and much more. I would say we are just getting started.
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We built it because there are not many websites which offer long-term fundamental data for free. Most are only focused on day traders or short-term traders and we felt a site with a long-term approach to investing is missing. It took us a year to get here, because there are only two of us and we do this mostly on weekends. But we have the determination to continue and keep gathering feedback to build something that delivers value to investors.
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Deep mind is breaking new ground in number of directions. For example, "Decoupled Neural Interfaces using Synthetic Gradients" is simply amazing - they can make training a net async and run individual layers on separate machines by approximating the gradients with a local net. It's the kind of thing that sounds crazy on paper, but they proved it works.

Another amazing thing they did was to generate audio by direct synthesis from a neural net, beating all previous benchmarks. If they can make it work in real time, it would be a huge upgrade in our TTS technology.

We're still waiting for the new and improved AlphaGo. I hope they don't bury that project.
In what way? Explain and justify, please.
Blindly trying to plug it in and getting the location wrong? I've seen people jam USB sticks diagonally in Ethernet ports...
It doesn't destroy phones, though. It resets them at max according to the video and tests.
They don't support all the language features, specially the ones that make use of the new bytecodes.

This will only get worse when Java 9, specially Java 10 gets released.
Depending on where you live and the sorts of roads you drive, accidents often come from corners/junctions/road conditions/acceleration etc rather than just MAX_SPEED.

A speed limiter is an incredibly one dimensional tool to try and modify accident chance.
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NYT published a news article about car fires in Denmark, where they blamed the "right wing lower class" for the fires. No evidence given for this at all. Infact all evidence points in a different direction: Arab Ghetto kids (I live in one of the places, where there was car fires, I can tell you that the right-wing thing is complete BS)
this is on the front page already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12694004
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I am currently vetting different microservice solutions, like Rancher, Mesos, Kubernetes and I stumbled upon Cisco Mantl http://mantl.io

Does anybody have experience with this? I did not see anything on HN about this.
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Any chance you could fix this statement:

Input = Data

Process = Optimisation to create an automata.

Output = Automata

Computer power means much larger variable spaces can be handled in optimisation problems. NN are a means to prune the variable space during optimisation in a domain unspecific way.
Have they ever tried to charge to follow certain accounts? Say someone popular has 1m followers, all new followers would need to pay a subscription fee to receive all their tweets. It's a bit like the old CelebIndex. The more followers someone has they more the tweets cost. I'm thinking something like 1 or 2 pence per tweet.

This is probably a terrible idea.
To avoid blocking?
You can ask the user to pay a subscription fee to use the extension. (a freemium model for example).

Then, the user, in fact, pays only for using the back-end API. The front-end, of course, is like a website, """open-source""".
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>And no, Atom not designed to open 30Mb files. Complaining about this is akin to stomping on a land mine and complaining that your Timberland boots didn't save your foot.

No, it's more like having a car that doesn't get to 70mph.

It's useless on the Interstate, and it's also not that good on regular city traffic, because the same limitations that make it unable to reach 70mph also make it clunky at 10mph.
IMO it's really not (but I might be biased by experience) - the library churn is nowhere near the speed of the JavaScript world. All the libraries I mentioned are a few years old, battle tested and any larger conference or a resource (Android Weekly, Fragmented podcasts, etc.) will have numerous articles and talks on how to use them.

The only exception is Kotlin as a language, which is pretty new and the tooling is still improving. You're not going to hurt TOO much if you stay with Java6 though.

Remember, we at the end of the day we're all just old Java farts and we like our stability ;)
I wonder if they will put this to use in their StarCraft bot.
I have a pretty complete understanding of current events

That's a bold claim.
Thanks! Fixed that!
Fake news that people happen to be sharing at that moment. Fake it or not that is what people is interested in and what is trending.
Regarding the original piece, I felt it's a mistake for the writer to go, 'well I used the timeline years ago and the timeline looks the same in 2016.' They built out a major advertising and metrics system in the meantime that's keeping them afloat with billions of dollars.

That said, their product execution has definitely been lacking to say the least. There seems to be some sort of mis-management that is aborting a lot of products and work they're doing internally. For example, the new 'user curated Moments' thing is a good step but they had exactly that feature, called something like custom timelines or collections, many years ago but let it languish. The new algorithmic timeline is exactly similar in some respects to their Discover tab from many years ago. It seems like the product ideas and engineering talent is there, but something's slowing them down...

I would say maybe it's 'too many execs' but then without those execs building relationships maybe we wouldn't see so many Tweets on TV and have governments all over the world using Twitter. It's all very complicated, but yes the gist does seem to be "there are more people at the company than needed."
However, it is still a boring type-2 hypervisor, just like bhyve, vmware or kvm; no real progress whatsoever.

I'm keeping an eye at seL4's VMM support, it looks promising, with the microkernel actually guaranteeing isolation, whereas the VMM runs with minimum privileges as a user process.
Not being a Twitter user myself, it's hard to comment on how it is. However, a number of their open source projects [0] are really really good.

[0] https://github.com/twitter/
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Hmm. Now I can't tell if your reply is serious :p

As near as I can tell, the political process converts ideas from logical propositions into group signaling devices. Once a idea becomes a signal, any question of its truth or falsehood is commonly ignored for several human generations.

Keeping ideas that have already become signals quarantined, and minimizing overlap between groups in a context where they are likely to "go tribal" and convert more ideas into signals seems vitally important to me. That online discourse seems to have shifted towards a war of tribes rather than a crowd of individuals is (to me) a tragedy of the highest order.

> This is the nationalist mindset. "Create more walls. Diversity is difficult."

I do not think this course of action appeals to me because of a "nationalist mindset," but rather from a desire to see less topics become part of such mindsets. I guess I'd agree with "Create more walls. Partisanship is difficult." (though on the condition that the walls were around already partisan topics, and not in general)

> We all know what happens when we stop reaching across the divide. We go into our holes, there is miscommunication, and small disagreements turn into wars.

This is a shocking/wrong statement to me. We see tribal wars precisely when there is political outreach, not when there is focus on other things.

Consider HackerNews. Lately it has been taken over by heated discussions centered around political topics, in my model mostly because of the increased outreach due to this being an election year. Once the election passes, I hope, we will go back to discussing technical topics in blissful/ignorant harmony.

> Focusing on the areas where we disagree widens the chasm. We can bridge it by looking for common goals.

Yes exactly, hence the importance of keeping walls around partisan topics...
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Uhh, is there a platform there that isn't greatly improved by community libraries? At PSPDFKit we use a lot of additional third party tools and libraries on iOS as well, C++ practically needs community libraries to be usable, Python's biggest strength is in its excellent OSS library community, Ruby as well...

I mean, yeah, in perfect world we'd all have neatly packaged by Google, we'd write 6 lines of code and have the greatest app ever. But software development never kinda worked that way for me and I have a feeling it never will :/
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To claim that law was written in a special dialect, that hardly anyone speaks, but that almost anyone could read it, yet to suggest that noone could learn proper symbolic logic strikes of cognitive dissonance. To propose that it could be broken down to laymen terms by AI, i.e. in a nondeterministic way is questionable as well.
People prefer better user experience over worse user experience. More news at 10.

Seriously, I am blown away that car manufacturers manage to pitch navigation systems as a value add to the car. "Would you like to spend an additional $1500 for a system with a UI workflow developed as the first GPS satellites were being launched? For an additional $50/mo you can even keep the information up to date so it doesn't suggest you drive across the hoover dam."
You're allowed to point out a project's faults without having created an alternative version.
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> If they tightened up monetary policy, interest rates go up

That causation is backwards. Raising interest rates makes money tighter. But tight money causes low interest rates.
I concur. That's why the only good thing that I said about VIM is the modal editing which is the most pleasing and efficient mode of editing text that I have ever seen.

However, all your points are very correct! That is why I have switched to Emacs where I can still have full VIM modal editing with the other issues you mentioned not being an issue. Emacs has a mode called 'evil' which fully emulates VIM.

Best of both worlds^^
Awesome! Did you by any chance blog about your trip (with photos)?
Well I just checked the stories of Breitbart and looks all the things they write are true and have sources. Just checked few, I'm not an expert. I only read American propaganda newspapers sometimes out of morbid curiosity.

The difference is how you spin the headlines and the facts. Both parties are guilty. Both parties feel only other side is doing it or say but look at the other website or magazine.

Huff is full of titles Trump is sexual predator without facts, just talks. Breitbart is full of stories Bill is rapist. So what's the difference?

It's all the same shit. It is just your bias talking.
This was the example I thought of:
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/17/432...

Seperate personal commentary: Basically, messing around with your product and changing certain bits of it can be copyright infringement. As can making videos on how to repair something (I don't have the source for that right now). Somehow, that is messing with copyrighted tech - the companies basically say that you lease the software, not own it at all. How a phone works under the case is protected information. And so on.

It seems like a scam to me, but it is what it is at this point.
I contributed to a popular open-source repo, YAY
Slowness isn't a bug. It's a feature.
Otherwise known as the "lolcycle".
C++ isn't a platform with a platform owner.

Python's biggest strength that lead to its adoption was being a language with "Batteries Included".
Ah, the glory days. The speed limits returned quite some time ago (>12 years) in Montana after the stupid out of staters ruined it by killing themselves too frequently on their 'Montana autobahn experiences'.

Back when the national speed limit was forced to 55mph because of the energy crisis, Montana legislators thumbed their nose at it by making it a cash fine of $5 IIRC that did not go on your record.
oh you'll be missed. I've worked on Android for ages, I don't remember in the last 3 years of one single AsyncTask I've used.
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As e2021 said, these are some kind of tailing dams to treat remaining water from mining.

Google even has streetview photos from the nearby road, resolution is just enough to read "[something] wastewater evaporation ponds" on the fence sign: https://goo.gl/maps/WZKbdPxs5sS2

The mine itself looks cool, too: https://www.google.cz/search?q=Casa+Grande+Copper+Mine&safe=...
Fake news are easier to detect. Bias is always subtle and insidious.
Paid protestors at Trump events:

http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/07/breitbart-duped-by-fake-new...

Loretta Lynch as a member of Bill Clinton's defense team:

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/nov/10/...

Pretended a Cleveland Cavaliers crowd was a Trump crowd:

http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/04/breitbart-news-doesnt-mind...

Not to mention the whole ACORN thing in 2009:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN_2009_undercover_videos...
If it sucseeds and scales, it seems very close to AGI, right ?
>By the way, I think Android UI works much better than iOS's.

You should be specific about what about Android UI is better than iOS?

if you are saying android UI design is better than iOS , I agree , but remember Material design is not android's design. Google wants to expend to every platform, it is quite childish if we think they could expand to every platform without having professional UI design language for themselves. They designed Material design for all of their product, not just for android. Yes android was first one to adopt, and I really like Material design. So if you are talking about material design , it was not only for android, it was actually Google Design language, and I really like it.

But if you are talking about performance and how ui fits together, I disagree 100% , for example they didn't had splashscreen for long long time (If I remember correctly they adopt splash screen a year o two ago), every time you were going to open an app, you were noticing a blank screen for quite a long time some times(1,2 second) which was quite ridiculous. At the other hand iOS had fixed splash screen for quite long time. Some third party apps tried to develop splash screen of their own , but almost all the time result was not on par (not even close) with iOS counterparts.
Right now their rotation animation have problems which can show itself under pressure. and so many thing I don't even remember right now.

I am not saying android is bad or something , android is wonderful product. But lets be honest, it is not core product for Google like chrome is, and it has huge problems. But its main advantage is its openness.
And wouldn't the same be true if Trump wins the election? After all, Nate Silver isn't predicting a 0% chance for Trump to win, I think last time I checked it was 10-15%.
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That was my case one year ago: working for a megacorp and left to freelance. Now working as head of Data Science at a small Digital Transformation consulting firm.

For me this has been a personal development accelerator. It's a demotion only if you feel it is.

Megacorps are usually slow (that was my case) and I felt I could be lagging behind the sector if I stayed there and I was right: New projects in the Megacorp halted after I left and they are trying to start them now albeit slowly.

I wanted to work on something with bigger impact in the next 2-5 years and "see" a lot of different stuff from different sectors (banking, telco, advertising, retail, etc).

BTW - since you'll be joining a "unicorn" and things are starting, you shuld try to have contact with end clients: knowing what users need / want / IGNORE is much more important than we (technical people) think it is.

Hope this helps and best of luck!
I was intrigued by this:

Part of what makes us human are the kinks. They’re the mutations, the outliers, the flaws that create art or the new invention, right? We have to assume that if a system is perfect, then it’s static. And part of what makes us who we are, and part of what makes us alive, is that we’re dynamic and we’re surprised.

And then he goes on: One of the challenges that we’ll have to think about is, where and when is it appropriate for us to have things work exactly the way they’re supposed to, without surprises?

One might argue that in software development things never work exactly the way they're supposed to.
Shorting.
I agree completely. After a while I abandoned fragments completely and started using custom views everywhere. Life got much easier and I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop - decreased maintainability, performance, robustness... something would bite me in the ass for "going my own way." But the shoe never dropped, life did get easier. Lesson learned.
This is also very much the case with iOS. If you just stick to what Apple provides you're going to suffer a lot more than necessary. Libraries and tools like Snapkit, R.swift, Fastlane, and Alamofire sand off so many rough edges on the APIs and Xcode.
Do you still need to do manual malloc/free inside Java code to handle images in Android? That crap tripped me up when developing for it ca. 2011.
Does anyone else feel like if there's enough evidence that a public site is noticing this ship loitering, that intelligence agencies the world over are plenty aware of it already? What are the chances this website has a "scoop" here that governments aren't aware of? If the intent of this site isn't to make government agencies aware of the loitering, what is the goal? What should members of the public do with such information?
I would also argue that inheriting large wealth is not a problem. At some point the money had to be earned. If the inheritors do not use it wisely it will be gone within a few generations.

Imagine a farmer working his entire life on his farm. Now that he is reaching the end of his lifespan he wants his children to benefit from his work. He built the house and everything himself.

Why should the government take a chunk out of that? One might argue that the children do not work and therefore this "unearned" income is unfair because it's not possible to choose whether you are born into a wealthy family.

However it is both earned by the work of the father and already taxed by the government through his income.

By the time the father dies the children are likely already 40 to 50 years old but they benefited from his little wealth while he was still alive. The inheritance tax does not affect this. It only discourages using the inheritance efficiently over multiple generations.
> and direct physical abuse (kids, fingers, ice cream, feet, fists, pounding, etc)

Considering that tablets in the hands of babies are commonplace (with special distraction apps) it seems that phones / tablets have or need to have this too.
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There's some more complex and curated projects out there, among them:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page
At least Android doesn't require me to buy a Windows license or Mac computer (not just the license: OS X requires Mac hardware which is notoriously expensive). I'll keep it at Android.
I don't understand why facebook repeatedly tries (and fails) to become a news source. They can make more money by being the world's watering hole, there is no need (and not much money imo) for going after the role of newspapers/tv. Given that their offering is exclusively popularity-driven, the quality of their news offering will always be less-than, or equal-to a very bad tabloid. If they are looking for political power, they already have it by controlling communication channels.
well, something better than Vocaloid does exist: http://mtg.upf.edu/research/labs/mir-lab/vap

It's from the same University that helped develop Vocaloid, and if you look at (well, listen to) their INTERSPEECH 2016 submission you'll find it's another league entirely ( https://chanter.limsi.fr/doku.php?id=winner_of_the_singing_s... )
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In my car that's just done by stepping on the gas a bit for passing and then letting go. Cruise control only turns off on braking or shifting (Manual)
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What does it prove? Not everyone is an independent developer / single-person software house.

The way it goes, more often than not, is that people write apps for various companies and then these apps don't get published under their own name, but these companies'.

Something someone uploaded to Google Play individually could be just their hobby project created in their spare time.

I haven't got anything in Google Play in my own name, and I've been an Android dev for several years, writing serious software for big businesses.
"Many users don't consider Open Source to be a selling point. I am one of them. I choose my tools based on their usefulness, not the political status of their code, not intangible theoretical posturing about good and evil in the context of a fucking text editor."

That's a very good point. Longevity and sustainable is important. Let's be honest, OSS is subject to trends. That is, as soon as the thrill is gone the audience is likely to move on and you're left with what? A fax machine?

Sure, a for profit might do the same. But it seems less likely.

The OSS ideal is great. The reality is, like everything else, it has a dark side.