skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John Waters, in my opinion, has done way more for "disruption" of the film industry than anyone else I can think of. Maybe Herschell Gordon Lewis, but John Waters was basically using the same tools but didn't have nearly the commercial slant that the H.G. Lewis movies did (since Lewis was, by trade, an advertising executive...he basically made movies on the side for fun).

You can make films, and release them to the public, without involving Hollywood (called "the film industry" in this article, which is just as incorrect as calling the 5 major record labels "the music industry", though not 100% inaccurate) right now. I don't understand where the "disruption" part comes in. As far as I can tell, it's already been disrupted...
> but the sentiment you have managed to convey is that "men prefer women who lack agency".

That's an interesting way to twist my statement. I'm saying that most men don't care one way or another.

For example most women would rather date Ryan Gosling rather than an accountant that just looks like Ryan Gosling.

Most men wouldn't care one way or another if they were dating Jennifer Lawrence or an engineer that just looked that Jennifer Lawrence.
Is that just GIF artifacts, or can you actually see a shock front as the lander mockup passes in front of objects (particularly, the striped markers)?

That's incredible!
Well, I'll just state for the record that San Francisco is overrun by crazy, homeless, drug dealers, dropouts, and trash.

Looking forward to being fired in 2019!
To be fair, the post in question:

In downtown SF the degenerates gather like hyenas, spit, urinate, taunt you, sell drugs, get rowdy, they act like they own the center of the city…You can preach compassion, equality, and be the biggest lover in the world, but there is an area of town for degenerates and an area of town for the working class. There is nothing positive gained from having them so close to us. It’s a burden and a liability having them so close to us. Believe me, if they added the smallest iota of value I’d consider thinking different, but the crazy toothless lady who kicks everyone that gets too close to her cardboard box hasn’t made anyone’s life better in a while.

I hate the contemporary pastime for witch hunts against the bad-think, but that strikes me as a pretty distasteful post. YMMV
Can you elaborate? When wasn't it been the case?

For the last 20 years I have been doing this it was the case. Before that too.

So not sure what you are referring to.
This is more on Twitter than TechCrunch. Any background check should have turned this up.
Generally not this sort of volatility though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
Astrophysicists create most detailed map of the Milky Way
Nice production quality and it looks like an interesting upgrade and investment. But I can't find the actual Kickstarter page. Anyone know where it is?
> Do you not believe that these kinds of harm are likely to result from a Trump presidency, or do you just not care?

No, I do not believe it will cause an actual harm delta compared to military engagements Clinton would partake in. Trump would have no control over police policies across the US. If the President could curb such behavior, would you not expect Obama would have enacted such policies over his 8 years in office? Clean Power Plan Obama enacted and now challenged by the Supreme Court? Useless. Coal plants are being deprecated regardless due to renewables and natural gas.

How Trump carries himself as a president is simply noise compared to real issues. The President has far less power than people who want to scare you into voting for Clinton would lead you to believe.
I've always been a huge Obama supporter (slightly disillusioned in recent years) but Obama, honestly, has been given an ENORMOUS pass on his drone assassinations and on his war against whistleblowers.
They taught me about matrices and vectors and common matrix/vector operatoins in pre-calculus and even earlier in a shitty public school.

Calculus needs to happen in high school so that people are more prepared to take it again in college. For me, calculus 2 was the hardest class in college. This is coming from someone who went to a math grad school.

Some people need to study way more for calculus than for any other class in high school or college.
This makes me furious. Political correctness run amok. I don't feel safe expressing my opinions publicly for this very reason. I support Donald Trump - could I get fired from my (tech big 4) workplace for tweeting that publicly? That's not entirely out of the realm of possibilities! What is this world coming to? If I don't fit into their mold they fire me. My heart aches - this feels like the road to totalitarianism. These self proclaimed "progressives" and "social justice warriors" are not liberal in the classic sense - they are radicals hell bent on cutting down anyone who does not fit into their world view. A classic liberal would have said "I may not agree with what you say, but I will die for your right to say it." What happened to our country?
The problem is, it's hard to understand statistics without knowing at least basic calculus. As soon as you move from coin flips to probability density, you need derivatives and integrals.

These days you can solve many practical statistical problems with Monte Carlo, but understanding why those curves look the way they do is still very useful.
Did I say anything about selfishness?

Regardless, consider that your future comfort relies on someone else having a child. When you're old and everyone who cares for you is younger than you, thank those who had children and raised them well enough to be able to care for you.
Where exactly did I say I hate US? Quite the opposite I love It. I hate politicians who make stupid decisions that ruin people's lives. And nobody talks about those ruined lives anymore because it's not popular. Why can't you be objective about your country history that killed hundred thousands of innocent people in Iraq, Kosovo conflict and those Guantanamo prisons?
His uneasy students began to formulate theories. "We really didn't want to believe that we had been deserted," says Lundgren, who had paid $5,988 in tuition.

My heart goes out to these bootcamp students -- scammed and otherwise. That's a heck of a lot money for someone not earning a tech salary to pony up. For a set of skills which (at that level) just aren't going to be enough to get them into the kinds of jobs the envision being in reach, at the end of the tunnel.
Small question: since this is improving performance on a given machine, isn't this actually an example of vertical scaling, as opposed to horizontal?
~10 years ago UX was all about adding animations, glow effects and colors as hints to the user. Colors are still used (but much more sparingly) and animations and glow effect have fallen out of fashion.
No not that. Do anything to me, anything but being ridiculed by social media!

This has helped me become a better parent. http://www.freerangekids.com/
I don't know that Trump cares much about encryption by itself, except perhaps indirectly by bolstering the NSA to protect against foreign attacks.

Though, Hillary blowing a few million(or tens of millions) on some cryptography research wouldn't be the worst thing a president could do.

After Wikileaks, Trump might be more sympathetic to whistleblowers like Snowden. He seems to be making corruption a central point in his more recent rallies. And I can't imagine Clinton would have much sympathy for whistleblowers, probably associating them with Assange.
This article seems terrible and confused and thinks it makes a point about terms by clearly not understanding the point of any of them. I'm pretty sure the author has never read a word Richard Stallman wrote.
Where I went to school there was an undergrad stats sequence for engineers, which was mathematically more intense than the general stats sequence. But it still didn't use much, if any, calculus. And I think in general I'm on board with most here that believe that for most people who aren't going to be engineers, a year of stats is more valuable than a year of calculus.
The Facebook post in question is the tip of an iceberg.
Thats a shockwave for sure, look at the timestamps, that thing is going very fast.
Though i think pdfs are useful, they may be a bit advanced.

Perhaps linking integrals/derivatives into stats could be done from a more discrete approach as opposed to a continuous one first.

For example:
Starting with a representation of an integral as sum of areas of rectangles (something most students can do) and then saying what happens if the width of all the rectangles gets smaller and smaller. A la Riemann

This could then tie into the pdf quite reasonably?
That's how social pressure always works. Godwinning it, you could say the NSDAP was just a political party and thus supporting it is beyond criticism.
In any representative democracy, if you spend your life waiting for a candidate who shares your views, you'll die having never voted. Expecting such a candidate to eventually arrive is sophomoric.

Maybe you think your standards for a satisfactory candidate are reasonable and expectable. Trouble is, so does everyone else in America. It is incredibly improbable that your particular permutation of values will ever fully match that of, say, the POTUS, unless:

1. Your own viewpoints are so nebulous and poorly justified that you think you agree with a particular candidate simply because you don't actually have any substantive, well-considered opinions.

2. Your view of a particular politician is clouded by their marketing/propaganda/whatever, and you selectively see only the attributes of them that you agree with. This especially is true of people like JFK or Reagan—people remember what they want to remember, and history sweeps away their flaws and humanity.

Try to admire people's accomplishments, not the people themselves. Under enough scrutiny, anyone is a piece of shit. Politics has always been about people playing dirty games to further goals both good and bad.

That's why I would never base my voting decision on Clinton's email server or Trump's sexual ethics, because I assume everyone playing the game they're playing is probably a piece of shit. For all the things to hate about both candidates, there are substantive policy differences between them that have real effects on people. At the same time, I won't pretend that either one of them could enact anywhere near what they claim. Trump's border wall is an engineering nightmare, not to mention its economic improbability. And to be fair, President Clinton will get virtually nothing done in her four years, because Congress will fight her even harder than they fought Obama.

But ultimately, you have to look past the rhetoric and bullshit and understand that this is just how the world works, and rather than not voting and waiting for people to agree with you, you need to simply exert whatever puny influence you have to nudge things closer to the way you want them to be.
Me too. Set up xmonad several years ago, and almost haven't touched it since. It just works. No annoyances, I can concentrate on my work!
It's been well established that Clinton knew that this narrative of what happened was completely false when she announced it to the public.

This is standard leadership in America. I think it's unfair to skewer her in a biased way when most public diplomacy is just as duplicitous.

For example, the misinformation out of the Bush Administation linking in the American publics' minds Saddam Hussein with the 9/11 attacks. Republicans largly supported this falsehood and the Bush Administrations executive privilege to tell it.

It was well known that the attacks (between 9/11 and 9/12 in Benghazi) where extremist salafi. The protest over the videos were in a completely different country. The intelligence community and the leadership knew this.

I don't want to comment on the next paragraph as I don't understand it or how it is supposed to relate to the topic.
Was he fired because what he wrote was inhumane, or because it was true?
To be honest, I fully agree with his post.
"Patronize" is not genderless.
Second this. It showed up as Times and I almost dismissed it entirely.

May I suggest 'Menlo' as a backup?
So 1 of 4 mentioned attributes (Corrupt, evil, crooked, lying) are arguable... as unprovable as God/Yahweh/etc... Evil. As a concept, evil in the eye of the beholder.

She's voted for wars. Left Americans to die. Lied about the reasons WHILE the Americans were still alive and able to be rescued. Destroyed evidence - and other classified information - illegally stored on private servers. (continue list of "bad things" for another few thousand pages)

You can rationalize her "evil" deeds or argue that "evil" doesn't exist till the cows come home but at the end of the day she cares about one thing: Her.

Leaving out the argument of "evil"/"goodness" (which are subjective)... she's definitely corrupt and definitely not someone who should be the most powerful person in the most powerful country.

Both candidates are fatally flawed - but one stands for Herself. The other stands for Americans.
For me, my biggest pain point with dealing with different vendors is the checkout process,having to create a new account and constantly provide credit card information (I avoid storing my info, if possible). I'm really looking forward to Apple Pay for the web being more widespread. A few weeks ago I was looking for a vacuum part and found it cheapest at newegg.com. Got to checkout, and to my pleasant surprise, there was an option to pay with Apple Pay. It was such a stupidly easy process that newegg got a far more loyal customer out of me.
Maybe logic should be the first mathematical discipline to be taught in middle school. The notions of and / or and the representation of language in mathematical form?

Before even starting on algebra
Distasteful, perhaps (I would question his use of the word "degenerate"). His phrasing is clearly warped by some long-building anger over a worsening situation. I don't think it's a fire-worthy offense regardless.
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As somebody who has written and produced a feature-length film for $10k, and turned out nothing close to Christopher Nolan's Following, I have to say that this comment is spot on.
This has been my main objection to brain inside of a computer thinking. If we could simulate the universe inside of a computer we could do all kinds of neat things, such as drug development in a computer, but it isn't algorithmically possible. The Kurzweillians are just assuming that we'll wave the magic wand and have efficient algorithms for everything such that computer simulation of reality will be trivial. If you have an exponential complexity algorithm that is in the middle of your problem like protein folding for example it will NEVER be practical to simulate in a computer on any non-trivial problem.
It's but one example that fits a pattern, here are dozens more all with sources.

https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrumpSpam/comments/4r2yxs/a_f...
"“Calculations kids are forced to do are often so developmentally inappropriate, the experience amounts to torture,” she says. They also miss the essential point—that mathematics is fundamentally about patterns and structures, rather than “little manipulations of numbers,” as she puts it. It’s akin to budding filmmakers learning first about costumes, lighting and other technical aspects, rather than about crafting meaningful stories."

I used to think this until I had kids and started teaching them math. When you know math you can abstract it away and really focus on the concepts. But you don't realize how many simple calculations are done when abstracting these concepts.
Yahoo asks gov't to clear up email-surveillance reports
My grandfather was one of thirteen children in his family. Only seven lived into their twenties. Life could be brutal and fleeting back then.

It's not that children weren't loved as much back then, but when you had events like the Spanish Flu and World War II that claimed millions of lives, events well beyond your control, protecting kids from trivial risks probably didn't seem as big a deal.

Kids are tougher than we give them credit for, but they're also prone to do things that are more dangerous than they realize. I'm not sure as a society we've ever found a balance between letting them run wild and keeping them on a tight leash, we seem to flop from one extreme to another.
Who in the intelligence community believes that it was undeniably Russia who hacked the DNC? And why is this article advocating for Clinton when her policy is pretty much just as bad: she wants Snowden extradited and she wants backdoors in encryption. Worst of all is her claim that Snowden could have done the same legally; I'm surprised her fact checkers didn't notice this one [1]. Other than the more explicit language and the part about executing Snowden, they basically said the same thing. A piece like this should have instead highlighted the people who are actually on our side: Bernie Sanders, Rand Paul, Jill Stein, and Gary Johnson (2/4 of which have sadly been knocked out of the election, with the remaining 2 having no chance of winning).

[1] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/...
I wonder if the problem is specific to ageism in individual contributor roles. I've worked at a few startups where maybe 1/3 of the product team was over 40, but I can only think of two coworkers over 40 who didn't have any direct reports. Do we find ourselves wondering why an individual hasn't "advanced" to a management position after 10+ years?
Ok, good call.

Thanks for the tip btw I think this means I have a bug in my code. ;)
Of course the rank and file routinely not get canned -- but in this guy's case, apparently have their professional lives irrevocably destroyed -- for running their mouth a bit too far in public. A few people online may grumble, but that at the executive and investor level, no one bats an eye about it.

But at their own level? Meanwhile YC can't fire you-know-who, 'cause, you know, "diversity".
The specific language you're referring to with "locker room talk".
I wish folks like Bray had championed this cause 20 years ago. It may not have done much, but... it feels a bit weird to hear old people complain about discriminatory impact. I can't say he was a contributing factor to the ongoing 'youth culture', but... it wasn't hard to see this coming.

My situation may be somewhat unique, in that I've had grey hair since I was 18. Not a HUGE amount at 18, but... people noticed. By the time I was in my mid 20s, it was definitely noticeable - more pepper than salt still, but noticeable. By 30... there's a fair amount of grey showing. Early 30s I've got people thinking I look good for being in my late 40s (had that more than a couple times).

But when it came to interviewing and opportunities, I was already feeling the age stigma in my late 20s. "Not a cultural fit" - not even in silicon valley mind you.

Had someone interviewing me - early 30s - said "well your resume only goes back about 12 years or so, what were you doing before that?" "High school". "Whoah..." - later found out he's assumed I was mid 40s.

Could I dye my hair? Yeah, but.. it's a pain, and... other parts of me will get old too. Not worth it - want to get hired based on ability, etc.

What's sad is to hear about the mid 30s folks wanting to get plastic surgery to look younger, which just validates and perpetuates the continuous youth culture. May not be possible to fight it at the Facebooks and Googles of the world, but it shouldn't be this bad...
My dad used to say "The secret is to remove the quality faster than the reputation drops."
At least get your site to work... I just have to talk to relatives to talk to a Trump supporter. Logic does not work with the anecdotal trump supporter I've talked to.
Did you take a survey? Because that sounds unlikely to be true.
Supporting Donald Trump isn't just a straight up political point of view, it shows that you are at least tolerant of some of the most horrible values he has exhibited during this election. They include promotion of sexism and racism and downright violent behavior toward minority and people with different religions.

If I were your employer, I would definitely consider firing you because I do not believe my company should employ people who are tolerant of racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia and political violence.

It's the same reason I would fire any employee who are openly in support of KKK or Nazi. Some people may argue that they disagree with Donald Trump on those things but support his policies. That's like saying it's ok for me to support Hitler because his economic recovery plan for Germany is sound, but I just disagree with the whole genocide business.

EDIT: I do believe in the First Amendment. As long as they don't violate Federal laws regarding hate speech to incite violence, Mr.Trump and his supporters should be allowed to exercise their free speech without fear of government prosecution.

However I am also for the right of any private party to distance and disassociate themselves from Mr.Trump and his supporters, including their employers.
This "iceberg" being?
Go back 15 years the web look wastely different and has actually improved quite a lot.

It's certainly very different. Whether it has improved a lot is debatable.

Perhaps more relevant is that I don't think there is any doubt that the web of today is worse than the web of five years ago. The majority of the browser plugins I routinely use today exist entirely to undo some part of that damage, and that includes having a custom stylesheet set up for almost every major web site I use.
Now that I think about it, I've seen a bunch of complaints on HN about Amazon having fake goods for sale (most recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12743316, but it comes up pretty much every time there's an article remotely related to Amazon). Maybe I should mention something about how we're only sourcing from legitimate suppliers like retailers or direct from manufacturers, which might alleviate that issue. It's definitely not the main problem I'm trying to solve, which is the amount of time good deal-hunting takes. (Price comparison, coupons, taxes, plus around a dozen other considerations).
We can agree to disagree about how distasteful it is. So long as we promise not to attempt to get each other fired ;)
I don't think that age is old, I find I rather have people who are experienced more important than age. If you have skill, I could care less if you're 80, so long as you get results and share your insights. I've learned plenty from those who are developers for longer amounts of time than me.

A real issue is targeting jobs for people who don't live in places that are known tech hubs. It took me knowing the right person to finally get a 'real job' in the field, and I only got it a few months ago (less than 2) I honestly don't know what I could of done otherwise, I've applied at a number of places and only ever got maybe one email back.