skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have never tasted Soylent [...] but

God, it took all my energy not to close the tab after reading this opening sentence.

> But it [freeze-dried ice cream] wasn’t ice cream, it was a simulation of ice cream, and no one in their right mind would chose it over the cold, creamy stuff on a hot day. Not even an astronaut.

The "people aren't eating it because it's inferior" line is easily defeated by the fact that people are eating Soylent. I and a good number of other people choose Soylent over real food sometimes, so that line of reasoning is pretty much bunk. What is inferior, anyway? "Real food" is definitely inferior in terms of how much time it takes to prepare, say – and you can't assume that everyone has the same value system (e.g. taste over everything). Cost and convenience are absolutely essential factors to consider with food.

> Most humans are happy to eat real food, and crave it in its most natural form. A strawberry picked at the height of summer. Fish pulled from a river and grilled over wood coals. Sourdough bread made from a twenty-year-old starter, and kneaded by hand. Wine grown on knobby vines, and aged in a dark cellar. Why would you disrupt that?

Some humans, like myself, are also happy to eat "not-real" food like Soylent. Why would you disrupt that? Why is having more choice not just a problem, but a "sickness" as the title suggests?

I frequently see (and dislike) HN comments like "what was the point of this article?" but, in this case, I really have to ask. There are some really good reasons for not liking Soylent, like that it's not entirely proven yet that 100% of nutrients are absorbed when in the form that Soylent takes, so eating it daily may not be giving you all the nutrients you need—along with a bunch of other reasons. Yet this article settles for "it's not real food and people shouldn't be eating it."

N.B. Maybe the real Soylent sickness is that people like me who drink Soylent go on online forums to write walls of text defending it.
(also, black pudding is amazing, especially if you have a hangover and some toast)
Planet of the Apes (1968), Forbidden Planet (1956), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Brazil (1985), Contact (1997)
Agreed. And it's not pedantic. First, taking care with stats and claims lends lots of credibility with the people they want help from. Also, having solid numbers helps people start to quantify the problems and think about solutions that will meaningfully impact those numbers.
Moon, Ex Machina, The Matrix
The schools have to look out for themselves.

What I saw was that since the schools give a lot of grants / reduced tuition to students that come from families that make less than $X, a lot of parents tend to rig their returns to make less than $X.

If you own your own business, it's easy to game your income.
Conservatives have a right to their own set of values, like anti-abortion, faith-based education issues, smaller government, reduced taxes, etc., and they have a right to back whatever candidate aligns with their values. I'm a liberal but it is amazing to me to read these types of articles, from other liberals with zero tolerance for the alternative viewpoint. There should not even be a decision to be made here. It takes all kinds of people or else it would not be America. It is not acceptable to persecute people based on their political choices.
This is a false equivalency. The job of the media is not to present the two sides of every story equally.
Well, clearly there is a lot of dirt on Trump because it has been released. Just not by wikileaks.

>Unlike the mainstream media which takes command from the Clintons

Seriously?
The problem is that "tinkering" is what computers are for. They are only peripherally useful for entertainment or drone work, the latter of which they wind up being used to automate away anyway.
I certainly wasn't commenting on the preciseness of React's diffing (and how they're able to reduce it from O(n) to O(n^3) by ignoring things). I was merely pointing out that it's possible to diff trees in polynomial time.

Edit: Just to clarity, I'm also not saying O(n^3) isn't slow compared to React's O(n), just that it's potentially a lot faster than NP.
How does that change the verbal content inside?
As a note, this is the 3rd wave of popularity for neural networks.
I have no idea what the article is trying to say. Is it trying to be a book review? Is it a thorough critique of all Ghosh's work? Is it another warning about Anthropocene and rising CO2 levels? Was it written to celebrate her achievement of a PhD?

Regardless, the author is here: http://bergen.edu/academics/academic-divisions-departments/e...

and judging by her educational background, she seems to suffer from extreme academia of the mind.

Whatever the original intent, it seems to have been lost in pointless high brow academic masturbation, and extreme overquotation.

> In any case, before any real change can occur, we must first be able to imagine a possibility beyond the limited horizon of our deranged imaginations.

Yes, Stacey, indeed. Can you imagine the possibility where you are, in fact, not an effective communicator? If you want to reach people and motivate them to collective action, articles like this won't be the ones to do so.
Western culture is so obsessed about suppressing anger at all costs. Like each person is a nuclear weapon that needs to be aggressively contained or else the entire fabric of civilization will collapse.

Anger exists for a reason and it exists for good reasons. The manifestation of anger means some model you are holding onto is no longer in sync with reality and that resynchronization costs more than your time preferences will allow. (Using the authors scenario, your expectation was for a reasonably timed phone call, not a 35 minute wait.)

It's not that anger is wrong. The anger is correct. The expectation was wrong. The West automatically assumes all instances of anger are permanently wrong, and this child-like ritual prevents one from appreciated the value of anger as a compulsion that tells you in no uncertain terms that your expectation is completely out of whack and you need to either cut your losses or resynchronize the expectation.

Anger becomes fuel for remodeling reality once you understand what is is trying to tell you. Putting taboos up around it prevents this realization, which in turn, creates people who are trained to perpetually cling to false models of reality out of fear of violating the taboo.
I disagree with the claim that you need to jailbreak an iPhone in order to break past some capability wall. This was true in 2007 before the app store, and maybe parts of 08 and 09 before the multi-tasking and notification API's were fully fleshed, but all jailbreaking gets you know is customization. Usually at the price of reliability. (I used to be a big fan of jailbreaking a few years back).
A tech lead from Google wrote his response, if anybody is interested:

https://www.alexkras.com/google-may-be-stealing-your-mobile-...
Whose else should it be? Going to an ultra-elite country club university whose operating expenses are on the order of 50-100k per student per year is a luxury, not a necessity or some sort of human right.

Very few other countries in the world have schools this prestigious, by the way, so it's not necessarily valid to compare them.

Edit: by the way, I highly doubt that there is any country in the world with universities that operate completely independently, with virtually no State oversight over budget, admissions decisions, curriculum, or degrees granted, and which can charge students however much they want, such that the State also pays the education bill for students.
I just realized that the ad-block I'm using doesn't even have a way to whitelist anything. (Ka-block on Safari.)

And this kind of behavior from websites is getting more and more common. computerworld, wired, etc...
Meesho maybe?
Not sure I agree.

Is a conspiracy by top officials at the DNC to harm a party candidate during the primary a minor deal? To me this is corruption at close to the highest level. Yes, it's a private org, but one that is critical to the functioning of our democracy.

Is a candidate making promises to wall street that directly contradict her campaign promises a minor deal? Well, we can cynically assume all pols are dishonest, or the press can help us simply hold all pols accountable for their promises. I'd like to see fewer promises made and more promises kept. It was frankly a bit shady that HRC refused to release the transcripts, and I think there is a newsworthy story detailing the interest groups she was courting and why they are so influential in American politics.
I recall a science fiction story (or maybe more than one) in which a fun activity for teenagers was punching a destination at random. There's adventure for you. :-)
I grew up angry because I was unsafe and couldn't defend myself. Strong motivator. My children grew up safe in nice neighborhoods because of it. Being powerless as a kid led directly to starting my own businesses. It was the surest way I could buy safety. It allowed me to build up a buffer against the rest of the world.
A surrey with a fringe for anyone else that had no idea wtf a surrey was http://www.berkeleyfestival.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/s...
Since I've been paying attention to Clojure, the CLR version has always been there and been current and been unused. It may be that Microsoft has kept improving CLR languages fast enough that there has never been the pain that Java induced to cause programmers to switch.

I mean C# of 2008 was a lot different from C# of 2013. And F# was in there too. And a lot of the change was to .NET not the languages directly: LINC and RazorFish and Entity Framework Magic Unicorn Edition and each addressed programmer ergonomics.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the grand conclusion.
This may be an obvious question but what's a JV call?
Are those hints of Google Material Design or is that just me?
Is that a West-only thing? My admittedly minor experience with some Japanese people is that in many settings they hide any discomfort (including outright anger) in order to not make a scene or lose face.

In fact, if can pinpoint being angry in public often to any country it's the US.
Who's hiring for self-driving car jobs
It depends on how low your bar is. Last few that I've seen that I enjoyed:

Source Code
Pacific Rim
The Martian
Pandorum
How about a book for a more technical, practical introduction?

I'm (hopefully) just starting a new position where some of the team is using machine learning techniques in an applied sense (i.e. it's not a CS position, they're not researching new methods, just applying existing ones). I'd like to get a good overview of common mistakes, pitfalls, etc. to look out for from a newcomer's perspective. I have used neural networks naively and briefly in a project about 6 years ago, but I know a lot(!) has changed since then.
>There is not such a thing as a bug "hit rate" because it would require knowledge of unknown bugs, which isn't possible.

It is possible to estimate the number of things you have not seen. The German Tank Problem [0] is a famous example. For software, if you Alice and Bob independently look at a piece of code for bugs, and Bob finds 17, Alice find 21, and 16 overlap, then you have some knowledge of Alice and Bob's rate at finding bugs, and you can estimate the number of bugs expected to be left. As the sample sizes increase you have smaller and smaller confidence intervals, giving quite good knowledge of the count of unknown things.

You are assuming once an audit is done, all bugs are found. This is rarely the case, and I doubt has ever been the case on software as complex/large as this piece.

He is assuming an audit can find bugs, each with some probability. This is a quite reasonable position, one borne out by practice.

His view is true in practice (and theory, since proving software correct is tremendously difficult except). There is ample literature on how many bugs are likely left after an audit, and this audit itself shows that these bugs remained after people (presumably) looked over the code previously.

More effort/skill usually turns up more bugs. It's that simple. Do another audit with more skilled eyes, paid more money, given more time, and they will likely find bugs that this one did not.

There is a large literature on estimating the number of bugs left after some are found. Here [1] is an example of how this is done.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
[1] http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/07/13/lincoln-index/
I'd never used Siri in the 5+ years I've been using an iPhone. Then I switched to Android for a month while awaiting the iPhone 7 (my previous phone screen cracked and could not be repaired a month before the new release).

After being impressed with "OK Google" I decided to try out Siri on my iPhone 7. I have been shocked how much better "OK Google" works than Siri. I think Apple has a fair bit of catching up to do in this area.

With OK Google you can basically just tell it what app to open, what to do, etc., and it works. With Siri, something as simple as asking her to play a song doesn't actually start playing the song, it forces you to interact with a clunky UI on the siri screen first, then it doesn't even open the correct song in Apple Music.
I'll crank up the brightness on my monitor and wear sunglasses with my noise cancelling headphones. Yeah, I get weird looks and comments, but it helps me filter out peripheral distractions when I'm trying to concentrate.
Well, you'll probably want to read up on trademark law before proceeding.
It would also be great if it said something like 'wait on the other side of the street for most efficient pickup' or something similar
...or we could write it ourselves.

Somebody, build an allowed words and suffixes dictionary file, and I'll go look up the emacs documentation for how to verify text in real time. Let's do this!
> The difference is I believe what makes people comfortable at a technology conference isnt superficial hangups about race and gender

If you consider the feeling of being, say, the only person of color at a conference to be a "superficial hangup", then perhaps your beliefs about what makes people comfortable have not been closely examined. It sounds like a statement about what makes you comfortable.
There's a big difference between looking out for yourself and denying financial aid because of a discrepancy of less than a dollar. Intent matters, and it's hard to argue that someone is trying to fleece you for $1 at a time.
You forget that anger is not a rational concept. Anger's usually not based in logic, it's usually a kind of emotion. You can reason with facts and with logic. You can't reason with an emotion.

The article in question doesn't try to say that the only reason to be nice to people is because they might have something for you. The reason the article exists at all is to provide people with yet another appeal to themselves to avoid anger. If you fail to rein in your anger with the idea of empathy or patience, how about using logic?

It's a shame you chose to read this article in such a negative light. I thought it was pretty good.
Has anyone here worked with them or have more color to add?

Some of the problems they mention I know are already being worked on by other organizations.

How do they work with the FBI and the NCMEC? Do they work with local law enforcement?
Just to clarify a minor point -- the person he says threw her Blackberry across the room in frustration over his award is described by the NYT article as being frustrated because it was larger than her department's entire budget, not necessarily because he got an award at all.
I thought so too until I started watching Russian road rage videos (just use those terms to search on Youtube). I think Russians take the cake for uninhibited anger displays!
Believe you me - I am VERY tempted. I suggested that to my wife more than once.
I mean, this kind of only works for Ivy League because they're pairing up the unbelievably privileged with the extraordinarily talented. When you're just mixing a bunch of middle class people together, not only will you not have enough money to actually keep the <$65k kids funded, but those extra-talented kids are still all at more prestigious schools.
I started to loath the sound of heavy acceleration, especially when walking or cycling, even when I'm driving myself. The only thing I can think is "what a dipsh*t". It's the noise, the menace of that lurch forward. It's not appropriate for the public realm.

I love cars, the analog character of an internal combustion engine. But I can't wait until most cars are electric. It's so much more civilized. ICE cars will be left for recreation, race tracks, impressing a date. Fun curiosities that a toddler would point at when it roars by. But in large numbers, I dislike them with a passion.
Can you go more in depth on that?
"If this "1998 interview" exists, Google appears to have no knowledge of it."

Your book link does not describe it as a "1998 interview", and in fact doesn't cite the original source at all.

And no, I don't just dismiss it as a "hit piece". I dismiss it because Thurmond claims to have given up segregation in the very next sentence. Thus making paulv's claim that these "quotes" show that Thurmond never repudiated segregation clueless at best, and likely actively dishonest.

"No longer supports" isn't the same thing as "happy to apologize and keep apologizing","

It is if the "apologies" aren't sincere.
All the world's flags rendered in css
I'd say a 1-2 order of magnitude speedup is very significant.
Of course they have that right. Others have the right to criticize them for exercising it.

The issue here is also not Trump's supposed conservatism (which I, frankly, doubt heavily), but that he brags about sexual assault and is advocating for some pretty fascist shit.

YC states Trump's words would get him kicked out of YC. Color me baffled as to why spending over a million dollars to support those words isn't considered similarly bad (if not worse).
I like the analysis, definitely some points I didn't consider.

The Java points are certainly fair enough, although I'm unsure how much of the target market actually uses Java. Java as the author states, is number 1 in enterprise, a space where moving to a new database can take a great deal of research and A/B testing.

I feel if the Java community was interested in RethinkDB, a few community tools would have popped up to do the tasks the author discusses.

I certainly disagree with the author regarding point 5. Change feeds were one of the substantial competitive advantages it had over other databases. Rethinkdb was trying to innovate, and produce a unique and beneficial product rather than build another NoSQL product.

Interesting that the reference that the author used was their own company - I find it difficult to believe Pojo and Java 8 library stopped it taking the Java world by storm. I see a few java clients back in 2013 - that appear to have very little interest from the Java community.
Yestercode: Improving Code-Change Support in Visual Dataflow Environments [pdf]
How can I apply for a job at Disney? Someone send me an email that won't lead to a black hole!!
Changing Baby's Diaper Now Considered Child Molestation in Arizona
I think a lot of people would take issue with equating Trump's racist campaign with their conservative values.
there's no reason to think that bacteria couldn't evolve resistance to these things, too.
Your yes or no question contains a framing I reject. I will not answer it as written. If you would like to ask an actual question where you intend to learn something, I'm glad to take a swing at that. I will not participate, though, in your rhetorical attempt to prove a point I believe wrong.

> You're trying to nitpick semantics. To question someone's decision is to criticize it.

No, criticizing is saying the decision is bad for given reasons. Questioning it often implies the decision is bad, but needn't. Asking questions is a way of learning more about the decision. For a given level of knowledge, these demonstrate different levels of respect.

> it doesn't matter because you're nitpicking the example instead of addressing the unhealthiness of the attitude.

Some possible attitudes are unhealthy. But quite a lot of them demonstrate healthy humility and respect. Your continued insistence on collapsing all possible attitudes that result in silence into one attitude is the reason we are not getting anywhere.

> Where do you imagine I pitched a fit?

Right here. Your whole discussion here is you raising a ruckus because you imagine people must hold an a particular attitude you don't like. They don't, but you are unwilling to listen.

> I never claimed he did and repeatedly stated that he didn't owe me anything. I think I made it extremely clear that I was criticizing the comments/attitude linking respect and silence, and not Cunningham's actions.

Either you believe you are entitled to opine vigorously upon decisions you don't yet understand, or you believe the person you are criticizing is required to explain their decision to your satisfaction. Otherwise you would be able to see that not saying anything is a respectful way to deal with a decision made by someone who has more data than you and has spent longer thinking about it.

So yes, you have claimed he doesn't owe you anything. But you still act like he does.
Joint Venture?

Granted my side business is extremely tiny, but I get such calls from time to time. Usually it's how I can work for free, or give away free stuff, with the idea that I will somehow cash in on it later.
Ban all this crap, eliminate parent income calculations, and put a flat price on things. Let students get their financial aid externally. It's a conflict of interest on the part of the school to pick and choose who they're giving it to. While you're at it, get rid of student loan subsidies (i.e. Government guarantees) and allow student loans to be be washed away by bankruptcy.

After the initial shock of the bubble bursting when he band-aid is ripped off, you'll have a sustainable education cost structure with the added benefit that the altruism is externalized and insulated from the institutions.
Yeah, that's interesting. As you say, the pricing was based on looking at the numbers of signups per month for SaaS startups.

How to make that work for non SaaS startups, I'm not yet sure.
Death should be the limit, and 70 years for corporate owned assets.

You shouldn't get to make money just because your mom or dad was creative. I know that sucks if you die early and your kids are young.
That's why we're talking about ceramic (which was just introduced as the high end watch), not gold (which failed). I don't think it's especially likely, but the failure of a $10k+ gold watch doesn't forecast anything about the likelihood of a higher end iPhone.
You don't pay - but you do contribute.
I would argue that China, Japan, Korea, and other Buddhist-heavy nations have other cultural mechanisms to prompt one to remodel reality. Buddhist teachings make it very clear the desire is the source of suffering, and this axiom weaves its way through cultural institutions and norms in these countries.

If we accept this, then I would argue "anger suppression" in said countries isn't anger suppression in the Western sense ("We have to prevent the next Hitler at all costs!!!! No moar hate guise, kthx love all yaaaaay :) :) :) ") as much as it is part of an overall suppression of desire.
Apple does have a recycling program - bring it in, or send it in,

http://www.apple.com/recycling/
Its a small town
Thanks, looking at google maps I was wondering whether Hainan is a launch site.
This goes back to the problem of maintaining your own whitelist, though. The problem is that maintaining your own whitelist is a lot of work. For example, if you update your system, but don't update your rkhunter database, your next report is totally inaccurate.

I just want a solution where I can boot up any system from a live CD, and inspect an existing installation, based on an external verified database.