skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That whole bidding for URLs thing is making it dead on arrival for me. What incentive could there possibly be?
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SubmitHub founder weighing in here -- thanks for sharing, Courtland! If anyone has any questions about SubmitHub or Indie Shuffle (technical or business), feel free to ask :)

Edit: in case you're curious, here's what the dashboard looks like for bloggers - http://i.imgur.com/mJG1LP5.png
Spouting facts means you have an agenda.

When prosecutors wield this power and violate not just a law, but the constitution, they should be fired and jailed.
> “This effect is already harming important investigations, and it has potentially far-reaching consequences.”

So do some of the amendments to the Bill of Rights. Should we get rid of that too?

Edit: wow, this is being downvoted into oblivion. In the time it took me to write my comment, it went from the first page to the second. Other than DoJ operatives, I don't know who would downvote this, as it is important to our industry.
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All of my comments stand.

Campaigns also conduct their own internal polling which may or may not have biases, but they're not released; they're used for the campaign. So it only benefits them to know what's actually going on. Trump's is one of the few campaigns that seems only interested in good news, and in not learning from what their internal polling tells them.

That said, of course all campaigns will selectively brag about the polls that make them look good, and quietly ignore those that don't.

Again, the polls are extremely reliable in this country. If you can't see that, you're unlikely to be swayed by yet another data point when this election is complete.
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Any ideas on what technical means Netflix is using to tip the scales in their favor?
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Are journalists immune from laws? Which laws? What constitutes a journalist? These are the kinds of questions that courts sort out. Goodman isn't in jail. She now has a legal and public platform to defend her actions and position as a journalist. If you're doing journalism that is as aggressive and brave as the article suggests this is then you'd expect to get pushback. Thankfully we have laws, the First Amendment, and public courts so Amy Goodman wasn't just whisked away to serve her time in jail.
Other than simplicity, is there any reason drones couldn't run on jetfuel or other combustible fuel? AFAIK it's been used for RC helicopters and planes for decades?

Sure, if you're an electrical engineer, you might want to stay with an all electric thing (and electric engines are flexible) -- but if one was serious about lifting packages, it would seem you'd want to explore other, well-tested options that give you more lift/flight time?

I mean, if we can deliver hellfires from drones, surely we can deliver some books?
I don't know that you need an explanation so simple/abstract but I couldn't help taking a crack at it too.

Imagine you had to deliver a package to a university but only through your direct friends. You'd have to hand it off to somebody who goes to that university or somebody who knows somebody(or knows somebody, etc) that goes to that university.

BGP helps routers maintain the list of their friends(other directly connected routers) that can get packages(packets) to remote locations(networks).
Apache FleJS is getting more and more interesting each month. Now with 0.7.0 release it got many things up like maven build, debugging with AS3, NodeJS integration, Visual Studio Code extension, and many others...

Unlike other JS frameworks, FlexJS is a complete technology composed of languages (AS3/MXML), compilers, frameworks, and is development cost is greater than others, but as things are coming into place the wait is worth it :).

I recommend you to join and play a little with technology! :)
"In December 2015, we created the world’s first encrypted data science tournament for stock market predictions. Since then, Numerai data scientists have submitted 13,350,675,598 equity price predictions.
The most accurate and original machine learning models from the world’s best data scientists are synthesized into a collective artificial intelligence that controls the capital in Numerai’s hedge fund."

What does this mean? What do they do?
> UFlix

Maybe they should not call it UFlix but something like "VPN for your business needs, and for avoiding corrupt and oppressive governments".
Ask HN: How to get started with distributed systems?
I have been working in software development for a few years, but, unfortunately, I didn't get enough exposure to problems that require true scalability and high availability. I know there is a wealth of great reading material on these topics, but it feels like I wouldn't truly internalize that knowledge without putting it into real practice.

There is an opinion that the best way to start is to work for an existing project with high scalability requrements. However, having little practical experience, I would personally be worried about either being useless at my job, or worse, dragging my team back by introducing bugs as I learn.

An obvious solution would be to practice writing scalable code on my own, but then, naturally, I would need a performance testing framework/service, which could validate my work, but I still don't seem to find one that can actually help me.

I am curious about how software engineers generally learn to design the efficient, scalable and performant code that powers the services that millions of people use every day.

In advance, I apologize if this question is too trivial for the HN audience.
Yeah, I definitely don't think that this would give you mathematically provable security, especially if you are including n-grams which would allow you to chain together sentences combined with a language model. How much that matters in practice depends on the dimensionality reduction. In the context of google I doubt if this is even much of a specific goal, since no matter what they train on, they actually have access to the source text if they want it.
Feel free to ask questions and give feedback on our approach.
Interesting. Can someone explain how IPFS works? Is it like Tor? I don't have any interest in running some sort of distributed content farm that might place CP on my computer. Even if the chance of that happening is 0.00001%.
The part that I didn't really understand is people accepting pull requests should be gate keepers for code quality, so amateur or not hopefully this shouldn't pollute the codebase. But you've touched on the core being reasonably decent and the real mess being with third party plugins so that makes more sense.
If memory serves me right, it goes something like this:

Katakana was developed to annotate Chinese script with readings and became an alphabet used by males.

A secondary alphabet developed from cursive writing came to be as a script for women to write in. The tale of Genji is written entirely in hiragana, while contemporary male text would be written entirely using Chinese characters (kanji)

Later we get this merging of the 3 alphabets, with katakana relegated to mostly being used in loan words.

In a sense, it did originate to be used to describe foreign words.
TIFF. It might have been handy in certain instances, but IMHO, it was never been a big deal except in the page-layout world. And even then, having an eps was better.

I missed that cluster of madness for firefox, I guess. Had I known that Mozilla would turn out this way, I would never have donated money. My name is on their full-page NYT ad and poster.

I wonder if they'd give me a refund?
I own quite a few copies of the Lucky Peach but I find myself not able to make the majority of recipes because their recipes focus on strong overpowering ingredients.

To me this is sad way of cooking, where a recipe is dominated by onions, or garlic or beats. Its poor man's ketchup cooking.

Is Tokyo the mecca of food? I don't know now but its narrow minded to say one city trumps them all.
I totally agree. I've spent way too much time in the depths of terrible embedded operating systems trying to do basic synchronisation out of whatever terrible primitive they'd decided to implement instead of semaphores, when semaphores would be so much easier.

(Frequently I ended up just implementing semaphores, and then doing everything else in terms of those, frequently using a standard library I had precisely for that purpose...)

(Embedded device flashback moment: a mobile phone OS where the only concurrency primitive was a mutex, each of which contained a fixed-size buffer of waiting tasks. The size of the buffer was smaller than the number of tasks on the system, and if a task blocked on the mutex while the buffer was fill, another task would randomly wake up.)
Thanks for posting this - I love a bit of etymology on a Sunday afternoon!

If "border control" means literally controlling the border, does that make "passport control" some sort of obtuse synecdoche, where they check the passport in order to control the border?
I learned english by playing videogames on the internet. The joys of being young and having a plastic brain.
My impression of the OP was that most of the time it's beating up a straw man. A more useful article would lay out heuristics or at least present anecdotes regarding sensible points on the spectrum from under- to over-engineering along each dimension.
So, there was an update to the article, she was charged with inciting a riot, not trespassing, quote:

It should be noted that the original charge leveled against Goodman was not riot but criminal trespass, also a misdemeanor. However, just days days before Goodman was set to appear in court, the prosecutor, Ladd Erickson, switched up the charges because, he admitted in an email to Goodman’s lawyer, Tom Dickson, there were “legal issues with proving the notice of trespassing requirements in the statute.”
According to the article they are charging her with being a rioter (while also claiming she is not a journalist), not with trespass, and this specifically because of “legal issues with proving the notice of trespassing requirements in the statute.”
"What possible reason is there to grow up? I see no benefit to it, for anyone."

The reason would be a time horizon for your family that is greater than one (or zero) generations.

If your family, as a cohesive and architected entity, is just something that you do in your own lifespan for your own happiness or fulfillment, then there may indeed be no reason for you to "grow up". Perhaps a friendly, peer relationship to your children is a good model. It probably doesn't make much difference.

Speaking of your parents, they were probably caught in a weird no-mans-land between very traditional narratives of family planning and growth and our own very modern, dis-integrated narrative.

It may interest you to know that the longer you push out the arc of the timeline of your family, the more it becomes necessary to "behave like an adult". It may also interest you to know that no project could be as complex, intricate, risky and fulfilling as transforming a union between one man and one woman into a heirarchical, muti-generational enterprise.

Odds are very good that I will fail at this.
I'm a huge TypeScript fan.

Yet I worry about adding Elm to new projects, mostly because it raises the level of developer I need to hire to maintain it. I'm not in SV or in a tech hotspot at all, so maybe I have to think about this more than the average HN reader.
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You have unfortunately missed the point. If she allows herself to be put in jail, even for a "paltry 30 days" as you claim, it sets a dangerous precedent and gives the government and bureaucracy the power to determine what journalism is "balanced" and what journalism is unacceptable.

This conflicts directly with our First Amendment, which grants the people freedom of the press. It is not reasonable to give up and serve 30 days in jail for a false crime you have been charged with unconstitutionally.

You seem so nonchalant about the potential jailtime, since it's "so small." Have you ever heard this poem?

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

It does not matter at what scale this constitutional abuse occurs. That it is happening at all should be horrifying to you; have you seen what happens to government dissidents and journalists in 'civilized' countries like Russia and China?
For me its USB/USB drive, Flash Drive, Pen Drive and then I hardly hear Thumb Drive at all.
Great point about forgetting the material. If you really want to learn something you need to review it more than once, and you need to encounter it in more than one environment / context (unless you're a genius, maybe). It's science, yo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

&

context based learning --> https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word
Funsports sounds like a Krautrock band from the 70s. Maybe with an exclamation point at the end.
"We are going to charge you with something, we just haven't figured out which law yet..."
They dropped the trespassing charges. She's now being charged with rioting.

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/15/breaking_nd_prosecuto...
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I was about to cancel my Netflix subscription as my family had exhausted its interest in the paltry syndicated cast-offs and young-adult anime that amounted to the totality of Canadian Netflix; but then Stranger Things came out, along with the rest of their fall originals.

Well, you've got me hooked for another month or two.
Some kind of way to parse variables only if they exist. The equivalent of (in Coffeescript)

a = {b:'c'}

a?.c //undefined

a.b //'c'

b?.c //undefined
Where are the democrats and Hillary Clinton Fighting for the right of Undocumented Netflixers?

Oh wait, the cross boarder netflixers can't vote so HRC doesn't care.

WAKE UP SJW's
It’s interesting to see that there are so many ways of doing conditions in JSX. I myself wrote a tiny library (http://github.com/yuanchuan/cond) for it several months ago and thought it made the code looks clean but suffers the same undefined issue though.
Missing context from the README: This library has powered most of CMU's NLP papers for the last year or so. During that period, the group has been enormously successful. For example, here are the papers on which Chris Dyer is a co-author: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cdyer/pubs.html
Land of the free...

Year to year, I get more and more disillusioned about the US. I think it's drifting in a very dangerous direction.
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I can't speak on this with any authority, but I feel like it would be fairly easy to detect.

If you suddenly see 500 different accounts all connecting from the same small block of IP addresses and most of them use out-of-country credit cards, blocking that IP range would be a logical conclusion. This could be managed automatically (or at least alerted to a human to check) with not much effort.
I really appreciate the advice.
You may or may not be joking but it's true they really should've. There's no way Netflix can justify to content owners that they are trying seriously when they neglect to block something so obvious.
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At the last debate he repeatedly mentioned her finance friends, her paid speeches and Soros during a question about taxes.
Kindness isn't in the action but the intent. I cannot give you a precise characterization of that intent, but I trust you know it when you experience it. Take a moment and reflect on a moment you experienced deep, profound kindness so that we can be on the same wavelength here.

Kind motivation can be expressed fiercely (as in "tough love"), and conversely, many seemingly-kind actions sprout from an unwholesome place. So I can't tell you what "kind behavior" looks like.

The progressive solutions you see today are the natural result of blossoming intent. _First_ we start learning to see black people, gay people, women, etc. as equal to ourselves, and then our actions, behaviors, and ultimately policies reflect that choice. We're headed in the right direction.

When a behavior is only _ostensibly_ kind -- like when I'm trying to shovel dirty people away under the guise of helping them -- at best I prolong the real problem, and at worst I get an atrocity.

So I cannot give you an actual solution to the homelessness problem, other than to say: motivation matters a lot more than we tech types often consider.
Monkeys throwing darts at the board.

This brings to mind the Buffett hedge fund wager, where he invested in a vanguard s&p 500 tracking fund (VFIAX) and a hedge fund actively managed an equal amount, and Mr. Buffett ended up winning handily.
I am not too familiar with it, but gridcoin (http://gridcoin.us) apparently verifies and rewards people donate computation power to BOINC.
The charges have been changed from criminal trespass to riot, they seemingly did not have sufficient evidence to prove trespassing, this is also a misdemeanor with jail time.

>When asked to explain the grounds for arresting a working journalist, Erickson told the Grand Forks Herald that he did not, in fact, consider Goodman a journalist. “She’s a protester, basically,” Erickson told the newspaper. “Everything she reported on was from the position of justifying the protest actions.” And in The Bismarck Tribune he later added, “I think she put together a piece to influence the world on her agenda, basically. That’s fine, but it doesn’t immunize her from the laws of her state.”

This is the important point of the article, the prosecutor says they do not consider Goodman a journalist because the 20 year journalism veteran doesn't adequately represent the point of view of their client.
I don't think I'm missing the point. You can't invoke a constitutional right for otherwise breaking the law.

EDIT: I don't want to reply to everyone, but if you could invoke the first amendment in the way you all are arguing then every murderer would just need to say the murder was their performance art.
Hackers are people, i.e. diverse, multi-dimensional beings with a range of interests. To presume otherwise is to short-change the community.

I don't see HN as a technical repository for news, but rather, where Hackers get their news. Furthermore, I enjoy it because often the level of criticism and debate floats above traditional media outlets on a broad range of topics. Not always.

"Reichardt’s films are animated by a sustained unease...The menace is durational and transforms the audience into participants in a kind of endurance art. It’s the low-grade but unrelenting sense of hazard that is a woman’s experience of merely moving through the world, an anxiety so quiet and constant it can be confused for nothing more than atmosphere."

I found this to be interesting, poignant, well articulated and insightful.

I'd argue that it's relevant as we all have something to gain by enriching our understanding of the human experience. Even more so when it extends beyond our comfort zone.
Well, you have to move past childish rhetoric before we talk substance. And even if we did, Donald doesn't have any substance. If he did, he would have focused on those. His policy ideas are broad brush strokes which don't hold up under further scrutiny. Hillary is a centrist and pragmatic politician. I for one is pretty happy with where the US is and do not want radical change. Minor tweaks around healthcare, military spending, and safety net should be good enough.
The Flex method of conditional rendering is nice, far better than ng-if all over the place.
Sometimes people just wake up in the middle of the night and have trouble falling asleep so they send emails or do other boring stuff, so they can fall asleep again. I've done that on occasion. If it were me, I would just concentrate more on my job and less on what my coworkers were doing.
Send Later plugin. Write emails and set them to go at 1:15AM, 2AM and 4AM.
this is a joke and Like the ADA in many ways will oppress further exposure of free education due to increasing the cost. This is absurd.
The main methods of average person paying for stuff online. Wikileaks was crippled by a boycott by Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal. Just three companies made a decision and poof!
The reverse could be to say the activists like Amy Goodman are exploiting the 1st amendment to push their agenda. She isn't really a reporter. That said, the historical interpretations of the 1st amendment are very loose in this regard and this is definitely a bit of posturing to make other smaller activist style reporters afraid to report from within protests.

On the bright side, Amy Goodman has connections to take this to a higher court which would very likely set a stronger precedent for protecting camera phone temporary reporters and others who film events from the inside.
This is one way to increase and encourage piracy while pissing off customers, including those in the US like myself, who like to keep the VPN on all the time. They deserve all the lost revenue this brings them.
Are you retired and doing a PhD for fun? Or planning to return to (unrelated?) industry after your PhD?
Why not just use photons, which more readily exhibit this behavior?
>> I am been rated above average in the current appraisal system...But after advent of this colleague, I see everything declining...as "irresponsible"

I see this as a huge red flag. It is clearly evident that you may not be marked above average for the next appraisal. Obviously being marked as irresponsible shows that the upper level is expecting you to work like a donkey!!!

I would just start preparing for my next move.

>> Changing job would be resetting all the good will and trust that I have built here.

To this, I can say from experience, that our job is to look for the next better job. While this is a bit sarcastic maybe, but really, as we know, that companies won't think of that goodwill when the next round of letting go people comes along. And going by your description, your goodwill is because of your quality of work, so if you plan/prepare/put the efforts for the next move while you are in this job, you will really be better off.

>> I don't really want to portray my peer as bad(He is mostly nice on the face),

Most likely and I think you imply politely that he is not nice really and he understands the game being played and is playing it. You don't want to play that game, which is fair enough, but you will lose as a consequence.

So overall, just my opinion, is that now this job is no longer the right fit and moving on seems the most sensible thing to do.