skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your points are all good.

"a targeted analysis would only be conducted by a motivated adversary"

For the types of conversations we envision, it's hard to see that motivation being very high. It's not likely to reveal much to know who it is that's trying to lose 20 pounds, improve their A1C levels, deal with a problem student as a teacher, or cope with a cheating spouse.

These are things we're comfortable sharing with a select group, but we wouldn't necessarily want the world to know we're dealing with.

With regard to what we do aim to do, here's a bit of insight into how we look at user privacy (not intending that these alone fully overcome each of the bars you've set, but a summary)

We intentionally don't do the following:
-We don't use Google Analytics or any big data analytics
-We don't use Google, FB, or Twitter sign in
-We don't use FB thumbs up or other tracking mechanisms
-We don't allow crawling of our database or searching Rushline without being signed in (harder to get large samples for text analysis or re-identification, among other things)

We made these decisions in an effort to protect users conversations from being re-identified and combined with the database in the sky. People should be able to talk and read about their personal interests with trusted friends and others, without someone else keeping track of it and adding to their master profile. That's getting much harder everyday, but to the extent we can protect our users from it, we will continue to try our best.

Regarding the experience filter, your concern about creating a monoculture makes sense logically. Unfortunately what we learned at ITtoolbox is that when the more experienced people can't protect themselves from certain types of posts, they simply leave the community, taking their insights with them. A far worse outcome.

The alternatives to that tend to come in the form of communities with heavy self-policing. There it's novices who feel anxiety and often avoid posting for fear of being yelled at for asking what someone thinks was a poor question.

The solution we've created allows experts to easily adjust their own signal to noise threshold. While still not perfect, we think it's a pretty good solution. Newbies and novices get the benefit of seeing all conversation, including that of the experts, while experts can choose to dial in and participate anywhere within the structure they want.

Even if they stay mostly up at the top layer of the wedding cake (as we look at it), they're still there and sharing. This is one of the features we felt was important enough to include in our patents pending.
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It's not a bug, just an odd convention, like using Enter to rename files in Finder.

Space = focused button, Enter = default button. When a dialog is shown, the focus is never on the default button, so there are always two choices that you can make (Space/Enter) without using the mouse or the tab key at all.
Now that the Sony A7 series has "democratized" full-format mirrorless, ILC camera folks are buying it in droves. And because of things like lower noise, shallower depth of field, and increased dynamic range. Not megapixels, which is especially evident with the 12MP high-sensitivity A7S line.

Just a few years ago, the same comments about MF could have been made about FF. Even if it stays a high-end niche, rather than getting cheaper and broader like FF recently has, major and new endeavors in the space highlight the extent to which the format is the opposite of dead.
That needs fixing then :)
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>Our main point is that there is still a real and often growing problem with violent crime

That's just it though, the data do not support this claim. The general trend is decreasing crime. In fact the sole source you cite says:

>Many crime experts warn against reading too much into recent statistics. In fact, murder rates remained largely unchanged in 70 cities, and decreased significantly in five.
“Even if the uptick continues in some cities, I doubt the pattern will become universal,” Dr. Sampson said.

And sure, you have some positive feedback, great. But how often has your app been misused? How "concerned citizens" mistaken an innocent person as having been involved in a crime? What about the privacy of victims of crimes? How do you store your data? How do you ensure privacy? Do you give data to law enforcement? Without warrants? Do you disclose any of this data? What do you do to protect extra sensitive data like domestic abuse, and sexual assaults?

Why should we trust you?
"Trusted Advisor" on the AWS Console has been doing this for a long time, for several types of under-utilized, not only instances. Not only this but it also notifies you when you're reaching default limits so you can put in a support request for limit increase before you hit them.
I have often wondered why only the graphics/video people are called "creatives". :-)
You and the original commentor both seem to be missing my point. All I said was it is a defferent product, that is more capable than the previous generation. I never said it is the best or that it is unique in any way.
> If the US were split into the 50 states, you would have to get 50 governments separately to agree to carbon regulations, instead of one.

Sure, but then about half of those would actually do something about it.

Of course, the other half would keep thumping the Bible or Atlas Shrugged (or both), but even so that's a fraction of the current level of inaction.
Weird in the sense that it's usually would be the other way around and that a FOIA would be used to uncover some "coverup".

This time it seems that there might be some political reasoning behind it there were issues about this matter handled at the WTO (not WHO) before especially between the US and China.
Nearly everyone in the world owns a phone. It's the default computing device for the world.

See:
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/7/8/capitulation
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/11/7/mobile-ecosyste...

Any additional computer purchase is some kind of conscious choice, and people will default to what they are familiar with. I.e. iOS and Android. This is a big hurdle for microsoft to overcome to convince anyone to buy a computer from them. That's my point, and I think it will be very difficult for them to accomplish at scale.
If you decide to use YAML, make sure to check out Strict YAML[1] and its FAQ[2].

[1]: https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml

[2]: https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml/blob/master/FAQ.rst...
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This was very interesting back when the initial concept was shown. Turns out it was killed by MS because it didn't fit in with their Windows/Office strategy:

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-inside-story-of-how-microsoft-...
That is an excellent example, but it's contrary to the examples in the blog post & video.

I'm a trained medical first responder (lapsed cert.), so I definitely can appreciate what you've stated. In fact, I'd probably react the same way as your neighbour. I'd pop out and help my fellow neighbours too.

When you present it that way, I like the idea. I'm not sure about the way Vigilante is presented though.
Protip: Often when it's overcast and unpleasant in the Marina it's beautiful at Ocean Beach (and vice versa).
I guess because when you inevitably go to upgrade the hardware in a couple years, you'll have to buy a new screen, too.

Works for Apple. Seems to be working so far for the "Smart TV" market.

I don't get it myself, but then I have not owned a completely "new" desktop in over 15 years, even though my desktop PC is full of modern components (and I'm fairly sure at this point, not a single piece that was in the original is left, including the case).

I'm not the type of person who thinks "Hm, I need more disk space. Guess I better throw out my PC, monitor and keyboard and buy a completely new system." but I think this is aimed at the segment of the market that thinks that way, or at least is willing to in order to get the new input/interaction features.
> it was checking /etc/lsb-release instead of actually checking for that feature

No it wasn't. The install script ran a little program that actually attempted to invoke the system call to see if it failed:

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/800d1c016c150...

We have never relied on /etc/lsb-release nor /proc/config.

> why cant you ship an application which runs as a normal user only

First, we're not shipping an application, we're shipping an application platform which includes a container engine.

On systems that have unprivileged user namespaces available, you actually can install and run Sandstorm as a regular user -- no root privileges at all.

Unfortunately, Arch explicitly turns off user namespaces in their kernel build.

Without user namespaces, we have no choice but to require root privileges, because the Linux system calls for setting up containers require either root or user namespaces. (Note that Sandstorm is careful with its root privs -- most of the system runs as a regular user, calling out to a separate daemon for the specific operations that need root.)

If you don't want to give Sandstorm root -- which is perfectly understandable -- and you don't want to enable the kernel features that allow it to be non-root, then you'll need to run it in a dedicated VM.

> Last time I tried, you actually recommended curl shit | sudo bash.

We have never recommended that.
There is a Twitter Bot[1] which does this too: https://twitter.com/neuralpainter

You need to tweet a photo to this handle and it replies with painting.

1. He's a friend, also a SaaS: http://neuralpainting.co/
I use a combination of:

* Email

* Calendar

The tools currently are Gmail and Google Calendar.

I've tried many times to try new tools and processes, such as Trello, Evernote, Remember The Milk, Getting Things Done, Kanban, etc. Pieces of those processes have made it into my workflow, such as weekly, monthly, and quarterly goals. But the tools still end up being email and calendar.
In the US, it's locally monopolized with a single provider.

Sometimes you can get DSL, but since Verizon employees get fired for fixing outages now, that will be gone soon.
Tension & resolution a much better framework to understand. But not all music takes advantage.
What is the real problem, in this case?
"...there are a few situations I'd agree that if you don't have the first-to-market advantage you're basically fucked (social networking being a prime one..."

10 years ago there where a number of articles about how MySpace won the social media war. The current king of that particular hill did not have first to market advantage. Your argument is invalid.

http://www.devlounge.net/webapps/why-myspace-won-the-social-...
I agree. While this is super impressive stuff it seems to match palette far more than style. Van gogh has a distinct style even though not all of his paintings have the same color palette.
I wonder if it was really the CEO or was it someone else, and who it is probably is here.
But then everyone would create competitors so you would buy them out, and eventually you would run out of money.
What are the best tools for building and maintaining your network? Facebook?
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"which would prohibit companies from requiring non-compete agreements for employees who make less than $15 an hour or $31,200 annually."

Great. So the guy who leaves Dunkin' Donuts can go work at Starbucks? Awesome.

What kind of BS is that? What kind of secret IP, or valuable knowledge does a low-wage employee has that is worth protecting with a non-compete?
In software it's basically free if you want exactly the same building. Bits are cheap. Even physical media to store the bits is cheap.

Sure, the bricks, mortar, framing lumber, concrete, drywall, conduit and such for a building cost a fair amount of money. Then there's the labor to actually put it together. But one of the big costs is the architecture and (literal) groundwork.

The fixed costs of a building are fairly steep, but miniscule compared to redesigning it over and over. In software we generally get away with much cheaper fixed costs of deployment but redesign is still redesign.

We're typically happy to spend some time redesigning and paying that cost because we're not actually demolishing and rebuilding parts of the project with high deployment costs like renovating an existing building. Throwing away the old copy and deploying a new one is essentially free. So we shift the budget to more redesign. There should be a limit on how often, though, if we ever want to move on to different problems.
My experience with CGAL is that it's slow, clunky and very difficult to work with. I understand that it's the 'gold standard' of libraries but for the purpose I was using it for (2d polygon boolean operations, polygon offsetting), I found ClipperLib [1] to be far superior in terms of ease of use, stability and execution speed. There's even a JavaScript port of ClipperLib [2]. I highly recommend ClipperLib to anyone that only needs simple 2d polygon manipulation.

[1] http://angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php
[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/jsclipper/wiki/documentation/
> (...) how the artists can survive?

Let's take "survive" to mean survive financially based on one's ability to produce art with commercial value during their lifetimes.

As others do, I think art is much more than than the piece itself, through whatever senses we use to perceive it. It is also the story of its creator and the wider context of its creation, as well as history of its movement through the world including those of its various owners.

I think this leaves tremendous room for human artists today and far into the future. Further, I believe some artists, and there certainly exists those who have tried already, will direct machine learning based art, adapting it to be more likely to succeed based on those factors I indicated.
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No possibility of controversy here. Especially with a name like that. Wow.
Can we have an explanation on why this was flagged?
While true, it's not the entire explanation. Apathy is far more of a factor here than corruption; average citizens don't care enough about their Internet access choices to lobby their politicians about it. The incumbent providers do a pretty good job of offering just enough service to keep average people satisfied at a price that is not quite high enough to make customers really angry.
But the real question is: Did they allow themselves to pass through the same pub more than once?

If I'm not mistaken, this is a computationally expensive operation, right? Traveling Salesman.
DCI-P3 monitor for that price, hot damn! I wonder if it's 100% coverage?
That's the core of the innovator's dilemma.
If most companies don't have non-competes that is better for everyone indeed. But there is no incentive for companies to be the only one not having non-competes. If you see employee mobility as the shared resource it is a tragedy of the commons. I think it would be better to mostly abolish noncompetes around the world as is already done in California. However as GitLab we have them in our contracts since it is in the interest of the company. It is a bit of a paradox.
Notice how the transferred images have none of the power of the originals.

Take the first set of images, in the style of “Head of a Clown”, by Georges Rouault. Not only does it not recreate the brush-strokes, but the content of the restyled image doesn't fit the artist's style.

In the case of Munch's The Scream, and Starry Night, and every Monet, the subject matter is as important as the image. Maybe you'll be able to mask your Facebook profile in a combination of Murakami and Pissaro, but that's not the extent of their genius.

Similar things are attempted in music. While we can pretty programmatically formulate pop music, deeper meaning eludes machines. Bob Dylan didn't just write great lyrics, he tapped into the zeitgeist of the era in which he wrote. When Kendrick Lamar or Beyonce write about black struggle in America, that's in the context of a larger societal conversation.

I don't believe that neural networks will ever be artists because they work on copying existing patterns. Until there is an element of randomness fueled by context, they aren't creating anything new. That's where genius lies.
i should have clarified, they hugely popularized their usage for marketing towards consumers.
I think you're being a bit tough at times but you definitely hit a vein.

It's always funny when VCs give a talk like this because they will invariable mention how they are down-to-earth ("been through the struggle") and how modern they are, when the truth is that they are anything but.

Warm introduction? Really? Is this straight from an episode of Mad Men? They know very well that they could hire one or two people to take decks from cold sources and run a preliminary review. They don't do that because they want to perpetuate the system. It's an "old boys network" and there's a real effort made to keep it that way. Let me repeat that, the reason they will never get rid of the warm intro is that it's all about perpetuating the old boys network.

Peter Thiel, when speaking to Stanford students, talked about vetting and said, without irony, that coming from Stanford gives you that vetted quality and that (IIRC)"you can give some song-and-dance about how your parents didn't have enough money so you had to go to UC Berkeley, but we all know that's not going to work." (Which is funny because my old roommate who went to UC Berkeley was mentioned in Perlmutter's 2011 Nobel speech; I wonder if he knows that he doesn't rate.) The difference between Cal and Stanford is about money and the perpetuation of wealth across generations, and that's also what we're talking about here: an old boys network.

Professional CEO = crony. Nothing else. The tragic part of all of this is that there is serious innovation waiting to happen and the system that could support and enable it is instead too busy preserving and extending antiquated systems of power and wealth.
Poking around on this, this strikes me as a good, simple introduction to the basic concepts, without burying the newcommer under a ton of jargon, which has been been a recurring frustration of mine.

Some suggestions:

I might include a bit on the diatonic scale between the sections of the pentatonic scale and the chromatic scale. Anyone familiar with Western music should recognize quickly, as a great deal of well-known music has been composed using it. It should also serve as a nice half-way point between the pentatonic and chromatic scales -- introducing more notes from which to compose melodies but all of them still mostly sound nice with each other.

I suspect the reason you covered the diminished chord in addition to the major and minor ones is because that's the chord that works on the 7th interval of a scale, as you cover in the later section. But you might want to cover the augmented and suspended chords as well (perhaps in a later section). I'm probably not the only one who, when attemting to finger a chord on a piano or guitar, missed the 3rd or the 5th, and discovered another triad that sounds interesting.
Why can't it be both?

Stress can cause illness and disease. Illness and disease can cause stress.
Is this Fremium or crippleware? I'm getting tired of business raising the open source flag for only sharing a small part of their code and then writing:

"Big news for the web dev community! Ignite UI is now open source! "

I'm sorry but this is not big news and it's not really open source.
Yes: geostrategy is a huge defining factor in the organization of the planet, the movement of people and the evolution of society. It is a primary factor, including resource extraction technologies, agricultural capability, and more.

I think rounding that up to "drove the rise of civilizations" is a crude way to put that. For example, the simulation pits "agriculture plus military" against "agriculture". Then they found that including both food security concerns and physical security concerns more closely predicted known outcomes.

Had they put "agriculture plus military" against "military" and found that including both was better than just simulating physical security we would have gotten the title "Computer Simulations Suggest Food Drove the Rise of Civilizations".

I think the takeaway (besides how not to model and report on models) is that geostrategy is an important factor in the development of human and international relations and that broadly laymen are completely ignorant of it.

A layman equipped with some of this knowledge, for example, will be much more able to understand current events in the South China Sea, the infrastructure projects across Eurasia, the proxy war in Syria, the importance of the Crimea to Russia, the crisis in America over its policies toward Cuba, and much more.

Unfortunately the layman instead is fed a steady diet of "good versus evil" narratives, informing him instead about how he should feel about each case to emotionally and financially support his military.
The older I get, the more it strikes me that civilization is inherently unstable. It may be metastable, in the way that a predator-prey relationship is stable. A technological civilization like ours is not stable. It's a conflagration. It's subject to a number of exponential processes. Our economy is based on exponentiation. If progress is based on war, then that's just another nail in the coffin. This makes for a plausible "Great Filter" solution to the Fermi Paradox. Civilizations are so unstable, they can only progress through war, which makes them more likely to destroy themselves. Perhaps civilizations almost never stay organized at the point where they are capable of star travel.
Probably something I won't use, but I see the benefit of unified UI frameworks as opposed to integrating several Javascript packages, each with their own syntaxes and semantics (initialization functions vs objects, callbacks vs promises, etc). Moreover, I don't think this is new, just open sourced.
Huh, guess I'm a serious vim user! I've got Caps Lock as the escape key, and shift+escape as Caps Lock.

The biggest downside is that if I'm using someone else's computer, I keep yelling for no good reason.
Rape culture isn't about rapes.

Perhaps using more accurate names would make the education you're asking the parent poster to go get more accessible.
A lot of the words coined in the essay are Anglicized versions of words used in other Germanic languages. Sourstuff as oxygen, for example, is consistent with the word in several other languages (Sauerstoff in German). Certain words, like uncleftish, are based off of the root words in the original Greek or Latin (the German word is just Atom). I could attempt to translate the essay into German, but my German is quite bad and would no doubt have some serious grammatical errors :P
Your suspicion is somewhat backwards: the Linux subsystem was built to accommodate Android apps. However, the decisions were made not to, excuse the pun, "Black-bury" the platform by directly supporting Android apps after all.
Absolutely. Several of my colleagues and friends have run into non-compete issues moving from big companies to other big companies.

One high profile case was Mark Papermaster's move from IBM to Apple: http://fortune.com/2009/01/27/ibm-settles-papermaster-to-joi...
The reasons why you can name those examples is because they are the exceptions. If you tried to do the same for software the list would likely exceed HN's capability to store it.