skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a step back and you'll realize just how feverish the US media propaganda machine is right now re: Syria.

Every day we have new pictures of bloodied/dead Syrian children, articles describing the horrors of war and frantic warnings of a genocide that could happen any day now.

Now ask yourself: Why did you hear practically nothing about Syria for the past 4 years? Moreover, is anyone under the illusion that war isn't horrible? Did you think it was only strong, burly men getting killed before you saw that video of the kid in the ambulance?

I'm not trying to take away from this story, but I also see it for what it is: manipulative propaganda being pushed by a country that has a proxy war to win.

Finally, ask yourself this: Do you think all of the guns, bombs and technology we've provided to "freedom fighters" in Syria were only used to kill strong, burly men?
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Whatever your feelings about it are, you can safely assume that most people who say "safe, legal, and rare" are saying that the state should have no role at all in women's reproductive choices. It's a pro-choice slogan, coined by pro-choice activists.

I think we're all a lot better off not getting any further into the details on this.
Fair enough, I have had to make sure I don't lose myself as an insight junkie. When it comes to the consequences are you thinking of it damaging our ability to seek out insights for ourselves if they are so easy to read?
Try to use plain spoken language to describe what you do, who needs it, and ideally what you've done already. Doing that alone will get you to better than 80% of pitches out there.
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Huawei Mate 9 report: dual camera, 4x optical zoom, $1300 price tag
Big investor 'incredibly disappointed' with Wynyard administration
oops, yes. (sum vs some)
If you liked that book, take a peek at "Don't Shoot The Dog"
This really hits home for me.

I once had a conversation with a very, very experienced developer who ran a local meetup and was discussing salary options at a new job. He balked when I told them what I asked for, and replied:

"Just because you grew up as poor as me doesn't mean you should fear wealth. If it makes you feel that guilty take the shit and donate it to charity."

And its really true.

My first engineering job I made almost 3x what my mother ever made in a year over her entire life's highest salary.

I was a college dropout that was enthusiastic and knew enough to be functional.

It really is a strange, new thing to come from nothing and all of a sudden be able to go out to eat at an Applebee's without worrying about your finances for a month.

Edit: The first thing I did after collecting my first 'engineering paycheck' was go out to Applebees and get an appetizer, a drink, AND an entree, and then proceed to not worry about it.
> A rich college graduate has almost 2x the chance of remaining rich as a poor graduate has of getting rich.

This is all super fuzzy and almost impossible to interpret. It sounds to me like people are becoming rich at some rate, and staying rich at a higher rate. Seems like it would lead to everyone being rich, in the end (though these are quintile numbers, so it's a relative ranking, so I assume some other outcomes are available that make things balance).
>After all that — the beatings, the airstrikes, the war, the bombings — I want to live in a free Aleppo. I want to stay here, where I was born, all my life. It’s my right.

I really can't understand his reason to remain in Aleppo after 4 years of war. I could probably see his point at the beginning of the conflict, but once the war has been going on for such a long time, what is the point? He is playing Russian roulette every day; "It was an airstrike less than 100 meters behind ". Yes, the city is under siege, and currently it may be almost impossible to leave, but that doesn't seem to be his reason for staying.
Bulk. It makes sense to keep glasses as light and small as possible, whereas a watch can be relatively bulky without being socially unacceptable. So you could have just enough electronics for glasses to display information and record, then have the watch store or compute the resulting data.

It could basically split smartphone features into two gadgets that are easier to carry around. For that, though, we still need quite a few leaps in miniaturization.
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Behavioural Genetics isn't a social science and there's nothing in what the poster above you said that wouldn't be in an undergraduate textbook.
Your browser connects to Google and tells the U2F token to auth using the www.google.com key: works

Your browser connects to www.google.com@phish.me but no matter whether you believe that site to be Google, the U2F process means that it can only use a key for phish.me, which won't work on the Google.com servers even if they relay it.

The only attack which still works is if they control DNS and can forge an SSL certificate, at which point we have much bigger problems than phishing.
Without a doubt: http://internetkholeblog.tumblr.com/
al nusra front, a terrorist group affiliated with Al Qaeda is controlling eastern aleppo. it's such a shame that washingtonpost is becoming the propaganda outlet for Al Qaeda.

I personally know friends who've been suffering from Al Nusra front shelling their residential areas in Aleppo for the last three year; The majority of Aleppo residents are supportive of the Syrian gov and Russia finally, going after the terrorists; except for about 10% who are supportive of Al Qaeda and al nusra front.

in the following video, a british journalist goes to Aleppo, and meets with people there, and you'll be shocked that the TRUTH is exact opposite of what propaganda outlet like WAPO, CNN, etc. want to spread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8mA0h7dCKI#t=255
Undoubtedly: http://internetkholeblog.tumblr.com/
Notepad on Windows, vi on Linux.
Is Visual Studio truly a requirement? If so, no thanks.
hi guys. just noticed it i got on frontpage! I wanted to demo how easy it was to use IPFS and was a bit suprised no one made a cloudapp clone with this tech. As you can see in the code, took like 30 min to put it together. I'm not that familiar with IPFS either so thanks for answering all the questions guys.

FYI: thanks for the guys that put in a pull-request, i've already merged them in.
Because it goes against the narrative SJW's want to paint. Anything with the slightest connection to being pro Trump will get flagged.
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However, a fair number of tea party members in congress were actively promoting defaulting on the debt. That's different than some random guy with a page on the internet. That's a lawmaker with a vote who can affect the outcome. So their political career would be hurt. The election wasn't the next day, it would have taken a long time to replace those yahoos and the damage would have been done. Examples:

Ted Yoho, rep for Florida, http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-tea-partys-gov...

Trump (who isn't in congress, but had a shot at being president: http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/05/08/media-slam-trump...)

yes, it is nuts, but people who vote in congress supported it, and the pres. candidate of one of our two parties also said that.
I love mechanical watches too and have been looking for something that combines some smartwatch functionality with a good mechanical watch; have you seen Chronos?

https://wearchronos.com/
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I like the programming annolagy. What about alternative splicing where one gene can make multiple different proteins?
The more I learn about biology the more clear it is how little we know.
for osx, anyone know how to bind a keyboard shortcut commands to run this script?
No you misunderstand people talk about and pretend to care about the latter. Unless you actually know what those experiences are like. It is very unlikely that a white man is going to go to the top graduate school in the country and discover that they don't give white people Phds. Black people can't say the same.
>My theory, many people are actually voting for Trump, for whatever reason it may be, but they will not tell others.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-supporters-probabl...

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-could-the-polls-be-...

Probably not.
No, not true. He's arguing he's an asset to the university, and one of his arguments is his publishing track record. In that context, there are two way papers are 'good': they are published in Nature or The Lancet, or they have high citation counts. Whether a paper has the potential to get lots of citations doesn't count for anything. Likewise, if the content is super out of this world great, but nobody has cited it - the paper is shit.

In all sorts of other contexts, obviously there are many ways in which something can be good. In the specific way he used it, there is a very well-defined and objective standard, and he fails it.
An Android phone with an SD card and a decent player (I like GoneMad) in airplane mode?

It took me years to reach the 80GB of storage I had in a modified iRiver H340 (good God, that hard drive was expensive).

I don't really think standalone MP3 players are a thing any more. I did source a few Sansa Clip players a few years ago to run RockBox firmware, though.
There are no good guys here, just various variation of bad. You just get to choose which bad guys you back.

Personally I find it hard to believe that the USA is backing Al Qaida (or what ever they have decided to call themselves this week), but that is middle east politics for you.
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Here is what I mean, nothing needs to be vague. My model predicts that the preferred pitch should track something like this with date and latitude:
https://s11.postimg.org/mkw753lpf/image.jpg

The only free parameters are:

F0 = the pitch of A4 on the when there are 12 hours of day/night
k = a scaling factor that determines how much to change the pitch based on duration of the variable second

Here I used F0 = 432 and k = 1, but those values will probably need to be determined by experiment.
For me, I seek certain peppers for the taste & heat is a bonus... especially fresh chiles. A mild habanero, however, I don't know if that would fly.

IANANM, but my college roommate was. We roasted+peeled pounds of red & green chiles when his mom sent the fresh crop. Tasty times.
I'm not sure why people go for the heat.

I'm from India and there are many hot/spicy options available. But most chili peppers are used for their flavor or color (e.g. Kashmiri Red Chilli powder is very red, less spicy) and varying the levels of heat/spiciness by adding more of less of it, instead of using the spiciest variety (like the ghost peppers that have caught the fancy of the west).

I wish the flavor component had some kind of a quantifiable unit instead of the scoville units that has fueled this craze of feeling the burn.

Don't fall for this tongue numbing "hottest wings/sauce in the world". Enjoy the flavor :)
Back then people knew more about what happened. The generation that grew up afterwards was fed pro-American propaganda. I know because I grew up in the 80s and remember the school books. We got told lies about how e.g. the Soviets killed children in Afghanistan with bombs shaped like toys.

Because of the threat of communism most western democracies saw it as important to emphasize American contribution over the USSR.
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Well, I'm assuming that the ease or difficulty of recognizing the difference between two notes bears some proportion to difference between their frequencies (the frequency of one minus that of the other), and not just their relative frequencies. The intervals in the 432Hz are "tighter" in the sense that, because the interval they correspond to in 440Hz is smaller for every possible interval, there are more notes in 432Hz tuning in any given arbitrary frequency range (say, from 100Hz to 1,000,000Hz) than in 440Hz tuning. And this makes the problem of recognizing them harder. I should've made this out clearer.

For instance, a half-tone from 432Hz is 457.69Hz, which gives out a difference of 25.69Hz; but a half-tone from 440Hz is 446.16Hz, which gives out a difference of 26.16Hz. Between 432Hz and 864Hz we can fit a whole scale, while in the same frequency range we'd be missing a note with 440Hz tuning.

Of course, this is a slight difference and it might not be noticeable at all. I personally don't hear much difference between the two tuning. Instead, I'm playing devil's advocate.
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double post, it must be really good!

but unfortunately the URL doesn't open :(
There's nothing uncivil about similes. It's a valid criticism of a corrupt organization that uses your website like free advertising.
Why do you think you're homeless?
I think you meant "out[ key ] = deepFreeze( out[ key ] )" in the innermost step :-)

(recursive)
Yes all products that raised the bar and made Apple what it's become were under Job's rule.

Tim Cook is a money guy only and as a long time apple fan and Siri user I'm bored and disappointed! Google Now is amazing and I'm longing for something more exciting then my recently bought iPhone 7.

The Pixel looks very interesting but it's only on Verizon.
Yes all products that raised the bar and made Apple what it's become were under Job's rule.

Tim Cook is a money guy only and as a long time apple fan and Siri user I'm bored and disappointed! Google Now is amazing and I'm longing for something better then by recently bought iPhone 7. The pixel looks very interesting but it's only on Verizon.
I would argue that "not letting it go" is equally harmless and to be permitted to the same degree that you propose otherwise.
I have done both (shared an apartment and sole renter). I definitely prefer been the sole occupant. Personal space and privacy, not having to wait for the bathroom, sleep schedules, cleanliness of common areas (especially the kitchen, which by far has been the largest source of conflict wrt to cleanliness).

Of course it is 'wasteful' and expensive to take up a whole housing unit to yourself, but some (most?) people (especially strangers) in the US do not make considerate room mates. Actually probably long term only family members learn to live together in harmony (probably because they have to).
> Can you elaborate

Not sure about the high impact of the US.

German troops and the resources were quite exhausted (malnutrition and bad equipment) and the Brits were effectively blocking the seaway. France was also able to encrypt the German communication, giving them an edge. The strategy of the Germans contained a lot of flaws as well, so their success at least of the Army was quite limited.

One might argue that the Germany Navy wins over Britain (which was one of the reasons the US entered) could've turned the war, but I'm sceptical.
Indeed, lots of very interesting math and physics inquiries, with some original hard-to-find-elsewhere findings.
Your honor, it was 103F. How was I to know the truck was frozen?
Well we can split hairs over this all day, but Musk and Trump (Bernie Sanders too) fit the definition of demagogues IMO.

People like the cars because they view them as antiestablishment. e.g. better than what other car makers are building — because the establishment car makers are crooks with no regard for the world and would allow the destruction of nature for a dollar.

Meanwhile the data shows that cars are a minuscule contributor to global warming in comparison to burning coal. And that electric cars are not necessarily cleaner than gas cars when you consider what source they are charged from.

If you want to do something about global warming that will have an actual impacted you must turn China and India into rich countries that can afford be green (to use the common vernacular).

Musk's whole brand and "popularity [is based on] exploiting prejudice and ignorance among the common people" (from the Wikipedia article on demagogue).

Again, this drives me nuts.
Great comment, and it's so refreshing to find someone who really understands what is going on (in contrast, my Facebook feed is filled with people wailing about every new photo of a bloodied Syrian child).

Still, I'm afraid that it won't be enough. The war drum is already beating towards Syria, and I wouldn't be surprised if the US mounted an offensive shortly after HRC is crowned--to stop some imminent genocide or other humanitarian crisis, no doubt.
There's a lot of truth to that. I grew up in a poor single-income family in rural southern Illinois and the only programs we really had were free lunches, special ed, and a few assorted gifted classes in some grades and subjects (and honestly, I don't think they were as advanced as the normal classes in average or better school systems). We had very little in the way of access to museums, schooling alternatives, after school programs, etc.

A conversation with the Wash U financial aid office made it very clear just how bad the low-income white situation can be. We were working on my financial aid package and trying to figure out some way I could get the loans and grants I needed (I nearly had to quit school) - and as the woman was looking through her options, she jokingly asked if I was hispanic, saying they had a number of full-tuition scholarships and other funding opportunities for black and hispanic students plus a few opportunities for inner city St. Louis residents. Nothing targeting the low-income and rural.

The good news is that they (along with many other schools) later dropped the race requirements for their scholarships. They also offer free tuition for most, if not all, low-income students now. Sadly, those changes were too late to help me avoid $100k in student loans.

Even now, though, I wonder if many rural students would know about those opportunities. When I was applying to colleges, I went through a couple guidance counselors before I found one who didn't try to talk me into going to community college and studying something easier, like cosmetology or secretarial work. It takes an abnormal amount of effort and drive to get beyond that kind of rural upbringing and educational system, but people tend to ignore the fact that white people can also have a lot of systemic disadvantages.
> The flip side of this is that if BI were at a national level, there would be a demand to move to rural areas where land was cheap, to reduce the largest rent. But since, as you point out, the economic opportunities are quite limited there such areas would be entirely reliant on BI. This would further cement the divide between urban "rat racers" and rural poverty, making it harder for those involuntarily caught in the latter to leave.

I'm not so sure myself - if you have nothing but time to pursue whatever it is that you want to do, would people not spend a lot of that time working on hobbies and interests? The amount of time that potentially highly productive people spend performing and just mentally/physically recovering from menial/dead-end work could be put to much better use. There's no reason with the internet today that that person couldn't become a rocket scientist despite living in a cheap area.

Escaping the trap of these cheap rural areas is only difficult for economic reasons - its harder to save money when almost every bit of the low paying job goes to rent - you are spending your time spinning your wheels instead of experimenting, educating yourself or others.

> This seems less convincing in the context of your extreme example (before all 400 could work 2 hours/week, other factors will start to matter), but the point is that this is the trend that should have already been happening for the prior decade instead of overleveraging encouraging sink-or-swim overworking.

> I'm actually not categorically ruling out the idea of BI. It's just that current calls for it completely ignore any feedback due to our official economic policy, and are actually just a continuation of the broken policy that has largely put us in this situation to begin with.

Asset inflation would surely happen in some areas, but we'd at least establish a basic floor. Everything could become higher priced, but it would allow for more fluidity and risk taking, and much more focus on education and learning. I feel like it'd be worthwhile to continue to experiment.
omg, yes
No it isn't. Spending is very clearly regulated, and you are only allowed to spend it on sufficiently 'normal' things.
Someone gave me a golf cart last year. Actually they gave me a Ferrari 458 Spider. But I wanted a golf cart, so I'm using it as golf cart. Its hassle far outweighs its value. It destroys the fairway with its huge torque. And its rear wheel drive makes it really hard to control on grass. And it uses a lot of gas, so it runs out at the most inconvenient times. My friend doesn't understand, saying he drives his around town, on tarmac, and passes gas stations all the time, but he fails to realize that there aren't any gas stations on the golf course.

Your friend gave you a $300+ Apple Watch, not a $50 sleep tracker. Charge it at night and if you really do want a sleep tracker then buy a sleep tracker.
As timekeeping devices, the Casio G-Shock devices with solar charging and WWWV setting are hard to beat. Rugged, waterproof, etc. Prices start around $55. All they do is tell time, without requiring any attention or maintenance.
It's not only on Verizon. Verizon is the only carrier that sells it at the store.
If you want to buy a Pixel in-store, then yes, it's only on Verizon.

If you buy one from the Google Store, it's unlocked, and it should work on most major US carriers. (See "Channels" under "Specs & More": https://store.google.com/product/pixel_phone)

Disclaimer: I work at YouTube, which is a part of Google.
Yes, and not just on Android. Pebble has a microphone and voice-recognition. One of the more popular apps is effectively wrist-based Siri.
I like these channels:

Tom Scott

https://m.youtube.com/user/enyay

standupmaths

https://m.youtube.com/user/standupmaths

Cody's Lab

https://m.youtube.com/user/theCodyReeder

Matthias Wandel

https://m.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel

Primitive Technology

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

Applied Science

https://m.youtube.com/user/bkraz333
There's a difference between the practice of software development and the effects of software on the world.
If you haven't met Garry, Alexis or the rest of the team, by now you will have read that they have all worked very hard to earn all this good will that's reflected in the comments. And if you're wondering how you can be like them one day, it's really very simple - pay it forward and be kind. Obviously, it helps if you're also incredibly smart and experienced, but the first two items alone will get you very far.

I first met Alexis in 2011 in Austin, and to this day my wife and I often reference the many different nuggets of wisdom he shared with us. A couple of years later, I met Garry at YC, and his support far exceeded the typical business stuff - we were having a hard time at one point, and his help made all the difference.

What I appreciate the most about people like this group is that they are setting a high bar for everyone who's trying to be a value-adding investor - and people are also stepping up to the plate. The amount of help that my current startup has received from people with no skin in the game is truly remarkable, and people like Garry are the real reason why building a startup in the Valley is easier than anywhere else.
> through "party discipline", another throughly undemocratic concept

I disagree, it's more democratic because I know the party platform is what I'm voting for. I don't have to know the individual positions of everyone.
Are you married? Own a house? ;)

What incentive does the landlord have to fix minor problems? It costs you more to move/sue than it costs him to sit on the problem.
Compared with a CD player the nomad jukebox was an incredible device. Ate through batteries like none other though.