skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just hope they don't dilute it. I regularly use arxiv-sanity.com and I like it because there are only ML papers, not mixed with various other fields, like on the regular arxiv.org site. They should make it easy to restrict the catalog to a desired field.
> Perhaps I should have recorded him the way indigenous people, in those tribes that have been decimated, will sometimes record the last of their older relatives who speak a dying language. But it is all of a piece: His hunched shoulders, his dark eyebrows, the deep circles under his eyes, and his acerbic tone—a recording could not do it credit.

Take a video.
>> "...government initiatives to increase the supply of housing..."

The government zones the way it does today on purpose, to create a built environment and social structure that insures you have to work all the time to afford housing and a car. This makes you docile and governable and taxable.
The number of times I have to click a bit everywhere at random in a panic because some shit autoplay sound or video started yelling and I can't figure which one it is and where it is :-[]
I was hoping that maybe it might become the modern version of Cato the Elder's "Furthermore, Carthage must be destroyed".
15. The word "awesome" will be outlawed. There are 9243 adjectives for expressing contentedness in the English language. Please learn and use some of the other ones.

16. The current imbalance in American usage of the words "of(f)" and "on" will be corrected to ensure lexical fairness. The extraneous "of" in "off of" will be removed. "Off" already means what you're trying to achieve by adding "of" to it.

Similarly, the word "on" will be compulsorily reintroduced as a preposition, when referring to events occurring on certain days of the week. This will remove ambiguity from phrases such as "I met my girlfriend Wednesday" —unless your girlfriend really is called Wednesday.

17. To confirm to British anatomical standards, the word "fanny" will henceforth refer to the front bottom. Please use the word "arse" to refer to the back one. That's "arse", with an R. An "ass" is a donkey.
See also: http://www.myhuiban.com

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This is an overly cynical view of zoning. While zoning today in most cities is overzealous, there are good aspects to zoning too (compared to what came before).
Hope you don't mind I ride off the bottom comment ;)

I came here to post that the article misses the point!

As you said, diamond rings are about the status.

They are a signal, first and foremost.

It's like expensive cars and (dare I say) Apple products:

the wastefulness is an indicator of wealth, just like the peacock's massive tail is wasteful: it is expensive to grow and detrimental to its ability to escape predators.

So, as dimino suggested, I would spend the same amount...

but I'd spend it on Moissanite ;)
How big/heavy is that bag? As someone that doesn't know much about this topic, that seems like an enormous amount of food!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light
> Lab-grown diamonds are purer, more perfect crystals, cheaper, and better than mined diamonds in every way. (ignoring the market manipulation factor, which I'm not too knowledgeable about, except that I've heard big diamond companies do some shady things to keep prices high)

This is completely correct, although in the absence of De Beers mined diamonds would be cheaper. (Creating diamonds is technically quite difficult, but they are very common in nature.)

> Girls hate lab-grown diamonds because they consider them "artificial".

I can deny this. I collect synthetic cut gemstones. There are three types of common reactions:

1. "It looks fake."

2. "What are you going to do with it? What's the point?"

3. "Wow, it's beautiful!"

I've never seen someone who thought a gem was beautiful decide they'd been wrong after learning the stone was created. Girls might dislike synthetic diamonds in engagement rings because they think the symbolism is wrong; they don't dislike them in general.

> in your article, you don't seem to make such a distinction, so I'm wondering if your article is about lab-grown, mined, or both?

The OP is talking about lab-grown moissanite:

>> The big difference between moissanite and diamond is that moissanite can be manufactured reliably and efficiently in a laboratory. The result: flawless, brilliant gemstones at about 1/10th the cost of a comparable diamond.
I highly recommend you give SmartGit a try. The best way I can describe it is it feels like an IDE for Git/Mercurial. In a similar vein to TortoiseHG. Unfortunately, it's paid software, but one of the few pieces of paid software that I'll ever recommend.
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government subsidies cause distortions. Somehow providing basic income to incentivize people to live more in rural areas would only cause those currently living in rural areas to be more costly. The salaries of farmers, oil rig workers, truck drivers, miners, lumberjacks, etc... would rise.

Plug one hole in the dike and others will pop up. Just let the free market work and people choose where they want to live and work.
What is the point of this comment?

If I design a new type of helmut that was totally awesome, it would rightly be judged against other helmuts.

If I buy a stone specifically as an alternative to diamond for jewellery, why would I come up with different criteria?
I've found navigating by sign much easier by any sign anyhow.

Maps can break down at the most critical points: multiple exits happening in quick succession, exits followed by forks, the GPS reading you the entire sign contents which just serves as a distraction more than anything, etc. Not to mention now there is a screen you have to pay attention to!

If you know where you're going and the general route to get there (i.e. which highway to get onto), following by sign is much easier. Cities are exceptionally well marked. It's a low-tech solution that just works. And yes, no worries about the signs dying or losing signal or crashing.
Then why not just shoot them (and spare the money for food and housing)? (For the record, I'm strongly against death penalty).

I cannot believe it. I would fire immediately all and every prison employee which act as respectlessly and irresponsibly (action --> reaction).

There was now a 8 year long Democratic administration and I have to read such stories. Is this also the majority-Democratic-sentiment? Or were they helpless against the Republican dominated congress?

Just looked up statistics (wikipedia): 1 in 3 black males will go to prison in their lifetime (and then be treated in this way). I think of my friends: 1 in 3! Absurd (even worse than I thought), someone has to fix this!!
The point of earthquake codes is not that the buildings are livable in afterwards, in fact in Christchurch something like 30% of all buildings had to be demolished. The point is that they stay up long enough for rescuers to get in, and if they do collapse they collapse with survival cells rather than pancake. In Christchurch the buildings performed very well with exception of the CTV building which pancaked. Although I know that a few buildings were only seconds away from collapsing so we were very lucky.
As an outsider I always just assumed those who ran prisons and designed them wanted them to be set up that way.
They already have the keys either way: its a shared-hosting environment.
agreed! investing websites are terrible for this. cnbc starts a video playing for every article. there goes my bandwidth.
"But is it productive for us to declare everything unsafe and somewhat give up believing we can build and use safe platforms?"

There's the problem: we. We might be able to do it with time and money. Most startups, publicly-traded companies, regular companies, government groups (esp w/ legacy systems), and IOT makers aiming for max cost-cutting won't do it. Most don't know how but won't make the sacrifices even if they learn. Their incentives plus demand-side tell them not to. So, no reason to think they'll do it any time soon past marginal improvements for public relations.

What can happen is people forming organizations idealogically and/or by charter committed to puting quality/security over highest-margins in their products or services. Look up Praxis Correct-by-Construction for an example who charges 50% premium for software they warranty for quality. Secure64 sells DNS with ultra-hardened OS. GENU builds on OpenBSD. Green Hills has INTEGRITY-178B. OK Labs (now GD) put microvisor in a billion phones. There's some others but really niche and still successful where well-marketed.

We could see more of that. Only problem is they fight an uphill battle since they're expected to include a pile of insecure features and protocols in lots of products. And, despite maximum quality, at same price or cheaper than competition! What could go wrong in such an IT market?!
Don't know... I took it in a class just like yours. IIRC it was the SWI prolog docs site
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And what color is in her peripheral vision?
I'm pretty sure literally nothing in distributing software is as simple as you're trying to make this sound.
The tsunami risk was low because it was an inland quake, however they enacted a tsunami evacuation as a precaution. Would you rather they take a risk?
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I've already fixed the CSS for hacker news several times; they always reject my suggestions though. It's like they want to keep it shitty
Here's a site published by the NZ government. The advice seems fairly reasonable.

http://getthru.govt.nz/how-to-get-ready
It's not a lie if $AMOUNT is your budget for a room.
prison is inhuman punishment. it doesn't stop or correct crime. and in return causes huge social problems.
Who said it was funny in the first place? The article touches some important, serious topics.
But one could start with the small things: "yelled at...". Totally unnecessary imho. Why do this?
I don't think poor people are regularly locked in cages with HIV positive serial rapists.
Both DeBeers recommend links are getting 404.
Personally I have some canned food that I just don't find all that appealing, which I could eat if I needed to. Probably enough to get through a week. What I don't have, but I'd like to have, is a reserve of fresh water. A plastic 5 gallon carboy would be enough. I also have my hiking, camping, and skiing equipment which I could use inside my apartment if the heat went out in the winter for an extended period ... although after a day at -20 I'd probably start burning books and furniture. I also try to keep at least 1000 cash on hand at all times, and try to refill my meds when I still have 1 week left.
Having lived on big fault lines my entire life (Salt Lake City and Seattle), I have been trained from kindergarten on about what to do in an earthquake.

In the closet of my 7th floor apartment I have 1 small-ish backpack full of a handful of useful things like a crank weather radio and some flashlights (all bought on clearance over the years). I also have an orange home depot bucket full of non-perishable, high-calorie food I got off Amazon. And a few cases of water. It takes up about 15% of my closet. I bet I could make the food/water last for a month if I had to.

So the answer is yes! But not everyone did earthquake drills four times a year during 12 years of public school... I am 33.
Secrecy, verification, and purposeful ignorance
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The thing is, I actually can't imagine what it's like to be those people. I mean, I'm trying, but I literally can't: I log into my computer every day over SSH, I write and use CLI tooling constantly. I'm an emacs user, and if your tooling doesn't have a CLI mode, I'm usually not interested.

I can't stand IDEs and frameworks because I hate having things done magically for me, partly because "magic" tends to break, and partly because I have a compulsive need to know how things work, if not deeply than at least superficially. I can't stand Java and languages like it because the absurd amount of boilerplate they generate seems to require such things, it's generally considered a fool's errand to write Java outside of an irritatingly complex IDE, and it seems to attract complex frameworks like a pile of crap attracts flies.

An IDE dependance (not preference, dependance: you're terrified of going outside of an IDE) doesn't just imply a distaste for CLIs, it often implies a desire to have things done for you, for "magic."

Do these sorts of people rewrite software, even if there's a convenient framework, just because? Do they think about cache misses (even if they don't do anything about them)? Do they learn new languages and concepts on a whim, because, "I thought it seemed cool?"

Thinking like these people doesn't just mean ignoring years of knowledge, but also actually pretending that a deeply ingrained part of who I am, something I though near intrinsic to programmers (because what other sort of person would do this sort of thing voluntarily?).

I actually can't, and that kind of amazes me.
1) 3 days emergency food and water supply

2) Slowly building up a emergency cash fund. Every time I take money from the ATM, I peel off $5-10 and deposit in this fund.

3) Have financial, insurance documents with the emergency kit to be evacuated with me if required.

4) Hodge-podge of other things like caffeine pills, clean underwear, anti-inflammatory meds, feminine hygiene products, safety gloves, etc.

5) Offsite data back up for complete destruction of technical gear.

6) Recovery plan for loss of living accommodation & technology stored 1,000 miles away in my parents' fireproof safe.

7) Full estate plan in case I'm dead.

These are just some of the things I've got in place.
It's not obvious that humans really "understand" math. Or at least, only a very tiny minority of humans understand math well enough to improvise with it.

Most humans are only able to learn a small handful of "cookbook" math practices.

This is a standard trope in AI - AIs are compared with the sum total skill of human culture as a whole, not with the relatively weak skills of individual humans. (We have individuals with stand-out skills in specific domains, but there are no - at least virtually no - individuals with stand-out skills in many domains.)

Perhaps future approaches to AI will be collective. Instead of a single smart all-powerful monoAI we'll build evolving problem-solving polyAI cultures, and skim off the skills and insights they develop.

So "solving vision" isn't a useful measure. AI vision is getting close to classifying photos with human-like levels of consistency. 3D vision is still a problem, but will probably come with time.

But then what? Non-blind humans can all recognise familiar people, pick out strangers as strangers, identify a standard selection of objects, make educated guesses about non-familiar objects, and so on.

But humans can also appreciate art, identify memes and find them amusing, respond to font choices and colours, describe and label spatial relationships and views, and point to the location of objects/places that are not currently in view.

Trained artists and architects can identity and name specific proportions and identify cultural references.

Etc. How many of these are necessary to "solve vision"?
Oh I just bring attention to tech that people might be interested in. You're the first to mention a drawback. So, I might just ask one of them if there's a list of thing people like about Prolog hard or non-existent in Mercury. Next time I'll be better informed if anyone asks. That's all.

I do have a slight tie-in to my field where I keep logic systems in my peripheral in case they become useful for (a) executable specifications, (b) connections to provers like Milawa, (c) easier formal verification, or (d) commercial deployment in a good one that almost skips the coding phase by keeping code close to specs. Mission Critical IT claims to use Mercury for (a) and (d) with a finance developer linked here a while back using Prolog for whole app. Got easy extensions and fixes as result. So, these conversations might have benefit later.
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Wine actually has (mostly) functional theming support-- point Wine to a .msstyles theme DLL and it'll draw themed controls (rather than the Windows Classic style default).

They just don't ship a theme with Wine; understandable for licensing reasons (they can't distribute Microsoft's designs), but it means that Wine looks like Windows 2000 out of the box.
If you can afford a $3k MBP, you can afford a diamond ring. And her diamond ring will be worn forever, your shiny new laptop will be on Craigslist in 5 years.
This is why I like that project. User cant be disturb as this self hosting service is yours. You are the master on board :) Do what you want ; do what you need ; share or dont etc.
It is a toy that renders service.
Absolutely, snooze is the #1 thing I use.
there's no need to call anyone a croony crackpot or similar.

lots of big newspaper seem also to agree that diamonds are bullshit, here's huffingtonpost's article about it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-weissman/7-reasons-why-you...
How Amazon Web Services (AWS) Achieved an $11.5B Run Rate by Working Backwards
No, not particularly, but I think that's because the rest of the chapter (and of his work) is something of a criticism of the concept :)
It's very sensible to prep for small or extended periods of supply-chain breakdown. My wife and I have taken the following precautions:

- We have a few LifeStraw personal water filters [1]. These things are awesome -- one of them filters up to 1,000 liters of drinking water. Very reasonable price too ($20, you can get them for cheaper occasionally on sites like woot). I'd argue these are the most important items we own.

- We have an abundance of canned goods. This isn't primarily meant for "prepping", but we always buy more canned goods than we need when we find them on sale.

- This won't apply to everyone, but we have a large amount of heirloom seeds we've collected over the past few years. We have ~9.5 acres of land, so if things were to ever get rough (and plants still grew) we'd be able to get food that way.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/LifeStraw-LSPHF017-Personal-Water-Fil...
FUNNY BUSINESS IDEAS YOU WON’T BELIEve MADE UP TO a MILLION DOLLARS FOR FOUNDERS
How do you get the data?
The documentary would have to be from the early 90's since there's almost no blood diamonds in the rough market
I can't tell you how many iOS users are tricked by "Oh, I can get Chrome and Firefox on iOS" that don't realize it's just skinned webkit. Totally dishonest.
When you're frustrated you also behave more variably, and behavioral variability is important to the discovery of novelty.
"Socialist Coder" would have voted for Bernie.... Shocked, I say, shocked. ;)
What's wrong is that nobody would pay for this. DOSBox and Wine both work fine, and are free.
I was saving constantly, just hadn't committed it as I hadn't finished the task yet.

It wiped the file when I saved the last time before it crashed.
You are right. Because these same people, are released in 5-10-20 years and are then someone's neighbor.

Rarely any job skills to speak of.

Often very little in the way of education or resources to improve.

So the end result 80-90% of the time is to resort to the familiar crowd and routine.
My and then current GF had our engagement rings in titanium. We never got married though.
Just last week this happened. Not sure how, what or where it autosaves, but it sure didn't recover from this.
I find the safari reader view to be super useful for almost all sites like this.
All I can say is "Wow!" Synthetic diamonds have sure come a long way. At the rate the technology seems to be progressing, even golfball-sized diamonds at ridiculously low prices might not be unrealistic, and I'm sure others will find applications for it.

Due to its thermal properties, I think handling a huge diamond might also be an interesting experience.
> "Yet we like to think of ourselves as fundamentally different."

Yes, we do don't we. Yet reality remains what it is. Perhaps by exploring with an open mind we can stop our preconceived notions from clouding our understanding.
"Then why not just shoot them"

One day I was doing some grocery shopping and a some guy comes up and asks me how my relationship with Jesus was. I'm an atheist and said so and he began following me around the store trying out various talking points in an attempt to get me to attend the youth outreach concert/thing they were having that night.

At one point he asks "What if some one were to rape your daughter and then shoot himself, you wouldn't care that he wouldn't be punished?"

Think about that for a second. This was a youth pastor, a man who theoretically instructs the children of the United State on ethics and morality, who did not believe death was a sufficient punishment.

ETA: and lest anyone think I might be exaggerating his stance, I actually called him on that several times. "Well I mean: he's dead, how is that not punishment" I asked immediately. I think 4 times we pushed at the sides of that point before he moved onto some other argument. Which is to say he was willing to defend the idea that death wasn't punishment enough.
Over 1/2M votes suppressed in the U.S. Election Results
Market forces are the things which have "sold off" so many jobs in the past, and many more to come. Markets work by their magic through "survival of the fittest" and if we stop unfit companies from dying off (e.g. US banks which took too much risk in 2008, or US auto manufacturing), we slow down this mechanism.
Ask HN: Looking for feedback on business concept – Startup Mentor
Hi HN

Myself and my co founder have been looking into an Idea to help startups in their early days and want to get some feedback from the community.

The concept is called Startup Mentor and is a similar concept to Codementor but for startups. It allows anyone to request either a chat or video session with other founders or industry professionals, in a range of issues for a small fee per 15 mins.

One of the best things you find in startup hubs, such as the valley, is a network of founders that have been there and can help the next wave of entrepreneurs. If however you don’t live in one of these areas it can be quite hard to navigate the pitfalls.

If your a founder would you find something like this useful or would you offer service as a mentor?
http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/cchr/downloads/pdf/publications/G... has a list of pronouns.
a 3k MBP provides a lot more value than a 3k diamond ring

if used correctly, a 3k MBP is a netgain
I apparently am "good" enough to never have had that happen, though I don't call very often. That's horrific, since it implies that it is stored as plaintext, "optimistically" as "plain-number-text."
The original comment is absolutely correct in that if the video stream is delivered via HTTPS it is impossible to downsample it. Now, whether YouTube et al actually use HTTPS for the video stream, I don't know...
Nothing, but if you read the other comments, people here are worried that he's over-estimating the market size. But we all wish him the best. Hopefully, he's either done his due diligence or he's primarily in it for the fun.
And what if you do not want to get married unless she shows you how much she loves you by getting you a mustang?
For some things it is certainly important.
If someone is a known murderer, what would you do? You have to section that person off somehow. Regardless of what you call that sectioning it is a prison.
Isn't that the point of diversification?
And a wife is a net loss monetarily. I guess you shouldn't get married then
Iodine tablets are super cheap too.
Cool, do you see HBase being used in prod? (Outside of Google that is). Who's using it?