skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This effect is also extremely noticeable in the Finnish language. The rules of Finnish grammar are followed much more strictly when writing any kind of text, than they are when speaking. There are rules of grammar that are always followed when writing, but are not really that important when speaking.

As an example, take the sentence "kirja on työpöydälläni", which means "the book is on my desk". The word "työpöytä" (desk) gets two suffixes, "-llä" which corresponds to the preposition "on", and "-ni" which is the first-person genitive. But when speaking, this would easily come out as "kirja on minun työpöydällä" instead, where the noun doesn't isn't in the genitive form at all anymore, the genitive has become a separate word which is a pronoun with a genitive ("minun").

If you study just the grammatical rules and nothing else, you might think that the second sentence is obviously grammatically wrong. (Because according to the rule, the noun must change its case to correspond to the genitive.) Yet it's completely acceptable to say it aloud that way, even in a formal context, and nobody would bat an eye. While at the same time if you put it this way in any kind of writing, you would almost surely be notified by the grammar police that you have made a grave mistake.

I find this duality of language fascinating. And this will certainly continue producing problems for the field of machine translation. Google Translate is infamous in Finland for being near-useless for translating anything to or from Finnish.
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That reminds me, did they ever address the Click Farm problem that was essentially rendering likes and views worthless for many advertisers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag

Or the rampant Freebooting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q
This creeped me out a little when I first started playing it, not because of its accuracy or anything but because of what it asked me to draw.

There were lots of innocuous things like [house, teapot, dog, zebra, moustache] but there was also a substantial amount of things like [rifle, aircraft carrier, submarine] that are military-related. I sort of got the feeling that I was helping to train an AI that would later be deployed in combat. I played another ten rounds or so to see what else might come up, and aside from one or two repeats nothing did and I realized I was being silly.
A bed for fifty falling-down drunk people? If you are not asphyxiated by the morning (crushed by your neighbor or in the normal way), you can make a game of trying to identify the different varieties of puke that coat you like a varnish.
We are not ready for Open Source
>and as we all know once you have physical control security is somewhat out the window anyway.

No, just no. It's long, LONG past time to retire this bit of ancient lore, which came out of a completely different time and place in computing. These days for most users not always having physical control is by far the norm, not the exception. And there are absolutely ways to make to mitigate security issues from physical access, that is after all the entire point of technologies like full disk encryption. FDE is completely pointless if physical security can be taken for granted, it exists entirely because physical security cannot be taken for granted. I presume you don't spend your days advocating nobody bother "because it's pointless anyway."

Technologies like specific CPU/SoC/chipset level hardware security zones, HSMs, use of IOMMUs and the like to prevent DMA from ports, etc. are all there in part to help prevent or mitigate certain physical attacks. For that matter, simple locks and/or sealing of computer units aids with both making attacks more difficult, slower (another key part of threat mitigation) and, just as importantly, making them noticeable. The final fallback of a good security system is to at least try to let the owner know that it broke if all else fails. There is a certain amount of disgruntlement amongst some tech people at highly sealed devices, but they do make it significantly more challenging to perform certain physical attacks quickly or undetectably.

So yes, anything which unexpected speeds up physical attacks, renders them less/unnoticeable, or both, is a legitimate issue. Normal users of portable systems should be able to expect that, under normal circumstances, they can warm lock it (screen lock, put it to sleep), leave for a few minutes, and have a low likelihood of a low energy persistent evil maid attack being pulled off in the mean time. Treating modern security like it only needs to consider servers stashed in a secured room/data center is wrong.
It seems like everyone's switched to 8-bit microcontrollers now, but pretty much accurate.

That being said, there is room for a smartphone-controlled toaster / oven; but it should give more control (customizable & shareable heating profiles, as part of a recipe database) rather than less.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to say for certain that his visiting of these sites is what inspired him to the shooting.

Is it inconceivable that the thousands of police shootings over the past couple years, increasingly public, took a toll on this person who eventually could have become consumed by hate, prior to seeking out groups of others who can relate? That the seeking out of hate groups could be the symptom, rather than the disease?

Personally, I don't find it surprising that out of the millions of black people that have been (and still are) oppressed by the police, that a few of them will be inspired to do something like this by their reality alone, without the need for outside influence.
>Evidence that HN is a right-wing capitalist site

You read a different HN than I do.
Kind of like how service providers constantly have issues with their infrastructure and support, but the billing website and auto-billing system? That's always working.

Shows you where their priorities are.
Microsoft: For our first demo, let's build a todo app using the MEAN stack on a Mac.

HN: Hell is freezing over.
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> No one is suggesting that all or most Trump supporters are racist.

"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”

- Hillary Clinton, Sep 2016
I drew bread as a loaf from an isometric perspective. It didn't get it. All but one of the other pictures were of a single slice of bread. There was another picture of a loaf of bread, but it was mirrored in relation to mine. Seems like some bit of knowledge should be devoted to whether orientation is important, but the computer doesn't understand that. It seems like this is because most people draw pictures one way initially. It might be helpful to have each person draw a second picture of the same thing.
Despite never having Comcast nor living in an area Comcast serves, I constantly get email from them. To unsubscribe I must login to my (nonexistent) account.
Please read this: http://occupywallstreet.net/story/explaining-white-privilege...
Google Glass was "almost universally used and appreciated benefits of Android tablets/phones in front of your face". Its potential for mainstream use was limited because most people don't want to socialise with someone with a surreptitious recording device attached to their head.

Snapchat is "mildly addictive product within certain demographics in front of your face". Reasons to assume that it will remain a tiny niche product, probably even within the Snapchat demographic, include most people not wanting to socialise with someone with a surreptitious recording device attached to their head
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Really?!

Just to give you one example that hits very close to home: the EU parliament recently start this push for companies that provide OTT communication services (Whatsapp, Skype, Viber, etc...) to comply to phone companies regulations.

Among other things, this would mean that all of the companies that provide end-to-end encryption would simply have to stop doing it, given that phone companies need to be able to provide "Lawful Interception".
Numbers:

Trump : 60,834,437 votes
Hillary : 61,782,016 votes

Popular Vote result ( as in your vote counts the same as everyone elses ) President Hillary. US System ( the weight of your vote depends on what state you live in ) President Trump.

If you want to break it down further than that, well there is no reason to analyze anything ever because it's always a completely different situation.

People were blindsided because in any measure people consider fair and democratic, Trump would not be president. Trump was president once Ohio, NC and Florida were called for him. The rest of the country didn't matter except for counting exactly how many electoral college votes he was going to get, but we could have stopped counting votes by about 11pm EST on November 8. For the presidential election, it was just a formality after that.
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I doubt that webpage is as smart as a 3-year-old.
little meta - HN is not the best place to have these discussions. the way voting works here, everything is too conformist, too sugarcoated, and most importantly, downvotes are regularly handed out (at least in such emotional discussions as political discussions are wont to be) according to the political views of the high-karma elites, and more particularly according to their lack of moral self-control (i.e. many will not "abuse" downvotes like that, but that then just gives more power to those doing it).

is it OK to assume that, among the people with high enough karma to cast downvotes, the distribution of political views equals that of the general commenting population? or, better question - does that even matter? i don't know, is it even possible to achieve some kind of crowd-sourced moderation without exposing the system to the risk of gangs of idealists attacking dissenters with downvotes?
This is my company: https://eggplant.pro/web.htm

All work done in-house, responsive websites are easy-peasy.
To go down the rabbit hole even further common benchmarks will run with one-off drivers to give the appearance of better performance.

I've seen vendors skip mem-zero, skew buffer sizes, overclock, disable thermal limits and all sorts of other shenanigans specifically targeted at gaming benchmarks.

Only real way to evaluate hardware is to run the exact loads(or simulacrum of them that's not disclosed to the vendor) which probably overkill for consumer hardware.
This reminds me, in art style, the output of the video game Another World. With some tweaking, it should be possible to make very similar results.
From what I see in my feed, it seems 100% of "progressives" have doubled down on their hyperbolic, established, in-group rhetoric. I followed everyone that I follow because they are programmers, not because they are "progressives". But from looking at my feed, one would think that I deliberately set out to create a radical SJW echo chamber for myself.
This is awesome but expensive. The base configuration is $800 ($795) for case+motherboard+power_supply. I'm used to $50 case, $200 mobo, $100 ps. $800 is a lot more than $350.
Maybe you'll get $450 of enjoyment out of a sweet silent workstation.
http://airtop-pc.com/product/airtop-customized/
"Lastly, Facebook said it plans to form a Measurement Council made up of marketers and ad agency executives, and will also roll out a blog to more regularly communicate updates about measurement."

I read that as "we have no idea on how to measure, so please tell us what is important for you guys".
Where "modern" ~= US Civil War and later.
Would be a pretty short and boring prediction. Individual predictions for specific areas are far more interesting.
We've got some announcements coming that makes today's keynote worth watching trust me. I am speaking as someone who helped pull this event off and is sitting back stage :)
Title should have a warning about automatically playing content, although I guess with more “modern” devices background tabs' actions don't matter as much.
Honest question, is it possible this article or the study it mentions is a paid ad for Celebrex? It somehow feels more pushy than impartial, and it didn't mention the cost difference between Ibuprofen and Celebrex, which is to put it mildly, enormous.

I have taken too much "Vitamin-I" over the years, and it finally caught up with me and started causing stomach and esophagus problems. I've wanted to try Celebrex, but it's way too expensive. Have tried Meloxicam and it's much gentler than Ibuprofen, but let's just say it did come with some side effects on my gastrointestinal system.
I'd focus on the difference you're making. Are you making drivers, passengers and bystanders more or less safe than they'd be if someone less skilled was doing your job? Given that new cars tend to be substantially safer all round than older cars, I'd say most of the industry is in the clear. OTOH anyone encouraging people to buy heavier cars than they need should probably think things through pretty carefully.
Also, the uncomfortable part is falling off the side or being smushed into a wall. Being smushed into another person is more comfortable because people are soft and you have no danger of falling off.
[marshmallow, hotel, ectoplasm]

omg, I just trained this thing to bust some ghosts
Your email isn't actually in your profile (the email field is just visible to you and used by HN, not visible publicly), and it doesn't appear to be on your website, either.
Bear in mind that some people consider this site to be sexist and racist - check out the #hnwatch hashtag on Twitter. Everyone commenting here "good", consider that as a member of HN, others tar you with the same brush. Still so happy?
Using a lot of the privacy and security measures suggested in https://www.privacytools.io/ I sometimes do a gmail search using 'is:unread in:all unsubscribe' and click on most of the links I can find.

In some cases, Gmail automatically detects the unsubscribe link. If you click Gmail's unsubscribe link, it may give you a pop-up or it may automatically write an email to unsubscribe@example.com. The pop-up usually leads to a form that you have to fill to 'update your newsletter preferences'.
Good luck! I don't plan on revisiting mine for the time being (more interested in some Scala stuff I have parked on the side)
If you presuppose that the purpose of trading is to make money in and of itself then sure. Of course the real (original?) purpose is more tightly coupled to reality and to real goods exchanging hands. There seems to be a fundamental difference between profiting from the exchange and profiting from the mechanism of exchange.

I'm not asking for how we ended up here. I get that faster = better and 1ms faster is still 1ms better. What I'm asking is what value it brings to the world — specifically the world outside of, historically, the pit, and today, outside of the computers executing trades.

Are goods more accurately priced? Is there more liquidity in the market? Is the market more stable? Is the market more efficient, or is it only the technical implementation of the market that's made more efficient by these? Do these benefits, if they're present, outweigh the cost of things like flash crashes caused by algorithms? If flash crashes hurt all of us, then shouldn't we all be benefited by the algorithms when they're doing well? Do we benefit and by how much?

This is why people want "nerdy HFTs" to be taxed in a special way. Maybe it's because they can't articulate the value or maybe it's because there is no value. I can't see the difference and I can't get anything other than evasive comparisons when I ask what the difference is.
Not all of them. They’re people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
The thing is that is not how it works. If the encryption can be broken it can be broken. If the government can read your messages so can the coffeeshop.
Well, they have approximately one testicle and one ovary, slightly under ten fingers, and live some hundreds or thousands of miles beneath southeast Asia.
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The current axiom is that yes, anybody can have prejudiced views about anybody else. Sure, and it's perfectly fine and normal to feel hurt when you are getting the hit from it. But the way progressives talk about racism today is that racism is prejudice + power structures. You can be hated all day long for being a white person, but until people of color are pulling all the invisible power structures, it doesn't really go farther than that. This doesn't invalidate that people hurled terrible insults at you, but there are not any vast structures in place to systemically keep you down as a result of these prejudices.
There is a lot to be annoyed with on the new MBP, but upgradability has not been a feature for Apple across almost all product types (including "Pro" models), for many years. This is not news. It's not the antithesis of a professional machine just because you say it is.
I'm pretty sure the 20 second timer is meant to keep you focused on the essentials of what you're trying to draw. Makes sense to me.
> Did they fix the privacy issues that arose with Google glasses?

Yes, thus: being filmed by a geek - creepy, being filmed by the cultural elite - you should be so lucky.
According to Snopes, Fake News Is Not the Problem
A couple of others:

http://nypost.com/2016/11/14/teen-girl-says-she-was-brutally...

http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/11/trump_sup...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/black-lives-ma...

http://patch.com/massachusetts/boston/trump-supporter-allege...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/subway-rider-a...

There are attacks happening on both sides and it's really pushing us into a scary position as a country. What makes things worse is we have people faking attack stories as well which will likely lead to further violence as people feel the need to retaliate:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/1...

Both sides really need to take a step back and realize they're just continuing the divide.

I'm personally against Twitter banning folks unless they're engaging in harassment of other users. It would be nice though if the platforms like Twitter and Facebook more severely punished those harassing others though.
Treatments != drugs.

What if other options were therapy or surgery?
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100% False. Anyone claiming this is part of the opposition and seeks to label anything they dislike as racist/sexist in order to discredit the movement.
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First example from your article:

"I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented."

Someone being the same color as me doesn't mean they "represent" me in any way.
The main criticism of the mass media over the last year and a half was how they breathlessly promoted Clinton. Yet white people turned up in droves to not vote for her. Many of those same white people voted for Obama twice. Yet he isn't white. The white privilege narrative from the perspective of your article is simple-minded and reductionist in the extreme.

Please watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxZRuL65wQ
> We want to give your child the best possible start. Believe me, we have enough imperfection built in already. Your child doesn't need any more additional burdens. Keep in mind, this child is still you. Simply, the best, of you. You could conceive naturally a thousand times and never get such a result.

I always thought the editing was implied even if it wasn't explicitly called out.

Jerome was different in that he was not edited.
As someone with a fairly large rare Pepe collection, and who has been responsible for illustrating some extremely rare Pepes, but is in no way sympathetic to the notion of white supremacy, I find this whole Pepe controversy quite annoying. I've even removed the Pepe patch I had on my backpack in fear that someone would misinterpret my politics.

The clearest indiction I had that the media and the Clinton campaign were completely out of touch with reality came after reading this gem of an article on the Clinton campaign website.

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/donald-trump-pepe-the-fr...
I agree on all points except re: the mini iPad. I have no use for a full-size iPad, but I have the 9.7" Pro and Mini 4, which are perfectly sized, in my humble opinion.
The last year of news has pushed me more than ever to read/listen to primary sources. Things have become so distorted left or right, that it seems like the responsible thing to do.

Regarding the attacks towards Steve Bannon, I agree. They are only using examples of what other people who don't like him have said. Here is a great speech and Q+A he gave regarding Judeo-Christian values at the highly respected Dignitatis Humanae Institute [0]. Having listened to this speech amongst others, alongside his writings I can only conclude that what is being pushed are simply smears. Breitbart has taken so much power and money away from the mainstream publications, it is in their interests to take him down.

[0] https://soundcloud.com/buzzfeednews/steve-bannon-at-dhi#c=16...

edit: If anyone would like to dispute my opinion, please for good discussion provide primary sources that originate directly from Steven Bannon.

edit edit: please take a look at the Ask HN I have posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967873
A good example - that link has eight (8!) different English translations for the phrase's meaning. Surely the phrase is made up of words, and its possible to tell us how those words translate individually!

If I break it up into 'ita daki masu' then Google Translate emits "I will start with you." Again, no idea if that's even close.
Do you think having black governors, judges, or prosecutors will suddenly stop racism? I'll remind you that black people can be racist too (indeed, the New Black Panther Party is incredibly antisemitic)

I'll repeat a few sentences from my above comment:

> And many other people of color in power everywhere else? Your claim reads as if every white person oppresses every black person, all the time. And that's just offensive.

I didn't just say "yeah we have a black president, job's done", and I acknowledge that we face racial issues today in America. That being said, there is not a wholesale monopoly on power where all black people are always oppressed by all white people.

As of 2015, (just as a random and tiny example, off the top of my head) our Congress has been as diverse as it has ever been: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/01/12/114th-congre....

And what else do you suggest we do to combat racism? I am honestly open to discussion.
There's a difference between being intentionally and accidentally racist. That is often dropped in conversation, which is why you see different sides disagreeing on that.
Isn't aspirin regularly promoted as being good for your heart?