skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created an account just to say that this looks really fantastic. Thanks for creating this! I'm looking forward to steady improvements in neural network tooling, and it's people like yourself that keep that train moving forward.
I agree about the current system, but not about the Two-Round system. It would be more efficient for voters to go to the polls once and choose a first and second preference. Voters could be allowed as many preferences as candidates, which is what RCV does.
Can't agree enough with this. Here's a safe type of bike lane (note the two curbs): http://therecord.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c465d53ef0133f21e9125...

Here are two incredibly unsafe types, but for some reason the one's being installed right now in the Bay Area at least:
http://www.newsworks.org/images/stories/flexicontent/l_bike-...
http://www.executivestyle.com.au/content/dam/images/1/3/i/n/...

I just don't get it.
> And 99% of the Bulgarian visitors to Sweden spend their time sitting on the ground in front of supermarket entrances. So I guess that is what the 99% of people inside Bulgaria do as well?

Wow. I never saw anyone on HN get so low. Ever. In more than 9 years. It appears I was right about you.
It's not a matter of comparison or opinion.
Dark web boasts of Tesco bank thefts
> but a small group of people taking it upon themselves to decide for everyone else how a city should operate is a very tricky place for any society to be.

good thing we don't have small groups of organized opposition showing up to these things and blocking progress while calling themselves "concerned neighbors" or "neighborhood coalitions"

oops no wait thats whats happening now.
[...] some gaffer's tape works just as well, and costs a lot less (but doesn't look as slick). I don't have any such solution for the microphone, though.

The microphone is a hard one. Even if you cover the holes in the casing where the mic is located the sound still travels just fine via the keyboard.

IIRC when a photo came out of Mark Zuckerberg covering his webcam I noticed he covered his mic port with tape as well. He should have checked the volume levels from his mic - it would still pick up everything just fine. In fact I think the tiny mic holes are mostly vestigial.
Yes, it's such a surprise that there would be scamming going around inside the US.
Let's reverse the circumstance.

Let's say you signed a job offer with Facebook. A year later, there's a recession and FB decides that they didn't need X many SWEs now. I would think they would write you a letter to regretfully inform you of the situation and may be offer you some compensation (that might work only for FB, other cash strapped companies might never do this).

Loyalty, not reneging on your word etc, is overrated. I think they will understand that if not for this wonderful new/unexpected opportunity that turned up for you, you were planning on keeping up your end of the bargain. So I'd say go ahead and take the new gig.
Turnout would certainly be higher, but it's not clear that it would be a "better" representation of the country.

The electoral college distribute power, to some degree, based on geography. Geography is correlated with a large number of other "diversities" of American culture, from race, population density, to industry, to global warming risk, etc... Switching it to a straight majority would take power away from all of these subsets of society.

This election, it seems, it was "white rust belt" Americans that decided the election. In Gore vs Bush, it was Florida. Next time, it will be something else. It's all highly imperfect and somewhat random, but I see danger in solidifying power in what essentially will be people who live in cities.
>Shazam doesn't control my device, I do.

I'm not sure how you can be confident in stating that as fact. I'm not at all. In the US there are many issues with switching carriers, for one example.

You state that you're in control of the device but then say "What's to stop any other software vendor from ignoring the configuration". Ignoring what seems like a contradiction there, I think we would have different definitions for what it means to control your own device.
I'm not a doctor but have been dealing with cancer in the family. I think we will soon see much more use of fine-needle techniques in cancer treatment in novel ways.

Perhaps the next big thing will be an oil-and-gas engineer adapting drilling, guiding and visualisation technologies to the very small scale.

Directly killing the cancer cells is often futile because you can't kill them all, but we could also use this tech to:

* take samples of the the tumour and its microenvironment to analyse and guide treatment

* inject biological agents into tumours (e.g. T-Vec)

* inject "broad-spectrum" immunotherapies (ipilimumab, various cytokines) which may be too dangerous to use systemically

* insert radioactive grains or auger targets as an adjunct to enhance immunotherapy

* apply local electroporation to enhance the uptake of chemotherapy and breakdown of tumour cells, again to enhance the immune response (e.g. ImmunoPulse)

* take samples in order to grow personalised treatments in the lab for later injection (e.g. dendritic cell therapy)

* provide safer options for dealing with complications like pericardial effusions.
This is part of a much larger project on which I was working, but this checklist is a good overview of the fundamentals plus some details, ordered by priority:

https://tylershuster.gitbooks.io/agile-seo-campaign-methodol...
If the app is functional and actually useful... which seemed to be the case when the whole furore came up, I'm not sure what past activity/scamming of apple reviews has to do with anything.

He got taken off the app store for those activities, doesn't change the fact that a lot of people find it useful.
Presuming it's identifiable with any accuracy other than confirming its existence via byproducts
Show HN: Priorities for a Rad Progressive Movement
I really hope that biking SF will improve in the future. It's freaking dangerous to bike on some of the streets in downtown SF.
It's "limited" liability, not "no" liability.
That comment is from a newly-created anonymous user responding with the word "personal" to a roll of facts and figures by someone who's real name and photo can be found by following the user link. If anyone (even someone anonymous in HN tradition) wants to challenge the facts I presented, present other relevant facts (not speculations on motives), and show how a different conclusion can be drawn, then I'll happily reply to them. I believe the Grails consultants at OCI will try and take over Apache Groovy, DataStax-style, irrespective of my own personal feelings on Groovy.
There's a lot of things that economists agree on, the gold standard being a prime example.

http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/gold-standard

Planet Money has done a couple episodes where they get economists from a blend of ideologies and find things they all agree on.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/02/26/468298576/econo...

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-p...
Value objects may be simple, but they're not obvious. If they were, more code would use them.

To the extent that the concept is relevant, the difference is obvious unless you only ever use languages that are ambiguous about reference/value semantics.

If you use a language like C or C++ or even assembly, where pointers and taking an address are explicit and fundamental concepts, there's mostly no problem. Your data is a value by default, and if you want a reference (pointer) instead, you just make one, explicitly. The exception is arrays, and in not entirely unrelated news, array semantics in C and C++ are a significant source of bugs.

If you use a functional programming language, again data is typically immutable unless you explicitly use some sort of reference type, so again no problem.

I have long maintained that one of the worst of Java's many design flaws was using the exact same syntax to represent two distinct but related concepts, depending on whether you were referring to a primitive or a class-based type. At least with the static typing you can see which you've got, though.

I can't fathom why you'd deliberately design a language to work like JS or Python, where not only can the exact same syntax mean two completely different things but which you get depends on dynamic typing information that you can't even see until runtime, or even on the exact values you're using rather than their types, in a case like Python's handling of small integers.

I shudder to think how much productivity has been lost by now to bugs caused by mixing up .equals() with == in Java, == with === in JS, and == with `is` in Python.
While it may be an "unsourced rumor that has been making its way around social media.", it's also something I learned years ago, it's a simple and very obvious economy measure.

And whatever that Official Federal Government FAQ might say to, for example, encourage people to vote absentee, it has no bearing on the facts on the ground. The rules of which are, for Presidental elections, the sole prerogative of each state's legislature.
Google updating policy for ads on fake news sites
For content writing, installing Yoast on a WP site does wonders for the whole "what search engines look for when writing content" part. You can score your content as you write and it'll give you actionable numbers — "you should have 3 more outbound links" or "this keyword was only found on this page once, try adding it some more".

I'd consider installing it and using it to test my content against, even if you're not using WP as a part of your stack.
Yes, I think if the more militant of my fellow bicyclists could move past their calls to "enforce the illegal blocking of bike lanes at all costs!" we could actually have a reasonable discussion about traffic flow prioritization for cars vs bikes.

I don't know if everyone would necessarily be safer if vehicles who decide to stop did so by blocking a lane of auto traffic while leaving the bike lane clear. It would introduce a visibility issue which would prevent cyclists from seeing anyone walking in front of the stopped vehicle to and from the curb, for instance.
Rail guns work by passing a current through the projectile, which would boil your abrasive carrying fluid, unfortunately.
Hard to know until you've done it. You could end up with Drupal when all you needed was WordPress.
The head of a crime family rarely falls. Their underlings take the falls for them.
More democracy in action!
Your account is five years old, not nine. Anyway, good night.
"Leibniz’s interest in this area can be traced back to his 1666 Dissertatio De Arte Combinatoria — an extended version of his doctoral dissertation in which he explores what was known as the 'art of combinations'."

Does this refer to the branch of mathematics which is called Combinatorics today?
Generally it's called a republic if there is representative government, i.e. if you have a senate or a congress. Presumably by direct democracy people mean voting directly on issues, in which case I'm not sure there's any state of a significant size implementing that particular form of government.
My account may be only 5 years old, but I've been here before it was even called hacker news.
Am I mis-remembering something?

[update: no]

Richard Gabriel's and Guy Steele's Evolution of Lisp lists Stallman among the people in a "Common Lisp Group".

See: https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Hopl2.pdf (P. 21)

Steele's CLTL (1) gives a list of people who were involved in the actual ANSI XJ13, but Stallman isn't listed.

Stallman, however, is credited in that very same book and section as having worked on an implementation of the "New Error System" (NES) as follows: "A reimplementation of the NES for non-Symbolics Lisp Machine dialects (MIT, LMI, and TI) was done at MIT by Richard M. Stallman. During the process of that reimplementation, some conceptual changes were made which have significantly influenced the Common Lisp Condition System."

There you go: Stallman is noted as having been part of an early "Common Lisp Group", and did some implementation work which influenced the CL condition system.
Friends whispering behind your back? Then you should consider if they really are a friends.
Which brings to mind this blogpost by Ted Unangst [http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/features-are-faults], in particular this quote:

> Right now there is what I can only describe as a conspiracy to connect something called gstreamer-plugins-bad to the internet. I do not want something called gstreamer-plugins-bad to be connected to the internet because that doesn’t sound like a good idea, but apparently somebody decided to call it a feature, and just like that it had to happen. It’s as if somebody looked at the UML diagram for my browser and realized that the boxes labeled malicious input and gstreamer-plugins-bad weren’t yet connected, and in their utopian vision of the internet, all of the boxes must be connected.
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/ask-anything-do-plants...
I have the same issues when I'm in Bulgaria during the summer (220V, 50Hz), and always wondered how Apple did something so basic so terribly wrong!
Renegade Facebook Employees Form Task Force to Battle Fake News
Yes, but in most cases you'd be looking at industrial-scale machines. Better find a smaller local shop and send them a .dxf, they'll have better access to raw material anyways. Buying sheet metal in small quantities is expensive and a pain.

Small laser cutters are really fun though. Other interesting materials (besides wood) that can be laser cut with good results are acrylic and delrin. Delrin has great mechanical properties but can't really be glued effectively. Acrylic cracks easily but has the advantage of being easily "welded" with some solvents (acetone can work in a pinch but isn't the best, dichloromethane is great but requires most safety precautions).
Hi,

> Up one level, you argue that newcomers should adapt to the norms of different cultures

My point was that newcomers can and do adopt norms quickly and easily. Therefore, bad behavior isn't due to 'cultural differences'; those are easily overcome.

> Your arguments are internally inconsistent

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. I'm afraid I am, myself, internally inconsistent. It's glorious. You should try it.
Because it's 18 months since Groovy joined the incubator and 12 months since it became a top-level project, it could be time Jim Jagielski and all ASF members not actually contributing to Groovy leave its PMC so that the proportion of those actually committing code and similar goes up from its present 44%. OCI is ready to pounce if they don't.
Yes. This is exactly what happened and what so many liberals (myself included) don't want to hear but have to come to terms with. It's in our best interest to share the prosperity we enjoy with those less fortunate, or we create a breeding ground for anger and ignorance that will come back to truly make our lives hell.

Same thing applies in the middle east where we've bred terrorism from poverty.

This is our collective fault. We can't ignore them anymore. The only way forward is to empathize with our fellow human beings whose suffering is real and whose anger is dangerous.
Yes of course. He postet his opinion online and i did the same.

That's the only reason why i postet how i see it.
We do this with our products https://puri.sm/learn/hardware-kill-switches/ although it would be really good to get more players into same field.
I think you've got to reverse-engineer their protocol/data format before the issue of authentication even comes to light, it's naturally something layered on top of that.

I have to say Jeff Goldblum is way more convincing as a hyperintelligent but nerdy romantic lead than whoever they cast in Arrival.
Some of the deeper - and wider - convolutional neural network-based SR methods do this, implicitly. We have a few papers, like SRGAN (https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04802) or AffGAN (https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.04490) that generate pretty interesting context-aware textures.
Sophisticated hallucination of missing details comes at a cost: As one would expect, in some cases the algorithm guesses incorrectly. See for example Figure 5 of AffGAN paper, column 3: when superresolving an image of a snake, the algorithm mistakenly thought it's a body of water, and produces textures accordingly.
Overall we found that most people find the results of GAN-based approaches superior to other ML-based techniques.
He is suggesting that people are taking a wage cut to work at startups, because of the chance of a big payout later on.

Yelp has to pay a lot more, not to beat their startup salary, but their expectation of a big payout.
Rift and Vive to Sell Under 500,000 in 2016, PS VR to Top 2M
Clickbait warning: anybody interested in the new disaster caused by "shield movement towards the reactor" will be disappointed.
This is the proverbial "other shoe" and its not at all clear who actually is getting hurt.

So the back story is that it is trivial to set up a "fake news" site and slant the crap out of the news and outright lie about what is going on to attract that segment of the population that is more interested in having their views validated than they are in learning anything new. And if you do that and fill it with aggressive ads you can make enough money per month to buy beer easily and sometimes even fund a comfortable lifestyle in a country which has a low cost of living.

So Google is going to stop selling ads to those sites. (good move on their part although it does impact their bottom line slightly) and they are going to stop taking money from those sites which try to buy adwords and make their site appear in the search results for a popular keyword. Also good but somewhat problematic.

This is the problem. Google sells ads on bids, highest bidder gets the best ad spot. Search ads are their cash cow and lifeblood. Hackers and fake news sites compete with each other trying to buy the ads on searches that hapless people do trying to find information about current events. So Google profits both by selling adwords and by the competition all these bad actors are engaged in trying to buy that top slot. Stop selling them adwords or stop allowing them to bid, and Google takes a big hit in topline revenue. How much remains to be seen, but if its a problem I expect fake news to be a hot topic at Searchengineland.
- Google: Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide [PDF][0]

- Google Webmasters[1]

- Matt Cutts' blog[2]

- Search Console Help[3]

You also gain a lot by listing the major players (Google, Bing, Alexa, etc) and then telling them about your site (domain verification, etc).

Needless to say that good content and being a good citizen help.

[0] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...

[1] https://www.google.com/webmasters/

[2] https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/type/googleseo/

[3] https://support.google.com/webmasters#topic=3309469
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I am not all following how you are connecting the Democrats losing touch with their base and the question of whether Obama is likely to pardon this individual.
I'm a radical leftist (seize the means of production!) and I actually favor Approval Voting. It allows for a democratic compromise on single-seat offices, and it can also be more-or-less automatically adapted to a multi-seat body with proportional representation. It allows a voice to small parties or factions without spoiler effects, while being dead simple to implement and making tactical voting relatively difficult.

>Lastly, for values questions, where there is no "right answer", the middle should be chosen. It's the fairest choice.

As a radical, my problem with this is that the "middle" is defined by the power struggle between the "extremes": it always tracks the formerly "extremist" positions of the winning side. For instance, until last week, nobody would ever have said that privatizing Medicare was anything but extremist far-right lunacy. Coming this year, we're going to hear that it's a mainstream, centrist position. That's not even being said as a statement of fact, since it's transparently false -- people love Social Security and Medicare! It's being said as an imposition of hegemony on the part of the electoral winners, as how "we create our own reality now".
That's an interesting point. (Certainly there still is an attract there problem too, because I know a lot of atheists/non-believers/secular humanists/pantheists don't always know that a UU church can be a kind and gentle social option, just as the person I was responding to seemed to be seeking.)

I know that I've long considered myself a UU "irregular", which makes me "part of the problem". I show up as I feel like it when the whim hits me or there's a lecture/speaker I want to hear that week or I generally just feel a need for some coffee with a group I know I can typically count on to socialize with. Without the implicit coercion of "traditional" services have behind them telling people they must show up every week, UU can be seen as having a bit of a disadvantage on that front in keeping/maintaining/growing their communities over time. (The little UU church that is my favorite in my hometown is not quite 150 itself yet, I don't think, but probably shares a lot of similar tales of growth and shrinking over a nearly as long of a lifespan.)

At that point, so far as my advice may be, for what little it might be worth, finding repeat visitors that become irregulars that become regulars are a marketing problem like just about any other social club or an MMO videogame. There probably are things to draw from some of how those cope (or don't) with very similar problems. Help people feel welcome, help them feel engaged, help them find reasons to keep coming back.
Needs a PopClip plugin.
cover the 2016 election with agility and creativity

Isn't that exactly the problem -- getting a little too creative rather than objectively reporting?
Newt Gingrich Wants New House Un-American Activities Committee
Also, I still chuckle at the fact that Fowler's web site (which he developed himself and called a "bliki", blog + wiki) is still incapable of supporting article titles with spaces in them, hence "ValueObject". That's not exactly a resounding endorsement of software engineering abilities.

http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/BimodalIT.html
There are many traditions of communal justice that aren't retributive. Keywords that can be googled are restorative justice and transformative justice, for example. Traditional conflict resolution still persists in areas where the reach of the state does not extend. Approaches to justice that eschew centralized authority have a very different character, and I understand that it can be difficult to come up with such examples on one's own. It requires a different approach to the problem.

In any case, prison abolition is a wide topic with a lot of point of views and I could not do any of them justice in an Internet comment. I hate referring someone to wikipedia, but all the other sources I'd cite have a distinctly leftist approach and I think wikipedia is probably the most approachable entrypoint for someone who does not already ascribe to certain ideological premises: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_incarceration
See "Why was I asked to wait before setting up two-step verification?" in https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204152
Well, there goes a lot of good cookin'.
I do believe that a lot of people would prefer that but as long as we are in a socity were we need money, we don't do it and we can't.

But besides that, i do also believe that those people creating the good stuff, are not the avg person just doing it for fun. A lot of people can draw, take really good pictures, make movies and games but most of it is not good enough.

I'm sure that i'm not one of those and it gives me at least pleasure to build something substantial like a house.
Lynchings were aided and abetted by the state and the prison-industrial complex.

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