skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still not sure what "alt-right" means, but all I've seen is them banning racist or otherwise abusive accounts. Can you link some unfair bans?
There is a reason why naval routes became dominant.
20 seconds is far too quick for me to draw anything more substantial than a few simple geometric shapes with a computer mouse.
My doodles are terrible data points but this was a lot of fun! Guessed a few of them right, although a bit too fast :)
Here's a fantastic video showing a bouncing bomb in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik9vCg-xRr4#t=0m47s
> ethnically cleanse Silicon Valley

That's a gross misrepresentation of the article you posted. Congratulations, you chose the most appropriate thread!
This one is actually not too bad - there is only a very slight difference between "due" (which can mean both something like "shall be done" and "bound to happen") and "fällig" (which means only "shall be done"). Grammatically and semantically, this almost never matters, it only misses the much higher cultural context of it being slightly weird to refer to a baby as a "task".
Hilarious. The "wrong" candidate gets elected and suddenly half of the Internet is involved in a debate about media and news sources and apparently huge amount of them are "fake news sites".
>Do you need walls when you have a drone above doing surveillance and an army of quadrocopters or other robotic flying machines that are doing 24/7 patrols

Do you really think this is a stable strategy? Drones are probably cheaper to shoot down than they are to build. At least the quadcopters. Imagine a few very fast automated shotgun turrets with birdshot.

Even if war is automated, the same basic strategies apply. The fortifications will just be built and manned by robots instead of humans.
Dockerized ELK stack with maintenance scripts for a virtual machine
I have been using a laptop and a docking station for a while now. I think this is the optimal configuration.

- no / very little noise

- no need to synchronize between work / home (Given that I also have a docking station at home, I essentially use my laptop as a portable hard drive with a screen)

- I can take my current work to meeting rooms anytime.

- ...
I'd go ahead and call this a purge, when a few dozen accounts with a considerable amount of followers have been suspended for no apparent reason. Twitter saying they don't comment on individual accounts being suspended is really pathetic, when there's a more than obvious coordinated effort.

I'm not a fan of the so-called alt right, but this is starting to bother me, because it doesn't look like it's going to end well—where are they going to draw the line? Would they ban people such as Alex Jones? After all, under a strict definition of "hate speech", only a hippie would be innocent. Can I use the Twitter search feature and get the accounts of everybody posting "kill all whiteys" suspended?

Does Jack think there's hope for Twitter if he doesn't fucking leave already? It's in the nature of the platform; users will keep receiving insults and rape threats nonstop anyway. By upsetting users they can only accelerate it.

Sorry if I sound aggressive, but I couldn't ever imagine Twitter doing something like this. It really is something I could only imagine the zuck doing.
Facebook can't win here. When they have humans more in the loop of selecting news stories, they get blamed for bias. When they remove the humans, they are blamed for AI which isn't perfect. Yes, Facebook can improve how it selects news stories, and they are working to do that.
Really like it :-)

Useful and great example of how to show data.
"Interestingly, I find this somewhat similar to looking at landscape photography that people enjoy - especially from vacation destinations. Almost every picture now has more dynamic range, edge contrast, contrast, and saturation than the human eye experiences. This means people get to amazing places but are disappointed when reality doesn't match the photo."

Strange, I always assume it's the other way round -- photos can't capture these amazing views. That's especially true in the mountains, where in photos it's usually "meh, just some rocks" while standing on the top of a mountain irl has all these amazing views and feelings that cannot be expressed easily otherwise. Though in a crowded, popular tourist destinations[0] your argument is closer to truth.

0. http://www.boredpanda.com/travel-expectations-vs-reality/
I'd suggest something like this:

"Zum Abschluss der Umfrage 2016 möchte ich zunächst Ihnen allen danken". Note the "Ihnen", which isn't there in English but required for an idiomatic translation.

"Dies scheint im Einklang mit der Hypothese, dass die LW-Gemeinde nicht in der Bevölkerung abgenommen hat, sondern eher in andere Gemeinden abgewandert ist". Note that the "not so much" qualifier is applied to the first half in English, but the second half in German ("sondern eher" → "but rather").
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It's not a difference between "elite" and "non-elite" paragraph. It's the difference between written and spoken language.

Go to any USA Today or WSJ article and read a paragraph out loud; no one talks like that.
You may enjoy "principles of animal locomotion" - it's pretty engineering focused.
I was asked to draw a "phone". Drew a telephone (the old ones with a rotary dialler, because that was quickest to draw), and it guessed "telephone", but it was incorrect :-(

EDIT: Drew a "cake", it guessed "birthday cake". Wrong answer apparently.
I forgot to mention an important fact about ICQ core code-base.

The core framework for ICQ was actually written by AOL long before ICQ was born. I.e. they developed general framework for scalable distributed systems.

So some comments in the code are dated as early as 1992.

I didn't mean formatting style but general flavor of how programs was written at these days. I can't put it into words, it's better to just see the code. Although, I'm not permitted to show the code.
Can anyone explain what competitive advantage vendors gain/maintain by not publishing datasheets and programming information?
It's not actually that uncommon to see minimal datasheets on some types of consumer type IC's. Getting the full documentation and software needed then requires signing an NDA and spending anywhere from a few hundred to to a few thousand for a development kit.

Some of this is because the manufacturer considers the information to be proprietary and also because they not setup to support large numbers design teams. Some IC's especially early revisions are buggy and poorly documented so a lot of hand holding is needed[1].

[1] Think of a buggy piece of silicon where you need to implement a number of work around's in firmware. And where each customer invariably runs into an errata you didn't know about.
What does TA mean in this context? Technical Architect?
Linus was moving off of BitKeeper, which obviously was some of the inspiration for git - but the underlying model is nothing alike. Git's data model is much simpler than CVS, RCS, Subversion, BitKeeper and basically anything else that existed at the time, and it was also much faster. The command line interface doesn't reflect this properly, but it's the underlying model that counts.

Git is nothing like a reimplementation of BitKeeper - the closest inspiration and model is actaually Monotone, which had the same basic concepts but was slow and clunky. IIRC, Torvalds credited monotone/Hoare for using merkle trees (and other things)
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> “We have to be careful of that, Steve. You know, we have to keep our talented people in this country,” Trump said. He paused. Bannon said, “Um.”

> “I think you agree with that,” Trump said. “Do you agree with that?”

> Bannon was hesitant.

> “When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” Bannon said, not finishing the sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

What could Bannon possibly have meant by this besides wanting to deport them en masse?

Mass deportation is ethnic cleansing, in case you didn't know.
Minimum Viable Technology
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/minimum-viable-technology-mvt-move-fast-keepshipping-ajay-shrivastava
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Of course it just takes one juvenile prankster to say in a crowded room "You won't believe what it recognises phalluses, poo emoji, and bottoms as" and it's going to be Microsoft Tay all over again.

So nobody do that, right.

Seriously, don't even think about it.

(More seriously, I think I might have been de-trainging it by trying to draw the correct drawing using a touch-pad... rather too many of my phones seem to look like tornados by the time the dang thing's got stuck in draw mode trying to click-and-drag to draw)
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I think that the blur effects are the worst part of the latest iOS iteration... why make the background for your content a muddy, distracting smudge of colors?
Exactly. I detested both candidates, but it's ridiculous to frame this situation as one in which the "wrong" candidate won, and shows true bias.
What's warming the world
> They're the people who matter.

For the marketing purposes of driving mass adoption of your fashion product: yes, unquestionably. If tech people want to drive fashion, maybe they should stop looking down their noses at the industry and embrace it.
You'll probably can't prevent this. That's why cars should be self-driving asap and common safety features like autonomous emergency braking, lane assist have to be mandatory in the meantime.
So it tells you what to draw, then it tells you what you drew, and that is useful and/or amazing?
What happened to the "vouch" button? This seems like an interesting, non-spam, somewhat tech related (well and politics, but something about the role or perceived role of tech companies in politics) article. Not sure if I agree with it, but it doesn't seem deserving of a flag.
"""Our neural net saw something else in all of your doodles. Select one to see what it saw."""

The ones I remember: bed, apple, spreadsheet, rollercoaster :D
Not quite. It began with a teary eyed son claiming vengeance for his father: "he tried to kill my papa!"
This game seems to essentially be win lose or draw the gameshow; the computer is throwing out some random variations like contestants guessing. It makes it easy for the computer to try 'car' the getting a no it tries 'police car'. I wonder how many things it understands...

We are so far from general AI. It's so strange how our brains can refine existance down so easily... how many CPUs is the human brain worth as far as we know?
Erm... nice screenshots and all, but isn't this a trivial rehash of UI patterns that are plain obvious? I don't quite understand who the target audience of this sort of article is.
The title is misleading - Cypress only acquired BroadCom's Internet of Things business, and it happened last April.

http://www.cypress.com/news/cypress-acquire-broadcom-s-wirel...

"Under the terms of the deal, Broadcom will continue to focus on its wireless connectivity solutions for the access and mobility segments that are not IoT related, including serving set-top box, wireless access, smartphone, laptop and notebook customers. Cypress will capitalize on the rapidly growing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity (17% per year) markets in consumer, industrial and automotive IoT segments."
bsder's argument depends specifically on the highly political nature of the climate change question, so mammograms aren't exactly a good comparison.
Talking about the distribution of race in Silicon Valley

~ some magical jump in logic ~

Talking about deportation

~ another magical jump in logic ~

Talking about ethnic cleansing

I don't really follow. Nowhere does he talk about "mass deportation" or "ethnic cleansing" or anything even closely related.
Looks very nice. I am super keen to look at this for a project I am about to kick off.
The link to the relevant response of Linus Torvalds about his design:

http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/2178.html
Yea I tried drawing previous words on other screens and it didn't seem to guess them.

It should give you 8 ~10 words to choose from.
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I was asked to draw a car and it kept guessing police car, so I guess there is some strange over fitting going on.
Thanks for sharing, I also wonder how all other tech guys prepare for your final Tech interview. I tend to get nervous on interview days where there are multiple rounds and you have to just wait and keep focused!
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Oh yes, I loved how they integrated some games in the chat client.
In the US there are 185 crashes per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. (http://www.caranddriver.com/features/safety-in-numbers-chart...)

Given the numbers from the previous post, you should get into 0.02 crashes per decade.

You are about 2.5x more likely to die per mile driven on a city vs highway (http://freakonomics.com/2010/01/29/the-irony-of-road-fear/). Assuming the same ratio for crashes, you'd expect to get into 0.05 crashes per decade.

As a rough estimate, you'd expect to be a victim of a crime on the SF Muni about 40x more often than being in a car crash.
Jedis adaptor (Redis Java API) in order to optimize performance via the transparent use of pipeliing and cache. It allows a x5 performance improvement of Redis servers.
Re-reading is anything but hard. It's like slipping back into my 17 year old self, complete with breaks to jump around like an idiot because I'm so hyped and I need to expend a bit of this pent up energy before getting back to the whole reading thing.
Existing customers are precious  Re-sell to them today
As a non-American, I don't know what half of these objects are..
Technology does amplify problems, yes. But it also amplifies the solutions. If your problem didn't have a decent solution in the first place, then yes, you will just have a bigger problem.

I'm not sure how this is something directly related to Facebook. I think misinformation spread has been a problem that was amplified with the easier access to the information in general.

Maybe this is like the problem of modern warfare. Modern bombs tend to affect people en masse (citation needed, yes, please bear with me) and with nuclear weapons, the problem of civilians getting hurt/killed got amplified. The problem was (hopefully) solved by understanding the consequences of using extreme force over time, especially the chain reaction that can be triggered.

What I'm trying to say is, maybe, we need to create a solution which we can "amplify" with the technology, and that is not just Facebook's responsibility. However, them being the "nuclear weapon" of the social media, yes, they do share the burden.
Under any circumstance I really don't like the idea of a huge corporation like facebook to begin censoring private conversations and beginning to shadow ban people based on their naivity in regards to what they share etc.

Facebook is not a company that should indulge in what is truthful and what is not. It should preferably be a medium to keep in contact and discuss links with friends and not much more. I already think that there is too much filtering of what ends up in my facebook feed.
Watch the low-quality comments for an illustration of how to misread that headline as "We edited a human! I want wings and a giant pulsating brain!" /s
As explained at the beginning, the purpose of the exercise is to train it.
15 minutes to 1 hour.
It would be an interesting exercise to collect these doodles as a dataset and publish them. It could give insight into what are the key identifying features we look for as humans in relation to the world around us.
Facebook's Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash
It couldn't guess my aircraft carrier. The reason: Other people draw aircrafts instead.

http://imgur.com/a/xtdYE

For reference, here's my carrier

http://imgur.com/a/DL7js
May be, but this one is what matters to me, and I report it.
One it gave me was "camouflage". I have no idea how to represent that with a simple line drawing.
Who said it was supposed to be useful or amazing?
Agree. This demonstrates the political direction that Twitter is moving towards. When I was more naive I used to believe that papers reported the news - now I realize that they apply their political bias to spin news. This has now happened with Twitter.

Newspeak is happening before our eyes but not in the direct way Orwell imagined.
I really don't think it's planned obsolescence - it's just that automotive entertainment systems are subject to the same amount of testing as everything else in the car, which means your average media system is 5 years behind. I have a 2005 Land Rover Discovery 3 with a touch screen, and at 11 years old, it still works the same as on the day I bought it. That's what you want. Software and hardware which continues working fine for more than a decade.

On the other end of the scale we have Tesla, which clearly does very little testing of their media systems, and pushes updates over the air, so things get broken or changed with every update. But "hey, it's not a big deal, we'll just push another update in a month!" - that's absolutely not acceptable with cars.

For example:
https://medium.com/@michaelmeier_90534/tesla-model-s-is-grea...

I would be absolutely furious if my car did this. I would rather have a shitty system that stays shitty for the lifetime of the car, than have a good system that gets broken through an over-the-air update.
FWIW, I learned git much faster than I learned svn and cvs, and found it far easier to use and understand the underpinnings of.

Svn in particular was so awkward to port diffs between branches and carry diffs forward in time (git equivalent of rebase) that I built a system of shell scripts around patch files. Instead of creating a branch and committing changes (so painful to create or switch branches in svn), I saved the working state diff as a patch file and reset the working directory whenever I had to switch to a different task. I had a couple of shell scripts, one to save the current diff and reset, and another to apply a diff to the current working tree. And I had a third one to do a three-way merge to resolve conflicts when the tree had been updated since the patch file had been created.

Git is the first SCCS I used that made sense.
Seems to be for exactly racist and abusive tweets. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/12/azealia-banks-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/11/azealia-banks-...
Totally agree on the HTTPS. Wanted to change it for a while but life kept on the way. Changed it now, it's live on https://get.shellshare.net.

I also agree on the bad sides of the "curl pipe sh" pattern. Ideally, that command would be "apt-get install shellshare && shellshare", but haven't been able to write packages for it yet. There're 2 open issues about this: https://github.com/vitorbaptista/shellshare/issues/28 and https://github.com/vitorbaptista/shellshare/issues/31, if you or anyone else have some time to contribute.
Or they just know that they have a significant population of readers who think computers and smartphones are unnatural, evil and genetically modified poison, and that they have another significant population of readers who will call them out on the bullshit. Igniting a powderkeg of polarized readers is a great way to drive traffic, and therefore ad money.

Yes, it seems like standard operating procedure for contemporary media.
LuxCC: a small compiler for a subset of the C programming language
Repairability score: 1 out of 10. No big surprise.
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They were stuck in a local optimum.
I have some deaf relatives and was surprised to learn that ICQ is still very popular among deaf people (at least in the Netherlands). Think it was particularly due to the cross platform availability i.c.w. ease of videochat for sign language.
How do you achieve the blurred background in CSS?
(Apologies up front for the length of this post, I did not intend it to get this long when I started..)

I realize I’m a little late to the comments here and it’s unlikely to be seen, but there’s a dissonance that’s been stewing in me for a while now and I’m not sure how to reconcile it. It relates to the dichotomy between JackFr posting his fondness for a badge with cyberferret’s response, so this is why I’m replying here (if someone can suggest a more appropriate forum for me to ask this, please let me know).

I abhor war and death and killing. It’s vile, disgusting and so many other words I’m not literate enough to use to describe it. The very act of snuffing out another human’s life is something so imaginably terrible to me that when I dwell much upon it I become profoundly sad.

And yet, there’s another side of me that’s utterly fascinated by the actual implements of warfare. My father was in Vietnam and although he doesn’t like to talk about it often, I know it was a very unpleasant experience for him, particularly the time he described when he would have to carry body bags off the C-130s on base. Despite that, when I was growing up, I was given army men and plastic tanks by my parents to play with, toy guns, you name it. I fondly remember my father bringing home a variable swept wing toy jet fighter that I cherished. In my teens I pretended I was going nap of the earth in the chopper milsims available on the PC at the time.

Fast forward to today, I can sometimes spend hours getting lost in the endless rabbit hole of links on wikipedia reading about anything from the minute details of how the Exocet sea-skimming missile operates to the different types of recoilless rifles in service around the world. Or scrolling through google images admiring the sleep and sexy curves on the F/A-18. I enjoy watching movies like “We Were Soldiers” too. The scene where all the artillery batteries arrayed fired in unison I sometimes rewind a couple times just to see it over again because I find it awesomely impressive and…kind of “cool?” I watch the movie to be entertained…

This post/question is long enough so I'll try to wrap it up quickly here and get to my point:

I don’t want to go to war. I don’t want to see my brother get sent back overseas. I don’t want anyone’s sons or daughters, wives, husbands, loved ones sent to pick up arms, no matter their race, nationality, creed and regardless of wherever they call home. I wish all killing would stop, however utopian that view might be. I wish we could all experience the “Overview Effect.”

But how do I reconcile this view with my fascination of the instruments of war? I can’t help but find it incredibly impressive to watch a WW2 era battleship fire full broadsides. I enjoy visiting my brother and firing his firearms like an M1 Garand.

Am I wrong for “enjoying” these things which seem at complete odds to the way (I’d like to think) my moral compass points? Is this normal?
Trump is saying that we have to keep the talented people in the country.

Bannon disagrees that we should keep the talented people in the country, but he doesn't want to say it to Trump's face, so he says a bunch of code words for "whites only society."

There's only one way to make a whites only society. It's ethnic cleansing. Trump happens to have already brought discussions of mass deportation to the mainstream.

Mass deportation is a type of ethnic cleansing, by the way. It's right in the definition. There is no leap of logic there.

As an aside, Bannon is significantly overstating the percent of CEOs who are Asian.