skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very extensive and on the face of it does something many pieces don't - back up the claims with sources (mostly).

I'm sure there will be argument over the semantics and specifics but that's not important to the points I want to make and which is implied in this piece:

1) If you continually brand some group of people as some derogatory thing if all they want to do is talk about an issue, it's only a matter of time before they stop listening to you.

2) If your only response to dissent to your world view is to brand the dissenter some derogatory term and then turn inward to others of your own mind, it's only a matter of time before you lose influence outside your inner circle.

3) You can't hope to influence others behaviour by labelling them something you yourself would hate to be labelled. The label may have no meaningful effect on them, other than to reject your statement entirely, thus actually diminishing your effect on them.

The trouble with all these things is people cherry pick statements, occurrences, inferences and associations to match their own narrative. This includes the media, popular groups and individuals themselves, despite the double standards this might expose when their favoured candidate/group does the exact same thing (of has done it previously).

Only through actually communicating with others of differing viewpoints in somewhat of a reasoned fashion can any effective influence hope to be achieved.

Point 16 brings up especially good angle on this so skip to that if you don't read the rest.

The conclusion is one I support strongly too - stop fear-mongering, stop labelling dissenters racist, stop playing identity politics.

As a side note it's happening here in the UK over Brexit. Despite unemployment going down, retail sales up faster than any time in the last 15 years, the economy growing etc etc it's all framed in the context of 'yeah but everything is going to go to shit and you're all racists for not wanting free movement'.

Sure, be suspicious/cautions/prepared of/for the future but don't actively sabotage it before it's happened, or all you've done is create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
How do we know that they won't give muslin citizen's data to Trump?
> an experienced sysadmin would solve in less than 3 minutes

Why do you think so? And, I'm hopping you don't rely on timing on this level.

An experienced sysadmin would have little experience with basic tasks, since he solves them around once or twice per job. And you never know the environments they tried it before, that may be completely different from what you are presenting them right now.

I'd say "installing X" is a test for encyclopedic knowledge, and a very unreliable test for expertize. That's the kind of test that gave bad names to IT certification at the early 2000's.
Is your argument that if Pandora went away, quality of life would change?
It's a neat trick, but not something I'd deploy into production. If I have to try to guess at what the customer is sending me, I'm not going to apply it to their account.

In an emergency, I might hand-edit it and make it right, but I'd absolutely insist that further files be in the correct format.
These are pretty much the defining characteristics of a hit piece. I do not enjoy such things, and I do not recommend such things, for reasons I have already given. Many people think that they are being educated (while being entertained) by such programs. In reality, they develop a very distorted view of politics and of reality. If the media keeps at it, the next two candidates will be no different from Clinton and Trump. Who am I kidding? This is what will happen.
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Stephen Hawking just gave humanity a due date for finding another planet
Seems like automatic transmissions have really evolved over years. I was wrong.
Like the new functionality (we use Asana across our company), but I wish it wasn't a separate project type. Seems like a no-brainer to just use section headers as columns and then be able to flip between the text-based version and a board-based system.
um, well, if you're going to take it in that direction... FDR was a democrat.
This may be a bit too much information, but it's a good read if you're interested in the technology behind it:

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01062316/document
Alternatives to Google services?
Inspired by this article "PSA: Don’t Mess With The Google!"

Link: http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/98444

Many of us started casually using gmail back in the days, and - with time - we have married google for email, contact, calendar, photos, files (drive) and much more. And it's a scary proposition that everything can be GONE with no or little notice or recourse.

While backing up can mitigate some of the risk, a better strategy would be to duplicate the functionality with paid services?

So, what are the best, affordable, alternative to:

- gmail/contact/calendar
- Photos? I am assuming box and dropbox are good candidates
- drive? I am assuming box and dropbox are good candidates
Show HN: ATMBot to locate nearest ATM with cash
Reddit has a successful reddit gold program. I think it could be successful on twitter.
I would argue that basically any tech job (and probably other fields) is about knowing how to solve a problem (I really do wonder what the medical doctor equivalent of stack overflow is).

And just targeting a limited subset is kind of reasonable. Because, odds are, you will be. If you are running infrastructure for a web server you probably will have decided on a few solutions and have time to experiment with new ones on a new platform. Scientific computing? Same deal. It is the same logic by which coders should learn a range of languages and tools but will probably use a very small subset at any given job.

And I think that the semi-automated tools COULD detect stuff like that. One point for each solution presented and maybe something akin to those god awful rubrics for the more complex ones. So going with the tar approach (after twenty years, I know xzvf and czvf and can use a test file to figure out the order):

1 point for a correct answer
0.5 points for typing "man tar" or "<google> tar"
And then a subset of the remaining 0.5 for each letter and the order of operations. So something like tar xvf foo.tar.gz ./foo would get you most of the credit.

The big problem with stuff like this is that it should ONLY be used for an initial filter, but it will inevitably be used as "Only the top N people matter".
Not renting apartments to black people is not racist? Proposing a ban on Muslims is not racist? Fear mongering about Mexican immigrants is not racist? Assigning strategic roles in his new admin to the likes of Bannan and Horowitz is not racist? Also, he's got 400 lawsuits against him including the fraudulent Trump University. That last point does not add to his racist credentials but surely it does undermine the notion that he has any moral standing by being a "businessman from New York"
Programming in the 1990s by Edward Cohen is an interesting book for introducing software developers to a method of proof writing by way of predicate calculus. It's a book one can read from cover to cover.

The TLA+ book by Leslie Lamport is also an interesting read even if it is specific to a particular logic for creating specifications. Any of his talks on TLA+ are also good for a high-level overview of the why and a bit of the how as well.
Was it the problem calling wolf? Or was the problem calling wolf and then devouring all the hens as soon as you got in power?

People are just confused with of all the rhetoric against war while the games continue in the Middle East. The war against terror while "moderate rebels" with ties to Al-Qaeda are treated as allies. The raising inequality paired with the dogma of the free market while we rescue banks as soon as the free market breaks down. Where the Democratic party approved NAFTA while being the natural allies of labor. Where Bill Clinton passed the Crime Law but is remembered as an ally of minorities.

In this climate where one position and the opposite one are true at the same time it's not strange that somebody like Trump can arrive, start spewing bullshit and still be taken seriously as long as he calls out the establishment.
It's $5/mo or $55/year. And the vast majority of the money is still from advertising. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Radio#Business_model
I think it's a great slogan. If everyone (society at large) aleady believed all lives matter then it would be a dumb slogan. It's a great slogan because currently black lives don't matter in many people's eyes. In my experience the only people who don't like the slogan either don't think black lives matter or are absurdly blind to the reality of racism in this country.

The controversy isn't because it's a bad slogan. The controversy is evidence of it being the correct slogan.
> My personal experience comes from reviewing hundreds of published studies that evaluated the applied effectiveness of machine learning models.

In the social sciences? Just curious.

> Half had significant statistical errors.

Such as? Have you enumerated the typical errors somewhere, so that other can learn to avoid these common pitfalls?
Guys, this is Abishek from Timebender. The makers behind the ATMBot. This is not a product showcase, but a need of the hour in India.

You must have heard about demonetisation in India (Govt. has demonetised higher value currencies like INR 1000 & INR 500). Though the govt. has clear & legible reasons to do that, the fallout has been massive as there’s no cash available in ATM’s and people’s livelihood has been affected.

Background : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_500_and_1000_rupee_note...

Govt. has imposed strict limits on the amount of cash which can be withdrawn at a time from an ATM or Bank, hence there are long queues at ATM’s and Banks. Most of the ATM’s are dry.

Fallout : http://mashable.com/2016/11/16/india-people-dying-demonetiza...

As a citizen, I fully support the reasons for the govt. to indulge in this immediate action but at the same time in-order to fulfil the moral responsibility to my fellow citizens we decided to do our part by providing them with technology to ease their sufferings.

ATMBot : As locating a nearby ATM with cash has become very difficult, we decided to provide a bot which does just that. Though Google maps & other bots already provide nearby ATM location, there were none which provided cash availability status at the time which we started with the build. There is no centralised API’s available for ATM data & other crowd sourced solutions for ATM mapping with cash were spreadsheets with dozen manually entered data and websites which did the same with fewer data entry points.

Design choice : We wanted a minimalist approach for obvious reasons. Instead of typing, we decided to keep buttons. In-fact the user has to click just two buttons to either enter (or) receive ATM data.

Messenger : We chose messenger as there are significant number of population using it and has the necessary API’s to serve our purpose. More over if it is on messenger it would be easier for us to spread the word on Facebook, which has a large user base from India.

Adoption : We are campaigning for adoption using local startup community and volunteers working to do their part to help others during this crisis. We tried doing a PR, but doing so without spending large cash (irony) has been difficult so far. We’re a startup and we cannot afford a budget for promotion on this project. I request your help in anyways possible to get this to the people of India urgently (can work anywhere else). If at least one of them who withdraw cash from an ATM in a 60 minute interval use ATMBot, it can help dozens of others from the same area.

Open source : In order to release the ATMBot at the closest time possible, we used our proprietary middleware & backend. Those are the one’s which we are betting our future on as a bootstrapped startup from a little town (former village) in southern India. So the source can’t be released without affecting our livelihood. But we would be able to release the ATM data which we get through ATMBot to the community, we do not store any user data.

Any help is much appreciated.
Hey, I'm around to answer questions about this if anyone has any. I know it desperately needs a manual and at the moment, it only works in Chrome.
> With respect to memory usage I guess it's not much different.

Memory use is quite different due to reified generics and value types.
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Most people are writing business logic not algorithms (a website not a video encoder). If that's you, you should also check out BDD esp frameworks like cucumber, as that may be useful.
I've imagined Elon, still connected to childhood sci-fi dystopian futures, would most certainly include some secret "God Mode" backdoor that only he knows...

So, in a future where Tesla's are all over the roadways,and the earth falls under alien attack or some other crisis -- he could easily escape by speaking to any nearby Tesla, which would give him full access (maybe even unlocking faster speeds ;). Perhaps even having some sort of transponder to send the nearest Tesla's to his rescue, should that be required.
> However, the people who he surrounds himself with, are. This article makes no mention of Steve Bannon

That was my biggest gripe with the article. Otherwise I thought it was refreshing to read such a well-presented argument, regardless of whether or not I agreed with his points.

Back to the issue: the kinds of people Trump seems to be surrounding himself with shows bad judgment, which is very concerning and should not be downplayed. We have many reasons to be wary of his presidency but maybe they're not the ones people shout loudest about.
Is there a whitelist? For some reason they're blocking API access to reddit entirely which is annoying as I want to browse certain sites that rely on this API. Why would the reddit API be on these lists?
I actually recently took a much shallower dive through RPM than yours (http://blog.oblio360.com/2016/08/23/rpm-install/). I knew that RPM was not that loved as a format, but what you've described there truly is "insane" (I know that you used that word many times in the article, but it fits the situation).
> It will happily shift up 2 seconds before I hit the brakes because
> it has no idea I'm planning to take a left turn in 20 meters.

Purely hypothetically, a car could be fitted with an operator control to convey that sort of intent. It could be something the driver could operate without taking their hands off the wheel — perhaps a stick on the left of the steering column?
> Just use pen and Paper now.

To be fair, isn't the whole point of using something like Asana to collaborate with a team? Pen and paper doesn't scale well...
Excellent article that readjusts the valid Trump criticism, and shoots down the more ridiculous accusations (although it's a bit too forgiving on certain issues, but the core of it is good).

I don't live in the US but this election has made me extremely sad. The amount of false information on both sides, causing both sides to become even more entrenched into their beliefs and hostile to each other.

And like I said in a previous post: at the end of the day, blue states voted blue, red states voted red and swing states were won/lost on very, very few votes. If you removed TV and media from the equation (that is, if you removed the ridiculous 1+ year long campaign season in the US), this election would look as if it were just any old regular election.

People like to say Trump is an outsider but this isn't his first presidential bid and he seems to have been preparing for this for a long time. And for an outsider, he knows how to play politics really well. He knew to hijack the republican platform in his favour, for example. He played the media like puppets, giving him a ton of free air time.

There's very, very real issues with not just his campaign but the upcoming 4 years. The people he already appointed, or is considering appointing to his staff for example (including the famous climate change denier as head of the EPA; and people are also already mentioning Bannon here in the comments). But when the data is drowning in a ton of nonsense noise about assassinations, conspiracies and ad hominems, neither side even wants to hear the issues anymore. When you've spent a year building up a few grand canyons worth of divide between the two parties, no matter how loud you shout the other side is not going to hear you.

Edit: This quote deserves a highlight:

Remember that thing where Trump started out as a random joke, and then the media covered him way more than any other candidate because he was so outrageous, and gave him what was essentially free advertising, and then he became President-elect of the United States? Is the lesson you learned from this experience that you need 24-7 coverage of the Ku Klux Klan?

Edit 2: Sigh, the article's been flagged. There goes any hope of actually having a discussion about shit that matters.
Isn't this used mainly in editors that want to provide some hints even for JSON you didn't finished yet.
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I might try Asana again now that they have this feature. My company is about to move away from zenhub/github issues to jira but i am looking for decent alternatives. I hate trello, and asana always seemed feature-bloated + i hate their new UI.

Any future plans to open source Luna ?
Well there are no records of any Japanese running around with katanas chopping heads from that time.

On the other hand in blindly immigrant accepting Europe though... We learned our lesson since last year.
Pretty brave man. 400k legal fees...yikes. I can't wait for Theranos to be over.

As an aside:

"""One validation report about an Edison test to detect a sexually-transmitted infectious disease said the test was sensitive enough to detect the disease 95% of the time"""

I'm assuming this is reported wrong and it was actually 5% alpha/95% confidence and they were basically p-hacking?
Twitter's problem is that either it's losing users, or not growing fast enough. Adding paid accounts doesn't address that.
> The people lying about their daughter getting pregnant were the same that ostracized their neighbor's daughter when she was the pregnant one.

(Their neighbor should have lied too.)

I tend to view societies as non-linear and catastrophic systems. The system above was trying to maintain a social order and it wasn't attempting a 100% conformity to rule x. There is a threshold of violating rule x that would destabilize the social order and the governing social rules are optimized to keep violations well below that threshold. By lying about a violation event, both the fact of the violation is leaked (because the lies are transparent), and, a family unit is protected from suffering the consequences of publicly breaking rule x. But if a family of daughters repeatedly had presented daughters with cases of 'eating disorder', then you can be certain that family would be subject to social scrutiny.

Every culture develops a variant of this mechanism. For some it is a first class device (e.g. Ta'arof in Iranian culture) and for others it is an implicit device.

The key issue is always "where is that threshold" and not that these mechanisms exist. They exist for a reason, since as every school child knows:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

[p.s. to be clear, imo, the contemporary lies we're discussing have crossed those thresholds and are destabilizing and we can possibly trace the seminal event to Watergate and Deepthroat and acceptance of anonymous sources.

Here is a very interesting example of a key leader discussing transparency in the press. It is interesting in the sense that it both addresses this issue and is itself the source of a fairly prevalent disinformation.

https://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/JFK-Speech...

(The disinfo bit is where an edited version of above audio is promoted as Kennedy warning us about the NWO and Illuminati. /G)]
How? How do the uneducated in the rust belt benefit? And perhaps more importantly when?

I agree that technology for society in general make us better of over time, but society consists of individuals who don't necessarily benefit from this. In fact 12 million jobs are in danger of being lost to automated cars. How are they going to benefit from that?
Antivirus tools are a useless box-ticking exercise says Google security chap
When breaking with engine, the kinetic energy of movement is converted to heat not via friction (like breaks do) but via compressing air in cylinders which does not cause extra wear on anything.
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Failed startups! Everyone gets barraged with success stories. It could be anonymous anecdotes: we did X and failed.
Can anyone explain to me, what is the usage of `erasure code` ?
A sad chapter in our history. What's terrifying to me is that many prominent people still defend it today. And not just people associated with the winner of the recent presidential election.
Already using it for VNC!
Yeah but this fucking helmet will fit in a bag when not in use making a hell of a lot easier to bring it with you.
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That's the approach and we are glad that you support it. Great topics for more advanced problems.
Will universal links and app banners and handover to desktop still work?
At least a couple of the other arguments also have problems. He tweeted twice about the protests:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/11/do...

The first one was dismissive, the second one was supportive. Why not discuss them both?

The other one that jumped out at me was the taco bowl. I'm pretty sure lots of racists like tacos, tacos are delicious. So liking tacos doesn't say a whole lot. I'd go so far as to say that ham-fisted pandering using a taco bowl says more than liking tacos.
> there is no way to turn that syncing off, apart from just disabling iCloud Drive completely

Oh, well, glad that was the first thing I did when I got an iPhone :p
I don't understand the question. The car is accelerating horizontally, the gravity acts vertically.
> I must getting older, because I see this statement a lot and when you look back, its clear we never do learn from our past mistakes.

Hence the current JavaScript development stack(s)
I disagree - I've been requesting this on-and-off for years.

In the same way I passively pay Netflix to be able to stream movies, I'm happy to passively pay Twitter each month for the flow of conversation if it allows them to exist in the long-run, and get better.

If its viable for them to charge me $7 to $10 a month so I get an ad-free experience and they can wean off ads as main revenue source, then great. Sign me up.
Many Americans live outside of your area. Anyone who has experienced rain in California knows that people don't know how to drive in the rain. But it's not just there. You see people driving just as close to cars in front, without headlights or sometimes using high beams, unable to demist their windscreens etc.
Great, after the tag soup of modern browsers are we now also going to see json soup?

Sometimes it's obvious what's wrong with malformed data you receive. A classic would be encoding errors.

But as soon as you start supporting broken components and APIs, you will never be able to unsupport it.

Prime example would be HTML. Granted, in the beginning, it was supposed to be written by humans but that was rather quickly not a major obstacle anymore and even a human can produce valid HTML with the help of a syntax checker.
Well the current generation will suffer, but the next generation and future ones will benefit from self driving cars.
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I was like what the hell is Mac Preview?
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