skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
its probably somewhat hard to separate parody too, sometimes the only thing that makes it parody is the context or people the message is sent to. it could be an inside joke not meant to be taken literally.

for example, say i am a hillary fan, and i say to another hillary fan "hillary is a criminal" as a way to mock people who say that. will facebook know when something is insincere and in jest?

How much of the hoopla around Sessions is "fake"?
Crawlers/indexers take JS into account to varying degrees. In my experience they will execute client side code, but AJAX calls are ignored. So at the very least you want to send down data for the initial load.
About 15 years ago I made the decision to halve my mousing strain by becoming equally adept at mousing with either hand and either with a mouse or a trackball. I have both plugged into my computer all the time, and I swap hands and devices a couple times a month.

A great keyboard is important too. I only use IBM model M's made around 1984.

And as is discussed at length in this thread - exercise! I hit the gym for 2 hours between 5 and 7pm and let almost nothing interfere with that.

I have RSI pain yes - it comes with the job - but it's reached a steady-state that I can deal with.
> we'll get through this if the automation is decentralized

I'm following the 3D-printing and makerspace movement because of this. It's imperative that blueprints for vital objects to be 3D-printed aren't locked up by copyrights.
> I'm sorry you're getting downvoted. I'm very happy you're willing to engage with me on this.

Thank you, and that's OK. I have more than enough karma points here.

> And you cannot fault the public for this misunderstanding because that is the common and historical meaning of the word.

I don't know if the public is faulted for the misunderstanding or simply racism itself. But it is possible that it's a strategic mistake politically to call people racist and have it taken as a stronger insult than it is meant to be. I think this is certainly a good question for the left to figure out for itself.

> it is possible for a person, even a white person, not to be racist assuming they take appropriate actions? If so, I think we are very close to resolving our disagreement.

The thing is that I'm not sure how much a person can "be racist" individually more than be a part of a group that causes racism. But anyway, it is definitely possible for people to work against racism and make "themselves" (as a group) less racist, and ideally not racist at all. I certainly wouldn't call a person who works towards inclusion and fairness in their community or place of work racist.

> we have made a crucial shift from a "negative ethical obligation" (an obligation not to do direct harm to another) to a positive one (an obligation to take direct action to fix problems you didn't directly cause)

Not exactly because harm is still perpetuated (even if I wasn't the one who dunked you in the swimming pool, if I'm keeping your head under water I'm still causing you harm) but obviously we're talking about less personally caused harm, and you're right that there's an aspect of a call for help here. In terms of political strategy, the question is this: if I turn out to be keeping your head under water unintentionally (say because I just want to lie on my floating mattress), which is more effective for you -- to say that I'm perpetuating the harm done to you, or to beg me for help? The latter may be more effective if it's just me and you, but I don't know which is more effective when entire social groups are concerned.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/18/trump...

please tell me more
You are describing the difficulty of proving that an event really happened.

The discussion is about the definition of "real news".

Two very different things.
Check out Quip. I love using it for multi device note taking and paper notes in the shower.
I'll be honest, I would feel rather uncomfortable if someone tried to have this conversation with me.

Just let me do my job. I want to get back to programming.
I hope the old CMD.exe is still available somewhere.
I'm guessing the commenter would have appreciated if annekate mentioned that they were a co-founder.

Doing so would leave no room for someone to mistake the recommendation as coming from a random, unaffiliated HN regular.
> they intentionally forgot it.

I'm not sure intentionally forgetting something is even possible, but, who would intentionally forget something foundational? Most computer scientists do study math and generally wish they knew more, not less.
I have plenty of career conversations with my manager. But it goes nowhere. Lots of talk and no action. "I want to learn more about forecasting models", "definitely". No forecasting work given and even side projects are squashed.

My current manager recently gave me a front end project. I started learning a lot of Angular and started working on it. She recently came to me and said don't learn too much about it.

I have learned that career progression is your own battle and managers are in general a hindrance to that.
He is an amazing person. Met him in person and was blown away!
Would paying for Google for Business account help:

https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html

Lowest tier is $5/month. I know my old company used Google for email. Is there a guaranteed access to support. I saw access to "Forums". Anyone have experience with that.

But then Fastmail is $3/month and you get personal support it seems.
Tails: Call for testing: 3.0~alpha1
Invest money, hire a team and hire a manager to manage the team.
The point of my post was really about playing by the rules and making sure you don't get in any legal problems by using company resources to further your own project, I guess I started on a bit of a tangent though. :)

As far as answering your questions,
a) I don't have any statistics but I know a lot of people with side projects and they all still have day jobs, so it's very anecdotal.
b) You could make that case, but I'd say (once again without evidence to back it up) that if burnout occurs it's going to be the personal project that is cut rather than the job that pays the bills.
And where are the horses?
I can not stand keyboards with high pressure threshold on the keys. My constant Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+F, etc.. was causing tremendous pain on my pinky finger, from having to press down on the Ctrl key so many times.
http://techmeme.com/river

they rewrite all the headlines to get rid of clickbait nonsense and actually save you the click in some cases if their summary is enough.
You're assuming whoever owns the means of production is okay with giving you enough of a share to survive.
Dictators tend to have to keep at least a portion of their population happy, otherwise they lose control.

This portion might end up being very small: i.e. a small, highly automated, robotic military, an automated surveillance/intelligence apparatus, and a few elites who own all the big corporations along with their top AI designers, weapons designers, etc. You could probably wipe out 99% of the population and still pull this off.
Like everyone else...well done. Great concept, easy to learn, nice results. I'll probably be a paying customer one day.

Font-resizing would be nice on the visual view. And killer feature would be two way interaction, but I can imagine that's a tricky one.

Here's a generic "SaaS subscription workflow" I made up in about 20 mins.

https://code2flow.com/NDIQIf

Love it!
Making Machines That Make Music
Homo naledi
Is the argument that people do not know what is best, or
That it doesn't matter?

People are an incredibly broad range, from the
Homeless gentleman lying on a heating vent, to the
hedge fund billionaire who does not waste a quarter,
Because he knows what it will be worth compounded
For thirty years. Granted I have used outliers to
make my argument.
Please don't make assumptions about what I like.
This is called image segmentation - Facebook recently open sourced DeepMask/SharpMask which does this https://github.com/facebookresearch/deepmask
This is my talk from euroclojure, 2016.

Here are the repos with the synth code, and the scrapers:
https://github.com/ssrihari/ragavardhini,
https://github.com/ssrihari/kosha

Here are the slides, although they're not all that useful without actual music that goes with them:
https://speakerdeck.com/srihari/making-machines-that-make-mu...
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I'm sorry you had to do such a long write-up and yet you seem to have made utterly unconvincing arguments.

You make a nice mention of 'socialist protectionism'. Essentially what you described, looks like Cuba is a giant factory full of slaves instead of a country, and EU is its customer.

First of all, you had to pick the worst of the worst implementation of an economy (Cuba) to make your point. Does my question look like I was asking for a counter-example, no matter how horrible or remote? If that's the goal then I have an even better answer "Sadism would keep a farm owner from using technology to do farming". I hope it's clear that that's not the kind of answer I was looking for.

Not only that, I just checked 'Economy of Cuba' wikipedia page and it has to import 70-80% of its food. So your worst of the worst example is still not good enough to make manual-farming labor cost-effective.

Later, you use phrases like "unique combination of" and "clever" and what not. Really? Was the industrial revolution so unique and clever that something similar will never ever be repeated? Have you looked at the daily science and technology innovation news around yourself?

"response time are too slow" and even if not, back to "social protectionism".

Sorry I've completely lost you. I don't even know if you're saying whatever you're saying as a socialist or lassez-faire capitalist or what, so I could at least put your point of view in perspective. What I do know is that every passing day, my conviction keeps getting stronger that politicians and economists love to get lost in the word-soup of archaic ideas, and completely miss the mark that the technologists are making on the world one day after another.
Miasma theory still had its adherents 100 years ago.
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Yea, that's nice, but under a Republican administration that's not going to happen.
> so it's very likely to be an honest mistake.

So naive. Inflating clicks / views let's them charge more to advertizers (who falsely think that advertising on facebook is more ROI than on Google or elsewhere). And what Facebook gains is increases in share price every time they declare their earnings.
Dwayne“The Rock” Johnson Workout 2016
I think it was a cop-out that he didn't implement the grad function in his gradient descent routine :(
You're describing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacyclosis

A very old idea from the ancient greeks. I completely agree with this theory. Sadly, I'm often treated like a conspiracy theorist when I tell people about it.

The idea is simple, there are seven stages of governance for people.

1. Monarchy, 2. Kingship, 3. Tyranny, 4. Aristocracy, 5. Oligarchy, 6. Democracy, and 7. Ochlocracy

The cycle just endlessly repeats itself through time.
Contract theory – Nobelprize.org [pdf]
We're in dangerous false equivalency waters here. Just because CNN published something negative about Trump that doesnt mean they owe one negative story on Clinton.

Nor should how anyone voted affect CNNs reporting - if all they do is follow what people already believe then what's the point in journalism?

Whether they like it or not, Trump supporters are going to have to move on from Clinton. She doesn't matter any more, and CNN aren't going to be reporting on her. They'll be reporting, in depth, on everything Donald Trump does. As it should be.
Already in the works:

https://thinkprogress.org/this-isnt-just-a-photo-of-ivanka-t...
Here you are.

The horse business people got fucked.
Yup, in the same way that guns are out of the bag in the us. What do we do to limit the threat to the public at large? The solutions may seem like band-aids but they may be the best that we have.
Some feedback for the OP:

1. The tester and another team member spent a year developing something that would intercept calls and relay them. Two problems with that: (1) two person years spent, (2) and that sounds like serious NIH (not invented here) syndrome. The problem that should have been solved was everyone spending the time to write better tests and changing code as needed. Instead, they spent a year on a workaround, invented in-house. Was there not anything else out there that did this?

2. The word is "focused", not "focussed".

3. Lack of detail: how exactly does it work beyond that basic diagram?

4. Where's the code for the project? Would it be useful to others?

However, I admire that the OP posted their experience, and it is useful information.
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Only a year or so into my career I started getting pain in my upper right back from using a mouse. I tried various adjustments to my desk/chair setup but eventually it got to the point where I couldn't use the mouse with my right arm anymore without unbearable pain and it would linger when I wasn't working.

I was able to solve the problem completely by starting to use a trackball with my left arm. I still use a mouse with the right when precision is necessary but 90% of the time I use the left and trackball.
Tenets.
Phantasmagoria
UK needs immigration because native Britons are “bloody stupid”
Open Source Security Podcast: Episode 13: CVE: The Metric System of Security
Escaping black holes on the Internet
the same way that guns are out of the bag

This adds nothing to your comment. Please don't inject flamewar topics into a thread.
Evan AI will not touch that nasty codebase
Did you watch the "Rules for Rulers" video? The tl;dw is that rulers who need productive citizens promote their well-being; rulers who don't need their citizens to be productive don't.
Thanks, Syncthing looks like exactly what I was looking for! I'm guessing it needs some external server for coordination? It seems a bit unnecessary to restart after each config chsnge, is there some technical reason for it? Nice job otherwise, will try it out.
I agree, they'll have a problem there! Have it unfurl into a lucky clover shape or something.
Well, whenever I'm confronted by some kind of management thing like this I try to think about it from the manager's perspective. First, it seems like this is something that matters when a "10-point bump on engagement scores" is how your manager is being rewarded. Also, they don't necessarily know what you're doing all day but they can sense you don't really care that much about it. That makes management nervous, because they DO know turnover is bad. So, at a company where the engineers don't actually really care that much about what they're working on they want to try and manufacture that environment. So you create a "career plan" for someone to keep them engaged for the next 6 months to build the widgets you need.

I do find it interesting that one of the quotes in the article is "They discover that in three to five years, a bunch of people are going to leave because they're concerned about career growth and development. Panic ensues". Uh what? Three to five years is a pretty good stretch these days in SV. If you really wanted to keep people longer than that, you would have a completely different business and reward structure.

The rest of it boils down to "get to know your co-workers", I guess? It doesn't really seem that revolutionary. If you want to spend more than 5 years working with them, I think that should happen naturally not as part of some kind of corporate management mandated dream sharing time.
Cracking the PM Interview
Documentary on Amazon.
Feel free to email me if you need someone to talk to.
Business Process Management (BPM) White Papers
I don't think this is necessarily true. I had a light burnout earlier this year because I went through a very busy, successful period with my business. I taught and recorded an online course over a 2.5 month period, and this recorded course became my product.

It went great! But, it was very busy, and I couldn't hit pause because i was teaching a live class. Took me 3-4 months to recover, and I got almost nothing done.

I was running over capacity, and I knew it (I also knew it was temporary, which is why I did it). Yet it was anything but a failure!
Bingo.

I've always held that the people on HN are more of builders than profit maximizeds. As a result you don't hear or encounter people who think in a different manner.

In particular you don't hear people say "why should my factories/effort/investment go to subsidize people who do nothing." Or a variety of similar arguments which have different starting assumptions.

Essentially the BI+automation arguments largely depend on a milk of human kindness in a world where the incentives for a large number of people and nations is not so aligned.

People will always make choices on the margin and the betterment of humanity usually comes a distant last to personal welfare. To balance this out means a huge number of taxes/laws/incentives to prevent that outcome.

You guys (Americans) are going to be fighting over your basic assumptions of society (capitalist with caveats vs "socialists" with caveats) very soon.

But all of this assumes that automation happens and takes away jobs. it likely won't, it will most likely replace well Paying jobs with less well paying jobs.

At this point economists will talk about retraining people but that's bs - there physical limits to how fast neurons can be retrained and that's if you don't have any other time demands/financial issues/health issues/aptitude issues.
What Is the Difference Between Vulnerability Scanning and Security Audit
I am strongly in favor of network neutrality, but this seems to me different in substance from the net neutrality issue. The ISP is not inhibiting or degrading packets from non-favored services. The ISP is not trying to surreptitiously steer the customer to the ISP's preferred content by inhibiting or degrading non-preferred packets. The only thing changing is who is paying for the delivery, and the consumer can still make a conscious choice about whether to avail themselves of that offering.

One might compare this to a new company "SeeAlltheFilms.com" sending out an offer such as, "We'll pay for your next month of internet service if you sign up for a one year contract". Same result: Customer still gets all packets delivered with the same priority; the only change is who pays for it.
Zuckerberg on Fake News
https://www.amazon.com/Obsolete-Aaron-Dykes/dp/B01MQ0XD20/ for the curious
How would you describe the need of some companies need to host 100% of their data

The phrase "data sovereignty requirements" comes to mind.
Learning to reinforcement learn
Which are all relatively poorly paying.

Art is a log scale when it comes to compensation - and many of the best paid are dead.

The issue is not job loss, its job replacement with worse paying service sector jobs which act as a barrier to upward social movement (because lower pay means less access to various positive network effects)
> I was actually more comfortable under the chute than I was in the plane.

Even after 10 years, the ride to altitude is the scary part for me -- and others that had the decency to admit it -- as soon as I'm out the door, everything calms down in the body, it's weird.

I'm guessing it's because while in the plane you have very little control over what happens, and the exit is especially dangerous because a lot of weight (skydivers) shift to one part of the plane.

> Snowless-November in the Canadian Prairies? What the heck?!

I feel your pain, we haven't had a decent winter in a few years now.
Just a heads up, after passing 50 hours of assignments and interviews, I turned down an offer from IBM because they wanted to own my side project. Stay clear of big blue if you like doing side projects, their legal dept is overzealous.
Is there a kind of programming where the challenges are repetitive, somewhat unique, and yet still just barely possible to automate? (I've not written a printer driver.) The closest thing I can think of was some time I spent working on maintenance of a collection of XPath/regex-based web scrapers.
Hey HN, I'm author of the article. If there's anything confusing, I'd be happy to help :)

The GNMT architecture is likely to keep popping up in Google's papers due to the amount of engineering that's been dedicated to make it scale well. Other than chewing up massive machine translation datasets, from single to multiple language pairs, it's also been trained over the entirety of Reddit for a conversational model system.

Just this week a new paper[1] was released using the GNMT architecture which teaches a machine translation system how to translate between language pairs it has never been taught before by using bridging from other language pair knowledge. It's all pretty fascinating stuff :)

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04558
Not really. Your example is a relationship between a content business and its customer. The conflict of interest that Net Neutrality is concerned with exists within the ISP. It's like SeeAlltheFilms.com getting a special deal with your ISP. Sure, it's still your choice to see it or not, but they'll probably get seen more now that they have that deal, and should making a deal with an ISP be the marketplace in which content providers compete, instead of creating great customer experiences?
Well there a version of shared ownership under communism, but I don't think people are happy to consider that line of ideas
Creating a universal JS app on the web has some extra cons too - not only is the code run on the server, but also a not insignificant JS payload is downloaded & executed on the client, as well as increased app complexity in order to maintain client/server separation at extension points.

One should be cognizant that one doesn't get benefits for free with the choice to go with universal JS.
Its spectacular.
Also it's tough to stay really excited about something for years. I find the bursts of energy come in fits and starts. There are days the code just flows and others where I can't seem to motivate myself to work for more than fifteen minutes at a time.
Z80. Mainly because there are still some interesting devices that you can have some fun with that still use them: Gameboy & TI-83 calculators.
PenBox – A Penetration Testing Framework
What do you think about integrating an interpretive overlay at the browser level, supported by Microsoft, Apple, Google and Mozilla out of the box? When Joe Average reads a Facebook post, NYT, Fox News etc any statement like "a source said X" at the browser level we have an annotation that says "an unverifiable source" or when an event or person is referenced there's a direct link to information about it/them? We need to integrate an interpreter so that it's available to everyone and applies to any source of information.
It's not realistic for me to figure out DKIM and verify thousands of headers.

Also, for other people, I'm not a credible source. Is there one?
Whoa. It's a metaphor, maybe a sensitive one, but one nonetheless. "Please don't inject flamewar topics into a thread." --> I think your comment is off the mark. A 'flamewar' is not my intention at all.
Its all.belief and tribalism. Just like religion and sports.
Fundamental lizard brain stuff.

Scary to see where thats led us throughout history.
You can do all that and be civil. It's not an either/or thing. Downvote.
You're providing the definition for espionage, not treason. Snowden is undoubtedly guilty of treason. I think he should be pardoned or given only a light sentence, but it's definitely treason.
This is really a great project. Would be worth to give more details how it is possible to reuse it. Do you think it work for homeless people too?
I tell them I want to know how the organization assesses cost and value of engineering projects. I've yet to see that question actively accepted.