skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By his own admission he's had user mentions turned off for years. Avoiding trolls isn't nearly as hard as people here are making it seem. If you don't want to deal with trolling, don't become the CEO of reddit immediately after their ridiculous community ousted Ellen Pao. The mainstream media and an awful lot of the internet (including the majority of users on this site) paint Trump supporters as racist, sexist, homophobic, uneducated, etc. on a daily basis, but calling spez a pedo is somehow beyond the pale? And that justifies him editing user posts to appear as if they've said something they haven't?
My thinking is similar. Long ago, I outlined it on a mailing list as follows:

I'd like to posit a progression of animal awareness. (In the full
knowledge that there is no "tree" or "hierarchy" of evolution; the
progression is merely a convenient way of presenting some data.)

1. Single-celled animals, such as amoebae and /Paramecium/. Many of
these display simple taxic responses: they move towards light, away
from heat, and towards or away from certain chemicals - they pursue
concentration gradients. In other words, a single cell can display
what could be called "voluntary" movement; it does not follow
programmed paths but responds to its environment. You can watch a
Paramecium in a microscope, swimming through a world of bits of plant
and mineral matter in water. If they bumble into something, they
recoil, and set off in another direction. If they catch a scent of
something that might be food, they change direction and set off in
pursuit of it. It's much like watching a much bigger animal, like a
mouse, explore an unfamiliar environment. Surprisingly like.

Similar behaviours can be observed in all sorts of small animals, like
collembolans and nematodes.

Small animals - even single-celled ones - interact with their
environment, responding to stimuli in ways that are more than a
simple, determinate pattern. They are not like a clockwork mouse or
toy that always follows the same path.
ok, seems to be fixed now... it's simple, and effective.
2. If you put a woodlouse in a T-shaped maze - one junction, choice of
left or right - and teach it that food and a damp place lie in one
direction and bright light and dryness lie in another, you can teach
an individual woodlouse to turn left or right consistently. In other
words, a woodlouse has a memory. It can learn new behaviours.

Woodlice have enough "brain" to at some level form a model of their
surroundings. They can learn a very simple map.

3.Many small invertebrates form social colonies. In land-living ones,
like ants and termites, animals leave a chemical trail as they move
around, depositing markers indicating desirable discoveries. This is
how an ant colony "finds" sugar in our kitchens, say. One
randomly-exploring ant finds sugar, and retraces its steps home
leaving a marker indicating that it's found food. Other ants follow
the trail, reinforcing it, until a path is marked for the colony to
move large amounts of food back to the nest.

In other words, ants make and read signals for other ants.
> No big deal.

People have been denied entry in the US based on tweets - http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-16810312 - while Facebook is widely used in investigations and prosecution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_social_network_websites... .

It doesn't matter if you don't assume that social media content was written by the indicated author, it matters that law enforcement does and the consequences are serious.
Brexit

But, it was a sarcastic post
Here you go: https://github.com/koekeishiya/kwm
They really seem to be staying in the global state camp. I find it impractical too, but it would make their "time travelling debugger" and other similar tooling stop to work if components could have local state.
The insurance market is also relatively free. It's not like there won't be competition there either. Whoever has the best risk modeling to price things appropiately should win.
> s/reasons/diamonds' only purpose as jewelry is to show you spent a lot money on them/.

Yes, but the reason used to justify it must be indirect, otherwise it's just crass behavior.

It can be impurities, it can be color (blue vs yellow), anything related to the extraction process, but never as simple as directly stating "it's more expensive".
There are plenty of ways to scrape responsibly.
Disrupt Music (Again) and Fashion Industries Through Technology
The disruption will use technology to put artists on top and technology at the bottom.

I'm looking for a partner preferable in the Los Angeles area with music and/or fashion industry experience.
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Meanwhile, "Nasa’s Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding as the president-elect seeks to shift focus away from home in favor of deep space exploration"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/22/nasa-ear...
How funny. You are calling U.S. entrepreneurs kid?
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> Internet trolls deserve it.

Even those advocating violence over musical preferences like, say, the bashing of ravers?
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One of the best summarizers not mentioned: https://slack.com/apps/A2B487WT0-sumbot
> it's the only avenue long term.

fixing the metabolism, and reprogramming the 'fight or flight' response, is an option too.
If money is going up (shareholders?) then one should invest in that car company. If it's going excessively to the managers, then the shareholders should change the management's compensation.

It is a net positive (shareholders or management and consumers gain), but not necessarily Pareto efficient (some people lose).

> Definitely not the 1M people losing those jobs.

Why? They would get a lesser paying job, but I think they could still buy a cheap car.
Suggestion, after the server successfully created, show the command that they can execute to access the server (ssh root@<ip>, with <ip> being replaced with the real ip).
It's not atomical. Note that the PPU is constantly updated in the middle of the CPU instructions in a way that respects the timing of the original hardware. The relative order of operations between CPU and PPU is respected.
Great. Free VPN on demand :)
Sounds pretty cool. I was confused where to get the pricing with the text "Keep it longer for as little as $2 via Credit Card or Bitcoin". I had to go to the FAQ to know how much time $2 gave me.

This is definitely for work you could live without, i.e. don't use it for production services. The automatically deleted approach as the first message does lower the trust of stuff not disappearing under your feet.

I think the homepage could do with explaining who it's intended for.
I am not sure what's the use case for this.

For deployment of small web apps, you have heroku, GAE and now, all of which offer "permanent" hosting.
Leaks from the reddit admin slack channel show the motivations behind this:

http://archive.is/ZmULb

Apparently a long history of harrassment from the subreddit in question finally made /u/spez retaliate. The leaks further show the admin team is planning to deal with the subreddit in a more definitive way.
> In high-dollar consulting, up-front payment is a super weird term. Friends and acquaintances ask me for sanity checks on bids and pricing and deal structure all the time. If I ever see "pay me up front", I red-flag.

That, and I don't see how a "project cost" makes sense anymore. The project will cost what it'll cost. If there is a budget, I'll start billing into one. Also, as a freelance, you can't work in high-dollar and be the only guy working on that project. You are just part of an organization.

> If you're dealing with a client where you feel you really need a safety deposit, that's a sign from the universe that they shouldn't be your client.

I'm not sure I agree on this. I've seen very good people change on stressful situation. I'd prefer that I have my terms secured. If you are working with big clients I guess you can make use of factoring?

> Do what you need to when you're just getting started, I get it. But try to move away from the kind of work where you get paid half up front, as soon as you can.

I can't stress this enough. I live in a third-world and moving from oDesk to high-dollars meant that I moved from working 5-6 days a week to having the ability of not working for the next 5-8 years (just a few months of work).
When I got to the midpoint of the article, I started to wonder if the author was going to tell me at the end that the whole article was fake news.
though I think that the pizzagate group are largely crazy, you did forget the cornerstone of their theory: the podestas as well as the pizza shop in question have multitudes of disturbing art featuring children in sexual and vulnerable situations. that, and also the instagram of the owner has many pictures of children in compromising positions.... as "jokes".
The usage of code words and symbols by Comet Pizza and Besta Pizza are mapped to an FBI document that was uncovered. There's also been strange phrases uncovered in the Podesta emails that seem to indicate that code words are in use. Additionally, people have found hidden data in JPGs sent around, which appear to be hashes that were placed after the closing JPG headers. Not sure I believe any of it, but it's definitely interesting.
Perfectly reasonable view of things if you ask me. I remember watching this thing spawn in real time during the release of Podesta's emails. There were 4 things IMHO that made this into a big deal for the_donald: 1) #SpiritCooking, 2) the "Pizza Related Map", 3) Bill Clinton's alleged trips to "pedo island without the secret service", and 4) Some have interpreted Joe Biden's interaction with children as creepy. Then, people started looking at old emails in a whole new light and realized there appeared to be coded messages involving children in them. That's kind of where I stopped tracking personally because the signal to noise ratio is pretty low.
I've seen the big networks doing this as well. All very strange. Seems to be leading up to something.
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I'm not sure it's true, my grandfather asserted glass and steel skyscrapers relied on the heat from lighting being on all the time.
Of course, this requires you to actually want to detect fake news.
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Sort of like how bitcoin uses hashes to demonstrate value, things like diamonds and dyes are a social "proof-of-work" - meaningful only because the cost they imply.
Universities’ AI Talent Poached by Tech Giants
really? no qualms about secretly editing user comments to say something different?

have you ever heard of how slippery certain slopes can be?
Snopes is probably the only more biased link that you could have posted.
> What you _want_ is the user manual for Mac OS.

I think "the kernel's source code" would be a better analogy. For all I know the Mac OS manual is probably silly and explains how to turn it on and off, and how to go to appstore and itunes.
Reddit CEO confesses to modifying posts sent to him from Trump supporters
I don't think it's very charitable to imply that the parent only holds their opinion due to their assumed economic status.
Well, I suppose if you think that newspapers are the left wing equivalent of anything. I cancelled the Chicago Tribune when they endorsed George Bush, and my neighbor thinks the NY Times is right-wing. ;-)

But still, if one assumes that the left gets information from newspapers and the right from talk-radio, it would support my thesis that there are left-right differences in consumption of information, making it plausible that there are also left-right differences in the consumption of fake news. There's en entire industry (advertising) devoted to exploiting measurable differences in how identifiable groups of people process information.
Nobody's gonna mine bitcoin on a machine with half a gigabyte of RAM and 1 CPU.
To be fair, Chinese capital outflows are going everywhere in the US (and Canada), high tech is a tiny part of it. (Though there are structural reasons why capital leakage via investment is easier than other capital leakage.)

In your own country, I'd point to Vancouver's real estate market as an example of Chinese capital flight that has nothing to do with IP.

And to be fair, copying successful tech companies with local clones isn't a purely Chinese phenomenon. I forget the name of that German firm that was doing precisely that, but they're a good counterexample and a common villain on these forums.
You must be a shill for Big Lizard.
Seroquel is a tranquilizer (aka neuroleptic aka 'antipsychotic')...

Anxiety is partially a metabolic problem.

I have two friends whose stimulant use turned them into alcoholics. One quit meth amphetamine, then the anxiety started. She discovered vodka after getting hooked on benzodiazepines.

Alcohol is broken down into acetate, which is an energy-rich molecule that is easy for the brain/nervous system to use as fuel, especially when those cells are insulin resistant (and therefore have a hard time using sugar as fuel).
JetBrains Rider Public EAP is out. I've been using the private EAP on Linux for 6 months and it just keeps getting better.

I contribute to a couple open source .NET projects working with developers that use Visual Studio on Windows and don't run into many cross platform issues. I commonly see open source .NET Core projects run Windows CI with Appveyor and Linux CI with Travis so catching cross platform build issues is not hard.
> Avoiding trolls isn't nearly as hard as people here are making it seem

If you truly believe this then you're amazingly ignorant. I'd rather believe you're trolling on this matter than imagine someone this ignorant.

Also, feel free to answer on this, but i don't believe i'll be arsed to respond to you further.
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> What he discovered was that spaghetti has been consumed and produced in Bologna and in the neighbouring countryside since the 16th century.

It's funny to read about someone denying eating some kind of food. But, then:

> Italians’ rigid adherence to cooking traditions, Valdiserra said, is linked to the false belief that they have not changed much over centuries.

So it becomes a matter of pride and tradition. I'm curious what future generations will think about our habits: raw foods vs processed ones, vegetarian vs meat farms, diversity vs individually tailored according to genetic profile and needs.
This is the house where the shooting took place ...
What Liberals are doing to Trump supporters is the same thing that the Nazi did to the Jews.

The Nazi accused the Jews of many many things. The Nazi tricked everyone to hate the Jews (with all sorts of accusations). Once people hated the Jews, the Nazi were able to kill off the Jews without any backlash, because in those people's mind, the Jews "deserved" it.

Liberals are doing the same thing to Trump supporters. Accuse Trump supporters of being racist (I don't see any Trump supporter going around lynching Black people), and making it okay to beat up Trump supporter because they "deserve" it.

This witch hunt has to stop. It's 2016 already, and I can't believe witch hunt (under the new name "Trump Supporters Are Racist And They Deserve To Get Beat Up") is still happening.
I recall working with a HP Enterprise Services contractor and was amazed at just how much data was stored on his laptop. Categorized Outlook folders for each client, every email and contact stored locally. Orders, BOMs, price lists, RMAs... all on his laptop.

It would not surprise me the Navy contractor had the same setup.

HP's culture is incentivized to propagate 1990's client-server architecture as a result of their product line. Gov procurement officials and CIOs must demand that HP move to cloud-based infrastructure with 2-factor authentication.
Exe Language
Because of robotics.
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> Your new server's first two hours are FREE. Keep it longer for as little as $2 via Credit Card or Bitcoin. Your server is deleted automatically when its time runs out, never incur unexpected bills.

How much longer? This can't be $1/HR
I have worked on cross-border deals with Chinese firms over the past few years. (I work in finance, but not VC). I’ve seen the growth and impact of Chinese firms entering US capital markets, public equity markets, PE buyout deals and real estate. I think it will be very interesting to see how it plays out in VC...

VC is really nothing like any other type of investing. It doesn’t have the same quite established valuation and due diligence processes as other types of investing. And successful VC investing has so many non-quantifiable ingredients to the process: VCs connections and reputations, how they evaluate a team, unique sector insights, intuition, etc… And that’s after one gets past any language barriers.

[1] I see the mixed comments on here. Clearly, there are good and bad actors in China. And the caution and prudence the article brings up should be taken very seriously. But the fact is there are legit, honest, good firms in China that are worth partnering with and/or having as investors. More so, ignoring the chance to have a great investor and partner in China is ignoring the reality of the global economy that will more or less exist for probably the rest of your lifetime. China has the largest GDP of any country in the world (US is #3 if you count the EU). Times have changed. We all need to get together and figure it out.

This has gotten long, might as well add a couple more:

[2] The article also mentions the importance of understanding culture differences and avoiding possible miscommunications. This is hard to emphasize but crucial to do before real meetings start happening.

[3] When initiating meetings with potential Chinese investors, if you can hire (temporarily or permanently?) someone who speaks, read and writes Chinese and English fluently this is a game-changer and I think it’s worth the cost. Someone born to Chinese parents but who grew up in America for example.

[4] There are macro-level, systemic and regulatory-type risks for US firms working with Chinese firms and vice versa. Companies really must discount these risks in their business plan. The US and Chinese governments seem to always be negotiating, about every topic, and so in some periods there are positive developments and in others this reverses. Blocking of specific deal is a risk but market wide roadblocks can be immediate and severe. Have a plan B should this stuff happen.

[5] Deals with Chinese investors are not only about making good returns like with US VCs. There may be other motives. Too many to list. It depends.

[6] The comment mentioning Elon Musk has a point: There is no more bankable IP. It’s gone, the few exceptions are irrelevant. Companies can’t keep anything secret, especially not IP. You probably can’t afford to protect the IP in court if you had to. Don't let this stop you from working with China. Best to build around this reality.

[7] Study the Facebook and Google and Uber stories how well or poorly they did in China to see how complex this can get for a big growing company.
Neural network learns to identify criminals by their faces
There are sooo many threads going around on this topic.
I find it odd that people are talking about algorithms to identify and respond to fake news, instead of simply pushing for more education and critical thought at an individual level.

In the example detailed in the article, I would think people would never even get past the headline -- a heat map for crime waves would have variances at the level of neighborhoods in large cities, and otherwise would look similar to a population heat map. The maps clearly show county data just based on the borders, not even getting into the placement of colors (seriously, northern minnesota is a hot spot for crime?), so a cursory level of critical thought applied to the headline should have caused people to reject it.

Encouraging people to just stop and think about the content they consume should be the first step.
But surely the idea of p-zombies is so inimical to the idea of a self that only p-zombies could believe in them?

(Sips tea.)
If I'm doing one month work for Thomas, I'll bill him at the end of the month and assume paid.

If I'm doing one week work for Capita21 in Mexico (really picked it at random); I'll ask for "full" up-front payment and divide the project into different milestones.

Let me ask you a question: Was that client a local client? Was it in the USA?
How would government censorship and regulation help with the Rwandan genocide?

Or would the censorship actually help the perpetrators? I.e. by shutting down "fake news" reporting about the ongoing genocide?
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This is solid and helpful. Still yet, these days on Facebook it's hard to even discern the real news from the obvious fakes, even after including these tips. For example, yesterday came upon a picture of Tila Tequila doing a Sieg Heil salute in a small crowd of otherwise well-dressed upscale looking types. I did not recognize the source. So I thought a second - do I really need to spend the time to figure out what the heck is going on in this picture? Frankly, I encourage one of you enterprising programmers to make us a chrome or firefox add-in that acts as a rating system that overlays "probability of fake" on stories that look like they may be news.
A "strained" relationship is putting it lightly. They were dealing with actual harrassment and are now finally fed up, and planning to deal with the subreddit in a more final way:

http://archive.is/ZmULb

Quarantining it altogether is under consideration, but as mentioned in the link above, this will need further planning.
Good. The US needs to focus on deep space exploration. Our planet is already a lost cause. We need to get the hell out ASAP.
That works if you can make that 10 acres work for you... I've been trying that model for the last little while on top of my full time job. I can tell you from first hand experience that while it may be rewarding, the amount of work and money it takes to get those 10 acres working for you is not trivial and has the serious probability of burning you out before you make it. I wouldn't recommend doing this on top of a full time job if time is of the essence. It's probably something you'd want to do over the period of a couple of years because trying to get 10 acres working for you inside of a year is an insane amount of work - it's literally more than a second full time job. I know this, because that's exactly what I've been doing for the last 9 months.

The shitty internet access will be beyond frustrating at first. Again, speaking from first hand experience, you will become accustomed to it and find workarounds. I sometimes think that not having any internet access at all would be easier than dealing with the outages that I deal with on a weekly basis. Eventually you stop caring about it and think fuck it, I'll just do something else with my time, read a book, go out on your land, learn useful things like small engine repair or carpentry or whatever...

Not having Internet and TV can be frustrating and boring at first, but finding hobbies and learning skills to fill that time instead can be extremely good for your confidence and your soul.
Yes, purity goes an extra mile; but refactoring a functional typescript codebase (and I'm not talking about codebases written with typescript like if it was javascript) is also really pleasant, especially with the flawless Atom/Visual Studio typescript support.
The need to hold whole stacks in the head is the problem. That's not abstraction. That's not how math works. The mouse doesn't escape the wheel by running faster.
Thank you. Now the original article makes sense.
Doesn't sound too out of line for gift shop kitsch to me. "Old timey map featuring famous longstanding business" is definitely a pattern I've seen in promotional artwork.