skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think its a bit of sly trick from HN admins - they get to plausibly deny suppressing hot button topics because their intervention is to white-list discussion instead of having to be up front and make the tough decision to black-list them.

When a negative story about YC emerges and generates a lot of comments so it gets pushed off the front-page and they just say "shame but its just automatic flamewar detector, <shrug>". I'm sure they think they are clever but it just erodes trust over the long term.
When companies fail, consumers go somewhere else. When the government fails, we give it more money. The real problem with government is not enough spending.
-The reason a small guerilla may 'win' over a large power is simply (IMHO) because the success criteria are different.

The large power needs to eradicate the guerilla (preferably without too much collateral damage in the population the guerilla is hiding in, as that would -in addition to be plain wrong - increase recruitment to said guerilla.).

The guerilla simply needs to not be eradicated. As long as it exists in any meaningful sense, it will tie up vast resources for the adversary.

Or, phrased simply - the large power needs to win to win. The guerilla needs to not lose to win.
>I'm going to stop here, because any relevant adjective I would use to describe people like you would just get me banned.

The main word I'd use to describe "people like you", given the above, is rude.

The ad-hominem doesn't add anything to the case. And who would "people like me" be? Anybody that has concerns or might be against nuclear power? Because they are necessarily ignorant luddites, and only those for it are the level-headed ones, right?

Well, nuclear reactors and energy production is not science (the science part is done at the academic level), it is applied technology. And technology mingles with private interests, politics and bad actors all the time (e.g. constructors who don't install enough safety measures, governments who don't give a shit about global environmental treaties, loonies who might want to blow up reactors or get their hands to the by products, human errors, political ass-saving, tons of money to be made, higher profit margins by not properly taking care of by products, etc.),

Now to answer the specific points:

"Leak[ing] sulfur into the streams for the next 50 years" doesn't even compare to having to take care of radioactive materials for the next millennia, neither in the extend of time, nor to the potential impact.

Your answer also seems to imply that e.g. uranium mining doesn't have an environmental impact, and it's only coal that "rips entire mountains apart"...

>In addition, in California, the radioactive sulfur in pollution from the coal burning plants in China SWAMPS the radiation release from Fukushima by several orders of magnitude.

All caps "swamps" aside, this would be only relevant if Fukushima was the epitome of nuclear disaster and the "radiation release from Fukushima" was the highest level of tradition release possible (or close).
No mentions of Kayak? I use kayak because they seems to be more up to date. Sometimes other players don't have the special offers that kayak already shows. Sometimes kayak is also slow to update.

I tried also other metasearches, but they mostly have offers from rubbish sites that show good prices and then you get a huge CC bill.
I'm not an ophthalmologist but I did a lot of reading and talking to optometrists when I couldn't quite get a prescription I liked. It was one of the tests I considered.

For what it's worth I solved my own issue by insisting on a slightly stronger prescription (-0.25) for my myopia. It's well worth a try, especially for driving at night. The easiest way to tell if it would help is if green traffic lights look significantly blurrier than than red traffic lights in the distance.
"its contractors", "its long"
Hahaha, right?

You know what inspires confidence? Built in 4g connections during a 5 million vehicle safety recall.

/s.
Agreed with 'have a contract' and I see your point.

But I would never ever hire a contractor on such terms.

Never.

No company in their right mind would put their IP at risk due to some fuzzy contractual language - and it's always fuzzy, subject to interpretation.

The contract could conceivably be 'interpreted' as 'all the companies IP' and all it takes is an angry contractor who is pissed and thinks he can make zillions $ to make your life hell.

Personally - I've only had good experiences, but I take a different approach. I just withold milestone delivery until I get paid, until I sense the credibility of the institution.

There have been a few comments such as 'I will take down your site if you don't pay' etc. - this is a reflection of the power that the contractor has, and it implies something more than legal leverage, really.

Also - the moment I whiffed there was going to be a 'non payment scenario' - I'm out.

If you're getting paid often enough, at least your losses are limited.
the functionality is probably a UPDATE comments where id=x set content="newcontent"
What made this situation more interesting is that Washington Post cited comments from that edited thread in their article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11.... That's not a good look for Conde Nast - should the proper media cites now have a disclaimer that the user "apparently" wrote such and such post?

I would guess that this exposure is also the reason he edited this thread in particular.
We just voted Donald Trump into the white house. Sanity IS rebelious.
Have you ever considered piracy? You'd make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts.
> the only reason there is anything special about 8 bits as a unit of data is because hardware is built to operate on units of 8 bits at a time.

More precisely, hardware at the time that "the natural unit of data" was becoming a standardized convention was built to operate on units of 8 bits at a time. As you say, the 8-bit convention is mainly for historical reasons, and hardware today can handle larger chunk sizes.

> Python exposes 8-bit florbs, but not other sizes of florbs

To the extent it exposes florbs at all, yes. But that does not mean you are stuck with 8-bit operations in Python in all cases. For example, operations on Python floats use the IEEE standard data chunks, which, as you note, are not 8-bit. Operations on Python integers are not restricted to using 8-bit CPU instructions; they will use whatever register sizes the hardware allows (more precisely, the hardware the Python interpreter was compiled for--if you run a 32-bit Python interpreter on a 64-bit machine, you won't be using 64-bit register operations). It is true that the programmer has no control over the data chunk sizes that Python uses; they are hard-coded into the interpreter.

> Common Lisp has arbitrarily sized florbs.

Can you give an example of how this capability in CL is used?
Imagine Zuckerberg edited your facebook status, secretly, because you said something mean about him. The president elect has posted on reddit account, and has posted. 'Spez' has the power to impersonate and communicate as the president of the US, even retroactively, or anyone else for that matter.
> unless homebrew has some sort of enforcement on what that script can do

Anything from our Homebrew/core (i.e. wget) uses the macOS sandbox to prevent writes outside of permitted locations.
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We need a new Chinese Exclusion Act, or this will not end well.
You've got it backwards. Almost nobody encompassed by the "alt-right" label approves of its usage. It was created by the left to brand and contain the movement. See this movement? They're the alt-right because I said so. Oh and they have nazis. Bingo, movement discredited. You can see the wheels turning in the old media's head.

Your post is a good example of how the left is going to lose really hard in the coming years. Politically motivated leftist outsiders like you, reaching reasonable conclusions of your ideology, are pushing the exact opposite narratives that your overlords want you to. The result can only be more infighting destroying you from the inside out.

I feel confident entering the hornet's nest to say this because I know the mob will not heed my warnings, and instead devour any of their own that stop to listen. The left can neither win with nor without people like you, and so it is doomed to either disappear or transform into something not recognizable in comparison to its former self. Something far more right wing.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Yup, and the null hypothesis is a reduced model. Different words, same thing.
Fascinating. I'm not sure I buy the left isn't just as gullible as the right. Or at least not without more proof?

I suspect you'd need a right leaning person with a similar background writing left bait fake news to have the same impact though. Write fake news about charter schools doing something bad (charter school puts LGBT students in detention) or fake churches doing bad (church in Idaho found funneling funds to Trump campaign) or fake doctors doing something the left would find atrocious but believable (medical clinic in Utah refuses to help unwed pregnant teens unless they agree to marry)

I say that because I know lots of traditionally left leaning people who believe all kinds of unscientific stuff with the same fervor as the "religious right". Auras, Rieki, Astrology, Homeopathy, Chakra, etc...
This is strange. https://www.dklo.co/ should work just fine. No once has complained till now.
I wouldn't want to work for a client who chooses freelancers by how easily they can be exploited. Having a perfectly reasonable contract is no reason for an ethically run business to not work with you.
From the source with a false `CONFIG_SCHED_DEFERRED_AST` flag :)

/* We don't support deferred ASTs; everything is candycanes and sunshine. */
Ah right, that makes a lot of sense. I was probably just being naive there. Probably best to discuss YC related topics on different forums.
That's not relevant. A bank account is an insurable device. An ethereum implementation is not. Until that changes, nobody will take it seriously.
There is no free lunch, is there?
"20 of 25 posts on this page have been filtered"

thats how r/all looks for me without all the politic subreddits, which I assume is mostly the_donald and enoughTrumpSpam
What limitations have you hit or found to be the most frustrating?
They are just providing a new option to you. No one is forcing anything down your throat.
They're not looking for actual terrorists, otherwise the SMS's would have triggered a response. They're looking for people like Occupy Wall Street protesters, who actually pose a threat (ie. redistribution of wealth) to those in power.
Actually, it was the anti-flamewar filter that pushed it off, as dang explained later in the thread.
Thank you for the concern. You might be right. I guess I assume addition means I can't go without without withdrawals but I know I can go without just fine (long vacations) etc.. so at least at the moment I just look at it as being distracted easily (like a child ;P)
I think that Elm is a fundamentally good language, being catered towards JS developers will hopefully attract more of them to FP development. However, I feel that the language is too restricted compare to other FP languages (Haskell, Purescript, even Scala), as a result you often need to write too much boilerplate and the Elm architecture doesn't seem to fit nicely for all kinds of components.

Which is why for now I'm looking into Purescript and GHCJS which support features such as Rank N types, generics, typeclasses, functional dependencies/type families. Even though I don't use many of those features directly, I do benefit from libraries that depend on them.
Didn't they alter the frontpage so this subreddit wouldn't appear anymore?
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>Infowars objectively did a better job reporting the facts of the case than the New York Times

Can you whack jobs stay on 4chan and Reddit please? It's bad enough you've taken over Twitter and the US government.
The Chinese are not known as the 'Jews of Asia' in countries like Malaysia and Indonesia and Philippines for no reason.

The Chinese have used these tactics to ascend through the ranks of society and have come to dominate the politics and economy of those countries, much to the chagrin of the local people.

If we don't stop this same tide of activity we're seeing in the west, particularly in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and California, Westerners will soon find themselves in the same plight of subordination as the Malays.

Canada has already introduced measures on home ownership designed to curb the flow of Chinese money, perhaps it's time the US imposed a ban on Chinese takeovers of US firms.
Being uncomfortable with something is not the same as denying it. Furthermore, it's also possible to acknowledge something as true and not accept the logical consequences, however inconsistent that may be.
High-level moderators openly discussing being paid by CTR (Correct The Record - a Hillary Clinton organization): https://i.sli.mg/eZXD0R.png

This is really funny, the undoing of Reddit - and for what?
Yeah... there was no internet, and in my case, no local group of users, so either the manual or it was impossible to use it :-)
> Doing that in ethereum and all the other similar currencies is as easy as pressing a button.

The rollback was (and still is) very controversial. It required the agreement of the large mining pools to support the fork, which they eventually agreed to. It wasn't quite as simple as "pressing a button".

Banks get hacked all the time, eat the loss, keep it quiet and move on, e.g. http://www.businessinsider.de/how-to-hack-a-bank-mikko-hyppo...

http://www.dataiq.co.uk/news/20141107/banks-keeping-quite-de...
There are some cases when the difference between bayesian and frequentist statistics is just a matter of interpretation, but not in this case: the mathematics for a bayesian statistical test are different from the mathematics of a frequentist statistical test and they will produce different results, because the former accounts for prior probabilities and the latter does not. The article talks about frequentist tests, as does almost everyone else who mentions statistical tests without further specification.
I got banned from /r/pizza for critiquing pizzas too harshly. Seriously? The walled-garden, clique, circlejerking is no fun at all.
Can you tell me how spectrum quotes work?

All I found was "Inspirational Quotes about Spectrum" or some consulting companies with "spectrum" in their name.
Wtf is this nonsense? You want to run an independent business but you don't want the hassle of billing, just pass a law so that you dont have too!
We could replace coal with nuclear yesterday if the anti-nuclear activists would stand down. Instead, they have fought to continue a status quo whose death toll we start couting at 25,000 people per year lost to black lung [0]. No serial killer or terrorist could dream of effecting mass casualites as efficiently as the proponents of this viewpoint do when they take action that results in the continued and expanding operation of coal power generation, despite an alternative which is actually viable in every respect but their opposition.

Yes, nuclear power has problems. But even if it killed 24,000 people per year, blocking the replacement of coal by nuclear would still be a willful choice to cause the deaths of 1,000 people (it's getting really hard not to say murder).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalworker's_pneumoconiosis
> You think he should be let go over this?

Absolutely.

> You think that other CEOs would have been?

Even if other CEOs who have done similar things have not been let go, that doesn't mean they shouldn't have been let go. This was a major breach of trust.

> If so you have not been following the news much.

Apparently I haven't been following the news much because I haven't heard of any CEOs doing something like this recently. The most "scandalous" (for lack of better word) thing that I've heard of recently concerning CEOs and political stuff was the controversy with GrubHub and Pepsi. If you're referring to events like those, I don't think they're comparable. I don't agree with the actions of those CEOs either, but there's a difference between the CEO of a company taking a stance against a political candidate and the CEO of a social media network putting words in his users' mouths by editing their comments. If you're not referring to stuff like the GrubHub and Pepsi and there have in fact been other CEOs who put words in their users' mouths by editing their comments or posts, I'd love some links. Either way, I still think they should be let go.
I am new to macOS and I was just recently surprised by that - noticed Ctrl+k worked in some un-expected places like a plain text box widget (not in emacs). I thought it was a nice touch.
This is not true, for instance say you're an oppressive government and have a method to decrypt encryption type X (https, E2E encryption or what-have-you). There's only so many times you can use your decryption alg for evil purposes before someone leaks that you have it. Https is infinitely better than http, E2E encryption is infinitely better than nothing.
Am I missing something obvious? The comment in the red box looks like sarcasm.
So this was about the banning of PizzaGate subreddit, and its understandable that a Reddit-Mob can be a scary thing, and needs to be dealt with somehow. But it feels Reddits moderation practices have become increasingly shady over the last couple years, and spez editing comments directly just shows how seemingly lax they are with their powers. You don't really have to be a conspiracy nut to see that places like /r/politics during the election had some very questionable moderation.
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This is the story of how Chinese mathematicians tried to steal Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture to further their own careers. They are ruthless and not to be trusted.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/28/manifold-destin...
Don't give up... the internet will always fight back one way or another. Maybe you can be a part of that.
In case anyone wanted to read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...
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Of course we know what to do with the "waste": Keep it close, it's precious fuel for breeder reactors.
Reddit has been on my shitlist since the Ellen pao situation.

How anyone uses that site after how the Reddit community treated her is beyond me.
Yeah, that might be true. But if you are a big organization you probably want to have a standardized process on how to handle third party open source software (how to document it, where to store it, etc...).
it's a social media website, get over it.
That's fine, except it's not true. There is no evidence, and they are all false accusations.

http://www.snopes.com/pizzagate-conspiracy/
It's reddit for fucks sake, he didn't change a legal record. You are giving reddit comments too much credit for being a source of information.
I think in general yes, absolutely true. Everyone across the political spectrum is just as susceptible. However, in this election, people on the left didn't need to look any further than the candidate's own words to get the rage high they were seeking. For the right though, I mean sure, you have mishandling of emails and a charitable foundation, but even with years investigation and even publicly leaked emails there wasn't a whole lot of fire, just a bunch of smoke.
This article (and many others about this topic) forgets an important detail: it was the snowiest November day in 111 years. Thus, the causation implied is not certain.
http://www.thelocal.se/20161110/stockholm-just-set-a-new-sno...

Additionally, the label "feminist" snow-ploying system is unnecessary polarizing (however, that might be a branding error by the city). In fact, the point of the whole thing was to not only to prioritize snow clearing for people who drive cars (where the majority is men) but also cyclists and pedestrians. I find this to be a welcome effort, the gender issue aside.
Very well-said.

What's disturbing is how many sane people are getting up in arms over this. The trolls are going to have a field day. Unfortunately, it has already blown up and has hit all the major media outlets. This is a perfect example of something on the Internet done "for the lolz". But people who don't have an understanding of Internet culture just cannot grasp this concept.
> It could be implemented similarly to the way spam is handled by the internet, bad neighborhoods and networks that don't self police are treated as second class citizens.

Please no, the way spam is handled on the internet means that anyone who isn't already a massive internet company is usually treat as a second class citizen
Well, that's a surprise
A Nazi's wet dream.

In the submitted article, they say that 10% of the data was used as test data set. I cannot find that info in the orig article. After skimming through the paper, it seems to me the reported accuracy results from the 10-fold cross-validation approach they used - which probably explains the 10% mentioned above. They should probably have calculated the accuracy with a fresh data set. It also seems they have a certain false pos rate.
Reddit hit it's eternal September a while ago now it's just a frequently updating youtube comments section (minus a few gems that honestly could be their own forums somewhere else)
Google warns journalists and professors: Your account is under attack
Don't you think a significant difference between districts where everything is similar except for the voting mechanism, with a trend to favor a specific candidate on one hard-to-audit mechanism is suspicious?
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Except for launchd, which remains re-closed-source.
Even more of a problem now that the new iphones are toilet-proof, which extends their expected life quite a bit!
I can imagine this happening very easily. Let's say a contractor is helping add a module to some web application...

"It worked on test, but not in production. It's supposed to be live already, what's the holdup? Fine, I'm not supposed to do this but I'll give him access to the live-server, read only, of course, since you have security clearance anyway. Plus, the data is in the DB, not on the application server. Ok, so now you have the whole /deploy folder, find the issue..."

"What do you mean you lost you laptop on the metro this morning? Fuck! Ok, well you only had access to the /deploy folder, but now I'm required to audit your laptop's backup to see if you had anything important, what a pain in the ass. Wait, what's this? There are all these XML files with personnel data in them in /deploy/api/xml/!!!!! Those files are supposed to be processed and removed from the web server, not stored! Shit!"
You do realise that comment is making fun of people like yourself right? When people call you a shill all day your humour tend to include jokes about being a shill to mess with the idiots calling everyone that disagrees with them a shill.
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6% is only the official estimate based on IT department raids. In reality, this will be more.

Moreover, if you stub out this 6%, you will arrest leakage of that black money getting converted into land, gold, assets etc.,

See an interesting discussion here, (though this conversation concludes both parties not conceding their point:-):)

https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/5cilgj/cash_has_only...

For a good argument in favor of the move, and for a theoretical perspective on this, even in a developed economy with less paper money %, please see Kenneth Rogoff's blog post and also his book - the "Curse of Cash" (I've not read his book though only his posts and tweets on this)

http://blog.press.princeton.edu/2016/11/17/kenneth-rogoff-in...
Democracies can fail, for example the recent rise of Erdogan. Asshats in power want democracy to fail because when it does they will be the ones in power.