skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overall, HN is pretty good because people here care a lot about facts.

If, however, you don't think there are echo chambers here, you might want to look again.

The parameters are just different here.

The echo chambers here tend to be related to > surprise, surprise < technical stuff, and things can get pretty heated and occasionally mean. Fortunately there is a lot of self-policing here, but on some topics you might notice excessive downvoting of non-inflammatory opinions that simply run counter to what the herd is thinking.

People might not care about your gender/religion here, but they do focus on other attributes. I've seen people marginalized or dismissed as not being "real programmers" for using a glossy screen, PHP (not so much now, but PHP debates were really bad a few years ago), etc.

On any given day, you'll find some people who think that Microsoft/Google/Facebook/Apple/etc. are crooked and evil and will never change their opinion. On the same note, you'll also find people who think Apple/Tesla/Elon Musk/etc. are infallible.

More recently, if you look at the debates over the whether the new Macbook Pro is "pro enough", you'll see a lot of comments to the effect that "it's [not] like that for me, so it must [not] be true for you/everyone else [either]", which is pretty similar to the bubbles people sit in the non-HN world too.
As a linux user, I tried:

1) Visual studio only works on windows
2) It runs on mono
3) I don't like .exe and .dll stuff
Everyone who can now see your entire internet history including the taxman and DWP
I wonder who is mining the blocks? Since this is launched by the government, are they the one doing all the mining? In that case, isn't the currency vulnerable to the 51% attack (i.e. the government could essentially "print" digital money as they wish)?
Frankly, the DAO fiasco killed Ethereum for most people on its own, everything else was icing on the cake. This was Ethereum's first real "smart contract" that did something you couldn't really do without it, and it failed quickly and miserably, showing most reasonable people that they can't trust smart contracts to do what even their creators believe that they do. At least with a legal contract, the intent of the people agreeing on it matters.
Traditional media has been doing that forever

Have they? I got to admit I used to think this too. But in the past few years I've had quite a few occasions to talk to the media due to them covering a topic I happen to be (publicly) knowledgeable about. I've been quoted in a lot of media stories in various highbrow outlets. So I've been approached by journalists a whole bunch of times for stories.

However, I have never been approached by a fact checker. If news firms were routinely doing fact checks, I'd expect to see

1) Way fewer obvious mistakes that could be detected with 60 seconds Googling

2) Fact checkers emailing me as part of cross-checking stories they're doing on my area of specialism

But I see (1) a lot and (2) never. I've also never heard any journalist refer to fact checkers or tell me to expect my statements to be fact checked, or actually seen any evidence of these people existing at all.
Similar experience, especially if your ambition is to have a very neat application with rich components. Elm elegantly solves 70% of the problems, it's awful at the other 30%.

If we have to use JS via ports (and it has to be asynchronous! dang) to achieve complex things anyway, why not use typescript, which can do absolutely everything you need without the language context and async switch?
This used to be tied in, but then it was found that Trump also had connections to Epstein, and so this was promptly dropped.

> “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York Magazine for a 2002 profile of Epstein. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/09/the-friendship-between-tru...

Going meta-conspiracy. Perhaps the pizzagate stuff was a psyops pushed to detract from other, more relevant, stories.
Warranty was only for a year. I had it repaired at some point for some heatsink issue, and they offered they could swap out the battery while at it (i.e. no extra labor). But it would've cost me 300$ CAD just for the battery, which seemed expensive at the time. Now I regret not paying for that..
Downvotes, seriously?

Because of the actions of their CEO, reddit was falsely telling everyone who viewed the relevant comments:

> Fluid_Mechanics [score hidden] some time ago

> Fuck /u/spez

While knowing that Fluid_Mechanics had not written that.

(Names have been changed to illustrate the point.)

Lying, and a violation of trust, seem like appropriate terms.
You want https://www.virtualbox.org/
"Dply blocks common SMTP ports by default in order to prevent abuse of the platform and be able to provide servers for free."

Why do this over simpler bandwidth throttling say after a certain threshold has been met?
1) What? Fact: the electorate chose Trump as the next US president. The fact that most of the country wants what you don't want doesn't make it a tyranny of the majority.

2) I don't care who is on what train, and I'm not shitting on anyone. Fact: OP's grandparents didn't fight for Trump to not be president. That what OP's grandparents or OP want is in contradiction with what the USA got isn't an indication of tyranny. What OP or OP's grandparents want doesn't generalize to what everyone else wants or should want, that's the point, and it's not an insult.
Nice service! I could see this being really useful for web scraping or for offloading compilation. (Or any relatively short computation, really.)

I caught a bit of an awkward sentence on the FAQ though: "Unless specifically specified otherwise.."

Just "specified" will do :)
'clarification'
Of course it was sarcasm, I thought it was obvious. NASA outsources everything these days. I was responding to the idea that you should never outsource important things when EVERYTHING is outsourced, including astornaut launches
> even though I will never have that much money in order to buy a new Porsche vehicle

You're not meant to buy it. You're meant to be envious of it. The target market is purchasing your envy. See Veblen's _Theory of the Leisure Class_.
This is not some competition in morality. Nobody counts "moral superiority points". The only thing that is counted is money.
Lots of people are complaining about r/The_Donald in this thread, wishing that it would be banned. The casual attitude with which people are advocating censorship of Trump supporters is troubling.

They claim that it's polluting the rest of the site. It's not a default subscription, so it's not on the front page. It's at most a handful of the posts on any page of r/all, which by the way, almost no one browses according to Reddit admins themselves. Yes, the moderators of The_Donald ban opposing viewpoints, just like moderators in other partisan subreddits do. It is advertised as a 24/7 Trump rally, and that's what it is.

They claim that the subreddit is racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. If you took a moment to even read it, you'd find post after post expressing the OPPOSITE sentiment, advocating for equality for all regardless of race, sex, and orientation. The problem is that the definition that the left is using of "racism" has been broadened to include basically anything they don't agree with.
IMU means gyro, that is, it measures rotational rates. Accelerometers measure translational rates.
It surprises me how many people might lack these basic human needs given how advanced our society is in areas that are not basic human needs.
I'm wondering why garment production wasn't automated years ago.
Shoot Down Front-End Fatigue with Tracer Bullets
It's not funny. He could delete the comment if he thought it violated their TOS, but to _edit_ it is wrong.

If you were trying to make Reddit a profitable business it's not funny either.
Randy Pausch – Time Management (2007, PDF)
So why did it decrease in 2015 for auto robots?
I dunno, it's hard to get better search ability than what we had with "osx". Among other things, there are a lot of code bases with Mac OS 9 code hanging around in directories named "macos".
Since I'm off the road here is the link https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-12

Byte Magazine Volume 10 Number 13 December 1985 Computer Conferencing
> - neurons are not causal.

What does that mean?
voat is really good, but they lack API :<
Hmm... Not entirely sure.

Windows Holographic is out there with end-users. Albeit with some/many shortcomings and obviously still being developed (like every other OS) -- I would compare it more to iOS 1.0, which was pretty stable but also had many short comings.

Apple and Google haves not released anything for end-users or even demoed anything... so I still feel Microsoft is ahead. Obviously, I don't know what Apple and Google are working on internally (or Microsoft for that matter).
No kidding. They create a platform, and then continually panic like "Oh no! People are using the platform! What do we do? How do we stop people using the platform while making it seem like we want people to use the platform? People are using the site! Something must be done!"
Nonsense, Kalman filters are well understood and widely used in spacecraft attitude dynamics and control systems. In fact, I'd argue that a Kalman filter is industry standard for that work. It's typical on teams doing GNC (guidance, navigation, and control) to have a PhD or two in control theory to make sure you get things right.

Most aerospace engineers with a GNC background know a lot about Kalmam filters.

Examples:
http://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/ntb/webc...

http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2016/TS10AdvTech2/5/
Jetbrains Rider is coming soon. It's pretty great!
Deep Learning Automatically Colorize Black and White Photos
Telegram launches Telegraph, a long-form publishing platform
>[citation needed]

I was told wikipedia and Google work free of charge for everyone.
Randy Pausch's 2007 "Time Management" lecture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blaK_tB_KQA
I find this personally interesting. I work at the national center for missing and exploited children (ncmec), and in the exploited children division (ECD) we build systems to accept reports from internet companies, do analysis and send reports to law enforcement with said analysis.

When we go out for lunch or whatever, we refer to child porn as CP. It's a bit awkward to explain we house the largest collection of CP.
SpaceX wins NASA contract to launch ocean-surveying satellite
And then you get out of high school and you start to actually do research and learn the real answer: Primary sources are always better than secondary or tertiary, so use them when you can.

But Wikipedia IS good for finding those primary/secondary sources. And, depending on the topic, wiki is great for getting a quick primer to a subject or to have an example and is often cited in lectures to students who are expected to be old enough to not stop you and say "Teacher! Teacher! You said to never use Wikipedia!"
Shhhh, you're gonna ruin it for everybody else!
As does any corporation with software distribution and a breathing legal team.

If you want your code to be usable by people who don't know what "fsf" stands for, don't use gpl3.
Web App and REST API with Express, PostgreSQL and Nunjucks on Yarn
>> HackerNews happens to share your values and opinions on things like religion and politics.

There are pretty diverse political views here. I don't know if you remember all the HN discussions on Brendan Eich's political donations a while back, but things got pretty heated on both sides. The for and against arguments pretty much drowned out any opinions in the middle.
Spreadsheets are like FORTRAN: If you have certain, specific needs, they're the best tool for the job. However, they're not the best tool in the general case, and if you learned another programming tool first, you will recoil in disgust from some of the more non-ideal uses of it. At the end of the day, though, it gets the job done.

I never really learned spreadsheets, so for most of the (very simple) work I have to do that would involve spreadsheets, I use AWK.
I think you're mistaking the utility of epistemically treating qualia on their own terms, with their fundamental ontological status. Just because reducibility may not be useful in most cases of analyzing qualia as a phenomena reducible to thoughts, doesn't make it untrue that they are reducible to thoughts.
The Mathematics of Election Fraud
The energy use numbers are kind of silly.

Nuclear is ~20% of our electricity gen, so 1/4th of that is 1/20th or 5% of US electricity aka not really that big a deal. Energy wise getting to an office is generally far more expensive.

Further they talk about BTU for heating ignoring heat pumps generally being over 100% efficient and running on electricity.
In the aftermath of 2016 presidential elections academics and activists are calling for audit of the election results in key battleground states. In 2011 Russian Duma election similar allegations of vote tampering were raised. In these elections data scientists were able to show using statistical methods that at very high likelihood the election results were tampered by adding fake votes for the winning party. I would like to see similar analysis for the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. However it doesn't seem that the raw vote counts for each candidate and the total number of registered voters are readily available at polling site level, especially together with information on what kind of voting machines were used and if paper trail was recorded from site to site. Does anyone know if such raw data is available publicly for further statistical analysis by the data science community.
Lots of it is, but a big driver for why automating garment work being more costly than other kinds of automation is soft things, like cloth, are harder to deal with consistently than hard things like metal.

It folds and distorts in shape in much less normal patterns, requiring more sophisticated algorithms.
The Key to Meaningful Productivity: Being Receptive
Awesome, excellent stuff.
Indeed, it's difficult to achieve a perfect balance here. That's one of the reasons the WebExtensions team has been very actively discussing with add-on developers to try and prioritize which APIs should be created/ported to WebExtensions.

I don't remember specific numbers, but I seem to remember that pretty much all the extension points that had been requested by add-on developers were at least somewhere on the TODO list of WebExtensions. I hope that by the end of 2017, they will all be available, with a much cleaner API than their XUL/XPCOM counterpart, better tests and much better survival chances.

Of course, some of the changes will require pretty drastic reimplementations by the developers. For instance, going from js-ctypes to the native bridge will require full reimplementation in a different programming language. On the upside, js-ctypes was really painful to use and the native bridge will let you use a much better language for the task. Say Rust :)
Cool idea and service, however, I would think this is going to be used a lot for abuse and since you are targeting people who only need a server for a very short span of time I doubt many will continue and actually paying for the service.

But I hope you will succeed because there will probably come a time when I need something like this.
Wouldn't web scraping be considered abusive usage as it is frowned upon by most websites?
I believe audio over hdmi is also unfinished for recent MacBook pros, which is a deal breaker for me.
Good for them. There's been a lot of talk about ethics for software engineers on this board lately, and I think this is a great demonstration of virtue in that arena. Hope this spreads far and wide, and encourages other engineers to do the same.
We'll see...

Apple has disappointed me a bit lately, but I definitely think AR makes more sense for Apple than trying to build a car.

Microsoft may have some advantage in that they've done a lot research in the field of 3D scanning and have lots of experience with Kinect, though.
As always, the only question for me is whether tree style tabs is going to work with WebExtenstions.

If not, then say hello to people staying with firefox 56 for years.
Italian or British? Writer solves riddle of spaghetti bolognese
Ditto! This might be an unfair stance for me to take, but my thought is anyone opposed to them adding your name inside the book isn't using the book for a legitimate authorized use case most likely. It most certainly isn't a DRM to me in any normal sense and I'm perfectly ok with it.
>look for pressure on the Senate to completely suspend the filibuster and push through a very right wing Justice

Currently, Republicans hold the Senate (52,R vs 48,D). And, according to Wikipedia:

"On November 21, 2013, the Senate voted, in a 52 to 48 vote, to require only a majority vote to end a filibuster of all executive and judicial nominees, excluding Supreme Court nominees, rather than the 3/5 of votes previously required. A 3/5 supermajority is still required to end filibusters on legislation and Supreme Court nominees."

So, that is some context for anyone else not up to speed on the specifics.
They're a little neurotic.
If I can't use Ghostery, Blend In, No Resource Leak (or they are watered down), I see no use for Firefox. Please Mozilla, don't kill some of your biggest attractions! You copied UI from Chrome, now you are copying Add-Ons, why would anyone need to use your product then? Aren't you shooting into your own feet? When are you going to pull off Opera and just skin Chrome differently?
FYI, small typo on https://dply.co/how - "it's" should be "its".
CFTC Poised to Modify Source-Code Proposal
How does Microsoft make money on this? Sun spent all this money supporting java, but they ultimately couldn't survive.
It depends on what reddit is trying to be.

If it wants to be anything goes like 4chan, then it's funny and not a thing to care about.

But reddit has always been trying to be more palatable and have better signal:noise than that style. Reddit is a pretend "raw and unfiltered" for users used to facebook, but very much in a safe-for-tv "dangerous" way. They want to be the channel surfing portal for the internet, and that means curbing the actual rough-edges.

And Steve, in the process of trying to get his userbase to straiten up, fly right, and be good unpaid content farm worker bees, can't maintain his own composure.
The future of .NET is on both Windows and Linux. Millions of existing .NET developers are happy to continue making .NET code for billions of Windows devices. On PaaS, it still makes a lot of sense to use Windows as the underlying OS. And, yes, the proportion of Linux vs. Windows underneath will go up, because that's the only direction available.
No, and I don't know where you're getting your certainty that the answer is wrong from.

How about this: find me a published scientific paper with only Bayesian results in it, no frequentist statistics at all. Argue for its superiority all you want, but I don't think anyone does it. It would be seen as a stunt.
Firefox was supposed to be "slow" and they are trying to fix it radically with projects like e10s and Quantum.

If the browser is able to eat my RAM a bit less, I would be quite happy to have my add-ons off for some time.
I also fell for this. The input field should probably be made more obvious (lighter background) because at first it looks like a cosmetic spacing rule.
Is the paid version supposed to work yet? I just tried to create a 2 day instance and clicking the "pay with card" button doesn't do anything.

On a related note, does anyone know a good way to pay USD for things like this with a foreign (e.g. UK) bank account. If I use my UK VISA I get stung by my bank's criminal conversion change/rate. This is rarely something I need to do but it has arisen a few times now.
Two thirds of startup advice is wrong. This post is no exception
the same input does not always produce the same output. IN fact it's guaranteed not to for at least three reasons:

- repeatedly presenting the same input to a neuron has a response that depends on neurotransmitter reuptake rates. If the synapse isn't "recovered", you get a different spike rate out.

- neurons fire stochastically in the absence of stimulus. Responses to small stimuli are indistinguishable from noise.

- The above two phenomena propagate through connected series of neurons in a nonlinear way.
Increasing H1Bs certainly isn't Trump's stated position. While he hasn't mentioned it directly, he had Disney workers who were replaced by H1B workers speak at a rally:

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3039215/it-industry/lai...

His website suggests his policy will prioritize protecting American workers:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/immigration/?/position...

"Establish new immigration controls to boost wages and to ensure that open jobs are offered to American workers first."
Dutch scientists use color-changing graphene bubbles to create mechanical pixels
Top 3 cracked dash cam apps for Android
They dont. Theres nothing to say this data is correlated in any way.
For me the problem was it is easy to go too far with the Admin and hack everything in there. Its not that limited.
I'm surprised git UIs have lock-in power. Of all my development constraints, git is the last place I would have expected to find resistance switching OSs.

But then again, I could never do things in tower as fast as I could on the command line, so I dropped it fairly fast. It's not super useful replacement without an interactive rebase. Nice for viewing history, though.
We were all thinking it.
How do you know the main reason that the Chinese are looking to invest in the US within high tech VC?

There is growth opportunities all around the world that don't require leaking business plans or technologies to a government that is hostile to worldwide IP protection. They clone all our major businesses (Google, Uber, etc), they shut us out of their currency markets, they shut us out of their property markets, they burden us with complex banking requirements and inexplicably expensive and annoying travel visas.

But go on and tell me why I should be behind Chinese money further infecting our economy in this asymmetrical trading relationship.

I understand Nato policy towards China is one of engagement. Pulling them so far into trade that they can't afford to take drastic military action, but it's getting to be a bit much.

It's especially evident here in Toronto / Canada, where the government or highly, highly government connected businessmen fund some politicians and essentially not-for-profit news outlets (usually in Chinese).

China isn't Europe. Dealing with them requires a much more realistic, firm hand.
s/reasons/diamonds' only purpose as jewelry is to show you spent a lot money on them/.

Even the article misses this. Literally the only reason people buy diamonds for is because they want to show that they burnt a large sum on it. If you buy fake diamonds, other people shame you because "I didn't burn the sum so you could reap the same social benefits without actually wasting your money", so fake diamonds have a stigma attached to it.
Well, the whackjob subreddit was a threat to the org because they were organizing harassment and slander/libel from there and it is a matter of time until there is a lawsuit for damages

And one can argue that the trump subreddit does the same in light of Twitter allegedly not being bought out because of the hate and toxicity. If Reddit can't secure investors and funding because of notoriety, they have to do something.
... or whoever wrote the code should have put boundary checks in to make sure a negative altitude was caught and handled properly
Chimpanzees and monkeys have entered the Stone Age