skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say no, because they are not self-replicating things.

A part of the definition of living things is that they reproduce. That reproduction (with variation) is a necessary precursor to evolution. Stars and planets do not reproduce themselves, so they cannot be said to undergo selective evolution.
That big decrease in cost allows the company to capture more market with a lower price, increasing profit. The profit goes to repay the investors that up-fronted the money to develop this. But the savings in everybody else's pockets eventually boost the economy, creating jobs.
> I need to find the setting in Sublime to auto complete only what is in all my open files and nothing else

that would be the AllAutocomplete plugin, it does exactly that :) afaik it's the only autocompletion I use, for pretty much the reasons you said.
Lessig writes on winner take all argument in Electoral College
Far worse than that situation, which I totally agree it's better to let the project die, was the master/slave drama with redis. You may not agree with me, but besides the terminology being common in the area, there were backwards compatibility reasons not to change the terms. It really bothered me how the community dogpiled onto that thread, it got pretty nasty iirc, and all for political correctness (the reasonable if misguided kind).
That's by far the most useful site I could find to compare, choose and find where to buy "bang for the buck" PC parts. Many thanks for the site.
One person in a group must have a CostCo card. The turnstile in the video suggests that all people in a group must have the Amazon Go app running.

I'm not installing Amazon Go on devices for each my children, so does Amazon Go let them in, or not?
Re:Invent 2016 Summary and Analysis
Yes, probably.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-04/thunderstorm-asthma-wa...

If changes in barometric pressure change how pollen is dispersed then wearing a mask might be the right answer for a person with respiratory problems.
This supposes that legimitately intellectual and civil political discourse is simply not possible, that some sort of "primitive brain" must always take over in any political discussion. This is empirically false. Hacker News generates much more calm and rational political discourse than otherwise.

Of course people sometimes get angry and flame each other in political threads. That should be flagged. For that matter, people flame each other on "Technology A versus Technology B" threads all the time, too, and many other topics.

The way to promote more civil political discourse is to promote more civil political discourse, not to ban political discourse as a dirty, taboo topic altogether.
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Does this allow circumvention/dumping of the SecureBoot keys? Its an impressive looking piece of kit for sure, but the English leaves me confused as to what they were able to actually accomplish.
See a much better answer than mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108781
Now the question is does our education system actually help create good problem solvers or would more metrics and accountability for teachers improve matters?
This is one of those cases where I wonder what the benefits are of Amazon vs running your own instance and just using the commands the way they were intended (by Redis in this case). The Amazon version of Elasticsearch has similar disadvantages with some blocked commands (understandably for security reasons).
Hi Michael!
What problem do you think a game company is solving? What would be reasonable key advantages at a company level? I.e.: What do you know/have that Zynga (or even smaller studios) don't? lol
> the community lifting its head out of a sandy quagmire to glance at the shining beacon, the vision on the hill, the where we want to be

The thing is that we all have very different visions on the hill of where we want to be, and that friction is what's playing out in these threads.
Doing the same thing as function compositions in Python is very easy and generally readable already. I don't think it would actually help readability much because I agree with Guido that it would probably be really out of place in the language.
Thank you. I have a million places I can go for political discussion. Why does HN have to be one of them?
I'm trying to design and build a small direct-drive robot arm, inspired by this cool post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12536041

I haven't worked with electronics since college, so I was trying to find a suitable project.

I unconscioussly bought some components and a couple of CHIP computers and I wanted to do something that interacts with the real world (sensors and actuators), but servo-based actuators seemed a bit lame.

Initially, I was going to use two motors and a spring per DOF in order to simulate a muscle ("variable stiffness joint", according to the previous post - I was going by intuition).

But then I read that direct drive was possible (the motor's magnetic field acts as the "spring") and that once that you have a suitable motor controller built all the rest is software defined, and I found the sweetspot for a project.

Such a motor controller is sufficient to keep me researching and prototyping for some time!

If I succeed with this, I'm planning on researching how to do some sort of artificial skin for robots. For the moment the idea revolves around connecting a USB camera to a bunch of fiber optic threads from a cheap lamp such as http://prosites-lottofun9.homestead.com/files/fiberlamp2.jpg and try to detect pressure on loops of the fiber by changes in the light source. That way you can cheaply and efficiently have a huge number of data points, with off-the-shelf components... but if someone does it beforehand I'll also be happy!
> go back to being what kids used to call "a coder"

Hmmm... Your age is going to be Strike 1. I say that as a 52 year old programmer that has interviewed recently.
Discussing politics is truly a bit of a black hole - we have unlimited ability to argue for our principles but the truth is that if the sides are relatively secure in their positions and have data they trust to back it up there is no point in discussing further.

I applaud the admins for attempting something like this - communities need to develop strong opinions to survive, or else they will be torn apart by infighting when it becomes big enough that people no longer assume goodwill. This creates an ever-more toxic environment and poisons the well. At least then people are making a conscious choice to agree or disagree with the purpose/opinions of the community.
What's your experience with it so far? I was playing around with it at a startup a few years ago. It seemed to have a strong community and features were popping up rather quickly. However, it didn't scale that well for us.
We don't call home. Once you've downloaded the Docker container, the only outbound network traffic should be downloading the requested SWF once for Flash games on demand (or for actually playing the game online, in the case of e.g. Slither). You can cache the SWF if you don't want it to be downloaded each time you start a new container.

Other than SWF downloading or specific Internet-enabled environments, running offline should just work.
Moderation and social dynamics are things that have to be built from smaller scales outward. Yes, there will always be people writing articles about "This project is awful and the developers are bad people," but it's also possible to have platforms and communities that don't indulge in and enable that kind of pettiness.

And it's true that driving those people away will likely cause them to form their own communities, but so be it. More often what happens, actually, is that the people less interested in unneeded hostility (like I said about building from smaller scales) will splinter and form their own communities. If these communities are effective, however, they'll often slowly be recognized by the nasties in the original community and be invaded by the same or similar people. The real problem is figuring out how to deal with them and maintain solidarity without compromising social ideals, rather than just splintering again.

Also, I'm not real knowledgeable about issues surrounding autism, but I do know that autistic kids are a primary target of parental abuse, often by parents who may appear well-meaning from the outside... so I wouldn't be surprised if those can be quite toxic communities, especially if we're talking about parents and not autistic people themselves at the forefront of discourse. But perhaps I'm just cynical.
I've been working on my generative adversarial network. It's a fascinating type of ML that can learn from both supervised and unsupervised data.

In essence, given data it will create a generator of that data. Right now my datasets are mostly images. I have tried on audio data and that does start to work - then diverges.

I'm still trying to find a configuration that works really well:

https://github.com/255bits/hypergan *

* needs modern GPU to run
Did the Internet transform the economy with <power>? Do people ride Uber because Uber has power?

Unquestionably. Uber has power because it occupies the bulk of mindshare for ride sharing. The internet has power because that's where people are. You can't argue that facebook, MSFT etc... don't have POWER.

Did Apple coerce people into buying its products by the billions?

You're conflating power with coercion. It's possible, and desirable, to have power without coercion. Most power is not coercive - it's called "soft power."

Though radicals could argue that even soft power is coercive.
So, where would a story about the code in voting machines sit? Anathema?

I agree that HN does not need walls of bickering partisan flames, but outlawing discussions of politics and ethics is not the way to go in my mind.
Just passing by this thread to register intense negativity against this plan. HN shouldn't be a "safe space".

Shutting down discussion of "politics"-- the methodology of distribution of resources within a society-- is the complete opposite of gratifying intellectual curiosity and having substantive comments. How is it possible to gratify curiosity, when you're not allowed to start the discussion? How can the substance of your comments be displayed when the topic is verboten? Perhaps what dang is upset about is the tone with which these comments are conducted. Sure, they're shrill, sometimes. But isn't it natural to be shrill when discussing issues of morality and heavy consequence?

As far as HN not being intended for use as a political or ideological battlefield: that dream is dead. Technology touches every aspect of humankind, and yes, that means it's political.
Can we migrate to an open-source alternative to Hacker News already?
Ask HN: What's your average day at work like?
I'll be graduating in roughly a year :)
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1. Took the test. 2. Was impressed 3. Thought to test for a while 4. Installed Chrome plugin 5. Opened facebook for some random reason 6. Page flickering!? Facebook bug? 7. Scrolled 2 times 8. Got smashed in the face by a full-page ad from Beelinereader 9. Removed plugin and will probably never install again

You really caught me. This is something I could pay for after trying out for a while. Do yourself a favour for christmas and investigate if there is any other way than smashing just recently onboarded users with an ad to raise the awareness of the fact that this is not free.

Thanks though, really, impressive tech.
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My garage project is cleaning out my garage so I can do a garage project. :-( In this case, a little library for the inlaws and cabinet carcasses for our kitchen.
While I think that we should use every tool at our disposal to work to mitigate disasters like the one you mention, I also don't think it's on Technology to fix this issue itself. Facebook isn't the cause of people being stupid, people are. This is not a new issue and it is not something that the people who read this site are responsible for.

It is also an experiment. I'd like to emphasize that. It is an experiment. It is OK to not get politics on HN for a week. It will not be the cause of a global meltdown in society.

I'm also pretty confident that if some ground breaking news broke about Donald Trump wanting to launch a nuclear weapon that dang would allow that, but the current noise that is happening can be removed for a week is a good experiment.
3D NAND is struggling, but it's not a complete failure. Intel/Micron 3D TLC NAND is available in volume at a great price but it's slower than Samsung's 3D TLC. Micron still hasn't shipped any 3D MLC. Samsung's 48-layer 3D NAND performs well but supply is still pretty tight and some product lines are close to a year overdue for upgrading from their 32-layer 3D NAND. Toshiba/SanDisk(Western Digital) 3D NAND is being used in iPhones but is not yet sold in SSDs; it's not clear if this is due to raw supply limitations or if they're having trouble with performance or endurance. SK Hynix has been shipping an insignificant amount of 3D MLC with sub-par density, but no 3D TLC yet.

Everybody has promises for a future of scaling up the layer count of 3D NAND to deliver big improvements in price per GB. But they're not offering much to reassure us that those newer designs will be free from the issues that have been holding back this year's planned advances.
Not a gripe but an idea: rather than ban persons from HN for bad behavior, would it possibly be better to "emprison" them, that is, disallow them from posting for awhile and then, after a few days or weeks, permit them to resume posting?

Reason I ask this is that I recently encountered an HN situation where someone who appeared to be a productive member of the HN community was banned from posting because of (truly) poor etiquette, if not outright bad behavior. However, seeing that he had for over a year been a contributing member, I felt that a total ban was heavy-handed and that simply being punished temporarily for a transgression might have served better.

Is anyone familiar with an online forum that merely temporarily punishes transgressors w/o permanently banning them? Does anyone else think banning is sometimes a bit too much punishment?
Check out the counterargument by adrianroselli in the comments.
Barn doors and brush fires ... are you Aussie by any chance? :)
Funny enough, if you find the same products at other stores, they are the same price. I think Walmart thrives by offering a diverse selection of inexpensive offerings, not by pricing identical items lower (to reflect their lower workforce costs). For example, videogames cost the same at Walmart as they do at Target. To see a different price for a specific item, you have to go to a very different type of store (Sam's Club/Costco).

I think it's fair to say that even if Walmart could half their operating costs with technology, those savings would not find their way into the pockets of consumers.
>I'm so tired of hearing about how someone was slighted on the internet.

Deal with it?
I built a barn-door electric drive astrophotography rig for long exposure star photos.
I'm trying to build a camera that uses the sensors on your phone to help you take the perfect picture. Your mobile phone knows so much about it's environment, yet most photography apps only take into account what the lens sees.
> I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.

See, that right there is a political statement in and of itself.
Thailand is launching a stock exchange just for startups; no revenue required
That's fair, I understand your stance on that, and definitely agree with you on the AGI.
HyperDrive Compact Thunderbolt 3 USB-C Hub for MacBook Pro
This looks awesome. Just what I was looking for.

Seems like they have some decent companies using them too.
> What are you in such a hurry to do?

> Part of what makes life awesome is meeting random people standing in lines.

By all means go search for lines to meet random people. But spare me because for me that time is wasted, and I rather recover all of it to spend it with my friends, or doing sport, or even watching TV with my wife. This thing won't make lines disappear altogether, so you'll be fine: you'll be able to find them in the post office for example.
Uber Buys a Mysterious Startup to Make Itself an AI Company
Erm, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't Fresno need something like 50 years of rain to replete the water table?
"Hundreds of curved mirrors, each as big as a bus, are ranked in rows covering 1,400,000 sq m (15m sq ft) of desert, an area the size of 200 football fields."

"The plant keeps generating energy after sunset, when electricity demands peak. Some of the day’s energy is stored in reservoirs of superhot molten salts made of sodium and potassium nitrates, which keeps production going for up to three hours. In the next phase of the plant, production will continue for up to eight hours after sunset."
Maybe it shouldn't be? Yes that's a question because this is an experiment, they aren't saying it shouldn't be.

I'm 100% behind you if they try to ban politics on HN. But for a week it's ok, we'll live and we may even learn something.
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Your comment was rightly flagged because it broke the rules, and in the thread about the rules to boot.

If you want to discuss whether this experiment is a good idea for HN, that's fine, but you need to do it without fighting a specific political fight at the same time. "The new National Security Advisor, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, endorsed the totally false rumors that led to this shooting" is the very thing we're asking you not to post this week.
I don't see any reason a story about voting machines couldn't be strictly technical. What politics would you even want to discuss?
Can we train up a sentiment analyzer on the delta between the stories and comments this week vs. all others, and then apply it to discovering "political discussion?"
I am not a sales guy, but I guess I say the right stuff? Not sure.. I am not having to force people to use my product, they are generally beating down the door to find ME. One guy last week found me on page 17 of google. I didn't know google had 17 pages....
>and before you know it you've helped build a police state.

this actually happened, as you know. "politics aren't my problem" should be called out as effectively authoritarian, as it's an admission that they'll do exactly as told.
The basic income discussions are pretty pointless though. There is just a group of people who think we should have it and another who think it's a pointless thought experiment because it the economy is about an order of magnitude short of the output required for the numbers being proposed.
2) It's not relevant whether the shooter read HN, but there could be very fruitful discussions as to how this was instigated because of social media of which is mainly built by tech in the bay area.

3) 24 hour news may be an issue of degradation but fake news perpetuated within giant tech companies is also an issue. You cannot talk about fake news without going into the politics of it.
Water costs need revising to properly incentivize efficiency.
Agreed, tagging would be a great solution. Three cheers for tagging! Tagging for president! Oops. :)
I've never modded a community as large as HN, but I know exactly what you mean. A good mod is accused of bias from all sides of a debate. And a lack of foresight, followed by eventual action, will likely engender accusations of moderation bias. Frankly, your answer, even "in progress" is still satisfactory.

I was going to send this in an email to you ages ago, but this is as good a place as any, I guess.

I'm sure you've seen this account many times, but I intentionally post unpopular opinions here, often to actively game upvotes/downvotes. Sometimes, I post the exact opposite opinion that I hold in meatspace. Occassionally I accidentially stumble on something new (who knew wal-mart was so popular on HN?[0]), and proceed to extend a conversation to see how much karma I will actively lose. I liken it to game testing, where one is encouraged to play incorrectly in order to identify bugs in a program.

I have a pretty good understanding of the political pulse of HN as a result. The HN of 2016 overwhelmingly skews California Liberal, and often includes much of the identity politics. If you even hint at opposing gay rights (which, as an LGBTQ* is obviously not my position), you will be downvote-bombed. In this thread I have been downvoted for making a pro-Eich post. Sometimes, the retaliation for an opinion extends to downvoting my post history.

The system is incredibly easy to game for karma; just post something that largely supports the majority opinion, and contributes just enough that it isn't flagged for not providing anything to the conversation. Keep this up until you have enough karma to downvote, then work on another account. If you're judicious in keeping to the hivemind's platform, you can get a 650 karma account in less than a month (I've done it twice, though I deleted the accounts afterward). in six months, you can downvote a post you don't like to light grey in a matter of seconds.

I'm sure you've made efforts to penalize stories. Largely, you've been really good on that. However, comments are where the hivemind lives, and it can be measured in upvotes and downvotes. If a post isn't incendiary, but ends up with more downvotes than upvotes, it's safe to say this is an account of maybe not the entire site, but at least who is regularly active at the time of posting.

I completely agree with you about the toxicity of political fights, even though I hypocritically partake in them for research. I also agree that everyone believes their side is the underdog. I just don't agree that HN is "equally-biased", and I have the post history to prove it.

(yes, kissing the ass of the mods is part of the game, as it effectively stops the flow of downvotes once you intervene; However, I do mean it when I compliment how you've run the site. You've made HN worth using throughout this Eternal Septembering of redditors)

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13106730
Political discourse is antithetical to rational, intelligent discussion.

In fact, what is antithetical to rational, intelligent discussion is: emotionally charged, poorly-considered, and dishonest discussion. The topic doesn't matter: health fads, operating systems, or taxes. I agree, many people have terrible style in their approach to political discussion - but see also, e.g. Hobbes and Rousseau for more thoughtful representatives.
Eventually we'll wind up with Slashdot-style scoring.
I feel some irony was lost with the posting of this topic. The relationship the actions HN moderation takes against HN users is, by definition, political. So, by definition, this post should be removed.

Yes the moderation team is going to be handling this on a case by case basis and a thread like this isn't actually going to be shut down but I think it illustrates my point: politics is woven through society at virtually every level. There are very few stories that lack at least some form of politics.

So why not let the community decide what they feel it a topic worth discussion and what is not by flagging posts (like what they do today)? Why must there be interference to steer the community in a specific, editorialized direction?