skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the biggest problems on HN. All it takes is for five people to disagree with a comment and it gets disappeared, as if no one said anything. It's the epitome of an echo chamber. It's the virtual equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears--except it's worse, because it essentially plugs the ears of everyone who visits afterwards. How patronizing to those people, preventing them from even hearing ideas that you disagree with.

For a site that is ostensibly focused on intellectual curiosity, this is antithetical to that goal. A robust, informed discussion requires exposure to a variety of perspectives, especially ones that seem challenging or uncomfortable.

If you do not agree with a comment--so what? Either refute it or move on. Just because you are unable or unwilling to refute it does not mean that someone else will not come along after you and do so. Downvoting should be reserved for comments which are truly useless, not comments that you merely disagree with.

And, yes, I am aware that downvoting for disagreement has been promoted and accepted by some on HN, but it's wrong--at least, it is if your actual goal is to have robust, informed discussion of intellectually interesting topics.
Nope, Western Washington University
Note that the contribution of this article is techniques for visualizing models, not the novel itself.
I've seen people that can't understand the interface to an elevator, that the up light means it's going up and the down light means it's going down. That's for a single purpose tool that people use everyday. How do you propose we design intuitive UI's for those people?

And aren't CAD tools power tools? They are designed to be easy to use for the experienced, not easy to pick up. There is a trade off between power and ease of use.
I understand the pen doesn't attach in any way to the device? Only the Folio does attempt to help keeping them together?

The movies don't seem to do a good job of demonstrating the advertised pressure and tilt sensitivity levels; I didn't seem to notice any variation in line width.

It would be awesome if you could make Stylus Labs Write (http://www.styluslabs.com/) work on your device — or at least steal the ideas (esp. text moving) for your writing app.
Stripe backed Stellar launches worldwide remittance corridors
Imagine Foo, Inc., a hot new startup disrupting $industry. DNS for foo.com (which was paid up for several more years) is hosted on Route 53.

One day, they run out of money and close up shop. Their Amazon AWS accounts get shut down. The domain gets wiped from Route 53.

You come along and add foo.com as a hosted zone in Route 53. You point MX RRs towards a machine you control and begin reading the mail sent to $users@foo.com that will continue to arrive for the next several years. Perhaps you even use your new access to all @foo.com addresses to do some password resets on long forgotten accounts.
I had the same thought, before I saw your response.

Combined with the grandparent comment, I realize that, in this way, it wasn't (just) new but also, refreshingly, old-school.
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Go right ahead, use C/C++ based actor systems! This project is to allow Erlang (http://erlang.org) to run on low power embedded devices.
> And many of the studios want to compete with netflix, not license to them.

And even the ones that don't want to compete with Netflix field offers from Netflix's competitors (and, naturally, Netflix itself) for exclusive streaming license for top tier content.
I've often seen this used to explain what they're planning to do with the permission, e.g. "Would you like to enable camera access so you can customize avatars with photos?"

Done properly I can appreciate it, especially on Android where permissions are often nonsensically bundled together. Although I'm never sure when it's crossed the line into scam. Is the permission for getting the user's gamer id really "make phone calls"?!
Interesting stories that haven't had significant attention yet are welcome here.
Didn't physicists of the old once say they were close to closing in the the grand theory of everything, it was Max Plank or someone who was told by some Physics Prof that Physics as they knew was completely discovered .. point being there will always be a big idea around the corner that will surprise everybody
I'm not sure which part of your claim is in opposition to my own, but you seem to be disagreeing with something I said.
..Now what you have to handle when you start doing mathematics as an older child or as an adult is accepting this state of being stuck. People don't get used to that. Some people find this very stressful. Even people who are very good at mathematics sometimes find this hard to get used to and they feel that's where they're failing. But it isn't: it's part of the process and you have to accept [and] learn to enjoy that process. Yes, you don't understand [something at the moment] but you have faith that over time you will understand — you have to go through this.

Well then.. found my confidence booster for 2017. Thanks!
Can't access- flagged as a 'fair use violation'. No details provided, first time I've been on this site. Any idea what's going on?
I opted for the ad-free Hulu subscription, and that, for the most part, is great.

They do have a few programs on there that are not eligible, but then they say up front "due to streaming rights, we have to show you ads, but it's just one before and one after".

That, at least is better than the ad-laden Hulu before they offered that option, where any prolonged bout of streaming would show you the same ad over and over and over.
It's a bit of a Continental European view that "they [the national government] already handle ID for everyone". Universal government ID isn't historically the case in countries descended from the UK.
I'm sure your remark was well-intentioned, like an overly-hard slap on the back, but subtleties like that are lost on the public internet and just look like personal attacks. So please don't comment like that here, or at least add enough information to disambiguate. Intent doesn't communicate itself, so the burden is on the commenter to do that.
I just signed up for an account. Looks good!

Some feedback:

- Great if there was more granularity for some services. Down/warning for all of AWS is not useful. Better if one could scope to region or even better region + service.

- The distinction between warn/down is not entirely clear. Also, it's not clear if it varies between services.

- Great with Slack integration!

- Instead of only selecting by drop-down or search, it would be great with a wall-like page with name + icon/logo, to make it easier to quickly find the service.

- Good with historic stats, makes it easier to choose between down/warn (to know how 'noisy'i it'll be).
We do that! http://owd.com
I would have agreed with you a few years ago, but coal producer antipathy toward O&G has increased a lot since fracking unleashed the cheap gas that has been eating their lunch. At the same time gas producers have softened their stance against climate action, calculating (correctly) that in the short-medium term coal-to-gas switching in the name of climate action can send a lot of new natural gas demand their way. As for the long term, either they don't care yet or don't really believe that natural gas and oil will eventually be in line for replacement too.
Very related to differential privacy: https://research.googleblog.com/2015/08/the-reusable-holdout... (together with IBM and Samsung)
Really looking forward to Dotty. Will be interesting to see how the preference of type members over type parameters will change they way to write code.
A friend of mine told me: You like a dress? Buy three sizes, return the two that didn't fit.
loved it. it's interesting how quickly the brain develops a sort of intuition how to solve them after a few levels.

Would be good if there was a leaderboard with times
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And all of these, in terms of quality of research output, pale by about an order of magnitude in comparison to Bell Labs for much of its existence (particularly in the era ~1940 to mid 1980s). They were the R&D benchmark for most improvements to IBM Research from the 1960s onward. Additionally IBM sought out its alumni and populated their ranks with notable management and research minds from the Bell Labs stable.
Never heard of that before, but it's loading fine for me. Maybe it's all the company logos tripping something you have on your computer or network?
>maybe babies are also bigger?

Well adults are bigger. Average height has been increasing worldwide and better nutrition is the accepted cause. So maybe(most definitely) a pregnant well-fed mother will produce a larger baby than a mother eating more like those in generations past. We've been evolving for safe delivery of babies while teetering on starvation, not when so well fed that 25% of the US population is obese.
The combination of this being fairly unlikely to be attempted, along with Foo Inc no longer existing, I really don't think this is a significant issue.
This is my SOP for shoes as well.
Perhaps it would be correct to say that we discover mathematical objects but invent theorems about them.
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Evil Maid says you shouldn't trust even your existing HID devices.
You can modify your billing address to some nonsense. Payments shouldn't go through with a wrong billing address (although, I never tried it).
Video services need to be disrupted in a way that sticks (not like Amazon adding ads after selling everyone on an ad-free service). The only service I use with any regularity now is Netflix since it has no ads, but even they sometimes have problems with finding the show you actually want to watch.

I was on vacation recently and the room had DirecTV. I tried searching for a program and all the search results were for channels not subscribed. Several of the channels in the guide list were presented as if subscribed, but then when a show would start, would prompt to charge $6 to continue watching and the show would stop after a few minutes. Finally, I found a channel that was subscribed and not PPV, and when an ad came on 30 seconds later, I tried to turn off the DirecTV box.

Here's the DirecTV dark pattern: there was a "Please Wait..." message on the screen while the ad played instead of just turning off the output! How can anybody actually be making money from TV ads when they are so obnoxious?

I'm pretty sick of corporations double-dipping in every industry. Video services charge you for watching, and then sell you to advertisers. Supermarkets charge you for products, and then sell you to manufacturers. ISPs charge you for bandwidth, and then try force video services to pay as well. Where's the exit to this hall of mirrors?
One big sign of dysfunction at Apple is that their main competitor released phones that literally explode, and Apple was still unable recapture any foothold, while said competitor is successfully reloading as we speak.
- All internal company emails.
- Mailing Lists

Side note: using pgp with MacOs Mail is super easy https://gpgtools.org/ (the project is currently working on Sierra support)
There are real back pain specialists (as in MDs), my brother is one. I herniated a disc in my spine doing deadlifts and also went through useless physical therapy. My brother gave me two injections in my spine it's about 90% better. The pain was so bad I could hardly sit still for more than a couple hours, so it was affecting my work among other things.

Google "back pain specialist" in your area, it's covered by health insurance most of the time. Strangely, back pain specialists have a big patient education problem. Nobody knows they exist even though so many people have back pain.
It seems to happen while sitting down doing repetitive editing after ~40 hours wakefulness after a short night of sleep.

I'm also looking into evidence that a blood sugar deficit may have been involved. Reportedly some of the techniques used to maintain alertness can result in increased glucose metabolism coupled with the unfortunate side effect of having zero appetite.
If you want people to admit their mistakes instead of stonewalling or slowly walking them back, then your first reaction to someone doing so should probably be praise. Maybe she's a venal person like you're insinuating, but I don't know, and most of us reading this don't know either. As a programmer I know I make mistakes all the time, big and small. We're very lucky to get so much relatively clear feedback.
HN is for what's intellectually interesting—not the other kinds of interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Zoho actually provides custom domain email for free.
I do like how SideProjectBook.com uses gumroad.com (which is 3 posts above this one at the time of writing) to sell the book. It's like a family in here.
Holes in the English language
I think this is a clever strategy for preserving forests. It also provides for a cemetary that can be used essentially forever which is also a good thing as tying up land in cemeteries can cause its own problems. Focusing on cremation works well too as disbursing the cremains around can be done again and again even on the same spot, not so easily with full body burial.

That said, there is nothing preventing someone from buying a few dozen acres in the Sierras making an actual forest cemetery (where the headstone is a tree). As long as plots were separated by 10' you could make bury someone and then at one end plant a sapling (its root ball being about 2' in diameter). That would be large enough to have a high chance of survival, but small enough that it would clearly be a 'new' tree.
> wolfgke: generalization path -- dominance of megacorps languages means you must keep going one level lower in hierarchy of computer science concepts to learn universal concepts instead of proprietary syntax.

Correct, with the additional (IMHO important) fact that threatofrain criticized "coincidental interfaces made by a few mega corporations" and looked for more general skills, bryanrasmussen meant that "knowing how to program" is such a skill, but I analyzed that most popular programming languages are also just "coincidental interfaces made by a few mega corporations" (this time for programming instead of the general user), so that we have nothing won concerning the original problem of "coincidental interfaces made by a few mega corporations" - we are just some layers deeper. So I suggested that if you look for more general skills, you probably have to look even deeper into the mathematical or the electrical engineering side of computing.
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I'm not a huge fan of Dell, and I have no experience with Dell Enterprise support, but I have an '06 XPS12 that I use as a local dev server running debian. The power supply blew after 2 years and the screen has numerous dead pixels, but otherwise this machine just keeps on trucking.
The original word2vec, written in C, could utilize all the cores available. It's actually refreshing to read that code, a true one person shop, hard engineering code :)
> distrusting your government appears to be really foreign to you.

That "U.S. Government" collecting, indexing and analyzing all data of any citizen must be an entirely different entity from the "United States Government" after all.
The unmissable warnings don't really happen until you get to the terminal though. Admittedly, I have not used spirit for some time. But the signs that say "we don't really want you to have to pay $100 for the carryon you forgot to pay for on the website, but you didn't pay for it, so tough shit" don't seem terribly genuine.

I will never fly spirit again, though. They just straight up cancelled a flight of mine an hour and a half before the flight for literally no reason, I got no notification via email/text or phone until I went to the airport to check my baggage (another thing I hate doing, but I was traveling for a pool tournament and you can't carry pool cues on a plane...). I had to book a last minute flight with another airline and my total airfare ended up being almost double what I paid for spirit.
Right, but that is simply the reality of not destroying the person's battery life. You can't continuously stream an accurate location to the web without using a lot of power - it has to be pull rather than push. This is also a bit better around privacy and data protection.

You can also configure the phone to send out its location just before its battery dies.
I really enjoyed hyperdev - thanks!
Author here, you do have a point, that distinction should have been made. This is merely taking control over the DNS for a domain and doesn't speak to actual ownership of the domain at the registry (which would be "ground truth" for ownership of a domain).

The main idea of this post is to be informational/raise awareness since I'd argue a large majority of users don't expect this behavior to occur.
What guidelines would you suggest?
Supreme Court throws out Apple's $399M win against Samsung in patent case
Location matters. Jobs being offered on the west coast almost always beat my salary here in the midwest. But when you take into account the cost of living, it usually ends up being a significant paycut.
Regarding the last question, "Do you think maths is discovered or invented?"

Couldn't math be considered both? A process of invention as far as deciding which axioms to assume and a process of discovery when finding the repercussions of those assumed axioms
And it's not just regular people, it's developers, programmers. Most devs I know look at pgp and are totally capable of figuring it out, but what they say basically boils down to: ain't nobody got time for that
Yeah I am.

I guess that makes sense. People in the UK don't have any "national ID card". Must be a culture thing.

I guess that makes sense. That's why I have to go through fucking stupid private background check agencies for everything in the UK.
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Noise 'on the wire' in a neural network is going to look different from noise on an actual copper wire.

E.g. noise in the brain might be an increased incidence of errant impulses/signals. There's evidence that sleep involves pruning meaningless connections - noise in this case might mean signals propagating farther than they ought.

Noise was meant in an abstract way, not statistically random noise you see in physical circuits.
Some MacBook Pro with Touch Bar owners are reporting serious battery issues
Multiple users could collude to determine the top of the range for a position, if that were the case.

In any case we are discussing passive job searches. I'm not going to take the time to apply to a great job if I already have a great job, in the hope that they might meet my salary requirements. I might however use salary as a metric in initial search.

The best data from a job seeker's perspective isn't a salary range, which is a signal about what to expect that you chose, it's making public but perhaps anonymous what your developers actually make, which are facts.

It's a market. Efficient markets don't have secrets.
Well you can just pick a spouse who is tall and smart?
perhaps. but the original article was talking about actual depressed people.
The article just makes the series feel like an anti-capitalist propaganda vehicle (which it might very well be, I haven't seen it). The title is also misleading - the article never mentions Google
Compare the announcement (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404) and the guidelines. It seems completely obvious to me that they're saying different things.
>How do you deal with people saying, "That's it? Anybody could have done that in a couple weeks!"

lol (or at least smile to yourself) and ignore it. You will always get this. Later on, if the product is a success it will change slightly to "can you just make it do this, I don't think it will take long, just a couple of hours I could do it myself if I knew how". When the truth is it is at least 4 days of solid work (as in 32+ hours)

As for friends and family, be vague, don't tell them. If they are not technical, just baffle them with big words, throw in lots of buzz words so they don't want to see :)

Good luck
True that it would hurt public opinion even further of the agencies if they were to take him out - but I thought he only revealed a portion of what he grabbed.
Hoping for something interesting that isn't x86ish :)
Just wanted to let you know, the name "gomix" sounds exactly like a derogatory term for homosexuals in Russian. Might want to re-evaluate that name...
Parrot and Pix4D team up with forest canopy biologists to study giant sequoias
The transistor is more groundbreaking than most developments in the 20th century, combined.
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If the could publish their research other researchers would take their work in a new direction that they didn't think of, which they could then bring back.

Basically they can't provide that seed insight that motivates others.
Late reply, but mainly shared resources like security groups (like a specific security group for NTP or HTTP/S), IAM roles, DB's, Kinesis streams, etc. The other reason being the limit on template length. You can't spec out a 3-tier VPC with network ACLs and security groups in a single template.
Like dang commented, I'm sure your comment was well-intentioned, so thanks for the "overly-hard slap on the back." And to respond to your first sentence: no. :)
I found Victory really interesting, but:

"This project is in alpha release. We're hard at work fixing bugs and improving the API. Be prepared for breaking changes!

SEMVER Minor version bumps should be considered breaking changes until we hit v1.0.0. Patches can be considered safe."

Current version is v0.14.0.
Plain pseudo classes are supported (e.g. :hover), but since descendant/child combinators aren't supported, a parent :hover can't change a child style. But any element can still have :hover styles.
You could probably bundle all of the achievements of the aforementioned companies into a single decade of research output from Bell Labs.

It's not a fair comparison at all.
Thank you, this explanation made a lot more sense to me.
>People are comfortable with them in very private environments (e.g. cars) but not when others are around (for good reason).

In movies and books they all have dental audiotransmitters, both in/out. Whisper to siri, no one will notice.

Edit: if she will read messages and rss-like things to me only, I'll probably look at the screen much less often.
well they are right, kind of. We are just the descendants of monkeys who code.

Ain't nothing wrong with that :)
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I was being a little facetious there, there's probably enough vacant space in Northern Africa to power a bit more than Sicily. But I think you've hit the nail on the head there - why would anyone want to spend a disproportionate amount of money to get power from another country?
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Thank you for addressing my concerns. I hope that you don't end up having to ban all political discussion permanently.
https://blog.google/topics/environment/100-percent-renewable...

Google is purchasing 2600GW of renewable energy as of Nov 2016, while Apple is purchasing around 150GW.
And nailed it.
> The problem isn't the topic, it is how people discuss it.

Of course. Yet there are obvious correlations to certain topics, and there might be a connection between the "how people discuss it" and the capacity to take a week off from it once in a while.
Conversion rate optimization tools and data. Businesses turn to dark patterns to increase the conversion rate, and there isn't a ubiquitous tool for them to use. In theory google could provide a lot better funnel analytics and offer suggestions/options to improve that aren't dark patterns.

Its a stretch, but hey..