skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does not matter much in Germany, where the political system is very different from the UK and the US. Germany has proportional representation, which does not produce the two party system of the US.

The conservative parties CDU/CSU are totally sane compared to large parts of the UK tories or the republicans in the US.
End game; I'd really like an AI agent for "in real life" tabletop games (like boardgames).
Facebook censor news!

Facebook removes human censors

Facebook allow fake news on their platform!

One a serious note: Fake news is a different problem to news 'bubbles' designed to create positive emotions. Sure they're closely linked, but you can have either without the other. I read this article and it seems to switch between them both. I appreciate the viewpoint but I found it hard to follow.
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That's why you should enable two factor authentication on your credit card: online transactions would require confirmation with single-use password you receive by SMS.
> We are not in the business of picking which issues the world should read about. We are in the business of connecting people and ideas — and matching people with the stories they find most meaningful. Our integrity depends on being inclusive of all perspectives and view points, and using ranking to connect people with the stories and sources they find the most meaningful and engaging.

Simply incredible. They are asserting themselves only as a business and not emotional influencers. The emotional influences that facebook brings in people is very powerful. I have seen so many of my friends just vanishing from my feed and almost all of my feed is filled with a couple of pages that I see/interact often. The bubbles are getting incredibly smaller that its very worrying.

A very good example that I saw is the `demonetisation of higher denominations` in India. I was shocked to see the amount of ignorance my close friends showed on how the poor people of our country were left to suffer. So many never read any sort of arguments against the govt's move. They read only pro posts. They were quite visibly upset when being told about how 70+ people have died because of this and all that. I saw a bubble being burst with my own eyes.
When there is no way to argue then its not a democracy at all. It favors fanatics because hate/fear spreads faster than love/acceptance.

Facebook simply kills democracy for their own benefit.
Psychologists don't see an unbiased samples of families. What's unthinkable in a high functioning family like yours would, at some points when I was growing up, have been extremely mild in mine. I don't know what the base rate is, but it's certainly not something you can guess from a single sample.
What cards allow this? I would do it in a second if that was a thing I could actually have. Not 100% foolproof but I'd bet it would stop almost all fraud.
So, I got downvoted but I would say indefinitely if it's not a serious condition. Your child is actually capable of having priorities in life if you let him, and apparently the skin dryness thing must not bother him that much.

EDIT: Noticed you're not the GP.
Social media sites always end up turning toxic. The problem is that they give a voice to all the mindless idiots of society.

These people should never be given a voice. There is no justification for that. Voices should always be edited and filtered by higher powers.

The common opinion is worth nothing, since we already know what it is, so why repeat it?
My wife is a teacher, she always says poblems need to be fixed where it's easiest to fix them. So if a kid brings a toy to school on a non toy day, she will confiscate it (and give it back at the end of the day). She only needs to set one example for an entire year.
Browser tasks seems to be a greenfield field with amazing potential.

What if AI can do anything what can human do you with a browser over the phone?

Also love "bring your own Docker container format".
It's not just Facebook, but also Twitter and Reddit.

The Republican guy that shot the pizza place in DC today was driven by a conspiracy theory marketed on Reddit.

These social-media sites are literally dangerous.
Achieving something, like when I feel I've finally understood some topic, solved a problem, finished a project.
On the other hand meeting with friends, meeting new people, having discussions. Also when I try to explain something and recognize the other person gets what I've said.

But in general life makes me pretty happy.
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Do we really achieve more security through excessive military spending though?

Arguably, the world's less safe than it was 15 years ago in spite of massively increased defence and security spendings during that time.

Now the usual counter-argument to that of course is that it'd be even a lot worse if we hadn't spent so much on defence.

However, for instance both the war in Iraq and many of the new airport security measures in recent years were quite counterproductive in that they not only failed to make the world a safer place but achieved the exact opposite (the war in Iraq in particular, which gave us ISIS).
>but ultimately there is a finite amount of bedtime moments, meals, Sunday mornings, etc in your kid's lives. Try as you might, fuck you money won't change that.

I think you've misunderstood the concept of fuck you money, at least as it relates to time.

They don't buy you more time -- they buy you the luxury to be you that decides what you do with your finite time. And bonding with your children is entirely up to you (or Musk's in this example) decision if you have those.

Besides, nobody argued that there's not a "finite amount of bedtime moments, meals, Sunday mornings, etc in your kid's life" -- just that when you are rich it's upon you (and not, e.g. your boss or financial necessities, or drudgery work like cooking, and cleaning and such) to spend more of your time with your kid during those moments.
I don't understand: how do you reinforce behaviour that is the default?

Do you tell your kids every minute "I appreciate you didn't break the window/throw the glass on the floor/pour milk on the carpet/put play-doh in the washing machine"?

I get that it works for clearly delimited things like "put on your clothes properly" or "don't make a mess during dinner" but that doesn't cover 90% of the time that I need to tell my daughter "don't do that" :( .
Your architecture proposal seems sound assuming that you have that much control over the whole system, and you don't need to integrate with any legacy components. In the common case, you need to deal with limited control (e.g. in a userspace app) and you have legacy components (e.g. a consumer OS, a Java VM, etc).

If you're doing best-effort soft-real-time on a consumer OS then you probably don't have control over thread affinity to _guarantee_ one thread per CPU, and you certainly can't disable IRQs.

Even on servers, you can get Linux to set up your thread-per-CPU thing, but still no IRQ masking. Also, you'd need your whole stack to do cooperative multitasking in a fully composable way before you could do as you propose. Maybe that's plausible in Go, but if you're in Java (as a lot of the HFT people seem to be, for reasons I don't understand) then probably only _some_ of your system is structured as one-thread-per-CPU cooperative multitasking, and you may still need to offload high-latency work using lock-free queues.

In my domain (real-time audio on desktop OSes), neither Windows nor macOS have working deterministic priority inversion mitigation. So using lock-free queues between priority domains (e.g. between GUI thread and real-time audio thread) avoids priority inversion risk (compared to using mutexes). Granted, this is a rather specialised use-case.

Another reason people are interested in these things is that there's a perception that lock-free algorithms perform better for inter-thread queuing than the alternatives. In particular, there are claims that they scale better when there are a large number of producer and consumer threads/cores. I think this is the most controversial area, since the queue algorithms may scale better than e.g. a single mutex on a single queue, but it's not necessarily the case that an application architecture that uses a MPMC queue is the best fit for purpose.
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Let's be honest. There is an amount of time and energy needed to figure out how to setup Vim and make it look the way you want it, and work the way you want it to, that not everyone can or wants to invest.

I did spend a lot of time with Vim but never got to the point where I had all my plugin issues solved. Eventually I moved mostly back to Sublime with Vim emulation, and very recently have moved again to VS Code with Vim emulation, and I'm quite happy.
I think it also varies by processor, but I'm not sure on that one. One particular jerk merchant accepted my order for a few hundred dollars worth of car parts, then told me that he would only ship to my billing address. When I told him no and explained that my mail gets frequently stolen at that address, which is why I wanted my order shipped to the other address, he refused to cancel my order, and told me I'd need to call my bank to add the other address before he could ship my stuff.

At this point, he had not charged my card. I told him that if he did charge my card, I would file a chargeback. He charged it, I charged back, waited 2 months, and got a letter saying the chargeback was finalized and my refund was no longer "pending". Idiot cost himself probably 6% of the transaction both running it and paying for processing the refund, plus got a bad mark with his merchant account. He did all of this because he thought my transaction was fraud since the billing and shipping address didn't match (yet he refused to cancel it and charged it anyway).

Gas stations also verify billing zip.
I can't recall where, but I read that Tesla or Google were actually using GTA to train their self-driving cars, because it is a spectacularly advanced simulation of driving through an urban environment, so they didn't have to build their own.
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I've never used GLIntercept, but the above caveat sounds like it's not really usable with modern graphics apps, like any non-trivial game.

But there are other similar tools that do and have all the same features or more. To be fair, the GLIntercept readme provides a list of such tools right at the bottom. The first item in that list, renderdoc, is something I've used a lot and is very feature rich and supports GL, DX, and Vulkan.
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The results for [are jews evil] are indeed terrible. It's not just the ideology that's wrong, they're also just generically low-quality.

The only non-hateful results was RationalWiki(.com/wiki/Evil_jew), and its effectiveness is blunted by google choosing the quality warning as the only result.

Let's see if my edit sticks and indexing is fast enough to have some impact if thousands of people try the search after reading the article.
I dont see this kind of influence from twitter and reddit. The personal feeling in facebook is far far higher than twitter and reddit. I have never used reddit. The active user share is no where close to facebook. Their reactions buttons are very much reflective of people's views.
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I call those friends.
I understand your frustration, though I find statements like Facebook simply kills democracy for their own benefit frustrating as well. Facebook is attempting to police the community they provide. Online communities, while they've been around in some form since the usenet days, are still a relatively new phenomenon, especially at the scale of billions, and there's a lot of stuff to figure out.

What concrete steps would you have Facebook take? What should Facebook's goals be? What tradeoffs are worthwhile that ensure an overall positive experience? And still be a profitable business? Lots of things to balance, in my opinion. I think it's a very interesting and important challenge, but I'm not envious at all of doing it in public under the level of scrutiny that Facebook faces.
Well, there is a president-elect who feels global warming is a hoax! http://www.ibtimes.com/trumps-epa-climate-change-plan-bush-o...

His new energy secretary is an oil tycoon from Texas: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/trump-environment-energy-1.3...

And he wants to eliminate the renewable energy & other core initiatives of EPA!
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Well, comparing VSCode to Atom I can say that VSCode runs circles around Atom even though both of them are electron based editors.
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I've been looking for something like this for ages- thanks!

However... it needs python on windows, which for complicated reasons I can;t do on this machine... is there a font merger thing that doesn't need python ?
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> You can then create another database that replicates from all the user databases in order to perform your aggregate queries on the back end.

That sounds horribly space inefficent.
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> And choice isn't important, it's the appearance of choice that's important

i dont understand how this isnt immediately a red flag for dystopian orwellian oppression. I guess u can do it to kids, they cant defend themselves.
Yes :) At least I ddin't write it out as Nanochip
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I think it's a good comparison, even if it may not seem quite like it yet because we still don't have that many things for which to use our fingerprints.

But soon we will have. All the banks are considering some form of biometric authentication for ATMs, and so on, and this could expand to many other types of services. That means you'll have to scan and store your fingerprint on a range of devices with highly variable security. Eventually your fingerprint will be sold on the black market, just like your SSN is.
Trump tweets lies to 16 million people at a time.

The Pizza shop conspiracy was heavily marketed on Reddit, and I'll bet the shooter today got all his info from there.

These platforms have a HUGE problem.
Is the assumption that there are no pathogens in the air, so the air hose is not contaminated?

What if there was a release, would it still be OK to switch air hoses, or would they only use internal air at that point?
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There was an interesting academic research paper that showed you could train in GTA and transfer over to the KITTI dataset and do ok: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.01983
Yep, ever have a merchant enter your CC number on the keypad IRL? That's what's happening. The fees for these types of transactions are typically higher as your processor is assuming more risk, so they prefer to only do them when they need to. See https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/mccom/en-us/documents/... if you're really curious about how this stuff works in the MasterCard case. Visa is similar AFAIK.
Healthcare is absolutely taken care of for American six-figure tech workers. My premium is $2.50/mo and all my care is free or for a nominal fee, like $20. US healthcare is systemically broken, but not for people who command high wages.

Having kids in college is at least 30 years out. Knowing that an expense 30 years away will be taken care of is better than the alternative, but would do nothing for my stress level in the next ~20.

I don't buy that either of these things make any actual difference for an early-career programmer.

Probably the most important thing is rent. I suspect most European cities can offer a 1-bedroom apartment within 30 minutes of work by foot/public transit for a much lower proportion of a developer's salary than SF can, even when developer salaries are much lower. And in places not SF, $50k USD is not particularly low for a developer salary.
I feel as though the process he went through was how all good startups are born. Found a problem, iterated, talked to (or tried at least) to talk to his stakeholders and then found a scalable solution.
The nice thing about that is the Intel and NSA could just share that key and everyone would be none the wiser.
Running the controller is AWS is good for large installations, but as a Java app, it eats memory, which can be expensive on AWS. For smaller installs, it works fine to just run it as-necessary from a local machine.
Apple Store gift cards are another which are popular with scammers and fraudsters for whatever reason. I'm curious now what that reason is.
Believe that the address validation only checks the numbers present in the address, not the rest of the text, at least that was what I read in some gateway's documentation. Imagine the level of what they check may vary.

This is of course if the merchant/gateway even cares about that level...
Is she serious? Which internet is she using?

Because Google actually censored auto-complete search to be in favor of Clinton while Yahoo, Bing, and Duck Duck Go did not. I've got screenshots I can dig up and post if the HN bregade doesn't downvote me into grey.
Hey guys, it's Siraj. OpenAI asked me to make a promotional video for it on my Youtube channel and I gladly said yes! You can check it out here:

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The higher-end APs (like the aformentioned UniFi) do have a transparent roaming feature, where every AP broadcasts the same MAC, and the APs handle traffic handoff. No idea how well it works.
Which tasks do you think are the ones with more potential in this field?
The difference is the JS has late binding.

myObj.myMethod();

Has different semantics than

var x = myObj.myMethod;
x();

Which causes code like:

myList.map(myObj.myMethod);

to behave somewhat unintuitively.
How can you find yourself at all sympathetic toward Facebook in this context? This is not about saying Facebook's moderators are doing terribly, the whole point here is to point out the fact that Facebook has a major conflict of interest when it comes to the issue of fake news, and they've avoided admitting that fact entirely.
Give that 1.6 trillion dollars to people as an annual basic income. As of now this would mean $230 per year for each individual, which would lift a lot of people from abject poverty. This in turn would help to eliminate a lot of the issues that require such huge military spending in the first place.
Here is one more:

https://github.com/pzhivkov/SPConcurrency

(Mostly targeting iOS / macOS).
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For other potential adopters:

> Be aware with Unifi gear there is no onboard configuration or UI beyond busybox shell via SSH and a basic command line tool. They are intended to be deployed using the Unifi controller which once setup can be shut down, but will be required again to change passwords, etc.

To clarify, this applies to the edge AP/repeaters. I know for sure every router I have purchased from Ubiquiti has had an onboard/hosted web management UI.

That said, you can install the UniFi management portal on a local machine and serve it on demand from a laptop. Or, as you (eltoozero) have done, host it remote.

And finally, you can also buy their "Cloud key" device which acts as a host for the web management portal.

> https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-cloud-key/
I looked this up because the only nanny show I know of in the UK was SuperNanny with Jo whats-her-name[1], and I didn't think this was her. It's not:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/kathryn-mewes-the-su...

Totally unaware of this woman, and her show.

--

[1] Edit: It's Jo Frost.
One concrete step would be to accept that they easily bring war/peace in any country they are allowed to operate. The moral responsibility of such a huge platform where people interact needs to be very high. Pointing fingers or giving sugar coated answers is not acceptable.

Facebook's motto should be changed from 'connecting people' to 'connecting people to show only what they like'.

See we both are arguing something here that is simply avoided so many times in facebook. That is the whole point. The tradeoff they should be allowing is to allow people to see/confront contradictions. Else its not a debate. Nobody gains knowledge or new thoughts. No one progresses apart from facebook.
You opened a can of worms for me. As a non-native (but very comfortable) English speaker I wasn't quite sure about the pronunciation of "eschew" because I can't remember to have ever used it, or when I last heard it.

https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/19/how-do-you-pronou...

Turns out there is a multitude of pronunciations to choose from.
> After three kids your advice only covers the first 2-3 years?!

Yep. Good luck.
See my link posted to the parent [post].
I follow him but i have never seen his tweets though. They are big but not as big as facebook especially in the emerging markets.

My mum uses FB everyday but she has no idea about reddit whatsoever. She has heard about the name twitter from some news channel. Do you understand the difference?
It's actually 25000 euros. This was somewhat fixed with the introduction of the mini-GmbH (GmbH - something like Ltd.), but a mini-GmbH comes with some extra strings attached, so it's still very far from a UK Ltd. or a US LLC in terms of ease of setting up.

This is indeed an obstacle to creating a company, but there are quite a few more, all having to do with just plain ol' bureaucracy (handling monthly tax reporting, interacting with the tax authorities, handling insurance, etc.) The previous issue of The Economist made a case that these bureaucratic problems are even bigger in Italy.

I've recently been kicking around the idea that it's kind of weird that some hard-hit places in the EU like Spain or Greece sport up to 50% unemployed young folks (18-35) - these people are highly educated, just out of college, eager to build/work and yet they are economically inactive. My theory is that this is because it's hard to set up any sort of business activity due to the bureaucracy. It's also socially discouraged because it's risky.
Another happy UniFi user here. I have an 18th century house which isn't large but has very thick internal walls, which makes it a tough environment for wifi. A couple of ceiling -mounted UAC-AC-Lites connected to an Edgerouter X gives me full speed everywhere.
Facebook open sourced their library to connect Torch to Starcraft Brood War last week: https://github.com/TorchCraft/TorchCraft
I think the ultimate issue specifically with Facebook is not that you shouldn't give people voices online, but rather that when the voices form small, tight-knit echo chambers with zero outside challenge, the outcome can be disastrous. I believe this is why the author calls it a "walled wonderland".