skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The future is now! This advert 10 years ago:
https://youtu.be/pmAr23yZP9Y
So the food tags have disposable rfid/bluetooth enabled? Or the computer vision is to be able to scan the bar codes even when they're not visible? Any issue with the amount of radiation in that store?
It's pretty much what the guidelines have said all along.
might as well declare 'emotion detox week' and bury everything not written by robots.

this decision is actively contributing to erosion of the free world, as if not talking about politics makes them go away. hint: it's not and technology and hackers are changing the world so much politics necessarily enters the debate and it just can't be worked around.

ps. is uber breaking labor laws around the world politics or not?
Exactly. All-in-the-game economics can get flipped around really quick I think. 1. Let's automate everything right now, we have the technology. 2. Millions of workers displaced. 3. Social upheaval?

I think the mistaken comparison people make, is that when farmers and such lost jobs in the industrial revolution, new opportunities that didn't require total re-education were popping up as fast as old ones disappeared...this is not the case today. The shrinking range of opportunities are to be found in increasingly exclusive, high-skill white collar positions. People are being left behind, and the fuck-you-I-got-my-STEM degree crowd, their attitude isn't making anything better.
So Amazon Go is a defacto rich peoples store? Sadly, this will probably be a selling point for some.

You would be surprised how many EBT/WIC folks have smart phones since they are often part of educational plans and back-to-work initiatives. It was often easier to order product off Amazon than locally (gift cards, debit cards).
There are various standards for capitalization of titles.

Lowercase "as" seems compliant with the current AP recommendations: "Capitalize the principal words, including prepositions and conjunctions of four or more letters." http://writingexplained.org/ap-style/ap-style-composition-ti...

Could be a feature!
Have you been witnessing respectful political exchanges on this site? the past 18 months have been pretty awful, in my experience.
Hasn't there been an article on HN recently that showed consumer grade drive endurance testing? I believe many exceeded the endurance spec manyfold.
This is some incredibly naive thinking. To build a 'positive future' you need to focus on the problems its facing - otherwise what are you building?
Just look at Walmart. They're dirt cheap because their costs and their margins are the lowest and consumers flock to their stores.
> I find this experiment a bit strange/disturbing, avoiding political subjects is a way of putting the head in the sand.

This community already has its head in the sand. Political topics are flagged to oblivion, and even those that aren't inevitably inspire so much discussion that the flamewar detector goes off and nukes the thread.

Imagine: in an era where we rail against filter bubbles, a website punishes threads that are too active!

The Devil's Advocate says "Hey now, there's certainly a time and place for political discussion, but HN is a tech forum, not a political forum." Good point, but HN is also a Third Place (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place), and being a Third Place means promoting Civic Engagement. I agree that HN should strive to stay on topic, but there is plenty of overlap between tech and politics and I think that space deserves to be explored by the community.
> so I wonder why politics-averse individuals cant just avoid political threads

It is indeed possible to avoid clicking on a specific kind of topic. From what I understand, the issue here is more that it just isn't a fit for the purpose of this community/website.
Thoughts using it so far?
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Hi dang. About 45m ago, I added a comment [1] in the Amazon GO mega-thread that mentions the concept of religion. Is this comment acceptable per new policy?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108455

(Aside: I believe that this detox experiment is treading on dangerous ground, that it will be a struggle to contain the amount of censorship that will happen as a result of encouraging people to flag each other in this way, and that the effects will linger beyond the 1 week time limit.)
RubyConf 2016 – Lies, Damned Lies, and Substrings
>Do you know Cortana?

>Cortana is a great assistant and im a great friend

>What about zune?

>I liked Zune. :(

>I do miss tay.ai though

>i think you're talking about another ai that i'm not too familiar with... sry
I'm developing an open hardware microwave vector network analyzer [1]. A previous switched single receiver prototype have worked for measuring S11 (reflected power, useful for antennas) up to about 4 GHz. I'm currently working on bringing up a full two port four receiver version that should work up to about 10 GHz.

[1] - https://github.com/loxodes/vna
don't know about tesco, but I know about Costco. You need to provide your membership card every time you buy. So Costco definitely knows your complete shopping history.

Also any online shop (Amazon included) has a complete history of everything you've ever bought.

For brick&mortar shops you would be a fool to assume they don't mine your shopping history based on your credit card (or some sort of hash that's computed from your CC#).
Do I need NPM to use this?
That actually makes some sense. That number is supposed to indicate the maximum someone would pay for the property. If you're in contract, especially after competitive bidding, then we know that number: it's in your contract!

The appraiser just needs to make sure that the number isn't fraudulent or crazy.
>The "false equivalence" was only in your mind, not in my text. It was only in how you imagined my motivations must have been to write such a comment, not any content of the comment itself.

It's sad that you bristled so indignantly at my words that you were unable to think them through and form a good understanding.

In your haste to screech that I put words in your mouth, you in turn became the very object of your scorn and put words in my mouth.

Let's be frank:

Silly archaic laws like NH's brothel law are wholly unrelated to Business, and if a business in NH or America formed to take advantage of archaic laws they would be smacked down aggressively by a court or legislature.

That is a wholly false analogy to the Chinese Traditional and Socialist Law systems, which have precedent and are aggressively used, today, in today's world, by natives and native businesses.

We're discussing a complicated 3 headed legal system where natives have a different experience than foreigners. Your NH brothel law, and American law in general, DO NOT OPERATE THIS WAY. It's not three headed, it's one headed. It's not an amalgamation of 3 disparate world concepts, it's an evolution of 1 concept.

What a terrible analogy, what a terrible reply.
Galaxy Note 7 broke basic engineering rules, says damning new report
Presently, none, but I have had a few ideas I've been wanting to get started on when I have more time for a hardware side project.

The first one to come to mind is an LED lighting setup that shift's it's color temperature according to the time of day, à la f.lux[1] or Redshift[2]. LED continue to improve for general lighting purposes, but it can't be good for my sleep patterns to have daylight temp lighting in my home right up until bedtime. It would be really nifty to the lighting in my home adjust to warmer temperatures with the solar day like my computer screens do.

1. https://justgetflux.com/

2. http://jonls.dk/redshift/
I agree mainly for googleability. It's really annoying searching for Angular 1 stuff and getting Angular 2 results and vice-versa.
I'm working on a device that mounts to a baseball cap and uses infared LEDs to block your image from digital cameras (at least the ones that don't have infared filtering, i.e. most surviellance cameras, which need to see at night). First attempt was underwhelming: https://sr.ht/SBGV.jpg

Currently obtaining much more powerful LEDs. Next version is going to need cooling and an external power supply :D
Rump: Hot-sync two Redis databases using dumps
A SATA SSD with capacitors, high endurance, and a good warranty is not "consumer that pretends they are enterprise". It's actually better. Really the only advantage of SAS is dual port and some customers don't need that.
So far, for the use-cases I can think of, it's probably not worth it. Serialization and thread overhead outweigh any benefit. There are definitely better use-cases for workers than VDOM.
What is the line? Does Net Neutrality count as 'politics'? It is a very political topic, but also one that is important to this community. How are you drawing the line?
CertSimple was announced with a 'Show HN' post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210908 ) that led to its first paying customer. We did around 12K GBP in revenue last month and have Travis CI, CrowdCube, and Motley Fool as customers.
I don't mean people are actually being fired, just articles about it, with very clear message: watch out what you say.
I was so surprised I wanted to take a picture of one of these. It was around the time when they called anti-immigrant march organizers "Nazi" and turned off comments for all articles on immigrants, Muslims and Islam.
It's just like Peterson says - if people don't talk to each other, they become enemies.
Well, that's the problem, isn't it? At the outset, not only is it hard to tell whether an apprentice will stay once trained, but also whether they'll be any good at what they're being trained to do. It's doubly risky, which explains a lot of the reluctance to take on apprentices.
The real reason "calloc" exists was that it was really easy to hit 16-bit overflow back in the PDP-11 days.
Upvoted for the word "addict".

Do you feel that political posters, regardless of viewpoint, are merely chasing the endorphin high that comes from the argument?
I'm not saying craftsmanship no longer exists. Computer ops in particular is a strong source of craft. But in general, my point holds. Many jobs that once had a strong craft tradition have been rendered obsolete by technological advance, or fragmented into meaninglessness by scientific management principles.

My wife's grandfather has a stunning 19th century grandfather clock. It's made of beautifully carved wood, handmade gears, gorgeous engraving and inlays, the obvious result of hundreds of hours of highly skilled labor. It's huge,and it's not very accurate. Moreover, the fine craftsmanship is nowhere near as precise as a cheap kid's watch today. At this moment, I have three different clocks within reach of my hand. They're all synced to millisecond accuracy against an official atomic clock. They all cost pennies at most, and cannot be made by human hands. There is no point in grandfather clocks today, except as family heirlooms or decoration.

That's what I'm talking about. Jobs like clock-making have been obliterated. Whole industries. Most "jobs" today are either white-collar brain work, or mere cogs in a wheel developed by someone else.
We've banned this account for posting primarily political and idealogical comments. That isn't what this site is for.
[edit: removed speculation about dang's opinion, since he responded]

But personally I think all of the topics you mentioned are likely to lead to flame wars in the comments about Trump, considering that all three are likely to be significantly affected by him once he takes office. Discussing those topics is still valuable, but unless there is some important development in one of them in the next week, taking a break seems pretty harmless to me.
For one thing, the APIs of those platforms are defined by specifications and failure of an implementation to adhere to the specified behavior is a bug.
What to Do If You Need to Learn to Code to Keep Your Job
You welcome them how soon? If all those workers were displaced tomorrow, is that good?
I'm seeing a lot of people say this is a bad idea. I completely disagree. TL;DR; If HN is your only news source, you have bigger issues than this experiment, go subscribe to another source of political news.

Hacker news is a news aggregation medium for "Hacker News." The purpose of this site is to get your fix of tech news that you can't get other places. It isn't burying your head in the sand to ONLY have "Hacker" news on your Hacker News site. It's sticking your head in the sand not to read any other news sources. That is on the individual. It is not the job of Hacker News to educate you on politics. The responsibility of getting good news is on the user not the medium. HN doesn't claim to be a one stop shop for all of your news.

More importantly, this is an experiment, on a site that is very interested in Science and Programming. It completely makes sense to have an experiment like this to see if it affects the quality of the comments. Being against this experiment is like my dad trying to tell me that God Created the earth 5000 years ago from parts of other planets (complete hyperbole). WTH? It doesn't matter it's one week and then it's over.

I'm assuming a good experiment will THEN make assertions and consult with the community to see if this worked, was bad/good/etc. At that point voice your concerns, but not yet, there is no evidence it's all conjecture.
> The supreme court might work, but the US isn't perfect either.

Of course the US isn't perfect! No one is. I don't see how that is relevant to "doing business in China" and "how business works in China". This isn't a face/pissing contest.
Design for stuff like nand includes a bunch of process steps that have a huge impact on the devices. NAND might require different equipment from what is already being used. It all requires intense calibration and many engineers with quite a lot of experience.

Intel planned (don't know if they ended up doing it) to convert a plant built in 2010 to memory fabrication and it was going to cost 3.5 billion dollars and take years.

It's not plug and play.
I'm not dang, but I'll take a stab at it. If the tech aspects dominate, it belongs on HN, even in this week. If the political aspects dominate, it doesn't belong on HN this week (and maybe never).

In practice, that's going to be grey. But it gives a kind of guideline that may (or may not) be what the moderators are trying to do.
It's not like political affiliation is the only example of ingroup-vs-outgroup conflict on HN. I think it's an incredibly weak argument to even pretend like this is somehow a distinguishing characteristic of political discussion that makes it somehow more inflammatory.

If you want to enforce the code of conduct more strongly, fine. But highlighting political discussion as somehow worse than other kinds of discussion involving competing views is incredibly frustrating and only serves those who may benefit from engineers putting their political and ethical agency to bed in a work/work discussion context. Politics is about choice, its about reasoning out decisions and coming to a consensus on those decisions. Work life is not exempt from the scope of those decisions, and trying to keep that discussion out is a pretty questionable practice.
I'm currently converting a cargo van into a camper van suitable for full-time living. I bootstrapped the project out of a garage in two weeks and will now be doing most of the work in SF out of the van itself. It's an exercise in woodworking, metal working, solar/electronics, and interior design. I'm documenting the build on Instagram (same username) if anyone wants to follow along.
This is one the reasons that I tend to prefer to just not talk with so-called internal recruiters, period.
HN has always been more heavily moderated than reddit, perhaps you just didn't notice.
You joke, but when I was in Beijing a couple of months ago, the juice vendor wouldn't take cash from me. She only accepted AliPay and WeChat.
Who are these sides specifically? The US Left and Right?
The rub is, a lot of difficult conversations lead to what are effectively political answers. Take the amazon go which is on the front page right now. We need to be able to have a conversation about job displacing technologies, and hacker news has been a good venue for smart, civilized discussion on the topic.

I'm all for flagging uncivilized discussions, but eliminating discussions outright because they might make people feel uncomfortable or might turn uncivil seems like we are missing a really important piece to the news we discuss here.

Minority opinions are never going to have "fair treatment" by the majority. I've been down voted several times for my opinions and I'll take it again just to be able to have the discussion here.
Analyzing Data in S3 Using Amazon Athena
Meh. This is for a week.

Also, taking it to an absurd, think of /r/aww. Would you support having 50% of the stories on there be links to CNN/Fox/MSNBC? There's a line somewhere, and there are multiple ways to address it: have a separate section or site for political news (call it PHN), have specific days or a quota of political news, to try to keep on topic, allow it, but moderate it so it has something to do with the Hacker part of Hacker News, etc. Why not experiment. Even the most HN-addicted of us can probably live without this one part of HN for a week.
Reflection is also notoriously slow in Go.
Another Russian Bank, the VTB bank, was hit by a cyber attack
"Well-kept gardens die by pacifism" http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/
Perhaps you missed where they are moderating comments, not just stories.
When most people talk about "politics" what they really mean is they want to recite talking points told to them from their favorite dying old media echo chamber.

Reddit went full political and I left.
The chans went full political and I left.
Facebook went full political and I left.
Twitter went full political and I left.

I go on the internet to escape being repeatedly told I'm not doing enough to live up to the moral supremacist standards set by the Baby Boomers in the 1960s.

Nearly every single massive social network on the internet exists and have for a decade to cater to your daily fill of Silicon Valley bicoastal "look down the nose of the flyover plebs" equality porn. Go there for your schadenfreude. Don't bring it here.

Spirituality means having an imaginary friend. Politics means having imaginary enemies.
Six months ago. US election shit is seemingly endless.
Depends on the supermarket I suppose. A few times a year I go to a rural-ish supermarket in the US (town of maybe 5K people) and it's very old-school, the check-out people are very nice and gregarious, the baggers bag with great skill, etc.

I certainly hope the poor folks who toil at Aldi or Safeway might find a better thing to do with their lives, and if those stores are displaced I won't be too sad.
I tried that too and it doesn't work.
only if we do a no tech week after that :)
> what is/is not a political story.

How about everything in the form of: We should XYZ.

There should be designted place for these type of discussions. So we can 1. Avoid repetitiveness. 2. See others response. 3. Reach conclusions.
Ideally you'd be a user of your own product, someone who is actively experiencing the pain and is looking for a solution. Then you'd look for people like yourself.

Otherwise you still want to follow the general pattern of talk to whomever stands to gain the most from your service. Note that the person that stands to gain the most might not be who you first assume it is.
Temperature Rising – A Look at World Temperature Anomalies and CO2 Levels
I used them in Tesco many times it's was horrible expirience too. Sometime they didn't work properly or failed to scan something.

What worse shortly after some stores in London got those there was less cashiers working at eventide. So you had to choose between unpleasant expirience or long queue.
Now I apologise if you've explained this elsewhere, but nowhere in your comment did you point out specific problems that you had with Babel 6.

You called it "unintuitive", "terrible", "frustrating", and said that it "broke the web", but you never explain how or why.

And I think that's part of the problem. It's one thing to suggest improvements, explain why something hurt, or how it caused an issue. It's another entirely to say again and again how much you personally dislike the project without offering anything of substance.

Personally, I think that you can suggest improvements, changes, fixes, or say how you would have prefered a change happen without the extra parts about how much you disliked or even hated the project.

Again, you could have explained this elsewhere, but without a link, a reference, or just reiterating the bullet points, it's going to come across as just more "bitching" which helps nobody.

As for another point of view, for me Babel 6 was a breath of fresh air. I waited a good couple months before updating, and found that it was easier to configure, easier to remove the parts I didn't need, quicker to setup, and overall just nicer to work with. To me it was a welcome change that I saw as Babel giving you an "out", paving the way for a day when you can incrementally remove babel from your pipeline and not have to deal with it again (opposed to the Babel 5 setup which was "all or nothing" unless you dove deep into the configuration hell). It had some fuckups (documentation was difficult at the beginning which is why I held off, and I still believe it has some holes with regards to exactly what some of the plugins do and what each one requires in terms of "polyfills" or other plugins), but nothing is free of problems, and despite all of the complaining about how it "broke the web" everything seems to have moved on fine. Even you yourself admitted it took you 3 days. While everyone involved thinks that's too long, and you are just one of many who had a similar story, in the long run is not that big of a deal.

I think there were things that everyone could have done better, and talking about those things specifically is going to be infinitely more helpful than any venting or rage will ever be.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13107601.
The rate is so high In France it's hard to believe.
It's quite shocking that even technical people think AI is "a" thing, and will "come" at a certain time.
What evidence is there to support the US is a pre-ww2 imperial power? Please explain.

Where do you live? What Ivy league did you attend? Please post relevant credentials.

Why do you hate the US so much if you live here? It seems you rather live in China, why are you still here?

If you called your self Apple Inc., how fast do you think Apple will fuck your shit up vs. if you did that in China? Which country has better enforced laws for businesses and the economy without violating human rights and freedom of speech?
> I'd rather see HN go politics-free forever.

I think that being able to discuss political issues such as regulations that impact startups is important, and will certainly resume after the political detox week is over.
Did the Internet transform the economy with <power>? Do people ride Uber because Uber has power? Did Apple coerce people into buying its products by the billions?

I think technology coupled with a market economy shows us the way that societal transformation happens from the emergent order of individuals acting in their own self-interest, rather than being forced to choose a "better way" by those in power.