skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree, the phrase "burden on the state" makes you think of eugenics. Which is really unfortunate, because the crux of this article is actually more optimistic. The key quote is: "Being able to predict which children will struggle is an opportunity to intervene in their lives very early to attempt to change their trajectories, for everyone’s benefit and could bring big returns on investment for government." They are advocating using this sort of testing to identify people to receive additional social welfare and assistance early. This means we can provide better quality of care to those in need and save money in the process.
To your point about elitism as the differentiating point between the classes of leaker: consider the paragraph where Gladwell chops Snowden down to size:

> But Snowden did not study under a Nobel Prize winner, or give career advice to the likes of Henry Kissinger. He was a community-college dropout, a member of the murky hacking counterculture. He enlisted in the Army Reserves, and washed out after twenty weeks. He worked at the C.I.A. for a few years and left under a cloud. He learned about the innermost secrets of American intelligence-gathering and policy not because he was personally involved with that intelligence-gathering or policymaking but because he was a technician who helped service the computer systems that managed these things.

Gladwell is intentionally deceptive when he refers to Snowden "washing out" of the Reserves. In fact he was discharged after breaking both legs in a training accident. You can debate whether that technically qualifies as washing out or not, but it's quite another to lump that in with the rest of the paragraph and let the reader fill in their own opinions of the events. But perhaps that's the entire point, and part of the reason Gladwell was chosen for this piece.

Eliding certain facts can leave the reader with a distinctly non-factual impression of the man.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/edward-snowden-army-di...
I'm not comfortable with the word "designed." There is evolutionary adaptation, there is no design.

Would you have lost the same 25lbs. if you had just eaten less? In other words, does it really matter that you cut out carbs only? Are you chowing down on bacon and steaks?
Note: I'm the author of Inferno and know the authors of Preact and Ivi well.

That's a great question and one I frequently get asked. The "current" React codebase is legacy in many ways, the React team are hard at work on React Fiber which is complete re-write of the entire codebase.

The legacy codebase isn't something we can actively make better (I've had my PRs merged though) without a huge rewrite. If we tried to make changes, it would break React for many people due to how coupled many things are.

A lot has changed in the last few years and the approach to virtual DOM has been one of them. Going forward, the React team are making big efforts to change this.
A brief history of email apps
Teslas now equipped with Nvidia ’s new Drive PX 2 AI platform for self-driving
just a happy Sumologic user, saying hello and Thanks! Most of your product is great (I am ex splunk user)... The biggest complaint is that I can't cmd+click to open anything in new tabs as everything is so JS crazy front end.

overall the pattern matching stuff is pretty cool. Also, would like a see raw logs around this for when I am trying to debug event grouping errors based on the starting regex.
There is no such thing as no-bias reporting. For every topic reported on by any given publication, several others are ignored, simply because there is not enough time in the day nor is there advertising revenue to report absolutely everything, and we haven't even started on article lengths or story placement.
Are you training AI to determine which investors are clueless? Sounds like a good investment!
> I find it insulting to hear that it is all in my head because the pain is real

Many people dismiss mental health issues as less serious or outright illusory, hence "It's all in your head".

Instead of blaming psychosomatic dysfunctions for existing, we should question why mental health issues are seen with shame and called "insulting"
I am not saying commercial is more risky than residential. I am saying for the low gain, I would not take that kind of risk (i.e. more than near 0)
You tend to see them off to the edges of Manhattan. For the most part, land's so expensive downtown and in the central avenues that it's mostly just on-street parking and garages. But as you go out toward the rivers, there are small parking lot parcels. However, the land is still expensive enough that the space in those lots gets utilized as much as possible.

This is an extreme example but you get the idea:
http://www.smalltowndjs.com/images/nyc-parking-garages-2598-...
Clement Lefebvre Asks Kubuntu for Help to Keep Linux Mint KDE
> Is it fair to reject a loan because of the ethnic background of the applicant? That seems unfair to me.

I think you're drawing the wrong conclusion from this. Unless we think that black people are inherently less credit worthy (i.e. are genetically inferior), then what's really happening is that race is acting as a proxy for some other things that aren't being considered. Maybe living in a neighborhood with drugs and gang violence, or lack of social ties to more affluent people who could be leaned on in tough times, etc.

So we have a bias, which we know is wrong, and we have two ways to fix it. One is the cheater's way out, which is to just take race directly into account. The other is to find the set of actually-causative factors that correlate with race which if you took them into account would make it so that nothing more would be gained by also taking race into account, and use those instead.

And given the choice between those two ways of solving the wrongful statistical bias, the second one is clearly preferred. Predicting via causative factors is fairer than predicting via correlative factors -- it's more accurate. You don't introduce a new bias against the black small business owner who doesn't live in a bad neighborhood and does have financially-advantageous social ties.

This is true of all predictions based on correlations, but there is a resource trade-off here. It may be more economical to collect data on things that correlate than things that cause. And causation is more predictive than correlation, but correlation is more predictive than nothing.

We can't pretend there aren't political considerations here. We're going to spend more resources to use causative factors instead of using race, for entirely political reasons, when we might not for some other factor. But the unfairness isn't to not use race (assuming we do actually find and use the underlying factors instead), it's only that we have to use more than the typical resources in order to get a more accurate result without using race. Which is a necessary evil given the politics.

But just leaving the known bias without finding and using the underlying factors to mitigate it is clearly wrong.
In case you're wondering about how we knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, sexist, racist, homophobic conservatives really think, "Strangers in their own land" is not a good representation. Anything by bestselling authors such as Mark Steyn Dinesh D'Souza, Mark Levin, or Ann Coulter would be a much closer approximation. Reading "Strangers in their own land" would be like one of those people writing a book about why Hillary failed. You wouldn't trust it, because they are not committed, thoughtful followers of her principles. "Strangers" is the height of condescension and a severe misfire.

That said, I do appreciate the effort.
Ask HN: Who wants to help me to become a self taught developer?
Dear HN community,

First of all I am not asking any money for the time I will spend.

I want to become a developer and improve myself but I am not that creative and get stuck on a level and can not proceed to create my own projects. Till now I learned by doing. Here some background of me :

Unix/Linux Administration: 3 Years

Windows Server Administration: 3 Years

Mac OS Server Administration: 2 Years

Network Administration: 3 Years

PHP/MySQL/Java/HTML/CSS Developer Deployment Support: 2 Years

I am good at following up tutorials, finding solutions using google and stackoverflow and debugging.

What I want is an active environment that pushes me to do and learn. ( I am motivated with deadlines.) , I can actively spend 2 hours per day ( weekly 14 hours ), I live in Turkey ( GMT + 2 ) but I can manage my daily routine to match my time with the team I will work. I plan to spend at least 12 weeks to the project that help me to be a developer.

I recently spend time with Node.js and Swift tutorials but I am open to Python and Ruby&Rails as well. I prefer working on backend development.

You can reach me via nyexpseven [et] gmail.com
Obese people are obese because they eat--A LOT. I had a relative like that. The amount of food put away was epic.
Eternal return – Wikipedia
Inferno is 8kb, it's smaller than the Mithril re-write and is on par with Preact in terms of parse performance. I think you may have looked at the older Inferno codebase, as the current one is very slim and readable.
Other than ML applications, what can I write on this?

OpenCL? Something comparable to CUDA?
What about utilizing Vulkan?
Tharkun.wav
I think that was the aim; I think the composer was trying to illustrate the ship using music. I can see how one might find that confusing, but I enjoyed it.
Linux console tools, fail to report per process CPU usage properly
Yes, we use and like the R9 Nano. We wrote our own tools that are portable across GPUs so third party software support (eg cuDNN) is not a factor for us.
Sidenote:
We are running coredns.io in production as authoritative internal DNS and as hidden master with NOTIFY to a secondary DNS provider (currently DNSmadeEasy).

The DNS records for the internal records are done using the kubernetes middleware (basically serving the service records).
The external records are pulled in from a git repository hosting our zones as bind files. If need be zones are split into subzones per team/project. Same permission system as our code via MRs using Gitlab.

Our recommendation is build on open standards (BIND, AXFR) and use services on top of these.

I agree that using an external mail provider is usually a good idea. It mostly is your fallback communication channel and is usually easy to switch (doing replication to an offsite mail storage needs to be done to make switching easy/possible/fast). MX records \o/
The Japanese and Russian system of payments for childbirth haven't really reversed their demographic issues, but I'd argue that's because the obstacles go deeper than just that (like, in Japan, the money is nice, but it's much more difficult to be a working mother than it is in most advanced economies and the economy has been largely stagnant for decades).
Looks interesting, might give it a try if I can put together the spare time to start learning a language.
Accepting interfaces is an implicit commitment to support external implementations of the interface. You can't add a method to an interface without breaking clients who do this. This makes interfaces more fragile than structs.

A concrete example: If I have a NewFoo function that returns a Foo and a FooTaker function that accepts a FooInterface, I can't assume that new features I add in NewFoo are usable from FooTaker. If FooTaker just took a Foo, there would be no problems.

This is, I think, the best rule of thumb for when to use an interface: If you expect consumers of your library to write their own data types that could be used by your library, define an interface they can satisfy. Otherwise just produce and consume a struct you control -- it will be much more flexible and maintainable in the long run.
Yeah, it's pretty sluggish rendering my fullscreen tmux session with three panes and six vim splits.

It also doesn't seem to recognize my alt+h (j/k/l) shortcuts to switch tmux panes, just prints odd characters in the terminal.
Specifically this is based on RHEL 7.3. CentOS 7 has been out for some time.
I'm also simply tired of the excuses fat people make "Muh HFCS did this." Yeah, that and drinking 4 2 liters a day.
I actually pre-ordered Grit based on the excerpt I had read with Pete Carroll. It sounds fascinating but I have yet to read it.
The IBM option ;)
Is Fedora an option? I'm not sure if it will solve your problems in particular... but it's been working beautifully on my Thinkpad.
Ask HN: Any suggestions for a secure password manager?
The last thread that I could find on this topic was about 18 months old, so I guess its a good time to seek the possibly refreshed suggestions.
kinda related: the limits to growth
2016 Trendy Christmas Gifts for Guys That Tops Their Wish List
It was "politics" not "highly charged topics" - eg a post about javascript frameworks was fine. And I have no idea how to tell if it's over or not.
Thanks, we've reverted the title to full one from the linked page.
How do you alleviate this primal state in people? Give them everything they need to live comfortably and decently? Isn't this the result of the whole post-Cold War project called Capitalism (capital C)? What do people need in order to have them desire peace and cooperation with all of humanity without qualifications? There are so many questions that still need to be answered.
As a parent and also someone with family members in hospice care, the problem is that the good quality care is prohibitively expensive for many, many people. People don't want to take time off to care for their loved ones just because, but because they can provide much, much better care at a lower cost.
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-Janu...

CentOS is essentially official. I'm not exactly sure how the relationship works.
No-Cost RHEL Developer Subscription now available

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/03/31/no-cost-rhel-d...

Also, Desktop Self-support Subscription (1 year) is $49 USD.
> Sounds more like child-abuse to me. If the video is indeed as shocking as most people here claim it is then it isn't age-appropriate for younger adults and especially children.

You'd be amazed at the kinds of films that were shown to young people in an effort tochange their behaviour (with no evidence that it would actually do so).

My favourite example was of a UK tv show Nationwide that got a studio full of young people to watch US style shock films about road and rail safety. The films were so gruesome they couldn't be shown on broadcast tv at that time of the evening. There were shots of young people throwing up and feinting and having to be taken out of the studio, weeping.

(This is mentioned on a TV discussion forum somewhere, but I can't find it. :-/)
Programming languages and frameworks to learn in 2017
I can't make a poll on HN, but I would like everyone to contribute with an opinion. Which languages are worth to devote learning in 2015? Both for beginners and experts. And what about the new frameworks?

Please, be patient and open :)
You are not going to see the correct volume for pre-market trades. I checked with my trading account and the poster is correct. The trades were before Trumps tweet.
So do you still eat birthday cake?
Yes, it's over: https://medium.com/a-change-is-coming/learning-from-hacker-n...
I use yubikey with lastpass. There are a bunch of options at https://www.yubico.com/why-yubico/for-individuals/password-m...
The week-long experiment was terminated early. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13131251

It would have been over by now regardless.
CentOS is maintained by Redhat for awhile now. It's an easy way for them to acquire customers that don't have to go through the trial subscription process.

Here is the press release from 2014 when Redhat took on CentOS officially: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-and-c...
Not sure if Maxwell came out of the blue, Maxwell 1 was designed for mobile, embedded and tesla, Maxwell 2 came out most likely because Pascal at large was delayed.

As for the half precision, it's pretty much the same thing NVIDIA been doing since Kepler dumping FP64 and FP16, especially FP16 due to the silicon costs.

NVIDIA came out with the Titan and Titan Black with baller FP16 performance and no one seem to care, the Titan X then dropped it and people bought it like it was cupcakes, I'm pretty sure they have pretty good market research that states most people can live without it and those who can't can pay through the nose.

As for Google and Baidu while they are huge I'm not sure how "important" they are, Google can pretty much design their own hardware at this point, and as you mentioned they don't really use the software ecosystem that much as they can write everything from scratch even the driver if need be.

What CUDA gives is a huge ecosystem for 3rd parties and more importantly a lock on developers since that's "all they know", it's not that different than how MSFT got a lock on the IT industry through sysadmins that only knew Windows and even now with Dev Ops and everyone and their mother running Linux they are still an important player.

If the majority of the commercial software is CUDA based, if most researchers and developers are exposed more to CUDA and are more experienced with it NVIDIA has a lock on the market.

I'm not entirely sure how much big of a client or how good of a client Google will be they can demand pretty steep discounts and they are a heartbeat away from building their own hardware probably anyhow.

NVIDIA doesn't want to be locked to 2-3 huge contracts that pretty much dictate how their hardware and software should look like, that's what put AMD in a bind with the console contracts dictating how their GPU's are going to look for a few generations now.
Hosting ASP.NET Core Applications on Heroku Using Docker
Huh? I'm a liar for saying "sugar is bad and certain sugars are worse"?
How would we regulate software engineers?
We're a fat nation because people eat at restaurants too much where the portions are too large. Also, they have no self control.
I'd say it's better than 50% that you'll sleep tonight. It's also better than 50% that you'll sleep on a bed or couch. I guess all I need to do to make loads of money is invest in furniture companies?
That's why I didn't call it an outright dupe. (I wish there were finer guidelines on "significant attention")
Wow...so do these APs actually hand off client based on proximity/signal strength? I'm running a home-grown network with four openwrt routers running the same SSID, but client stickiness is my biggest problem. I've always been told this was something you can't get around...that AP selection is left up to the client. However, clients do weird things...like a FireTV stick selecting an AP 100 ft away instead of the one sitting around 10 ft away. If Ubiquiti's solution solves this, I might seriously consider getting a set.

As an additional question assuming the above is true...can you bind different SSIDs to different VLANs? This is really the best value openwrt provides to me atm.
'wingerlang, I quoted you in https://medium.com/a-change-is-coming/learning-from-hacker-n...
Also, I like yum's cli more than apt-get's (less than pacman's though)
Sorry, not sure how I overlooked that.
Amazon Registry Services launched
In your example, the best solution would be for NewFoo to return an implementation of FooInterface.
Is caviar a risk factor for being a millionaire?
I didn't see any mention of controlling for people that are worried about their health with reason. If a bunch of people in your family have health problems you would be more likely to worry about your health and be more likely to have health problems. This may be an issue of correlation not causation.
Apple engineer reveals Apple tested Flash on the iPhone back in 2008
No, because the predictions are not public. If they were, everyone could just copy the top predictions.
The people that followed its advice are still around, and you'll have to forgive me if I'm not going to trust newer USDA guidelines after what a spectacular (and politically motivated) fuck up that was.
Facebook Tracking Exposed
For comparison, this is Daniel Ellsberg's view on Edward Snowden: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/daniel-ellsberg-nsa-...
> it is not the most important mapping project in the world

Sorry for the aside, but what do you think is the most important right now?
Apps can probably help in determining that there's an area where a driver is going to need to take over. I can even imagine a central database that construction sites, etc. need to make an entry into.

However, there still needs to be a driver who can take over which means it can't function as an autonomous taxi.
24 days of Rust – clap
Planning and participating in events is actually quite a bit of logistics work. It isn't just showing up to consume, it's presenting/booth stuff and so on. There's a difference between showing up to an event and participating/running the event that often gets put on the better planner types.
In my experience, placing the same SSID across multiple APs/channels and letting the clients decide is a problem, because the clients often get it wrong. Granted, most of what I see this on are Android-based systems (FireTVs, android phones, etc), but I've also had the problem with Ring.com cameras, and with Amazon's Echo. I personally wish the APs would force the issue instead of relying on different client stacks.
BuildZoom (marketplace for remodeling) is hiring a head of marketing + growth
I agree that there are a lot of other cultural issues as well. However, I'm happy to say that these cultural attitudes are slowly changing in the US, and (at least in large cities) it is becoming 'ok' to be a working mother.

That said, the payments in Japan are afaik a few thousand $ per year, whereas childcare in California (I assume it's at least comparable in urban Japan!) is ~20k per year. So to have a meaningful discussion about subsidies, the payments need to be on the same order of magnitude of the cost of childcare.
"yet we make human mothers go back to work after 6 weeks"

No, we don't. We don't make them do anything. They are free to pursue whatever course of action they choose to. Many, many parents choose not to go back to work - ever.

I hope it works out great for AMEX and their workers - two private entities that agreed on one detail, among many, of their compensation package. Good for them.

Yes, I do have children - three of them, in fact - thanks for asking!
We ran an audit of our analytics setup. Here are the results:
Perhaps your marketing pages should be static? Rookie mistake?
Interesting idea. I'll certainly be thinking about that the next time I see the movie.
So what is the evidence for fructose being bad for us?