skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't even look at the press picture without remembering that is the exact same metal card slot tab that I had on my IBM PC 35 years ago. They should take a picture of the other end or something.
If you want to hear a truly unique soundtrack, check out Utopia (British television series): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2f6MfEzhvo

I've never heard anything like it. Highly creative and matches the show's sinister plot perfectly.
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I am all for having children, and I do support some kind of parental leave, but I think that any progressive that resorts to defend parent-friendly policies always end up suffering some kind of cognitive dissonance. You want to see examples?

> you do need children to sustain society in the future.

Do we really? A lot of the worries, especially among progressive circles, is how automation is reducing the need of manual labor and how the people in this world already are replaceable by machines.

Also, the ones that are more focus on protecting the environment always get to pull some kind of neo-malthusian argument. So, one could argue that we should not be establishing policies that encourage people to have more kids.

> Are future mothers supposed to choose over one day raising a kid or their careers?

Why do you assume that the mother is the one that will stop working? Why not the father? Or, to make it more "equal", why can't both parents switch to part-time jobs and participate in the child rearing part, equally?
RHEL is comparable to running LTS Ubuntu. If you want bleeding edge latest, that's what Fedora is for, not RHEL.
Handoff is an overloaded term. If you advertise the same SSID on the same L2 network from multiple APs, clients should seamlessly move between those APs, subject to the client's own mechanism.

Ubiquiti has a feature called Zero-Handoff [1] which indeed requires the controller's participation. The APs all end up on the same RF channel in this arrangement. While I've not used this feature, multiple APs on the same channel tends to be a bad idea and I much prefer my setup of simply using the same SSID on multiple APs/channels.

[1]: https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/205144590-UniFi-What...
You're right about the facts you said, but wrong about them contradicting the parent comment.

Filing as married benefits couples where only one person is pulling down an income, thus providing a subsidy for one parent to be a full-time parent but not for marriages in general.
I get similar for travel guide books which are the kind of think you buy once when visiting a place you have never visited before.

I get suggestions for travel guide books for the same country I visited a year ago for which I purchased a guide book.
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It doesn't exactly matter if you personally paid for your pension or the state took some percentage from you paycheck or any other imaginable system, if in 40 years you want to retire and the majority of society is made up of other retirees, any form of currency isn't going to be worth anything.

No matter which way you turn it the sustainability of a retiree lifestyle hinges on a large part of society showing up at work on 9am. In 40 years, that's not going to be your peers, it's whatever children your generation produced. If you don't want to pay for benefits that ensure enough workers will be around then you are betting that we got rid of human workers in 40 years of time or investing your money into a hut in Alaska and some shotgun ammunition.
Unless I'm mistaken, I think your objection can be summarized as 'we shouldn't talk about things that we don't have airtight definitions for (like racial bias or racial prejudice), because it might confuse people'.

No. I give a concrete example of what I want in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13161470

Specifically, the word "bias" makes virtually everyone think of one particular concept. I claim expanding the word "bias" to describe two separate concepts misleads people into thinking the second concept is the same as the first.

My sole objection is with confusing people by conflating multiple disparate concepts under one label, which is already a perfectly good label that clearly refers to something else (according to everything besides throwaway's mysterious and uncited "vernacular definition").
There's a funny story about the dashboard when I worked at MS.

My team complained about the dashboard having issues and we were told that a new one was in works and to hold on tight. A year later, we see the new dashboard - everything go 2x complicated, 3x buggy and 2x slower.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Glad it can help you :)
Depends what you mean by "created in our body by our body."

Your body begins with a single human cell, then divides and grows. All those cells have your human DNA. But at some point bacterial cells also appear as part of your body, for example in your digestive tract, playing important roles you can't live without. Their source is not from your human cells, but they still form part of your body as a whole, in a sense.
You can convert your wiki files to HTML, but you have to do the publishing part on your own.
It's not just wikipedia that does this; it's not even specifically a problem of open communities. Organisations all over do this. People underestimate complexity and think that they can assign permissions and control access beforehand, and they invariably end up making things hugely complicated in some vain endeavor to solve largely imaginary problems.

Wikipedia, stackoverflow - but also companies with their crazy policies, and governments (which kind of inspired the word kafkaesque). Clearly, this is human nature.

Oh, it doesn't actually work, so any successful organization also develops an unofficial way to get stuff done, and those facing real risks need to develop an audit culture too. But the lure of just that slightly more detailed access control system stays, and rules proliferate.

Heck, our entire system of human self-organisation is one big cruft of rapidly growing rules, contracts, laws and treaties. It's everywhere. They only ever really shrink at any meaningful rate when the parties involved cease to exist.
LOVE the Vue.js book. Thanks for pointing me to it. It's a timely contribution for my work. For a non-writer, you're a damn good writer. Thanks for all your contributions.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13117521
Uber employees secretly tracked politicians and celebrities, lawsuit claims
Then just explain to them, why it won't be so easy.

"Comic Sans is licensed by Microsoft and can't be used on the web"
"When we build websites, we first write it in another language and then pass it through a program that translates it so that browsers understand it. Adding Comic Sans would require us to make changes deep in the 'translator' program that is supplied by a third party."
"Comic Sans is cancer, see these links. Designers all over the world hate it. If I had a site with Comic Sans on it in my resume, I would seem very unprofessional to a lot of potential clients."

I usually explain them the problem I'm facing in non-technical terms.

Of course, and I bill my time spent doing this.
Only partitioning a new cluster in AWS requires a key name. For adding an existing cluster, we need client certificate and key information. Message us on intercom (the small badge on the bottom of our site) -- We are happy to help.
Crunchbase says that they recently had a Series A round: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/foundersx-ventures#/... which would make for a really elaborate prank.

The page describing (defending?) the "theory behind our technology" is amazing. In brief,

1. Personality is somewhat heritable.

2. Face shape is also determined by genes.

3. ???

4. Profit.

There is even an explicit positive call-out to phrenology. The mind boggles.....
Fury Road
If that's all that's keeping us from being turned into glue (kefka used quite the stark example there...), that doesn't sound anywhere near sufficiently safe to me.

There are a lot of people out there who want to limit reproduction. And these days, they have better arguments.
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It used to be a website where people posed useful counterpoints instead of redundant rhetorical insulting questions.

Of course the ability of a company like AMEX to offer these benefits hinges directly on the fact that a large number of their employees are non-essential to the value producing process.
No problem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2efes525sd9q5yg/1973%20ARPAnet%20P...

(I'm assuming that doing this doesn't get my dropbox account suspended for some reason...)
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> My guess is many people will want their own cat tho.

Which is exactly the argument I wanted to make ;)

> It would be wonderful for me to go to bed and wake up 1000 miles away.

Trains do that already :)
the term junk was intended to convey something apparently worth keeping (perhaps in the attic), as opposed to garbage, which is thrown away.
It's "Every non-modern weapon goes ZZZZHING!!!!!" when you draw it syndrome.

Tiny daggers, big swords, it's all the same sound. Often it's the same sample. And it's nonsense, because nothing actually sounds like that, outside a sample library.

The article also misses the real point of the music - which is that it's quick and easy to write. It's infinitely easier to get paid by filling space with A GIANT SAMPLE, some repetitive minimalist noodling, or GIGANTIC EPIC DRUMS than it is to write the complex full orchestral counterpoint John Williams is famous for.

It's also easy to sequence this stuff. You can literally copy/paste the same sections over and over in your DAW.

Basically it's filler with a coat of pseudo-classical emulsion to add drama and gravitas. It does the job to meet the budget and create the theme park ride movie experience, but that's all.
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*Audiophile.

Or perhaps just punning, which I fully respect.
Reading the first few pages of the "Origin of Species...." it is clear Darwin does not state he discovered evolution. From the onset the first book/chapter is a collection of studies on the subject and scientists who have come to similar conclusions well before him according to him.
I think you're pretty spot on with this. A handy thing to keep in mind when it comes to things like these is that we can only speculate. It happens too often that speculation and assumptions are presented as fact, or that someone retelling what another person says fails to use the same qualifying language and states something as fact.

I've personally come to speculate that there is some dodgy and disgusting acts occurring at this pizza joint. I'm not going to get dogmatic and explain why.

The media, through negligence or design, seems to almost always picks the weakest arguments and presents them as the best there is, if by design it's akin to strawmaning in my book. It works to drum up insane amounts of controversy and/or presents the opposing narratives case as weak. This is why we have 4chan and reddit with these rabid 'citizen journalists' that do all this investigation and forget how stupid it, and they, can be made to sound, it's also why we're going to get more of them, they can navigate through information that allows them to speculate (with good judgment in some cases IMO) that the MSM will just not cover.
With 1 you and millions of companies, how long before your phone is continuously ringing with direct sales contacts?
Not anti-virus. Symantec. You might even call it a bit pro-Symantec, in that the time bomb is an accommodation added especially for them. I certainly would not call it antisymantec.
> people who (largely) choose to pop out more mouths to feed.

I don't disagree with your larger point, but this statement is just incorrect as a matter of economics. Your average American child born today is going to contribute a net surplus to the economy over his or her lifetime. There may come a time when robots do all the work, and human labor costs more to raise and sustain than it adds in dollar-denominated output. We are a long way from that (and we may never get there, depending on what happens in the future with AI).
"The 3rd co-founder and I find it demotivating and frustrating when he disappears."

This seems like a bigger issue to me than the one in your subject.

His disappearance should not affect the validity of your vision and the validity of the opportunity.

If his disappearance is demotivating this is a sign that your motivation needs work.

If you fire him something else will replace him as the conditional hook that will trigger the demotivation.

You can fire him or keep him. But your reason should not be that his presence is demotivating.

Or rather if this is your reason you will find yourself demotivated anyway, regardless of what you do.
Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier
I don't understand why this comment is unpopular since the GP is phrased in such a fashion that you only notice that they talking hypothetically if you read it carefully.

I don't think there's anything wrong the GP's achievement or post (it's all interesting stuff) but if something has not yet been implemented, it's worth nothing since there is "many a slip 'tween cup and the lip"
Minor nitpick: not so sure we will still need child safety seatc in a self driving car, once the technology matures.
To be fair to Darwin, he proposed another mechanism as well, sexual selection.

Also, his two mechanisms were revolutionary at the time, and many decades later remain the most important factors in our understanding of evolution.

Yes, the general idea of evolution as "species change, rise and fall" is not a new one in Darwin's time. But today when we say "evolution" we basically mean "evolution by natural selection" which is Darwin's novelty.
And if you buy a lot of coffee table books, you need more coffee tables.
> risks go down substantially, expands the pool of people who can use it (young, elderly, drunk), the ability to multitask makes the time a commute takes much less expensive, the ability to call a car is hugely convenient.

Rentable cars in most major areas and high-density transit system already fulfill exactly these requirements.

Take any city in Europe. ~15-20% of the people commute with cars.

Do you think these people, who could already use transit, suddenly will stop driving? What advantage do self-driving cars provide to them that transit and rentable cars don’t?
Hi,

AWS doesn't support kubernetes natively. We allow you to either launch a new kubernetes cluster on AWS by launching new VMs and installing kubernetes, weave and etcd or we allow you to sync an existing kubernetes cluster running on AWS by providing the k8s master endpoint.

We don't currently support ECS clusters but that is on our roadmap.
It can be something relatively small. The trait for blond hair in Northern Europe dates back only ca. 11,000 years, and the benefit is unclear (it may be related to vitamin D).

Keep in mind that it only needs to benefit survival a bit more than it hinders it. If it provides a big adantage, it will spread rapidly, but as long as it provides some advantage it stands a chance of surviving long enough to get a foothold and keep spreading.

Even if it doesn't provide any advantage, as long as it doesn't have a negative effect it still has a shot at spreading if it just happens to occur in a population that's otherwise successful.

> since we are now a global population and our physical abilities do not determine our fitness to survive

Our fitness also involves our ability to select a mate and have offspring, not just physical survival. It could very well be that our ability to select a mate will over long enough time scales be affected by appearance and changing cultural factors.
Machine learning is great for helping you understand a new dataset quickly. I often train a basic logistic regression classifier and introspect the coefficients to learn what features are important, which are unimportant, and how they are correlated.

There are a number of other statistical techniques you can use for this but scikit-learn makes this very very easy to do.
QA is lacking in MacOS too. Lots of tweets about bugs with the latest Macs with touch bars.
Holy crap am I understanding this correctly? Out of date Chrome browsers will not load Amazon and other sites utilizing Symantec SSL certs??? Amazon and everyone running Symantec certs dropping Symantec in T-minus: 3 ... 2 ...
Postgres has special date/time input value called 'allballs'
Agreed, which is why I mentioned where I work. However, I do work for a company whose management comes from a culture biased more against taking long leaves - or, at least, that is my impression of the UK by and large - and even UK-based managers seem to approve.

I guess once such prolonged leave gains just a little bit of traction, management are likely to be concerned that they'll be seen as being behind the times if they oppose it? Just conjecture and idle musings with nothing to back it up whatsoever.
What's a good GPU / setup for someone doing deep learning at home? Does anyone have recommendations?
The majority of discussion on the previous post was about how many/most of the books conflicted with the 1-week ban on highly charged topics.

Since that's over (right?) - perhaps people can now share their opinions on the book list itself...
Well, I'm not exactly saying your should eat a bunch of sucrose either, so I might have overstepped by saying it's MUCH worse. But I do think the evidence points to fructose not being good for you, and it's certainly not better than other sugars.
I've yet to see one. Might make one, though, because I deal with this a lot on Quora as well.
Weird that this article gives no credit to Brad Fiedel's work on The Terminator. That's the first time I can recall hearing BRAAAM, over 10 years before any of the other movies he talks about used it.

As far as the origin of the sound itself, seems pretty obvious that people are just oversampling a Klaxon.
I dunno if this is pointless moralizing, but I have a problem with the expression "burden on the state."

Some citizens consume a disproportionate share of society's resources, but words like "burden" and "drain" seem to be examples of heavy editorializing on the part of the author and/or editor.

Reading the article, we could just as easily say that the test optimizes resource allocation by providing assistance earlier to those who would otherwise need greater amounts a decade later.

I might just be depressed by recent developments, but the tone smells like a lead-up to proposing that if we really want to eliminate these "burdens," we load them onto cattlecars at age three.
People with kids are less likely to leave your company. So a company making it financially easier to become more tied down and less likely to leave is just good business sense.
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There's a changelog for 4.8 under this URL: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.8

Not sure why it wasn't copied to the wiki, maybe because of

> Warning: /!\ /!\ The changelog is not complete. It will be available during the next week.
the concern here is the blocking of traffic, not legality. Corners often have space to pull over without blocking traffic.
A specific release had a bug that caused this, it's not planned behaviour and should not happen in the future.
Search for the funding status of defined benefit pensions for most government entities. Most are counting on passing on the buck to future generations to fund their promises, either via increasing taxes or decreasing the value of money.
Except as you and I have argued about in the past, "notability" is redundant. Wikipedia already requires verifiable information from reliable sources. That should be the only bar.

"Notability" introduces a way to subjectively say "well, yes, this is verifiable information from reliable sources, but I don't like this subject, so it shouldn't be allowed anyway". No amount of hand-waving can change the fact that this is what the criterion is used to do, and it makes Wikipedia a laughingstock when coupled with its protestations of neutrality.
Reach out to people who leave email addresses in their HN profiles! :)
In most European cities, the transit system does exactly that – even in my outermost suburb of a German 250k city we have 4 buslines nearby (within of 4min walking) with a frequency of 15-30min, and a few more with an hourly frequency.

So why do 15-30% of people in these cities still drive? What will self-driving cars provide that transit and rentable cars didn’t yet?
Good suggestions, will check them out.

Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed with Farnham's Freehold. I picked it up at a used book store for a dollar - Heinlein! Post-apocalyptic society! - but I haven't enjoyed it very much, and yes, it does get weirdly racial as it goes on. The other books you mention sound much better! Heard great things about Lucifer's Hammer - that'll go to the top of the list.
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Lol. You probably mean brassière, not brasserie (which means "brewery")
Mutations in life's 'essential genes' tied to autism
I am not sure where you get those numbers. Both a Knights Landing Xeon Phi and a Tesla K80 are about 3 teraflops for $5000.

Comparing GPUs with Xeons makes no sense.
"May have returned"?

Friends, in the eastern block it never went away in the first place. </slavic accent>
that movie traumatized me as a young man and definitely impacted my sleep for years thereafter.
Except that's not how class linking works on Android :)

In particular, everything is compiled down to lookup tables and hash tables within each odex/oat. Your point still stands but the hit is much lower than you would think and given the slow speed of the superfluous reads, it ends up being a net positive for A LOT of cases.
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So the best ones are on Mac :(
> Once I stumbled onto Angular Material I sort of forgot about Polymer because I didn't have a dedicated UI guy

That is kind of funny - because it looks like polymer has much more complete Material UI implementation compared to both Angulars (unless they catched up on that).
Darwin discovered the mechanism of natural selection, "survival of the fittest". That requires traits to be heritable, passed from parents to children. Mendel discovered how that works in practice, and in particular, that it was a discrete mechanism - each gene has a finite number of states.
We have a couple legacy Rails <-> Elixir apps being slow-ported forward (low hanging fruit first). The real winner so far for us has been Exq [1], which is a Sidekiq-compatible job library.

What that means is you can selectively receive jobs in Elixir (e.g. high-perf Phoenix websocket/request handler) and process them in legacy Ruby Sidekiq workers when needed, or vice-versa use Elixir to process jobs whose functions you've ported forward.

If your Rails app is already setup use Sidekiq background jobs, I think this method is much-preferable to these direct communication libraries.

[1] https://github.com/akira/exq
I've been curious about this too. AWS does have K80 instances available for $0.90/hour which isn't too bad for playing around and as long as they keep updating their infrastructure, you can play with the newest stuff versus having to upgrade your own all the time.