skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some pretty fair defense of the general field---if not all of specific extremists---in the article:

"NORTON WISE, professor in the history of science, UCLA: I read Sokal’s Social Text article and thought it was pretty funny. It was just nonsense. Of course, Gross, Levitt, and the others were claiming that science-studies people were engaged in what they called radical relativism. You may be able to find such an extreme, but it’s not by any means the basic argument of the social-constructionist perspective.

[...]

"HELEN LONGINO, professor of philosophy, Stanford University: Certainly there are some deconstructionists who have tried to take on science. But that was, by far, the minority of the work that was being done in science studies. If Sokal had submitted it to a serious science-studies journal, people would have seen through it. Sokal has this very sort of old-fashioned idea about science — that the sciences are not only aiming at discovering truths about the natural world but that their methods succeed in doing so.

"STANLEY FISH, professor of humanities and law, Florida International University: Thomas Hobbes said it hundreds of years ago: "Where there is no speech, there is no truth or falsehood." Knowledge is made, of course, by men and women in the context of assumptions, presuppositions, available vocabularies, and available methodologies.

"WISE: You don’t need to believe in a particular theory of gravity in order to think that there is gravity. Whether you’re Aristotle or Newton, you’re not going to be jumping out windows, because there’s a validity to the view that falling bodies fall, and it doesn’t matter which view of the nature of gravity you hold in order to believe that.

"What interests people in science studies is how one view versus another comes to be taken as "true" — here in scare quotes — and arguing that oftentimes that’s a matter of cultural conditions, which is not a very radical position."

In a related context, what would quantum mechanics look like today if Louis de Broglie had a better argument in 1927 and pilot wave theory was the current standard model?
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Granted, getting the touchpad working the way I wanted took a little bit of work, but there are guides all over the internet.

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> Hotel taxes support infrastructure and city services.

As a tourist, there's no reason I should have to provide an inordinate level of support to the regional regulators. I'm happy to pay sales tax like everyone else, and the costs of property and utility taxes are already built into the cost of my stay.

> And things like proper safety and fire regulations

Residences already have to obey regional safety and fire code.

> All of those things cost money.

That's true, but you're already paying for that in an AirBnB, because as I said, it also has to follow regional fire code.

You seem to be under the false but unfortunately common impression that all, or even the majority, of regulations have anything to do with improving consumer safety.

> It took a string of deadly hotel fires in the 70s to get regulation up to speed.

The false premise here is that residential building code is not already "up to speed".
Ha, you haven't even seen the super-low salaries yet.
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So the rumor is Goldman Sachs got out of the financial crash first because their systems saw the market move before anyone else. I don't know if that is apocrypha, but it is more to the point Google would not be predicting the market, but instead see market movements before anyone else.
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> And customers love those services.

All else being equal, customers love paying less for the same thing. But they don't necessarily like the implications at scale. E.g. would New Yorkers vote to raise property or income taxes to make up for the $1.8 billion that would be lost from hospitality taxes?
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Ask HN: Kinda unique career goal, how do I make it?
So I moved from the US to an area with low COL and great software engineers, working as a team lead. Now, while the work is fulfilling and all, I'd really enjoy helping a company open a new location (i.e. hiring / managing the first teams teams, finding locations, administrative stuff, etc).

Now how on earth could I find companies interested in something like that? It's not like they advertise anything like that, so I'm pretty much at a loss here.
Although we're both from the area, my parents have passed on and my sister is the only one who's not within a two hour drive (including most of my wife's family).
Where do you get your news from?
That's probably just changes in the regs since the house was built, not that foster children (or tourists in the case of a hotel) are more fragile than others.

Good standards are good, double standards are not.
I've heard home prices are Bay Area level without similar salaries there, is that accurate? And how does that stack up against Denver?

The job market seems relatively weak in both areas compared to the Bay Area... Would you agree with that?
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> Anything that takes the repetitive cognitive load off a human and puts it into a specially trained computer is an AI.

This is just watering out the term AI to the point of uselessness and/or ridicule.

I mean, by your definition, the steam-engine and punched-hole-card powered Jaquard looms of the early 17th century are an AI. Of course, those were the precursor to Babbage's general mechanical computer, so they were actually "specially trained computers".

Edit: 19th century, not 17th. "There are two really hard problems in programming: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
Google's SyntaxNet (as of Andor et al 2016) achieves state-of-the-art accuracy for dependency parsing without RNNs.
In addition to not being (fully) open source, something that also should be mentioned is, that if u use the mobile apps it unfortunately still isn't "zero knowledge" [0].

[0] https://spideroak.com/manual/spideroak-on-mobile
On the bright side, it's seriously awesome that they're so transparent about salaries.
I have a signature ThinkPad bought at a Microsoft store and it came with plenty of software that I would consider bloat. Lenovo ships a lot of extra software on their systems. I'd still recommend a reformat and reinstall of Windows.
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>The emails don't even suggest that Clinton saw Mull's offer, and they don't suggest that either Abedin or Clinton thought Mull's offer was viable after their experience with the NSA. Why should they waste their time with it if it wasn't going to go anywhere?

You are making assumptions for which we don't know the answers. Which is exactly why such questions are asked to begin with.

>Then why do you use them as your sole source? The Daily Caller article lifts its entire story from Judicial Watch's arguments. If you wanted to learn why those arguments didn't work the first n times, the other side's arguments are out there for you to see.

Likewise then why do you suggest I simply dismiss claims by taking the other side's argument?

We can also assume it would be a defensive position. Evidence doesn't become no evidence based only on the other side's account. It might be determined to be weak, irrelevant to claims etc based on investigation.

Stating there was no evidence suggests there was 0 basis to make the claim prior to investigation. We don't in hindsight do the investigation and then look back and say the evidence isn't evidence. We can say the evidence wasn't conclusive or didn't support said claims strong enough to investigate further etc.
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Do you have citations for any of this? Where are you getting your 90% numbers?

The parent post doesn't cite specific numbers about how many regulations were put into place as a direct result of a tragedy but they do directly cite some examples, which you do not.

Nobody (literally, anti-regulation straw man arguments not withstanding) opposes pointless regulation and nobody would be opposed to periodic reviews of existing regulations to ensure they are still applicable. The problem is that anti-regulation arguments tend to demonize nearly all (if not all) regulations as being burdensome. Having arbitrary rules [1] about regulations does nothing for progressing the conversation. If you want to be taken seriously you need to cite examples of these regulations, its easy to find ones that are directly related to past tragedies, it should be as easy to cite your examples?

> Are you really under the impression that the competitive advantage of AirBnB comes from ignoring fire code? That's insane for multiple reasons, but mostly that all residential buildings (including AirBnBs) have to obey fire code already.

I don't think you are taking into account two things:

1) The fire codes for residential homes and for hotels are very different. It makes sense that they are, they are very different structures but that doesn't mean that people who stay in an AirBnB shouldn't expect some extra safety features like emergency lighting and more smoke alarms, fire extinguishers etc. If you were staying on the 2nd floor of a house that you did not live in and there was a fire and there was no power or emergency lighting or exit signs or fire extinguishers and only 1 smoke alarm on the other side of the house and you had to find your way out in the complete dark how would you feel?

2. There are a lot of grandfathered-in houses out there that have 1 fire alarm, no CO alarm and totally out of date electrical wiring. These same big old houses also have a high chance of being the kind of place that is used as an AirBnB (in my experience).

There is (like always) a reasonable middle-ground here - AirBnB's should be subject to more regulation than normal homes because a howeowner (unlike a tenant) knows the home, has chosen to live there and accepted the possible risks and has the opportunity to ensure the home is up to current codes (even if it is grandfathered in). However it makes little sense to apply the same regulations a huge hotel building with massive occupancy with a (typically) 1 to 2 story structure that you could likely escape much easier due to the size and due to the fact that a worst-case scenario has a much lower deathtoll (even if a single death is a tragedy).

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2016/11/22/donald-tru...
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Spideroak One is miles better in terms of UI than the old version, but the performance is still baffling sometimes. eg. Edit a single ~5kb file and you can be seeing multiple minute upload times. Encryption doesn't take that long and even dial-up is faster for upload.

EDIT: I only use the free version though, so maybe the paid plans have better speeds.
>There’s the Navy official who faked his own death to end an affair.

He was an attack submarine captain.

The sheer lack of thought put into his plan alone warranted the dismissal, nevermind the actual ethics part of it.
Ugh. HSTS / HPKP make my head hurt. Best practice on the client side is rapidly converging to 'make the web browser stateless', with things like tails, or just leaving private browsing mode on 100% of the time.

Both those protocols are significantly weakened by stateless clients!
"one person could have flown coach from New York to Japan (and back) 3,408 TIMES with the amount of fuel the Governator used to commute within California."

Who does he think he is lecturing poor people like me about what I ought to be eating for dinner?!

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/question/214841-how-m...
Which is irrelevant jf their day-to-day operations, esp speed and pricing, arent regulated in a way that forces one up and other down. It doesn't help that the head of regulation is usually from telecoms or their lobbyists. Or that they bribe politicians to protect their interests like getting states to ban taxpayer-funded networks.
Shaping Curves with Parametric Functions
Actually gas is around 30 to 40% cheaper than - say - France or Germany:
France 1.42:

https://gasoline-germany.com/international.phtml?kontinent=E...

Germany 1.35:

https://gasoline-germany.com/international.phtml?kontinent=E...

Canary Islands 0.89:

https://gasoline-germany.com/international.phtml?kontinent=E...

Generally speaking I would say that overall prices are 10-15% lower than continental Spain and 20-30% lower than other main EU countries (like the mentioned France and Germany).

Of course it depends on where you go and which specific city you want to compare with.
I'm a big fan of Raspberry Pi. For me it fills a significantly different role than a laptop and therefore a laptop needs a different performance envelope.
Depends on how long "a while" ago was. They had a big client overhaul something like a year (?) ago, which (after a few months of bugfixing) made quite a difference.

Now they also have a galaxy of related products (IM, collab, etc) which more or less integrate with ONE, although I haven't really used them.
> On Windows, encrypted is encrypted

Wasn't there a recent story about how Windows is storing keys so that it can wake up in the middle of the night and apply updates? I thought that the conclusion was that locked isn't as secure as logged out.
Does anyone know if the public can watch when they launch at Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex. I have always wanted to do this but never sure if it is open to the public
Visitors use a ton of resources--they should pay for them. E.g. think about all the money that goes into security for Times Square.
It would be helpful to cite some of the things you are arguing. What basis do you base your opinion that hotel protections are several orders of magnitude than the value?
He makes a good point about continuous functions. But actually neural nets are quite good at handling discrete elements like words, likes, atoms in a molecule, etc.

Deep learning is part of enormous advances in NLP[0], just as it has set records to accuracy in almost every field of machine perception, from vision to audio.

Neural word embeddings like those produced by word2vec[1] make for very useful feature vectors when fed into other neural nets.

The headline of this post should be that NLP is harder than, say, image processing. In fact, for non-specialists, none of it is easy, because tuning hyperparameters is hard.

The kind of NLP that tries to reproduce human-level sentences and understanding is simply a more complex problem, given the plasticity of language.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04558
[1] https://deeplearning4j.org/word2vec
What is your point? I'm making an argument that can stand or fall on its own. Dropping links that don't add any semantic value is a cheap trick to buy the appearance of a strong argument, but doesn't change the meaning of anything in the post. The GGP post just added some links to stories about historical building fires, which we all already knew existed and added nothing of substance to his argument, but it still managed to convince you that it boosted the credibility of all the other unrelated stuff he said.
Yep. As usual, it's impossible to have a reliable cartel if the government doesn't support it.
> Injuries by uninsured drivers in places where valid insurance isn't required to drive isn't really a thing you can lay on Uber. It applies to every car on the road in those countries.

Uber has been cited multiple times in Germany because it did not enforce the required insurance for its drivers, instead letting them drive with a private insurance.
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