skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "top ten" list you linked to includes accidents (such as poisonings and falls), suicide, and influenza.

I do not mean to be a jerk and I am no meat apologist - but is meat consumption playing a direct, notable role in at least two out of these three?
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For sure, though Judicata (https://www.judicata.com/) are making good progress in this.

Automation of routine tasks will certainly reduce the number of lawyers as many are used to taking styles from their firm's systems and amending it to suit a client's needs, but for bespoke legal advice it will be hard to replace an experienced lawyer (for now).

And yes, case outcome prediction is a great tool but I see that being more limited to insurers deciding whether to fund cases etc.
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I'd say the future is bright, especially considering the performance increases in PHP7. Now it's both super productive with its huge ecosystem and fast enough for any but the very largest of sites.
KwikVR frees your VR gaming experience from the constraints of tethers
Accuracy is what matters if you're trying to build something that translates. You can judge if it's good or not based on (subjective or objective) measures of accuracy.

But if you're at 75% per cent and want to get to 100%, you need to understand what the problem is with the rest. And if it's 75% of "perfect translation of single written sentences from newspapers or technical litterature", how far along is that towards something "being part of an everyday conversation"?

I studied linguistics at a university where focus was very much spoken language, sociolinguistics, language in context, before moving into (or through) NLP, and the distance between what a statistical machine translation system is able to handle and the stuff I used to work with is very large.

A lot of NLP work now seems to focus on algorithms, but intuitively it seems to me that a much larger issue is the quality of the data, in the sense that humans don't learn language from piles of isolated text and somehow we're expecting machines to do it.. Rext is a lossy encoding of spoken language, even if you try your best to mimic it, but more seriously it does not include the physical context that children encounter language in. The learning situations aren't the same, I don't know why we're expecting the results to be.
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Read the article. The danger is not __getattr__ and __getitem__ but rather things like event.__init__.__globals__[CONFIG][SECRET_KEY]. There is no such thing as an object where arbitrary attribute access is safe, because every object has a constructor function and every function references the globals dict.
Say what? Leap seconds have been added 27 times in the past 45 years. What would lead you to believe the earth's rotation will stop slowing down over the next 33 years?
I think "deep learning startup" may be more exciting than company using "decades old technology" :

- Applied deep learning is still not easy. Not many people have know-how about training models. There are no easy answers in hardware space.

- Translate academia success to businesses. After DL achieved remarkable things in Academia, people expect that same success will be translated to business. Business success mostly only came from Google.
Renovations don't automatically involve bringing buildings up to code. Renovations aren't required, either.
Yes, and AirBnB could be charged for the difference in tax. This would preserve the advantage for small business and treat them the same as a large hotel chain.
There's a footnote at the bottom that explains why it said 'a flore'.
For reference (I had to look Apollo up) -

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Two incomes with long commute, or one income with a shorter commute?
My wife accepted a full time (non-tech) job in a popular vacation spot. We can either live with long, but tolerable commutes, or we can live with a single income very close to her job.

I'm currently a full-time telecommuter, but I anticipate that I'd need to commute to a major city for my next job if we rely on both incomes. In this case, she'd commute about an hour south, and I'd commute to the major city about an hour north.

The alternative is that we can live rather inexpensively in this popular vacation spot, and due to my wife's hours, I can watch our children while she's at work, and still have about 25-30 hours a week free for technical pursuits. In a few years, when the kids are in school, I'll have plenty more time.

Is anyone in such a situation? Is 25-30 hours a week enough for a "single person business?" What about flexible telecommuting jobs, or flexible contracting on open-source projects? In any case, my wife will provide a comfortable safety net.

Would love to hear how other people make this work!
Injuries by drivers whose personal insurance doesn't cover their commercial activity is something I think you can lay on Uber.
Iirc, from a land management perspective this is also the most efficient - some land is only good for livestock, not people. So while a vegan diet is a close second for "most efficient use of Earth's bounty" the ideal approach for that is a small amount of animal products.

That said, we don't need meat. There are countless healthy vegans and vegetarians that are living proof of this.
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> I had to wait for another human to verify my age, to purchase beer. The time before, I had to wait for a human to verify I had bagged all of my items.

So instead of 2 people to a register (one to bag, one to scan), you can have one person man 12 self checkouts? Sounds like an amazing reduction in labor. Even if self-checkout were half as fast as traditional checkout, that one employee is effectively serving way more customers per hour than they would be doing traditional checkout.
>Besides this, its very likely only laptop with 64GB option and 4K display with descret NVidia GPU with 4GB memory

It's isn't. Clevo, MSI, Razer, all offer high-performance options in their high-end models. The Clevos and the MSI with these specs don't start at $4k, I might add :P
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How can you link suicide, cancer, Alzheimer's, or accidents to meat? And most of the rest of that list?
>You are making the claim that Clinton used her private server to skirt FOIA

I am not making that claim. I am asserting that evidence existed to suggest that is a possibility. I am not trying to prove the claim.

>mountains of testimony under oath

Yes, and this testimony occurred due to evidence that was being investigated.

It seems you are trying to prove to me the outcome or conclusions instead of whether or not any evidence existed.
I guess, but it's hard to think of an HTTP request you can't reasonably make with telnet, while s_client apparently won't let you use the Referer header.
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I wonder how viable the EU is now. They've had so many tests and failed. They failed to have a unified front on the Iraq war. They failed to coherently respond to the migrant crisis resulting in many member states re-establishing border check points and even fences. They failed to provide any military deterrence to the Russian federation - NATO is still completely dominated by the US. And now they failed to persuade one of their most powerful members from leaving.

Co-operation between neighbours is a inherently a fairly good idea, but that doesn't mean the bureaucratic fustercluck of the EU is the only vehicle with which this can be accomplished.
I looked at the statistics and apparently I eat 3-5 times less meat than an average US citizen. I guess I'm doing my part then.
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He actually couldn't afford enough meat when he was starting out, so he relied on milk. Which is still animal matter, but is more efficient than meat.

So the world's largest biceps were mostly dairy. Also steroids. Lots of steroids.
This is why I got a vasectomy.
Rephrasing as a bit as I get your point better. It's easier to change eating habits then buying a new car.

I've seen discussion about cars to veg comparison and not hard numbers or citations. When I did the math myself a couple years back I found the GHG emissions saved by going veg was similar to someone switching from driving an semi-efficient SUV to a Prius. Big change, but not as good as switching to biking. I think 10 miles may be undercutting it.

Also quoting from a similar thread elsewhere, focusing just on GHG emissions is limiting the scope of impact animal ag causes.

> Animal agriculture is a leading cause of deforestation of the amazon[1], species extinction[2] and ocean dead zones[3]. There's so much more than greenhouse gases that going vegan helps with, not even mentioning suffering.

[1] http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/758171468768828889...

[2] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/08/meat-eaters-may-speed...

[3] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocean-dead-zones/ and this article http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-80... helps illustrate how much space and time we waste on farm land for animals which causes ocean deadzones
If you care about client-side latency you should be using HTTP/2. And HTTP/2 is HTTPS-only.
As a technical term zero-knowledge has a very specific meaning [1] and is not what they are using. Here it is just a marketing term and may confuse people knowing about the technical meaning but that is certainly only a very small fraction of the population and so it is probably not a huge issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
A-Frame (https://aframe.io), a WebVR framework for three.js, also has an editor that works like a DOM Inspector. You just hit a shortcut on any A-Frame scene on the Web, and it'll inject an Inspector. Also integrated with A-Frame's version of the Unity Asset Store for components.
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> > As a sort of basically reliable swiss army knife for file-based encryption problems, the kinds of problems you'd otherwise use AES passphrase-encrypted ZIP files to solve, PGP not only works but also has a bad rap.

I have a text file. I encrypt it using a key. I send you the encrypted text file. How do you decrypt it? You need the key.

If I can send you the key securely why don't I just send the plain message using that secure mechanism?

Public key cryptography solves that problem.
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Bullshit detector overload
Always have mixed feelings about this debacle, leaning towards positive dislike for Sokal's little trick. Despite his claims to the contrary, I simply don't believe he's serious. Plenty of articles come through HN criticizing the manner in which the scientific community legitimizes bad research, or vice versa. Sokal's critiques always seem to involve the least charitable possible interpretation of a philosopher's words, or simple misconstrual.

For example, is it really so unreasonable to analogize Einstein's theories of relativity to epistemological/moral relativity?
Apple is profitable but it certainly not competitive on pricing. Monopolies also tend to be profitable, competitiveness isn't even a concern there.
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Huh, I was sure it was in June. Actually September 1st. I guess it just feels longer to me. Thanks for pointing that out.
I really am interested in jdavis703's view.

I read jdavis703's comment very carefully and I don't agree that this is the argument that poster was making!

They wrote

>so if you want to go there you just have to pay the taxes. If they ever get high enough that hotels can't book rooms, the businesses should lobby the government to lower them.

That doesn't have any indignation (unlike your comment). So it's certainly not precisely what was meant. I don't want to put words in jdavis703's mouth, I want to hear how they say this relates to airbnb or what the policy change should be.

I read their comment as being basically acceptant of high taxes (" If they ever get high enough that hotels can't book rooms, the businesses should lobby the government to lower them.") -- but it does't go on to say "For the same reasons, airbnb should also be taxed at a very high rate, and should also lobby to lower said very high rates only if they can't fill rooms anymore." (not a quote)

In fact it could say, "high hotel taxes are good for the locals, who are the ones who make these decisions." (not a quote) It could be read that they think airbnb should also have the same high rates. (But perhaps the correct reading is the opposite, that both hotels and airbnb should not have any high taxes.)

Anyway I'd like to hear it from them :) I like their analysis in descriptive terms and I'd like to hear from them how it applies to airbnb or what should be done to both hotels and airbnb, in their opinion.
You cant set sales tax at different rates for tourists, so you have to make up for this difference elsewhere if it is determined the sales tax contribution from tourism does not fully compensate for the costs.
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It's only in the well developed western world.

Third world countries have the 'capacity' to almost double world population (in case of medium growth scenario, hopefully population size will plateau at around 13 billion, I do not think that optimistic rapid decline is possible without rational action of global intervention to reduce population growth [0]), which IMHO sounds catastrophic. Because for next 50-100 years global population will be increasing rapidly and hopefully will stabilise after that, without any prospects of reduction for probably double of that time frame. Even if the population will start to decrease I think it may take at least few ages to reduce population size to what is today.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World-Population-1800-210... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_estimates
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> This is insane

Is it? Is it really more insane than believing you need your organs after you are dead?

> But please don't advocate for your contempt to be codified into laws

Why not? People do it all the time :) At least my agenda benefits society by any objective measure.

> discriminate against people different than you.

How does it discriminate when it's the same for everybody?

> The default should be made clear and people should be able to easily opt-out for any reason they see fit or even no reason at all.

Isn't this the case in France?

I don't really care that much if people opt out, but I do think it should be harder to opt-out. Akin to conscientious objection in the face of a mandatory draft. Not that I wouldn't mind that the opt-out would be available only on very selective criteria.
I read it as minutes. I'm from a metric using country, but IIRC "mile" is commonly abbreviated to "mi".
The issue is not you vs. other companies; it's you vs 25+ years of cryptographic literature.

> no company has yet been shameless enough to deceptively use the term Zero Knowledge.

Except you guys? Why use the phrase "zero knowledge" when you fully know that it has a predefined meaning? Call it no information, no leakage, zero leakage, whatever, but why the one term that is already used to refer to a different concept?

I get that it's a sexy name, but that's why cryptographers use it to refer to a much cooler concept than mere encryption.