skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Show HN: Media Arbiter
Media Arbiter (media-arbiter.com) is a social review aggregator that searches comments on Twitter to determine the general opinion on movies opening in theaters. The website calculates the percentages of negative/neutral/positive comments and identifies common terms used in tweets, e.g. good acting, great plot. The idea is to compete with other movie review websites and in long run build a custom service for market research companies. The service would search social media to find, aggregate and report information on products.

Technologies Used: Scala, Scala.js, React, GAE

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Some sort of gas injection system is essentially universal in rocketry since you need something to maintain tank pressure as you use the fuel in the tank. The helium vessels aren't always COPVs, sometimes it comes from outside the tank, and some rockets use something called autogenous pressurization where propellant is heated to gas to take up that extra space. And some rockets manage without pressurization entirely though I believe only very low performance ones.

SpaceX hasn't flow anywhere close to 700 flights but a lot of testing would involve fuel loading so the 700 figure sounds high but not unreasonably high to me.
He sort of does, and then says that the information loss from that process will make it ineffective for NLP.

I don't think anyone deny that 'true' translation would require some kind of general intelligence that somehow understands what is being translated, but it seems to be the case that a 'dumb' translation works well enough for a great many use cases, regardless.

He's really just making the Chinese room argument. We have a computer shuffling symbols around according to some rule set, that doesn't know what they mean. I don't think it really matters, though, if it produces a reasonably accurate translation.
Yeah that isn't for everyone!

Whatever the category of neighborhood -- big city or small town or even country -- there are minimum requirements for a decent life that IMO the community is morally obligated to create.
CompactFlash (CF) is effectively IDE/PATA.
> Say what you will, but Apple does make the best PC hardware.

Maybe a 4+ years ago, but this is less true today.

You must not have used recent Thinkpads or prosumer/business Dell laptops. It would probably blow your mind to learn they some even have the same touchpad hardware controllers. Sure, OS X has better software touchpad support, but the hardware is often identical.

Furthermore, the serviceability of RAM, SSD and battery on an Apple is typically non-existent while trivial on things like the Dell Precision line. And from my experience, most people who run Linux tend to tinker with things as opposed to buy a blackbox and never open it.

> Some sort of matrix of what Apple HW will work with Linux is found from here: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple (but do your own research too)

That is handy, thanks for sharing! I wrestled with Linux on a 2012 rMBP before when HiDPI support was rough, and this would have saved me some time. :)
Is this job working directly for the SEC or as a contractor?
I have to agree with you on the Dipsea trail. However, public transit is infrequent and the commute to the city (nevermind the South Bay) looks pretty bad.
> Individual judgement? Do we imagine some couples saying to themselves "We're not up to much genetically-speaking so - we'd better not have any kids"?

I think that global 1 child policy would be harsh [0], though, for the lack of better term, a 'perfect' medium between 'no child at all' policy and "increase human population until it's destruction" scenario.

In perfect case couple would have up to 1 offspring, thus global medium would be something like 0.9 or 0.8, or even less. Which will reduce global population by half in 50 years.

[0] It's harsh, though would be right thing to do so we will not proliferate and consume ourselves to the point of global destruction.
I have not lived in a time when there were no speeding cameras where I lived, so it's not some kind of weird nostalgia.

I have no doubt that speeding cameras make the road safer, but they are being abused in the Netherlands, because they are a very good source of income.

For example, driving 4 kmh (2.5 mph) over the limit causes a €37 fine. The threshhold for fining has been lowered from 10 kmh to 4 kmh. Fines have quadrupled over the last 3 decades.

This all gets worse because we have 4 (80, 100, 120, 130) + dynamic as common limits on the highways, which change every few kilometres on some roads with only minimal signs. A large amounts of fines was actually declared invalid by court because of this reason.
This is only server-side CPU. What about client-side latency? TLS involves extra hops to establish a connection.
They've been around for a while and are highly regarded.

The one thing that makes their privacy weak is: The software involved in the encryption/password handling is not open source. We have only their word for it that they are not snooping or letting anyone else snoop.

If you're willing to do the extra work, you can get a cloud service like Dream Objects, and use software like duply/duplicity to store your files online and encrypted. You may lose some flexibility, though.
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How do you invalidate a JWT without hitting the database though? The JWT is already signed with its claims, so there's no way your application can know it's revoked unless there's a list of revoked tokens, which defeats the whole purpose of using JWT. Or am I missing something?
> Perhaps you should assume people who are using it like this carefully weighted security against their requirements and came to the conclusion that it's a legit tradeoff.

Perhaps. Or perhaps "well, I'll just use Redis because everyone else uses Redis." This is, in my experience, common. Most people choosing a stack aren't qualified to evaluate the security approach of their stack.

I don't really have a problem with Redis when somebody's going to actually either do their homework on securing it or are knowingly taking on additional risk. But you have to know it to do it. And vanishingly few people do. (And they don't ask, because they don't know to ask. The five-minute-demo culture has seen to that.)
Seems like it would be straightforward to compare care and outcomes between donors and non-donors and see how they differ.

In any case, I'm not the one making the claim, so I'm not the one who has to back it up.
Agreed that the core issue is scarcity.

Often scarcity can be addressed if the community decides that it is harmful or not necessary.
That's called meditation these days, but it's not about thinking no thoughts. It's about sorting your thoughts until there are no more worries. Everyone should be doing this.
Stress is such a broad term. The first beneficial type of stress that comes to mind for me is exercise.
Downvoted.

The information in that site doesn't actually back up the headline. It handwaves away the extra-round-trip issue with "well, there are experimental ways in the works to eliminate one of those extra round trips" which is worlds away from saying there are "no performance problems" with TLS in practice.
This is the only in-depth treatment I have found. It's damning: http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-disruptive-cab...
Criticism is causing increasing crime? What kind of Blue Lives Matters bs logic is that. And have there not been repeated case she of glaring misconduct where justice was not served. And the police wanna play victim now? I'm all for increasing police training and even better pay to attract better candidates, but there are many more factors at play than criticism.
> as though they are doing something illegal. They are not.

Of course they are. And Uber has been fined/sued/charged hundreds if not thousands of times for doing just that. The penalties have proved insufficient to deter them from their illegal racketeering operation, however.
SpaceX targets January 8 launch as explosion investigation ends
The trouble with stock market systems is they are great at predicting the past and pretty much useless for predicting the future.

A fellow student at Caltech was developing a stock market AI in the 1970s. He was very secretive about it, and was sure it was going to make him rich. I sometimes wonder whatever happened to him.
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> Actually no, owner-occupied residential buildings do not have to meet codes,

You are just straight up incorrect. No two ways about it. I'm actually a little surprised someone could have this little exposure to the residential regulatory bureaucracy. Maybe that's why you can support it.

Here are some (not all) of the residential building codes that apply here.

https://www.tdhca.state.tx.us/single-family/training/docs/14...

http://www.sanantonio.gov/DSD/Resources/Codes
You are not missing something. We're both in the same boat looking for this island of treasure.
I actually preferred uber when it first launched and it was kind of expensive and you got nicer cars and more professional drivers.
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How does the gas get into this void between liner and overwrap? I presume the liner is meant to be impermeable? Or is it only impermeable when properly backed with the overwrap?
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Hmm, I find it hard to get over how old fashioned ThinkPad keyboards look.
Tourists use a cities resources that the residents(former, current, and future) paid for. Would it be better they paid an income tax and received voting rights?
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I worked for junglee.com (a relatively unknown site owned by Amazon that used very little CPU) and extra latency on HTTPS was a massive, serious issue.

What flaw in our software or serious configuration mistake do you think we had?
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>> ...that support exporting to the web.

I think, if you've ever actually tried to use this feature in these frameworks, you'd know this support is in name only. It's really not a usable solution.
I tried spider oak a while ago, and I thought it was horrible in terms of ui, performance and bloat.
I'm assuming they didn't change their stack/devs, so I will not even try this one.
AOKP is definitely not dead. Take a look at the recent gerrit activity: https://gerrit.aokp.co
I'm basically never bored alone, I prefer to be alone, and I can spend nearly 24/7 alone (although part of that time communicating via the Internet). The social interactions at work and with family is more than enough for me. I don't need to go 'go out', 'date', 'visit clubs', or 'see the world'. I've been there, done that. I want to settle at a place. Obviously YMMV.

With the coming of VR I expect we're going to see more commonly people who barely if ever go on vacation but go on vacation via VR. You can see the Eiffel Tower on pictures right now. What if you could experience it with VR? Although even that I CBA with.

If you want to live in a city with a good night life there's tons of options available, I got quite some good experiences here and there (Berlin, for example, I found far more amazing and friendlier than Amsterdam while I'm in Amsterdam in 30 min) it just depends on your personal interests tho.
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As far as I understand, long term stress erodes pretty much everything.
- Aren't we officially at war enough with AQ? Were the civillians who got killed unaware their Army and the US had declared war on their local militants?

- I doubt any of the deaths caused by drone strikes were careless. I'm sure great care was taken. Unwise and foolish and desperate yes.

- As others have mentioned, WMDs was all GWB, Rumsfeld and Rice. Post invasion deconstruction, I'd give to Bremmer.
In Santa Monica, does that translate to "don't be poor"?
DeepMind delivered value on several fields.

They happen to rely (partly) on DL to deliver this value, but they got acqui-hired not because "we are doing deep learning" but because "we have technology that can lower your costs/increase your profits"...
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The trouble with stock market systems is that any successful one is defeated by its own success - as its logic gets factored into everyone else's strategy.

This self-defeating problem is not present in the other AI applications you mentioned.
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I was writing a lengthy response but this is pretty spot on.

What I'll add is I've encountered this dozens of times "what about native peoples?" and honestly, me and most vegans I know don't want to take away native practices. We're not doing outreach to native people either, it's the westernized people which do the most ecological damage, as well a damage to sentient life.

Also, most vegans disagree with backyard chickens because they come from a breeder[1]. It's similar to why you should rescue a dog, not get a pure bred, people like doing things efficiently to maximize return which means not much regard for the chickens or dogs, god awful for the animals themselves.

So, if your friends rescued them, treats them well, and doesn't kill them when their egg laying slows down, I don't think you'll find many vegans up in arms against them. I personally wouldn't eat the eggs of any chickens I rescued, because I don't need them and preventing them from laying eggs gives them a better life as "modern chickens" are bred to produce way too many eggs so are very prone to ovarian cancer.

[1] http://freefromharm.org/farm-animal-welfare/backyard-chicken...
Of course, if your application hits the API less than once a minute, you've now doubled the number of requests it needs to make, because it will need to refresh the token before every call.
im talking about when microservices expose apis consumed via ajax. then https-http connections dont work.
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I believe it's a minimum of 3 loads per vehicle, as they're also tested at McGregor, Texas before being shipped to the launch site. Launch scrubs after propellant loading would add more, as would R&D testing.

They've done almost 30 Falcon 9 launches now. If there are 4 per vehicle and 3 loads per launch, that's about 360 loads just from that.
Here are some kids books that I enjoyed reading. Getting a book that a child will want to read again and again, and that the parent won't hate, is impressive.

"The Book With No Pictures" by BJ Novak is fun. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-No-Pictures-B-Novak/dp/0141361...

"Pirate Diary" (Illustrated by Chris Riddel) is fun and has the right amount of gruesomeness to encourage my kid. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pirate-Diary-Histories-Richard-Plat...

"Maps" (Aleksandra Mizielinska, Daniel Mizielinski) is a fun sort of atlas, especially if you combine it with Youtube etc clips. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848773013

My current strategy to find books is look at illustrators who've won the Greenaway award, or writers who've won the Carnegie award, and then look at their other books or books that amazon recommends alongside these.
Maybe I worded it slightly wrong, I was simply trying to make the point that the vehicle behavior that irritated you (keeping the speed limit) is the absolutely sanest thing to do in other places and can have a high cost for the driver if not followed depending on the location.
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Co-founder of https://forestry.io here.

As an interesting speed comparison, one of our users has a site with 2,000 blog posts that takes Jekyll 10 mins to build. We migrated it to Hugo and the build time went down to 900 ms.

We're big fans of Jekyll, but Hugo certainly beats it when it comes to speed.
Sorry, do url without https, so gerrit.aokp.co
The regulations that Uber is skirting are based on the problems caused by taxi drivers otherwise being anonymous. Since Uber can connect drivers to rides and handles payment the problems that plagued pre-regulation taxis aren't a concern in this case. We shouldn't reflexively assume that all regulation is bad, but we shouldn't reflexively assume that all regulation is good either. As with Chesterton's fence, always look at why something was created before saying whether it should continue or stop.

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.
I asked them that, the tech lead wasn't interested. No idea what's wrong with it. I could change the bootloader and make it directly boot ubuntu but they actually take in our laptops and flash them themselves so I can' avoid windows being overwritten.
>Some of us have a different opinion based on our own genuinely-held beliefs

Such as?

Browsing a website with an adblocker in a public place may literally give me a virus.

That's what HTTPS everywhere protects against.
This is wrong, population growth is not a problem anymore. All developed countries have very low fertility rate (even the US when excluding immigration). Japan's demographic crisis is the future for all developed nations.
There are no special hotel taxes in London. Hotels pay the same taxes as most other businesses.
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Fire escapes aren't required merely to look cool, they provide a second form of egress from a hotel room in the event of e.g. a fire, which is a common requirement and not relevant to houses which will have other forms of secondary egress. Even so, my non-hotel apartment has a fire escape because the hallway through the front door is the only other path out of the building.