skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am too dump to get through this hipster's mental constructs.

Segregation is a fundamental principle in societies and even nature in general. Likes tend to stay with likes, likes attracts likes. Culture, age, social or professional specialization there are countless ways everything segregates. And segregation and specialization is good. In the social context we see castes and chinatowns since the beginning of time, and in the biological context we see tissues - a homogeneous community of specialized cells.

The utopists (and mere naive idiots) who believe in some voluntarily unsegregated society of brothers and sisters, which never emerged by itself in the history of mankind, are, well, idiots. Even forced unsegregated social groups does not last and always has tensions and issues.

So, why don't we just accept the fact that some academic humanists and social theorists are ignorant, naive self-deluded dreamers, who are ignoring certain aspects of actual reality.

So called self-segregation is a non-term. It is a default, biological norm. Species who do not live in packs and families are self-segregated. Even inside the family there are specialization and segregation by age. What these hipsters are talking about?
Standard urban/casual intellectual uniform.
Anyone with access to your computer can look at the plaintext passwords in Chrome just by going to settings > passwords > show.

It's been a long-standing dispute... Chrome says "if people have physical access, security is broken anyway." But that's because they refuse to acknowledge the lesser threat model; "A non-tech savvy friend or family member borrowing my computer for 20 min" -or- "my computer gets stolen from my desk while I was logged in... and now they have access to all chrome passwords in plaintext."

It's infuriating. Wish they'd fix that, even if it's a superficial fix.
> You see, this sort of thing doesn't make self-proclaimed "European citizens" popular in the UK.

I didn't mean that in the sense of being a cosmopolite euro-citizen, I simply meant I'm a resident of an EU country other than the UK.

I have no wishes for consequences as punishment alone, I only want consequences in the sense that benefits such as low trade barriers should be shared among those who create them and share the burdens, e.g who accept strict common envirinmental regulations and allow freedom of people to move.

Of course countries would prefer the benefits of a collaboration/union/pact/ without the responsibilities and costs.
Ya, 'a few' is more accurate. I looked into pybrain which was 2.x. I understand that many people now use tensorflow. The point is it will be nice when more people normalize on 3. It did make me appreciate the backwards compatibility of Java.
Does it matter? If the claim is true, then it's a serious problem. If it's untrue, then the article is wrong. Neither one is changed if the author is a particular person.
There are also a lot of businesses that do not want the GMail interface to change.

For example, Yesware, Hubspot For Sales, and ToutApp are all built on top of GMail probably using the gmail.js library - and I'm sure there are a lot more.

I'm not sure they have the clout to keep Google from changing, but it's something for them to consider.
I don't really trust "free" cloud services. Hosting has a cost, if they aren't charging to get that money, how else are they going about getting it?
For good or ill, however, the WSJ still has a lot of articles and original reporting that isn't available anywhere else. It's unique, which makes it unusually valuable.
I understand, but you can't just throw a DB at it and walk away. For instance, which DB? Setup how? Running on what type of hosts? What topological requirements does this have? How much does of a multiplier does it place on your data load.

I'd definitely use a trusted DB for storing bank accounts. The consistency is pretty much the first requirement and the data maps perfectly to tables. And 7B checking accounts isn't that big, compared to some problems so it'd probably scale pretty well even worst-case.

But I probably wouldn't for an MMO. Or at least, it wouldn't be where I stored every little thing going on around them - just the events (xp and gold earned) that they'd freak out about if we lost. But even just a log-structured DB would work well for that.

If there's no contention for a resource (in the bank case - the value in the account) there's much less reason for a transaction. I want the system to make its best effort but I don't want to wait around for the message if there isn't anything I can do on a failure anyways.
I don't recall the Stockholm captives being well paid, free to leave at any point, with medical benefits and stock options doing interesting work with some decently cool people. Gotta Wikipedia cite on that, skipper?
It's backed up by data to not only be women. Suicide statistics and such show this.
Exceptions don't always give you useful stack traces in a concurrent situation, because the current stack may only reflect a goroutine that's processing data on behalf of another. The real execution context may involve many more.
Squirrels Keep Menacing the Power Grid. But at Least It’s Not the Russians
Newbie Biz Owner's Guide to Success
I really want to love LastPass, I think all the pieces are in place, the UX is underwhelming though. We have been using it at the company for years, and I agree that it feels very rickety.

Can't even begin to count the # of times it lost a newly generated password, or it failed to swap the password for a website, or didn't immediately show a password I just created until I did a full refresh, or it has opaque rules about what can be shared with teammates. Would be great if they put more focus on getting the fundamentals right before expanding the feature set.
Hardware development, via arduino.

I'm having lots of fun putting together simple circuits, and programming in Lisp, FORTH, & C.

I've got a couple of projects on the go at the moment, and more planned. At the moment I'm mostly stalled on waiting for parts to be shipped from China.

It feels like an interesting change from purely writing code.
Every 3 minutes someone starts a remodel on BuildZoom. We are hiring all roles
Well, it is prison slang, but, I believe, in broad circulation. Maybe it is a bit dated.

Wikipedia says it's in the OED: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_(slang)
And dyslexia
Frank is a terrific writer and his books are excellent (rare for an economist).
It functions well enough under wine. A native client would be lovely, but I gather they don't see it as a priority.
Maybe it’s time to roll my own crypto?
Besides the excellent reasons already posted here, I would also point out that many, perhaps most, Wall Street Journal articles posted here tend to be the same story that other outlets are covering, often better, and usually the WSJ articles has nothing to recommend it over these other, free outlets. So by blocking WSJ submissions, it would encourage submitters to use an alternate source for the topic.
found the ones I used: http://store.mathusee.com/catalog/math-u-see/manipulatives/i...
That's a bit weird. Where other than in a browser or something that will open your browser do most people see ://?
Great advice, going through my Github Stars right now.
So the paper is literally a classic overview of opportunity cost? Zzz
I would rather believe in Existentialism. I come from a very poor background. Much of my childhood friends are either dead, in prison or working minimum wage. If I would have "acknowledged" the truth, like most of them did, I would have ended in the same position.

Humans are not animals. We can evolve of our own free will. Statistics do not apply at the individual level.
The problem is that it's a lot of work and there's really no incentive to do so. At the end I worry the group could be retaliated against and/or be considered complainers. There really isn't any benefit to doing a review like this that I could see. Plus if you're a statistician like me, you already know the conclusion, a kind of blind study would only build credibility for non-statisticians. :-/
If I could bet against Uber, I would do it
But you wrote a malloc, free, new or delete before. it's not like you were oblivious to these concepts, that's exactly my point.
Well, duh? It's obvious he has speech(post) writers, comment moderators and professional photographers. Not surprising.
Any word on IPO timeline?
Perhaps that was an over-ambitious project given that Automated Theorem Proving is an entire field of research.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_theorem_proving
I have a BlogSpot site. I left Word Press to move to BlogSpot.

Copy-pasting isn't working at all, except for the text. The graphics aren't copying at all.

They are mostly maps. I am considering redoing them.

Thanks for your feedback.
This is partially a side effect of admissions that are skewed by racial affirmative action, as opposed to taking into account overall socioeconomic status. Race is still a factor for two families of similar income, but Obama's children received a enjoyed significantly more educational opportunities than the children of an average working-class West Virginia white family -- yet admissions only sees race.
Hi,

Osmocom is an open source project that is searching for technical writers. You can check it out here: https://osmocom.org/

PS. They are offering a free femtocell for contributions.
Some thoughts on switching from Ubuntu to Antergos for Linux gaming
With numerous libraries phasing out support for 2.x in current or upcoming versions, I think we actually do have significant uptake.

As pointed out by others, those PyPi stats are super off. Better to look at what's going on out in the community and with the most popular packages (like Django).
this is because some schools are very expensive.
Possibility: seeing all this, Uber looks hard at what they do have and simply becomes contract cab dispatcher for all cabs everywhere, smartly choosing which cab to call to the scene of the caller using their algorithms. And lets existing can companies so the actual driving.

Why? Currently some cab companies have shitty apps, others have none. Your chances of getting a cab in a suburb of an unfamiliar city is zero. Uber can fix that.
Return of the Light Brigade
I don't get the draw. None of the chat bots I've used seem that much more useful than an AIM or IRC bot of yesteryear. I'd rather click a button for an action than have to type something out. Seems like a gimmick to me.
Definitely worth reading the Naked Capitalism series he mentions in a footnote:

Part 1:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-deliver...

Part 2:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/12/can-uber-ever-deliver...

Part 3:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/12/can-uber-ever-deliver...

Part 4:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/12/can-uber-ever-deliver...

Part 5:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/12/can-uber-ever-deliver...

Part 6:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/01/can-uber-ever-deliver...
I think a lot of people are emotionally unable to deal with a world that is as dramatically unfair as ours is, so they fall back to the childish notion that people who have fallen on hard times deserve it and successful people controlled their own destiny to get there, because the alternative is too uncomfortable to think about.
Progressive consumption tax is ridiculous. It requires your tax rate at the point of sale to be dependent on all your purchases to that point in time. That's just not practical. Or it may require every purchase you make to be recorded for tax-time when you then pay the taxes. Either way it requires the government to know every purchase you make, or at least the price. This is not something anyone should want.
https://hardforum.com/threads/fs-windows-7-8-1-10-server-12-...
Interesting adaptation.

My guess it means more possibilities to reproduce later and/or means birthing now. Although, of course, excessive weight in humans decreases fertility too.
Google Multi-Layer Encryption Makes It Impossible for NSA to Backdoor
Indeed. There Is Always A Business Model, there is no such thing as a free service online.
How to read research papers & math notation
http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/p...
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/gowers/gowers_I_2.pdf
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hubbard/readingmath.pdf

Fourier transform
https://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to...
http://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/
https://books.google.com/books/about/Who_is_Fourier.html?id=...

Music information retrieval
http://musicinformationretrieval.com/
https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/fau/professor/mueller/book...
I've only used C++ since C++11, avoid polymorphism and raw pointers, and actually kind of like it.
Ask HN: Recruiters specializing in remote work?
Does anyone know of a recruiter who specializes in remote opportunities for engineers?
>Some corps may continue to do so

https://www.naftaliharris.com/blog/why-making-python-2.8/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13144713
Pyston, Jython, IronPython; they're all esoteric when compared to CPython. And while Pyston or similar may continue their own Python 2 implementation many library/package authors will simply not support it. So your interpreter may not be EOL'd but you'll very quickly find the package versions you rely upon will be.
“In essence, this gives application layer isolation and removes any dependency on the security of the network path. Encrypted inter-service communication can remain secure even if the network is tapped or a network device is compromised”
from https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/19/zuckerberg_sues_to_...

As the paper explains, thanks to land claims dating back to the 19th century, parcels of Zuckerberg's 700-acre estate on Kauai are also owned by families who have the right to access those areas.

In an effort to get control over the entire estate and secure it from outside access, Zuckerberg has filed suit against the dozen families to force them to sell their parcels at auction, where he can purchase exclusive rights to the land.
Hasn't it always generally been kinda known or suggested that a lot of black hat hackers actually have information security jobs somewhere? If you have a talent that is well-paid for, it's pretty likely you're going to want a real job where people pay you to do it.
dupe, please check before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13433029
Predicting with confidence: the best machine learning idea you never heard of
Just curious what is your definition of fair?
I went to Purdue, which I considered fairly blue-collar as far as 4-year universities go. Stats: 3.1% from the 1% and 21.1% from the bottom 60%. Even more sobering is that there are more people from the bottom 40% at MIT than at Purdue.

I then thought of what would be the most blue-collar state university in Indiana, and checked ISU: <1% from the 1% and 46.5% from the bottom 60%.
Husband/Wife team raises $55,000 on Day 1 of Board Game Project
I don't want to be too negative here, but I had the opposite experience. I didn't like the little bit of the process I actually got to experience, did not get a good feeling from either the job description or the one interview I had what the USDS is actually looking for, and found the canned rejection email to be a bit condescending.
They are talking being able to segregate yourselves via the internet - local segregation, while a real thing, still exposes you to a variety of view points. Self-segregation via the internet exposes you to a pool 1000x (very conservative here) or more than what's available locally, without too much effort. It's a problem of both how specialized you can get and how easily it can be achieved.

You could compare normal/traditional self-segregation to approximating a data set. Self-segregation is akin to overfitting a data set.
2 years is not an unusual time between starting product development and seeing any sort of major customer uptake, and if you're in that time period, your priority really should be getting the customers rather than futzing with code migrations.
Python 2 vs. Python 3: Practical Considerations
The only way the situation is going to change is if people start voting with their feet. There's no indication they're going to do that, because it's not convenient, so since they insist on continuing to use this product they complain about incessantly, they're going to continue to suffer with it. I for one have no sympathy for them at all.

Nadella doesn't need to be "dragged over the coals". He should be given a huge bonus if this is increasing MS's profits. And MS should jack up their prices even more so they can give him even bigger bonuses. If society is stupid enough to enable this, then society deserves to pay the price.
I'm an immigrant. I used to be poor. (after rigorous testing, etc., etc.,) I was given financial aid and accepted into one of the more prestigious private middle schools near me. After that, I went to a (very good) public high school. The difference was that of night and day.

The middle school put me ahead of my high school colleagues. I was a year ahead in math, and two years ahead in english. Their computer science education led me to taking APCS a year early, with CS courses at a university shortly thereafter. They had even prepared me for standardized testing like the SSAT and SAT.

Yes, your family's important. Yes, there's some anti-intellectualism along the bottommost socioeconomic ranks. But the quality of one's school is a massive factor in how one learns.
Yes, but I didn't understand the implications or background. If the prerequisite for having enough basic knowledge is "making it halfway through a C tutorial" it doesn't seem as much of a hindrance as your top comment suggested.
Ben Franklin has a great line on this topic - "Diligence is the mother of good luck."

The author illustrates this major point with an example of the "TOP" cellist in the world:

"One [cellist] earns eight or nine figures a year while the cellist who is almost as good is teaching music lessons to third graders in New Jersey somewhere. . . The person who is eventually successful got there by defeating thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of rivals in competitions that started at an early age. . . [but] the luckiest one . . [is] that person who is going to win the contest most of the time."

EG - you need to put in the hours of preparation & subject yourself to competition of the highest order to even have a chance at being the "luckiest" in your field.
It took me until your post to see that : = i and // = ll.

I've known the Mozilla name for years. I guess I'm just too accustomed to seeing http://.

edit: Maybe other people see haiti's pill.
And what caused you to not acknowledge the so called truth. Determinism implies that even this acknowledgment was beyond your control, even though you feel like it wasn't.
How do you define a successful business? Is it solely based on return to investors? How long does it need to be in business to be successful? How does Uber define success?

I hear rumors that IBM is not successful anymore. Also same of GE and GM.
that seems a better solution, but lastpass would still know that user_x is downloading the google.com logo.
iirc, confluent has their own version of kafka/camus that uses a schema registry where the first few bytes of the kafka messages identify the schema.

The wikimedia article sounds like they're just using regular camus and their own interpreter. that would perform a bit better :) Still wonder why they didn't just write a spark job to do the same thing.
They can, probably an oversight. Hopefully once this article makes the rounds they'll reconsider.
Sure, but this is in a thread that starts with "Django has a new release", so I do think it is relevant considering that Django DOES have LTS releases.

(Aside: mmerickel is the developer I was talking to in Freenode)

Honestly, I didn't know that Pyramid had such a small amount of manpower behind it. It presents itself and has a reputation in the Python community, at least in my experience, of a bigger project.

But, as far as not being able to commit to security releases for old versions: it's obviously a choice in where to spend the available resources, not one of the size of those resources. Choosing new development over providing critical fixes of older releases is a choice, it's just one I need to understand before I commit to using a component. I understand why one would make either of those choices, I just need to know which one has been selected. It is great for people who want to choose forward development focus, I'm just not one of them.
How would one short a pre-IPO company. Betting sites?
ding ding ding ding.
> I remember learning about how in its early days, Singapore forced integration in its HDB flats (most of sg's population live in such flats). After attempts at integration in the US, we had white flight and now this as mentioned in the article, while sg is probably the model multicultural society.

Have you ever met Singaporeans? My best from college was from Singapore (of Indian origin), from what he told me, it's a very culturally segregated society. Keep in mind Singapore supports English, Tamil, Chinese and Malay. Ethnic Malays and Tamils will not learn Mandarin unless they really need to, and govt push for Mandarin could only lead to more resentment among these ethnolinguistic minorities.

Singapore is not a democracy, so that's another reason why you can't or won't see the problems of the society just from the surface.

When the govt forces these measures on the society, the end result is never pretty. When immigrants come to America, they integrate at their own pace. If I came to America with my family, chances are I'd have spoken my mother tongue for a lot longer than I did. I switched to English (speaking, reading, writing, and thinking) within the first two years. My wife on the other hand who came here with her family, she spoke a lot of Russian until she married me (nearly 18 years after being in US). Not just that, her family now speaks a lot more English (and a lot better).

Whenever govt tries to 'impose' integration, people feel threatened that someone else is trying to steal their stuff (in this case, their culture, their identity), whereas under freedom they willingly do things differently, they willingly adopt other values or give away their identity.

President Charles Heston couldn't have sold as many guns as President Obama did. Because of Obama, people suddenly feel that Second Amendment is very precious.

If your son does not have any friends, then by kidnapping some kids from his class and forcing them to attend your son's birthday party won't make them be friends with your son, instead it would simply make them resent him more.
* Crossfit advanced lifts - been doing it for a year, but going slow to build base strength and technique to avoid injuries. (At 300lbs 1RM DL, 255lbs 1RM squat, 230lbs 1RM front squat.)

* Amateur taxidermy - been reading a lot about it and applied for some taxidermy internships in my self-chosen period of unemployment. Mostly I'm interested in the skeletons of rodents and will probably stop when I can assemble a full skeleton.

* Sewing - just an oversize badger onesie this time.

* Machine Learning (obviously!) - pet project is calculating the probability of getting through the queue at the crossfit gym. And yes, current and predicted weather will be factors! :)
[pdf] Conformal Prediction a Tiny Tutorial on Predicting with Confidence
This is still my favorite:

http://imgur.com/gallery/BZ9fPe1
I'd either need Bitwarden to take some money or be fully open source and I have to provide the cloud storage. Being "free" but still clearly costing them real operational money (even if not much) is not something I will plan on being there in 5 years.

I don't necessarily need LastPass to be there in 5 years, since I can export and recover what I need into another manager if I need to, but I personally don't want to go into something that is set up right now to not be there in 5 years.

This is not a permanent objection forever and ever, amen. If my objections go out of date, I'd consider at least trying it.