skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, when I wrote "progressive causes" in my original comment, I wasn't refer to things as black and white as the science on GMOs. I was referring to scientists using their scientific authority to make progressive claims on issues like abortion, or taxation, or anything else that ignores either (a) actual scientific evidence to the contrary or (b) the lack of scientific consensus on the issue at all.

For example, there is significant disagreement within economics on, say, minimum wage. It would be an abuse of authority for an economist (for example, Paul Krugman) to claim we ought to raise the minimum wage because there is an economic consensus that we should do so, when in fact there is not and the said economist wants to raise minimum wage because it's a progressive cause.

A good example of this in practice is Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Rationalia" tweet[0] in response to the Brexit vote. He claims that a constitution should have just one line: "All policy shall be based on the weight of evidence". He is implicitly appealing to authority by invoking the scientific method, and as a progressive he clearly is under the impression that such a technocracy would come to nearly exclusively progressive conclusions. But of course this denies the fundamental truth that he could find a perfectly rational opponent for any of the causes he supports, from public funding of science to Britain's membership in the EU.

The problem here isn't that scientists can be wrong: everyone knows that. The issue is that claims like these are becoming more and more common, and their gross effect is that the very institution of science has become tainted with progressive bias.

[0] https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/748157273789300736?ref_...
If it must be mutable state, then ideally you'd have a single consumer thread for counting off that queue to avoid worrying about locks.

Or maybe what's in the queue gets written to a permanent log and ``x`` is a query of that log, a la Datomic.
Contrary to your judgements, they have all grown a healthy love and competitive spirit regarding athletics. My 7 year old has six pack abs which she loves showing off and she was swimming before her 5th birthday. Her and my son are both enthusiastic gymnastics. My son also races BMX, which is a draining year round sport. Meanwhile my oldest competes in swimming, volleyball, dance, and as of late has been begging me to let her join a mixed martial art.
Well most ISP don't support IPv6 so it's really not an issue atm.
Shameless plug of my own attempt to summarize key concepts in probability theory and statistics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13060021
RUKI hardware accelerator
Berlin has become a lot more expensive recently, the cheap housing there is mostly historical now. And, income in Europe is much lower on average than in the US (except London, most parts of Switzerland, and such places), so you first have to correct for that, too.

Yes, high rises make housing cheaper, but that comes at a price: Hearing what the neighbors around you are doing and often even saying (or their TVs/music/...!) at all times, not having some "green space" or yard of your own (and in most cases not even a shared green space), having to come to terms with all co-owners when you want to change something outside your flat. Etc.

For the price you (don't) pay, the European model sucks. (Disclaimer: I'm European... :-))
This is really the correct way to accomplish what this project is trying to do. No central proxy server that you need to trust and can be trivially done with the commands you already have installed.

I would honestly highly recommend against using Teleconsole for those reasons.
You might look into a custom cutting board or plate/container that has a fiducial on it so you can measure each item. That's also another revenue stream.
Wouldn't you want to maybe... encrypt that file? Seems almost circular unless you use something like stenography to embed the data somewhere. I'm not personally too thrilled by a counter file to replace a different file, at that point I feel like I'm losing features.
jQuery nowadays is much more than DOM manipulation lib. In the latest version it gives the promises that are compatible with Promises/A+ spec. It has the powerful ajax calls functions.
Ask HN: How to make regular team calls more productive and useful?
Hello,

We have a distributed (2, sometimes 3 countries) team of mostly engineers. We have bi-weekly conference calls to discuss the progress and set goals. The team is 8 people. The managers are the founders and they are often away from the core engineering team, so the engineers are trusted to be efficient working remotely (no issues on this part).

Although everyone is really motivated, I feel our calls could be more productive. So far we follow just one pattern:

1) Person tells what they did.
2) Person tells what they plan to do for the week.
3) Everyone asks questions or the person asks.

Meetings are timed and run no longer than 1 hour. That's it.

What can we do to improve the process, without going deep down the rabbit hole of Agile etc.

1) Assign a person to take notes. Same person every time? Manager?
What to do with the notes after? Send to the team? But everyone kind of remembers what they are supposed to be doing - they just presented it.

2) Send agenda the night before, so everyone is onboard?
Concern is distraction for everyone.

4) Do some kind of STOP START CONTINUE?
Here the concern is that it will be artificial and if we do it on a weekly basis it will make people come up with answers.

5) If someone wants to implement a new procedure (something related to testing for example) for their part and everyone kind of agrees it's a good idea - how to make sure it does get integrated?

6) Do video-calls? At least for the majority? Everyone is calling from the offices, so privacy is not a concern.

What we want to achieve is actually turn the meetings from something informational into something that actually pushes the company and project in the right direction, adds to the internal momentum.

Maybe someone can share their experience with doing productive and useful regular remote team calls? Any particularly good resources with information about such thing? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
I enjoyed coding homework assignments in Smalltalk, but for some reason I never tried using it professionally.
That information is harmless without the resources to do anything with it. Nonproliferation is targeted at resources, not information for this very reason.
Yes, the covered surface is much larger. Frankly I don't get why MS insists on keeping Windows closed source. I get why you'd want to keep something others might be able to easily reuse closed source, but I don't get why Windows developers don't get to see Windows source code. In fact, having worked with Linux extensively for the past decade, I don't think I'd be comfortable doing serious work on a system where I don't have source code for debugging and documentation.
Why don't you just use an action set or binding that gives you mouse on the right pad? You could even set up double tap to click.
That might be because:

- you need to write same variable name on each step of derivation of a formula

- paper and blackboards don't have autocomplete

- juxtaposition is used for multiplication, thus SwapBlue can be Swap times Blue or a single variable called SwapBlue, spacing for multiplication is not a good solution when writing to board/paper
Most of the content was cases, with some parts of books, for example:

Biographies of Robert Moses and LBJ by Robert Caro - we used this for studies of power in organizations. We'd read parts of it and understand where these people would get their power from, how they would yield it, and so on.

A lot of it is hard to learn without discussions and debate, trying and getting it wrong, and figuring out where you got it wrong. Even some of the things I mentioned are never stated like that during the course, you kinda build that along the way (such as the link of the value chain example).
just cyclic dependencies between project's generated source codes of exposed interfaces/contracts. ez.

It's not hard to fuck up ur sw eng. practices and blame language.
Most people talk about land being the main cost barrier, but there are plenty of other costs that add up to the point where you're better off buying a standard resale home.

Having acquired land and being accustomed to living in ~600sqft all my adult life I thought I could build a reasonable living space for about $50,000. Once I started looking into it I ran into:

- land clearing / prep ~$10,000
- utility hookups and equipment ~$15,000
- impact fees & permitting ~$5,000
- foundation ~$5,000

Then comes the actual house construction. I was hoping for a company that would provide a livable shell that I could then improve upon while living in it. Long story short, it just didn't work out at the price I was hoping for.
You can (and should) verify the key fingerprint out of band.
Err thanks, correct link: http://e360.yale.edu/features/freeman_dyson_takes_on_the_cli...
Im fine with compelling evidence, but I just want to read something that demonstrates a high likylihood that there is in fact global warming and that it is caused by humans.

I figure that there have to be 2-3 solid research papers on the subject.
Jokerman Electronics,Texas Star DX 1600
Lets do remember the evidence suggests that home-schooled children tend to outperform public school children academically.
Some of King's best work was putting civil rights in a theological context. That's basically what Letters From A Birmingham Jail was about.

Despite the passive voice, I still think God and Christ were on King's mind when coining that. I'm sure if he were still alive, he'd agree.
Thanks - submitted!
Here's an outline of the steps you need to take to get things working:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/vpc-mi...
The Essence of Event-Driven Programming [pdf]
Any particular reason we absolutely must DDoS this server at the moment?

From a current session:

ftp> open aftp.cmdl.noaa.gov

Connected to aftp.cmdl.noaa.gov.

421 There are too many connected users, please try later.

ftp>
You're looking for "docsplaining"
Full interview: http://e360.yale.edu/features/freeman_dyson_takes_on_the_cli...
Often recommended, but Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird and Stephen King's On Writing are both autobiographies wrapped in textbook sheepskin. Writing advice that may seem obvious or trite is then backed up with beautiful vignettes.

Good writing is not necessarily good speech, as you've noted. Learning technical writing is a superpower — I would recommend The Essentials of Technical Communication. A chemistry teacher once introduced it alongside a Vonnegut quote:

"It would never occur to me, to look for the best minds of my generation in an undergraduate English department anywhere. I would certainly try the physics department or the music department first."

Technical writing and writing for emotional impact both have their place. Learn both, and learn when to employ them. You may find yourself appreciating that Thoreau quote one day.
Yes, I think so. That research is already public or available on the black market anyway, and the US built the first nuclear bomb ~70 years ago, so it's kind of a moot point.

But what would the alternative be? That only the governments which discover how to build a nuclear bomb understand how it works and what its effects are, and get to threaten the rest of the world with impunity?

I'm not certain that would be better than the world where everyone at least understands the underlying science, even if not everyone can build one.
FBI and CIA are under the executive branch of government and as such conduct/policies are directed by the residing administration. I don't like the idea of having an independent branch of government not subject to the executive branch no matter how terrible that administration is. I take issue with the fact that the executive branch basically writes laws now, which was never the intention and congress is too slow and partisan to pass any laws at all - that and pork barrel.
"Man made climate change, AKA, the extreme levels of change in temperature, atmospheric composition and acidity levels in the oceans we are experiencing right now."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous
This is one of the reasons I'm working on Bootparts[1]. I needed components to build websites that were JS agnostic. Its based on Bootstrap 3 and under active development. Check it out and let me know of any feedback you may have. Its fairly new (v0.4) but have a 5 year commitment to it.

https://yelluw.github.io/Bootparts
StockMovers – Find the big movers on the market
UK newspapers are dying:

http://imgur.com/NJ4F8Tt.jpg

I suspect if you cut out the number the Independent hand out for free via hotels it would be even worse. I think now they don't even have a physical edition?

These guys must pay next to nothing and demand articles that get "eyeballs", produced in little time.

Plus all are captive to their main advertisers: cars, banks, realtors.

Why not just read blogs?
Just authorizing ssh login doesn't solve the NAT traversal.
I admit i am out of my depth here. Correct me if i am wrong.

I dont think construction needs to be made faster. I needs to be of higher quality. ( Ignore the land issues for a moment ) You could built a 60 floor Skyscraper in less then a month.

What we need is a much faster, semi / automatic way of internal renovation in each floors. Door, Glass Fitting, Pipes and Electrical Wiring etc.

And all of these needs to be of high quality finishing. Taking into account of Temperature variation, lighting. Making building with the precision level of a Smartphone.

Even today, you could see building with Windows not aligned perfectly, floor line running slight wide, floor not perfectly level. Or even Windows with Leaking Water.

May be all of these are specific to Hong Kong, where we paid the highest price per Square Feet in the world and get absolutely dismal quality of building.
Many ISPs in the mobile space are switching to IPv6 aggressively http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090609_verizon_mandates_ipv6... and mobile internet usage is eclipsing traditional formats https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Blog/Number-of-Mobile-Only...
Show HN: SnuggleTrump – chrome ext to replace Trump with kittens
For me it's which browser am I least likely to get my machine owned. I'll be happy to switch back to Firefox when they aren't near the bottom of that list.

http://www.cvedetails.com/product/3264/Mozilla-Firefox.html?...
Also, there are laws in place that the EPA is responsible for. So it is highly unlikely (illegal even) to simply disband the EPA for any reason. The only way to do that is through congress by repealing a host of laws that the EPA is effectively responsible for. That is to say, the EPA is responsible for executing on those laws. If they don't, then the government could be sued - which is the purpose of the justice department. That's why we have great organizations like the ACLU and NRDC to make sure those laws get upheld in a court of law.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13465904
I've been using Bulma on my side project. Really nice looking and super easy to use. I like how it doesn't try to do too much.
At points during the last decade, 40 pct of profits were made by the Finance sector. And companies like GE can make a billion dollars by lobbying for tax loopholes rather than creating new products. So this seems like the type of stuff they focus on.
Exactly. "Stolen" -- or liberated?
The thing is, by saying that your incompetence/politics remark is just an opinion, and by not going out of your way to offer a factual justification, you have made it clear that it is essentially an information-free statement, while its snide disparagement of people who have put a lot of effort into Python lingers undiminished, if not actually emphasized as such by its lack of information. Then you double-down by taking on all the people who see that this is so. As a consequence, the currently-top issue in the comments is this, and not whatever it is you think someone should be doing to improve Python.
Author here.

This is my first Chrome extension, one I thought would be relevant, and I'm trying to learn how to properly develop them. It tries to replace images of Trump with kittens and his name with cute kitten names. It does well on Twitter and Wikipedia. Still working to get Google/News working at 100%, too.

I'm really looking for feedback on how to improve it. I'll be pushing the code to Github soon for folks to advise me on, too.
I get the distinct feeling this is not the usual price for a Xeon Phi. Still, might keep an eye to see if it comes back into stock.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/INTEL-SERVER-CPU-SC7120P-XEON-PHI...
McDonald's Will Give Away Free Big Macs from an ATM Machine
The 2 largest ISPs in my area (and 2 of the largest in the US), AT&T and Comcast, both support IPv6.
That being said, there are a number of laws that are likely to get axed by the new administration - probably without congress approval given how much the executive branch likes to write laws these days. Clean Power Act, Endangered Species Act..etc. Clean Power Act is likely to go I'm guessing as soon as they can get it
Doesn't matter. I mean, we can argue about the intrinsic value of a ride, but the only way to know the market value of something is to sell it. Or to buy it, if you're on the other side of the situation.

I'm not saying the value won't change in some years when the VC money dries up and the market shifts. Of course it will. To think otherwise would make me like the taxi medallion owners complaining about their mistaken investments.

Another way to look at it is that buying a car is a bad investment, because it's tough to recover the cost of ownership. Perhaps people buy them for non-business purposes and are driving the price up.
Thanks for linking. It looks a little involved.

1.) Allocate and associate an IPv6 block to the VPC.
2.) Configure internet gateway and routes in the VPC.
3.) Update security groups to include IPv6 in the VPC.
4.) Confirm current instance types support IPv6.
5.) Assign IPv6 address to instances.
6.) May require manual network setup on each instance if not using DHCPv6.

This complexity (lack of abstraction) is why I prefer Google Cloud Platform. While GCP currently does not support IPv6, when they do support it, I am willing to bet they will roll it out as a turn-key button click.
Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors and eigenvalues
> The vernacular usage of stolen has an inherent bias that some entity is being deprived

The concepts of "stealing" an idea, i.e. taking credit for someone else's, and "stealing" someone's spotlight occur in standard vernacular [1]. These don't concern depriving someone of something they have, but depriving them of something they could have had. The logic behind modern copyright is that distribution someone else's content deprives them of potential sales, royalties, et cetera.

There is reasonable debate around whether science, particularly taxpayer-funded science, should be copyrighted. But arguing you can't "steal" the intangible runs counter to our culture. A more productive line of argument lies in attacking what can be copyrighted and for how long.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=steal_INF+idea...
I've been using it all day and have the following feedback.

1. I like the design, and it works very cleanly. Nothing appears to be heavy, and the UI is intuitive.

2. It only does one thing - track food. I think this is it's biggest strength. It doesn't do fitness or anything else right now, which it shouldn't.

3. The default goal to lose weight is simple to use and I think captures the predominant use case - by calorie reduction. I think the goal breakdown with consumed/remaining should be the most prominent UI element on top with the breakdown by calorie type being second. Having the challenge details (# meals X days) at the top isn't data I need each time I open the app. I can see why that would be a design challenge.

4. I have only used it a day so I can't say how well or not it displays trends about calories/nutrition over time, but I know that I would like to be able to break things down more.

5. The biggest challenge I think you have is with CV. Correct me if I am wrong, but my guess is that you are trying to use users to do reinforcement learning on your Deep Vision Nets. I am a Deep Vision guy myself (which is why I downloaded it by the way) and my guess is that you are going to have a hard time doing training this way. Here is why:

A. If the results of the object classification are good enough to always be result #1 (because it's obvious you are using a probabilistic return set (imagenet?)) then over time people will be annoyed at having to select the object/food in addition to taking the picture.

B. If the results are not good, then people will get annoyed with having to take the picture AND ALSO enter the food type. They will just resort to entering it manually each time. For example I made vegetable curry for dinner, and didn't take a photo because I knew it wouldn't know what it was.

So as a result, your training set will stagnate and won't learn any better than if you did it with a team of people. If you want it to really learn you're going to have to incentivize or force people to always take a picture and always tag it. Even better if you can have them bound each item right?!

By the way, crowd sourcing Machine Vision training is I think the right way to do things (that's what we do with interior home objects FYI).

I look forward to seeing iteration here. Best of luck.
> 3). It really doesn't save that much time at the end of the day. A language is a language is a language.

That's a... surprisingly uninformed statement from a "lead" developer.
One of the beautiful things about ftp servers is that you can set a connection limit and they'll just refuse connections above that limit until a slot frees up.
Improper early nutrition sure will.
This reminds me of what Alan Watts calls "prickly goo" or "gooey prickles".
Exactly. You don't NEED to use Ionic's cloud platform. You can develop an app completely independent of it, or else integrate with other back end services.

Personally, I've developed Ionic apps that integrate with Firebase, PushWoosh, Back& among others... You are free to choose. No lock in necessary.
Is that the cost for house? Do you have any data on building prices per sqft for High rise building?
Actually, machines will never replace human judgment. It's absurd to even think machines are capable of such a thing. Machines are tools for humans to use. If your job is adding numbers or stacking boxes or something, sure. But anything beyond the basics is science fiction or delusion. A machine will never even approach an understanding of psychic continuity, for example.

Now, I'm absolutely not saying that we can't engineer solutions in the medical field. You know more than I do about what diagnostic evaluation takes and how procedures are performed, so I don't pretend to understand that aspect perfectly. What I do know for sure is that a machine cannot and will never replicate human thought and decision making and cannot replace a doctor ever until the end of time.

Also, you bring up a good point about salaries. Doctors are important and do great work but deserve to make no more than double or triple what the lowest paid person in their society makes. It's time to bring lawyers, doctors, accountants, developers, engineers—the professional class—back down to reality with the rest of us.
Bluehost owner Endurance is laying off 440 people in Utah
Should Twitter and Facebook Be Regulated as Utilities?
Making important data "impossible" to destroy/lose/vandalize is sensible on its own merit. The more signed and decentralized data is, the better. You don't have to be against the new US President to think it's a good idea, but if the political climate brings attention to the matter that would be one silver lining anyway.