skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this is a very different country from back then

Very different, but still a long way to go. I remember reading that in ~1959 (this is from memory, so all details are a bit hazy) 95% of Americans opposed legalizing interracial marriage; now of course a similar number support its legality - it's a non-issue. Look at the boom in the black middle class (it's amazing what people do when you give them a chance). Look at LGBTQ rights and the incredible advance of women in society.

On the other hand, look at who won the November election, offering the most brazen racially and religiously prejudiced, hateful messages of any major party candidate, possibly ever, and openly partnering with the most powerful agent of white supremacy in the U.S. (Bannon). Look at how minorities are treated by law enforcement in many places. Look at the overwhelming prevalence of white-skinned people (and men) in movies, IT (name the top 10 industry leaders in the last 25 years), national and state government, Fortune 500 CEOs, etc etc.
But then, why have they invested so much R&D in the Touch Bar or the trashcan Mac Pro? Why not just upgrade their existing form factors for maximum profit? Why release a new OS every year that needs gimmicky headlining features when they could spend less $$$ on bugfixes?

Apple seems like it's lazily milking its userbase, but I think the truth is that it spends so much time and attention on pointless crap that all the stuff we care about on HN looks half-assed in comparison.
They are doing harm to others. Second hand smoke is a serious concern that has lead to many deaths of non-smokers.
When you engage in commerce you're subject to regulation, per the Constitution. Which means giving up (unstated) rights that you otherwise would have as a citizen. Discrimination for example.

Social contract theory ;)
Is this perhaps evidence of a higher rate of cosmic expansion in low-density "void" regions?
Actually, there is a brief comment:

"At this point frustration begins to kick in. Earlier this night YP explicitly mentioned he was going to sign off as it was getting late (23:00 or so local time), but didn’t due to the replication problems popping up all of a sudden."
Considering you can find Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Obama and various other Democrats calling for secure borders and barriers of various sorts throughout the years...

It wasn't racism and xenophobic when it was called for then... Bill got a standing ovation from both sides when he made his speech...

What's changed about wanting those things?
The database might have tables for commit data so history etc. can be searched, and possibly used for managing on-server operations like merges etc.
Gitlab's team is worldwide. YP seems to be someone in EU time, which right now is UTC+1.

That would mean that the incident happened around 11pm or midnight in YP's local time.
I work remote, so I spend quite a bit of time at coffee shops and other places like that... MagSafe on my laptop has saved my laptop countless times. Sitting on a small table the rubber feet provide enough grip that if you give the cable a quick tug it becomes unplugged.

I am definitely going to miss MagSafe and am hoping the third party market comes up with something that will emulate it enough to where I don't have to worry about my laptop going flying because some cut doesn't watch where he is walking and accidentally kicks the cord.

Yeah, if you have it sitting on your desk and slowly pull on it the magnet will hold... but give it a quick tug, laptop will stay, cord will come with you.
I strongly believe concatenative languages – particularly statically typed ones – are one paradigm of programming that have not been explored nearly enough. It's good to see more activity in this area :)

Here's another interesting concatenative language in development that I'm following: http://kittenlang.org/
But it's not about software patents - GPL makes absolutely no distinction between software and hardware patents, it wants them both! If they didn't grab hardware patent licenses (or licenses to mixed hardware/software inventions) that would be an entirely different worldview. I'd very much welcome that change.
Wishing you the best of luck partly out of sympathy, and partly as an active user wanting my account operative again :)
LOL, no. Don't be naive.
> doing no harm to anyone but at best themselves

Secondhand smoke is disgusting, and so dangerous that it has been proven to kill thousands of non-smokers [1]. I'd call causing death, "harm".

Also smoking in private is still legal, unfortunately.

Hardly a "human right".

[1] "Since 1964, approximately 2,500,000 nonsmokers have died from health problems caused by exposure to secondhand smoke." - https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/seco... - Stats from the US, from the first google result I came across.
Perhaps the above comment can provide an occasion for a useful interchange on the relation of DL to other approaches. I'll try:

Last year a student of one of the authors credited in the video performed an interesting data modeling/structure discovery analysis for me. The problem had ~100 variables and ~300 observations. We used a latent-variable + sparse-interaction model and solved the resulting minimization problem with a convex optimizer, as described in the video.

This approach was preferable to a DL technique for several reasons: we wanted to preserve some interpretability of the discovered latent variables (just 2 or 3 for our problem); we had reason to believe the problem had a sparse-linear structure because of conservation of mass; we didn't have much data relative to the number of variables.

I don't see DL approaches (despite their many successes) as applicable to this kind of problem.

The OP motivates his approach with recommender systems, where there are millions of outcome variables (customers), and thousands-to-millions of stimulus variables (products). That would result in a "lot" (considerable understatement) of connections for a DL model to learn.

Unless I'm missing something, the hyper-scale recommender setting is also not the best place for a conventional multi-layer DL model -- too many connections. On the other hand, the explicit sparsity control built in to the OP's optimization is really helpful.
See my remark above, it's NOT just about software patents - GPL grabs hardware patents too. No patent is respected. That's a problem.
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I don't think the 30-to-1 ratio is the problem. From my own experience the main problem is grouping by age. Children should be grouped by skill instead. [1] I was always top of the class in math and held back by the slow pace dictated by the national education plan for my age. At the same time there were other topics like Russian language where I didn't learn as fast as was expected of my age. This meant that as the years went by I understood less and less of the new material that was being taught because my Russian fundamentals were weak. I imagine other children experienced something similar in math. I think we could do much better if children advance in classes based on how much they've learned, not based on when they were born. Also advancement in different topics need to be decoupled from eachother as much as possible [2], because I think it's completely expected that everyone will have their own personal strong topics and weak topics.

--

[1] I think schools teach much more than just what's on the national education plan. Making friends, making enemies, dealing with puberty etc are all valuable lessons that have less friction when the group of people you're around have similar amount of experience with those things. Thus being grouped with people with wildly different experience levels in these areas can be detrimental. While the primary grouping factor should be skill, there's probably a good case for secondary range limits by age, which is a decent estimative measurement of children's experience in these social areas.

[2] I understand that full isolation isn't possible, because physics requires math knowledge, which in turn requires writing & reading skills. Still, even with these dependencies we could do a lot more decoupling than what is being currently done.
Leaving the $15 BILLION aside for now, are you able to see any reason for having a wall at all?
Incidents after incidents, feels like a toy by new grads.
This threw me for a second but its "mnemonic" not "pneumonic".
An utterly unnecessary investment is a waste. The GNU libraries have been largely sidelined, and will now slip into history.
Dear sibling comments,

Trump is now at 35 mentions.

If this post was a data science task, you'd get a false positive of causality.
They still have to file taxes and deal with banking if they get paid cash.
Then you're willfully misrepresenting the author's intent to show that they're wrong (and using all caps to emphasize how wrong it is). This makes it difficult to take on good faith the rest of what you say when you're not interpreting the author in the same vein.

If, on the other hand, you'd make a reasoned argument like, "It's likely the author means this, but here's why I don't believe that's a valid representation of the facts", I'd be more willing to consider the rest of what you have to say.

I think his use of the word permanent is valid: they're no longer permanent members. I can understand your point of view as well. I also don't see him making the argument that doing so is against the law, or even implies that it's illegal: just that it's a significant change from the past (or, in his words "a much bigger deal). Bringing this legal aspect up as to why he's being misleading is a bit of a straw man, in my opinion.

Anyway, I find arguments made calmly and reasonably, and in good faith (of which there sometimes seems to be an ever-dwindling supply) unless there's an abundance of evidence to believe otherwise to be much more persuasive.
Send me a link to your resume/LI profile and I'll be happy to try and give you some pointers (I'm a PM and I work with devs and have hired devs before).
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Delivery room experience: before stitching my wife, the OB counted the pieces of gauze out loud with the nurse watching. They verbally confirmed the total with each other. A matching count and verbal confirmation were performed after the stitching. It inspired confidence seeing them perform this protocol.
There are more people in majority Muslim Indonesia than there are in all seven of the other countries combined. Add in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and you easily have double the number of Muslims. If Trump wanted to ban Muslims, he'd ban Indonesia. Instead, he banned those seven countries because they are known to have connections with terrorists.

If a pipe bursts, temporarily turning off the water main while you figure out how to fix the problem isn't a bad strategy.
It's super sad. It was so great when it was hosted by them. I am bit worried about what is going to happen to the documentation.

I am currently using SashiDo which I quite like. Excellent support. Before that, I tried NodeChef, but I have found Sashido a little more intuitive. Your millage may vary.
Yes, clickbait. The "invisible force" here is gravity.

This is the key bit of context:

> When describing the gravitational dynamics in co-moving coordinates, by which the expansion of the Universe is factored out, underdensities repel and overdensities attract.

So it's basically a coordinates transformation thing.
> more directly, it protects physical power port from damage and wear.

I've never seen a problem with that either. I've seen plenty of wear on the jackets around connectors on cables.
I guess it's also worth mentioning Tydlig.

http://tydligapp.com/
I said ordered by significance. If something is left out of my ideally objective news outlet, then it was, by construction, less significant than the things that were included.

To address your second point, connotation is objectively a part of meaning. I did not merely require that this ideally objective news source SEEM objective. It has to actually be objective.

Frankly, the argument you made was that the existence of "farther right wing" media pushed fox towards the center.

All I have to do is demonstrate that there exists an objective presentation of newsworthy facts, even if only in an abstract sense, and then show that fox has not changed its position relative to itself, over time, to show that your argument is false.

Centered does not mean average, when it comes to reporting, it means objective.
tmux is like structured LSD, opening terminals to the Universe in unlimited instances and recursions of Sessions and Windows and Panes, and Windows and Panes, Panes, Panes ... Panes ... Multiple realities of Sessions can be started, persisted, detached, reattached, and can exist on your local laptop, another machine on your LAN, or school or corporate network, or the Space Station or Mars, all spanned by your one mind and The One Mind.

Man. https://linux.die.net/man/1/tmux

Or if you're not into the whole brevity thing: https://linux.die.net/man/1/tmux

Try it with a friend the first time.
I'll say this everytime Vancouver comes up in HN. It's a stunning city, full of modern amenities (including a public transit system that's actually awesome and very well used) and incredible access to nature. None of this is remotely enticing to young engineers when they make 2x-3x as much in SF and only pay ~30-50% more for housing.

Until wages rise in Vancouver, there will be much fanfare about tech companies moving north, but very little actual movement.
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Don't forget Marc Rich, FBI Ten Most Wanted, who US Marshals failed to kidnap in Switzerland several times... over unpaid taxes.
Hooch / Bootleg alcohol are rife with methanol-related deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_methanol_poisoning_inc...
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I believe that the real reason is that Webkit needs privileged APIs and unique executable memory regions for the jit. Giving third-party developers that access would make jailbreaking a simpler process.
Actually, a lot of nice discoveries started with someone who had to get around a patent. But yes, the free market involves waste - just not anything like as much waste as either not encouraging innovation, or keeping everything as trade secrets that can create monopolies for centuries (see the history of the forceps) resulting in uncounted deaths - plus trade secrets can be lost.

Open source wasn't originally about creating waste and duplication. Let's not do that; since the bonus of encouraging innovation with financial reward doesn't happen, just the waste.
> People won't speak because their afraid their reasoning might step on the toes of someone else's, so everyone just pretends its obvious and gathers immense support without saying anything.

This helps make sense of things a bit more for me as well, thanks. I listen to the left, and I very often agree, but at least as often I simply don't understand what they are on about, there is very often simply no logic to their arguments.
The best Ops people I have worked with (looking at you Dennis and Alan) repeat everything back that I say. More than once I have caught mistakes in my approach simply by hearing someone else repeat back exactly what I just said.
A manual will typically document every function of the software in mind numbing fashion. "Section 4, Subsection 7 - Adding Foos - To add a new foo click the add button as indicated in the picture below".

Documentation is much more encompassing and often in more of a wiki format. You could include a recipes section for example, which apart from being useful for customers, it can also show off what the software can do. A FAQ section is another very common one. People asking for a manual is really people asking "how do I do X".
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Blink was NOT derived, if derived means fork. It's a functional copy, with no copyright taint. A recreation with all-new code.
The user may be talking about DisplayLink USB displays (they install a secondary driver and create a virtual video buffer to draw in before sending it across USB to a device that draws it on screen)... not USB-C DisplayPort.

DisplayLink is pretty awful. Especially on macOS, due to limitations of macOS, they are laggy, don't display certain apps correctly and more.

There are quite a few docks out there (I know Asus had one) that use DisplayLink technology to show external displays.
Like you, I would like to add my 2 cent, which I hope will be taken positively, as I would like to see them provide healthy competition for GitHub for years to come.

Since GitLab is so transparent about everything, from their marketing/sales/feature proposals/technical issues/etc., they make it glaringly obvious, from time to time, that they lack very fundamental core skills, to do things right/well. In my opinion, they really need to focus on recruiting top talent, with domain expertise.

They (GitLab) need to convince those that would work for Microsoft or GitHub, to work for GitLab. With their current hiring strategy, they are getting capable employees, but they are not getting employees that can help solidify their place online (gitlab.com) and in Enterprise. The fact that they were so nonchalant about running bare metal and talking about implementing features, that they have no basic understanding of, clearly shows the need for better technical guidance.

They really should focus on creating jobs that pays $200,000+ a year, regardless of living location, to attract the best talent from around the world. Getting 3-6 top talent, that can help steer the company in the right direction, can make all the difference in the long run.

GitLab right now, is building a great company to help address low hanging fruit problems, but not a team that can truly compete with GitHub, Atlassian, and Microsoft in the long run. Once the low hanging fruit problems have been addressed, people are going to expect more from Git hosting and this is where Atlassian, GitHub, Microsoft and others that have top talent/domain expertise, will have the advantage.

Let this setback be a vicious reminder that you truly get what you pay for and that it's not too late to build a better team for the future.
belgium is special. prohibition came to belgium in the form of a ban against hard liquor. strong beers came to fill the niche.
Its great idea. yes planing for it. soon will add login functionality will allow to sync notes with server' data.
I've never been able to get iTerm2's tmux integration to work well enough to warrant the bother.
And I don't want free code without contributing, but I want to contribute code or cash, not my patents or the keys to my car.
I think they are running to catch up on the gitlab system itself, let alone running it as a production service. The bugs in the last few months have been epic. Backups not working, merge requests broken, chrome users seeing bugs, chaotic support. Basically their qa and release processes are not remotely enterprise ready.
The license rendered the product useless to businesses. If you think that's fine 'cause the revolution's imminent anyway, and patents will be put in history's dustbin, great. But the tragedy was easily avoided, with a license that didn't grab patents.
Stanford is just trying to cash in on people by having their cake and eating it too.

They want to charge 20k, but not let anyone have a chance of further advancing to complete a real degree, no matter how excellent their performance in this program.

The reason they do this is solely to protect their brand and exclusivity. They already offer online degrees but the acceptance rate is just as limited as the on campus program.

Yes the learning is important, but so is the credential and a certificate doesn't even come close to a degree in the job market.

Stanford should pick one:

1) Charge Stanford prices, scale up online, and let any student who can do the work pay tuition and earn a degree.

2) Charge lower prices for certificates and continue to artificially ration real degrees.
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Mr. Quilici and federal officials say software to block robocalls and greater enforcement may be starting to help.

I haven't got a clue what they are doing on the Old Continent, but my mother-in-law never gets spam calls. It's a solved problem, despite the protestations of the government.
2 is the main reason. Transmission is the biggest loss so by having the storage close to the consumer you need less storage for a given end user consumption.

Also availability of lithium cells isn't that great at the moment. It'll improve as factories come online.
ha! I do the same thing with figlet and cowsay, it prints a big dragon saying "welcome to shell!", if I see that, then I know I'm on a box I own/have sudo/am me. it's a good visual reminder. I don't fuss with prompts much, but this is a pretty good idea!
Has anyone done a teardown of two drives and compared the materials? Many enterprise and OEM drives really just seem to be the same hardware as consumer drives, only with different firmware (the "power-saving" spindown) and more rigorous QC.
Ah yeah, I understand now. Yeah I've always been a rollup windows sort of buyer myself. I drive a standard transmission right now, which is pretty unpopular with the smartphone drivers who need that hand to drive while looking down. Pretty tough to get rollup window level of technology anymore. The one thing I do insist on is no useless tied down screen/navigation system, AM/FM only with real buttons. One of these[0] with my iPhone is about as good as it gets for navigation.

Tacomas have gotten a little more pumped up over time.. I just want the most efficient small truck I can get (that isn't from GM, whom I've dealt with their corporate a couple times and no thanks to further purchases). Truck designs can stop impressing the rednecks with the taller, bigger trucks and make something with a much lower tailgate height so that I can actually use the truck. I'm not interested in it to be a cool guy, interested in gas efficient truck that I can use to get stuff done and pull a reasonable size trailer.

It's odd as a technical person to say I prefer less technology in many cases but it's true. There's a level of sensibility, what's really needed and what works most reliably.

[0]http://a.co/5ssSfUG
Also watch the "explanatory" video:
http://www.nature.com/article-assets/npg/natastron/2017/s415...
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For one more time, it's NOT just software patents. Plus you forgot the "IF" at the start of your sentence. Has it really discouraged software patents? No, patents (of both kinds) have sidelined GPL. As stated above the license given to the Linux kernel is "stranded" and therefore harmless, a special case.
How sure are you about this?

From what I've read, it is very hard to generate methanol via fermentation alone[0] and home-brew usually has 2-3 ppm, versus a LD_{50} in the tens of thousands of ppm. Obviously, there might be problems well before the LD_{50}, but that's a lot of wiggle room (and methanol would be out-competed by the ethanol which is presumably also in the booze).

[0] Concentrating the wine via freezing (as in some ice wines or applejack) might be an exception to this, but I'm not sure.
True about second-hand smoke. It was exaggerated.

The big externality for tobacco smoking is the health costs of those who smoke and die and get very sick from it, both early and with health costs.

Even in the US the public wound up footing the bill for the public health costs. At a certain point taxes on cigarettes do cover the health costs. That point may have been reached in Australia. It depends on what people include and how big they make the damages.
This sounds good until you consider that many systems are utilizing multiple drives. When someone is expecting to delete a large file and it ends up on a different drive, problems could arise.
I heard good things about http://vim.spf13.com/
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