skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nuclear family is not always going to be viable in every scenario though and we really can't control all of the economic factors that go into that effectively. But we can effectively control a lot of what happens in schools. Things like curriculum, money spent, facilities used, after school offerings, etc. Even if the incentive existed to be a stay-at-home parent, there will always be parents who would rather have dual incomes for a variety of reasons.
If YC is serious about fixing "online media [that] rewards the people who get the greatest number of page views, clicks and likes. That results in a system that prizes virality over truth," it should open up Hacker News itself for Hacking. What better way to stimulate experimentation and facilitate the testing of ideas for better collaborative news filtering?

I believe many potentially world-changing ideas in this area never see the light of day because the barriers to entry are too high. Innovation is hindered by a chicken-n-egg barrier to entry: you need a successful site like HN to be able to run useful tests and experiments. Imagine there were only four chemistry labs in the world. Only a fraction out of the world's chemists could run experiments. The only labs we have are Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and HN.

Hackable Hacker News. Doesn't that just make sense?
EDIT: Read below, I am wrong. I clearly didn't know what I was talking about.

This is a great achievement in AI, don't get me wrong, but the headline should read, "AI beats the best four poker players we could find who were willing to play for a mere $200K".

All the actual best players play for millions and have a reputation to uphold. They would never agree to do this.

They four guys they got are pretty good, and could certainly destroy me, but they aren't the best of the best.

I'd love to see the bot play in the World Series of Poker for a few million.
> You can raise the bar arbitrarily high, though

You can, but then you run head-first into another problem: this "bar-raising" undermines the legitimacy of the system in the eyes of the people and, not unjustifiably, makes them feel that it is undemocratic. Worse: this is a positive feedback loop. The more you raise the bar, the angrier people get and the more radical they will get in their attempts to tear it down, and so the more bar-raising is needed.

This is the unfortunate paradox that Matthew Yglesias highlighted in "American Democracy is Doomed" [0]: people are raging against horse-trading, organized parties, and 'elites' poo-poohing the "will of the people". This is totally defensible, but to some extent horse-trading and elite rule are the only things that make governance possible. I don't know any solution to this problem.

[0] http://www.vox.com/2015/3/2/8120063/american-democracy-doome...
> if there where a direct path from student to staying in the US then people would just game that process

If someone manages to get accepted at a genuine accredited U.S. high-education institution, and completes their studies, and graduates, why not let them stay? I understand there will be a lot more demand to study in the U.S. if such a pathway existed; so you would want to make sure that there are no diploma mills, and that only people graduating from accredited colleges are allowed to stay. Perhaps capping the number of international students at a college to something like 20% would go further in mitigating your concern. The flow of student immigrants would then be naturally regulated by the admissions process, and by the number of available seats for international students in U.S. universities and institutions.
Games and apps have been doing this for a decade.

Apple does not care. As long as you are operating in the spirit of their App Store.

You know when they care? When you start charging money for those downloads. Via an alternative payment channel. Or when you run an alternative app store from within your app.

If you download assets on demand, and some of those turn out to be executable* code, nobody cares.

* Where executable means 'interpreted' because you cannot run unsigned code. But for games that is fine, they have been doing this with JS, Lua and Python for a decade.

(You can downvote me - but this is based on a decade of experience)
Uber is not inherently safer than a taxi. Why do people always say this?
I have the Dell Chromebook 13 with an i5/8GB. I upgraded the SSD to 256GB and have had a pretty good experience with it. I use it with chrx. I am sure it is overkill for the task, but I wanted to have a capable machine if needed for larger tasks.
I mean, if they are supporting Trump, they are literally authoritarians.
This is very much the case I have seen atlest in India. People have access to cheap smart phones.
"the worst" player might win a few hands, or even beat "the best" player due to luck.

They will not be able to consistently beat a better player, especially not professional players.

That's what this AI is doing. It didn't beat them once or twice. It beat them consistently over the course of 120,000 hands in a 20 day event.

Is it theoretically possible that "the worst" player could do that based entirely on luck? Sure, probably in the same realm as monkeys, typewriters, and Shakespeare.
In these contests they typically play each hand twice with the sides reversed to remove the luck factor.

So the deck for hand 1000 might be the same as hand 113853 but they swap who is the button.
Interestingly, Thiel (of all people), has argued that companies in a monopoly position tend to treat their employees well, focus on fundamental research, and focus on delivering the best products for their customers. He argues that businesses with a thin profit margin can't afford to do any of that and so are more brutal and authoritarian and they can't afford the long term investments necessary for real innovation to take place.
"Each night after the play ended, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Centre added computations to sharpen the AI's strategy."

This sounds more like an "advanced chess" setup, where a human teams up with an AI to play. The title of the article should really be "amateur poker players + AI defeat professional poker players". The real test would be if the AI self-corrected over the length of the tournament, without human intervention.
Yep. But that's a problem...
Sam Altman Is a Coward
Can we still do it? Who would be a counterparty lol
I am sure that he meant "locally" as on one's one computer without AppStore.
Gradle: Reduce duplication across projects
For what it's worth, CCRKBA - which is essentially to SAF what NRA-ILA is to NRA (involves most the same people, in particular, Alan Gottlieb; but is a political campaigning counterpart to the non-profit) - endorsed Jeff Sessions. And how!

http://www.ccrkba.org/call-your-senators-to-confirm-sessions...

“Senate confirmation of Jeff Sessions as our next Attorney General will bring about much-needed change at the Department of Justice. Instead of promoting or defending schemes that impact law-abiding Americans, his track record shows that he will go after genuine criminals.”

“The nation is in serious need of an attorney general who knows the difference between civil rights and criminal wrongs”

For those who are aware of the track record of Sessions as attorney, the highlighted bit especially is appalling.
Not sure if your XPS13 is running Win10 or Linux.

Anecdotally, I've got Fedora on mine, and I noticed a huge difference in the trackpad responsiveness when I switched from the Synaptics driver over to libinput. Palm detection got way better, for one thing.
look here: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/exit.c?v=3.12#L9...

Conceptually all that you described (plus some more, thing SysV IPC and MM) happens in the kernel (although the behaviour of streams is not specified, I can't think of any OS that does more than close FDs) after the OS has made it so every thread in the process can't go forward. I alluded to the misfeature in glibc, that's why you used to have to do raise(9) on linux to work around the oddity. Every other OS just did the right thing (though you sometimes had to build or link your program differently), ie all threads are 'stopped' before any of the things like closing FDs happens.
Wow. What a low bar for an ICSE paper.
Former software engineering PhD student.
Police searches offices and apartments of Adblock Plus (Founders and/or Employees)
Ugh, no. Layout is one way to express those relationships, but those relationships already exist in the HTML. This is important because different layouts can express the same relationship. I can put a caption below, above, beside, or over a photo and have viewers understand what is meant but which option is appropriate can depend on a number of factors that have nothing to do with the actual content or relationship being expressed. Blind people read the Web too. Having multiple layouts for different kinds and sizes of device is super useful. Being able to attach a caption to photo in HTML and express the exact spatial relationship later through CSS is much more versatile than hard baking layout into the document.

" You would need to express the semantic relationships within the data, like "comment-replied-to" and "photo-with-caption" and so on. That sounds tantamount to a full implication of natural language processing."

No you wouldn't and no it is not. It's dead simple:

<figure>
<img src='image.jpg' alt='missing' />
<figcaption>Caption goes here</figcaption>
</figure>
I can't reiterate the incentive vs caring point he makes enough. Agencies exist to satisfy a requirement, collect a check, and run. Engage them warily for dev/design.
I would agree with XKCD in this case, being honest is liberating. I am just observer and I have strong opinions.

I like my wife, child and few friends. I do not care about Musk, Jobs, Jesus or any other created by PR icon that people put faith in.
Americans straight out of undergrad should easily be able to command $105k+ base salary now, plus stock.

I have seen H-1Bs get paid less than their American counterparts, for doing the exact same work.

Raising the salary floor on H-1Bs would be good for all employees in the sector, both Americans and those on H-1Bs. (There might be a small drop in the number of jobs, but the quality of life in those jobs will be much better.)
> urban New England are the two big exceptions

Been to Manchester, NH lately?
I grew up in a very traditional system that would remind most Americans of the 1950s, and it hasn't impacted my self-learning ability at all. I'm fortunate in that my parents liked books and I was able to read by age 3 and as long as I can remember I had firm opinions about what I wanted to read.

Poor people's children self-teach. They definitely learn. They don't necessarily learn the culture and values that would allow them to function gracefully in the modern economy.

A student's home and socioeconomic life can have as much or more impact on their intellectual development as the kind of school they attend, and the idea that perfecting education will automatically nullify other factors is a rock on which many would-be reformers have come to grief.

People's subculture/tribe and actual community are a tremendous part of who people are and how well they can access resources and knowledge in the world. Religious and various civic organizations understand this. Often governments only understand this as a source of strength for their "opposition." Opposition movements and rebellions understand this.

Most significantly, school reform programs like Harlem Children's Zone understand this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Children's_Zone To fight poverty, you have to involve the whole community on your side. If your initiative is fighting the community, it cannot fight poverty.
If that hard / soft link hides an ssh connection behind it, and the ssh connection is presented as SSHFS[1] (since that's practically what NFS is), then I really don't see much of a difference. Protocol, implementation, sure. But it's the same end result.

[1]: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs
Hackintosh is a finnicky beast. Price doesn't have anything to do with hardware support :)
Awesome! Thank you for pointing out some good open-source alternative apps for 3d, video and photography!
No it won't. It's not fun to live in a country where only way to make people to follow the law is to have armed raids that kills their dogs and destroys their homes. That should be exception reserved to dangerous violent criminals, not the first resort when some paper lacks proper signature.
my understanding is these are some of the best HU players the world has seen. WSOP is a completely different story being a super-large MTT.
I have a feeling that in the current political climate, a lot of the ACLU's traditional activities will come under hostile scrutiny from their newfound supporters soon.
I have a startup idea I've been working on for quite a while, that I stopped when I realized I needed to reexamine the technology from the ground up. I've since learned a lot which will allow me to proceed -- this election and mainly the political climate has me wishing I could work on it full time and I would absolutely love to apply. Should I apply late or wait for the next funding cycle?
Would you be OK with calling it a "partial Muslim ban"? While it's true that it doesn't ban all Muslims, it seems obvious that it was crafted to ensure that the vast majority of the people it banned would be Muslims.
> ... by controlling the stagnation of web browser tech, they can force developers to implement apps with their high-lock-in native app frameworks.

This is really nonsense.

Native apps in general are testament to the UX failure that is Web standards and browsers. Think about the issues with CSS layout (e.g. Vertically centering) and (still) the relative poor performance of one page Web apps.

I heard someone else call native apps the new bookmarks. I think they're right. Think about the UX of a general purpose browser. You have to launch it then go to a site. That site's page is limited by the lowest common denominator of what a browser can do. It's also (at least) a two step process.

Native apps are generally task specific (e.g. Taking photos) or at least site specific (e.g. Facebook, instagram). This is much easier to use and understand.

That aside, Safari isn't what I'd call browser stagnation, certainly not to the degree Internet Explorer was back in the IE6 days.

What's more, Apple does a pretty good job of keeping users on the latest versions of iOS (compared to the likes of Samsung). The browser stagnation from OS version stagnation is far more damaging imho.
The idea that there was a significant risk of military confrontation with Russia under Hillary was pure propaganda. Russia is absolutely in no position to engage the United States militarily, and are resorting to manipulating US politics because they know this.
> So the question is, how does an average joe hacker like me exploit and leverage this wonderful thing called deep learning? I'm not interested in reading PHD papers with advanced calculus.

Well reading paper is a must to get to deep learning. Those papers may not be that math heavy once you are used to it. Most of the time, it is about network architecture and loss objectives.
> No vehicle restrictions.

uuuh.... no thanks?
This perspective ignores the drastic difference in the quality between one caretaker and another. Among middle-class parents, the cost of an engaged preschool provider or nanny with a good teacher:child ratio that can match the quality of care of an invested parent meets or exceeds the median salary.

Especially for parents with multiple children, it is economically rational to have a parent at home to provide that customized 1-on-1 care with the child. The benefit is improved learning and opportunity for experiences (daily trips to museums, sports activities, classes) at the expense of less structured socialization with a peer group and a loss in net household profit.

Though the tax break afforded for day care should not be disregarded, there are plenty of situations where it makes sense to have a parent stay at home with children.

Most parents choose to have children so they can spend time with them. Maximizing this at the expense of some net household profit can be rational, given certain living situations. One could argue it is a luxury, and they would likely be right. Having children at all in advanced industrial societies is, in the individual case, usually a luxury.
Society. It was society that decided to have the current reward system. It is society that can change its mind.
In my experience, standardized tests play almost no role in STEM grad school admissions. Why would a math department care about your score on a vocabulary test like the GRE, as long as you speak fluent English?

The keys are, above all, good recommendations from respectable academics and some kind of research experience followed by high undergrad grades. A high GRE score can't substitute for any of those.

Of course, the foreigners can manufacture the grades and recommendations with a little cash. Maybe even the research experience. They probably do have to study English to pass the standardized tests: The one that matters for them is the TOEFL.
I did actually encounter this solution while researching the problem, didn't love it, but you can check out the solution at: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/13490#issuecomment-1...

As long as you add the file and remove it in the same command it doesn't get committed as an extra layer, so the container won't have any history of the secrets. You'll run into problems if you do multiple RUN's or an ADD and then RUN.
Your link only talks about early voting in South Carolina. I haven't been able to find a source on black voter turnout numbers nationwide in 2016. As I said in my previous comment, voter turnout was down across all demographics[1]. It's very difficult to vote more loyally to the democratic party than black people have over the past two decades or so.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/popular-vote-turnout-...
What they've done versus what they have said they wanted to do is not the same. The trouble is, what they have said they wanted to do is really, really awful. Sure Trump himself isn't repealing LGBTQ protections, but the Republicans really want to, and aren't shy about it.

And you're calling the Attorney General a terrorist? For saying that she didn't think the EO was legally defensible? Something that AGs do all the time, because they're legal professionals and cannot defend something they know is indefensible? It literally happens all the time. AGs very commonly refuse to defend against laws they don't think, in their legal opinion, will stand up to a successful legal challenge. Do a Google search for "attorney general refuses to defend law" and you'll see just how often it happens. Usually they don't get fired for it, because that's their job. It's not like Trump asked her opinion on it, something he really probably should have done.

Oh and no, the government does not have the right to revoke already-granted visas and green cards. The courts have issued a stay on that particular piece, because it's clearly unconstitutional.

And one of the first EOs Trump signed blocked funding for any healthcare provider who talked about abortion, anywhere across the world. Which is following one of the promises made by Republicans, to make sure Planned Parenthood (one of the largest women's healthcare providers in the nation) gets defunded.

This is the last I will debate any specific things you want to call out. My point wasn't to argue line-by-line but rather that these beliefs are not conservative, they're authoritarian. And that's not okay. No one is attacking conservatives, they're attacking fascists. Unfortunately, fascists have started calling themselves conservatives, something conservatives really should push back against.

So here I am, pushing back. Your comment has you sounding like a fascist. I'm sorry you can't see that. Conservatism has nothing to do with banning muslims, building a wall, or regulating people's sex lives. Those are authoritarian values.
AMP specifically disallows JavaScript, so how can AMP "run and behave like a normal app?"

Most of the capabilities of the web are used in a user-hostile way: to annoy, track, or drain the user's battery. PWAs will make the problem worse. AMP is a reaction against this.
The right to free speech constrains only the government. As a private individual or corporation you remain free to censor anything within your power. If Disqus doesn't want to work with Breitbart, they have no obligation to continue working with Breitbart, whether that decision is based on politics or anything else.
Yup. That's fine. Apple's made an opinionated decision (which IMHO probably suits the masses). If you want to make a different decision and don't want Apple to handle your notifications you can disable push notifications system wide, or switch to another platform.

This is of course ignoring that the user doesn't get much of a say in what push notification delivery mechanism is used - that's up to the developer.

But, to be honest, if you don't trust Apple to handle your push notifications then I doubt you would trust them to do much else, and you should choose another platform.
Update:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-china-billionaire...

"Chinese billionaire whereabouts a mystery but denies abduction"

"A missing China-born billionaire was quoted by state media on Tuesday as saying he had not been abducted from Hong Kong by mainland Chinese agents as some news outlets had reported but was receiving medical treatment."
It's more like, in a world with exactly eight soup kitchens, the "soup kitchen support union" specifically excluding one from its support network and issuing a statement that, despite its soup having similar origins and ingredients, doesn't qualify as soup in to today's palette unless consumed collectively by all of society.
Yep, Apple's decisions are all about helping the user. The fact that they also make Apple more money is a total coincidence.
Exactly what I thought. The CSS make a visual indentation, but carries no more semantic than the data structure does already.

In fact, if it did, I would consider the HTML broken.

<div class=comment.level1>
...
</div>
<div class=comment.level2>
...
</div
1) Apple doesn't get away with anything, they've lost market share.
2) Nobody is forced to buy an iPhone

Stop whining.
The only thing "past the norm" here is that Trump isn't hiding behind "the process" or rhetoric. All of the stuff Trump is doing had been either set up by or done, before, by past administrations. It's just that there hasn't been this level of scrutiny or opposition to it.
> Apple likes to build their software (most of the time) like Python - its an opinionated platform that strives to make that best decisions for users.

I'd argue it's a platform that strives to make best decisions for Apple, and that's not the same thing as being opinionated.

Yes, there's an argument that there is very little user benefit from having multiple push notification services. But there's no inherent benefit to having Apple's service be the one-and-only service ever allowed to be used -- that's not an opinion, that's vendor lock-in.

There's an argument that there is benefit in not having multiple different web browsers on a user's phone. But there's no benefit to having Apple's webkit be the one-and-only web browser ever allowed on the phone -- that's not opinion, that's vendor lock-in.

There's nothing inherently wrong with a product holding strong opinions. But vendor lock-in is not the same thing as an opinion -- there is a clear difference between an opinionated product, and a monopolized one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
It uses a lock-free method of ensuring that there aren't segfaults. When it needs to move a variable because it's gotten too big, it copies it to the new location and sets the pointer accordingly with the old location flagged as old. The old variable isn't freed, so there are no dangling pointers, with the downside of memory usage being increased some.