skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was the plan, but it turned out too complicated.
I personally feel culturally obligated to expend personal effort to improve the collective behavior of my fellow citizens. But that's me, YMMV.
+1 to your efforts. Switching to Firefox tomorrow.
Great recommendation, but how do you handle syncing passwords between your
computer and phone?

I use KeePass to encrypt my passwords and store the password vault in Dropbox. It's not a perfect system, in that an adversary can gain access to my password vault and try to brute-force my master password. But it's "safe enough", if you make sure to use a strong passphrase as the master password for the vault.
It is an extremely imprecise ban. I don't personally agree with it, but I do agree with the underlying principles of national responsibility, for lack of a better term.
It's not that hard to learn. Once upon a time very little number of people knew Ruby too. Elixir became mature and production ready extremely quickly compared to other languages I've seen. The advantage it offers is also massive, it solves a real problem and does it very well. So I wouldn't let the ability to hire someone be the reason. Any forward thinking venture knows that. The documentation is great the community is great, elixir is ripe for the curious to get started learning and being productive quickly. You just have to want to learn it.
The scenario you called out, where the rewriting work might be abandoned/cancelled, is the only scenario I can think that makes a separate branch actually better. For cases where you're confident that the work will not be cancelled, you have the same amount of work to push the rewrite back into the main branch constantly as you do to constantly keep the child branch in sync. i.e. If you can pull from the main branch into the rewrite branch and build/test successfully, you can do the same in reverse. If you cannot pull from main into rewrite and build/test successfully, you're just postponing the pain to the end when you'll dump it on the rest of the team when you finally merge back and break everything in the main branch.
Does this really unlock additional content? Or is it just 76000 ways to organize their catalog?
> Such laws would be a stunning display of hypocrisy from a party that claims to be against federal interference in markets.

Yeah, what's your point? The Democratic party is not constrained by any of its purported principles when it's going after its political enemies. It's not about principles, it's about inflicting damage on your political enemies so they are afraid to do anything that might further upset you.

There might develop in this country a groundswell of people who have had a bellyful of being bullied and lectured, particularly by self-righteous billionaires. They might decide they want to see Brian Chevsky and Airbnb taken down a peg or two, and they might wake up from their stupor and realize that they have the power to do just that. I'm sure a skilled politician could convince the country of the urgent need for regulating the dangerous, shady, barely above-ground economic activities that Airbnb facilitates.

I'm sure that whoever uses Airbnb clicks through an agreement that absolves them of any liability should anyone get hurt. But perhaps a rich, heartless, greedy corporation should not be allowed to do that. A law could be passed, whereby, for example, if a woman was staying in Airbnb was raped because a former guest duplicated the key and used it to break in and rape her, she could sue Airbnb for negligence. And anyone who dared publicly oppose such a law could be smeared as anti-woman and pro-rape.

> It would also normalize (or continue the trend of normalizing) political punishment for companies that don't agree with the current administration's (non-legal) policies. Regardless of who's in power, that's not a good road to go down.

Dude, we're already down that road. Read up on what Democratic politicians did or tried to do to Chick-Fil-A, to cheers from the left, because its founder was deemed guilty of thoughtcrimes.

It will only end when the left decides they want a truce, and that will only happen when their own tactics are used against them in equal or greater amounts. There needs to be some high profile examples made.
It's a silly argument anyway, as in the famous xkcd comic, technology probably isn't the weakest link. And if a state really wants to snoop on you in particular, they will.

Meanwhile, as mentioned elsewhere, Android is vulnerable to several key-extraction techniques and the speed of security updates depends on which model you have.
I had one that didn't get back to me for a month once but then gave me a job offer starting the next week. Turns out they'd hired someone else and he quit after a day.
What does this offer that tig doesn't?
Yeah, if religious discrimination had an adjective form, like racist or bigotted, I would have used that. But as the three (and others like xenophobic) have the same cause and characteristics, the specific term to use seems to be a distinction without a difference.
The part about an initiative to look up visitors phones and social media is BS. This measure was introduced in June last year when the president wasn't Trump. Went into effect in December, when Trump already won but had no authority.
One random link from google: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/foreign-travelers-soci...
Ask HN: What's your experience with AWS EMR?
I've had a pretty mixed impression of AWS EMR and am curious about others' experience. I am yet to use Cloudera but have heard it's much more robust, stable, consistent, etc. One interesting offering of EMR that I am yet to try out is HBase on S3 (i.e. to help solve the small files problem). I'm curious to hear others' experiences.
I've thought about doing the same with image recognition and/or vibration sensors...
It's refreshing to see more privacy/surveillance conversations like this one happening, but unfortunately this doesn't touch at all on government/officer overreach or corruption, which completely nerfs the content of this piece.

Show me an in-depth interview like this one where we address what happens when governments either systematically overreach (e.g. persecuting Muslims or Jews) or individual overreach (e.g. officer had a bad day, looks up your internet history, finds a felony and arrests you.)
Here is the /r/hyperloop thread discussing the video https://www.reddit.com/r/hyperloop/comments/4udod1/the_hyper...
Does anyone have the full transcript? Doesn't look like the article links to it.
You're assuming that they are aware of the dangers. I think that's incorrect.

It's much safer to assume people making "obviously" bad decisions are getting exposed to a different narrative than you are, and making sensible decisions given what they've been exposed to.
CALs - you mean like literally every successful SaaS solution on the market today? CALs are alive and well and aren't EVER going to die. Salesforce.com? CAL. Openair? CAL. Workday? CAL.

Etc. etc. etc.
There is something to this. Collective expectations are a powerful force. If most of us feel that in the 21st century every child deserves a good education, or healthcare, we will act in a certain way when we see a child not getting it.

That having been said, most Americans on the left and right have an expectation that their country has a great tradition and robust institution for human rights. Conservatives emphasize financial freedom. Liberals emphasize social freedom. Both claim to emphasize freedom of speech, etc.

So the difference is that even if Adams' theory is correct and people "wishing for" Hitler thereby "bring him about", they have also "wished for" a Congress and Judicial branch that care enough about the above rights that they would impeach and charge him with high crimes or treason if he ever violated serious rights.

We can apply this logic to existing phenomena. I am a liberal and see Republican opposition to Obamacare largely as hypocritical partisanship. Millions of Republicans are gleeful if Obamacare leads to growing deductibles, bad availability of good insurance plans in some states, and millions dropping coverage because they can't afford it anymore. Sad right? But, they are doing it out of a sense that at the Obamacare mandate is against the principle of Freedom. While that may be misguided, and their opposition to single payer in Healthcare might look silly alongside their acceptance of it in Public Education, nevertheless look at the motivation. Americans across every major party share a respect for values of Human Liberty and Limited Government. This is a good common ground.

I say that, what as should really preserve is the systsm of checks and balances. Hitler by himself no matter how powerful is nothing without centralization of government and a removal of the opposition. What you should worry about is the 2010 REDMAP gerrymandering and the refusal to vote on supreme court justices nominated by Obama. That is actually a dangerous example of a party stealing power permanently from the people by breaking the rules.

Already a judge in NYC pushed back on the ban. And by pushing the GOP to repeal-and-replace Obamacare ASAP, or refusing to do anything negative to Saudis and Russians, Trump is not actually making the Republicans any more comfortable with him.
Are there API's complete enough to make a player? I'd love to have an alphabetical list in stand of pictures changing position every time you go to the main page.
yes.

experience and deep familiarity with the industry a person is regulating is extremely important. finance or not.
TLD imports to SEO?
But companies are people!
I am not as old as you, but old enough to be done with the hiring BS for software engineers. I also get pissed when I get asked a random-ass puzzle someone found on the internet.

I've had interviews where the question / puzzle took the interviewer 30-40 minutes to explain and he needed an answer by 45 minutes.

The whole system is just fucking stupid.
That's like saying there's no difference between 99.9℅ the speed of light and going all the way there, from an engineer perspective. Turns out, one of these requires an infinite more expenditure of energy than the other. Similarly, if you're evacuating a tube by removing gave the gas at a time, 1/1000 is attainable. 0? Not so much.
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I assumed you we using the data to train a NN. And was thinking it would be a good dataset for that.
Acer 1GB Vista Class Action Settlement (2013)
The fun thing is that class action lawsuits are easy to drag on.
In this case, they filed only in March 2009, but imagine if they filed in early 2007 when 512Mbit DDR2 chips was around $5 and then DRAM prices declined by the time they finally settled.
Spain makes the most sense. Geographically, more or less. And economically too, I think.
Recent events have made me question Thiel's judgement. It is within his rights to support the candidate he wants and have the beliefs he desires, but he still helped a potential dictator get into power and angled to be his confidante. More hypocritically, Trump goes against every core libertarian value from individual freedom to limited state power.

Puzzle me this, how can a libertarian support an authoritarian's ascent to power?
show me your Github profile or your learning blog, you need to build a personal brand as a developer... :)
You said it. I've been working on some ConvNets for object localization in an image over the past couple weeks and it took days to figure out why my network just seemed to be randomly guessing (50% accuracy).

In the end, it was a reduction of the training rate (with SGD) that made things work in what felt like magic.

I've started reading the deep learning text book from Ian Goodfellow now (http://www.deeplearningbook.org). Hoping a solid foundation will build some intuitions for reasoning about these hyper parameters.
> cycle accurate FOSS simulator

And how do you propose simulating asynchronous logic and delays? How do I back annotate synthesized net and cell delays into your one-true-simulator?
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screenshotapp.net - Scheduled screenshots of any URL with change detection and email alerts.
I feel like "biological Turing test" is a bit clickbaity. Bacteria aren't going to make cognitive decisions. In my mind, being able to communicate back and forth with bacteria is more akin to unlocking the bacterial API. It's still noteworthy nonetheless.
Some top class victim blaming right here. He doesn't address the concern that this particular Executive Order victimizes a broad swath of minorities for no justifiable reason other than to please a large section of society. What's more, the hatred amongst that section for the minorities was stoked by the person issuing the order in the first place. That is remarkably similar to how Hitler started out. But no, it's the protesters' fault if the situation turns anarchic.

> the alternative to Trump becoming Hitler is that they have to live out the rest of their lives as confirmed morons.

No, it isn't. If a candidate makes promises that sound a lot like the ones Hitler made ("all of your problems are because of <minority>. We'll get rid of them and make <country> great again") it's reasonable to think that the candidate might follow through with that. If the candidate later sees the light, or is unable to push that agenda for some reason, then that's excellent. Everyone is happy with that and no one looks like a moron, they're just relieved.

> how excited/happy the Trump critics seem to be

Perhaps people are happy that others share their views, that others are willing to stand up for what they feel is right and they're willing to protest on the streets to make it happen. If people saw that everyone around them reacted with apathy, they'd feel the exact opposite.

Maybe what Scott Adams is saying would be easier to swallow if it didn't come right on the heels of this Executive Order, which implements some of the worst things Trump promised on the campaign trail. The Order even has some classic authoritarian hallmarks - a temporary measure until we can "figure out what is going on". Makes it easier to accept for now, but does anyone imagine that on day 57, the White House will experience an epiphany about this that will "solve" the problem they're talking about? No, this measure will be renewed again and again, similar to how Erdogan in Turkey and Maduro in Venezuela renew their "temporary" emergencies.

Coincidentally, Erdogan, Maduro and Trump all promised to return power "to the people".
Don't forget to add alternative views from the left either (most have FB pages or Twitter feeds). Some of my favorite are: Counterpunch, Libcom, Mother Jones, Truthdig, and on the more "cheeky" side, I'd check out r/LateStageCapitalism.
I do this too but it conflicts with tptacek's injunction above to "not use Dropbox."
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That distinction doesn't even come in to it, though. Take the analogy with the thought experiment from Aaronson's description:

A coin is flipped. If heads, two rooms are created: one with a red-haired person, and one with a green-haired person. If tails, one room is created with a red-haired person.

The analogy is that the coin is the coin, heads means "wake up in 100 years", tails means "wake up in 1 year", red-haired is the person who goes in in 2020, and green-haired is the person who goes in in 2119. However, unlike Aaronson's interesting experiment, in the Nautilus article experiment you know beforehand that you have red hair and will continue to have red hair regardless of which way the coin goes. The year you were frozen is known; you know your name; you know the year you entered. The interesting question doesn't even arise.
Does anyone know how easy (or difficult) it is, to get Permanent Residency and then Citizenship in New Zealand. Also do the Work Visas help with a pathway to Citizenship?

I am a US Citizen looking to immigrate to NZ.

Thank you! (Please don't flag my question.)
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New zine: “Networking ACK”
I'm curious how you made that transition,and what problem domain you're in. I predominantly write web applications. Lots of React, but some traditional MVC apps,too. Haskell is a language I want to love, but haven't ever managed to find it productive in my problem space.
Very sorry to hear about your case. As a 35 yr old programmer I hear you. Its hard. Praying for the best
> Because if you're from those countries it doesn't matter what your race is?
> White, black, asian, latino, they are all banned if they originate from those countries.

Substitute my use of "racist" with "discriminatory based on religion".

> Same with religion. Christian, Muslim, Jewish, they are all banned if they originate from these countries.

What I've heard is that this is false and Christians are supposed to be allowed in.

> The ban is based on country of origin, not race or religion.

Even if that's the current implementation, what it's trying to achieve is pretty explicit and clear, as expressed during the campaign: a ban on Muslims.
For those wondering what this lawsuit was about, here's the summary from the FAQ page:

"This lawsuit claims that the Acer Notebooks did not contain sufficient memory to properly run the pre-installed operating system, including Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, and/or Ultimate operating systems (“Vista Premium OS”). Plaintiffs claim that per Microsoft’s requirements, a computer must have more than 1 gigabyte (“GB”) of RAM in order to properly run the Vista Premium OS. The Acer Notebooks covered in this lawsuit contain 1 GB or less of RAM to be shared between the system and the graphics. Plaintiffs claim that as a result of this insufficient system memory, Acer’s Notebooks suffered from freezing, crashes, lock-ups, and other poor performance.

The Court has not determined who is right. Rather, the Parties have agreed to settle the lawsuit to avoid the uncertainties and expenses associated with ongoing litigation. The Court granted Final Approval to the settlement on October 21, 2013."
Thanks! I was beginning to fear I was going to be left hanging, as this is something on which I really wanted to get feedback.

I understand where you're coming from with respect to the distinction without a difference. I fear it's likely adding to miscommunication, as I don't think that's yet a widely-held understanding of the term, or at least held across some political divides.

That's not to say I have any great suggestions as to how to reconcile this. But I have seen a lot of likely unnecessary noise—at least here on HN—due to just this usage of racism around the topic of the Executive Order. There's enough other, meatier issues to discuss. It's too bad that this word is probably causing unnecessary friction.

Thanks again! I appreciate it.
In Soviet Russia wall not keep people out; wall keep YOU in!
Honestly I believe that a programming specific typing practice program such as this one does serve a purpose as even though I can type well in a normal setting, I am much slower with many of the special characters as they just aren't used as much outside of the programming environment.
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There's something fishy with the adblock detection at forbes.com. I have no adblocker at all in Chrome, but I can't get pass the landing page that tells me to disable the adblocker.
Me too. I consider my fellow citizens those with which I interact, no matter in what country they were born. Not those that have my same sign of zodiac, my same eye color, or those that are Muslims because Mr. Trump promised a ban on Muslims and has delivered.
As a New Zealander, born and raised in Auckland. Immigrants are bad for society. Auckland has massive segregation by race. There are large pockets of Indian and Chinese people who refuse to integrate into society. Refusing to learn English and creating places with their own language and being less welcome to outsiders.

In regards to housing pricing, the problem here isn't immigration. It's the retarded laws which allow foreigners to buy property and own land without ever having visited the country let alone living there to begin with.

I'm all for property to limited to permanent residents and citizens, and a cap on the number of properties purchased to prevent buying up many properties.

For what it's worth I left New Zealand 11 years ago. My family still lives there, I go back to visit every now and then, but I have no desire to ever move back. Auckland to me is a disgusting place.

I live in Singapore now.
I've been learning a lot lately by following along with the development of xi[1], a new text editor written in Rust. Through reading that project's RFCs I've then come across other interesting projects, like swiobe[2] and wi[3].

What are the other canonical resources on this topic? It feels like tons of the interesting thought is scattered around various blogs and usenet posts and the like. I'd love to create a nice collection of good writing on text-editing / tools, but I'm not sure where to start.

[1] https://github.com/google/xi-editor

[2] https://github.com/swiboe/swiboe

[3] https://github.com/wi-ed/wi
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While the idea of Iceland is great, being in the middle of the Atlantic. But this means that it's close to no one, including likely conference organizers.
Politicians in congress don't write laws themselves. They are written by staff and unfortunately often lobbyists. I would much prefer if they had real expertise in some areas and left the detail of writing laws to the lawyers in their stuff.
Google said this impacts ~180 employees total. is that really enough to impact salaries?

Maybe, just maybe, these sons and daughters of immigrants and refugees are just as disgusted by the actions of Trump (and Bannon) as the millions of others.
Perhaps a triumverate, the economist, consumer rights advocate, and a banker?
Like I said, between the 100 of us we only scratched the surface of the power of that idea.

It is heartbreaking to know it sits there, unloved outside of our small community.
>At some point a service offered to the public must actually serve the public. We don't allow bakeries to choose which weddings they will cater. If you'll bake a wedding cake for $200, then you have to get baking, even if the happy couple with $200 are two dudes or whatever.

Excellent point. It is very well worth noting that pragmatically speaking, current law treats diversity > free speech, as is illustrated in your example.
Sure you can. The term you are looking for is "multi task learning".
Interesting. When has that happened? It seems awfully unlikely to create "viable offspring" that way, but I suppose most biological mutations are neutral or negative as well...
My parents moved out of Auckland 3 years ago because they no longer feel welcome.
I wasn't thrilled with say Cass Sunstein's ideas when he was appointed by Obama.

Would you expand on this? I was quite impressed with what I read in Nudge. Did any of this practical thinking carry over to OIRA? Or was that perhaps part of the problem?
I believe it's just when you get directed to their European servers. They also use us.startpage.com, as well as some other variations.