skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad you didn't repeat the page title "powerful weapons of mass enlightenment", which is clumsy arrogance more than wit.

With respect to wowsig, and purely as a discussion point, I can't be interested in a list of books by Muslim writers, or Christian writers, or {insert belief system} writers. I'm interested in stories about humanity, but specifically from a religious lifestyle point of view? I don't know how that qualifies as enlightening.

You just know it's going to be tales of struggling to balance the expectations and demands of a strict religion with community relations and challenges regarding women's rights, values, rituals and education in a modern world. With an upbeat positive conclusion about unity, acceptance and awareness. Rinse and repeat.

Do I sound cynical? Well, I didn't say "God is dead" or anything. Although I think  Nietzsche was onto something.

I'd like to see more pressure and questioning and challenging of religious ideas and practices in a modern world, more than questioning each other. I'm willing to bet a large proportion of people currently accused of being "anti-Muslim" simply don't respect Islam or any religion that has such a foothold in everyday life including education, family, business and politics. It might not be about "fear and ignorance", but reluctance to embrace Islam as the new member of the neighborhood.

In my opinion, the very nature of obedient religious devotion, is the overlooked source of division in multicultural society. Yet, division is blamed solely on those who vote against the next religious school or place of worship.

The very custom of wearing particular clothing to distinguish oneself as belonging to a particular religion, emphasizes the separation of "religious" from "non-religious" people walking the streets and in the workplace. In this case Muslim vs Non-Muslim. Personally I don't want to be a "Non-Muslim" I don't want to be a "Non-anything". When did that even happen? When members of the community are clearly marking themselves as members of a certain faith, I'm automatically divided before even opening my mouth. And that is something that makes me feel uncomfortable because we are starting with division, and attempting to unify and get along from there. No surprise it's not working too well.
Not if he's been told by everyone from his immediate superior right on up to the President to stop EVERYONE!!! with an Iranian stamp.
just FYI for the future. HN will limit replies for a few minutes after a comment is made to kind of slow down the discussion and prevent flaming/arguing in the heat of the moment.

If you want, you can click on the "time" of their comment (ex "3 minutes ago") which will bring you to a page that you can always reply to (at least in my experience).
This app found all of my personal information that I thought was private
That's a straw man. "Audition via github/coding tests/open source contributions" is not equivalent to a "blind audition" for musicians. GitHub/OSS already have lower participation rates from women and minorities than the technology industry as a whole precisely because the OSS "meritocracy" fails to address discriminatory behavior and is not blind: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/women-con...

Blind coding tests would come the closest to the equivalent of a blind audition, but coding tests as hiring criteria have their own problems in general.
When did anyone say they wanted to wear the label "tolerant"?

As far as I can tell, it's a label applied by the right to the left to make the left feel guilty. (And that tactic works, is the sad thing.)

If you Google 'tolerant left', you'll find only right-wing folks upset at the left's intolerance. But did the left ever say they wanted to be tolerant?
It was stated in Saeed Noursalehi's talk "Scaling Git at Microsoft", held at Git-Merge 2017. Until the conference recordings are available, here is the closest thing to a "source": https://twitter.com/no_more_ducks/status/827479795185364993
Because of the stated intent. This article recaps the times when our current president referred to it thus:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...
Andrew Ng: Artificial Intelligence Is the New Electricity
Local IT minister said it's gonna be phones for the domestic market only. probably to drive indian iphone prices down
It's not just possible its very normal. It's called the Icelandic Low.
I'd be curious to see this analysis. Can you link to it?

Here's a hypothetical. Imagine google made an error and it turns out that their analysis has a sign error. Blacks/women actually underperform. Would you favor flipping the sign on whatever action you propose? If not, why not?

I ask this because in a number of other contexts, the sign is actually flipped. Blacks drastically underperform what would be predicted from college entrance scores, they are less likely to pay back loans (holding other things constant), and more likely to commit crime.

Generation and exchange of ideas and approaches is the most important part of software engineering on a team. Diversity of gender and background probably gives this factor a bump.

I'm the only person of my race/nationality at my current company, but I've never really observed this effect. Can you tell me how to tap into these powers?

I admit, I do sometimes provide ideas that no one else has, mainly in the area of bayesian stats, low level performance hacking and probabilistic data structures. Is that what you mean? Are these the secret powers unavailable if you don't have someone of my race?
ProPublica Data Store
Because that's what Trump campaigned on and what he called it, until he didn't?
people are allowed to have political positions. what got banned there was a gimmick/troll account.
>Get a real website or blog for your PR needs.

Btw if you weren't already aware... a lot of small businesses (e.g. mom & pop restaurants, handymen contractors, yoga studios, etc) actually did have a real website but they abandoned them and only maintained their Facebook pages.

The behavior pattern is the same: the "real website" whether it was a CMS built on PHP-Drupal or a Wordpress blog was too complicated for owners to mess with. (e.g. "uh, what's this domain renewal email I just got from Godaddy have to do with my website?!?") The real website then suffers "digital rot" or they expire.

Facebook pages are easier. Therefore, advising them to maintain real websites isn't going to convince them. They've already "been there done that" and saw no value in it. As far as privacy and data collection, businesses don't care -- it's their public storefront.
This is right: stated intent matters when you choose what to call something. It's not just "labels".
Just a shitty event some may not be aware of RE: 80s attitudes towards Japanese success:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Vincent_Chin

(Since the first paragraph doesn't spell this out, Vincent's murderers thought he was Japanese.)
There is an analytical strain, of what I consider a better class of philosophy - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism , just it tends to be in a minority among university courses. I had to seek it out.

A lot of 'continental' philosophy seems to be a mix of historical analysis, and cult-of-personality/lit-crit...
Related: Now Facebook has been pushing the Moments app to share photos. I don't want to use it but a lot of people around me do.
Can anyone recommend an alternative photo sharing app?
There is a great DrCox bit on youtube about hypnosis anesthetics. Some people can make a go of it, but there is a reason they still "restrain" such patients and keep a big needle of morphine on standby.
The problem is it still needs to be up to project leaders to make a determination of whether or not the behavior violates those codes of conduct. And they might not be particularly well equipped for that.

What's considered "harassment" for example? Does 1 off comment count or does it need to be systemic? What if it was a heat of the moment situation and an apology was made afterwards? Does expressing an opinion less than the generally accepted one about a rape case for example count as misogyny? What about mental health comments not in line with generally accepted opinions, but which might still hold some validity? How about defending political opinions based on your religion?

There are too many questions that I know many people would respond very differently to.
Just to be clear, this was not a small group of pseudo intellectuals. Eugenics was applauded almost universally by Progessives and Conservatives among others. Included we can count J. Maynard Keynes, Irving Fischer ('prevention of breeding of the worst'), Gunnar Myrdal (economics Nobel Prize) Bernard Shaw, Harold Laski, Sidney Webb and Julian Huxley, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill and dozens of other famous names. You can say that eugenics was 'received opinion' in that era.
Should you be concerned ? SNP can happen in nauture easily any time, this way the difference is that you you are aware of what is going on.
Which cities? I'd be surprised to discover that small city mayors participate in climate, NATO, and EEA negotiations.
Have you used it on mobile and shared your contacts? Might they have had access to your location(GPS or maybe to which wifi you're connected).

Interesting article: http://fusion.net/story/339018/facebook-psychiatrist-privacy...
It's interesting though, I think India is becoming more economically competitive as prices rise in China.
> Not sure if this is something you have to monitor throughout the year or if it only becomes relevant when you actually do the bookkeeping at the end of the year.

You have to deal with it as soon as you can not meet a obligation. ("Zahlungunfähigkeit") If you give your own company a loan, then you can meet your obligation and you're fine on this side.

You also have to keep an eye on your debt level but that's more complicated, especially for owner-loans.

> I know some people start companies with a bit of money for this reason, or even use something physical (i. e. their notebook) as an initial deposit into the company.

Funding with physical good ("Sacheinlage") is however only allowed with a proper GmbH. This rule makes it sometimes a little bit interesting to convert an existing, fully liable, business into a limited liability corporation if if all the goods and money don't add up to 25,000 Euro.
The CNT and the IWA, part 2: The crisis in the IWA as seen from the CNT
PLEASE understand the meaning of "if I recall correctly". I was wrong.

Not everybody is attempting to write a post in an online forum about in form or article for Nature or Science, backchecking every statement in every sentence. Jeez
Because you need to have something to give back to the companies investing, like for example the world's highest smartphone adoption growth rate. Also tax exemption, special deals on many issues, but mostly the growth rate :)
Hi thank you for the post. If anyone has question, feel free to reach out to me here or at uranium@uraniumhacker.tech. As a writer of this blog, I will be able to provide the feedback necessary and clear any misunderstanding/false positives regarding this.
I log into Facebook once a year or so. Twitter, never. HN and Reddit I enjoy. Am 30. Don't feel bad.
Curious to know when you incorporated in France exactly?

It didn't seem too hard to me when I did it, and sites like https://www.legalstart.fr/fiches-pratiques/creer-sa-societe/ mention that you need 5 admin procedure and 7 days to start one, where the average of the G20 countries is 7.6 admin procedures and 22 days on average.

So I really wanted to know more about when and how you incorporated etc, out of curiosity.

EDIT: more data, here is a report from 2013 with the data I mentioned above (table at page 8) http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/EY-G20-country-repo...
Agree, except we use TypeScript as the transpiler. Async/Await down to es5. Works like a dream.
I left Facebook three years ago or so. It did not offer any value for me - and I couldn't stand the quality of "information" on that platform. To much crazy stuff in my stream, things I am not interested in, stupid games, ads, click bait, and so on.

I also left twitter months ago. The people seem to be better there, but I have the image of twitter being a bad company. And the time spent there didn't provide enough value to me. It was too easy to get disrupted at work. And after keeping apps closed, the service became useless for me.

Most of the people I have contact with are developers, and like 99% don't have a Facebook account either.
I don't think you're wrong, but I'd like to point out something. Armchairing decisions like this is a wonderful learning tool. Not only does it give people the opportunity to mentally work through issues that most of us will never face in our careers, but it's a wonderful opportunity to practice diplomatic, yet persuasive writing.

You're right, we don't know everything that has gone into a decision, but that's part of the value of an exercise like this. Being able to debate about something, remain civil and deal with specific arguments is an incredibly valuable skill that only gets more valuable as you age.
Can someone make a browser plugin that will send fake data to facebook? Instead of hiding your own behavior, might as well poison their database.
I'd love to know where that 99% comes from. (Or maybe I wouldn't.)

I'd say there's far more than anecdotal evidence, but not, obviously, not enough to draw necessarily firm conclusions. So I would say there's enough question to sustain further scientific inquiry. That, interestingly enough, puts us in a position at odds with one of a common traits noted among engineers, in psychological terms: 'need for closure'; which would put the 'engineering mindset' in conflict with the 'scientific mindset', due to the open-ended nature of the science. (Of course, this is only my own speculation.) Which is why we get things like this: http://cosmicfingerprints.com/ee/

Harder numbers:

http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/gambetta/Engineers%20of%20Jih...

(expanded book form) http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10656.html

(less numbers, but foundational)

http://www.sicotests.com/psyarticle.asp?id=212

http://www.sicotests.com/psyarticle.asp?id=235
Not to be a pedant, but I think the DeepMind paper is actually an example of one-shot generalization, but not learning. From the paper:

> Another important consideration is that, while our models can perform one-shot generalization, they do not perform one-shot learning. One-shot learning requires that a model is updated after the presentation of each new input, e.g., like the non-parametric models used by Lake et al. (2015) or Salakhutdinov et al. (2013). Parametric models such as ours require a gradient update of the parameters, which we do not do. Instead, our model performs a type of one-shot inference that during test time can perform inferential tasks on new data points, such as missing data completion, new exemplar generation, or analogical sampling, but does not learn from these points. This distinction between one-shot learning and inference is important and affects how such
models can be used.
Legion of robotic minions.
6 Great Uses of the Spread Operator
5. Error handling and even successful termination is very, very easy to get wrong with nested callbacks (forgetting to call a callback, or forgetting to catch unexpected exceptions and pass them to the callback, means the function never returns at best or brings down the whole process at worst). Promises make this much easier by automatically propagating errors for you down the promise chain (though you or your caller do still need to handle the error at the end of the chain).
Dont care. Put me to sleep and let the docs use whatever environment they think best. I dont plan on participating much let alone judge the decor.
Personally I always believed the porn mode browsing gives two benefits:

- sites don't get recorded in browser history

- by not exposing your regular browsing cookies, it significantly reduces the likelihood an "embarrassing" site will somehow end up on your Facebook wall

I hope I'm not wrong about the second one.
I kind of agree. I don't know how the process works which is why I'm asking for someone more knowledgeable. But my current understanding is that is how it is done.
At the time of the exploit, there was only one check, the MX record. Also once I claimed the domain, another user cannot claim it from their account. So this could be exploited silently as well because the victimized company won't know about it for a while.
I live in a windy place, in Europe, and I suggest you to reconsider your decision.
I really just used it for programming. I loved having the latest of any programming language compiler / interpreter when I used it. Something I don't see in Ubuntu / Debian flavors I try. I'm using ElementaryOS atm because I like how minimal it is, I bring in what I need after installation. They have a "Studio" flavor that I wanted to try, but the Network manager seemed to be broken from install, I remember installing KDE from the ParrotOS based I installed initially and had the same problem, the networking wireless icon is completely missing. If they fix that on their "Studio" release I may start using it again. I enjoyed it overall. My only other issue was that I didn't need the "tools" ParrotSec came with. I would definitely recommend ParrotSec OS overall.
> First, if you don't notice some random/unexpected EC2 instance failures, you don't have a big EC2 deployment.

The parent didn't claim they don't happen, just that (1) they were rare (a point you agree with, given the minimum usage needed to notice them) and (2) multi-AZ, multi-region failures nearly non-existent.

> The point is that even when you're using EC2, you still have to set all of that up.

It takes literally minutes to set up an ELB and Autoscaling group across five availability zones. How long does the non-cloud version of that take?
The scope of Uber's bug bounty program was updated after this report was submitted so that does not count.
I don't think he would have accreditation to the US, when he is just traveling for a specific event there and explicitly asked the US embassy if his travel documents are ok beforehand. Without accreditation, a diplomatic passport mostly is a way of saying "in some way representing our country, please treat accordingly" as far as I know.
> Italians, Germans, Swedes, Jews, and Japanese didn't immigrate to other countries and slaughter its citizens.

Neither do Muslims? I mean, show me the statistics that show that they have a higher terrorism rate than other groups. The IRA, the extremist christian groups, and the mentally ill all do a lot of damage as well, but they're not being banned from the USA. I think Muslims get targeted by the media because they're different looking, and so they get reported on more thoroughly.

I could very well be wrong, but I honestly don't believe they are statistically more prone to terrorism.
My sysadmin: "we won't switch to git because it can't handle binary files and our code base is too big"

Our whole codebase is 800MB.
Maybe a better question to ask is why those groups have not been afraid of others at any point? If true, what makes Italians, Germans, Swedes, Jews, Japanese, Muslims, Chinese and the Irish not engage in bigotry and hatred of others. Come to think of it isn't that a sizable segment of the world population? And if so maybe the remaining segment(s) need to be identified better.
I think it is very simple. We should think positive update status. If we won't tracked as a 'blacklist' we should have decorum or ethical.
> Microsoft, under Nadella has made me not hate Microsoft again, and that's a tall order because I'm over 40.

I'm over 40 as well, and I can honestly say I've never hated Microsoft or Bill Gates - what I hated (hate?) were/are their business practices.

I honestly wish I could (somehow) just get an apology from the company - something like "we were wrong, we're sorry, and we're working to make things right". Instead, it feels instead like a person you thought of as a friend, after they've put you down, did bad things to you directly and behind your back, you dropped them...then years later starting to do nice things toward you and others, trying to get back into your "good graces" - but never once apologizing for their past actions.

I want to see Nadella's and Microsoft's actions in a good light, I want to see them as an unvoiced apology. At the same time, though, if it were a person doing this, I don't know if I could trust their motives, not matter how sincere or enticing it might look like.

If you are anybody else could point me to a video of Nadella or someone else representing Microsoft making an apology regarding their past actions, it would go a long way toward me accepting their present behavior.

It probably won't make me ever install Windows 10, but I will probably see them in a better light.
I don't feel bad, I'm just curious what I'm missing out on by not taking part in something that's very popular. I love Twitter.
I'm not sure if this is an official list. But for those interested, the top offices of the military do pretty regularly publish reading lists.

National Defense University (an actual part of the Department of Defense) has links to them all here.

* http://www.ndu.edu/Libraries/Professional-Military-Reading-L...

EDIT: Well, plenty of the links appear to actually be broken. But a quick Google can probably find those ones.
The multiprocessing module in Python
I feel the title is not informative enough. I'm also surprised, there are so little comments on something which is about Google!
When you say local, you do mean a novocaine injection, right? Not just the numbing gel they smear on your gums first?

Tell your next dentist that you're very sensitive to pain, and they'll up the amount of novocaine, and the locations they inject it. I suffered for awhile before telling the dentist, and making them take me seriously, and they started injecting more, making the procedure bearable.
And more fun, COM<number> is a special name, so you can't create e.g. a directory for COM2/3/etc. At least COM wasn't marketed like .NET.
For current user volumes. Due to them filing for IPO it seems right to assume that they want to multiply their user count quite a bit.
Only part suck is living on a couch of someone. Premortem definitely helped. During the collapse, at times it felt like premonition, to the point that I could predict individual behavior to a proposal in company matters.
Now, I am a operations and product pro, I learned tools like SQL, Jira and Confluence. I understand product cycle and met some of the most intelligent people and amazing engineers.
One of the reasons the US is the second most polluting country in the world, only surpassed by China who has 4 times the population.
Does Journalism Still Have a Future?
We have a vaccine for six cancers; why are less than half of kids getting it?
As I house owner, I've been taking issue with the common thread on the internet that suggests that buying a house is a financial trap. It can be, of course, depending on where you live and your financial habits/situation.

I don't know where you live in the EU, but in the Netherlands, where I live, paying mortgage can be as affordable as renting. So, unless you're in the nomad lifestyle, you still gotta pay a fixed monthly housing cost, unless you live on the streets or with your parents. Both options sound terrible to me. So the stable income/expense cash-flow need to be there anyway.
While true this is like any other file type that connects back to the internet. It has nothing at all to do with DRM in particular.

For example you could download a HTML file over Tor, that file could have a <img /> tag in it which reveals your real IP when you open it in the non-Tor browser. Ditto with Office macros, any scripting language, Adobe Reader, etc. If you're going to just accept through warning dialogs then you're in trouble.
Part dispelling of myths, part "well I actually like curly braces, so there." Please enjoy your curly braces, nobody is taking them away anytime soon.