skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, after two behind the scenes Facebook contacts at that. Seems like Facebook would benefit by putting a better process in place, though of course we don't hear about the reinstatements where everything went swimmingly.
Thanks for the comment - I am still with Circle, and indeed we still use the bitcoin blockchain behind the scenes. We're also working on a smart contract platform called Spark. More to come on that in a bit.
But that's just Windows. What you can get a Google is a full test run over _everything_ that your change affects. This lets you ensure that an obscure change in behavior will not break others, including products built using your library as a remote, transitive dependency. You also get to fix bugs globally. Say you had a really shitty internal API that was causing problems or slowing things down. You get to actually go in there and change that API, and update callsites in one atomic commit. You can also make sure that you're not breaking anyone's build or tests by introducing your change. There are teams at Google whose purpose in life is repo-wide "code cultivation". Finding issues and fixing them globally basically. This just doesn't happen at MS.
Many otherwise sensible people support 'drug crimes', and most of those who want to 'decriminalize' recreational drugs still support widespread criminally and civilly enforced restrictions.

I support no special drug regulations or crimes at all (i.e. nothing outside fraud liability), but I am in the tiny minority.

edit: to be clear, I would prefer to eliminate the whole prescription system and FDA regulatory apparatus. I am not just talking about marijuana.
That is extremely bad deal if you have to essentially re-apply for the mortgage every 5 years. I then wonder why nobody offers much better fixed 30yr there? Regulations?
I've thought about this in the past, and one thing I dislike about the way willpower is framed in everyday conversation is as a moral judgement.

I.e. "he is still smoking because he has a weak will"

The implied idea there is that he should try harder.

But my personal belief is that we have far less agency than we like to believe. That person with greater ability to say no to certain things (smoking, overeating etc.), can they take credit for superior moral fortitude? I don't think so. That ability to resit <insert vice> was hard-coded in their genes. They can no more take credit for it than a tall person can feel superior for being tall. You don't will yourself to be taller. It's written in your genes. Why would "willpower" be any different?

I'm not sure where that leads us though. Do we just throw our hands in the air and say "well, I'm subject to my genes therefore I'll stop trying". That doesn't seem very productive. In reality there probably is an element of hard work involved (although, the rabbit hole continues further. Why are some able to put in the hard work and others not? Genes again.), but there are limits to how much "stronger" you can make your will. Even though I will never beat Usain Bolt in a race I can improve my own PB through hard work, however my total ability is bounded by my genes.

It's a liberating view to take. Keep trying and don't fret too much when you fall short of whatever mark you'd ideally like to achieve.
"no sensible person regards as criminal"

If no sensible person regards them as criminal, they would not be crimes.

Your assertion is that the sentencing/laws are racist. I would assert that crime, itself, is racist. For whatever reason some minorities commit more crimes. Keep in mind, I'm not saying that they do it BECAUSE they are a minority. I am not saying black people are inherently more criminal because they are black, merely that based on demographics a black person is more likely to be a criminal. I do not know why that is (nor do you) and do not make any attempt at explaining it.
That's patently false by what seems to be a factor of at least four. It it were merely three or four generations, dynastic change should be every ~100-120 years, however the average seems many times that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasties_in_Chinese_history
You can also shoplift and almost certainly get away with it.

Most people won't go through the trouble though.
this has been posted in HN numerous times already alongside zeit's Hyper (https://hyper.is/)
Although to be fair it's probably a much lower proportion of black men now than it was in 1850. There are certainly still problems, but they aren't nearly as bad as they were just a few decades ago.
It's really not based on a lot of data though. 2,908 people for 10 years while removing several groups and apparent health benefit is much reduced in women So, it still links drinking with health benefits even after splitting those people into a lot of small groups.

If anything it demonstrates how a bias may influence study design and reporting.
Totally agree. I think a lot of the replies miss the point - that having non-standard configuration is inherently more complex, because it adds a layer of abstraction. It is simpler to not have this layer.

Related note, check out fish shell [1], whose design document has an interesting argument against configurability in software.

[1] http://fishshell.com/docs/current/design.html
Well, yes. This is why blockchains are often called expensive. Every single full node on the network has the entire blockchain. And when you make a transaction, that transaction gets processed by every single node on the entire network.

Needless to say, there are some scalability problems here. And there are a lot of solutions to the scalability problems (such as the lightning network), but generally speaking scalability is probably the biggest and most heated topic in the blockchain space.
Keep in mind also, even those people who support legalization (myself) do not necessarily believe that that means that existing laws should be ignored and unenforced. This creates a situation where police and politicians can choose, based on whatever subjective factors they want, who to prosecute. This leads to anarchy.
> The true power of the blockchain is its ability to bring trust to places where it's currently inaccessible.

Where is that? Because trust seems accessible to me everywhere there is a reasonably open democracy and rule of law.

And why does this trust cost so much? Take payment cards like VISA. Max, they cost 1-1.5%. There's not much to save there. Sure, it would be cheaper if I paid 0.01%, but the cost is already low enough that it's not really preventing any transactions. And of course bitcoin is not going in the direction of enabling micro payments because of transaction costs and volumes.
You wouldn't pay a small power bill and buy a timer to save >$10000/yr?
You can't live in S&P 500 ;)

Also, when you factor this in - the landlord also knows how to factor those in. So rental prices won't be far behind. There are a lot of factors in renting vs. owning, but it's not clear-cut either side - you need to always look to specific local prices.
The point is to not only consider how such dynamics would affect you personally.

There are 7.4 billion humans on this Earth, and not all of them have the opportunities you do.
I think the message is that violence isn't protest.

If you're bashing someone's head in with a pole to prove they are a fascist, you need to take a step back and realize that you're the fascist.

[You, too, can be a facist, just down-vote this comment that is purely pointing out that violence is bad!]
Stop dancing on the head of a pin!

Land value tax. No income tax. People who add no value get nothing.
Let's try to leave the mainstream narrative to the side, at least not have it front and center, while we're on HN. Likewise with the accusations of hypocrisy or disingenuity. If I thought it would be helpful, I'd include other examples from colors of the political spectrum, but that would just anger whoever feels that's unfair.

It's really difficult to move forward together on issues people share in common when everyone insists on bringing up everything anyone associated with some idea is brought up as a point of contention. We have to figure out a way forward together. We're not going to agree on everything, but I honestly believe many of us have common cause on a lot of fundamental issues.
Protesting peacefully is an American right, this will be a list of real patriots.

However, this is a bit scary. Corporations have become the brownshirts and we are inching towards a one-party authoritarian system like China it seems.

Unfortunately the divide and conquer strategy of the two party system in the US makes people honor party over country and this is a problem. The only solution is to be more independent.

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend." -- Thomas Jefferson
Home price appreciation depends on location, so it's hard to generalize. Also unlike stock investments, a mortgage gives you massive leverage.
They can live in it. How is this an investment? They are adding no value so should get a cut of that: nothing.
Really had to move the goal posts from my specific example there, didn't you?
You're off several orders of magnitude. Implementing SGML is a multi-year effort. You don't have to take my word for it, James Clark has said the same (he has implemented SGML and XML, and also DSSSL, the Scheme-based precursor of CSS and XSLT).

[1]: http://drdobbs.com/a-triumph-of-simplicity-james-clark-on-m/...
Residency, not citizenship. Huge difference.
It may be possible for an agricultural village government to exist without sales or income tax, but not a modern industrial state with its concomitant opportunities for almost limitless wealth-building. What's the alternative?

I tend to agree with you that the "guilty-until-proven-innocent" nature of our income tax system runs contrary to our national values. But that's just a matter of reform, not repeal.

You're simply wrong that we don't need to curtail people's rights to be healthy and happy. If my neighbor pollutes my groundwater with his "private" activity, his privacy is going to have to be violated and his freedom to continue to pursue his business or hobby will have to be compromised. If government doesn't have the power to do so, I'll take matters into my own hands, and again we're back to a state of nature.
While true, this only works if you are assuming that the block is valid. To verify that the block is valid, you actually need the entire history of the blockchain, including processing yourself every single transaction that has ever been made over the blockchain.

What you describe is SPV verification, which basically says "if a miner decided to spend $10,000 in electricity mining this block, they probably verified the transactions first, so I probably don't need to verify it myself". Of course, if everyone makes this assumption, it's very easy for the miners to start slipping in illegal transactions without anyone noticing.

So, some of the network running SPV is okay, but too much is a great systemic risk.
The way your post comes across, given the context: "It's impossible to learn about things in the world that one might pay money for without advertising"

Is this what you actually mean? Because that's an absurd statement. Unless you dilute the meaning of the word "advertising" such that it covers literally every human action. But then we aren't having a useful conversation anymore.

You're aware that a small number of years ago, in the scope of human civilization, most objects were not branded, billboards didn't exist, etc?
People do know. You just aren't looking to answer the question, for reasons only you know.

http://newjimcrow.com/
Amy Goodman at the Dakota Pipeline: an absolutely egregious example of arresting a peaceful protestor and charging her with rioting (she's a very respectable journalist)
You tried to move the goalposts where you wanted them; I moved the conversation back to the overall topic.

The comment you replied to didn't mention anything about the inauguration, the Women's March, Trump, or the election.
We need a public watch list of companies who fire, or in any way discipline, employees on this watch list.
Absolutely. When I go on the job market, I will absolutely bias my search toward employers that have a history of activism among the leaders of the country. (Example: Fog Creek Software with Anil Dash as CEO would be my absolute dream place to work.)
In Defense of ICOs
The difference is that the leaders (Linda Sarsour to name one) of things like the womens march are, to borrow a phrase from someone, deplorable people.

By contrast, the people you're talking about on the right are properly and quietly marginalized.

The right tell the deplorable people on their side to shut up and fuck off home, the left champion them and put them on stage (like the unrepentant child rapist Lena Dunham speaking at the DNC)
Guidelines for confirming mortgages allow a 38% household DTI ratio. So a $1M home with $800000 loan comes out to around $5000 (3.875% ARM), putting minimum income at $160k. So 5x salary with 20% down.
You can always tell if a market is insane if rent/sale ratio becomes too low.

There are many markets where renting makes perfect financial sense.
It's pretty sad we're talking about companies publicly stating they allow employees to protest. What business is it of the company?
> any criminal background, including arrest records

Aren't arrest records for dismissed charges sealed? Innocent until proven guilty makes punishing an employee for charges unseemly. Punishing for convictions, however, strikes me as fine.
Can we get the title changed? The current title does not provide me with enough information to know what the article is about. How about, "Doctor diagnosed with rare Castleman disease leads charge for cure"?
I'm not sure I'm getting this right - they got 3.7% drop after 250% raise in 10 years and they consider the problem being fixed and everybody should come and look how cool they are? Something is missing here. OK, let's say they manage to get the local market get lethargic - nobody sells because prices are too low and selling means realizing huge losses, nobody buys because there's nothing to buy. How this is "bringing it under control"? It's like shooting your computer and saying "here, I debugged it! It's no longer crashing!" It's no longer working either...
This is from 2004. What's new?
That was exactly my point :)
I spoke to the specific event I personally attended (the Women's March) that has been called violent by many Trump supporters.
When will the clock reset and kids grow up to remember something besides 70's pulp scifi as a reference point to what dystopian future was suppose to be like? Maybe something good will come out next year.
in defence of the parent's snarkiness, this code is disgusting.

imagine being presented with this and tasked with maintaining this. or adding a language feature.
i'm certain the author could do it without much effort, but this code is as short as to be obfuscated - i have had more understanding from ioccc entries than this.

code exists as a common language for humans to understand and collaborate. this code is nightmare-ish.
Your solution for a problematic database is to create a problematic database?
That's not really what 'biased' and 'unbiased' mean - unfortunately the terms have been miss-used quite a bit, and are actually open to interpretation to a degree anyway.

You can have biased physically-based rendering and you can have unbiased 'not quite physically-based' rendering - in the latter case for example, it's possible to render direct lighting only (so no secondary bounces, or global illumination), which while obviously not the correct real result in physical terms, to the extent that you're evaluating direct lighting only the result is technically unbiased in terms of light transport. Similarly, it's possibly to have a spectral renderer (which in theory should be more accurate) which is biased, and a non-spectral renderer (RGB only) which is unbiased.

Biased can mean things like taking short-cuts or approximations - e.g. irradiance caches for diffuse results, or caching occlusion in order to slightly bias which light to sample per vertex in order to sample lights more efficiently: Both of these biased techniques generally give faster less noisy renders, but it's possible you might not notice they are biased in terms of the effect they have on the render - it all depends on the scene, materials and the lighting. For simple scenes you probably won't notice, for more complex scenes with nested medium materials with glossy/pure specular responses or with refractive caustics, it's very likely you will notice the effects biased rendering has compared to unbiased rendering.

Renderman RIS can be set up to be unbiased (but with default settings - radiance clamps) it's not. Similarly Arnold's default settings of having a light threshold (under which it won't sample a light) is also biased, but obviously this setting can be changed. Arnold can also cache diffuse contributions on hair, which is also biased.
If you own a shop or restaurant, you should be able to pass it on to your children.
You do know that over 10 years that is an annualised 9.6%, a 3.7% drop in a year is a big deal. What do you want, anarchy?
Anti-Pinkerton Act passed in 1893, denied anyone working for the Pinkertons or similar organizations to work of the United States government or the District of Columbia.
I hear you, but not all titles on HN have to be self-explanatory. It's good for readers to have to work a little sometimes.
Both residency and citizenship are controlled at the Federal level. (Except Quebec :).

Also, I agree that there should be a difference, and that should be reflected in the tax as well.

Non local residents 15% tax, resident, non citizens 5% tax, citizens 0% tax. For every regime.
Ask HN: Do interviews give higher signal than an online tests like HackerRank's?
It seems like most technical interviews involves asking an algorithms/data structures/programming question and watch the candidate solve the problem. If this is the case, why can't we do the same thing via hackerrank or an automated online assessment test?

I can see a few potential reasons

a) A good interviewer can gauge a lot more in an interview and hence that gives more signal.
b) Good interviewers can help candidates who are stuck with small hints and that again helps give more signal than someone stuck on an online assessment test

If there is some signal, how much signal is there in an actual interview?
While that was an overstatement, laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States have been fixed (Jim Crow).
> The peaceful gatherings with signs and petitions, or the kind with assaults, battery, looting and vandalism on others for speaking their side?

I'd say the Women's March was the first kind, and, for example, the recent Berkeley-Milo protest was the second.

And I think the question in the quote is appropriate. Surely we don't intend the First Amendment to protect people the UC Chancellor reportedly described as: "more than 100 armed people in masks and dark uniforms who used paramilitary tactics to engage in violent destructive behavior intended to shut the event down."

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/opinion/violence-at-be...
This can of worms may mean that a vast quantity of music is owned by instrument makers.
This is imagining humans to be useful in a way I wouldn't expect. You have a guy who posted a lot of paid ads despite warnings, and a woman who genuinely did post child pornography. Do we really imagine that reaching a human would have somehow changed the outcome?

They definitely did violate the rules, so I imagine the call center employee would just confirm it, tell them as much, and hang up.
So absolute truth on the blockchain is held by majority rule?
What's problematic about the database your parent comment proposed?
It really pisses me off that a company to which I pay €120/year, for a service that costs pennies to operate, is milked to death by the labels and has to "find a path to profitability". Makes me think of just stop listening to mainstream music at all and just live off my old MP3 collection.
There's a really excellent long piece in Ars from 2012 about Nullsoft/Winamp that has the advantage of nearly a decade more perspective: https://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest...

The following year, AOL officially killed the Winamp product.
If I did the math right, there are 50 empty dwellings in England for every person sleeping on the streets. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/27/squatters-op...
$1 million dollars is what many people earn in a lifetime of work. I wouldn't describe it as 'not really that much money.' It's the same size as the loan Trump got from his father. It's certainly more than most people can save.

If you earn a huge fortune, I would prefer that it be gone from your family in a maximum two generations of mediocre management. Otherwise we risk hereditary fortune and power.
Funny, pathetic, and totally believable.

You should examine the Final Cut Pro XML format. Not as bad as you describe, but still an inept and embarrassing bungle.
The Nullsoft brand was sold to Radionomy in 2014. nullsoft.com now redirects to winamp.com, which astonishingly still exists.
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It might be under control. I don't think your shooting computer analogy is quite right - the equivalent would be making selling houses illegal.

This is like your computer was constantly restarting, so you unplugged the weird printer. Now it hasn't restarted...yet.

No one in Vancouver is thinking anything is solved.
WinAmp is back. http://www.winamp.com/
Really though, enforcing racial segregation by policy or law never ended. Redlining is just one example of MANY.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

What's unfortunate now is how many people believe our incredibly segregated neighbourhood and work environments are the way they are either by choice or circumstance rather than by deliberate planning and design to oppress and mitigate political and economic power.
What's that search result for a sealed arrest record? "No records" or "sealed"? Because if it's "sealed", guess who's losing their job...
The punishment is the record not the warning. After that you are excluded from middle class jobs.

Gotta hand it to these scumbags, they built a nice tight system.
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Very cool. Needs RISC-V.

And 68000 :-)
There are quite a few assumptions in your comment that you could investigate if you wanted to. That might be more interesting than just being disgusted.
it happens so often that san francisco has a policy of dropping all arrest charges.. in the courts, on the court date you are required to attend, unfortunately.. when said arrests occurred during protests

i know from experience and talking directly with the arresting officers, and my assigned defense attorney, and the judge that dropped mine and a number of other identical charges in the room

> A protester at the NC General Assembly invites her arresting officer to Christmas dinner. She was one of several arrested while protesting a power grab by Republican legislators during a surprise special session.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-p...
Dang it. Now what am I supposed to do with the 3000+ bottles of wine I have collected!

We (family) pretty much have a glass of wine with dinner every night and no we are not French.
> Having your product out in the world with a brand name on it is a form of advertising

I didn't say the product had a branded logo on it. Many products do these days, but not all.

It's not hard to imagine a world where logos aren't everywhere. Even today, I don't buy clothing with prominent logos.

You are completely missing my broader point here. Advertising is a small, superficial part of culture. People have participated in culture for thousands of years, acquiring items and ways of doing things. They don't need advertising to do this.