skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a lot of STEM people go on thinking they are kings of logic, reason, even correct thought. All the others in the world are lesser beings, humanities scum who don't understand what /reason/ is, or anything about SCIENCE. I hope your degree in the arts was good career-prep for the rest of your life preparing coffee for me and my fellow engineers, peasant! Then they write books like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Delusion
and philosophers who have been thinking about these topics laugh at them, and they don't understand why. The subject was simple! Obviously so, for if it were difficult, it would be STEM! Philosophers should be grateful a STEM expert such has Dawkins spent his precious time on their puny insignificant domain, a great man who sees a room is dark and decides to, for the first time, light a torch illuminating features that have remained dark for centuries. A question open and unresolved, bickered about by lesser beings like Kant and Russell and Liebniz and Descartes (STEM people as well, but made impure by the fact that they considered themselves philosophers first) until finally, thankfully, someone in STEM thought about it for a moment and told us the answer.

Yet we realize quickly this is not what happened. Instead of shining new light, Dawkins stumbles through a dark room, knocking over furniture, breaking vases and china. He stubs his toe and says "did you know you had a table here?" He steps on a housecat and hears a squeak, then quietly and calmly uses his superior STEM intellect to draw a deduction: a pet would have moved out of the way before being stepped on, and a single rat would have as well. He tells the owner his home is infested with thousands of rats. It was, after all, the most logical deduction at the time. Who could blame him for simply stating what's most likely to be the truth? He is promptly asked to leave.

In most of real life (i.e. the sphere of life where events are determined by human relationships and decisions, including but not limited to the law) deductive logic and scientific theory is about as useful as this (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.07820.pdf) is to someone building a bridge.

It is actually worse, because knowledge of deduction (and things like 'syllogism' or 'logical fallacies' even) impart often times little more of use than obnoxious hubris and a false sense of superiority, a severely off-putting and unhelpful sense about the world that endears its holders to no-one and makes collaboration difficult; camaraderie impossible.
So exercising discretion in who you do business with is bullying? What happened to free markets? What happened to accountability to consumers?
Based on Snap's own numbers it would indicate Instagram is a tier 1.
For later viewers who won't understand the down votes, because comments have relative times after an hour: this is a content-free quibble over who deserves credit, the grandparent, who linked an original source with a perfectly pulled quote, or the parent, who "guessed" 4 minutes later.
We need to do better at cultivating interest in math, as well as other "hard" fields, among people who are normally excluded from the system.

Su isn't as concerned with the amount of full-time mathematicians doing research work as he is the people who drop out far before that becomes an option. We should teach it better in high schools, and encourage more math undergraduates.

Su isn't saying math is a great field free of problems, but he's arguing we should focus more on getting people further along that path, regardless of the stage where they drop out. I also think the problem you're referring to exists in most academic fields, and that the solution (if there is one) will probably have to be more general than just relate to math.
Maybe the CEO is thinking first about his company, and the company is feeling a negative impact (#DeleteUber) because of his association with Trump?
We can't predict that, and maybe it will one day, but I think that's unlikely. Academics will continue to want and extend Haskell more and more, and it'll enter into a conflict I believe between pushing the typed lambda programming paradigm further into research territory and having a slow and stable industry base that favors backwards compatibility, stability and performance.

There might be a way to have both sustainably, but I'm not sure why we'd want that.

I really wouldn't mind seeing Haskell continue to innovate and be a trial for innovative features, and have another slower Haskell like language which slowly and carefully brings back those features into itself once they've been proven mature enough.
Are these sorts of things latency-sensitive enough that they couldn't use them with EC2 and similar? Or are the bandwidth needs so large that bandwidth charges cancel out any compute savings?
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> Also google bills a month ahead. Who does that?? Who bills for services not yet rendered??

TimeWarner does.

https://www.timewarnercable.com/en/support/faqs/faqs-account...
I never visited a psych so I don't know the right terms, but it was probably some form of derealization. Reality always felt shallow, every experience lacked detail and substance... that served as the foundation for other problems. Mechanically, I suspect the derealization resulted from under-trained neurons/networks that couldn't accurately feed forward perceptions of the world.

Once I got to college, I spent the vast majority of my time outside and offline... after a month I distinctly remember noticing how everything felt so real. After a year I'd realized and unwound most of the neurosis on my own.
Has Google published cloud revenue numbers? I haven't seen those, please link if so. Thanks
Related: http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comics/1485149100-451.png
Your comment shows that you have not done even the most basic research into different kinds of Old Testament law, their function, how they relate to the New Covenant, underlying principles from Creation, etc. For example, how do you reconcile Christians eating non-kosher meat, since it is also forbidden in the OT?

You haven't even begun to consider these issues, yet here you are issuing sweeping proclamations about the contents and motivations of other people's hearts. Dare I say that you are not fostering anti-Christian feelings because of your understanding, but you trawl archaic text to justify anti-Christian feelings that already exist.
(If you indent text by two spaces, it will be formatted as code on HN.)

Are you using the macros 1.1 versions of those crates? In particular, serde_macros should now be serde_derive: https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/releases/tag/v0.8.10
Imagine this reality.

Trump's tech influencers (the Thiel crowd) get scared and leave. Thiel loses influence. Bannon and the nationalists don't get scared. They show loyalty to Trump.

Trump then favors the priorities of those who are loyal to him.
So how is it better for Travis to quit now rather than in two or three years after he can credibly talk about specific things the council has been tasked with?

It seems that Travis was essentially shamed into virtue signaling by quitting.
Do you think people voted for Trump because they wanted a conversation? Is there anything in his leadership style which leads you to believe he or his voters are interested in coming to the table for a discussion?
I think I read into your comment exactly how you intended and have just described. Perhaps the "intentionally" portion of my "intentionally passive-aggressive" comment was incorrect, but the rest of what you just described is exactly what I (and I presume other down-voters) understood your comment to be.

Your phrasing as "I believe in the civil rights for all people, outside the womb, and inside" carries the implicit assumption that pro-abortion people do not, in fact, believe in the civil rights for all people. The reality is that the down-voters likely do believe in the civil rights for all people, but do not believe that a fetus is a person yet. Since that is generally the debate between those who are for and against abortion, the feeling of passive-aggression from your comment stems from entirely disregarding the other side's point of view and instead simply implying that they don't care about civil liberties.

FWIW, I think just saying "I am pro-life" wouldn't have gotten you down-voted to oblivion.
Why don't you do both buy a used Tesla Roadster. You'll get one last hurrah with a convertible, and take advantage of the electric car depreciation you seem to be convinced exists.

Except they've managed to hold their value pretty well... Still, and attractive option, especially with the 3.0 battery upgrade available!
>Fine. What if you missed a hidden variable Z which also causes Y? What if there is also X1 which causes Y when no X is present.

Noise going trough Z -> Y is not present in X -> Y.

Detecting X1 when X is not present is trivial. Y is not present and the noise from Y is not present. There is another cause besides Y.

>Possible causal relationships does not establish or prove causality itself.

Noise models can establish the arrow direction with very high probability. The strength of causality and other factors are considered separately
In that case, you may be interested in reading more about politics and HN from 'dang, one of the mods. I've collected some recent comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13538787
In a different thread, peff (author of the original post we're discussing here) requested input from the community about adding links to paid content to the site.

You can see the end of the thread here [0] and the pull request it was discussing here [1]

The thinking in that thread, which I think would apply similarly to this case, was:

I think I'm inclined to try it, as long as it's kept in a separate "paid training" section, and is open to everybody. If it becomes a burden, we can cut it out later. I think the important thing is that it be equally open to everybody or nobody, but not just "some". So we'll go with everybody for now, and switch to nobody later if need be.

I agree that they would probably pay well for the chance to have a link on the homepage of git, but if it is done it should be done fairly for all involved, or not at all.

[0] http://public-inbox.org/git/20170125184258.v5sy6hwwpdsxz2u6@...

[1] https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/pull/924
[dupe]

Though a valid topic, there are other threads on this story at the moment.
I did downvote you, because you wrapped your meaningful contribution ("don't forget Fahrenheit 451") in insults.
Should I be experiencing FOMO over Snapchat? Is Snapchat one of those things you only get into if all of your friends are doing it? (like, say heroin for example)
You have that backwards. Taking the Harry Potter text and copying large portions of it, even if the names are changed, would be literal copying. Writing a book that borrows the story, characters, and relationships between the characters from Harry Potter, but written in your own words using new character names, would be non-literal copying. A derivative work, on the other hand, would be taking Harry Potter and making something new from it, such as writing a novel about a new adventure involving Harry and his friends, or adapting Harry Potter to a new medium like a VR game.
That depends on how you think about problems, I think. I understand OOP, and have written OOP code for two decades, using languages like Java, C#, Ruby, C++, etc. However, OOP never felt like a natural way to think to me. The first time I worked with a functional programming was an amazing experience, since FP works in exactly the same way I think. I'm not knocking OOP. I think it is great. It just doesn't fit as well with the way I puzzle through problems. Good thing we have options, I suppose.
They are doing far more than "signaling", whatever that is, they are depriving Trump of an essential good in a democracy, political influence and credibility, and giving it to his opposition.

If Trump looks acceptable to high-profile business leaders, many in the business community will assume Trump and what he is doing is acceptable.
From those well-known commies at Bloomberg Businessweek, note the image half-way down:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-02/stability...

Business is figuring out that the Trump endgame isn't going to be good.
Doesn't even need to be containers, the key part is having a load-balancer that can shift the load to the new web applications deployed without downtime.
Like many here, I'm also disappointed about his decision to quit.

I've read some articles comparing Trump's style to some Latin American leaders, and I can see several things that look alike (populist style, protectionism, appealing to nationalism, etc). But what I've learned living under those kinds of governments, is that when they first get to power, they usually have advisors that avoid them from going too far to either side of the political spectrum.

But eventually, as some of the advisors with different points of view start to leave (usually because of internal struggles), the leader tends to take far more radical positions reflecting the view of the surviving group of advisors.

And this starts a spiral that ends up with the leader having an inner circle so radicalized, with a few powerful advisers and several obsequious servers, that won't accept any opposing view on almost any subject.

In Argentina, the last example of this was Cristina Kirchner, whose economic policies were similar to what Trump is suggesting (mainly protectionism, and that's why several of her former economic team praised Trump). When she first got to the presidency after her husband, she 'inherited' most of the advisors his husband had. But the leftist side won her ear, and as the most centered advisors started to resign, her policies started to be more and more reactionary and radicalized.

What I mean with this is that even when you don't agree with the one who is in charge now, just the fact that you are in a position to make him hear you, even if you frequently argue, probably sometimes not in the best of terms, at least it shows that there is going to be lots of resistance and that tends to moderate in some ways some policies that would otherwise be much much worse.

If you leave the inner circle, the only ones who are left are either the ones trying to radicalize the leader, of the ones who won't move a finger as long as they keep their share of power. And that inner circle becomes an eco-chamber, where eventually the leader really believes that what he is doing is great and can not comprehend why some people can't agree with what he proposes, basically living in a fantasy fed by the remaining advisors.

Again, this is what I've seen happening several times, not some wild speculation... and I hope this won't happen here. But every day I'm a little more pessimistic.
If you're not aware, many of the core contributors are employed by these companies, or extensions are built internally at these companies and then released opens source.

For example, the long time maintainer Junio works at Google and peff at GitHub.

I think the current management of the project, by the Project Leadership Committee, is working well and the project would gain little by coming under the direct management of any single company.
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I am willing to work for free as long as I have fun doing it, and I have a lot of experience with:

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I would rather say "to live your best life, make art"
Are you sure it doesn't let you just turn the service off in services.msc? I can't find any references online to the Home edition having that behavior.
AP is probably the most partisan of the USA wire services.

Here's an example:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3c437475b6384b91913d5ffee2b91...

Note the partisan wording and contrast that with their past, fawning articles about the Pelosi-run House.

"GOP pushes..."

"Republicans jammed..."

"... a warning shot that they might deploy brute political muscle..."

"With a near-toxic vapor of divisiveness between the two parties across Capitol Hill, nasty showdowns broke out..."

"Busting through a Democratic boycott..."

"...dominated by confrontation, even as lawmakers braced for an even more ferocious battle..."

"...fueled the fire by urging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to 'go nuclear'..." (note that AP calls it the "nuclear option" when Republicans even consider it but used no such terminology when Reid actually implemented it in the last term)

"...Wednesday's abruptly called Finance Committee meeting..."

etc.

Today's SF Chronicle used a more severe headline for this article: "GOP Pastes 2 top Cabinet picks..." ("pastes" being American slang for a violent, successfully-landed punch, not adhering two items together)
Now if only we can get people to stop antique computer languages from 1972. (yeah, yeah, I know, special cases. In fact I'm current working on a project using C on three different microcontrollers).
... but might still be wishy washy things like personal opinion or background of key stakeholders, company culture, etc.
> obsolete and wasteful supply chains

Well, that and outright theft by warlords with AK47s and thugs riding around in trucks...

[1]http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44147002/ns/world_news-africa/t/so...
Being a geek, I would have pre-registered the .net, .org and .com for many variations of any business I might start up, so there would be no need to pay a lot. I've seen people shaken down due to lack of hind-sight.

I would pay a lot to buy .org and .com (the TLD's themselves) but they won't sell them to me.
I agree regarding leases being attractive. I feel like between EVs and self-driving cars the auto industry is in a very rapid period of innovation.

Of course the price of leases may factor that in.
Edit bc flagged.
::shrug:: it refers to the US having the largest economy, military, and cultural influence. "Greatest", and "Freest", those are somewhere between meaningless and false. But "leader" is a statement of influence, although it is waning.
I favor Uber because Uber is pushing the world forward. Uber regularly engages in civil disobedience and political actions (at significant cost to themselves) that are necessary to defeat the entrenched powers.

Lyft and the others are free-riding on Uber's work. They wait for Uber to fix the world then they try to make money in that new, better world.
Every time this book is mentioned, I feel obliged to add the caveat that it was ghostwritten (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-g...)
Obviously they won't influence Trump on what he sees as a national security matter. But if you accept that Trump means everything he says, then jobs are also one of his top priorities. He wants Silicon Valley and automotive manufacturers there for a reason.
This is a trial balloon. Like the silence regarding shelling of a town in Ukraine. Belligerence re China is the other side of this coin. A betrayal of Europe.
Berkeley cancels scheduled talk by Milo Yiannopoulos
The space is "team sharing" for passwords. My reading of the post says that's a net new feature.

Or did I miss something?
Trump still has 24 hours in every day, and every hour that he's not talking to someone like Kalanick or anyone else, he is talking to Steve Bannon, possibly the most malevolent force to ever inhabit US politics. This is why Jared Kushner is particularly important at this time: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/opinion/where-is-jared...
It would be more than neat, it would create accountability when the daily flood of information makes things easily forgotten. The website should have every leader, public figure, and prominent organization too:

'What did they do during the Trump years?'
I was talking about primary school ...

Later on, things get better, yes, but not much.
> And I don't see anybody blinks here on HN about that. Why?

People did complain about start menu ads a lot when it first came out.

I don't see their "Edge is faster/more battery friendly" ads as entirely bad though

1. Edge is more battery friendly on Windows laptops
2. Google does the same thing by prompting you to install Chrome does it not?

Difference is OS vs website but google.com is the default "internet" for an awful lot of people...
Snopes says I'm wrong and even absentee votes are eventually counted, sorry for the misinfo: http://www.snopes.com/2016/11/13/who-won-the-popular-vote/

We have a first-past-the-post system in which only the top two candidates are viable, so 5.7% of the voters didn't prioritize keeping Trump out of office. If we set the bar at "I think this is the best qualified person on Earth for this office" every elected official has only had a small minority. If we set the bar at "of these two, this one is better" Hillary only won by 2% along with a lot of "don't care".
Understanding any politics in the Middle East requires one heck of a lot of mental gymnastics. That doesn't make it invalid.

The relationship Wahhabism has with the rulers on Saudi Arabia is pretty complex. Their interests aren't always aligned to say the least. It's pretty easy to make the case that Wahhabism is the biggest threat to the Saudi regime.

Put it like this: Wahhabism isn't exactly pro-US, and yet Saudi Arabia remains a strong ally of the US - one might almost say a client state. It's in the interest of the Saudi regime to keep that relationship, and good relationships with Israel are also in their interest.
What is Saudi Arabia? If we're talking about the rulers (read: the Saud family), they're certainly friendly with Israel.

Both nations share a common enemy: Islamists who deny the right of Israel and Saudi Arabia to exist. Note: a necessary step in the establishment of a Caliphate is the destruction of the modern Arab states, all of which Islamists generally regard as illegitimate.

The Saudi people are obviously very anti-Israel, which ties the hands of the rulers to some degree. Or at least prevents the rulers from openly being friendly toward Israel.
It's not a viable way to look at investing in ad companies. Advertising has historically been zero-sum (about 2% of the economy), and there's huge returns to scale (more data, bigger advertisers, etc). Unless your inventory is unique (which it isn't), you need reach (which is why TV is/was such a great platform). Look at Twitter, which is having a extremely difficult time w/ ads because of that lack of scale.

In ads, you want to be GOOG/FB, not TWTR.