skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great presentation, thanks for sharing it. Are there any others you recommend?
It could change with easier screening methods.
Thanks for this. I'm sure it's not quite as scary as it sounds, but the only thing I can think of that's more challenging than "start a business" is "start a business in a new country where you don't know the language." The "friendship treaty" seems like a great idea, but right now I'm not a very good friend.
Remove “CVS tips” section from the web site. This forbidden knowledge is now forbidden.

I am intrigued, but a tad bit confused.
If you start to debate the merits or costs of porn to the human psyche, you've already lost.

Delegitimization and criminalization of vice is an old, old, old, old, old trick in the book to stir people up against a "degenerate" "other" as a means to engineer their consent for their leaders to accumulate power and wealth.

It also provides a convenient way for dissidents to be delegitimized or arrested when police "find" (i.e. plant) evidence of drugs/porn/what-have-you. Old trick, works as well today as it has for thousands of years.
The back end should return data, in the form of json objects, xml, plain text, animated cat gifs, etc.
References to Next-Gen MacBook Pro Discovered in MacOS 10.12.4 Beta
I think you're refering to the Grand tack hypothesis[0], but Wikipedia is scarce on details as to how that scenario could've affected Mars orbit.

I was trying to see if this had a timeline, because the NASA cites lack of CO2 as far as -3.5GY, but there isn't enough detail in Wikipedia and my 5 minutes slack time is over :(

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_tack_hypothesis
What's needed (to put it in programming terms) is gradual refactoring, not a brand new system. We need to figure out small changes that can make things better. Once we have more confidence in the system we can start thinking about how to make bigger changes safely.

Here are a couple of small tweaks that will help a bit:

1. Ditch the electoral college, elect the president by popular vote. There's a concrete proposal for doing that, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...

2. Fix gerrymandering in congressional districts and state senates. Again, there's a concrete proposal, which recently won an important legal battle in Wisconsin (Whitford v Gill): http://www.fairelectionsproject.org

Neither of those helps bust open the two-party system, but they'll at least help level the playing field so that the big two parties don't have artificial incentives biased towards special interests.

Fixing voter suppression is very important. Anyone know of any good efforts afoot there?

As for third parties, I think that's probably best done first at the state level. If one or more states adopt a more proportional system internally, and show it can work well, that would provide a blueprint for implementing it nationally.

I guess Trump could get away with some really radical proposal, like using PR for the Senate. Both parties would almost certainly resist that though. He would need substantial popular backing, whereas every bungling decision he makes right now is making him less popular.
An Introduction to Solitons [pdf]
Great tool. I've been using it for over a year, never let me down. Would recommend for any Node.js dev
>> Meme cannot be a verb.

Yeah, stop verbing your nouns, dammit.
Someone could set up an email->fax interface for FOIA requests.
At the same time Russia is the go to country for hosting "revenge porn" sites and image forums with stolen nude photos. Because that wouldn't damage the psyche of anyone?

Fine if you decide that porn is bad, I don't agree, but that's something the Russians need to work out for themself. It's the blatant lying and use of double standards that annoys me.
All societies provide restrictions on human behaviour. Grown adults do make their own choices. To become gambling addicts, to beat wifes, to lie to each other. Not all of our choices are good or correct. We should always have the humility to accept we can make bad choices and that adulthood doesn't confer some mystical ability to make only good choices.

The difference is making restrictions through compassion, as a loving parent does to a child. Compared to making restrictions out of a desire for control, like all authoritarian rulers.
If everyone is so concerned about these boards going away, why doesnt someone just export the entire database and re-import it into some open source forum software so people can just continue to comment there.

I dont think this is trivial, but it could be done with some effort.
> I meant that the proportion of blacks that were slaves was far higher than the proportion that are now imprisoned.

My comment was about black men (ie, adult males) under correctional custody or supervision (ie, probation or parole). I think it's likely that the ratio is close to the 1850 number - by 1850 there were quite a lot of free black men.

But that's not really the issue - I'm more inclined to take issue with

> trying to paint our present situation as almost as bad as where we were just 150 years ago doesn't really make sense

I think the prison system is very, very bad. A horrifically ugly mark on our history. As bad as slavery, and as impactful on black families in many places. Life as a black family in a radically abolitionist state - say, Kansas - was almost surely less disrupted by slavery in 1850 than it is by the prison state today.
I've worked in the NLP research area (mostly with statistical metrics), and I can safely say that 80% (precision) is the empirical threshold that most metrics are able to reach quite easily. The threshold between 80% and 90% starts to get difficult and above that you have to do some tweaking to adapt to the specifics of your problem.

With that said, your values do seem to be in line with what I consider to be easily reachable, so it kind-of depends on how much work you need to do with the neural networks to extract those keywords. I'm not very knowledgeable on how NN are applied to this field, but I'm assuming that a drawback of that approach is that it may resemble a black-box in the sense that it may be hard to tweak the internals.

I prefer statistical metrics because they seem more simple to derive. For instance, you can think of things like "a relevant keyword is usually related with (or closer to) other relevant keywords" and you can test that hypothesis only by counting distances between words. This is what I've done in 2012 with quite good values, you can check the paper here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050912...
It all exists, it's just not as advertised as it should be.
What a loss! Seeing his TED talks did make an impact on me. He truly was an inspiring person.
but who will pay for the bandwidth?
The time I spent fixing logic and layout bugs on several build-a-dom projects has taught me this. For the same reason using CSS Selectors to crawl the DOM is superior. When it doesn't work, how hard is it to spot the bug? If you're working on the front end you need to look things up roughly the same way for style and behavior, and emit them roughly the way the browser will see them when it's time to look them up.

And yet I'm still in the anti JSX camp. I think it has something to do the gear switching that comes with opening up the mixing of data and logic but I can't articulate it farther than that,

Your brain can only juggle a handful of bits of data at a time. If you see someone doing something that looks like this doesn't apply to them, it's most likely because they've memorized the code. And to memorize code, that means it can't change much or very often. Which makes them dangerous. They have a bias toward maintaining the status quo, no matter how awful it is. Don't be that person.
Also 1/4 mile times and Nürburgring times.
I found this a very interesting look at the infrastructure behind a successful, fast-growing SAAS.

An infrastructure cost of 2% of revenue is impressive – a lot of bang for the buck. I wonder how other SAAS operations compare. And also where other SAASs sit on the DR scale...
I meant AdWords. But I guess both.
Dataset (177 MB) of 13,500 Nastygrams Could Advance War on Trolls
International Flights Search to the US is down 17% worldwide. +88% from Russia
Inevitably anti-pornography laws are enforced more harshly against more vulnerable groups.
Deploying Jenkins with Kubernetes
You are correct. The linked source claims that sexual assault rates have halved since the early 90s.

Of course, correlation != causation, but 50% is a huge amount and it overlaps quite neatly with the growth of the internet.

https://www.rainn.org/statistics/scope-problem
It has been a couple of days since I watched the video, but if i recall correctly their point was not about the tracking by browser extensions (which is horrible and as mentioned above is in most cases blockable) but more about the ease with which these datasets can be used to de-anonymize users completely. Most large companies will be able to construct at least a partial data set from licensing various tracking providers.
(regex is only pre 1.0 because its release candidate is in testing, it looks like 0.2 is gonna become 1.0 with no changes)

> It means any code that uses the old (inferior) urllib continues to work,

Rust lets you have multiple versions of a transitive dependency in your project, so they would continue to work.
The danger of discussing the issue from anecdotal evidence is that we don't know if cause and effect are reversed. There might be a huge group of porn consumers that aren't habitual consumers and don't have distorted views of sex & intimacy. It is only the ones that are stuck in habit and/or have the distorted views that make up the anecdotes.

There might be other factors at play for people that fall into destructive consumption of porn.
What is a Chatbot and how can companies use them?
Explained here so I will link rather than repeating it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10505251
12" iPad Pro + Apple Pencil.

Really a game changer.
Someone is paying random internet users to lobby for Betsy DeVos's confirmation
Why the Higgs Boson Found at the Large Hadron Collider Could Be an ‘Impostor’
I hadn't noticed this before, but aphyr has an elaborate and articulate ethics policy: http://jepsen.io/ethics

I like it.
Routing numbers aren't really something you can transfer, though. It defeats the whole point of a routing number if they get spread all over the system because clients move.
The same potential holds for cucumber test cases.
In a sense, holding corporations criminally liable is better. The fact that a corporation can't go to prison almost balances-out the lack of mens rea requirement.
It could be a trick, or, porn could be damaging to the human psyche.
That's how we do it as well. Bonus: you can test your business logic without having to run it on a phone.

I'm shocked more people don't do this—I guess they don't know C++?
Same with drug laws under Nixon/Reagan/Duerte.
I was bitterly disappointed in that too. The universal lack of interest was just appalling. I felt particularly betrayed by Labour's lukewarm support -- a proposal for a big, permanent change and they were fretting over how it would damage them in the short term.
how much could a bill like this possibly be per month ?

if people are so interested in keeping the forums, you could try to ask for donations ?
I'd say it's easy enough to look at Iceland to see how they handled the financial fallout. They imprisoned the bankers and bailed out their citizens. They have a booming economy now and no wealth inequality.
Google's cached version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8ws7tWb...
In The Netherlands almost all banks support a "forwarding service" when switching banks: direct debits to the old account will be forwarded for at least a year to the new bank (account).

You can bet the banks didn't think of this themselves, but it was probably forced on them by a consumer protection law. It is, coincidentally, something most Dutch people don't know exists.
Actually no, in contrast to Spotify, they generally secure licenses for content for a flat fee and a 1-3 year time frame. It doesn't matter how much content is actually viewed, other than Netflix deciding whether it's worth trying to renew or not.

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/062515/how-ne...
It's in the privacy/TOS section on the Samsung TV I bought from Costco 3 months ago.

"Interest Based Advertisement. Samsung provides the ability to obtain and view interactive and interest based advertising on your Smart TV. Interest based advertisements will rely on your TV viewing history and Smart TV usage information. Your viewing history includes information about the networks, channels, and programs viewed on your Smart TV and the amount of time spent viewing them. We may use automatic content recognition (ACR) and other technologies to capture this information."

It is opt-out, and it's buried a couple levels deep in the menus.
OK... but since when has Russia been moralistic about anything? Some of the nastiest most immoral webhosts on the planet ever have operated out of Russia for years.

Could this be Russian purveyors pulling strings to get "the competition" shut-out locally on some comically absurd moral pretext?
No, they're in the process of doing it right now.

The Digital Economy Bill is currently in the Lords. It's actually going to the Committee Stage tomorrow.

That's the bill that will force age verification (with security implications subsequently) as well as banning "non-conventional" pornography in the UK.

You can read more over at ORG: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/digital-economy-bi...

And if you'd like to write to a Lord on the issue: https://www.writetothem.com/lords
Which is really odd, since if they had any idea of what they were doing, they wouldn't need to sell. Trading is among one of the few industries out there where you don't need to have anything like a customer.

What you do is make money, and if you're making money, well, you don't need to ask anybody else for money. This tells me that its a bunch of executives who either don't know anything about trading and/or don't have any coherent strategy, and are really just trying to throw enough buzzwords out there to get investor capitol.
I know they have Formula E, but I'd love to see a all-electric Tesla in Le Mans.
Digital Ocean (vps)
> If the broad left takes power again

Doubt it, at least not in the next 8-12 years. Let's wait and see what President Trump does with Healthcare and the Economy.

If he messes up, Dems should be able to get everything back in no time.

> And, in the interest of supporting a united front between liberals and socialists

As a classical liberal, I find communists (anarcho-communists?) writing stuff like this (https://twitter.com/nunzioni/status/827041257323126784 / https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3otTkPVMAEBiEb.jpg) extremely concerning.
>I agree that CMake is better than handwriting a Makefile

Really? I feel the opposite. At least when I write makefiles by hand I understand them fully.

Cmake just confuses me, I'm not sure it's such and improvement.
> Source: Have worked in HFT the past 10 years.

This is not about High Frequency Trading, but about machine learning applied to the stock market.
...or you could find a way to detect it earlier. I'm not sure why you'd simply throw up your hands in defeat. It's not an unsolvable problem, just a difficult one.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170206111912.h...
> Ending Bretton Woods was voluntary.

"You can't fire me, because I quit" - It's as voluntary as that, i.e., not. There were good reasons to have something close to a Gold standard in place but it just could not be maintained as the quantity of money in circulation increased continuously.

> If economists at a central bank can foresee a crisis, the crisis doesn't happen.

That does not address the fact that they didn't foresee it.

> If you want to prevent crises, you need to put regulation up

Or you just don't finance crises by having a naturally determined interest rate (instead of one determined by the central bank).

> the currency race to the bottom

I mean the fact that every major central bank inflates its balance sheet in order to decrease the value of its currency and "stay competitive".

Your comment is very condescending.
We just purchased a Dometic 94 liter dual-zone fridge: https://www.dometic.com/en/se/products/food-and-beverage/coo...

It is much more efficient than DC fridges of even just a few years ago. It has configurable settings to respond to battery levels and can be configured via wifi.
Big four employee outsourced to big bank. The lack of in-house knowledge is always troubling. Also screen scraping data and automating processes by having a program take control of the mouse/keyboard and click/type is a big seller to banks.
The Wired story was not accurate. It's true that some early (late 70s) UK electronic slot machines had predictable payout series, but this was quickly noticed and fixed. It is trivially simple to build electronic slot machines that are not beatable by observing any reasonably short series of outcomes (for that matter, from observing over the lifetime of the machine).

The successful electronic slot machine hacks in the last 35 years have all involved either measuring internal machine states or modifying the machines.

In this case, the machines were modified to allow profitable play. This is done either to sell the machines to naive casinos (which is what the Russians did in this case) or to casino managers who use them to skim (the manager's confederates win money which need not be reported to casino owners or tax authorities).

Another practice is to modify machines to extract the maximum amount from players, exploiting behavioral tendencies, rather than giving random payouts as required by regulation in most jurisdictions. Advantage gamblers sometimes discover these machines and use the knowledge to play profitably. But it's not enough to observe a few dozen outcomes, you need to know something about how the payoffs are structured.

You won't find these machines in Nevada, because (a) the regulators are smart and powerful and (b) the place is too big a gold mine to risk over small increases in slots revenue. But there are lots of places with inattentive or weak regulators, in which slots is the whole ball game.
Fine should be bigger than price of the data.

Expected return from 'illegal' activity E = R - p * F,
where R is revenue, F is fine and p is probability of getting caught.

p < 1, so if F < R engaging in such activity is a rational, if immoral, choice.
We have no plans to move to another Ruby implementation, primarily because Ruby itself is not yet a bottleneck for us.
Scala introduced first-class support for XML through a DSL a decade ago. I believe the feature has been phased out because it was useless. I've personally never found it useful either.
Northeastern Alabama here...my choices are Farmer's Telecom Coop's fiber or nothing. CenturyLink's DSL never made it to the nearest substation.

Fortunately, the speed's good enough and I'm happy with their service otherwise.
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But can it complete a lap around the track without going into limp mode? High-power bursts are nice and all but sustained performance is important too.
Cees H, he's a (former?) drug lord. Guy had like $700m of his illicit profits in cash. Which is a lot in Holland. For some reason the state paid him ~$2m in compensation after he was released from jail. For being caught?

A minister recently resigned because they lied about it:

http://www.euronews.com/2017/01/27/dutch-minister-resigns-ov...
I'd rather just try really hard to get people to understand that active trading is negative sum, and that unless (As a mom and pop investor) you are properly bench-marking against a relevant index - you're just lying to yourself.

Sure HFT guys are faster than you to get short term signals and make money on the micro scale - but even ignoring that way too many people are thinking they're beating the market and they really really aren't.
Person with ADHD here; the following works for me, YMMV:

1) short afternoon bike ride; I'm typically losing focus about an hour after lunch and need to get outside;

2) Terrible at learning in a classroom, excellent at learning from video lectues and textbooks where I can pause and take notes;

3) drink a lot of water and coffee so you have to get up to go to the bathroom a lot, change of scenery is really nice;

4) I disabled my facebook account and put my browser on Desktop-screen-2 so I totally shift over to a new environment when checking the internet;

5) Found a job in which constantly checking email and paying attention to new stimuli is a virtue.
I am filled with sadness about this.
At least since Tolstoy.
I don't think it's an issue with the batteries but rather the heat on the power electronics.
Trying to fight a local attacker with root (which is necessary to add a certificate to the trust stores on most platforms) isn't worth the effort. It's easy for the admin to bypass and would cause even more warning fatigue.

That's not to say I disagree with the sentiment that this is something employers (and other organizations providing access to devices) should be obliged to disclose, but that is perhaps more of a legal and educational issue.
Le Mans would probably be the worst place to get an all electric car performing adequately. Energy density and refill times just aren't anywhere near up to the task compared to gasoline.

EDIT: or diesel
Sad news, his visualizations and approach to communication were the first to get me interested in this field.
Resolving differences, while sometimes painful, very often leads to better code

If the team can resolve differences, it functions. The other commenter seemed to imply his team didn't.
You bring up a good point, in that my question was poorly worded, I've edited it to be more clear.
"sooner rather than later"
Both of the stances you're trying to draw a moral distinction between are authoritarian stances.
Ask HN: Earlier diagnosis – what can be done?
Reflecting after the news of Hans Rosling's death from pancreatic cancer today and thinking of the cancer patients I know and knew left me wondering if better earlier diagnosis would help us in the fight against cancer and other deceases, and if there is anything hacker community at large could help with?

I understand this question is too broad. Some things I thought about: open source software and hardware for medical imaging (there is a project to build DIY ultrasound scanner), gathering your own personal data on genome, exome, microbiome and running analysis on it, gathering the history of regular blood tests? Gamification of the regular screening? Interactive explanations and/or games modeling processes within body?
I would guess it's expensive enough to get cut, right? People could donate, sure. It would still need dedicated resources. It's a popular enough service to need high concurrency and reasonably high availability - at least for peak usage, like when the new trailer for the next great trilogy drops.
It's standard practice for Russia to do things for one reason and give a completely unrelated official reason as excuse.

I'm not too familiar with the specifics of this case, but I can easily imagine this just being a case of nationalist protection. In that they want people to go to local Russian porn outlets that can be better controlled, tracked & monetized. Then again, it could also be something as simple as some Russian official being pissed off and on a personal vendetta mission.
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