skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree with some, disagree with some but this one surprised me:

> and to migrate to a GmbH later is a PITA

I've never done it myself but what I know it should just be a short trip to the notary, they take care of the rest. Did you have a different experience?
I think asking him to refute points gets to the heart of the issue -- in an environment where nobody has enough information to speak authoritatively on a subject, the people who are willing to do so anyways are advantaged. (Think about the qualifications or knowledge that one would have to have to make an informed assessment of this.) This is bad for productive discussion.

I agree that empty snark is usually unproductive, but in this case, I think there's a useful point being made. Still, always best to rephrase into non-snark. :)
If you have a visa or Green Card and are from one of the 7 countries, or have a passport stamp from one of those countries, I would DEFINITELY consult an immigration lawyer before travelling outside the USA right now.
Cause salaries in the US are 10x of those in India? Do you think US protectionism would bring even those jobs back?
It is not clear from the announcement nor the code, but in principle, I don't see a reason that it can't be a DVCS.

Sure, GVFS downloads files only when first read; but maybe it keeps them cached? Maybe you can still work on them and commit changes after you get offline? At least in principle, nothing prevents that.
Not really private, just keeps your local machine clean. Despite TeMPOraL's labeling it "porn mode" my most common use case is if I need to log into my Google account from my wife's laptop I'll use an Incognito mode window in Chrome so that I don't have to log her out of her Google account.
> Don't panic. Or, panic in a controlled and practiced fashion.

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According to that logic, if I found a software exploit that allows me to order anything for free on Amazon, I should be allowed to keep all the stuff without any consequences, because it's the resistibility of Amazon to prevent such loopholes from being used?
I should think, can I beat Facebook? If no. So give up. If yes, make something interesting than Facebook.
Actually it is. I just moved about 35k instances and 6PB in s3, multiple many TB pg instamces from AWS to google. It is not that bad anymore. Containers and fast internet make it easyish
> I think Kalanack just lends respectability to a mad man.

What confuses me most is the notion that suddenly Kalanick has all this tremendous personal influence and respectability, from people who are plenty happy to jump on him in other contexts. Is there a single person who was saying, "Well, I wasn't sure about Trump, but that Uber guy supports him..."? It seems like many of the other names on the committee have much more favorable mind-share, and so in that dimension must be doing more harm, and yet are getting less criticism.
What I think about when I use Facebook: don't use Facebook.
Rather keen on getting impl Trait myself. I won't have to return so many Vecs!
I had something done under something akin to "twilight sleep" - it was oral surgery, and I took a pill in a doctor's office. It came out of a bottle stored in a safe, and I understand why - I was so afraid of the procedure, I started crying after taking the pill, but 10 minutes later I calmed down, and then I remember nothing - except a brief blip of the surgeon suturing something in my mouth - until getting home.

Apparently I was awake and responsive enough to follow instructions throughout the procedure, but as far as my memory is concerned, it simply didn't happen.

No wonder they kept those pills in a safe.
Elsevier used to demand you sign over all copyright, which would make that illegal (think about it...!!) They've also sent takedown notices to academics that posted their own articles on their own website. Oh, and by the way, Elsevier also sued Sci-hub and LibGen...

The Wikipedia article has a long section of criticism of Elsevier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier#Criticism_and_controv...
No offense intended, but what you're doing here, a performative version of your life described in a way that makes you look good, is a big social media activity. As is the broad critique of society and particular things in it.

I'd add that I don't think current social media tools are much different than my experience of Usenet and Listservs of yore. Or HN. Or the offline world where a lot of people are thrown together, like schools and workplaces. People are people.

As an introvert, I pretty easily get tired of people, so I can sympathize with your reaction. And I go through periods of seeing the worst in people. But that's more about what I'm seeing than about what people are.
A few of us were joking about poisoning the location tracking database of site along a similar vein. Have an app masking your location to some place in the pacific ocean to any app running in the background asking for location (without the user's intent of using it).
In a stunning reversal, the former top lobbyist for the cable industry as head of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association returned with a new proposal that gave consumers what they had asked for

How seriously am I meant to take an article so intent on misleading me? Wheeler was President of NCTA back in nineteen eight four --- predating not just the commercial Internet but the modern cable industry and its dominant role in the media landscape. When Wheeler was last involved with NCTA, cable companies were startups.

Further, contrary to the claim this article makes, Wheeler didn't introduce controversial fast-lane policies to skirt net neutrality. Rather: the courts struck down broad regulations on fast-lanes altogether, and Wheeler attempted to introduce narrower restrictions. He did literally the opposite thing this article implies he did.
The "Most common misconceptions about Private Browsing" part is actually misleading for Firefox users, because that does apply Tracking Protection in private browsing mode. So some of the top misconceptions aren't, at least not if you use Firefox.

(Yes, yes, it can never be perfect, but I don't believe that invalidates the point)
Some people would look at this and say

"We unambiguously won WWII. Back then the 'greatest generation' knew what was needed to win a war, and wasn't squeemish about doing what needed to be done. WWII was the last major war we actually won. Since then we have become too politically correct to actually win wars. Trump will change that. We will win again."
Oh yes, it will be unstable but nothing will change.
Also if I could down vote you for saying that person has no experience I would. You just have the data to say that other than not picking the details
I don't think "the answers are out there" so cut and dry. There's many political and social opinions that there isn't a clear resolution on. So unless we have a very good way to solve this concretely and provably I think it's best to not get involved in trying.
Some people like having a sense of control. They may rather be aware of what's happening.
Maximum expected value is not always optimal. Bets are an investment with uncertain returns. In normal circumstances, portfolio theory helps us optimize our investments. This reduced-variance format removed the budget constraint and made portfolio theory irrelevant. Overbets made sense to the bot who had only trained in this particular format, but not to the humans who have trained for years with a budget.
Coding the Matrix – Linear Algebra using Python 3 from Brown (2014)
yep. you got it one, wiley coyote.
I'm the opposite. I can't even watch fake needles go "into" arms on television.
GP was replying to a comment about the performance of PS compared to cmd.exe, stating that PS could never be on par with cmd.exe because it needs to load more.
Could it have been the alt text for the image? I believe the grandparent comment was also pasting the alt text, since Facebook auto-generates alt text for blind users using ML (this is mentioned in the article).
Uber Flat Rate Packages
Snap is using appengine, which transparently manages scale, availability, resiliency, deployment, and so forth. It's a higher level of service than ec2. Thus many of the valid concerns you describe do not apply to snap, or are at least minimized.

( Work at Google cloud)
One more comment that saves quite a lot of money in the phase where you are building your company: DO NOT APPLY FOR VAT TAX EXEMPTION!

If you are in the initial investment phase and you have more bills than earnings, you'll get 19% of the bills back from Finanzamt. You'll pay 19% of your invoices, too, but if thats less, you're saving.

If you're starting to earn, the Finanzamt will remove the exemption anyways.

Don't know if that makes sense for an outsider, but just read it up and thank me later.
Cool! This reminds me a bit of weatherspark, which used to have a fantastic tool for visualizing long term trends. What were the 10th/50th/90th percentile temps for a given day over the last 30 years, etc. I wonder if the data sets here could be used to build something similar.
For people who love python here, do you use python 2 or python 3? 2.7? 2.8? 3.5?
This is correct at least for Firefox.

The new Container Tabs feature works similarly: it splits cookies.
I doubt they will do that, they know that the project's success is 90% based on developer goodwill.

My guess is that they will up-sell to a version with bundled plugins which offer turnkey integration with Azure.
Title is a little misleading but a good article.

"Surveys done on users perceptions of private browsing" or at they titled the paper "A Study on Private Browsing:
Consumer Usage, Knowledge, and Thoughts"
To generalize this: when programs try to be clever, they often wind up being stupid.

I'd personally prefer that programs just acknowledge they're stupid and give me, the user, more control.
Voting for Trump would indicate that they are sufficiently okay with his behavior. Nothing has established that they were perfectly okay with it.
Back when this product was announced and discussed on HN[0], one of the primary complaints was the 5-report limit that it imposed on free users. Having that lifted seems like it may make a lot of people happy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12897415
Profits aren't enough? Often the notion that the company would be "forced" to sell at a higher price when they produce local is baloney. Like the Sears wrench fiasco, where they claimed producing a certain wrench locally would raise prices too much, then started make a knockoff in China which they sold at the exact same price point.

The point is, too often the savings from outsourcing are passed onto neither the consumer or the employee, so there is definitely question as to who is "really" hurt by protectionist policies.
2D Liquid Simulator with Cellular Automaton
iPhone special edition for developing country? Will it be region locked?
The "Cliff Notes" version is...
We (Americans) expect certain wages. Producing most consumer goods is a low-wage endeavor. Bringing production back to the US leads to an increase in price and lower sales.

We can force the issue with protectionist policy, but that doesn't change the underlying economic realities. Bringing production of cheap consumer goods back to the US would increase prices for everybody else.

In the long run, we are better off with free trade. We get the low prices we desire. The foreign country gets to develop an industrial base on which to build a large, prosperous economy. China over the last 20 years or so is a prime example - we get $1 t-shirts, they get factory jobs that increase their standard of living.
PS4 Update 4.50 – External HDD Support Is Finally Available
How does Whonix provide privacy? From the details I see that it is providing anonymity through TOR, but I don't see any mention of encryption.
The example applies more to a ring game, where you might be going after a particular fish and don't want to get involved with a better player. Still, I think it illustrates the principle of trying to keep the variance down.

Also, if you're first to act on the next round, it might be worth asking, even if you don't think they'll agree.
It's also worth noting that these things rarely begin with total action against an "other" -- they begin with baby steps, striking at the most vulnerable and easily scapegoated. The Holocaust didn't begin with Nazis shipping all the Jews to concentration camps, it began with things like protests against Jewish business owners (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_boycott_of_Jewish_busines...) and laws punishing Christians who married Jews (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws).

Which is why it's critical to oppose these horrible ideas when they are still in their early, tentative steps. Once they pick up momentum, they are much harder to stop.
It would work for some things, and cause problems for other things.

The question is not whether it would bring benefits, the question is whether the benefits would outweigh the costs. Pointing to a benefit doesn't answer that question.
> Seems like with GVFS they are making DVC to be a CVS again. What is the point?

It sounds like they answered that:

> In a repo that is this large, no developer builds the entire source tree. Instead, they typically download the build outputs from the most recent official build, and only build a small portion of the sources related to the area they are modifying. Therefore, even though there are over 3 million files in the repo, a typical developer will only need to download and use about 50-100K of those files.

Source will still be distributed among the developers that touch it. Seems like a decent compromise.
>> businesses don't care -- it's their public storefront.

Until they land in the news for something and then people can go back and start digging up and doxxing people at the company and any other nefarious information they can get their hands on. ANY information on a business FB page is like a gold mine for social engineers. Everybody on FB eventually "over shares" information they think is safe, but its really not.
to be fair, i cant say that i care if people are fair to a multinational corporation. whether linux fans are right or not they are still only doing whats best for their bottom line. should a company get a trophy for doing what its customers want?
There is a discussion thread on r/programming, where MS folks, who implemented this answer questions. A lot of questions like why not use multiple repos, why not git-lfs, why not git subtree, etc. are answered there

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5rtlk0/git_vir...
Not quite: it really does only go to Nash in a 2p zero sum game.

In a multiplayer zero-sum game, there's no theoretical proof that it should go to Nash. In the tiny 3p game of 3p Kuhn poker (3 players, 4 card deck, enough chips for one bet) we found that it does go to Nash (here's the paper: https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/poker/publications/AAM...). But in a slightly larger toy game, 3p Leduc poker, we empirically found that it does not. Like you suggested, we did this with best response calculations. If you take the strategy profile CFR produces and then compute a best response in each position, those best responses each improve over the strategy profile. If you plot that loss over time while CFR is running, it becomes clear that it does not converge to Nash: it eventually bottoms out and does not improve further.

However - in practice, the strategies produced by CFR for multiplayer games still appear to be quite strong, even if not Nash. This was the approach used by the University of Alberta for years in the Annual Computer Poker Competition, and it crushed the competition there. In 3p Limit Hold'em, the CFR strategies also held up well against human pros in informal testing by the U of A.

Nash equilibrium isn't a compelling goal in a multiplayer game anyways. In a 2p game it theoretically guarantees that you earn at least the game value (i.e., do no worse than tie if you rotate seats every game). In a multiplayer game, even if you could compute one, there's no such theoretical guarantee, when all other players at the table are independently choosing strategies. Even if everyone at the table uses an independently computed Nash equilibrium, that set of strategies is not necessarily itself a Nash equilibrium (in 2p zero sum games, it is).

To summarize - for multiplayer, it doesn't necessarily go to Nash. But you might not care if it does or not, and it works great in practice even though it doesn't go to Nash.

In a non-zero-sum game, you're right that CFR converges to a correlated equilibrium. But we can also theoretically bound how close it gets to a Nash for the non-zero-sum game, and empirically measure how close it gets by using best response analysis. The answer is - if it's only slightly non-zeo-sum (e.g., subtracting the rake in a poker game for negative sum, or pretending to add money to the pot to encourage aggressive play) then CFR still gets very close to Nash.
I read his point as praise of comment actually.
You are not missing out on much.

The only productive use of Facebook is to keep in touch with people. If you do this using alternative methods (Whatsapp, email or direct phone calls) then you save yourself from the continuous stream of garbage that is the news feed.
The focus here is not deduplication. However, if you want to think of it in those terms, it is sharing data at the 'layer' granularity (not block, not file, but a bunch of files) and that's co-ordinated by Docker. The main property of this filesystem is that it is layer aware; it clones layers efficiently and optimizes common workflows in the docker ecosystem.
"Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life."
Isn't that the case that LFS solves? I've got 30ish gigs of binary blobs stored in my repos.
Starts on Page 2 at the bottom and moves up. Half of this course was taught on Coursera in 2013.

Book on Amazon, Kindle version $3:
https://www.amazon.com/Coding-Matrix-Algebra-Applications-Co...
filter bubble probably: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
Al Qaeda and ISIL/ISIS/Daesh are different beasts. The latter's stated intention has been the establishment of a modern caliphate that counts all of the world's Sunni Muslims as citizens and that wages a war against the rest of the world (Shia, Jewish, Christian, whatever). It wants all Sunnis to be ejected from the West and sent back to live under its caliphate. Given that, it "wins" when the West (a) rejects Muslims (especially Sunnis fleeing ISIL) or (b) talks about Islamism as an existential threat (i.e. lionizes ISIL).
Native promises and bluebird use different microtask queues on Node which makes interop incorrect (which is also one of the reasons why bluebird is ES6 spec non compliant). See https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9936c695f2c29e79a0c1a0dec8...

This might lead to subtle ordering bugs, I would recommend against using both together.

Using bluebird and native promises together may result in slower performance because V8 has fast paths for native promises which fail for bluebird.
I should clarify - I don't expect a return on what I put out. I get a ton of value for what I take in, and not using Twitter would take that away to the point of detriment.

I view the article author's point as using Twitter as a platform, and she is getting her value out of it. I look at it like a giant party where I can eavesdrop on interesting people and sometimes say something - sometimes people talk back, sometimes I'm taking to myself in the corner. I'm fine with it, and happy to be at the party.
Why you should (still) consider sending a year-end email to subscribers
It's really great to see useful software like this becoming freely available but I do sometimes worry about the effect big players like Google have on niche markets like this. Any company building products in this space are about to feel the squeeze as their potential customers instead pick the free option.

Small products inside of a big company don't have to be independently viable. It seems like the natural conclusion to this setup, whether intentional or not, is that the big companies create monopolies in these niches by pricing out the competition. That's great for the consumer while everything's free and there are still alternatives. I'm not sure how this will play out in the long run though.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, post 12 May 1780:

"I could fill Volumes with Descriptions of Temples and Palaces, Paintings, Sculptures, Tapestry, Porcelaine, &c. &c. &c. -- if I could have time. But I could not do this without neglecting my duty. The Science of Government it is my Duty to study, more than all other Studies Sciences: the Art of Legislation and Administration and Negotiation, ought to take Place, indeed to exclude in a manner all other Arts. I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Painting and Poetry Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine"

Always wanted to amass library of military history, strategy, diplomacy. Seems a great list to start. Also wondering if any list available regarding the more technical side. Jane's guides to aircraft carriers and the like. Thanks!
Much depends on the position of the teeth. Pulling some with pliers would cause so much bleeding that choking could kill the patient (teeth still well below gum line).
Hey, thanks for the mention! I've read hacker news for years, this seems like a good reason do de-lurk. If anyone has questions, I'm happy to answer them. I wrote that summary for a pretty broad target audience, and the technical details are fun to explore.
I don't think so. They try as hard as possible. A lot of it is directly related to V8. In Node.JS v8.0.0 nightly they currently support 70% of the ES2015 spec without flags.

You can check the progress here: http://node.green/
Overall numbers are hard to come by, especially for smallish incidents, but of the 23 acts of terrorism in 2016 killing a hundred or more people, 100% of them were done by Muslims.

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

> they're not being banned from the USA

Were there countries with huge numbers of extremely violent mentally ill people, I have no doubt the US would limit or halt immigration from those places.

There are huge numbers of radical or radical-sympathetic Muslims. If you have an open mind, I suggest getting a Muslim's take on the actual numbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPvnFDDQHk (warning, has numbers, may not be PC)

It's fine to support open immigration, but denying that there is an unusual problem with violence in the Muslim community is indefensible.
I write new stuff in Python3, and what I do easily works on any Python3.

I don't have Python2 code to maintain, but if I had I would seriously consider updating it. Because I think the changes are reasonable for the most part.

Dou you write your C code in GCC C? Intel C? Microsoft C? C89? C99? C11? What libraries and what versions do you use?
Well it's a problem for thousands of employees of Microsoft, isn't it? We've had much smaller repository (10GB IIRC) and it really was annoying how long everything took, even with various caches and what not enabled.
Atlassian's Bitbucket and Microsoft's Visual Studio Team Services both also support Git LFS.
It includes Starship Troopers? ok...

I would suggest adding The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman's Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns

it was the textbook for the civil war part of my History of American Military Affairs class back when I was a student. Very easy read. I think I loaned my copy to someone and never got it back, I may have to buy it again.

https://www.amazon.com/March-Sea-Beyond-Carolinas-Campaigns/...