skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apparently a specific comparison formed in your mind, though, for some mysterious reason.

Doesn't seem mysterious. The claim you are responding to is that, intentional or not, the author described Trump but said they were describing Hitler. That Trump came to mind is unsurprising.

Trump is commanding an absurd proportion of the media and social media's attention. Readers and authors are overprepared to see Trump everywhere in a world where it's hard to load a web page without seeing his name and face on it. Sometimes I go to a news site and load each section one by one to see if there is a single section that doesn't feature him prominently -- sometimes the sports or entertainment sections manage to avoid Trump, but not always.

I personally find the Hitler comparisons to be about as absurd as the birther movement was. And yet when I read the word "Hitler", my first thought is "Trump" and not "holocaust" or "tiny moustache". That isn't because I find the comparison apt -- I find it absurd. It's because Trump is so prominent in my attention and because absurd comparisons to Hitler have been made so many times that it's becoming expected.
As a suggestion, let's keep the homophobia to a nonexistent level, please.
Then create a fake account every week. On a fresh VPN/Tor connection so it's not tied to your IP. Better use a different browser too so it's not fingerprinted [0]. Make sure you disable those sharing links and the JS that loads them in.

Let's be real, they get data about you in a million ways. It'll all be aggregated somehow, and I wouldn't be surprised if they did aggregate in other ways like IP/browser, and those sharing links definitely leave cookies behind.

[0]: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Once you do, you no longer look at the world the same, but also don't have in common with majority of the people. It is a little bit like waking up from Matrix. :)
The people these notes are targeted at are not going to use whatever the vanity "secure" non-Google-infected non-Apple-infected non-Microsoft-infected options you'll have in mind. It's not going to happen. If you want to write a separate set of recommendations for people who spend their lives on Tor, that's fine. These recommendations have to work for people who are barely willing to install software, let along switch to idiosyncratic hardware.
Is there a theory that the DMT "beings" are actually your bodies cells and proteins visualised and communicating as different entities?

The whole "You should not be down here, but hello" at a very very self macro level? Maybe even at the atomic level?
Just start somewhere (say Kaggle/Scikits) and then just work your way through. Many will tell you that you need to know 2^{X} to get somewhere, but what they mean is that some elementary familiarity with some of X is advisable. The exceptions are calculus, and some vector/matrix math (really the definitions in "linear algebra").

The math for things that work (these days) ^(TM) is quite boring and would take a quarter of lectures (see any of a number of MOOCs). Some of it is quite tricky like convex optimization and graphical models, but you'll likely never have to know these details unless you're in academia. The latter have also fallen out of popularity, so you know... less things to know. Convex optimization these days is all about stochastic-distributed things, which is probably not the ML you (or most "data scientists") have in mind.

Best thing to do would be to work through the homeworks of some course offering at CMU/Stanford/UW. The principle is generally simple, but you'll have to wade through the symbols, and implement something to make sure you understand the symbols. This is probably the best exercise if you want to understand things.

You could also just look at and modify the code in scikits, since this will save you a lot of work with regards to the engineering bit. Kaggle might be help, but I found them mind-numbingly boring (usually with leaky datasets), which have to be hacked for performance with endless tweaking on XGboost.

To be honest, I really think ML is overhyped (it is also quite boring as a job). If you want to do math, you should be doing math.
What was the negative point for?
Not irrelevant, it is my understanding that it can still cut the effort required considerably.

If you are using only a 128-bit key, a quantum computer can cut the brute-force effort required to 2^64, which is feasible today.
This needs to be said over and over again. There's two different species of plants commonly known as Datura: Jimsonweed, Datura stramonium, and Sacred Thronapple, Datura wrightii. It's Datura wrightii that the Native Americans used as a hallucinogen, while Datura stramonium seems to have only been used as medicine or poison.

People don't bother making this important distinction anymore and end up foolishly taking the more common D. stramonium. This is probably why Datura has become so infamous, not that D. wrightii is "safe", but it certainly appears to be safer than D. stramonium.

From the Native American Ethnobotany Database:

Datura wrightii: http://naeb.brit.org/uses/species/1244/

Datura stramonium: http://naeb.brit.org/uses/species/1243/
I had the same thought when I first saw deep dream (which look exactly like drug hallucinations) and read the explanation behind it. That's when I first had my "oh shit" moment, realizing that DNN researchers really are onto something. I started taking discussions about AI a lot more seriously after that.
The single-repo is quite surprising. How do they manage to store that much data in a central place? I guess they're using some sort of distributed network file system - This seems overly complex though. It would be interesting to know if this was intentional (if there is a reason for this) or things just evolved like this out of habit.

I think that engineers in most large software companies don't actually accomplish much on a day-to-day basis. I'm saying this after having worked in both corporations and startups. Large companies are laughably inefficient - Engineers tend to focus all of their energy on very narrow (often tedious) problems at great depth.

These huge companies never try to reign-in the complexity because they don't really need to - Soon enough, the employees at these companies get used to the enormous complexity and start thinking that it's normal - And when they switch jobs to a different company; they contaminate other companies with that attitude. That's why I think startups will always have an advantage over corporations when it comes to productivity.

In these big companies, the most clever, complex solutions tend to win.
What's your own use case? Do you have a good source of example use cases for ACLs in Windows NT?
I see cheap labor on mechanical turk woohoo upvotes are in my future for 1 cent!
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13612054 and marked it off-topic.
> A non-biology MIT professor may have no idea what DNA is.

I would be fairly shocked if more than 0.1% of the time this was the case.

PS: I loved the second link!
> And thus you would have the last line being special and different.

Except you've now traded the last line being special for the first line being special.
Oh looky, another site that almost does this with a JAVA emulator: http://virtualapple.org from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13621524
Is there a documented attack on say, Apple's Magic Keyboard?

(if it is true that some (relatively modern) bluetooth keyboards are sniffable and some aren't, I'm sure you can convince them to amend the article with specific models that are believed to be better)
In case you missed it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13298734
Thank you for the offer, but we are already past that stage, we have the MVP that was built, and need to turn it into a real product with the in-house devs.
That's a great suggestion. I went one step lower and wrote a (perl-based) virtual-machine. As you suggested I did the bare minimum at first, for example when I see labels I just remember their locations. Later on I patch up the offsets in the code, to make jumps to them point to the correct location.

The project seems reasonably popular, for reasons that I don't understand, but it is very simple:

https://github.com/skx/simple.vm
I get this, but it's kind of funny to hear someone say Twitter's unique value proposition is that you can ignore it. As a non-user I must be extracting tons of value from it then! It's the poor users I feel sorry for!

Just joking around. But, not completely. The value you speak of is really the ability to spend your time on something potentially more worthwhile. People forget social media has an opportunity cost.
Protip: there is no wisdom of the crowd
The fact that some people still slice up the genitals of infants for religious or cosmetic reasons.
> Eating carrots improves your eyesight

it doesn't improve your visual acuity, but it can have a positive effect on your overall eye health [1]. there's vastly more to eyesight than sharpness/clarity. my wife is an optometrist.

[1] http://yoursightmatters.com/carrots-really-improve-eyesight/
See my reply elsewhere in this post to the ACM article. It's custom in-house based on their own distributed databases. The front-end UI is based on perforce, but there is a Git front-end (but logically it behaves a lot like perforce).

As the ACM paper calls out, files are loaded asynchronously like on access, so you only have the files you need on your desktop. From a developer's point of view, you can see all the files in the entire repo at all times. And with how CITC (client in the cloud) works, I can move from a laptop to a desktop without any effort (all of the files I have in a working state on one are immediately available everywhere I can access CITC).

As far as complexity... how would a large company solve these problems without these large and complex systems? Google is probably one of the more efficient ways I've seen large companies work. When you want all your devs to share code, thing get hard at scale.
Any advantage over firebase?
Except for the timesheet thinng, the rest is common in manual labor jobs in the US. An orange picker goes to his boss with a sore back? Fired.
> Mongo

MongoDB doesn't scale. Short story, only one node in a replication group can accept read/write.

You're not going anywhere if you compare SQL databases to the worst of the NoSQL database that ever existed.

Go try actual databases NoSQL that doesn't suck: cassandra, riak, elasticsearch, dynamodb, redshift, bigquery.
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Indeed, it's important to remember that publications like Wired do have a narrative they want to push. My favourite example of this is still these two articles about the possibility of hacking election machines to rig the election:

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/wireds-totally-legit-guide-rig... - from before the election, claiming it was basically impossible and would require a massive conspiracy

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/hacked-not-audit-election-rest... - from after the election, arguing the safeguards against hacking are ineffective and casting doubt on the security of the election

Both articles are backed up by a convincing-sounding set of facts and expert opinions, yet despite the available evidence not actually changing they come to completely opposite conclusions. All that changed was that before the election "hacking voting machines is impossible" was the better anti-Trump narrative, and after he won there was suddenly a reason to cast doubt on the results. It's all about the narrative. (Which is one reason you should question the endlessly-repeated claim that there's "no such thing as alternative facts". Careful selection of which facts to include and exclude is a great way to create a narrative.)
Chrome has more robust exploit mitigations and its separated architecture is more mature than Firefox's.
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I'm an SRE. Both the OP article and the YouTube video are making generalizations that aren't really accurate.

There's two positions called "SREs", SRE-SWE and SRE-SA. SRE-SWE has to pass a full software interview, and are equivalent to SWEs working for other departments. SRE-SA are not expected to have Google-level software engineering skills, but make up for that in other knowledge areas.
City wise, we have 3 options.
Boston, New York or San Diego.

I guess the best test of their skills would be a referenceable experience. A github portfolio or something.
Your data only goes back 10 years. Mathematically, whether 70% up/down works out to beat the market depends on the period we're talking about.

> I think you will find in just this example the market beats your portfolio by more than 1% here. This is just a simple example and I am being generous. When you look at real data you will not only find a similar pattern, but your portfolio gets absolutely crushed by the market.

Here's a python script that generates random numbers to simulate the stock market. Each time you run it, you'll get a different result: http://pastebin.com/UNtDPjxd This is basically your "simple example" run many times side by side. Sometimes a hedged strategy works better; sometimes not.

The place I got this idea in the first place was a book I read in college about the history of hedging as a strategy. It noted one of the earlier demonstrations of why it's a good strategy was when a fund showed that participating in 70% of the gains/70% of the losses of the S&P beat the S&P. But which years? This matters. Unfortunately, I can't find the book anywhere. IIRC, I think we'd be talking about a stretch covering the 40s, 50s, 60s.

This is similar to how Milken pitched the junk bond -- it was originally based on a paper that showed a balanced portfolio of low rated bonds performs better than a balanced portfolio of high rated bonds (this is explained in Den Of Thieves). This was true back then because low credit ratings were so heavily discounted by market conditions (mainly, nobody wanted to buy them).

> why isn't this a huge thing and everyone sells/changes their regular full market S&P 500 ETFs to do that?

For the same reason that no one is pushing a diversified portfolio of junk bonds anymore; what worked in the past doesn't necessarily work in the future.
> A car has more function than just going about your daily life. It gives you freedom to go wherever you please as long as there is a road.

Agreed. The way I understand it, a self-driving car will offer you the same freedom - you'll just tell it where to take you instead of driving it yourself.
MDN is nice, but the W3C standards for HTML and CSS are actually pretty easy to read.
Well there is a service you can pay for where your kids have lunch at school and are under supervision, but it was opt-in.

Now the class eats with the teacher in half an hour and there is no option to eat at hone anymore. School finishes half an hour earlier so the commuting parents still have to pay for child care.

One of the problems was that there aren't many good people available for the job of child care for one hour at lunch time, people leave when they find something better.
When the media constantly focuses on him as the target, it starts to feel as though they don't really care about the story they're pushing, they only want you to notice how many of these bad things are associated with Trump. It seems dishonest. Personally, I think a better example would have been the wage gap myth; the author could have even noted that Obama was guilty of promoting it. (Disclaimer: I voted for Obama and I did not vote for Trump).
That's what I thought, thanks!
I'd second adding recommendations for specific models. There are a lot of BT keyboards on the market of varying quality.
That's a quote by the (gay) developer of sendmail, I don't see how quoting that is homophobic?
How would you do this with GUI tooling:

Find all files containing a particular string in a directory tree. For each of those files, if its filename appears in a file called Whitelist, write it to a file called Output. Otherwise, do nothing.

Here is one possible command line version (I haven't tested it as I'm on mobile):

TMPF=`mktemp /tmp/XXXXXXXX` && ag MyString | awk -F: '{print $1}' | sort | uniq > $TMPF && comm -12 Whitelist $TMPF > Output && rm $TMPF
Not trying to start a capitalism war, but would an Earned Income Tax Credit be a more viable alternative to higher minimum wages? I've not done the leg work, but the IRS has a lot more info to help determine who's making how much that could help make the EITC even out unequal pay.
Just a bit of feedback: might be nice to repeat the "Don't" in front of each sentence, even if it's grouped under the heading and therefore repetitive: I found myself being like "wait, it's telling me to backup my messages to google drive? Are they client-side encrypted?"
The ACA did fix some of that, but there are situations that can still be challenging. The max out of pocket can be higher than yours..close to $8k/person, and it's annual, so if you get sick late in the year, the clock starts over. It's also not uncommon to have to go out of network for certain types of treatment, which opens up more doors.

Also, many people aren't able to work when they are sick.
85-110k depending on location and experience
It can be pretty hard to sift through, but there's some really good content on YouTube. WelchLabs is another great channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Taylorns34/videos

Specifically their "Learning to See" series.
Hm. The point of POSIX is to support cross platform development with a single standard. If you find that it is not keeping pace with the most modern and popular platforms, is it not outdated?

Technically speaking I think the standard is great, especially around having consistent definitions for thing like close(). But there are better options on all platforms to the select() and poll() interfaces.

In terms of my desires for open platforms that support open standards, I'm completely with you. If anything what we should be debating is how to update the POSIX standard such that it is worthwhile to target during development.

I don't see how it's helpful to ignore what is popular out in the world.
From memory you could scroll to get the results IF it detected you clicked on a google search result to get there, otherwise the answers were not displayed.
This hardly makes Bill Gates look like an asshole

> He had my spec in his hand!

> I noticed that there were comments in the margins of my spec. He had read the first page!

> He had read the first page of my spec and written little notes in the margin!

> Considering that we only got him the spec about 24 hours earlier, he must have read it the night before.

> He was asking questions. I couldn’t stop noticing that he was flipping through the spec and THERE WERE NOTES IN ALL THE MARGINS. ON EVERY PAGE OF THE SPEC. HE HAD READ THE WHOLE GODDAMNED THING AND WRITTEN NOTES IN THE MARGINS.

> He Read The Whole Thing! [OMG SQUEEE!]

I've talked to people who met Bill in person and by all accounts be was smart, driven, pretty nerdy, and reasonable.
wikipekia is a normative self-indulgence of the normies, who wish to wallow in the maya that sustains them, and bark at those who question the very basis of their existence.
Absolutely the entire area should be thought about. Removing the regulation to require a parking lot doesn't seem harmful today. I'm not advocating a restriction or a tax on parking lots here, just removing the requirement that every new construction have a certain number of parking spots.
True, but I don't think that they "were ignorant to 20 years of industry knowledge", it rather seems that they poorly understood/implemented that knowledge, which is something that's much harder to guard against and usually takes years of experience to get right. Do you remember all the issues Twitter had some years back? Twitter certainly has better access to top talent than GitLab, but it happens to the best of us. As long as they stay on top of it from now on, I think of it as a required exercise to maturity.
I went to a top school in the US and I got a major in CS without ever taking linear algebra, which in hindsight seems completely crazy. Every major in science or eng. should have this as part of the mandatory curriculum.
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I didn't say it was a bad idea.

But... a significant percentage of professional jobs are in the NY Metro area, but not in the movie ideal NYC environment.
It depends but I usually charge no less than 50$/ hour. That's if you want someone who fully understands GraphQL, Redux, Sagas, Thunks, Generators, Offline Persistence, etc
He exploits a loophole where he avoids paying his fair share on the BILLIONS he gives to charity. 


Seriously though, it's harder to find bigger philanthropists then the Gates.
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Other good STEM video channels/series:

Dave Ackley's series "Hyperspace Academy", "Robust First Computing", and "Artificial Life" are well animated: https://www.youtube.com/user/DaveAckley/

Vsause's video on "The Banach–Tarski Paradox": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s86-Z-CbaHA (mindblown)

XylyXylyX channel's series on "What is a Tensor?" and "What is a Manifold?": https://www.youtube.com/user/XylyXylyX/playlists

Socratica's series on "Abstract Algebra": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi01XoE8jYoi3SgnnGorR...

Mathologer's channel on all-things math: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1_uAIS3r8Vu6JjXWvastJg

Ben Garside's series "Vector Spaces": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu5cg_Jd9XSJL_CHUskgkGw/pla...

PatrickJMT's channel on calculus, game theory...(too many to list): https://www.youtube.com/user/patrickJMT/playlists

Numenta's (http://numenta.com) series "HTM School" on the Hierarchical temporal memory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory) model for ANNs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3yXMgtrZmDqhsFQzwUC9...

Dan Shiffman's series "The Nature of Code: Simulating Natural Systems with Processing": https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman/playlists?shelf_id=6&s...
What makes some people more vulnerable to accepting things uncritically? Why is it so hard to admit when they or someone they support makes a mistake?

I have an ego, I don't like being wrong, and I think I'm right a lot. Ok, so far I get it. But to constantly ignore or avoid objective evidence? How do people not become ill at the thought?

1) Clinical narcissism or sociopathy? It's all an intentional means to an end.

2) Simple lack of practice in critical thinking? They are acting in good faith but just not seeing the con.

3) Their morale code does not exclude machiavellian tactics and they just want to win.

Maybe the population has all three types collaborating both knowingly and unknowingly across different roles.
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Trump is certainly the example that's repeated again and again, and there's no doubt that does seem to have convinced a lot of people.
> My believing something is something doesn't make it so.

Your definition is exactly about beliefs. It can never be precisely interpreted, each interpretation depends entirely on what you consider good or bad and why.
You just do exactly what ethereum did. Pay off a securities regulator in the smallest state of Switzerland to say it isn't a security while simultaneously getting an opinion letter in the US saying the same thing.

Sovereign sanctioning and alot of capital

SEC hasn't challenged it yet though but I mean, you can be rich and bring your project to the world.