skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Admittedly, I'm looking to gauge interest by posting here. Input welcome.

I hope this is not off-topic for HN as politics are not encouraged; however, this post is not about politics per se, but about the launch of a startup publication that I believe would be of the sort of nature that would interest other HN readers like myself.

I very much want to give credit that I was recently inspired by an interview on IndieHackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/compelling-science-f...

I'm very familiar with the speculative nature of much hard sci-fi (as a fan, myself), but have noticed that most other genres don't take on the role of speculation. Perhaps it's not a great fit for most, but I believe it's sorely missing in the field of politics, as it seems like a sure-fit opportunity to begin to look two steps ahead, and play out the perpetual conflict between reactionary and progressive politics.
Resurrecting an inexplicably dead comment:

Ithere were a ton of brexit bots on twitter and in comment sections, they later started working for trump, and are now working for le pen. some stuff about it here -
https://heatst.com/world/how-russias-twitter-bots-and-trolls...
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Hello! Unsolicited armchair expert here!

I initially came here to say that I also prefer the new design but would appreciate something non-fixed. I realize there's a setting for it but that means I have to login just to get rid of it. Like most people I only read the site. Then I sort of got stuck on the sentence in the article that suggested I might be missing out on some of the things that Stackoverflow has to offer.

I believe I have fairly common workflow. I Google, read the question and all the responses, then open all the referenced questions in new tabs and recursively work my way through them until I have exhausted all the material on the topic. You seem to be very familiar with that type of workflow. It's even mentioned in the article.

But it's also a bit odd when I think about it. I can't recall that I have ever visited Stackoverflow directly. For some reason I always come from Google. Heck, I even type "stackoverflow" into the Google search bar so that your results will come up on top. That's very different from my normal browsing pattern. Usually I go to a site directly. So why am I doing this and what am I missing out on? I decided to take a tour of your site!

1. The front page isn't very useful to me. I believe you could make an argument that it's not very useful to most people. It displays the new top navigation bar, a large sign inviting me to sign up, lots of low quality questions in wildly different areas less than a minute old. Maybe this is useful to someone else. To me it's about as useful as if Google would show the 10 most recently indexed sites on their landing page.

2. The top navigation bar didn't really seem to have anything interesting until it struck me that I always search your site with Google. But there is a search feature somewhere... Why is the search bar so small? Why isn't it more prominent? Oh, and it's possible to browse for more interesting topics using tags. I do that sometimes. Why don't I do that more often? Also I should contribute more to Stackoverflow. Why don't I do that?

...

So if you want to change my behavior to be someone who goes to your landing page, searches using your search feature, browses by categories, and monitors familiar topics - then I suggest you try some of the following things:

1. Make searching and browsing topics the focus of the landing page. (The Google search bar isn't "hidden" in the top navigation)

2. Remember which topics I'm interested in without requiring me to login.

3. Change the font on Windows to Segoe UI. ;-)

4. Change the header to be non-fixed without requiring me to login.

Currently you're just a place where the search results are stored. But I have a hunch that if I'm actively coming to your site and using your services, then I would be more likely to register, login and participate. It would perhaps strengthen my impression of a community. I make no guarantee that my suggestions will work but you could A/B test it using the method described in the article. :)

Thank you for Stackoverflow and keep up the good work!
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Privacy is important for democracy.
Bill and Melinda are better where they are, because they are free from political interference. Can you imagine the opposition they'd get from the GOP for pushing contraception so centrally? And if they get into power, probably from the democrats too, for not focusing on their favourite bandwagons.

OT: Can someone explain the GOP's strident opposition to funding contraception, both domestically and in the US's foreign aid? Apart from the obvious problems with unrestrained population growth, I'd have thought that aversion to abortion would imply whole-hearted support for contraception.
What usgroup said is correct. To give a little more background, this is a classification problem (predicting L or R) and it is a supervised learning problem (since you are training it on historical data).

There are many supervised learning models that can be used for classification. The simplest ones that first come to mind are logistic regression and decision trees. If you want to get into more complex models, look into boosting models and random forest.

I'm not sure what your programming background is, but creating classification models is very easy in Python using the scikitlearn library. Creating the features that are used to train your model would be more difficult, but you can always start with something simple and iterate.

It's also important to know how to measure the performance of your model. In this situation, plain accuracy will probably be OK assuming predictions are roughly 50/50 chance. But AUC is typically the standard used to measure model performance.
I'm curious how credible it is that google would boot FB off the play store.
You could probably get a large part of the benefit of that by just having new developers sit within earshot of the customer support people for a while.

That's been my experience when I've sat close enough to hear support calls (although in my case it has always been because of small offices, not because of any deliberate attempt by management to make developers more aware of real customer experiences).
The library is designed to be loaded async, so it shouldn't affect load performance. And it uses new APIs (e.g. IntersectionObserver) and techniques like throttle/debounce for all of its event tracking, so it will likely have no noticeable impact on runtime performance.
He'll eventually do a 180 on most things we are miffed about.

He already has his name on a hospital. How long will it be before he decides he can do a better job as President?

Once these rich boys make their "nut"; they become very moral/ethical in their latter years, except Trump?

I think it has to do with their guilt? I don't know a wealthy man who didn't do some very unethical things clawing their way to the top.
How can you offer useful advice when you dont have domain expertise in every possible field?
I truly applaud the efforts of the funds. I don't think I could come up with any more noble endeavor, and I know there are some very capable people throughout their organizations who are dedicated to spending the funds wisely and impactfully.

However, is it fair to credit philanthropy as the sole cause of quality of life improvements across the most destitute populations?

It's a story about the stunning gains the poorest people in the world have made
over the last 25 years. This incredible progress has been made possible not
only by the generosity of Warren and other philanthropists, the charitable
giving of individuals across the world, and the efforts of the poor on their
own behalf, but also by the huge contributions made by donor nations, which
account for the vast majority of global health and development funding.

I think there is a fair amount of evidence that suggests development funding can have as much disastrous consequence as good. In his book The Great Escape[1], Angus Deaton (Nobel Prize economist) describes how non-interventionist economic development seems to have been the main driver of better outcomes across the world, and not the flush pockets of westerners, as convenient as that would be. Another book called The Road To Hell[2] provides many examples where large charitable efforts regularly produce even worse outcomes than no intervention at all. Is there some good evidence to suggest that the money spent by the Gates Foundation and other charities were solely responsible for the improved qualities of life across whole populations?

If you want to posit that their efforts have been invaluable in improving access to medical services across the globe, you'll get no argument from me. However, that's a small part of what makes up "stunning gains."

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Great-Escape-Health-Origins-Inequalit...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Road-Hell-Michael-Maren/dp/0743227867
I don't like OP's definition of divergence. I prefer to take the size of the diff along first-parent instead.

Here's how I would do it:

time git log -m --first-parent --shortstat --pretty="%H" --min-parents=2 |
grep -v '^$\|3e1dd193edefd2a806a0ba6cf0879cf1a95217da' |
sed 's/.* file.* changed,//' |
sed 's/insertion.*,/+/' |
sed 's/deletion.*//' |
sed 's/insertion.*//' |
sed 's/^\ \(.*\)\ $/\$\(\(\1\)\)/' |
xargs -d '\n' -L 2 echo echo |
bash |
sort -k 2,2 -g

Note: I skip 3e1dd193edefd2a806a0ba6cf0879cf1a95217da because that commit has no diff along first-parent, and thus screws up my xargs result (which depends on every 2nd line having the --shortstat output).

Of course "--first-parent" doesn't guarantee that we're walking the mainline (see: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/04/stop-foxtrots-n... ), but it usually is.

On my laptop it takes 3 mins 30 seconds. Here are the 5 biggest merges by this definition:

099bfbfc7fbbe22356c02f0caf709ac32e1126ea 463702
3f17ea6dea8ba5668873afa54628a91aaa3fb1c0 466320
ce519e2327bff01d0eb54071e7044e6291a52aa6 500074
7ea61767e41e2baedd6a968d13f56026522e1207 504965
f063a0c0c995d010960efcc1b2ed14b99674f25c 569691

And here's "git show" for those 5:

099bfbfc7fbb 2015-06-26T13:18:51-07:00 Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux
3f17ea6dea8b 2014-06-08T11:31:16-07:00 Merge branch 'next' (accumulated 3.16 merge window patches) into master
ce519e2327bf 2009-01-06T17:04:29-08:00 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
7ea61767e41e 2009-09-16T08:11:54-07:00 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
f063a0c0c995 2010-10-28T12:13:00-07:00 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
I learned react native two weeks ago and this is my first react native app. So far I'm happy with react-native :)

Libraries used:

* "moment": "2.17.1",

* "native-base": "0.5.22",

* "react": "15.4.2",

* "react-native": "0.40.0",

* "react-native-browser": "0.6.2",

* "react-native-button": "1.7.1",

* "react-native-code-push": "1.17.0-beta",

* "react-native-communications": "2.2.1",

* "react-native-device-info": "0.9.9",

* "react-native-dismiss-keyboard": "1.0.0",

* "react-native-google-analytics-bridge": "5.0.0",

* "react-native-htmlview": "0.5.0",

* "react-native-share": "1.0.18",

* "react-native-vector-icons": "4.0.0",

* "react-navigation": "1.0.0-beta.3",

* "react-redux": "5.0.2",

* "realm": "0.15.4",

* "redux": "3.6.0",

* "redux-logger": "2.7.4",

* "redux-thunk": "2.2.0"

Download:

* iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1205686636

* Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.listennote...
If it's automated it will probably be gamed.
Smart people, and people in general, are more productive doing what they're passionate about. Buffett on investing, Musk on space, and Gates on curing childhood diseases.
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Isn't glycemic index (GI) an important measure of the potential negative effect of the carbohydrate? Some varieties of rice have a surprisingly high GI. Jasmine rice, for example, has a higher GI than pure glucose, a sad fact for me since it's the favorite rice where I live. Other types of rice have much lower GI.

When it comes to sweet potato versus rice, cooking method makes a big difference in GI: Jasime rice = 109, baked sweet potato = 94, boiled sweet potato = 44 [1]

[1] https://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/blog/glycemic-index-c...
> Can someone explain the GOP's strident opposition to funding contraception, both domestically and in the US's foreign aid?

It's a culture war thing from the 80's and 90's.

Contraception is for godless libs who fuck like rabbits out of wedlock. (Setting aside the fact that most religious right voters probably use birth control themselves...)
downvoting was not deserved. In anycase, your comment did not contradict mine. My point was that framing it as theft is incorrect and unhelpful. There are multiple stakeholders, retaining value is good for some, but detrimental to thers. That is, it is a matter of policy, not rights of ownership.
Had an OVH account. They suspected server was hacked. Nuked my account and hence the websites on it (it wasn't; many were affected at the time and it was a false alarm). Moved all the content to a folder (that was on a server/path to which they just gave me FTP login) and I had to get that data by some period of time. Tried to get in touch with them at least 8-9 times. Every time received a copy-pasted response on how to download my data. Just that. Called them once and I was asked to contact on email.

That was it. They also own Kimsufi. I had one account there too. Cancelled both of them and moved to VPS providers and it's been 3 years w/o complaints (my usages were/are very small time though).

When I checked around on hosting forums, looking for ways to contact them, everyone used to laugh as in "Support and OVH? Lol".
You can search multiple craigslist locations by doing a google search with "server:craigslist.org" to limit the search to craigslist's server. Not the most refined approach but good in a jiffy.
> The problem is that the obvious answer ("so workers don't get exploited") isn't very satisfying: there's sort of an inherent barrier to not paying enough, which is competition for workers.

Collusion among employers to keep wages down still happens. The combination of minimum standards plus anti-collusion laws function as a belt-and-suspenders approach to the problem (labor law has other purposes, too; so does anti-collusion law.)
>> "the scale of these problems really requires the cooperation of governments"

Right, it's my understanding that orginally the Gates foundation tried to do it without working with the governments governing the people they wanted to help, but were unable to make it work.
From my (admittedly somewhat limited) experience, an old-school sysadmin (who's likely moved into dev for the better paycheque) is often _way_ better at filling that role thad a more dev oriented person who's done some devops in the past.

In my experience, "good ops" people are the ones with lots of war stories to tell of disasters or narrowly averted disasters either of their own of of friend/colleagues they hang out with. It's a profession who's lessons seem to be best-taught by spectacular failures and heroic recovery efforts, rather than college courses, vendor/consultant training, or "industry best practices" documents...
Slightly off-topic, but EC2 doesn't really scale independently if you compare it to GCE. We let you combine 24 vcpus with 39 GB of RAM, 3 partitions of Local SSD and a few GPUs, all independently (though the ratio of RAM to vcpu is currently bounded between .9 and 6.5).

One of our easiest pricing wins is against say the i2.* series ("Were you trying to buy more flash or more cores?") and now against their p2.* GPU series. It's pretty liberating to actually mix and match.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
It zooms past the now expected AI hype and doesn't stop until it is deep in science fiction. The correlation of Facebook-likes with personality traits is no more profound than the correlation of particular personality traits with watching NASCAR or buying opera tickets. Personalized political advertising/articles is at the same tech level as personalized advertising/articles in general. That is, still in its infancy.
I don't think that's the case. Sturdy glass bottles can simply be washed a few dozen times before they wear out, whereas aluminum cans must be melted down and remade.
Every illegal trick? Come on. I competed against Microsoft (compilers) and they were a tough competitor. But I never saw anything illegal. Microsoft benefited a lot from their competitors simply being incompetent (see "In Search Of Stupidity" by Chapman.)
Your busted Android phone is ruining your chances at a second date
> If you think a vote for Paul Ryan is a vote against unaccountable power you are badly deluded.

Forget Paul Ryan. Does the billionaire President of the United States, brought to power (to almost everyone's surprise) by this populist wave, seem especially accountable to anyone? FFS, the man broke the long-standing traditions of releasing tax returns as a candidate, and has utterly failed to even give the appearance of separating himself from his business interests, and his broke working class base doesn't bat an eyelash. They're not looking for accountability. They're looking for someone to blame ("elites", "illegals", "muslims") and for someone to tell them it'll all be OK.
May I ask what these libraries are ?
I believe the Danish have replaced most laws that make dismissal difficult / risky and instead developed a strong unemployment insurance / welfare system. Companies need to be able to adjust their workforce quickly. And it's a lot easier for an employee to say "go screw yourself" to an abusive employer if they know they won't be out on the street if they lose their job.
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45s/lap for 5km, the swimming version of a half marathon, isnt slow.
Paper was never designed to be a Facebook replacement, but a PoC in engagement through UI using Facebook. The released a lot their findings and tools to the OS community as well (Tinder took their animation mechanics). Btw 1 billion DAU would have never agreed to that level of rethinking for the app.
I'm very sorry to hear about this. Shipping stuff internationally can be hair raising when it goes wrong. I used to regularly ship about $500k worth of computer equipment all over the place and it one time got caught up in German customs. A colleague of mine in Germany had to drive from Munich to Frankfurt and back many times over the course of several weeks to get it sorted out. IIR the problem was some minor form had been filled out incorrectly (by me). Huge mess. Hopefully this collection will turn up soon.

One thing

>Although I can't afford to host this content (it weighs in at hundreds of gigabytes)

I really urge you to get in contact with Jason Scott about getting a copy of your archive to the Internet Archive. These scans and dumps could be priceless and it makes sense to have as many backups of it as you can.

At any rate, thank you very much for all your hard work, time and expense in doing what it is you do byuu.
You are implying that it's worth supporting the Fourth Estate. Regardless of what side of the isle you are on, last year's elections have shown the unopposed bias present in the US and UK systems.

I have and will continue consuming my news for free. If an institution like the NYT dies because people don't support it financially then I'm ok with that. Someone else will take their place with a model that works.
As a long time (beta) user and contributor to SO, I completely agree.
> The business world has always been stressful; my point is that current and upcoming market forces (i.e. automation) are adding onto that stress more and more.

My point is that the business world is becoming more and more stressful for businesses also, something you're not taking into account.

Automation and the elimination of certain markets affect businesses just as much as employees. When times become harder, the solution is not to increase worker rights, as that's what's happening in Europe.

If you're in a highly uncertain business environment as a business, AND it's incredibly difficult to adapt by letting employees, you start hiring temporary employees, and full time employees become a thing of the past.

And yes, lowering the minimum wage might be something you have to think about. There really isn't anything left to do when your labor is worth less than the minimum wage.
If in the US and a small business owner you should use S-corp taxation to avoid that. But yes small business has too many challenges in the US, it's the land of megacorp dominance.
Ever try to buy a ticket from the proper vendor 10m after the tickets have been released?

Saying that they maintain ticket availability for longer, it's a zero-sum game. The only reason those tickets are around longer than they otherwise would be, is because alternate purchasers were unable to get them.

Put another way, if 100 tickets at $50 sell out in a day, and scalped at $500 sell out in a month, yes, the same amount of tickets is sold. But 'ticket availability lasting for a month' is only there because the scalper has removed the ticket availability for the $50 purchasers.
I started with KDE with Plasma about a year ago, so I don't have that history. Kubuntu runs extremely well on my XPS 13 with hi dpi display, so I don't really the problems you're seeing.

Except the music player! It's pretty broken on a hidpi screen.
You can see the same in comparing the military aircraft design. Both schools are ingenious, but it is applied in different ways. There are some excellent comparisons connecting principles to outcomes on Quora.
I know it's called the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but isn't it Melinda that runs and manages everything? I'm pretty sure Bill just donates to the foundation. I could be wrong tho.
If the results are new and significant (in the qualitative sense) then it seems completely fair to call them "groundbreaking" even if they were arrived at without any sort of novel methodology.

Whether they actually fit this description, I do not know, and I make no claim either way.
Some people are just completely risk intolerant, but if you can't convince anyone at your company to take a risk on something that could next them 10X their comp, then it seems more likely that they just don't think your idea will work.

One thing to consider is that you might not want the best of the best; their talents may be better utilised ekeing out small but highly leveraged gains on your cash cow. You may be better off with someone who isn't that great, but who can ask the more experienced devs for help.

Also consider that bonuses are not the only way to motivate people, most other industries manage to motivate people just fine without a huge sums.

Alternatively, if your goal is just to motivate people rather than conserve cash, let them get both; let them take the maximum of last year's bonus, or a cut of the new project; if they manage to make the new project work they do even better, if not the company eats the risk.
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For small groups, client side muxing is fine (i.e. I call both Alice and Bob, and my device handles merging the streams).
So what if it's fast and easy? Plastic bags are incredibly efficient. They're popular for a reason. If you want to keep people impoverished, this is how you do it