skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just curious: what would it take, in terms of wages and working conditions, for you to move to a town in the middle of nowhere with 4200 people, 98% of whom are white, and where poverty and drug abuse are rampant?

I can't imagine taking a job there for anything less than upper seven figures, and even then I'd just work there for a year or two and then move back home and retire young.

I'm a Jewish atheist lesbian trans woman. In a town like that, I'd probably get lynched and/or raped for just one of those words.

I can't imagine anyone who's not white moving to any place that's 98% white, and even most of my white friends would balk once they realized they wouldn't be able to get good sushi there. And of course, there's nothing to do, very few people to talk to who aren't on meth...

Jesus, I'm a pretty big fan of living in sparse places, but I still don't want to live any further away from civilization than an exurb of a major city.
Its not coming from nothing. If a higher percentage of the total calories he consumes turns to fat instead of being used as energy, then he will have extra mass on his body.
Except over and over again online -- and even more if you've ever gone to a Chamber of Commerce meeting in a small town -- these business owners do what the valley does. Whine they can't hire, and refuse to raise wages.

I collect these links because I find it funny; I'd paste some but I'm on the wrong computer.

But my guess is lots of these places are paying shit wages for shit work with low or no benefits and few advancement options. It's weird they can't seem to find decent employees, eh?

This also matches my experience with family that still live in a similar area. Employers whine endlessly about the lack of workers for their $14 and hour factory job with expensive shitty health insurance. On the other hand, my brother runs his own chain of pizza restaurants in the midwest. He starts at 50% over minimum wage and pays for health insurance. Guess who has no problems hiring as many reliable employees as he needs?
Hm, never noticed that but I'll pay more attention. And yes, that is cringeworthy too.

The people have only spoken if a > 50% portion of those eligible to vote actually vote and all of them agree.

In that case you might make such a statement, and even then that leaves room for 49% (a) not to vote and (b) to disagree and whoever would make such a proclamation would have to qualify their statement to that effect. But it is of course so much easier to claim a mandate.
One of the fun side effects of living in a country with the highest number of prisoners (by total count and per capita) in the world.

"For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them." - Thomas More
Or if you get e.g. A nice parking spot at work + free charging from your employer + carpool lane access as a single rider + $7500 IRC 30D tax credit + value the smugness from a "zero emissions" vehicle which relies on fossil-fuel-centric energy production in the US and rare earth minerals from around the world where they care much less about greenhouse gas emissions.
It does not contradict my statement. If they are less likely to seek medical treatment, they receive worse medical treatment (or no treatment at all).
Because they can be an order of magnitude cheaper because the health of the workers they barely pay doesn't matter to them. This is starting, already, to change, if slowly, both due to external pressures (PR) and the rise, again slowly, of markets that are in turn cheaper and even less give-a-shit than they are.

(EDIT: Also, it's important to realize that that "success" very much does not extend to rural China. They're not airlifting money out there the way that we effectively do for our rural populations and so industry is even more concentrated than in the United States, when you adjust for relative population size.)

And this is the argument of the types who want to rail against OSHA and minimum wages and the like in America, but frankly, I like not living in a society with factory-crippled invalids and suicide nets on the windows so I am so very unsympathetic. It's an externality that I'm certainly not comfortable overall with, but the bright spot is that those dangerous, barely-paying jobs are a rear-guard action as we play out the clock towards ever-cheaper, more-pervasive automation; that said, the inevitably oppressive effects of modern capital owning that automation is why I am effectively, if not in name, a socialist in 2017.
One reason could be that they were smaller when they started up, and their "starting up" announcements didn't have the reach or audience that they had when they shut down.
If your app is a Single Page App and it doesn't rely on HTTP/REST (e.g. it uses WebSockets instead), then you can easily use localStorage instead of cookies for holding session IDs/JWTs on the client side (and adding your own logic to pass them to the server) - That's another way to sidestep the issue and it works in all modern browsers.

It makes a case for companies to use WebSocket-based APIs.

Also localStorage works better on mobile when using frameworks like Cordova, React Native, PhoneGap and others - That is because your .html files are usually sitting on the mobile device itself (so the local domain for the file won't match the one where your REST API/backend is hosted; so cookies won't be sent and don't work).
At the same time, though, you can pretty easily make the argument that the majority of browsers is Chrome. After all, if there were five internet browsers and four of them had one user each, it would be a bit silly to say "Well, most browsers haven't implemented this feature".
I live in a small city surrounded by small towns. I get it. The world moves too fast and most of our life is spent sleeping or looking at screens. The only time you put the screen down you experience reality.

I could handle all of that, but to add geographic separation from your family and friends of many years? For many people, being poor with family outweighs being lower-middle-class far away.
You're responding to a post where I suggested a throwaway comment should be discussed with real people, irl. What position do you think I'm defending?
It's an aside from this conversation, but why do you put a ' in front of user names?
But that's my story and I'm sticking to it. ;)
I added a remark there. Thank you.
No, because it still implies that whoever speaks speaks for an absolute majority of the electorate (so > 50% of those eligible to vote, not those who actually voted).

Given how many people simply don't bother to vote such statements are simply not true.
"Almost a year ago I've lost my job due to department's chief mistakes, and still I have no job."

This is what real IT is like outside the bubble areas, no matter how many times a desperate shortage is announced in SV or NYC or where-ever.
The tile should be "Why I am a brainwashed fool"
Because they don't enable XFO? Do they think they need arbitrary frames?
Defense of the Constitution is the alternative. That's not treason.

When people are sworn into office, their oath is to the Constitution, not to the President.
I guess you could say a machine with n^∞ eyes will always have the "home court advantage"
Thank you! This was very helpful feedback. I added the async attribute to the script tag late in the game and didn't think about how it would interact with this. I've updated the agent script with a more robust method of finding the site ID and am deploying it now.
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Hypothesis: it's socially more acceptable for men to not care for their body as much as women do, eat worse, drink more soda and beer, etc. leading overall to more sugar(y) foods and more inflammation?
I was wrong. There are some common sense things you can do if you know the financials to see how well you're company is doing.
Well, presenting evidence for human-caused climate change is arguably not a political act, except to the extent that the current administration has defined it as such. US civil servants with sufficient tenure won't lose their jobs over that. Consider James Hansen's experience during the Reagan administration. But others, with less support, found themselves transferred to boring, dead-end positions.
I grew up in a town where this was going on. Some just complain, you're right. Others literally can't make the math work, and I watched a local company submarine themselves for trying.

There are few advancement options because there are few ways to advance. They're dead-end jobs, and there's a wage ceiling because their competitors don't have to play by the same rules. They're jobs that won't exist in twenty years, maybe not even ten, because of a number of factors; the question is not how to better employ the people who would be their workers, but how to give everybody a baseline-decent life regardless of "work" (in an economy where most "work" is rapidly becoming less important).
I-131 can be only a consequence of recent nuclear reaction taking place. Sudden criticality and explosion of an old submaride won't produce enough of that - while will release whole lot of other isotopes, so no one would mention iodine. It can be little but a reactor meltdown or a nuclear explosion (while that must have seismic signature hard to not mention)
I don't believe you are correct. Based on this article, it seems they are considering everyone with an arrest record.

https://www.brennancenter.org/blog/just-facts-many-americans...
It's a gloss: your intestinal microbiome is maintained because bacterial biofilms in the intestines constantly grow, but are also constantly scraped away by fibrous matter travelling through the intestines (the balance is sort of like bone remodelling.) If you eat only fiber while otherwise fasting, the scraping will occur without the regrowth. Combine this with a course of antibiotics beforehand and a course of probiotics (or a foecal transplant) afterward, and you can fully replace your microbiome.
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Now that you've conceded that any restrictions what so ever, are not in and of themselves equivalent to red lining, its fairly easy to see where your principle falls apart.

Most usage restrictions are not about limiting how you use your property, they are about how common property is used. It is just much more efficient and workable to encourage grouped rules based on usage expectations than any other option we've come up with.

In the AirBnB case there are all manner of common property issues that may come up. An obvious one off the top of my head is security key accessibility. In hotels it is very common to allow access to security keys to many many people, therefore hotels have the infrastructure to support removing/changing access frequently. Lots of multi-dwelling buildings do not have that infrastructure and do not need it for most usages that would be considered residential.

Another issue, that is literally impacting me right now, is expected use of pest control services and waste disposal. In my building someone is running a catering business out of his kitchen, against the rules of the association, the lease he has agreed to, and the laws of our city. But he is in his property so what is the issue? The higher usage levels lead to higher pest levels, the units nearest to him are dealing with unprecedented problems and we as the association are having to foot the bill for increased pest control services, and for more garbage pick up as he generates an outsized amount of waste.

Why aren't these individual property issues? Because pests don't observe property boundaries and the trash collection is common. Why don't we charge extra for these things to the individual unit? Because the law states that we can't for unmetered services (for private property rights preserving reasons) and it is infeasible to make trash individually serviced.

The principle is fairly easy to understand, when you live in a community there is a give and take between individual rights and responsibilities to the community. A robust system of regulations and the rule of law help to enforce those lines and the system needs to be actively shaped, monitored and embraced for it to work, with special emphasis placed on making sure the rights of the individual are impacted in as fair and moral ways as we can.
It's a way of denoting a user name, similar to how @ designates Twitter user names. I suspect ' is common on HN because ' designates a symbol in lisp.
They have more iron in their bodies.
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If he's using Level 3, he would have to have his own PI-IP block. I'd be interested to hear more about IPv4 and IPv6 in the small ISP world. With 50-100 clients, a single /24 block would serve his current client base.
> It seems to me that it can only accumulate errors and mutations.

Except some of those mutations can be useful – some deadly, but some could be selected for as one's environment/niche shifts. That's evolution and selection in a nutshell. Not all mutations are bad and not all bad mutations are always bad.
You can't solve it anymore than you can have 100% "objective" news.

People need to be free to read all viewpoints and come up with their own opinions.

Most of the time, news is called "fake" because it says things which, in the context of our preconceived values, leads to contradictions or absurdities. Viewed from a different value system, the same facts can have totally different meanings and consequences. Other times, "fake news" is just smear tactics for a larger political agenda.

A site claiming to identify or prevent "fake news" just winds up being another opinion site.
Look up Alternate Day Modified Fasting. There's been some research by a nutritionist named Krista Varady on it. It's pretty simple: every other day, only eat 500 calories, then do whatever the next day. It's much easier than a total fast and 90%+ of the weight you lose is fat (compared to ~75% for simply counting calories). You can workout on the days that you eat. For maintaining (rather than losing) weight, you can increase the calories on the fast day.
I read the article, it has interesting findings, but it ignores some other issues.
Yes, but "I do not want to relocate due to migration crisis". If made up stories about non-existent terrorist attacks in Sweden deter you from moving to an EU country... well.
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lean muscular "boney" build carries you with minimum damage through the health hazards of the mid-life and the beard is the sign of high testosterone (ie. drive) while absence of boldness shows that it managed well by the body without overshooting. That basically means several decades [after the age of late 20ish early 30ish when the full maturity of the brain and body and skills/education is achieved] of active productive life pushing/studying/doing/mastering things of interest.
We do in theory have competition for DSL service but the telcos just conspired to let their cable plant rot to make that undesirable.
Jack Hamm has an excellent book. This [0] has a copy a page on muscles of the face ( "Muscles of Expression")

[0] https://terahdrawing.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/facial-express...
I don't believe that in a situation with wildly fluctuating power there is any alternative to "grab all available energy from the grid when there is power", you never know how huge the next brown/blackout will be.

What could definitely help is putting good power conditioning equipment in front of the UPS. That at least will protect the AC-to-DC first stage from overvoltages and shorter brownouts. If the PCE comes with fat enough supercaps, it can also protect the main UPS by preventing it from draining the battery at all.
I picked it up from 'tptacek, I think. @ didn't make sense, so...
Curious if the reporter uses or has used Uber. If so, it is the sort of thing that traditional journalism standards would probably applaud disclosing as a potential conflict of interest. To me, this is particularly relevant for a reporter on the Silicon Valley tech beat who is likely to have past interactions with companies like Uber...given the reality that working the Silicon Valley tech beat for the New York Times, for whatever it entails, does not seem to entail breaking stories like Fowler's.

Basic Googling suggests there's plenty of basis for investigative journalism:

http://fortune.com/2016/09/15/apple-employees-sexist-environ...

http://fortune.com/2015/09/16/microsoft-gender-discriminatio...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/01/18/oracle-la...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/18/technology/facebook-discrimi...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/12/silicon-v...

What is curious is that there are not New York Times stories in the high ranking Google search results for relevant search terms.
Sure, but there's nothing which would prevent you from addressing that from a Bayesian perspective. In fact, Bayesian particle filtering techniques would probably be a great tool for "on-line" quality assurance.
> Personally, I'm also worried that girlfriend of my wife working in Uber HR might be accused of "hiding sexual harassment" and subsequently just fired (because they are liability). In these cases kind of cases, "investigation by CEO" will cause low-level employees to be fired - even if they did nothing wrong.

That's a reasonable thing to worry about, but regardless of whether the accusation is true, the worry is about an incompetent and cowed CEO not doing his job, not about an ex-employee making an accusation without public proof.

If she's right, and an investigation by the CEO causes low-level employees to be fired and no real change of the company culture and the people responsible for it, those people were working for a bad CEO all along. If she's right, the behavior of people out-politicking their direct managers and throwing away useful projects is a ticking time bomb, and if she didn't say anything, someone would have, soon enough. Or some project would have failed and people would have asked questions, or a "high performer" would have not gotten their political way, or something. And the CEO would fire low-level employees for all the same reasons.

If she's somehow wrong, and the CEO gives into unsubstantiated public pressure and makes scapegoats out of good workers, again, I don't see how this will be the only time. Uber is, shall we say, not a company that is consistently the recipient of positive press. Something else will go wrong (say, marketing threatening to blackmail a journalist) and the CEO will again feel obligated to scapegoat someone. A good CEO should stand up for their employees.

You're worried about the CEO either way. You already were - you said you don't trust Uber. You need to help your wife's girlfriend find a better job where she's not at risk of being fired by an incompetent CEO.
Gotcha, this is really amazing, I've been thinking about doing something similar. Thanks for the write up!
True, but the way a Bayesianist (?) will assign meaning to it involves creating a model, based on some assumptions, which will return a probability. The Bayesian notion of probability is equivalent to the frequentist notion of probability for experiments done on that model. In that sense they are the same.
I tried to do this exact thing years ago too! Except I only used one RGB led, and thus could never sense the red channel, because the bandgap of green and blue LED dies is too big to really get any signal from red light. Isn't it annoying when your project is up against quantum mechanics?

I also build a swarm of throwies that used a single LED to synchronize their blinking. That project was much cooler, and I wish I had better documentation...
There are two types of crimes: criminal and civil. In most states, traffic violations are covered by criminal law. This is why many forms that ask about a criminal record say 'excluding traffic violations', or something to that effect.
The BIOS in modern Dell laptops (e.g. XPS 15), at least, allows you to configure different modes of operation to make the battery last longer. You can choose to charge more slowly but have the lifetime of the cells extended, or charge quickly which will yield less cycles. I'm guessing other manufacturers allow some control over these things as well.
What accuracy people care is the car that you have just ordered. The other times when you see a map of cars you can get away 80% of the time using averages
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I think you want to understand comp linguistics viewpoint: parsers, PoS taggin, dependency analysis, syntax trees;

and the machine learning perspective: embeddings in, say, 100-200 dimensional space (word2vec, glove) and topic modelling/LDA, and latent semantic analysis from the 90's. Then you can read about inputting embedding datasets into LSTM, GRU, content addressable memory/attention mechanisms etc that are being furiously introduced (you can scan the ICLR submissions and http://aclweb.org/anthology/.

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The Jurafsky/Martin draft 3rd ed is a good starting point, they've got about 2/3 of chapters drafted: https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ as well as the Stanford, Oxford, etc courses on NLP and comp linguistics, and Klein's https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~klein/cs288/fa14/ , Collins: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cs4705/ and other courses at MIT, CMU, UIUC etc

Also, try out the various standard benchmark datasets and tasks: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01923

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Last time i checked, this SoA page wasn't up to date and not very well summarized but will give you lots of project ideas:
http://www.aclweb.org/aclwiki/index.php?title=State_of_the_a...
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It would be nice if more HN users responded with a comment making that point rather than using anonymous downvotes...
Nope, because they, their frameworks or something in between have no XFO. Which proves it being ineffective, even after so many years.