skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can shape somoene's political opinion almost any way you want by reporting honestly on each story, without omitting anything relevant. Just choose carefully which stories to report.

That's why I find it hard to worry about stereotypical fake news - biased sampling is a powerful tool, and much harder to debunk.

Focusing on statistics instead of individual stories helps, but is doubly limited - it doesn't sway people as much as appeal to emotion, and the statistics have to be available. If you're trying to decide which one of several warring factions is the 'good' guys, there will be no statistics, only a bunch of isolated reports, possibly funded by some government trying to sway public opinion for its own purposes (e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/03/how-britain-fu... - in this case it's against ISIS, which I happen to agree aren't the 'good' guys, but there's no indication such methods are limited to opposing ISIS, and deciding -which- group of rebels to help can be just as powerful - wouldn't want to give power to someone who's gonna nationalize oil production, or weaken patent protections on crops ( https://www.grain.org/article/entries/150-iraq-s-new-patent-... )!).
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It would be neat if they offered some free textbooks and course materials for certain subjects.
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> For servers, they ought to be able to accept a hardware time and frequency inputs. Typically this would mean a 1 Pulse-Per-Second (PPS) signal and a 10 MHz signal. You might also want some kind of serial signal that describes the date and time to label the last second pulse.

Because large numbers of servers in a mass-scale deployment frequently have only two things: Ethernet connections and power. Introducing coaxial cable so you can feed a 10MHz reference signal (such as you feed a reference clock signal to certain RF Rx and Tx equipment) is a non starter. Introducing a serial cable to every server into an environment that is purely IP/Ethernet is a non starter.
if I own a cool domain name instead of selling it why not contribute it to a project in exchange for equity or rev share or time etc.
Thanks for the explanation, that is quite a large chunk!
I previously worked with their VP Engineering, at Janna Systems. A very, very sharp guy who's been through a couple of startups and exits.

I've heard from a different friend that they're very results oriented w.r.t estimates, etc. It means that they get a lot of stuff done, but there's no time for research or non-approved exploration.
Hey Cory from Opps Daily here!

Just want to preface this by saying Nugget.one is an incredible product that essentially inspired Opps Daily.

I signed up for your product shortly before new years, trying to figure out what kind of venture I would launch in the New Year.

I'm always struggling to find good software ideas, so your service seemed great. But it stopped after about a week and there was a hefty price tag to keep getting these ideas.

I just wanted ideas, not the community, so I figured out how you were getting the ideas and started getting them for myself. A few days later it became clear that I should start Opps Daily because there is incredible potential to help solve problems.

Anyways, just writing in to say I find your service pretty inspiring although I'm not trying to build a community to launch Saas products, but more of community where people learn about problems others are having and connect with those people.

I've actually sent a few people your way when they mentioned my emails lacked the analysis they were looking for.

Anyways, Im sorry if you feel like I stole something from you, I'm always singing your praises when someone mentions the similarity.

I'd love for you to drop me a line if you ever want to compare notes! :)
I'm sorry, but none of your suggestions here are good solutions to this article problem. Speaking up and calling the article out, which is what I'm doing, is preferable.

""Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link. If you think a comment is egregious, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top. (Not all users see flag links; there's a small karma threshold.)""

The story isn't spam, or off-topic. It's bad. It's a really bad story that isn't worth reading. People are allowed to post things that are really stupid. I am allowed to point that out. Hopefully to save other people some time.
Its only Medium, Backchannel uses Medium

The bit is the anchor of the URL and seems to be there purely for tracking purposes, according to https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/3uyd9e/why_does_med...
I knew moo.com existed, but not what it did.
What a stupid idea.

Anyone in favor of this should have to spend a few months in Dehli, Beijing, Chongqing, or even worse, a true industrial city or district in either country. The rivers and creeks are full of visible toxic waste, sewage and garbage, the air is so foul and acrid that almost everyone wears masks, your eyes can burn from who-knows-what chemicals in the air, water is trucked in from hundreds of miles away from clean sources (and sometimes imported from different countries entirely). No, that's not fog, that's pollution. No that's not a cloudy day, that's pollution. After a few days with enough time spent outside, you develop congestion and a minor sensation of having a cold, and when you blow your nose a bunch of black and brown soot comes out. But hey, you can pay slave labor wages to make cheap disposable crap for oversees consumer markets!
Pick any technology or tool you know and dig deeper.

You know node, great! Now how the V8 engine works, why it works like that? What tradeoff the designer did? Why?

You have used databases, great! How a database works? Why?

You know what is a web browser, great! ...

You know what is a compiler...

You can always go deeper and learn more.

Clearly being able to modify the V8 engine is way more valuable than being able to use V8 with node...
Or at least if you can modify the engine it is a safe assumption that you can also use it...
Appreciate the link, I have a $5 review up as well now :)

Since my posts are straight benchmarks, I don't touch on the support side of things typically (mostly because I only have had support interaction with the companies I use).

That said, I've had exceptional support from both Linode and DigitalOcean over the years. Always responsive and friendly.

Interestingly enough though, yesterday my Linode went down due to a power outage in the Atlanta data center. I'm a huge fan of Linode, but something like a power outage at this stage in the game seems a bit like amateur hour.
I guess we should take a better look at something like http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Poem/ or http://rhymeless.hamiltonulmer.com and implement some rhyming name generator to add to our app :-)

Just kidding, of course. But that’s why I love HN so much: you show ’em something and they start brainstorming on a side track of intellectual creativity. Thank you so much, guys, for all the hearty feedback on our app!
It's one thing to prioritize a candidate with a public profile over one without when determining the order in which to interview candidates.

But to reject a candidate, after he's interviewed by the CEO (so this would presumably be the last interview stage), because he doesn't have "enough" public projects and therefore doesn't "love the web" enough? I think that's stupid.

Edit: misread the parent, we are actually saying the same thing.
> 40% of foreign students in the US have no close friends on campus

Missing important data for contrast: How many non-foreign have no close friends on campus.
That's all been true for several years, no? It's odd that schools would have seen a surge in international applicants over the last decade only to have the trend weaken now.
This comment is completely incidental (because I don't have the energy to comment on the sad content), but does anybody else find the typography and style of these completely bizarre? It looks stuck in the 19th century, and it is very confusing. "A BILL" is much larger than the actual title.

I know one reason for legal ideosyncrasies is that they need a very specific and precise language, and form, to leave no ambiguities. But then the contents of the bill is just one line, "The Environmental Protection Agency shall terminate on December 31, 2018". I'd love them to propertly terminate their cables, or maybe terminate a cockroach, on that given day.

And, don't they have to make it a lot more specific, like what happens to the buildings, the people, ongoing contracts, what older bills have to be amended, and so on? Or is this just an order to some other branch to draft an appropriate law? I find the US government system sometimes very confusing.
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Totally agree with you. Only in the rare case like Shopify, the stock option will give you a meaningful return.
Why Munich should stick with Linux
JS became a language it was never meant to be not because of its merits, but because it is the language of the web.

Go is the language it was always meant to be, and a significant part of that was handling async.

Once async/await comes along, JS will have a really nice solution, and to be honest, I think it's pretty impressive that JS, with the history of its development, has been able to acquire new technologies of this nature.
Poaching is illegal hunting. Sounds like an odd analogy to make, unless you specialise in helping people break legal contracts.
I half agree with you. It surely shows the massive complexity of large software, for sure.

On the other hand, the tool should help prevent these issues. Altium has visible exceptions and lots of memory leaks that are much easier to prevent or solve with modern development tools and languages.

Also, C aged badly, but the tools (ecosystem seems to be the hip name nowadays) for C evolved, and in a smaller scale, even the language itself has evolved. Object Pascal and Delphi doesn't seem to be catch up so well.
Part of this is that with Haskell it's much more like there's one right way to do things, and that's it. JavaScript is a multi-paradigm language and so in that way it's always possible to get into more of a mess. I could say the same about, for example, C++.

Maybe beginners do struggle with Haskell but, if you want my two cents, the reason nobody really bothered with it back when I was at university - except for assignments where we had to use it - was because there was no call for it out in the world (this is going back 17 years). Most people built their projects in C, C++, or Java because those were what you needed to get a job. I'd also observe that the same people that struggled with Haskell also struggled with C, C++, and Java [1].

Again, based on the assignments where people did write Haskell I'd have to suggest that it absolutely is (or was) possible to write terrible code in Haskell. Certainly it's possible to write broken, fragile, or barely functional code that's hard to understand.

[1] This is of course anecdotal evidence based on a small sample size - maybe 40 people on the course.
I agree that it is very likely to be the third. Just have a read of some of ESR's articles. Eg:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=129

"
American blacks average a standard
deviation lower in IQ than American whites at about 85. And
it gets worse: the average IQ of African blacks is lower
still, not far above what is considered the threshold of mental
retardation in the U.S. And yes, it’s genetic; g seems to be about
85% heritable, and recent studies of effects like regression towards
the mean suggest strongly that most of the heritability is DNA rather
than nurturance effects.
"

ESR's famous melodramatic-response to having his CML2 ("Eric's configuration markup language for kernel building") patch rejected by Linus is also quite telling about his self-perception and his perception of other people and his interaction with anyone who would have an opposing viewpoint to his.
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:) We explored using the API unfortunately at the volume of data being pulled down, the API is not feasible due to the number of authorized API keys needed.
Verizon close to a revised deal that cuts Yahoo's price by about $250M
From the article: "I tried a lot of existing bookmarking services". Everyone except the best service I guess.
You know, I kind of agree with this.

The word "Stole" implies something was taken, something was lost, something changed possession. Yet, the services are not identical, Nugget offers much more value for its customers, has an established trajectory and customer base. I don't see what has been "taken" from you, here.

Perhaps change it to:

“One of My Customers Created a Look-alike Business, and Here's Why That Is Awesome”

or

“One of My Customers Duplicated My Business, and Here's Why That Is Awesome”

or

“One of My Customers Copied My Business, and Here's Why That Is Awesome”
But then what do you do when you accidentally commit someone's private medical records or get a "right to be forgotten" order?

Edit: I had similar objections to "why not rework databases as an immutable diff history?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13581096
I'm not sure I like your clothing analogy, it implies that Haskell deliverables are somehow restricted in functionality, which isn't true. The "style" that Haskell prohibits is hiding side-effects and mutable state behind something that pretends to be a function. If you are honest and upfront about what you are doing, i.e. you fully understand what you are doing, then Haskell has no problem letting you do it.
Hey Cory, nice response, thanks :)

Sure, I'll send you an email and let's hook up and have a chat I have some thoughts about your vault idea.

On another note, I'm really curious to know how are the ideas worded in such a similar way. Were you inspired by my HIT process?

No worries if yes, it will just help to clear things up.

Thanks,
Justin
Let the US pullout of NATO and see how the EU long the EU will remain with 226 bln.
Most NATO members defense budgets and contribution are below NATO requirements.

And again this has nothing to do with spending, France, Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy, Sweden and the Netherlands combined export more arms than the US while having approximately the same population.

Overall the EU as a whole exports more arms per capita than the US, you might not like buying guns but you sure love selling them.
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> It's in integrating the fickle whims of myriad hardware devices with amazingly high expectations of reliability and performance consistency under diverse workloads.

So much this; Linux Plumbers conference years ago was bitching about how every gorram vendor wanted to be a special snowflake, so even though the architecture was ARM, you basically had to port the kernel all over again to every new phone. I haven't kept up with it, but I can't imagine it's gotten better. The problems they're listing as reasons to move to a new kernel aren't caused by Linux and they won't go away until you slap the vendors and slap them hard for the bullshit they pull, both on developers and users.

As for kernel ABI, this has been rehashed to death: just release your fucking driver as open source code, and it will be integrated and updated in mainline forever: http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/free_drivers.html
+1 to the reputation of Top Hat amongst Toronto devs. Everyone I know is avoiding the place like the plague. Regardless of the salaries touted on places like StackOverflow Jobs.
1. Why would a business owner with money to spend be using Mturk to make pennies?

2. The FBA problem has been solved by Inventory Lab.

3. Regardless of the tone of OP, publishing any user data is bad.
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Before I got into software development I worked for a South Korean company that helped high-level students get into American and Canadian universities.
The single biggest source of stress for myself and the other westerners working there is that the administration's (and the parents'!) only goal was to get these kids into a school, and absolutely no thought was given to acclimating them to a different culture or teaching them the skills they would need to thrive in a very different educational system and social climate.
We (the foreign teachers) would try to sneak cultural lessons in and hold extra classes about how to join campus organizations and social clubs, and we'd always get in trouble with the management because "it wasn't important".
There's a very real sense in East Asia that once you get into an American university that you'll become successful, but some of the brightest kids are coming back to their home countries with a 2.7GPA, a memory of crushing loneliness, and many tens of thousands of dollars wasted. It's a solvable problem that no one is really interested in even examining.
I actually followed the gun link and read the first paragraph or so, and regardless of what acqq was trying to accomplish or infer with that link, I think those first few paragraphs are informative in a way that his specific views on firearm ownership are not.

Specifically, his choice to purposefully refer to himself as a "gun nut" because he thinks people see he's not "crazy" and it thus "discredits the idiots" flies in the face of the many people here saying he does seem a bit eccentric, if not "crazy". I'm left believing he's exceptionally poor at interpreting people's opinions and motivations (which might well explain some of the behavior referenced).

So, regardless for the reason for the inclusion of that link, I did find it somewhat illuminating.
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Both these comments are literally in the first sentence of the OP:

"We are overjoyed to announce that the Ghostery extension and mobile browsers have been acquired by Cliqz, a German company owned by Mozilla and Hubert Burda Media that builds ground-breaking browser technologies to make the internet more private and easier to use."
I used to be a part of BBS culture. I see many parallels with today. You will find some respectable people and some bullies. I recall the need for moderators even back then. I knew a few sysops (admins) and talked to them about these challenges.
However, the application of moderation was much simpler. The rules allied to everybody. We now oppose things like whitewashing (eg. Protests at Dr Strange), but are happy to gender wash (Thor, Ghost Busters, etc). We've tied ourselves in knots with these inconsistencies.

I also agree with your comments about social standing. Excellent comment.
The state of Karnataka has a ban in place [1] since last year and as a resident of Bangalore I can confirm that the ban is effective in reducing the use of plastic where it is indeed avoidable.

[1] http://m.timesofindia.com/city/bengaluru/Total-plastic-ban-i...
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I assume much of this is due to language or cultural barriers, even if it's mostly perceived and not a legitimate barrier. Not surprising that most foreign students congregate with one another, but they're missing out on part of the experience of studying abroad surely. This goes both ways BTW, US students studying abroad in many countries experience the same thing as well.
"Finally, the bill terminates the national sales tax if the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution (authorizing an income tax) is not repealed within seven years after the enactment of this bill."

So if the 16th isn't repealed, and the IRS no longer exists... does the US just stop functioning in 2024?
Websites Can Now Track You Online Across Multiple Web Browsers
If the information is public, why can't it be scraped and sorted by a third party?
If you're an introvert or very shy, it doesn't matter how far or close you're from home - it's very difficult to make friends.
I've noticed this issue firsthand - not just at hedge funds but also at big banks and smaller financial firms. For all the talk and chatter about blockchain, electronic payments, robo-advisors... technology still has long ways to go to revolutionize and democratize access to markets, data, trading, etc..
Planet is very careful about space junk. One of the founders even did work for NASA, v.v. space junk. All the doves will burn up after use
Think of a decision boundary that a neural net makes. And let's assume it's a 3 dimensional surface. That surface is going to have peaks going up and peaks going down.

Backprop determines the differential with respect to the error. You can use that to lower the error in classification, but there's nothing preventing you from going the other way. You would normally descend into the valleys, but you can just as well climb the mountain, to find features that are extremely unlikely to be found on an elephant, and with more training you can find stuff that's commonly found on non-elephant things, and train those features on those.

What I mean is that if it only sees positive examples, it might conclude that anything means it's an elephant, regardless of what exactly it is. So that's why I have to qualify by saying a "good" feature.

Furthermore there are ways to generate good negative examples from the only positive input data. For instance, you can use random static as an input. Given that static (correctly generated) does not have any information content, there's nothing in there that's an elephant, and you can train it away from that. Other obvious ways to generate more data is to do reverse training : determine what input data would make the network say that that is absolutely not an elephant, after seeing a few elephants. Assume it gets that right, that it isn't an elephant. Insert some static to generate more data. Take that input, flip it, rotate it, zoom it, add static, change color distribution and train those as non-elephants.

Likewise, take the input pictures. There should be other stuff in there than elephants. So figure out which values trigger the network (not all pixels matter for the end result, in fact, most won't). Find the ones that don't matter for all pictures, and collage them together. Train as non-elephants. Do the same in reverse (find elephant pixels, and use those to paste more elephants in other pictures).

You need to do this to keep your data balanced : there should be equal number of positive and negative training generated items.

I'm not sure how you could get the adversarial network approach to work for this.

At this point, you have still not given it any negative example, but there's lots to train on.
RDS is only multi-AZ if you want it to be (and are willing to pay twice as much).