skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just for kicks here's a more hopeful approach that I've heard...merge AI with the brain like Kurzweil was predicting

Shouldn't this be the ultimate goal anyway? I know Elon Musk sees the future where there is a merging of man and machine to enhance what he sees as man's limited upload bandwidth (talking, writing, gesticulating, etc.)
Could you possibly be confusing speech patterns with personality traits? I.e., someone speaking in a girly high-pitched voice doesn't necessarily have or display a sunnier personality, it could be just your own perception. And that perception could potentially be wrong.
> I think Minnesota is underrated

Shh. The locals like it that way.
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Another good option is to store your files in a second cloud storage service, and use CDN or DNS failover.
Do you think Snap will build it own data centres?
They are not being paid 'small money' because they are easily replaceable, they are being paid small amounts because they bring very little value to the organization.

The value is created by all the people together. Without development sales had nothing to sell, without sales development could code the most beautiful piece of software and still not earn a bug. Without someone maintaining and cleaning the office it would not take too long until human resources had a hard time recruiting new workers because of the bad working conditions. Someone cleaning the office toilets is involved in keeping the company running, just asserting that they provide little or no value is totally flawed, at least in my opinion.
Sociologists and feminists like to chalk everything up to gender roles, as the author does here, and offer feminism as a solution, but this is dogmatic.

There's a difference between taking risks (if you take risks, and bad things happen as a result, that's often outside of your control; e.g. sharks when swimming in the ocean, there's always a risk) and self-neglect, which is within your control. Self-neglect is a consequence of low self-esteem, and has nothing to do with masculinity. This may be uncouth, but: think of the men who you think are least masculine, and ask yourself if they nurture themselves more, go more to the gym, and eat better. If anything, the opposite is true.

The real problem is self-neglect, whose root cause is low self-esteem.

I don't think women's average self-esteem is any higher or lower than men's, but theirs manifests itself in different ways, which explains why women would be more conscientious of their physical health, and push men to do the same. Still doesn't change the nature of the problem, or its real solution.
> Why do you think that reflection is a bad idea?

OK, reflection isn't necessarily a bad idea. Clearly development tools need it, including future tools that run in the browser (e.g. an in-browser IDE). But I think that applications that are not development tools should not use reflection, because it interferes with static optimization, as the article that I linked in my original comment explains. So most libraries should probably not use reflection either. That means we need an alternative to reflection. For example, chapter 10 of _Kotlin in Action_ uses reflection to implement a serialization library. I think it would be better to use build-time code generation for that, even outside the JS use case (e.g. reflection interfers with optimization of Android app packages with ProGuard).

Edit: By the way, thanks for taking the time to respond.
NN is a pretty loosey-goosey principle that mostly just means "I don't like Comcast". There's also some partisan political football mixed in, and in the EFF's case, sizable donations from content providers like Google who want to preserve a strong bargaining position when buying bandwidth.
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I wonder if they also try to get the NRA to pay so that Everytown for Gun Safety ads don't appear. This actually seems like a decent way for social media companies to make money, although it sure does feel smarmy.

(as an aside, Everytown for Gun Safety is not actually a gun-safety charity: it's an anti-gun organisation)
I suspect their spam/abuse trouble started getting a bit more attention after Disney dropped an acquisition over it in October.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/disney-sa...
Ok, let me run with that proposition:

1. Snapchat tries to advise Everytown that ad slots are open and the NRA is likely to capture some of them

2. Everytown can't afford to buy up all the slots at the quoted price

(So far, I think both Everytown and Snapchat are still ok here. No harm done.)

3. Snapchat representative, Saliterman, ends the running email conversation with an email saying this: "To be clear, the story has the potential to be bought by any advertiser, including the NRA, which will enable the advertiser to run three 10-sec video ads within the story."

(At this point, if I were in Everytown's shoes, I would now fully believe Snapchat was acting against my interests. They're not even trying to work with me any more.)

Why didn't Everytown call Snapchat's bluff? Run the campaign, not buy the ad slots, let Snapchat do what they may.

They could have screen-grabbed the resulting campaign and used it to generate _massive_ publicity.

Snapchat would have had huge egg on their face.

I can think of Everytown not wanting to make a spectacle of the families who had suffered such loss. But with advance notice maybe they could have gone to the families and asked politely? It seems likely some would have agreed to let this happen and then fight the NRA on the outcome.

(If I were the NRA, as well, I would be _furious_ at Snapchat for ill-using my ad spend in this way.)

But it's all hypothetical, apparently.
The person posting this went out of his way to try to do some good. Instead of taking them down with cheap shots: What have you done to give the PHP world (better?) options?

If everybody that railed on others creations would instead spend the time to provide better alternatives then we wouldn't be having this discussion. But cheap shots are cheap and work is hard.
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Pharma companies are run by people; Monsanto is run by people. And yet nobody expects ethics and morals from those: that was the point of the parent.

People don't expect ethics and morals from all people or organizations in the same amount.
Their long-term plan seems to be that Azure is going to be the best / easiest platform to host the projects they contribute to on. Therefore, their open source projects like TypeScript and .NET Core act as a funnel to drive people to Azure.

I also think that they are trying to position .NET Core as a viable competitor to Java, for which they need decent cross-platform tooling.
Same - a common language for JVM, JS, Native is both unique and intriguing to me. These are three really big targets. It's not that it would be unique in being a higher level compiled language or a language making Java development more fun to me, but being a common languge for among the most popular targets besides .NET today.
Which is why gun-free zones are the safest places. /s
IAAL as well.

I think you've convinced me. I was concerned that the use, performance or display may be a problem... but thinking it through, I do not really see this as an issue with most copyleft licenses. They are usually tied to distribution of code - which is reproduction.

I echo your disclaimer. If you need a lawyer, get one.
I worked at a company that had some files that were thousands of lines long. The result of 10 years of entropy build up.

When you've worked with these files long enough, and it sounds kind of funny, but the shape of the code becomes very familiar. Searching for keywords though usually my primary method of finding places in code was sometimes less effective because it would occur multiple times (think function names) however I was intimately familiar with the shape of the code, so I could just jump to the 2 indented part.
GMail is less than useful for sending attachments, assuming they still do stuff like blocking .zip files containing executables. I can't use my GMail account to communicate with customers at all.
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We're planning to implement that.
Chris is definitely an inspiration to many, myself included.
They've already announced a game that requires the touchscreen (and thus cannot be played while docked): http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-02-27-nintendo-switch...

I think these will be uncommon, but they will exist, because they can.
This is rich coming from an anonymous account created 69 days ago with 17 total comments (and 7 of them in this post).
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>If there's any unusual pain in your chest cavity at all, just drop whatever it is you're doing and get it checked out.

My wife did this last year. Out of an abundance of caution they checked in her into the hospital for 8 hours and ran a battery of tests. A full work day and $30k in medical bills later they didn't find anything. By then she felt fine and went home. I'm not faulting the original advice, but medical intervention can be expensive and frustrating.
As a longtime Nintendo fan I'd say it's not so much a commitment as a total lack of resources put into basic online functionality. It just seems brave of them because it's such a glaring error.
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Comparision of Facebook and Google privacy
I'm trying to find a comment someone made on HN within the last two months. It was a hyphenated list comparing how bad Google and Facebook are with user privacy. Facebook came out way worse.

I've searched HN a lot myself but haven't found the comment. Can anyone find it? My friends don't understand why I don't use these services and it'll be easier just to send them the list as an explanation.
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There are several competing standards. "Wireless HDMI" is a gaggle of unlicensed spectrum, but they manage to get 1ms delay with propriatary techs. We've had WiDi (with varying lag) and miracast (with awful lag) for a while, but nobody's been able to manage to standardize the standard, so to speak.
Why would employees lose years of their career? While it's true that early work-ex in a company that eventually becomes Google is great to have, it's not exactly a black mark on your resume if you have worked in a company that didn't do well. You still got plenty of engineering experience.
> Tagging along on the top reply here

First, no, please don't do that. It's one of the worst patterns in active discussions.

Second, if anyone thinks they see gaming or abuse, they should let us know right away at hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate. Please don't post about it in comments, for a couple reasons: (1) if there really is abuse going on, we need to know, and we don't see most comments; (2) most of us internet readers are orders of magnitude too quick to interpret our own cognitive biases as abuse by others (e.g. X seems obvious to me so anyone arguing ~X must be a shill). This places the threshold for useless, nasty arguments ('you're a shill. no, you're the shill') dangerously low. Combine that with the evil catnip power of all things meta and you get the most malignant strain of offtopicness there is, so we all have to be careful with it. And yes, genuine abuse does also exist. It's complicated that way.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13767122 and marked it off-topic.
Don't know about quant-driven per se, all do use lots of technology and have large IT staffs, but that doesn't mean tech guys are driving trading strategy. Not much room left for making money off HFT/arbitrage, and while I do know of attempts to trade use AI driven strategy, it's not there yet.

When a tech exec transitions to successfully running a hedge fund, that'd be news.
Go is too accessible for really prime-grade snobbery. Any competent engineer from the Algol-based tradition of imperative languages will be able to make Go work. There just isn't anything there difficult enough to keep out the riffraff.
You're definitely not the only one, I've talked about this with friends and it's quite common, as far as I can tell.

I swear in my native language too, but I perceive it very differently in English. If someone calls me a "twat" or something like that, I'd probably not even register it. Also, I think of certain words (for example "nigger", "paki") like completely meaningless words, not that I ever used them.
Then it would just be called "safety".
Not entirely. I swear a lot more in English than I do in (my native) Russian, even when audience and social context are the same. I'm pretty sure that's pure conditioning - Russian profanities literally make me wince every time, because that was drilled thoroughly into me as a kid. English ones got acquired much later, and are "just words".
Yet I still won't be able to email encrypted archives around.
Is it? I know it's not popular to say things like "women can't do this" or "women aren't as good at this", but I've not actually heard someone say that men and women don't have differences. A great many of those differences are socialization, not biology, but even then there are physical differences.

For example, I know lots of people that want women to be able to be in combat roles in the military. I've not heard anyone suggest that any qualification standard that actually applies to fitness to do so be lowered. Given the biological range of the genders, this would mean that:

* there would be women who physically qualify
* that number would be less than men that physically qualify

...and everyone seems okay with this.

Frankly, I've heard far more people get angry about some theoretical upset person than I've ever seen actual upset persons.
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I think that's what he meant, this is not what I think.
Empirically, do humans presently, and have humans in the past been observed to, "act ethically"? And, of course, there's a tremendous diversity about what exactly is ethical.
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Well, we expect social media sites to try and avoid blatantly taking sides. But they definitely thrive on human-interest stuff (such as this), especially if it's something with a social mobilisation aspect, and that's almost bound to skirt the political rather closely. As it does here. At best you might expect social media firms to give opposing sides equal opportunities (even more business!). But even openly biased media is common - e.g. Fox news, but really many other news outlets too - and I see no reason to think social media firms couldn't evolve in the same direction.

I'm not saying we should applaud this development...

In any case, I don't see no evidence that snapchat it being particularly biased based on one story they're pushing. It's pretty much impossible to make that conclusion based on one story, given that they push so many. It looks more like sheer incompetence to me than anything else.
Dangit, Cloud to Butt Plus strikes again.
We greatly benefit from all your hard work, so thanks a lot. Can you explain why GitLab.com is a priority though from GitLab's business point of view?
S3 for static file hosting, ec2 for caddy web server front ends (2+ depending on traffic needs), ec2 for a MySQL master (replicated to the Digital Ocean and OVH MySQL master VPS's), and Elastic Load Balancer
... it would be any competing service that would probably have to pay to get same access/performance or struggle against data/price burden for users.
Khronos is a group composed of companies like Apple and Microsoft. If Khronos reaches consensus about something being a good idea, then that necessarily means that the member companies think it's a good idea—and so will implement it.
Can you elaborate on the number format you have in mind?
How does amdahls law apply to articles that take two hours to read?
People who travel internationally tend to be wealthier and better educated than those that never leave their country.

They don't need to be a privileged political class in order to wield more influence since influence tends to be loosely correlated with wealth. See also: Trumps billionaire cabinet.
What you are describing is a tinder approach to twitter, which serve fundamentally different roles in the online social sphere. I understand that is how you and yours use twitter, but extrapolating that behavior across hundreds of millions of users is almost certainly hasty.
Last I heard, scientists still feel that way, but they've gotten burned-out on trying to explain to the public exactly how doomed we actually are.
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Browse no. Netflix, well yeah sorry, if a big powerful device is hooked up to my TV and it's not speakers I expect it to have Netflix. It doesn't matter much to someone with 5-10 consoles and blu ray players and smart TVs, but for a lot of the country $300 is still a decent chunk of change and it's likely to be replacing a much older console. Still, those folks are less likely to be getting a newly launched console, so it may be fine.

Netflix on devices certainly makes me use them and think of them more. I'd say half my PS4 time is spent on Netflix, which gives plenty of opportunity to pique my interest for some newly released game or service whenever it boots up.
I've lived here in Auckland since 2010, being originally from the north of England. I am yet to see a 'winter' in Auckland. Every year it gets a bit more rainy in the winter months and the temperature drops to around 3 or 4C at night...that's it, it's still in double digits in the daytime. Although I am coming from a place where it rained all year and had snowy -10C winters. I remember not long after I arrived in NZ there was one freak weather day where there was sleet in the city for about 60 seconds and everyone lost their minds as it hadn't snowed in 50 years or something.....those who had never left the city were experiencing snow for the first time....it baffled me how much of a big deal it was.
I haven't worn a coat for the past year and I've downgraded to one pair of jeans as I'm always in shorts and jandals. This place really is part of the 'winterless-north'.
I'm not a very good graphics programmer but since nobody has chimed I'll give you my 2 cents for what it is worth.

As you've probably already seen, at the basic level, graphics is just a ton of fairly straightforward linear algebra. 4x4 transforms are your friend.

Beyond that, understanding bezier surfaces and the associated tessellation algorithms is probably a good idea. The math of bezier surfaces is pretty straightforward, but you need to play with them a bit to build your intuition about how they work. Once you've picked up bezier surfaces, moving to related concepts like B-splines and Nurbs shouldn't be too bad.

Interpolation algorithms are useful as well. Bilinear interpolation is the easiest to get started with. This leads naturally into linear and nonlinear filters, as interpolation can be thought of as a specific type of filtering. This forms the basis for a lot of what goes on in various shading algorithms.

Additionally, you will want to get familiar with space partitioning data structures such as BSP trees and oct/quad/KD trees.