skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The cold war branding of anything communism/socialism as evil is being seen through as rhetoric"

I can hardly believe that anyone who was alive during the 'cold war' would ever say that.

I grew up in an immigrant community in Canada, and most of my friends fled those disastrous, oppressive and totalitarian 'communist paradises' all over E. Europe, China, Vietnam, Cuba - and also - Sweden, by the way. Nordic countries were extremely socialist during the 1950's to mid 1980's.

If you were to try to say this in front of my friend's parents, they'd 'trigger', and kick you right out of the house in anger.

My uncle escaped Communist Hungary as a boy, literally, at night, running through the forest with soldiers chasing he and his mother.

I also remember the very real threat of a nuclear holocaust, in the 1970's to late 1980's it was a very, very real and tangible things.

You can try to 'debate', that's all fine, but communist utopian (read: dystopian) ideals seemed pushed by young naive people in every generation. It's almost as though they don't grasp the lessons of history.

There'll always be need for 'constant vigilance' against oppression by capital, fleeced consumers etc. - but socialism and especially communism are unmitigated disasters.

Communists are definitely 'dirty'. They represent, in reality - the world's greatest movement of mass murder and oppression. The paradox of the constant attraction to communism lies in their apparent goodwill: hey, who wouldn't want 'equality' and 'food for everyone' , yada, yada? Sounds great! Reality is a little harder and sometimes takes time to grasp.

"privatise luxury, socialise necessity". Defining 'luxury and necessity' is the root of that statement.

In Poland, just before the fall of communism, they had only Vanilla, Chocolate and 'Pink' ice-cream, because anything else was bourgeois (i.e. a luxury), and banned. In Bulgaria, there was no ice-cream. :)

Food is definitely on some level a 'necessity' and we definitely have not socialized that. Maybe we can make sure everyone gets healthcare without socializing too hard as well.
Add real ways to block online harassment.
Are these generated by an algorithm or not?
>How much can the government be stealing from you if you have no money?

John Oliver did a good breakdown of how municipalities do pretty nasty things when you can't pay your tickets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjpmT5noto
Bought one for my son, and replaced the led with a nice red one.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Watch-LED-Light-Mod/
When I add a new task, it is always added on the next day.

Chrome latest, OSX, Timezone +8 if that's the issue.
Is it similar to archive.is
I tried using slingtv and on top of the stream qustream issues, I realized that if I pay for a video service my tolerance for ads becomes super low. Too low to ever switch back to the traditional tv ad model
Omg, hello. How did I miss that!
Perhaps the current valuation is too high given the lack of profit.
I think the rub is that the public debate confuses the triumph of the old British system of aristocracy and privilege with "capitalism". Just as they had the "corn laws" in the early 19th century, we have pharmaceutical import bans, region coding, the "dutch sandwich" and many many other privileges to keep the winners winning with a minimum of effort.

If that's what passes for capitalism, who wouldn't reject it?

People spend too much time debating economic systems when the fundamental problem is a public neglect of equal justice under the law.
UberBlack drivers never signed up to accept UberX fares. That wasn't part of the contract, which is why so many feel cheated, an equivalent of a cable company selling you a promotional $19.99 rate and then upping it to $79.99 once you bought the equipment.

> To bring supply back in line with demand, some drivers who used to drive Uber Black should either leave or downgrade

Sure, or some passengers who used to want a cheaper UberX but find it unavailable should either resort to alternative methods or upgrade to UberBlack - market equilibrium can be found in either direction.
Get out while you can! Too little, too late.
Unfortunately mobile SaaS through the App Store is a pain for testing. Price updates are passed down to existing accounts last I looked.

Apps are also a bit different requiring more b2c orientation and simplicity - at least with my limited resources. I chose what I felt was an unique way to capture user confidence via temporal "tiers" - monthly, quarterly, and annually with discounts per.

I think I chose a decent discount as I have a relatively even subscription distribution - challenge is - it's near impossible to model MRR, Churn, LTV when Apple limits the data and strips UUID from subscription.
So a white list? Even that wouldn't be perfect.
A software engineer given a test to prove he’s an engineer by US Customs
Why oh why oh why do you want a stateful read? That will be the beginning of the end for your architecture.
This is a sentiment I hear often; "I'm a hard worker, I used to have a job that paid my bills and left a bit over for vacations but now I'm out of work and broke and everyone wants a piece of me and I have nothing left to give."

And it is a puzzling thing. Where did those jobs go? How is personal income so stagnant? And one of the things I note that is different now than was different before, was that by accumulating capital, large companies remove from circulation large chunks of money. It gets trapped by companies demanding it be 'cash or cash equivalents' so you aren't seeing it invested in long term projects. What you see are lots and lots of T-bills and other dollar denominated investments which can be liquidated on short notice. In January of last year the New York Times reported at $1.9T![1] and that has only gotten worse over the last 12 months. Nearly a $1.4T of this held by 50 US companies[2]. It is hard to get a handle on a trillion dollars, but if you take $60,000 a year as a "nice" middle income job in most of the country, half that $1.4T or $700B dollars circulating around in the economy is nearly 12 MILLION jobs!

I assert that because those trillions are sitting there in T-bills they have taken all of the oxygen out of the middle class. Many people when they have a bit more money in their pocket month to month spend at least some of that on things they wouldn't have spent on otherwise. Whether its a new car, or eating out, or vacations, or new furniture, or repainting the house. All of that spending then is going to companies that are hiring people to paint or sell you stuff or serve you stuff or make stuff for you to buy. And those people who doing all this stuff are also spending money and buying stuff etc.

I believe it is entirely possible that this has nothing to do with socialism or capitalism and everything to do with economic capital becoming trapped and stripped of its agency by companies who hoard it for no reason.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/magazine/why-are-corporat...

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/14/news/tax-us-companies-offsho...
I got hit by a car on a bicycle. Instead of taking pain mess, I used edibles and marijuana for 2 weeks. It was just as effective, if not more because I was functional.
This false binary you're pushing between Kalanick and perfect just doesn't hold water. There are plenty of CEOs whose values and track record I strongly disagree with, but don't hold in the same disregard(e.g. Zuckerberg).

When you're willing to send thugs to intimidate women who leak details about the prevalence of sexual assault at your company, it takes more than a blog post to climb back to credibility.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/former-uber-worker-cl...
The problem with the theory of communism economics is we've only seen it implemented a few times, and they've all been terrible.

Communism, I believe, was to be implemented in a post industrial country. When Russia implemented it, they were pre-industrial, and during a massive war.

As an aside, Germany actually shipped, by train, an exiled Lenin to Russia to destabilize it during WWI.
Well, again, I did define option A as this and option B as everything else. That wasn't by accident.

You're doing the same thing, too, but on the sly. Don't think I didn't see you palm the card:

> Again, if you only seek perfection in CEOs

Don't you think it's a bit of a stretch to characterize Kalanick as merely less than perfect? Not that you're wrong in so doing, exactly, but it does seem to take the principle of charity to a pathological extreme. You might have a point here, if we weren't discussing someone who has such a long record, both personally and on the collective part of the company for which he is ultimately responsible, of bad behavior. But we are.
It has its niches, just like everything else. It was never going to take over the world.
If you drove a Google Street View-style car up and down a mall parking lot, you'd get a lot of information. I doubt that a more in-depth sweep would cost significantly more to do than to just do a single drive by. The biggest cost would be driving to the parking lot in the first place.

And if you were trying to collect information, you'd be able to get a lot more info from the license plate numbers or the make/models of cars. You could also get information on employment by looking for which cars are parked where, since store employees typically have to park further from the entrance. There's a lot of information that you could get from ground-level that you miss at satellite level.

The real question is - is it worth it?
I'll save you a click:

> So the truth is, nobody really has any idea. Once the cheapest, most convenient solution, the middle, was made illegal, everything became a nightmare of relativism and equally rational justifications. Both sides have their advantages and disadvantages, and we’re left, wandering, alone, confused.
Hey, one quick question, did the QRNNs work better and faster than LSTMs out of the box, or did you guys have to tune hyperparameters?
Care to venture a guess that he wouldn't have apologized if the video wasn't made public? Much like the recent sexually abusive culture revelations. Travis continues to do the least he can actually do without doing anything that would actually hurt himself, as resigning and putting a true and tried professional
CEO in charge would - and let's be clear, he just made it clear that he never intends on stepping down.
> When properly treated the mortality is 1/10

Isn't that still on the really high side of things?
You forgot spending less time on favorite icon animations.
To be fair, a generational mark-sweep GC algorithm doesn't take much more space over the compile-time modifications to the code itself. A reasonably performant GC algorithm suitable for most front-end work would probably only add about 10 kilobytes to 20 kilobytes of code to an executable. That can be downloaded and cached in the blink of an eye.
Automatically modify Donald Trump's tweets to say nasty things about Facebook and other social networks on a regular basis.
That's not the worst idea on here. I have no idea how much Patreon and various crowdfunding sites take in, but scale those up to Twitter's audience (which has some meaningful overlap with those likely to use or benefit from those services) and they get the foundation for a payment/micropayment type model. Twitter tried doing this with some sort of direct commerce experiment, but "give $5 to a cause/artist/politician" tends to be a more social activity than going right after retail, or hoping to crack the micropayments for content nut.
Detailed Introduction to WebAssembly
Indeed! Lost my ~~~~ on this one, 01/26:

> 1.1B Taxi Rides on Kdb+/q and 4 Xeon Phi CPUs

An internet posts a resume-building exercise with no practical value or interesting results or useful methodology. Hackernews debates the relative merits of software designed to execute bad programs as quickly as possible. The Rust Evangelism Strikeforce makes a tactical decision not to get involved, since people are talking about fast code.
My understanding is that that is coming.
Term limits to check-and-balance power is a pretty good solution. The trick is to make them long enough so good people can do good things, but short enough so that bad people can't do permanent damage.
Twitter, as Linkedin, suffers from a poor content to marketing ratio.

I do use it to follow some devs, but every time I step out the established circle into an hashtag or suggestion is nothing but marketing bots oneupping each other.

On the other social is easier to have real social interaction, while talking on twitter is more like people screaming in a crowd plus there are these big tv set all over the place loudness to the max splourting ads.

It was a nice way to grow an asymmetric network built on shared interest as opposed to shared connections when there where genuine people on it but I hardly even login anymore.
100% agreed!
You don't have to be all that suspicious a person to think that a 40 year old man, who has demonstrated a repeated pattern of behavior over his life, in a situation where his job is on the line and a crisis manager is writing letters like this, should probably be assigned a prior greater than 0.95 of, well, lying.
> has no options beyond a) try to seem sincerely humbled and intent on improving, or b) do literally anything else

You know, a year ago I would have nodded along to your reply. But after seeing Trump choose B every time and repeatedly get away with it, I have to give Travis at least a modicum of credit for not going full Trump on this one. Not a lot of credit, but the decision was his.
Not every industry has to be capitalist to have a capitalist economy, just like having a pure democracy isn't the only way to have a democratic political system. The trick is finding the bugs and fixing them.
Google launches Meet, an enterprise-friendly version of Hangouts
> I never said that it should be illegal for someone to seek privacy

I'm not talking about legality (though that is important); I mean that typical end users should have an option, a practical way to have privacy and function in the real world.

For example, someone looking for a job often needs Facebook and LinkedIn; they have no option.

> for no other reason than maintaining our privacy

I believe privacy is important, as a thing itself and not as a direct means to an end, to more people than you think.
>1. cut costs by a lot. they shouldn't be spending $2B per year

Which costs would you cut?
1) Let SMBs pay to get a social graph of particular users, fnd influencers, etc

2) Merge with Medium and jump on their token content payment system

3) Acquire Nuzzle and team to make Moments not a pile of crap
What makes a compiled executable faster than interpreted code seems kind of self evident.
Could be anything. Most likely scenario is the internal error is a load shedding error and the 503s were when the system became completely unresponsive. If it was a configuration issue then it is more likely that it would have directly recovered rather than going 'internal error -> 503 -> internal error'.
A friend noticed that people would pull up to the wrong side of the Costco pump, even if there was an open position on the more natural side. He was never able to figure out why someone would do that.
Surprising that big pharma is an opponent to a readily-available natural substance outside the purview of patent protections. Quick, better enforce the federal ban.
> we don't support people who say they made a mistake and are seeking help.

> you only end up with really good liars in charge.

There's a difference between someone realizing they've made a mistake and openly admitting it without needing external pressure / evidence versus someone just "handling" more evidence of wrong-doing coming up.

In this case, at a cursory glance, it looks more like someone was accused of a negative type of behavior, the person never acknowledged it or resolved it for a long period, then suddenly a series of events followed by video evidence came-up, only then the person acknowledges it and issues an apology and demands/expects to be forgiven. If that's what's happened in this case, then I'm not sure that forgiving them / supporting their subsequent activities is safe since it would be more like enablement, ie: just enabling the person to continue.

If on the other hand, the perpetrator acknowledged not just this specific issue that had video evidence, but also acknowledged other issues/faults and gave a plan of action for how they were changing their behavior (more than I'm getting help now), then it would be something positive.
Happy customer of PlayStation Vue. At $29/mo compared to the $80+/mo I was paying for Cable, I think these services will be very disruptive to the traditional cable model.
It's not a problem if their driver recruitment material reflects that. If the message was "Drive a black car for occasional UberBlack fare, beware that you must accept a certain percentage of lower UberX fares, and that at some point you will be replaced by a driverless vehicle", it's truth in advertising and drivers get what they sign up for.

Driver ads, however, display successful-looking models quoting some unrealistic (as frequently pointed out by quite a few news sources) dollar amounts, and let's face it, the clientele it's targeting is very removed from robotics/AI development, unlikely to have an economics degree (or speak fluent English, for that matter) or disposable income to trade up / trade down their vehicle of choice to reflect the strategy of the day.

Your argument can be rewritten to apply to Countrywide Mortgage and fake Viagra peddlers, does that make those businesses right?
We didn't actually try LSTMs, because we train in 1.25 second chunks, so running an LSTM for several hundred timesteps would drastically slow down training. Our per iteration time was in the 200-500 milliseconds, and using an LSTM or GRU would likely bump that into the 1-3 second range, maybe more, whereas the QRNN conditioning actually make it cheaper than the transposed convolution conditioning by 20-40%.

The upsampling procedure is quite finicky, so we had quite a few iterations there, but we didn't have to tune hyperparameters too much of the QRNN itself. Once we implemented the QRNN in CUDA for TensorFlow and got it to train, it worked without too much trouble.

Our collaborators in Beijing mentioned that bidirectional LSTMs also worked in a similar way, though.
You know what? I don't want to have to buy or deal with dongles.

We have a number of standard interfaces that work well. I require those in my pro level machines.

And you know what? I get those in my pro level machines.

The reality is Apple doesn't make pro level machines. That's OK. Neither does Nintendo, Kraft, or Parker Brothers.
Your comment leads to what may be the core advice I have: get better metrics.

Twitter has always suffered from being in the wake of metrics that their competitors excel at. That's led to an inability to manage investor expectations and focus on features and project prioritization that doesn't create long-term value.
> Phil. of mind and neuroscience has different subject of study, in most cases

You may find the work of Patricia Churchland an interesting exception.
Huh. I thought Vulkan was supposed to be the new portable 3D standard from Khronos. Now we need a new new standard on top of the old new standard?
I would argue the very notion that he thought the disclaimer might be necessary meant he full well knew he was posting in poor taste.

And as he states, he knows they have outages too. So it's like if there were two towns in tornado alley, and one town got hit by a tornado, and the other was like "well, it might be in poor taste, but there isn't currently a tornado in our town".

If Google had some higher ground to stand on when they made their marketing posts, maybe they'd have merit. But when they're just pushing product that's no better than the product they're commenting about, it's just spam. If he said "we have 30% less outages than AWS" or something, at least there'd be merit to posting it.
Airflow and the Future of Data Engineering: A Q&A
Well, that one didn't get enough votes to become a top story. Not that the NSA isn't above using the backdoor they probably have installed on HN to reverse enough upvotes to keep it from getting so big that people noticed it and began intentionally altering their behavior patterns to skew the dossiers the NSA is building.
And gwt
Or redirect the standard input of netcat to the response file.

nc -lp 80 < response.html
Supposed to be, but Apple and probably parts of Microsoft don't want to play ball.
On the one hand globalization is good --despite cries of "imperialism" globalization has done more to deliver people from abject poverty than anything else --I'd argue much better than if native socialism had taken place and disallowed "imperialistic" global companies from setting foot. Even the Doles and Chiquitas, much maligned for making banana republics out of countries, had a positive impact on those countries... See the alternatives, Bolivia, Paraguay, Myanmar, Nepal, etc. countries where these imperialistic global companies did not set foot and "exploit" the locals.

On the other hand, it does take away from the poor people in developed countries like the US, Japan, the UK, Australia, South Korea, etc. when their economies seek out cheaper labor to make their economies work. If we didn't have imported labor for farm workers for example, we might pay more for grocery goods, etc but we'd have people who are currently out of a job making some money working on farms --working on farms _isn't that much worse_ than working at a McD or Walmart. It's be kind of like grocery goods are in Japan --good quality, but expensive picked by their own farm workers -with the aid of automation.

In addition to that, Globalization has not only enabled seeking cheap labor but also seeking "cheap" regulation and government through globalization. And these kids of things either enable or exacerbate things like the financial crises.
That was hiding in a little box in the middle of the article with the clicky title "How to tell which side the filler is on without getting out."

A bit of web trivia, one of the reasons web sites do this is because of Google. If you are using Google ads, and most web sites do, you have to conform to their guidelines with respect to ads when you come from Google. However, if you are transitioning from an internal link all bets are off you can do what you want. As a result you see a design pattern where a site tries to get you to the page with a search result, and then tries to get you to click to another page to get to more profitable (for the web site) ads.
I'm really surprised no jurisdiction (California, probably...) has said, "by 2020 all new cars must fill on insert side for insert reason."

The problem would be quickly and cheaply resolved as a result.

Related: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
At this point it's a pattern of behaviour and not a mistake. He doesn't need leadership training, he needs a personality transplant.
>it's no cheaper.

It's $25/mo cheaper than a plan from xfinity that includes all those channels (probably around $35-40 cheaper after the 12 month "trial" period, but they don't list those prices on the landing page).
> 1500 - 3000 IOPS

So about as many as this SD card, and nothing compared to a real SSD.
Sony Explains (Kind Of) Why It Disables Xperia Fingerprint Sensors in the US
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, those aren't the answer. I think the article title is a bit too vague. They're talking about probability of 3D for hardware accelerated rendering. Unity and Unreal Engine are complete game engines. Hardware accelerated rendering gets a lot of focus on games, but is used quite a bit elsewhere; apps for video editing, sound editing, 3d content generation (Maya, Houdini), CAD (the originator of OpenGL), and I think the UI on all major platforms are all hardware accelerated. Also, many game studios write their own engines in house because those game engines are big and a lot of "baggage" can come with that.