skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slippery slope? What if I post a seizure gif to twitter, not addressed to anyone in particular? Can I be charged if some random person sees it?
From my perspective, that shouldn't be a problem. Ultimately (as a user) the point of the rating is for me to get stuff that I like -- so it's all relative to me, regardless of individual rating differences.

Now, I realize that's almost certainly not the level of individualization offered by their ranking algorithm (I'm convinced there's way more of a "groupthink" dynamic), but that's partly my point: if your ratings and recommendation system isn't capable of supporting individual differences, then your algorithm is broken.

If you have a complex problem (personalized recommendations absolutely are complicated) then you shouldn't fix a broken algorithm (Netflix recommendations are, at least for me, a bit meh) by simplifying the inputs (switching from stars to up/down). You should fix the broken algorithm, by creating a better algorithm.

I realize it isn't that simple, particularly for a publicly-traded company whose stock price would absolutely be influenced by a decision to scrap part of their core technology, but from my perspective as a user, this is going to hurt my experience with the product.
In other news, false equivalences lead to bad conclusions. The same action can be beneficent in some contexts, malicious in others, and even neutral in still others — think a surgeon cutting someone vs. an assassin cutting someone vs. somebody handing you a document that gives you a papercut. Treating all these cases as though they're equivalent would be ridiculous and not at all useful.
That's the best you can come up with? Go home and start over
Yes, I did. My thoughts were based off the original article, which is what I quoted the follow up statement from.

What's the difference between "advertisement" and unpaid product promotion the user is likely to be highly interested in knowing has been released?
Hi again Michael, another quick one for you: how important is charisma to be a succesful founder?

Do you think YC's application process is skewed towards accepting people who are great at talking?
Obviously you should listen to Michael over me, but as a former YC founder with a robotics startup I agree that you should probably wait until you're more focused on growth than prototyping.
Just like yelling "fire" in a crowded theater (where there is no fire), sending someone a gif in the hopes that it causes a seizure is not protected speech. It's assult.
Obviously the people who drop out of the labor force don't think the upside is worth it.

Otherwise they'd be out there, looking for work. Instead of dismissing the possibility that they act in their rational self interest, perhaps you can study how the actual risk/reward ratio evolved for these people over the course of the last few decades.

But that would be quite a bit harder than giving self-help advice on the internets.
Absolutely, and I didn't mean my post to come across that way. This topic makes me a bit glum, and I think that comes across as defeatist, but I'd rather take on the correct, losing fight, than not fight at all.
It depends on Google.

They tend to black list GPUs due to graphic issues and we all know how often those drivers get updated.

With native code you get to work around driver bugs.

With WebGL you need to guide your users how to manually white list the GPU and still don't have control all it is given to the driver, meaning it can still fail.
But there is a continuum even within 'loved it' territory. I 'love' Die hard. But I 'love' There will be Blood more. The latter may be my favourite movie ever. What should Netflix recommend to me first? A loud action movie, or an unsettling character piece with an unlikable protagonist?
sounds like you were a terrible mother, from what you've told us about your son
"triggering" someone is not the same thing as triggering a seizure.
The point is you need to qualify by trying first.

"There is no point in trying, because you will fail" kind of attitude prevents you from trying at the first place.

There is one reason to be assured of failure, which is by doing nothing at all.
My friend Chris Rohlf has a snarky dismissal of a lot of "hardware hacking" and "IOT" security conference talks: "look at this debugger debugging!" The subtext is, once you find the debug stubs or the JTAG interface or whatever, the rest of the talk is pretty academic. Also: you have to be in a position to exercise the debugger interface to conduct the "hack".

Stories like this call that snark to mind. "Look at this database databasing!"

I'm loathe to stick up for Palantir, because I think Peter Thiel is a monster, and I have no particular reason to believe that Palantir is an especially moral team in its operations and management. But I think most commentary about Palantir's role in surveillance is overblown. From what I can tell, it's a very expensive consultingware database with a name that has special valence with nerds.

Be mean to Palantir all you want, I guess. But don't let other tech companies off the hook. I've been trying to make this point for years with, I think, pretty limited success: if you're angry at Palantir for assisting mass deportation, you should be equally angry at Oracle and Cisco. I am --- in fact, a little more so.
That is a great question! First I look at how clearly the founders communicate their idea and their insights. When someone has a truly deep understanding of their domain, they are able to explain it to intelligent people from any background.
In addition to old school networking at meet-ups & conferences-- Suggest looking for Bootcamp Alumni on Linkedin.

Give them a ping, ask for a friendly 'fellow alumnus' referral. Would they be open to quick 7-10 minute phone call? Do they know any local companies amenable to Bootcamp talent?

The shared connection of the Bootcamp might yield some interesting opportunities.
Hi - Thank you for doing an AMA.

One factor when evaluating startups is how long it will take to get everything ready. Some can launch in a month, but some depend on breakthroughs or environment shifts that will take a decade to happen.

Is there a Goldilocks zone that lends itself to better outcomes? How far into the future is too far?
Do we have to be referred to as Zapiens to work at Zapier?
> What happened here is what happens when someone with insufficient skill tries to write an L program. The language has no such thing as linting or syntax checking, so while a faulty program will always run, it will return with unexpected or absurd results. L failures tend to make C's nasal demons look positively friendly by comparison.

Worse than that, legal "code" has thousands of frequently used implementations (judges) and millions of one-time-use implementations (jurors), all of which may interpret it differently, both from each other and even from their own past versions. So if you thought writing JavaScript was bad because you have to deal with a half-dozen browser implementations and quirks...
So do you adjust the salaries when they move? Your response didn't answer the commenter's question.
My Previous ratings already in Netflix, was the reason for being there. This dumbed down version of up/down voting is ridiculous. Most companies become sophisticated. Netflix is going backwards in time.

All in all this is a RIDICULOUS move. I wish I could download all my previous ratings before they remove them!
>> Karl Popper didn't invent falsifiability, he discovered it.

> Yes, and he discovered it using non-scientific techniques developed in the field of philosophy.

This misses my point, which is that anyone could have noticed the existence of falsifiability, and the fact that a philosopher noticed it means nothing. The reason? The topic is ideas, not people who uncover ideas.

> I haven't much else substantive to say, except that you seem to have a chip on your shoulder about philosophy, which you construe as the works of a small group of French intellectuals from the middle of the Twentieth century.

You're assigning to me a viewpoint I've never held nor expressed. You've also abandoned the topic.

> You're also not averse to making assumptions about the beliefs of the people you're talking to based on no evidence but your own prejudices and limited understanding.

Ah -- so it is I who is making assumptions about the beliefs of others (something I have never done). Thanks for clearing that up, and I advise you to re-read your own posts.

> That isn't conducive to fruitful conversations.

It can't hold a candle to abandoning the topic entirely and moving instead into a personal discussion bearing no relevance to the topic of discussion.
No, the special problem here is that the CIA is enjoined by law against conducting surveillance against US citizens. You can't simply build a system that allows ICE to query CIA data; the two are supposed to be siloed.

It is a problem that DHS is using Palantir to violate that rule. It is also a problem if Palantir is knowingly selling technology for the purposes of violating those rules. But it's doubtless also true that many other tech companies with less interesting names are involved in the same project and profiting from it in the same way.
I genuinely don't want to live in the Bay Area. I am also genuinely disappointed in all the companies that feel like they must be physically located there to achieve success. So bravo and kudos for anyone out there actually trying to bribe people to not be in SV, not just Zapier.

Some of the other comments in this thread are a bit insulting, actually--painting outside-the-valley as some kind of hopeless, jobless wasteland.
I'm not a physicist, an EE, but I saw a conference presentation on underwater LIDAR. Talking with the presenter, the silt is a real issue and severally limits beam quality and range. Sea water is pretty dirty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvPOWjF9nEM
Not at all. Unless you tag it with a person you know vulnerable to seizures, and then on top of that, brag about it.
If you are unwilling to respond to people the same way you expect them to respond to you, you're the one who lacks social awareness.
I've been so long out of that game, I wouldn't know where to begin, so not for me, no.
No, not amortized. That's the variable cost only; it's not amortizing the fixed cost at all.

Think about a plane that fires missiles, for example. This would be saying that the missile costs $1 million. That's per missile. It's not saying that, after enough missiles, we also have paid for the plane.
The Only Virtue to Live By
Because law is written to allow for interpretation when unforeseen circumstances are encountered.
It's an office politics issue. Here we have little issue with it, but I worked in a place that didn't like handling lots of "clean up" commits. The main issue is (working in embedded avionics systems) code changes have to be peer reviewed and qualified. So I've tried to make sure my changes are part of some new or existing PR. I can't do it willy-nilly or I'll be asked, "Why did foo.c:145-150 change?" If it's not part of a PR I can't justify it. So when I stumble on problems, I put them in JIRA. Even if the "problem" is: 200 lines of code without a single comment, all variables have names like XYZ12, XYZ13. It may technically work, but no one knows why and, fortunately, falls afoul of our coding guidelines. I may not be able to work it today, but it's in the system and can be worked at some point when priorities align better.
I don't think the criteria has changed much. I think personally I've had to learn not to get caught up by pet ideas. It is easy to ignore obvious red flags when you read an application where you would love to be a user.
> there is no fundamental reason why you can't have underwater laser weapons

Even at optimal wavelenghts and clean water, seawater absorbs/scatters light so much more strongly than air that underwater laser weapons are pretty much infeasible. The best wavelength is blue-green-ish, but even there you lose 5% intensity per meter (the loss is exponential in distance).
I'm fairly sure that Huffpo piece is misinterpreting the context of universal fiber service.

The statutory "minimum for universal broadband availability" was "1.544 megabits per second (Mbps)" in 1996 when Verizon claimed it would increase it to 45Mbps. See 6 Pa. C.S. §3002. 1.544 Mbps is a T1 line.

This strongly suggests that universal broadband availability isn't talking about residential mass market, $49.99 dollars a month, but instead, was about about replacing trunk lines. They weren't promising to give every house 45Mbit.

They were promising to upgrade T1 lines to T3 lines, which coincidentally operate at 44.736 Mbit/s.

This is confirmed by the time frame of these claims. 45Mbit for home house would have been seen as insane for 1996. 56k modems hadn't even been released on the market. AOL had just introduced flat rate pricing. Home networking didn't really even exist. I'm not even sure if FttH was a concept then. Fiber termination was still very expensive (still is really).
Ask HN: Kubernetes or ECS
For a team with about 40 million site visitors annually, would you suggest Kubernetes or ECS? (personally I am still trying to make the argument for monoliths but everyone seems hellbent on containers)

More context: We use AWS for everything. The arguments are AWS already manages it for us, and for what we want to do with it, it will be just fine. My argument is everyone seems to be favoring Kubernetes and saying ECS will always be playing catchup to k8s but I am still trying to learn why as I am getting reacclimatized with container orchestration. The last time I dabbled with this, I ran my own core-os cluster and used etcd with haproxy and registrator, but it seems like there are new tools now and I am trying to get back into the game.

So in short, for a small team with medium traffic that wants to go containers, and most of their infrastructure on AWS (plus we like to use other amazon offerings), ecs or k8s? Pros and cons? Thank you so much.
What if I send you baked goods with peanuts in them without telling you, knowing it might kill you?
I've never had direct affiliation with YC at all, but I'd check this out:

http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-for-hardware
I fundamentally believe that governments sole job should be answering the question "is this for society?" and here society doesn't mean "the people with money" which it mostly does now.

We seem to have forgotten that this is governments job and if you go back to first principles and look at government through that lens, I think you end up with the scenario where western governments are failing abd failing badly, government should be both a counterweight again other powerful interests and a referee.

Single issues take far too much prominence (which they want as divisive issues by nature serve to devide people).
It's per year. Panama is more expensive than many areas of the US but the lifestyle is subjectively better. Plus you don't go broke trying to pay for medical coverage or treatment. And there is no tax on foreign sources of income.
you stole my name! bastard! ...also I have the same question

edit: sort of forgot to abide by community norms here and keep my comments on-topic. apologies
All at once. Timing of the payment is based on how long it takes to fill out the paperwork, which is highly variable based on company structure, maturity, organization, etc.
In a a UBI situation, I would find the cheapest living conditions around home, then hope the Ubi would cover out-of state schools
Yes, modern cards are migrating to a model where CPU and GPU have have direct access to the same memory region with zero copy.

Of course you need to synchronize access.
You can swing your arms around as much as you like, but if you swing them into someone's face, that's illegal. As someone posted above, you can make food with peanuts as much as you'd like, but if you sneak peanuts into someone's meal who you know is allergic to peanuts, that's illegal.

Tweeting gifs? Fine. Tweeting gifs at someone with the intent to cause harm? Illegal
Yeah. They're one of the ones who could do it, especially since they'd probably be able to ally with Google wrt Android. It's a real lost opportunity.
I think you probably understood what I actually meant, and wrote, so I won't be entertaining ^That.
Hypersonic doesn't get you anything close to the speed of light. As long as the targeting electronics can handle the hypersonic speed of the target - and those electronics are not getting slower - hypersonic won't make much difference.
Tensorflow implementation of Skip-Thought vectors
> the special problem here is that the CIA is enjoined by law against conducting surveillance against US citizens.

Laws only matter if they are enforced or if the loopholes used to exploit them are closed.
Introducing Plank: Immutable model generation for iOS
You need to read the article I guess, because the CIA isn't conducting surveillance against US citizens and providing that data to ICE. The CIA has data on foreign citizens and is providing that info to a system that ICE will have access to.
But the whole point of me using Contentful is that a non-developer will have an easy time editing content within Contentful vs. having to set up a local way of accessing those markdown/yml files through a git repo. Or do you somehow abstract that away?
Nice ad-hominem.

This is a philosophical debate and we are on a very interesting line that is worthy of passionate discussion.

It is not as clear cut as many people say.

We aggressively advertise harmful substances to people, KNOWING full well that MILLIONS of people will be imprinted at a young age and result in disastrous consequences for their health (Seizures! And more).

Giving kids sugar at a young age and making them addicted to sugary cereals with "prizes" in the box should result in a much greater pumishment than what these chumps did.

I know they are on a different scale. But your reaction is a pre-reflective one and likely due to the novelty of this "assault".

We will see if these writings are vindicated or not based on a guilty/not-guilty. Then we can read the Judge's PDF and see what philosophical consideratioms were at play.
> Capitalism is the ultimate paperclip maximizer... a zombie that feeds on growth rather than brains.

The "paperclip" that "Capitalism" seeks to maximize is money in exchange for goods and services that people want.

The robots aren't going to be built in the first place if they're not going to serve somebody, and if they no longer provide things that people want in exchange for money, their owners will turn them off or repurpose them.

"Capitalism" isn't the problem here; it might be that robots could be paperclip maximizers, but that's a danger regardless of whether you have Robot Capitalists or or Robot Communists or Robot ISIS or whatever.
I've been wondering this too. Many people I know are avoiding the YC/startup scene because it seems to be for the "cool" kids who know how to talk their way through something, and not those who are actually technically competent.
GC was not part of [the MVP][1], and the MVP itself was only finished around 2 weeks ago, so of course not. They haven't even had an opportunity to work on it yet. Like I said, "long-term goals".

If you want to get an idea of where GC is on the priorities list, have a look at the [roadmap][2]. There are still other things they have to deal with before they start working on GC support, but it's coming.

[1]: http://webassembly.org/docs/mvp/

[2]: http://webassembly.org/roadmap/
As someone who is aware of DF but never played it, I am curious about how the game actually works.

I am roughly aware that it is a very complex simulation that exists under an ASCII art and menu presentation, but it's not clear at all to me how gameplay actually works. Does the game more or less "play" itself and allow you to nudge things in different directions to observe the outcome, or are you responsible for micro-managing all of your dwarves' lives?
A pawn for a rook? That's like a pawn for 1000 queens.
I'm not going to argue with you. Day One reports were issues with serious frame rate drops, specifically with the docked version of the game. This has been discussed, analyzed, and recorded to death. Breath of the Wild has framerate issues.

Digital Foundry covered this extensively

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhoiGxl6bnE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpqaTdflkNU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yFON2UON3k
1) I'm guessing this happened to you, which is why you brought it up.

2) You do "give a shit," or you wouldn't have posted this. I think it's normal to care when people downvote your comments, which is why votes work in the first place. Most of us probably care, as silly as it is.

3) Looking back through your votes, you don't seem to have been heavily downvoted except for saying the minimum wage has reached absurd levels (which is false, if you adjust for inflation) and that gun violence is higher in places with stricter laws (by mentioning which, you seem to have gotten cause/effect mixed up -- places with more gun violence have strengthened their laws as a reaction).

I think that the combination of your username and saying demonstrably false things has caused the behavior of going through your history and downvoting you. Some people don't want you here. I would say being strictly factual and somewhat tribal is very much in the spirit of HN (for better or worse).
90 meters seems to be the new low, from 120 meters in UK.

Does not matter, because already there are drones smaller than a matchbox.

In 2005 I had three kites in a string of 1.5 kilometer. The ceiling was 300 meters outside airplane corridors. But I only learned this later. The fact is however there was nothing interesting to see and take photos of at 1000 meters.
Yes, because guilty until proven innocent is the best way to teach them a lesson!

It's a shame you are not a lawyer or a judge.
Imagine what the states could do with the > $50 billion we are about to send to our already outsized military.
> However, claiming that I'm violating your trust if you send me an email is a bit of a strong statement, don't you think.

I am not sure what your argument is? If I am sending you an email, you cannot possibly violate my trust by sharing it with other people?
That's the best argument for UBI I've heard yet.

It gives people an option to "exit" shitty societies.

Unfortunately you'll find a good portion being spent on 20th century drugs, which suck immensely.

But if the people in power are willing to take that risk, then it might be a positive thing.

One glaring flaw is that humans are a social species and calculate rank and favors and grudges almost autonomously. Receiving your "life" from a government stooge is something of an embarrassment to men who've survived cold winters and starvation and dehydration. We like to be "equal" or "respectful" to a gift giver by having the possibility of giving back an equivalent gift.

So in a sense, you have to teach the homeless person abilities which, eventually, allow him/her to reciprocate a gift. Even if the gift was from the government.
I don't think they use Office either.

The only software where you can tell that they dogfood it is Visual Studio. Every change makes sense, is useful, user friendly and corresponds to problems I have met.

The other software that you would assume they dogfood but it doesn't show is Windows 10...
Anyone have a link to good GIFs? I couldn't find any. I'm very curious to see what these look like.

[edit] Found this based on suggestion below. Obviously, don't click if you're seizure-prone: http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb217/powercrazy13/you-de...

I guess I'm not epileptic. It's pretty uncomfortable to look at for a long stretch though. Anyone know what happens if a non-epileptic stares at an image like this, say, for an hour?
Yes. If you're already checking for changes yourself then you've basically rewritten React.