skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The new legend of Zelda is a toy box of delights
Did humans create the Sahara desert?
Montana Senate Bill SB206, if passed, we will end DST come November 2017 and will continue forward on Montana Standard Time.

http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0203W$BSRV.ActionQuery?P_SE...
Something similar: https://golang.org/pkg/context/
The problem with Verizon's zero-rating of their own product is that it's very hard to define what they're charging for it and therefore what the terms should be for competitors.
Scarlett Johansson was in the Hunger Games?
Torrents for some of the non-CS courses are available at

http://academictorrents.com/collection/video-lectures

Hope more courses are added before they are taken down from YouTube and iTunes.
??? Is that what those lines mean?
I've got nothing against stateless tokens. What I'm saying is that it can be a much easier and more effective pattern to add a second layer of security than to add complexity to the first layer (the token). I believe this is like the idea of defense in depth. For example, making signed-in users re-enter their password before performing certain actions may be preferable to introducing cryptography into all sign-in actions.
It looks like you have to click the refresh button to get it to display.
Surprisingly, we live in an alternate reality. That's called a browser, but the keyboard input is a little different -- you have to hit Ctrl/Cmd + L every time you want to type in a new location.
So where do you suggest this most useful knowledge lies?

These days most books have a copy online.
>What's clearly not OK is taking it further--charging different services different rates based on their relationships with ISPs. You wouldn't accept your electric company charging you different rates depending on the manufacturer of each of your appliances.

This does happen though. Electric companies, phone companies, etc all charge different rates based on who is using the service. Based off of different programs and income based subsidies who is using the service determines the cost paid. This also effects what producers sell to the low end of the spectrum. If electricity is substantially cheaper for lower income consumers, they will care less about paying for better energy efficiency. So you are technically paying a different rate based off what your appliances are.
> That's a pretty broad brush you are painting with. Do you have some hard data that says things break down so clearly along party lines?

They do on the FCC, for the whole time since net neutrality and internet privacy have become an issue. Congress is a little fuzzier but mostly along the same lines.

In the electorate it might be blurrier, but clearly the distribution of views of the relevant politicians shows that the people who cross lines on the above description and who prioritize the issue when it comes to voting aren't that numerous.
jq is great. You can actually see how it's used to test the reference implementation of Son here (https://github.com/seagreen/Son/blob/master/implementation/t...) using `jq --compact-output --sort-keys .`

Unfortunately, jq doesn't provide flags to control scientific/non-scientific notation or which characters are escaped, meaning if you want very tight control over the JSON generated it's not a full option.

(Consider that the motivating example in the Son README isn't all you might want to use Son for. For instance some people need consistent hashing of serialized JSON documents).
BAE sued for firing cryptographer who was looking after dying wife
Exactly, Facebook is not a cause to be dealt with: it is an effect of those who are willing to use it. Very few of them can be swayed by articles such as this one. They simply have NO INTEREST in the possible consequences. This interest, or a desire to live by a higher standard, can only come from WITHIN. Until this changes there will always be Facebooks waiting to take advantage of them.
Beware, if you do that your encrypted file is not authenticated.
The scorpion represents "other venomous arthropod", 'other' meaning not a hornet, wasp, or bee.

It may be the fire ant that causes many of these deaths [0].

[0] http://www.4pawspetsitting.com/poisonous-bugs-north-carolina...
Or, you could celebrate pi time every single day, to as great a level of accuracy as you choose :)
Jane Street: What we talk about when we talk about functional programming
I'd love to see something like what Expo is doing for regular React Native for VR. Even them doing it would be great, I assume that might complicate their branding, but still.

https://expo.io/
Please cite an example of my supposed incivility. I haven't said anything here I wouldn't say in person.

If someone uses a tool every day for a long time, yes, they learn a lot about that tool. But computing is not a stable environment, and it is poor advice to suggest anyone undertake the kinds of hassle the author describes to run antique software when better, more modern options exist that almost certainly answer the mail better for anyone who didn't get set in their ways in 1983.

Even within the notoriously hidebound tribe I belong to -- which is to say, software people over 45 -- even the most change-averse are generally running a build of $favorite_editor that dates from the last decade. Depending on a program that hasn't been maintained in 20 years for even enthusiastic hobby writing is a really, really bad idea.

Your average computer user has NOWHERE NEAR the expertise required to pull together the house of cards he details for running WordStar under modern versions of Windows.

Again, my position here isn't that he shouldn't do whatever he likes. My gripe is that he's presenting it as though it's empirically a good idea for non-him people.
Giving H-1Bs expedited green cards only accelerates the decline of the price of skilled labor.
You can run native code on AWS Lambda. It just isn't officially supported. See Apex for an example of how to get it working..

https://github.com/apex/apex
It's easy to _say_ you're upset about something. It's another thing to take action

Who do you think is buying all those guns?
Fucking forms. I have the link from my email directly to the book. http://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/228391/UpGuard/ebooks/pdfs/eBo...
Pretty much what danielweber said. If you are curious to learn more about the "American Rule" and related exceptions you can read more about it here http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/attorney-fees-does-lo...
Spying Vibrators what's next
There shouldn't, unless you're wiling to be responsible for all the bits that pass through your network. So if one of your subscribers transfers some CP on your network, you need to automatically to go prison for life for that. Is that OK with you? Sounds good to me.
Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't one of the existing Schemes be a better or as good option?

I thought the benefit/raison d'etre to Clojure is the JVM ecosystem.
This builds on the ideas behind PathNet, previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13675891

Whereas PathNet permanently freezes parameters and pathways used for previously learned tasks, in this case the authors compute how important each connection is to the most recently learned task, and protect each connection from future modification by an amount proportional to its importance. Important pathways tend to persist, and unimportant pathways tend to be discarded, gradually freeing "underused" connections for learning new tasks.

The authors call this process Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC). Figure 1 in the paper does a great job of explaining how EWC finds solutions in the search space of solutions that are good for new tasks without incurring significant losses for previous tasks.

Very cool!
So I'd like to share an anecdote for a moment and get some feed back on this:

I have a rather brief speaking style when I express myself verbally. It's a brief, staccato and deliberate speaking style combined with my deep voice and rather monotone delivery that doesn't have many changes in inflection. Not forceful, but deliberate (as in I'm the sit and observe type, many will tell you-but when I do speak I'm usually to the point immediately, and then go back into observe mode). Got it from my father, a military man who also speaks little, but directly, with a deep voice who chooses his words very carefully.

As a result, in one of my part-time jobs I have people remarking one or more of the following:

A) "You should cheer up!" - while I'm actually in a content mood

B) "Why are you upset?" - while I'm actually pretty neutral in temperment

C) "That's rude" - when I've uttered nothing objectively offensive or rude toward the person

It's an interesting phenomenon to me because virtually everyone who knows me knows I'm just a quiet person who isn't necessarily shy, but isn't exactly verbose either when I make oral contributions to my interactions with people.

There is the one thing I contend with, a bit of social anxiety-so when I try to take note of this, and actually be more expressive, add more inflections to my speaking pattern, it comes off highly unnatural, fake, and said anxiety goes through the roof to the point where I begin stumbling madly over my words.

Is this something anyone else experiences? How have you overcome it, did you overcome it at all, or is this something I'm just overthinking (like a lot of other things)?
Hmm, then maybe the easiest solution is to sort numerically by unicode code point, and accept that combining characters will look weird.

Or are there problems with that as well that I'm not considering (beyond it being less human readable)?
> Sure they would, so long as they are trying to have their vote directly effect a change. Outside of "sending a message that I support someone else," the logical voter must consider that their vote will only change an outcome if there's a tie between candidates, and it's usually obvious which two candidates that tie will be between. Such a voter will need, then, to choose the candidate between those two that they would prefer, even if they hate them both. To do otherwise may help send a message, may help them feel that they are uncompromising in their moral fortitude, or may feel good, but their actual vote will not matter.

That logic presumes that A over B results in government getting less involved in people's lives which is what the person I was responding to argued.

If you are genuinely voting on that issue as your primary and core issue, "sending a message" even if it renders your vote otherwise worthless is the only option that has the slightest chance of success. Voting for A or B (as both do nothing in relationship to your single issue) will always ultimately bring about failure.

I guess what I'm trying to say is if people never stand on principle, the principle isn't relevant and is not a genuine want but rather a trivial wish of no real impact. I can also wish to win the lottery or to become a millionaire through an inheritance too. It doesn't mean its a genuine desire I take action on.
Yes, that worked! Thanks.
Please don't be rude like this to other users.
Top Supercars of the 2017 Geneva Motor Show
So will Trump do what he said he would re: H-1Bs?
"Things have changed fast; Google hardly even had lobbyists back during the SOPA blackout.
"

Errr, the DC office had 100+ people at that point, so ....

(IE i'm not sure why you think that, and given it's completely wrong, i'm going to go with 'you just have no idea what you are talking about')
A lot of folks would consider personal security a basic right, but someone still has to pay for the police.

Some folks believe that healthcare should be a basic right, and people definitely have to pay for that.
One problem is that most people decide very early on in their life that they will keep their heads down and never question the violent totalitarian authority that controls them, and thus see no reason why the government would use this data against them.

But then you try the insurance / health care angle and they still just don't care. We've been raised this way. Raised to be like scared children who do not know how to look towards the future or how to accurately assess any complex situation not immediately under their area of expertise
> No amount of statistics change the fact that arguing against open borders is an authoritarian stance.

That so?

> I could throw just as many statistics against you and your drug use if I wanted, but I'm not an authoritarian.

Go right ahead.

> And as to lying with statistics, I don't think that the left is alone in that.

And yet, that still doesn't make it right.
I read Badiou's Number and Numbers. The first half was a good introduction to the history of attempts to axiomatize various kinds of numbers. The second half was a so-so introduction to surreal numbers. The book seems like some notes that Badiou wrote for himself while studying mathematics. Not really sure where any of the reviewers and blurb-givers got the idea that the book had anything to do with philosophy or capitalism or politics.
We had that fight years ago and my job won lol. I guess if your SO works you might not win.
Jeff Bezos has a new top adviser at Amazon
What a fantastic comment. Thank you.
Swiss researchers are developing edible robots made of gelatin
PostgreSQL Parallel Query v2
I love the way the author accidentally manages to be very strong evidence for the "be yourself" advice. He tries so hard to be edgy and cool and blunt, despite the fact that he's obviously just a nerd (which is a good thing that he should embrace), and it comes off as awkward and pathetic.
General complaints about economic inequality do not seem to spur action
Sorry to say, but that's the same for ~everybody. There's always a project to launch, one more feature to code up, one more customer to close, one more support email to respond to.

Thankfully, someone else saw the need for a group of people dedicated to fighting for everybody's rights online, back in 1990. I'm talking, of course, about the EFF.

So you can donate.

The head of the FCC doesn't believe in net neutrality, so it's going to be a long fight so they could use your support.

http://eff.org/donate
The first point is exactly what Comcast can do with their own video service that they can't do with a random video service. (They can do it with someone like Netflix with open content servers.)

If NN were structured such that a company like Netflix had to provide content servers for internal-to-network deployment or netflix customers would higher rate or lower performance for Netflix traffic, but Comcast had to charge the same rate and same standards for Netflix, Comcast's own video product, or any other third party to do this, I'd support it.

I don't particularly value the ability of a carrier to engage in bundling/commercial exploitation of the monopoly, but I do want providers free to engage in technical innovation to provide multiple 4K streams and gigabit access to customers at $50/mo, etc.

This is an even bigger deal when you start looking at other network technologies (wireless/cellular, some of the WISPs, etc.) than fiber to the home or HFC.
This is one prime example where democracy doesn't work.

The resource I'm reading is www.caracaschronicles.com. The article I'm specifically referring to is [0].

Basically, when oil prices were high, the government would subsidize everything extremely heavily. They would give a lot of cash directly to consumers on a card (in the article).

The card was supposedly to buy international goods (trips abroad), but Venezuelans would then go to Colombia where there would be merchants to do all the paperwork and just give them the cash value on the card minus a cut.

Of course the government was extremely popular and got elected by landslide victories. Now, once oil prices/the economy tanked, the government did other stuff to try to curry favor with the electorate.

They would go into electronic stores and demand immediate 30% price cuts on luxury goods, like flat screen TVs, to basically legally buy votes. Once the in-stock goods sold out, guess what? Nobody wanted to produce or import goods to Venezuela for no profit. So the store shelves stay bare, and they claim an international economic war for the hardships.

But it's still technically a democracy until recently, because one person, one vote, and the government gave out massive handouts.

[0] https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2017/03/08/remembrance-cuc...
Here’s the latest data on the federal war on drugs
This kind of personal attack is not acceptable on HN and we ban accounts that continue to behave like this.
> How is one to vote when neither major party candidate was pro-privacy?

You vote 3rd party for someone who is and bitch at whichever major candidate wins regardless (which is why they resort to form letters, so at this point its newspaper outlets/townhalls/etc).

Democracy doesn't end at the voting booth and you have to put continual, sustained effort to create change. Look at the GOP running and hiding from their townhalls over Healthcare. Imagine if that was for privacy-related issues (or whatever). Sure, it may not work with the GOP but the Democrats might seriously consider adopting it to try to split voters away from the GOP.
Iran Emerging as Worlds Key Zinc Mineral Supplier
Self-Organising Maps: An Introduction
I was convinced in favor of net neutrality by a 2007 study at the University of Florida.[1] When ISPs are allowed to charge content providers individually, there is less incentive to improve overall bandwidth. There's also an incentive to cripple the free tier, especially if it can be done subtly or by neglect over time. So net neutrality seems like good policy.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20130602210518/http://news.ufl.ed...
But that makes things worse, because you have two different versions, one of which you can't see directly. b'' is the same as '' in Python 2 in the same way u'' is the same as '' in Python 3.

Since this transformation only has any effect on Python 3, it doesn't matter if you apply it in both 2 and 3.
Is that really how I sound when I try to explain something tech related? I could fall asleep to his voice... That was terrifying.
https://en.lichess.org/analysis/8/p7/kpn5/qrpPb3/rpP2b2/pP4Q...

stockfish loses here, but could easily draw.
It can be argued that the ISP's equipment is useless unless it runs data lines through state-owned land, therefore no, it doesn't get to do absolutely anything it wants with it.
> Then, I remember in the early 2000s when a relative, in her 70s, called me, angry, because I published my genealogic tree online (only with names and relationships).

I had the exact opposite and had to call a relative, in her 70's, to remove me and my bit of the family from her genealogic tree online.

I'm actually surprised that you would break someone else's privacy like that.
> weak spair-worf hypothesis

That’s “Sapir–Whorf hypothesis”.
Please stop rage-posting against Uber. We're here for civil and substantive discussion, including on controversial topics.
Humans are using computers to program other humans. Used to be humans using TV to program other humans.
> maybe YC should be funding a few clever ISP startups in the US?

I think that would be a great idea.
I think the natural consequence of zero rating or other benefits for "big" providers is an expansion of CDNs and other intermediaries to let a collection of small sites benefit from the infrastructure investment of others, in addition to consolidation (such as content providers running YouTube channels vs. their own video infrastructure).
"We'll publish a blog post for each app we launch, detailing the development process and the business it was built for."

Is this blog already up and running? If so, what is the URL? (I am curious to see what they have done so far)

"The code we write will be published as a public repository on GitHub."

I could not find the account on GitHub (if there is one already started). Could you provide the URL please?
On the Importance of Safe Interfaces
Sorry for the delay.

Hrm....that's a job we always keep open but for some reason it's not showing on the jobs iframe. We're fixing it up.
Hey my class (CS61A) uses that!
Yeah, if you could support custom domains, I'd definitely use this. Also, looks like we could self-host from your github code? By the way, you've come up with quite a brilliant, simple, and efficient idea.
In a way, I'd say what your describing as far as power utilities is already in effect. There are a good number of people that charge their batteries off peak when the power is cheaper such that they can either use it later on peak when they would have to pay more, or even sell that power back to the grid when it's in more demand.

I think the issue here is that power is binary as far as the argument here is concerned, you have it or you don't, but influencing consumer patterns on data usage has the potential to seriously influence how they use the internet in a way that paying differing amounts for power doesn't.
Competition is one of the most powerful driving forces of the internet today. The idea a lone programmer can offer a service that compares to multinational companies (in some areas, obviously not others) is phenomenal. But say consumers or that developer suddenly have to pay a large ongoing entry cost due to the fact that the product that they have made and are competing with is high bandwidth.
Innovation dies overnight without net neutrality.
I briefly looked into it, but I can't seem to figure out what to make with it. It looked like you couldn't write an application with any portability, and any user would basically have to run a smalltalk vm to use your application. Am I mistaken?
Any language that uses LLVM isn't using the language either, by this definition. That would be a shock to most C++, CUDA and Swift developers.
SD-WAN Innovator Mushroom Networks Recognized on CRN’s Software-Defined List
It is bizarre though, the Deaf Community outpaces even mexican -flag waving La Raza types in their desire to make other Americans pay for a separate piece of the US for themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_My_Name_with_an_S
My default heuristic is "anytime someone uses "think of the children" as an argument for protection, they have chosen one of the slipperiest of slopes to stand upon."

I doubt I'm the only one.

I recommend picking a better argument than CP to defend net neutrality.
> Today's Discovery Channel (and History Channel, and TLC, etc) - are vastly different than what they were when they started. All have definitely "dumbed down" to the LCD.

While with "educational" channels it.comes off as dumbing down, there's a broader effect of appealing to narrow groups that drive popularity and then moving on to appeal to the masses. Outside of TLC/Discovery/History you can see this in Food Network (where the cooking slowly migrated to the Cooking Channel -- typically on more expensive cable tiers) while Food Network was taken over by food tourism shows, advertorial series, and reality/competition shows; MTV, where the music keot migrating to subordinate channels while the main channel was taken over by non-music reality/competition programming, and lots of other outlets.
I disagree with the company/individual distinction premise but even if you ignore individual contributions it's fairly even. Doesn't seem like a distinctly partisan issue.
Makes sense.

I'm not sure why I would use "your service" to do this (blog on my Google, only to have the document show up somewhere else). I see value in a service if such connector is available within Google for me to keep it within Google. Nothing wrong with your service, and it is a fantastic idea, but just saying. I think this idea is more feasible if it is available as an independent entity. I find it strange that neither Microsoft, nor Google cared to think about it, given that a word processor is a natural fit.
The man with the golden blood
that makes sense. i guess we're all waiting for things to reach the appropriate point of maturity before investing the time. im excited to use sentry when this all comes together.
It's 2017, and Amazon.com still compresses videos to illegible pixelated garbage