skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, yeah I suppose you could argue it's not really a neural network unless you involve the idea of hidden layers. And according to wikipedia backpropagation wasn't a thing until 1975 so you might have a point.
I'm a big fan of postman, and I've been using the native app for a few months. It's great for exploring apis then dumping the code into either curl or requests for Python.
It doesn't make sense that society doesn't blink an eye when we send our youth off to war to die, but heaven forbid if someone dies in the pursuit of knowledge, everybody goes batshit insane.

That's a great soundbite, but it rather ignores the long and continuing history of exploitation via the sales of snake-oil cures and "enhancements". I absolutely have problems with the existing pharmaceutical industry and the economics around that. But it's foolishness to fail to understand how we got here: countless centuries of people peddling fake cures (and even outright poison) to people in need.

Likewise, it's mostly really hard to do actual, legitimate human-studies science that has a solid chance of advancing human knowledge. Thus the presence of things like experiment design as a discipline, ethics review committees around studies on human subjects, etc. This article specifically mentions that human studies are in the works, by teams that presumably conduct them in ways that are 1) ethical and 2) have a hope in hell of yielding useful long-term knowledge. OTOH, I have about zero confidence that random internet self-experimenting yahoos will produce any knowledge ROI on their risk investment.
Okay, the half-life of methane is 7-9 years. Not the lifetime.

The 34x potential I gave is for methane over a hundred years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential

It's incredibly potent stuff, so much that despite the relatively quick breakdown, an initial mass of methane will have a warming effect that is 20-35x that of an equivalent mass of carbon dioxide over a century. GWP numbers take the brief half-life of methane into account when calculated. You're making the mistake of looking at the absolute quantity of methane and short half-life, and thinking that it couldn't possibly have much of an effect. Well, people have already run the numbers, and it can have a huge effect.

Current rates of methane leaks from mining natural gas could very well offset the benefits of moving away from coal: http://blog.nature.org/science/2016/06/24/natural-gas-coal-l...

Methane's very bad news, even in small quantities.
This is a great news. I was looking for a decent, free ReST client for Mac for a long time.
If it can be done in a productive and enjoyable way, that might not be bad. I am sure that's not how it is.

If I had to work in sweatshop for whatever reason, it would make it suck just a little less if it were done in "events". For example get three people to have a race to build ten pairs of shoes. Take a breather, cheer on another group of employees, maybe a small prize for someone winning such a race. Have timed trials to build the fastest pair of shoes.

Don't take away your employees freedom, encourage them to do what you want, presumably make shoes in this contrived example. If people come up with their own ways to do it fast and they want to do more of it, then just maybe it will actually happen faster.

I think it works better with code. I like competing with my coworkers on optimizing things that pass our unit tests. We each try to optimize a given snippet of code in a unit test. Whichever is fastest and passes all the tests wins and gets committed.

EDIT - I know its shitty in these sweat shops, clearly what I described wasn't happening. I figured phrasing like:

> I am sure that's not how it is.

and

> it would make it suck just a little less

No need to downvote a silly idea so aggressively.

If someone needs to work in a sweat and if the person running it is decent they will try to make it not suck. That is why most sweatshops suck they aren't run by decent and this wouldn't work. Which is why I even contrasted it with software.
I can't understand how there's anything that Jeff Flake does that you can like. The only good thing about Jeff Flake in my opinion is that he has almost no chance of reelection because even most of his own constituents can't stand him.
The real headline of the article is "Five entrepreneurs get free plane tickets to pitch for $100,000 in seed funding from Austin’s top angel investors"
Not even for the market "voting with their downloads"?
You could once have a usable Linux system running in 4 to 8 megs of RAM, with X.

I posit a definition of "bloated" as needing more than that.
What I would love would be a git friendly app. keep the collection as a file that I can keep on the repo and them commit the new changes in the code.
My guess is it's just there are more people and proportionally fewer jobs. Wealth and power concentrate into big players who have more leverage.

I think one reason we see more entrepreneurs today isn't just because it's easier - many people feel it's the only option. And in the same vein as above, a few VCs hold most of the money and get to dictate terms.
Gladly switched today after the plugin, although installed in "normal" Chrome, opened up Canary every time I used it.
Do you know of any publicly-available reference for this? It's the kind of stark fact that effectively illustrates working conditions in those factories.
My guess is they are doubling down on Progressive Web Apps.

Many users don't understand the "browser is an app store" model.

Making installing an "App" a seamless transition for websites you constantly use, seems like a UX improvement, if Progressive can deliver on it's vision.
I'd argue that the HTML/CSS/JS layer is more powerful and more extensible than any native rendering layer.

We are building some awesome UI components using this: http://blog.getpostman.com/2017/02/28/introducing-the-new-da...

Things that we build for the app are also available for our web components instantly. React makes this even easier.
Blacks Receive 60% Longer Sentences for Same Crimes
This is the result of globalism and a liberalization of nation state markets to trade freely without fear of tariff penalties. It's not hard to see why blue collar workers would rather work in 'poorer' conditions rather than sit idle and lose hope in their futures. If the west has to compete with manufacturing from abroad, that will mean a lowering of work place safety and environmental standards until domestic manufacturing is cost competitive. The end result will be an equalization of living standards between free trading nations, the west will have to capitulate to the lowering of living standards at some point if it hasn't already.
Black Preschoolers Far More Likely to Be Suspended
FBI suggesting Trump aides ‘coordinated with Russia to damage Clinton campaign’
Right. It's Chromium + JS APIs + some packaging.

E.g. an API to write a file.
"We are pleased to have secured a flexible $70 million credit line from Ares Capital, Kreos Capital and Davidson Technology that is ideally structured for a company with our strong credit rating and in our stage of growth"..

I don't know how someone defines a strong credit rating, but I wouldn't exactly call Soundcloud a stellar company to lend money to. Unprofitable, anyone?
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Eu estava mexendo no meu instagram e do nada saio da minha conta, quando eu fui entrar denovo, disse que o instagram mudou minha senha. E eu queria a minha conta de volta, pos ela e muito importante pra mim.
FBI have uncovered 'evidence of treason' among alt-right websites
First problem: philosophers are not divided into two camps, so Rothman is misinformed. Aristotelianism is another. But let's return to these "two camps" for a moment. Typically, these two purported camps are some variation of dualism and elimnativism. Both ultimately rest on the Cartesian metaphysical legacy.

Dualism comes in a variety of forms. Examples include property dualism (Searle, though he denies it) and panpsychism (Chalmers, it seems). Regardless of the version expounded, all such dualisms divorce the mental from the physical, hence the dead horses that are the so-called mind-body problem or the problem of qualia. On this view of matter, we can't account for things like color because, by definition, matter does not have color in the way that we commonly understand it as having color. Physical theories, instead of explaining color, redefine color in other terms. The only place left to locate color, as it is commonly understood, is the mind that's been so brutally split off from matter. Fun fact: Cartesian dualism is not a "religious residue". It is a philosophical position. In its lingering incarnation, we can credit Descartes through whose work it bears an interesting relation to the development of modern empirical science. Prior to Cartesianism, Aristotelian views were dominant. Indeed, while the Roman Catholic Church does not have an "official" metaphysical doctrine (metaphysics is philosophical, not theological or doctrinal), the preferred metaphysical theoretical apparatus has been Aristotelian since Aquinas. No such dualism exists in Aristotle or Aquinas.

On the other hand, eliminativism manages to take an even whackier view of things than dualism. Whereas dualism has painted itself into a corner by refusing to reexamine its suppositions, eliminativism "resolves" the problem by shutting its eyes, that is, by denying the existence of those things it must explain. As a result, it is an incoherent position.

What's interesting is that Dennett does distinguish between "function" and "intention", though I'm not entirely sure how he reconciles (if he does at all) all of these with materialism. The reason I draw attention to this point is that teleology/final causality is frequently misunderstood owing to a confusion between conscious intent and function. When an Aristotelian talks about the "purpose" of an organ, he has in mind what the organ is ordered and organized toward, not what intelligent design theorists would describe as "design". (Interestingly, ID theories are also rooted in Cartesian ideas about matter and thus need to appeal to imposed, extrinsic divine intent to locate and explain the function of things like organs. Their scientistic (not scientific) opponents take the eliminativist approach and deny that organs have functions at all because they hold to the same concept of matter as ID theories while rejecting that divine intent exists. On the other hand, Aristotelianism maintains the intrinsic finality of things like organs and thus does not need to appeal to some externally imposed divine intent to explain function as such.)
sorry but how can someone/some group shadow ban a story and who do you suppose would be behind shadow banning this one?
> There are big racial differences in how school discipline is meted out: students of color are much more likely to be suspended or expelled that white students, even when the infractions are the same.
Last I saw, Canada is a much more urban country with a far greater proportion of its population living in an urban area than America. I don't know whether or not that's a cause of "bros and brittanys" or the other way around (or they are equivalent) but just thought I'd point that out. I think there are a lot more traditionalist Americans than Canadians.
The majority of the population does not care about this one bit. They're going to carry on driving their gas guzzlers. The only change we can make is if we, who understand what is at stake, invest in renewables to bring their price down.

When the backwards people will see us all in our cheap to run, fast to accelerate and cheap to maintain electric pass them on the highway will they feel dumb buying gallons of gas to keep their guzzlers going.
Note that the Mathematical Atlas was supposed to have been moved to http://www.math-atlas.org/ in 2016, but that has not happened yet. Latest snapshot from the Wayback Machine is from April 2015: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20150424120057/http://www.m...
Japanese people tear down old houses and rebuild new houses to their specifications to a much greater degree than Americans, so it's hard to compare those numbers easily.
Our footprint is big enough without us burying plastic pipes underground. We really shouldn't be expanding the amount of artifacts humankind will leave in this world for those in the future to find and click their tongues at.
It works with the outside world and it's been stable for decades.
Your browser can just download the plugin from Google the same way Firefox does. No permission required since you're not distributing it yourself. This is no different than the case of the Silverlight plugin.

There is no reason why Netflix would need to do user-agent sniffing - the EME API is built around request access to specific "Key Systems" (eg. Widevine) by well-known-name. If they do user-agent sniffing that's an entirely separate issue, and is just as much as problem in the Silverlight case.
I work at a manufacturing company in the Midwest and, to me, the confusing part is where the modern push to treat workers like machines is coming from. In school, we were taught how Taylor was the "father" of scientific management, but that his ideas had mostly been superseded by those of Deming, who was a huge contributor to the post-war manufacturing miracle in Japan. And yet, the management at my current company---and from what I gather, many others---is decidedly Taylorist. It's like a race to the bottom where the prize is... something? I'm honestly not sure.
Exactly my thought as well. Hacker news isn't very discerning with this one.
Thanks for the comment! (Postman founder here)
Every home is probably overkill. But every home that is also connected to a road, electricity, water and sewage should also have decent internet. Laying fiber for 50/10 everywhere is expensive, but so is building roads everywhere.
The movie 'the corporation' actually has shots of the sheets they got from the garbage of a factory (Nike or H&M iirc).
>Even when things are just in time, suppliers often start an assembly line, run it until their warehouse is full and then shut the line down to reduce expenses.

JIT is part of lean. What you describe is short term mass production, not lean and also not JIT because it implies continuity.
Only the path portion.... the dns name is passed unencrypted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
This is not some kind of silly contest. Too slow by a little bit and you're out, also yesterdays 'peak' is tomorrows cut-off.
Congress Moves to Strike Internet Privacy Rules from Obama Era
Thank goodness. The biggest problem with the chrome app is that alt+tabbing to Chrome will foreground Postman instead. Such a pain!
I think you're describing a certain type of software company - one that doesn't have to answer to shareholders (Google, Facebook, Snap, etc) and thus behave according to what their leader and employees want. Most of the tech industry (including for example Apple and Amazon) isn't like this.
Agreed here. Backbone is brilliant, and minimal.

Check out the annotated source here: http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html
‘Moore’s law’ for carbon would defeat global warming
Panama papers. Pretty good example.

UBS tax evasion leak. Another great example.

China economic data. A continuous open secret.

That's just off the top of my head.
We'll know os-js is finished when they finally put in a web browser. :)
Just copy and paste random bits from stack overflow until it works. This is how 99% of javascript is coded.
Ask HN: I'm in a humiliating situation, and I can't commit
Like a lot of people, I was raised by boomer parents with attachment disorders (NPD dad and BPD mom). Treated like an object, so I never felt real, did not develop a sense of agency like most people. Which led to me not knowing what to do most of life. In college I said fuck it, went into a major that I knew paid money, but that I had no real care for.

Long story short, I am 34, I have saved ~2 million in the bank. Recently to change my life, I moved to NYC to try to force myself to take action (I left my original job of 8.5 years to start a new life). I have an engineering degree, but it's not CS (and not from an Ivy).

I have not worked in 3 years. I spent a lot of this time reading all of the entrepreneur material out there, fixing my psychological issues (mostly cognitive distortions due to faulty 'programming' from early life- midbrain stuff). And unfortunately I also did quite a bit of hardcore gaming (mostly due to hopelessness/depression). I pushed myself to top 10 on wow and hearthstone, and I considered streaming, but I knew that long term, I wouldn't be intellectually satisfied with just doing that.

Since I seem to share values with a lot of the tech community and founders, I thought I should teach myself programming and start a business in that field, but there are so many directions to go, it doesn't seem practical to learn them all. Do you learn JS, do you learn mobile, should I try to become as good as an engineer that works for GOOG etc... Should I just say fuck it and become a physicist or quant and go into finance. I don't know, but I need to take action, and for some reason I cannot decide. I think part of it is also facing the humiliation of working with much younger people and them looking at me like 'holy shit, I'm glad I'm not that guy'.
When you switch roles in the console, you don't have to enter in your credentials. So, if I get access to the account, I have access to all the roles. So, what additional protection is provided by separating out permissions into roles that are trivially accessible?

I can see how if conditions are added to the AccessRole action, such that I can only switch roles based on time of day or IP address, then that might be useful (although those conditions could be applied directly to policies as well).

So, absent the conditions mention above (which is still questionable), is there any point to using roles in the console?
Wikipedia has quite a bit of information about p53. [1] It seems to have an important role as a suppressor for cancer. So maybe the comment was referring to that, you probably don't want to mess that up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP53
And I have my next grindcore song title
This is unfair. It is also unfair that blacks receive harsher punishments, starting in preschool, and that this prejudice follows them their entire lives. Can you imagine that? Being told by society that you are bad and predisposed to being a criminal, probably every fucking day? In small and large ways. Learned helplessness is real. I may not see the injustice vividly, because I am not black nor do I have any close black friends (I have a college bud that I hardly talk to, that's it). But it's everywhere. Google knows the inequity exists and is taking a step to address it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/21/292456211/...

https://newsone.com/1859475/black-people-receive-60-longer-s...
If they were learning lessons from it, they wouldn't be in the news so much for it.
Yeah. That plus I believe it became exponentially difficult for the Chrome team to deliver a set of APIs for apps to replicate native experiences. One example was the menu bar. Apparently it would have required rewriting parts of Chromium in a generic way so Chrome could have its own menu bar AND allow customizability for apps. I was tracking bugs on the Chromium tracker for a while but don't have these links handy at this moment.
There are plenty of those. The media just doesn't report on them.
That's a bit too simplistic of an explanation IMHO. It's a mashup of chromium and nodejs; the entry point is a nodejs app.
I don't believe so. Everyone goes through varying degrees of sub-optimal mental states, and unless they are completely debilitated by something like schizophrenia, they are responsible for bringing themselves out of whatever place they found themselves in.
I think that the definition of "native" should take into account how the code interacts with the system.

Because compiling code to the native instruction set shouldn't affect the semantics: so why should that be the only yard-stick for "native", right?

What is semantically relevant is: how much of the platform is exposed to the programs directly, versus through abstractions.

Suppose a language like Emacs Lisp or Java or whatever has only thin wrappers around POSIX through which applications interact with the platform. Then those programs are quasi-native POSIX programs, really. They are doing things like fork, waitpid, dup2 and whatever almost directly. And suppose that in the Windows version of that language, programs use functions that mimic CreateProcess or WaitForSingleObject. Then, regardless of the language being interpreted, it's really a native programming language.
Windows only became relevant for home users after version 3.0, actually the 3.1, which was released in 1992, so of course no one was shipping Windows games in 1990!

Sure you can use Assembly on Windows and there were a few books teaching exactly that, but you weren't allowed to touch the graphics hardware any more, unless you were doing a graphics driver, and do all those graphic card tricks, specially mode X.
>> text editors built on the web stack cannot rely on the OS text caret

Can you explain in simple terms why this is the case? Why on earth not?
A 'barbarian' doesn't have to be a violent invader. It's just an 'uncouth and uncivilised' person.
For sure.

Half the responses in this thread are people defending the stupid idea of "let's just use js everywhere, just because we can and fuck better suited tools".

Js is not the be all and end all of tools, just because it is used a lot in web doesn't mean it is the best (or appropriate) tool for other spaces.

It sort of seems like js/js ecosystem is built around hacky solutions to things, so I guess it makes sense that the community doesn't seem to see any issue with shoehorning in their language of choice into entirely inappropriate spaces.
You really don't think the workers would see the "competition" as a transparent ploy?

FWIW, this was a well established practice in Soviet Union - top factory performers got prizes, medals and other rewards for beating expectations. [1][2][3]

Of course, this also tends to tempt the management to raise the required quotas over time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_emulation
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_worker_of_Communist_Labo...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakhanovite_movement
FUD means fear, uncertainty, doubt.

I don't think the point of the article was any of those: like most media I'm sure Bloomberg's interest was ad impressions. Which they got from me, and will probably continue to get from me because they publish interesting articles like this that inform of things I didn't know.
How I got a 2nd degree, earned 5 certifications, worked and raised 2 kids
Paw looks like a really nice, slick, professional tool. I've been using Postman for years and really like it, and am used to it. I've yet to see a 'use case' where Paw can do something that Postman cannot, so I would appreciate it if anyone familiar with both tools can point out a value proposition for switching apps.