skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding this comment, I have a general broad question for the HN community: I honestly find it hard to strike a balance between being extremely cautious in my writing/responses, and being straight-forward and clear. What is the right balance?

In this case, of course I don't mean to say that every class in existence follows this grade vs. effort plot. There are absolutely incredibly difficult classes where this is not true, and you need a lot of effort just to pass.

The fact of the matter is that this is absolutely not true in general. I didn't mention that in my comment, but I totally agree there are counterexamples of classes, it's just that the vast majority of classes follow the trend of being pretty easy to just pass (considering classes of all disciplines here --- for example, I know many people that have taken literature courses, pulled an all-nighter before each paper due date, otherwise didn't work at all, and passed. All together the class took maybe 30 hours of work outside the classroom for the entire semester!)
I have to agree with your other responders. Cloud consumers are, fundamentally, price sensitive. The only ones who might not be are venture-backed startups with deep pockets.

Individual consumers are price sensitive, as you say. That's one of the reasons why Lightsail exists; its easier to understand why you're being charged what you are.

Large customers are also highly price sensitive. They negotiate huge contracts that last for years and save them 35% or more on their end bill. We don't think of them as sensitive because they move slow, but their size essentially allows them to tell Amazon "give us this price or we go to Google." All the big cloud providers play ball with them.
For an in demand software developer, it's almost never worth the effort to nogotiate for a raise in your current job. Companies have system designed to keep them from paying you market rates. "5% per year is the most we can raise you. Sorry, its company policy."

Instead, change jobs and work for someplace that values you more.
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If you are on a jury then you should because that violates the law and his rights.
If you had enough time to kill to read the original post above and you have some more time to kill, this is a really good write-up about git/hg/bzr.

https://duckrowing.com/2013/12/26/bzr-init-a-bazaar-tutorial...

Bazaar's model is based around branches. Make a branch, change stuff, commit, merge. Merges are like top-level things. When you read the log you get only the commits to that branch (like, say, "trunk"). If all you ever do is merge to trunk, you only see merges. Fancy trick - you can show nested commits in the log. So "bzr log -n3" shows you the merges, but all the commits that went into that merge. It really is super nice and very easy to use. And a lot of that ease of use is because the mental model makes sense.

Oh, and branches are stored as paths - that's right, folders. Instead of storing multiple versions of code in an "index" that you can't actually see, Bazaar just uses folders.

/workspace/my-project
/trunk/
/the-thing-with-the-stuff/

So comparing files means... comparing two files. I don't actually have to use the VCS's commands to compare things. I could - I just don't have to. You can get diffs between a particular revision of a file (or folder). Or you could make a new branch (folder) at a particular revision. Then you can just actually look at all the files.

I know SVN does this too. And CVS. And probably Perforce. I just think people have forgotten how reasonable some of the older tools actually were/are. Bazaar does a good job keeping that ease while also being distributed.
I am curious why you think it's a symbolic exercise with dubious impact? Did you read the article?

The results are obvious and the effort is a success, even if the ultimate outcome remains in question. The ultimate outcome always remains in question for us all.
These are not really comparable. The Shepard rocket is sub-orbital and achieves something like 1/5 or less of the same speed as the Falcon 9.
Is this article really worthy of so many votes?
I had HP Microwave Design System on an Apollo workstation.
Thomas Nagel teaches at NYU, right?
I am actually a fan of this change, simply because the enclaves on Twitter have expanded pretty significantly, and communicating with the whole group is pretty hard in a single conversation tree...

I think it's a bit awkward in the UX, but at least now you haven't wasted 110 characters on people's variably-lengthed names...
Fuck.com
A short list, applicable if you're in the US:

* lobbying & suing to prevent competition from municipal broadband

* lobbying against net neutrality, because apparently the fact that I paid for those bits from Netflix to be delivered isn't enough to keep Netflix from getting shaken down as well. Couldn't possibly have anything to do with most ISPs parent companies also being in the legacy video business...

* less of a problem now, but before DOCSIS got crazy-fast a lot of ISPs intensely oversold the lines (so you and 100 of your neighbors were all paying for "60 Mbps" internet on a line that could carry 60 Mbps TOTAL)

* MiTMing connections to insert ads and tracking

* lobbying for the right to, and then positively SALIVATING at tracking every site you visit and selling it to advertisers

* local monopolies / duopolies in most areas which mean you've got your "choice" of one or possibly two bastards who both do all of the above. Good luck!
That being said, if your lawyer says invoke your 5th then you do it or be prepared to hire a different lawyer. Your innocence is not a factor.

[edit: reading this, I'm not sure his lawyer told him to do it, quite the opposite actually]
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No, not really doing that particular thing on purpose.

Just trying to tread lightly because I seem to be the highest ranked woman on HN and (among other things) I blog about gender issues and how to address it more effectively. So, what I really want to bitch about is a lack of attention for my writing while people focus on this shit, as usual. But I also get tired of the fact that anything I say about gender issues tends to get vastly more attention than anything else I do on HN in a manner that simultaneously belittles me and pigeonholes me.

Meanwhile, if I ask a question like this -- which is me, a woman, trying to develop a business idea and stop being a total fucking loser in life -- crickets chirp and no one replies at all because, no, no one wants to actually do anything constructive at all about such problems:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14000346

(Throws hands up in air. Grumpily stomps off.)
I think it's related to Mill's concept of a Competent Judge

What if someone was a bat, turned into a human and retained the memories of being a bat?

http://www.betsymccall.net/edu/philo/higher%20pleasures2.pdf
Can you outline the purpose, please?
No it doesn't: you just told me to "choose a language". It's 2017, why would I choose a language when I can just use all the languages with XeLaTeX, using:

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Noto Sans}

and that solves that problem. I can write whatever I want, and stick in lang-specific context switches using \usepackage{ucharclasses} (for making sure macros are inserted for transitions to/from specific unicode blocks) only once I absolutely need them, and no earlier.
I agree. This is definitely the impression I've gotten from people I've talked to.

In an ideal world, how would they solve this? Is it to move back to self-hosted infrastructure? Isn't that the same problem; they're just hostage to their own employees and capex instead of Amazon?
Because people like ranting and raving about random things.
A large part of the problem is that people don't all agree on the definition of consciousness. It ranges anywhere from the property of having an internal experience (which I subscribe to) all the way to self awareness, and even to the ability for rational thought.

This - and arguments over the definition of "is" - were the reason I stopped reading philosophy of mind papers.
> It is clear which one was the lesser of two evils

Obviously there is significant disagreement on that issue.

> If Hillary Clinton was president or if the Democrats had control of one chamber of Congress, this bill never would have passed.

Yes, because the left is happy for government agencies run by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats to continually enlarge their regulatory domain. Other people consider that a bad idea in general.

And if that had happened, FCC regulations would control our privacy--after they would have taken effect, over a year from now--regulations which are not law and can be changed by unelected FCC bureaucrats who are unaccountable to the people.

I'm no fan of Congress, but it's definitely better for this to be controlled by federal law rather than an agency regulation.
You sure might imagine you need to. For instance, suppose you want to average pieces of data that are timestamped "almost the same", but could arrive to be processed with varying delays, including out of order arrival (so you can't just say "is this datum at 'about the same time as' the datum received just prior"). There are better approaches, but the one I inherited involved using a std::map which used a fuzzy less than as the ordering predicate; and my main task was to diagnose why, once in a blue moon, a segmentation fault could occur when doing some operation on the map (insertion, I think).
I get that.

However if we take the time and think this logically; do you appreciated the challenges/technology to operate one?

ISP are similar to utility. Up front cost is astronomical. The town guarantee "monopoly" in order to attract business looking for steady ROI(similar to government infrastructure project: road, dam, train track and etc). This is the context of USA. There are no "government dark fiber" where anyone can just connected to and run a service provider.

Other things you mentioned are the decision by "business people" not the tech people per se. Part of it is also government mandate.

Not making excuses just trying to show view point from other side.
FWIW, the re-written in Rust option is Pijul (https://pijul.org/), not Mercurial. It's still very nascent, but has a lot of promise.
i kinda doubt anyone sees protocol violation as a criminal offense.

it's wild to me how quickly "we should find a market-external pressure source for forcing interoperability given the profit motive seemingly guarantees lack of federation because it relies on competition as its motive force" becomes "we must frogmarch innovators to the death pits"
> Most of the illegal immigrants are travelers who overstay their visas

Are there numbers for this compared to border hoppers?
Tech sphere: "After Trump's win, we need to get out of our bubble and learn about what others are thinking in America."

What about engaging public figures in your industry who are Trump supporters?

Tech sphere: "Palmer needs to lose his job."

Why does diversity initiatives never seem to care about diversity of political opinions? Isn't a diversity of perspectives one of the reasons for diversity?

Tech sphere: "..."
Rarely. It was usually an ad agency that would do the actual deals to get things into magazines.

You could always contact a single magazine, but big corporations would let their ad agency handle distribution
Not a lawyer. Levandowski is trying to avoid turning over (some) documents in the discovery process of the civil lawsuit Waymo is filing against Uber. They are doing this by claiming it could incriminate him and open him up to the possibility of criminal charges.

Will this actually work? Maybe. The fifth amendment is more complex than it might at first seem. One thing that's for sure is that if he is found to be withholding any documents that are relevant to the civil suit, but couldn't realistically incriminate him, this could backfire spectacularly. Hence the statement from his lawyers:

> One of Mr. Levandowski’s lawyers said the Uber executive’s position on invoking the Fifth Amendment may change as they examine the case.
A bit unrelated, but it's weird that Medium doesn't seem to support embedded code, and instead only seems to work with gists.

It made the mobile experience pretty bad (all I get are links to the gists) and it would definitely "pollute" my gist history with a lot of little code snippets.

On the note of the topic itself, though, this was a fun read for building fractals in JavaScript!
so long... thats not handy at all, on the go at least

but I wish that lawyers could produce these flow charts when they say "it depends"
I would agree. I built something people liked enough to pay me for, and it even gave me a basic income. But I was on call all the time and generally working a lot for like 1/4 what you get working for other people around here, and going home at six.

My experience was that I could slack off and work less than full time, but doing so would damage the business and then I would have to put in a lot more effort.

I mean, if I was better at business, it would have perhaps been different. As it was, it was full time work for about what I earned when I was 17, and on top of that, finding a job after working exclusively for my self was rather harder than doing so after sporadic contracting gigs.
The first Mandelbrot renderer I ever used was an easter egg in Chips Challenge on the Atari Lynx. (Type in MAND as the level password and off you go!) Incredibly slow but it had me hooked. Most of my very early programming efforts on calculators or in QBasic were Mandelbrot set renderers.

These days, a fractal renderer is one of my go-to toy projects to learn a new language/environment. It pulls together basic code, graphics, GUI, file operations etc. and produces something pretty too, while giving me a feel for the speed of the environment in question.
It would not surprise me if the author was given as Erlich Bachman.
Without SpaceX and Tesla the world would have been really depressing.
Very cool. How will this compare to VigLink and SkimLinks?
Don't EVER rent to anyone for one night - too risky. Only rent for multiple days at a time. I haven't yet heard of any stories of people renting places out for 1 week or more where the place has been trashed. In general, partiers don't have the money to rent for > 1 night (although I would imagine there are exceptions).
> so many languages will round to the nearest integer if the float is within a certain margin

What language does this? It is more likely that it is printing out a truncated form but the number still contains that small difference, such as it will print "1.1" even though 1.1 isn't exactly representable in binary. This comes from the often used Grisu set of algorithms for printing which (in Grisu3) prints the smallest string that can represent the floating point bit pattern.
Sorry, is it not handy because it's inaccurate? Or simply because it's so lengthy?
Unless I'm missing something, you've just described "materialism", which is exactly what I am arguing for.

I'm not saying that we are the only "conscious" systems, or that "consciousness" is something set apart from the rest of reality. I'm saying the exact opposite of that.

Your point (at least, as I'm reading it) is exactly what I was getting at with "and other systems you recognize as sufficiently like you", which I did not intend to be chemical-biology-centric.

What I am arguing against is "dualism", and its many hidden forms and names (including the one goatlover is espousing). Which is the idea that "consciousness" is some fundamental property of nature, set apart from (really: privileged above) the rest, that exists on some plane beyond material reality.

Which, I argue, there is no good reason, besides pure unexamined chauvinism, or wishful thinking at best, to believe

This is what you are also saying, no?
Ok, thanks for your responses, I appreciate it.

Final question I suppose: since there is no answer for the question of the origin of the universe, why do you not consider that possible evidence for a supernatural entity?
Am I the only one disgusted by the canned replies from Airbnb to Luciano? The guy had his home ruined and all Peter from Airbnb can talk about is file format requirements. Where is the empathy?
You can use Skype and similar services without video.
It also may be neat for some people, but I found it went way too much into details of the technology used to draw the fractal, rather than the fractal itself. There's a good 10 image and 20 box of code just to initialize Canvas. Do you really need to explain how to dedicate a paragraph on how to set an id on an html element and another on how to grab the element in javascript?

Oh and I can't believe Github still does that whole "hosted with <3" bullshit.
I would say Trump is a traditional pro-big-business conservative, all about deregulation and cutting taxes, tough on crime, etc. mixed with an extra dose of xenophobia.
Simple bandwidth would stop most people from uploading that much. It would take a long time at typical ISP speeds.
I am not saying they are more likely to end up in prison. Rather, if you rank people and pick the top ~1/1000 and then preform about as well as the top 1/10 there is something wrong with your ranking.

PS: I also had a valedictorian sister who went on to Disney and is now a solid cog in their profit machine. The trap is she never really had a need to strike out on her own. Another sister was salutatorian and became a nursery school teacher. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
When I was in high school (late 90's/early 00's) I needed to buy a fancy Texas Instruments graphical calculator for my advanced math class. Back then it probably cost about what a low end tablet would set you back today ($200/300 Australian).

The whole thing must have been a huge rort. I can only think of a handful of times I ever used the damn thing for anything beyond what I could have used a significantly cheaper scientific calculator for. The return on investment was terrible I can't help but think the same thing with Ipads in schools nowadays. What does an ipad buy you over significantly cheaper noname brand android device?

Amusingly enough I was not allowed to use the graphical calculator at university because programmable calculators were banned from examinations due to concerns about cheating. I used a cheap $10 casio calculator all through my engineering degree at uni...
The “universal adversarial preturbation” undetectably alters images to thwart AI
I struggle to understand the general negativity of this thread. Like zillions of other projects seen on HN, this is just someone playing around and offering a service others may or may not find interesting.

Sure, the dataset is currently small, but it can easily get bigger if anyone starts doing things like marking appearance times, quotes with translations, pictures and so on.

Sure, it might not be an official Ghibli project, in the same way IMDB or ComicDB did not start as official projects.

I personally find it fun and will look into building something with it, just for kicks. One obvious application would be a GMap mashup with locations, at least for the realistic films. Another would be a Youtube mashup with clips for each element.

Sometimes the internet seems too cynical even for a sad old fart like me.
I mean, they were invited to come over and the Prophet(S) was invited to take a role of the head of state. Generally speaking most (not all) of the native Arab population (excluding the Jews) was happy about it. So in that sense, yes they were "subjugated" in that their were subject to him as head of state. It's not unlike a modern election where even if you're not happy about the result of the election, you're still subject to rules made by the new government.
Only officially sanctioned iBoiler parts may be used. Use of an unauthorized part will cause the boiler to enter DRM guard mode and cease operation for violation of the OpenBoilerOS software license.

You can expect a nastygram from the BSA(Boiler Software Alliance) for your attempt to circumvent their DRM.
Judging by this article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_style_guides

it looks like the closest thing to an open, participatory style guide might just be Wikipedia's Manual of Style,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style
Palmer Luckey out at Facebook after just three years
Human nature does not lend itself very well to engineered solutions. If you can so much as put a minor dent in that problem that does not involve cures worse than the disease that would be an engineering feat much more impressive than anything that SpaceX has done to date.
Thanks for this insight.

Luckily, they have no choice but be surrounded by English speaking people here in Toronto. The government and the local community is also doing a lot for them in terms of teaching them English, getting them involved in the events/activities.

It's a long-term investment, but I've seen other refugees thrive in Toronto (the locals here would know about the success of the Sri Lankan community).
Please see reply below. I guess most dislike ISP as a whole; but few appreciated the technology problem domain.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2016/january/chur...

This represents much of the church in the USA that is out of the mainline. I don't know who exactly you are calling "fruitcakes" or what you mean by that, but while I've seen some in the rank-and-file be prejudiced, I've also seen leadership speak very strongly in support of caring for refugees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Medina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Medina#Rights_...
How might I be incentivised to have children?
For those not in the know, the first book ever bought from Amazon was Douglas Hofstadter's "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies : Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought"
Yeah, but what if someone unrelated to the candidates paid me to blog for or against a candidate?
I believe becoming a commissioned US Army officer involves passing a selection process.
I can't do it in detail, it'll take hours. From a simplicity point-of-view (Occam's razor) it adds an extraordinary claim while falling short on any evidence. Compare it to a physicalist account like Minsky, Hofstader, or Dennet where they don't require anything other than what we already know about the world.

For further reading consider LessWrong's Zombies sequence which tackles Chalmer's arguments and property dualism in general https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Zombies_(sequence)
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A good argument for allowing aging to progress naturally.
So would a quantum computer be a form of analog computer, then?
Basecamp's geared_pagination Gem
It's like the extremely popular Pokeapi (https://pokeapi.co) or SWAPI (https://swapi.co): a service providing data over a REST interface. In other words, an API.

It's honestly the first time I see anyone claiming "an API is not an API unless it changes something".
Interesting. I'm considering building a graphql service using Absinthe. Could you give more information on your experience? Any difficulties?
Wow! a 64 bit architecture (1995)
Not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Connery
Things like space-flight can be solved by relatively small teams without having to convince billions of people from different cultures to change what they are doing.

In terms of global development, things have improved greatly over the last 50 years, say.

So it depends what kind of person you are. Do you like sitting in committees? Do you like, or can you tolerate a great deal of convincing other people to do things? How many cycles of that have you been through? How many otherwise good projects have you seen fail due to (human) factors entirely outside of the participants' control.

Although it may seem that way sometimes, hard engineering problems aren't really an adversarial game. Hard human problems typically are.
Does Stripe really allow 1,000 reqs/sec, or was that just an example limit? Is that normal i.e. expected for an API service like Stripe to offer? I usually see rate limits of 5-25 reqs/sec, but maybe I haven't been looking at the right APIs?