skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our application is similar to excel/google spreadsheets. We don't expect the user to scroll through all that data, but we give tools to do sorting, filtering, plotting, etc. over that data.
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What is Foursquare's mechanism for gathering this data?
Snopes and Politifact are not fact-checking websites.

>Snopes’ main political fact-checker is a writer named Kim Lacapria. Before writing for Snopes, Lacapria wrote for Inquisitr, a blog that — oddly enough — is known for publishing fake quotes and even downright hoaxes as much as anything else.

>While at Inquisitr, the future “fact-checker” consistently displayed clear partisanship.
She described herself as “openly left-leaning” and a liberal. She trashed the Tea Party as “teahadists.” She called Bill Clinton “one of our greatest” presidents.

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I think fact checking should be non-partisan, don't you?
A two-party system is the expected result of plurality rule (which the US uses almost exclusively for national elections).[1]

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
well if anything it shows why you fully inspect every inch of a car prior to signing the papers. I am really leery of suspecting this as happening before the owner drove off because it is so glaring. The guys doing the final wash/dust off before the new owner got it would have spotted it. This is what happened when I took delivery of a new car recently, ended up with a WE OWE describing what was to be done.

still, if it is not intentional damage then perhaps frame flex over bad roads, pot hole, or such, revealed a stress point. if truly a factory issue then anything built with that batch of metal is suspect
1. 51% and 59% aren't "similar" on such a large scale.

2. The vagueness of Trump's statement allows for far more misinterpretation, which it is his responsibility to avoid in order to be factual. Sanders mentions a specific age range of 17 to 20, which the study that his campaign later referenced was looking at.

3. As you may know, these "rulings" were clearly not at the two different extremes. Source: http://www.politifact.com/about/
Out of 12, I got 12 bible verses. Hmm.
> you potentially exert significant economic leverage over the potential employee

The keywords here are 'potentially' and 'significant' -- the difference is that the state has absolute power over you and the fundamental rule of law protects your right to free speech in a public context. Private, consensually entered job offer negotations are a different thing altogether. Certainly, answering a question does not strip you of any of your rights. You can say whatever you want. As I said in my original comment, discriminating based on refusal to produce prior pay stubs is a completely different category and has nothing to do with the first amendment.

> You are not engaged in speech to promote your views, nor are you being prevented from expressing your views in any way. If this should be protected speech then so should 'your money or your life' when uttered by a highwayman, who by your logic is merely proposing a bargain that the recipient is free to decline.

The first amendment doesn't come with the 'strings attached' that you seem to think. There's a nice outline here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

Your hyperbolic example of "your money or your life" is clearly in the 'Fighting words' category, constituting a threat or intimidation, if used as such.
I've seen this sentiment a lot in Chinese-Americans that are not educated in linguistics, along with other self-loathing sentiments.

First, literacy isn't completely related to the writing system. Look at Spanish speaking countries, where the alphabet is more phonetic than the English alphabet.

Second, Chinese characters that are more complex, i.e. consists of more than one radical, are usually composed with a semantic component, giving indication to the character's meaning, and a phonetic component, which gives an indication to the sound of the character. Although this isn't a rule, it helps a lot, and it's not like English doesn't have crazy non-phonetic spellings as well (how tf is "through" supposed to be pronounced for a English learner?)

Last, the Chinese language consists of MANY homophones. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, and not one out of design, but something that is the result of being one of the oldest language families in the world. It allows for the concise expression of many things using only single syllables. You might say, but what about the crazy amount of ambiguity if the language has a lot of homophones? Well, ambiguity is a huge problem in all languages and our brains seem to manage. Now, even though homophones aren't a big problem in spoken language, because of intonation and prosody giving a clue to how to analyze sentences, written language is a different story, and it would be very hard to make an easier system to handle it. For all you engineers, the fact that Chinese has characters is essentially a performance trade off. More information density for more ambiguity.
The article says "Foursquare is on the path to $100 million in revenue", so they might be nowhere nearly that level. But I would think their largest costs are salary and servers.

Like most startups building a mass of users (e.g. Twitter), they have likely been optimizing for growth as quickly as possible. Which means spending all revenue/investment on getting customers, etc. and delaying focus on turning a profit until some future time (e.g., as the acceleration of growth slows).
Off topic:

I'm interested in a physics library based on waveform collapse. It seems like performance would be so much better. A body could arc through empty space, without writing any new data to the GPU, just the clock changing, until an "observation" event where you wanted to check whether it interacted with anything, at which point you collapse some number of waveforms into particles, do rigid body math, and then generate new wave equations for the subsequent timeline. There would be no centralized "tick" just a tree of nested timelines forking whenever your code decided to do an observation. When rendering you'd just render all the waves, which means you can do arbitrary precision. You could do 90hz rendering of the waves for head position, while only collapsing particles every half second or so. Do that at multiple scales and you have a physics system with arbitrary fidelity traded off for performance. You can have different ticks at different scales (waves within waves). The properties of a given surface would just be the sum of maybe 3-4 waves at different levels of detail. You could collapse these independently depending on how much compute you wanted to devote at different levels. I think this would pair well with an SDF-based renderer, which lets you have screen-aligned surfaces that kind of act like particles already.

It would lead to bizarre physics bugs, but I suspect they would be very interesting and could lead to interesting gameplay. Perhaps they might even help us learn things about how our own universe works.
This retro typewriter-style keyboard looks great – The Verge
(Disclosure - I work for SquadRun) Near real time is doable if we have a sense of your volumes and your data flow. We work with Uber, Sephora, Teespring, etc. for their time-sensitive data operations. Happy to chat to understand more. Just drop us a line on our website.
> But they are not authorities on the truth.

I actually find them to be quite a bit more dangerous than normal news publications precisely because they claim to have some higher standard for truth. When truth comes down to a score card, you can inject less spin and bias into the article than you would otherwise have to because so long as your readers see that something was at least "mostly true" or "mostly false" they will consider the case closed because it says "fact" right in the name of the publication.
This seems doable, though we might have to resort to LibreOffice instead. One of them is based in China so no Google products work without a VPN which isn't always very stable.
Obviously it is not enforcable. But why risk it?

What, is the employer that you are talking to going to say "actually, that contract is illegal, therefore tell me your salary"?
...Battlestar Galactica
The problem is that BOTH of these "fact checkers" lean hard left. We say them bending the truth (if not out right lying) in their fact checking. One candidate says a fact and it's marked as true, another candidate says the fact and it's false.
Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially
I'd actually like to see that history as another post, then :) Last fall I did a presentation called "The (R)Evolution of Web Dev", which covered a brief history of web dev technologies and gave an overview of modern web dev tech and trends: http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2016/10/presentation-modern... . I also ran across a couple similar presentations recently: http://www.bcssouthwest.org.uk/presentations/MikeEvans2016.p... and https://hackernoon.com/modern-web-development-bf0b2ef0e22e .

Anyway, excellent post. I'm actually a Redux maintainer, and spend a lot of time answering questions about use of React and Redux. I'd be happy to chat with you sometime about any React+Redux-related topics or questions you might have. I'm @acemarke on Twitter, and also in the Reactiflux chat channels at https://www.reactiflux.com .
Listening to audio while driving is pretty ubiquitous. Audiobooks are no different than talk radio.
Can you actually rationalise your argument a little further? Why on earth should your salary for a new role be benchmarked to your previous compensation? Do you realise how ridiculous that sounds? Ultimately, the market sets some value for a role - largely based on competitor analysis - and that is a fair value. Your previous pay is irrelevant.
Those leaks were hand-carried out of networks on removable media. They were physically removed from an isolated network.
There's a fairly recent growth in the D community of a "better C" movement, that is, people using D for lowest-level systems development, device drivers, etc. This seems to have lit a fire under initiatives to reduce D's GC dependency, and its runtime dependency in general. I don't follow this too closely, but it seems they are still at the "hacks and experiments" stage in terms of real-world use (e.g., people writing custom runtimes that stub out the GC, etc.).

DConf (http://dconf.org/2017/schedule/) is in three weeks, and there are a number of related talks. Once the videos are out, you might get a better sense of the current "D as a better C" landscape.
I agree low-attention multitasking is what works.
Standing on the bus, running, kneading dough, ok.
Listening to a book and trying to code, no chance.

I disagree on what kind work best, for me "divulgation-level" non-fiction is the one. Think Malcolm Gladwell.

Actual fiction can be complex because it requires attention on who is talking, where they are, whether you're in a time skip or flashbacks etc. Divulgation doesn't.

For example, I've recently listened to The World Until Yesterday[0] and Masters of Doom[1].
They are both reasonably light, they tend to hit the same concepts over and over, there are few "characters", and generally missing 30 seconds of narration has close to zero impact.

But also, I'm fairly sure reading skills is what counts the most. I'm not even sure it's a matter of "being best" as it is a matter of a reader just sounding better for a specific person.

[0] http://www.audible.com/pd/History/The-World-until-Yesterday-...
[1] http://www.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/Masters-of-Doom-Audio...
Yup, ask yourself, why aren't there multiple water and sewer providers to homes? It doesn't work economically to supply a competitive market for certain services - physically doubling sets of pipes to end customers just don't work, regardless if they carry water or data. Just saying "the market will provide a fix" in situations like this is a shallow analysis of the problem.
Creating different storage formats in Quickstep
Dynamic business environments - no. World changing innovation - yes.
Why Python is a perfect language for Kibitzr
That would be true, if the laws weren't harmful on their own. 20 year patents are way too long, and software patents are ridiculous. Only 5 more years before you can write a linked list with multiple traversal orders without licensing it from the patent holder! https://www.google.com/patents/US7028023
So time to clear up what appears to be a few misconceptions on this thread:

The hearing so far has been about Waymo filing a preliminary injunction against Uber. The scope of the injunction requested was along the lines of "uber needs to stop building all self driving cars until we're done with this civil case". What Uber is arguing is "you're [waymo] saying that we stole your LIDAR, but all of the Lidar tech we use is off the shelf velodyne stuff, which is super obvious that we didn't steal, we purchased from velodyne, this is not worthy on an injunction". Waymo then argued that uber was independently develeoping its own lidar system in parallel with the velodyne stuff it was using, and it wants to stop development there, and uber rebutted along the lines of "there are huge material differences between the lidar we're designing, and the lidar waymo uses, so even if levandowski stole a bunch of info and has it on his personal computer, its not in our product or our research pipeline, or servers, so your theft issue with with our boy levy, not with us, uber the company."

All of the argument so far are around the injunction, the actual trial happens in october.
This was my first thought, but I was worried about it becoming unwieldy after a couple of iterations. What are your experiences with doing this in a team? Any tips on how to manage all of the back and forth?
See my other reply about physical exfiltration of data. No data was removed over a network link.
That was related to the "Flux architecture", I believe - having a "single source of truth" for the data.
Instead of getting another SP4, it sounds like the Surface Book would be a good fit for you. The tablet portion is actually lighter than the SP4 even though it's larger, and while the battery life of the tablet part alone isn't phenomenal, it's more than enough for a meeting or a bit of light reading.

It's expensive, but if you don't need the high-end models with the discrete GPU (and since you were fine with the SP4 I assume that's the case), it won't cost that much more.
That comment seems needlessly negative and requires everyone to fit within your definition of "making".

The hacker dojo events seem somewhat broad though many are more software based: https://events.hackerdojo.com/

I think we are lucky to have things like hacker dojo and techshop in our local area as well as meetups for diverse interests. Pretty sure you could find like minded folks in the area if you made the effort.
The UK still had a hangover from the 1970s at the time, local phones calls cost money, and Americans have always been a lot richer anyway. I suspect America had the inherent advantage here.
Original paper: http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30344-6

Does anyone know if RNA recoding happens in other species, or where it started from? The paper mentions that RNA recoding sites slow down genomic evolution, so what species out there have the most conserved genomes + recoding sites?

This paper was freaking fascinating.
Convenient for the government to crib about lost payroll taxes and their inability to regulate Uber. What studies have been done on how may jobs are created and $ injected into economy because of Uber/gig-companies?
What the Return of Quirky Means for Us
I think this all a little besides the point and a bit of a red herring. The analogy, which is quite apt in this case (you can have fact-checking and something that is still overall misleading), much like how a spell/grammar-checker can ensure you have correct spelling & grammar and still a flawed sentence.

Your comment seems to nitpick at the flaws in the analogy rather than the issue itself. No analogy is going to be perfect at describing something and will break down under enough scrutiny.
Brief summary: This post gives a brief primer on various storage formats in Quickstep and how to use them in practice.

About the project: Quickstep is a high performance relational data processing engine. We are an Apache incubating project, which initially started off in University of Wisconsin - Madison. URL: http://quickstep.incubator.apache.org/
Because he's taking the fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination, for civil court purposes they assume his testimony would be as incriminating as possible. Or so waymo is arguing anyway.
Yes, this looks like it's more to establish that it was one guy alone and has never had any impact on the organization, their processes, etc.

If they can do that, it would change from Uber vs Waymo/Alphabet to Levandowski vs Waymo/Alphabet and Levandowski vs Uber.

If I was Uber, I know which fight I'd want to step into.
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Handling classified data on an unapproved network is both illegal and a serious security violation in every environment I have worked in. If you have that going on, Windows phoning home is the least of your worries.
". . . somehow the author found the alphabet of his native language to be superior."

What? First of all, it doesn't appear that Chinese was the author's native language, given that he was "forced to attend Saturday morning Chinese school" as a child, and did poorly. He was born in New York state and currently lives near Seattle.

Second, and more importantly, Chiang lists several advantages of phonetic systems over purely-character based systems, which hold equally whether we're talking about Chinese or any other written languages. So even if Chinese were his native language, the differences he notes between phonetic and character-based writing systems are general differences that would exist in any language that had both systems of writing.

It's not clear to me, however, that he thinks the differences make phonetic systems "superior". The character-based system has its own advantages it gains from not being tied to pronunciation, e.g., easy readability of classic texts. And Chiang expressly says that "he has no idea if he would be better off in a world" where there had never been a Chinese character-based writing system.

Regarding the rate of change in China, you say that there has been rapid change "since World War II". It seems to me that this rapid change has been possible precisely because China was so backward before then, resistant to change for centuries and millenia before WW II. I suspect -- but have no idea myself -- that the recent rapid change has been enabled in large part by heavier reliance on a phonetic writing system, which as Chiang correctly points out is much more suitable for use with computers.
Instead of salary it may worth disclosing ballpark of total compensation including shares/options vesting, bonuses, etc, without breaking it down.

After all "desired salary" question is answered sooner or later but in reality - the total compensation is more important.
Ask HN: Cinnamon vs. Mate
Linux Mint users, what made you choose Cinnamon over Mate - or vice-versa, Mate over Cinnamon?
The Tianenmen square protests failed ultimately because the rest of China didn't know they were going on.

What happens now when with a flick of wechat the entire nation takes to the streets? All it will take is a leaders mistakes and a single spark.

It's not a question of whether China will have free speech and democracy but when.
What in the fuck are you alluding to, can you stop being so vague and offer an actual criticism or insight?
I don't have time to read the entire law regarding the CIA, so I'll take your word on that, but from their website:

The function of the Central Intelligence Agency is to assist the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in carrying out the responsibilities outlined above.

To accomplish its mission, the CIA engages in research, development, and deployment of high-leverage technology for intelligence purposes. As a separate agency, CIA serves as an independent source of analysis on topics of concern and also works closely with the other organizations in the Intelligence Community to ensure that the intelligence consumer—whether Washington policymaker or battlefield commander—receives the best intelligence possible.

Though I will agree with you that this is just a statement on their website, not law.

>That seems too glaring an oversight to be unintentional, so your appeal to such standards seems unfounded. I suggest that by any reasonable standard, CIA should have been shuttered decades ago. Even the tools seen here are indicted elsewhere in this thread by a knowledgeable person as "clownshoes".

Speculation and opinions are just that, speculations and opinions.
I've thought for a long time that before we focus on communicating with extraterrestrials, it makes more sense to find ways to communicate more fluently with existing beings on our planet, starting with ones we share a common intelligence with (dolphins, raccoons, cephalopods, etc).

We take the animals on this planet for granted, as "lesser than," but what's to say they aren't as intelligent and just express it in different ways? You could say "well dolphins don't build cars or xboxes!" and I would say "dolphins also aren't systematically destroying the planet they live on."

I know we're slowly bridging the gaps of communication with animals (for instance, dogs who can understand verbal language or dolphins who can associate objects with words), but it would be interesting if there were more fluent ways of communication besides verbal. I think it would do us well to master these.
And in fact, written English has changed very little in the past five hundred years or so: it's easy to read Shakespeare and not too hard to read Chaucer, although their pronunciation would have been considerably different. Before that period there was a much greater rate of change in the written language.
It may be misleading to call it a "similar block structure". The structure may have been inspired by the way chinese characters are composited to form new ones, but it's really just a way of chunking phonetic letters into syllabic units.
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>fake news is actually a very small part of the picture

I'm not sure that's true. Before the election at least a 3rd of news articles shared by family members on Facebook were completely falsified.

Pictures of "Bernie Sanders" driving a sports car. Stories about Obama's mother in law collecting a lifetime pension for babysitting the kids etc...
That might be true, but the general point is that most drivers in the Linux kernel don't need blobs, and they are in many cases written by manufacturers of the hardware.

Competing manufacturers have not suffered as a result of releasing free Linux drivers, and arguably are profiting from it.
> But what do you think happens when you mention a higher number than they expect?

if they think you're a really good candidate they interview you anyway and try to negotiate. if they think you're a borderline candidate they don't waste either your or their time. this is the best outcome for both parties. in other words, the prospective employee should ALWAYS highball the company.
what exactly are you adding to the conversation by being hostile? less than me thats for sure. If you think im not contributing use the downvote function, thats literally what its for. Taking out your frustrations on other people is something a child would do, grow up
Fishes from Toxic Springs Reveal Evolution at the Limits
This is incredibly cool. BEAM is one of the most fascinating bits of tech to me, particularly its garbage collector.

You've given me a bit of reading material for my train-ride for the next few days, so thank you!