skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see problems with

> A centralized "owner" of the social graph is bad for the Internet.

versus

> Establish a non-profit and open source software (with copyrights held by the non-profit) which collects, merges, and redistributes the graphs from all other social network sites into one global aggregated graph.

Yes, the author claims this is only at the beginning a centralized institution,

> While the non-profit's servers and databases will initially be centralized, ensure that the design is such that others can run their own instances, sharing data with each other.

but in reality everybody who works with decentralized software like XMPP, Mastodon, GNU Social, Diaspora and various "darknet" nodes knows how difficult it is to get users to use the software/join the node.

In fact, I don't think a company like Facebook (10 years after this article was published) will ever implement an external social graph that allows users to pull data from their platform. Users should be more sensitive to the features the products they use support. A platform that implements a protocol like OStatus is a far superior product to invest in as a closed monopole.
nice release!
"Normal" countries also contribute very little to global pharma R&D.
A kit of bundled plugins for vim. https://exvim.github.io
Introducing New World Lenses
This link has some pretty hair-raisers: http://chemjobber.blogspot.com/search/label/warning%20letter...

Everyone loves to hate on the FDA until there's a compounding pharmacy that really messes up. A couple of years ago there was one that distributed some medication for injection that had a fungal contaminant, and there were several dozens of fatalities. You'd ask yourself what would happen without adult supervision.

This is the full story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Compounding_Center...
I have not! Thank you.
Well it is, but I wasn't planning on taking their numbers and running with them today, so I think its okay if their MVP is "here's some numbers, we'll tell you how we got them next week".

All that level of detail is necessary to make things actionable, but if they're gathering data no one cares about---that's pretty important, and you can't know that before launch.
what if somebody takes a 5th and doesnot answer any question. would'nt that force court to comply some manual process and come to a conclusion
>I've known managers who inject chaos into their group just to figure out who gets frightened by it and who doesn't.

I shudder to think of the examples of this.
Show HN: Catch deceptive prop typos in your react apps
When car ownership fades, this parking garage will be ready for its next life
I volunteer at a rabbit shelter, and have performed rabbit care for years.

Albendazole is used to counter a rabbit parasite called E. Cuniculi. A complete 30-day Albendazole regimen, for a rabbit, is about $40.
Boston: The Documentary is being released nationwide in select theaters for a single day (tomorrow). I highly recommend you all see it. I was able to attend the premier in Boston and it was incredible. There wasn't a dry eye in the room. Kathrine Switzer (the woman featured in the article, who was the first woman to officially run Boston with a bib) and Bobbi Gibb (the first woman to run Boston) are both interviewed. The documentary covers the entire history of the marathon and is also in large part about the 2013 bombing.

http://bostonmarathonfilm.com/
I was in Leuven last summer. Absolutely beautiful place.
It's entirely likely that USAFacts does more for the underprivileged than Steve Ballmer Philanthropist ever could
If you are used to vim, the highest rated vim plugin works like a charm with search etc.
An Engineering Manager’s Guide to the Future of Work
and 04:41 is a damn respectable time at any age!
If it's possible consultancy companies already move the jobs to India.

And if the intention is to solve the problem of jobs moving to India, create a law designed to fix that. H1 wasn't designed to fix this problem. Let it do what it was designed to do!
I've had issues with Forbes in the past, but this time uBlock Origin didn't cause me any problems with Forbes.
The sort of sponsorship and advertising has always been a major factor in the outdoor sports. And I mean climbers, surfers and mountain bikers have been living in vehicles doing cool things and publishing pictures of it for years...often with sponsors logos prominently placed or adds on the next page.

It's just that the decline in magazine readership etc has lead sponsors to look for "ambassadors" who engage directly on social media.
and learns from the results of prior decisions

And is that fair? If the last ten guys to come through who looked like me should have had harsher sentences, is it fair that I get that harsher sentence?
SingularDTV: The Reinvention of Film and Television Distribution
Or even better, how about empirical research to back up the claim that functional programming is "better"? Does the use of functional language result in fewer bugs at less cost? Compared to what (C, Java, Ada, Lisp)? I don't have an opinion on it but I would like to see the bold claims backed up by actual evidence instead of assertions.
How much are US generics contributing to R&D?
It's possible to query the Maps API for some 3D Lidar data - I use it here: http://callumprentice.github.io/apps/street_cloud/index.html - but this seems different from the other 3D data that is a mesh and has things like trees and building outlines.
Trump will sign an executive order reviewing high-skilled H-1B immigration visas
So why bother teaching anything?

I'm curious about your answer because if the reason for teaching is to facilitate the success of every child, then teaching something that is at odds with a particular child's success seems also at odds with that purpose.

Or to put it another way, life for educators is easier when institutional norms facilitate labeling children failures and that such labeling allows educators to disclaim responsibility for the educational outcomes of children so labeled.

It's a really messy problem. I mean the circumstances of many children in their teenage years are such that learning algebra is legitimately not a priority. The circumstances of other children in their teenage years are such that their psycho-physical development is at a stage where learning algebra is extraordinarily difficult.

All of that can change between age 14 and 24 or 34 or 44. And the educational outcomes that matter are the later ages.
> anything more then 5.5 hours and I feel like I've thrown the day away.

Statistically you are unlikely to be one of those people for whom 5-6 hours sleep daily is sufficient, so all you are doing to yourself is contributing to increased aggression, dulling of empathy and reduced impulse control that comes with insufficient sleep.
I'm frustrated that the plots are not accompanied by definitions. In the US population charts, what is meant by divorce rate? Also I have no idea what "currently married" means.[1]

[1] http://usafacts.org/us-population
Linux Containers Coming to Windows Server Though Hyper-V Isolation
Nice list.

I didn't know Justin TV was funded by YC, it should be classified as exited (as Twitch) or dead, I think.
I also like this joke in a way except it implies Steve didn't also increase his funding and participation in his wife's philanthropic work, which he has said in multiple interviews where he's shared this anecdote that he has.
User experience and homeland security at Sandia National Labs: Q&A with UXer
Meat industry consortiums afraid of vegan/vegetarian trends?
I am in progress of creating my own RV-van. This won't be a full time thing, but for sure a week or maybe a month at a time. I already work remotely as a software developer and my SO is a professor who gets summers off. For us it's just a vacation vehicle with a neat twist that we designed and built it. I do plan to take videos of construction and maybe post some pictures here and there, but I see it more as sharing ideas with other humans than a business venture. If I can make a couple bucks to subsidize travel expenses, I don't see anything wrong with that; if no one watches but my grandkids, I'm OK with that too.
The Internet Has Ruined Tattoos
Missing a link?
For application security I'd say:

Web Application Hackers Handbook 2nd Edition
and
The Art of Software Security Assessment
Even if it's true that she broke the law with regards to the ambush, how does that lead to being stopped and questioned every time you enter the country?
Playing devils advocate I'd say that the main problem with employing AI would be that it will how bad decisions humans make. This is exactly the kind of case where computers, just relying on hard data would do much better than humans.

The article complains that AI is a black box for the defendant. How is this any different from judge's brain? You can't peek into his mind to figure out what is behind the decision. Judge can give some justifications, but you won't know if those are the real reasons or if the decision is just mostly based on defendants skin color, socioeconomic background or clothing.
There is no reason why you couldn't "compose data structures" in FP. Lists are composed data structures, as are trees. And Haskell's type classes are in fact a superior way to build ADTs.

The difference is the mindset. FP makes it really easy to compose higher-level functions. But composing higher level functions typically means little control where the intermediate results are stored (which is what Game developers need).

You can absolutely write C++ style in Haskell by composing imperative functions (e.g. IO monad). The only problem I see is the syntax. There is no built-in syntax for indexing and assignment. Writing

do
v1 <- readArray a i
v2 <- readArray a (i+1)
writeArray a (i+2) (v1+v2+1)

instead of

a[i+2] = a[i] + a[i+1] + 1;

gets old really quickly.
Not exactly a field/industry, but in the Commodore 64 demoscene it would be the "VIC Article", which is a nickname for "The MOS 6567/6569 video controller (VIC-II)" by Christian Bauer:

http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/c64/vic-ii.txt
Building a Gantt Chart from GitHub Issues: With Near Caching Using Realm
> "Yes I'm wealthy enough to afford an iphone, that doesn't mean I want you to send me through a $5 bridge toll"

https://www.google.com/search?q=apple+maps+avoid+tolls

https://www.google.com/search?q=google+maps+avoid+tolls

But I agree with the other ones. Quite a few of them might need better recognition of weight restrictions and other such rules on roadways, though. It in theory shouldn't be hard to develop (self-driving tech already either reads signs or sources data from previous mappings of roads where said signs have been read), but I wouldn't be surprised if this info hasn't yet been catalogued yet.
One of my big concerns is whether the algorithms are institutionalizing racism, with legal decisions that make it impossible to challenge these.

After all, the algorithm has been trained on information about recidivism that was collected in a world where racism skews arrest rates, conviction rates, and sentencing.[1] That means the algorithm is almost certainly baking in a racial bias. Now, I'm sure they aren't foolish enough to put "race" in as one of the input factors, but other correlated factors will allow the algorithm to continue to enforce this racism, but now with legal immunity.

[1] Do I really need to footnote this? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-farbota/black-crime-rates-... is one source that addresses all of these, but there are many, many other sources.
That's why I said "If".

You're right, that on aggregate, groups do factor in a poor showup rate.

And that adds to the cost of hosting. You risk buying too much perishable food versus running out of food and disappointing the latecomers.

There are options for dealing with this:

- Charge for the meetup (but then people with fewer resources can't come.)

- Track no-shows, and kick them out of the group (which is a burden for the organizers and can penalize people with really good reasons for not being able to make it.)

- But just saying something about it makes a difference in the showup rates (we tried it and it works).

So that's what I'm doing here.
Regular Expressions Part Two
"The detentions stopped abruptly six years later after a 2012 news article highlighted her travel problems."
Awesome work by the team at MongoDB! Going to be fun exploring how I can put this to use in my shop!
You'd think we'd have learned by now.
> Same goes for other basic things like women getting lighter sentences, minorities harsher sentences, etc.

The problem is, "AI" today is glorified pattern matching. So, it learns what "should be" based on the current state. In other words because the pattern exists it will learn precisely that "women should get lighter sentences and minorities should get harsher ones"

Not only that, they are so good at pattern matching that you don't even need to provide the gender or race for them to identify those as a parameter.

It would be great if we could train an AI to eliminate bias, but as it is they are training to reinforce bias that already exists.

Until we get natural language understanding and context aware AI, using AI for sentencing is a terrible idea.
Kubernetes and the push for it is religious.
Get out of here with that. Not all of us have been industry < 10 years
Going to throw out a guess that it's got something to do with this buried lede:

> Lexington County, which encompasses all but one of the dozen Piggie Park restaurants now in operation, remains a bedrock of hard-right politics.

Also: Confederate flags, awful Southern white people, and some folks who moved down from PG County buying property from the latter and looking to get rid of the former. Is it too blithe to say "culture war, move on"?
Have you tried installing an actual GPS navigation app (as opposed to just Google Maps)? At least the last time I used one (I think it was CoPilot a few years back) you could specify stuff like "avoid toll roads", "prefer simplest route", and set the size of your vehicle all in the settings menu.
I assumed the same thing. I bought a bunch of these things and made sure they were displaying red light late at night and believe this helped me feel more relaxed and tired late at night. Note that I'm in Minnesota where it is much more difficult to rely on natural lighting for wake/sleep periods.
Regional BBQ joints are afraid customers will forget their white supremacist past?
One isue I have with this is that "national security" can be a blanket for bullshit...

for example, would they report on the purchase of Stingrays? License plate scanners that the municipalities 'require' private companies to install?
Well you are in luck because in a major sense, deep learning AI cannot reveal how the trick was done unless you are willing to speak in terms of a model with trillions of variables and feedback loops.
I'm one of the lead organisers of the meetups that Aaron mentions, and I'd like to offer an additional perspective.

I think that both Aaron and myself (and, indeed, all of the organisers) use the meetup as an opportunity to meet programmers needing mentorship.

Many of us have personally benefited from the generosity of others, and we feel an obligation to offer newcomers this same opportunity.

I don't have any real skills, but I do know a lot about Python, and I attend the weekly meetups to share this knowledge with others.

I'm there every week (barring conference & work travel,) and I'm there to help.
An interesting project. If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Curious if there is a story behind its development.
Be aware that this is a quick-and-dirty way to get a tree. It's based on the MUSCLE guide tree to get a quick glimpse. It doesn't replace a real phylogenetic tree algorithm such as RAxML.
50 years ago, her actions were audacious, and the backlash probably seemed acceptable to many, if not most, people.

What things today are we going to be deeply embarrassed about 50 years from now? I have a few guesses:

- Our abysmal stewardship of the environment

- Mass incarceration

- The death penalty

- Domestic surveillance

- Police militarization and lack of accountability

- The drug war

- Transgender oppression (e.g. NC bathroom bill)

- The travel ban

- That we elected a president who bragged about grabbing unknown women by their genitals
Uber business tool lets you order multiple cars from central app
Ask HN: Which is the most powerful satellite camera directed towards earth?
Remember the scene from MIB where 'K' zooms in on his wife and watches her live. How close are we to that ?

After a quick search, I found a few videos which showed scenes of an area with some traffic activity but it wasn't that zoomed in. As far as images go, I haven't found any other image source providing a better definition image than what Google Maps provide.

The American government had used live satellite feed while carrying out the Bin Laden operation ( Source of Information: Documentary | Correct me if wrong ).

Are there any images/videos publicly available which demonstrate the limits of cameras in space directed towards earth ?

If not publicly available, can you describe how a possible image/video might look like and what are the current limits for those cameras ?
How Western Civilization Could Collapse
Completely agreed. I forget the exact quote or whatever, but there's some theory along the lines of, if you want to be something, pretend to be it until you are it. You'll fail and suck at the start and probably embarrass yourself among experts a few times, then eventually you'll get better until one day you are what you wanted to be. You don't need certifications and job titles to develop a skill. Just go do it.
Python PSF Accepting Grant Applications from Software Developers
That explains this line: "MySpace also has a lot of good data, but not all of it. Likewise LiveJournal, Digg, Twitter, Zooomr, Pownce, Friendster, Plaxo, the list goes on."
Just curious on why they would use PNaCl over WASM here? Wasn't WASM on track to becoming standard for native-speeds in the browser?
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Nice tool! I also was planning to integrate Mfold into the toolset. However I put it on hold due to lack of time.
This is exactly the kind of frustration I feel almost all the time when I see some nice data visualizations on the internet! And that's why I began working on https://thegamma.net. Now I just need to convince Mr. Ballmer to use it...
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/189 should have it soon
Humans are biased too. It might be better to move the bias where it can more easily be studied and changed.

(There's an analogy to vehicle automation, where we accept a level of error in humans that we wouldn't in automation.)
Classic shitmold. This is why your play-doh doesn't look like mine. It's because you are told what to do with what you are told to use and I don't.
Better write a blogpost about it.
I have 0 support for this, but it the mixed race people I know tend to be much, much, much healthier. It makes sense when you think about inbreeding, but it's sort of weird to think about. A friend who is 100% Polish Jewish - a people who were forced to live in small shtetls and didn't have a wide genetic pool - just randomly went blind one day. My mixed-race wife is literally never sick.

I'm kind of jealous to be honest.
One problem I have seen is that when science is used, people in charge reject the science. One common example is the risk of sex offenders re-offending. It is well known that sex offenders are at a vastly increased risk of offending again. That is also quite false. What data there is on those who re-offend show that sex offenders have some of the lowest rates of recidivism, but people are so conditioned by the incorrect narrative that they reject the science. This includes not just the average person voting for a politician who will make worse laws, but also the people involved in the legal system who decides who gets parole, who gets probation, and how long should sentences last.
Cloudflare lately has become an immediate tab-closing prompt the way paywalls usually are
I'm reminded of that quote about a "foolish consistency being the hobgoblin of little minds", but when you consider that statistically, people get lighter sentences immediately after a lunch break [1], there's probably some value in removing the human from the equation...

[1]: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889
People looking to save money aren't buying branded drugs, they're buying generics. Which are still far too expensive in the US, compared to other OECD markets.
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Using Docker Compose to Build Unlimited Environments
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The word, yes. Slow cooking meat as a concept, however, is too pervasive and general a concept to be traced to any single time/place (imo).
If thinking about setting bail, isn't the target there to keep the bail amounts (or cases where bail is denied) as low as possible while making sure that most people appear in court?

Here a simple metrics would be the average bail and the percentage of people who appeared on court.

On a job like this, I can't really see how a human could beat a machine. And you don't need any kind of "artificial intelligence". This is just standard statistics stuff that every insurance company and bank does.
Clara Labs (YC S14) Wants to Save You from Your Inbox with Cyborg Assistants
The difference is that you're dismissing the entire field of mainstream software development for the last couple of decades as “elementary school” level abstractions which “do a very poor job of solving more problems than they create”. A strong majority of working programmers are familiar with those concepts because they were taught those concepts in schools, by industry experts, and see them used by platform developers and vendors.

FP is not that pervasive and anyone trying to make the case that it's better across the board has to address that familiarity gap. Try to think about, say, the average Java or C# developer working on a large project. They aren't spending their day saying “OOP is terrible” and when you say something is better because it's “grounded in mathematical practice” that's really non-obvious to someone who's thinking the main way their life would improve would be if they could get the business stakeholder to make a decision and stick with it for more than 24 hours, stop using Oracle products, etc. Talking about avoiding shared state and side-effects, going beyond Java-level typing to make refactoring safer, etc. is a lot more useful since those probably are things they spend time on regularly.
Great example. Whatever they're doing in terms of photogrammetry and geometry reconstruction is really impressive. I wonder how much of it is manual effort (if any)
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Atom and VS Code are copies of the successful Sublime app. Although it may be more accurate to say that VS Code is a copy of Atom and Atom is a copy of Sublime.
My very good friend is Indian on H1B. In the last 10 years he has had 4 jobs and is making >200k/yr base. I know white people that are in the same job for 10+ years and can't get another job because their skills degraded. H1Bs have mobility and great wages, if you're good, just like citizens.
I think it's just that the intermediary years are estimations and the chart isn't compensated.

The estimates are just bad and not adjusted historically. Doesn't make the chart bad... just makes the data a little wonky.