skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the point?

They don't want you to come from a web page that you arrived from after a google search or a facebook ad.

They want you to go to the AppStore app first. And search there and see advertisements there.
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I never meant to imply extroversion == success. I was just saying how, from what I've experienced, most people doing extraverted activities tend to be successful. Toastmasters sounds like a great idea! I am, however, 99% sure that I don't suffer from any sort of social anxiety. You can read my other comment on this. To add to it, I have no trouble talking to new people; I'm just not a huge fan of it due to my inherent introversion.
How come? There are frequently two sides to an issue, both with contradicting evidence (Global Warming, for example). Presenting only one side of the argument might adhere to the evidence-based principle, but that would nevertheless be a biased presentation.
To destroy Chinese characters is the ultimate goal of only a small part of Chinese. Actually, if Chinese characters die, Chinese die.
This is such a strange punishment. Kid stupidly deprives himself of learning, so to discourage it, we deprive him of another week's worth?
It is about marginal utility. You and others here are constraining yourself to thinking about the concept by thinking about it only as a utility function for one type of product or service. After all, that is how it is taught.
You can also think about the marginal utility of one glass of water, or one screw in a more complex utility function (as is always the case in life) than for just one widget, as you would say a factory manufacturing screws until cost > utility. After all, it's nothing more than the utility you gain, on the margin (holding all else constant), of that one additional screw or glass of water. In the author's example, he is discussing this exact phenomenon. The utility at the margin of that one additional screw.
Yes! Thank you. I never know what to call myself. I just signed a comment as "broad-spectrum software developer", but your description is more accurate.

We catch the things that fall between the cracks; we are the glue that binds together the things that fall apart; we are the toolmakers, the automaters, the pinch-hitter sysadmins; we are problem solvers, the ones that do whatever it takes - and if we don't know how, we learn.
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It is actually linked at the top of this article, although Medium's minimal design doesn't make that very clear.
We did this http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/ a couple of years ago. It is based on an elimination process – you describe what you see and the application narrows down on the options. Works very well in practice, and can be applied to all sorts of indentification purposes in the wild, such as fish, birds and butterflies.

We also gave the image regocnition path a thought but it seemed to be quite a tall order. Hopefully they come up with a novel approach on this!
Don't use Ruby if performance counts. It's that simple.
It's a nice idea, but I have a feeling it's never going to be better than human enthusiasts/experts, who you can get to identify plants from photos for free already[1].

I can immediately think of all kinds of challenges that are really hard to overcome: diseased leaves, different seasons, plus all the usual glare/shading/background issues.

[1]: https://gardening.stackexchange.com/q/9355/3346
would you pay for it? I also kinda want it, as I get curious when I'm out on a hike, but I'm not sure I'd pay for it.
Often this only comes after IPO e.g. with SOX/... compliance.
I loathe this comment. When I find a person on HN or reddit who comes off as an ass, I look up their recent comment history to see if it's an anomaly or a pattern.

Without further context, I hope you recognize your hypocrisy when you plead with someone asking them not to treat "entertainment" as "Hollywood".

The person above gives an anecdote from an unknown decade, and an unknown city of an unknown part of one of the most diverse countries in the world. And you cast aside the entire American experience because of it. Your comment had no purpose.
Just so I understood correctly: both eyes would see slightly different images and the brain would merge them to one coherent image with "new" colors? How long does it take for the brain to adapt?
They call her "far-right" because that's what she is. The party is called "Front National", after all – "Front" as in war. They don't mind the label. It's simply a description of fact, with the possible caveat that some of their economic ideas aren't that different from those on the far left.

The media also regularly labels the other candidates, and nobody is complaining about them any more than Clinton complained when someone said she was left of Trump, politically.

Example from the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/world/europe/emmanuel-mac...

"[...]Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen to go to a runoff to determine the next president, official returns showed. One is a political novice, the other a far-right firebrand "

"Mr. Macron, a former investment banker, abandoned traditional parties a year ago to form his own movement with an eclectic blend of left and right policies."

"[...] the mainstream right candidate François Fillon had nearly 20 percent, and the far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon had 19.6 percent."

As to why she is labeled "extreme", Wikipedia says:

- She favours a "radical change of politics in order to drastically reduce upstream the influx of illegal immigrants towards France"

- She supported a referendum on whether to reinstate capital punishment in France

- "But I openly admit that, to some extent, I admire Vladimir Putin."

- "I do not believe that there was an illegal annexation: there was a referendum, the citizens of Crimea wanted to join Russia."

- Denouncing "the US supremacy", she "refused the idea that France slavishly followed the USA in this new stalemate"
"Full attack dev?"

I like that - may I use it?

-- 58 year old full-attack dev
Just look at Android, despite having 85% or more of the smartphone market...
I don't owe you anything. I don't have a duty to you. It's not my responsibility to be ethical toward you or to anyone else. If I were out on the street begging you for money, how much do you think you'd give me? Would you take me in, let me use your shower, eat your food, patiently wait for weeks for me to get a job? Would you treat me like family? How far will your ethics go when pushed to the limit?

Now, I'd like to be ethical. I want to choose to be. And I'd like us all to be ethical to each other. But you should make the case that it's beneficial for people to be ethical to each other because XYZ, not because they have a "responsibility" to do so, or that they're "half-alive" if they don't. And to say that ethics -- a massive topic that has flummoxed philosophers for thousands of years -- is easy, is just wishful thinking.
Thank you for your advice! I definitely try my best to have genuine conversations and connections with my teammates and will continue to do so.

I was kind of surprised by the many comments saying I suffer from social anxiety, but I figured their lack of information about me lead to their diagnoses. So, I hope they think otherwise after my responses and instead provide great advice like yours.
Or ground effect? Rotor craft have a nasty ground effect, not a nice one, IIRC.

It looks like a big multi-rotor with a saddle and pontoons. These are so simple that they'll probably work well enough.

Battery life is an issue that's not going away quickly.
Tencent has also invested in Zoox, a self driving car startup
>LESS range anxiety than gasoline

I don't have much range anxiety in my gasoline powered car. The last hackathon I attended I chatted to a girl who arrived 6 hours late having set off from a home 2 hours drive away. Turned out she was driving an electric BMW, took a wrong turning, ran out of range as a result so then had to drive to a charging station, wait for it to charge and continue. So these things are not totally fixed.
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Which is a conclusion shared to an extent by the fake challenge, as stated on the front page I linked

>Assessing the veracity of a news story is a complex and cumbersome task, even for trained experts [3].

>Fortunately, the process can be broken down into steps or stages. A helpful first step towards identifying fake news is to understand what other news organizations are saying about the topic. We believe automating this process, called Stance Detection, could serve as a useful building block in an AI-assisted fact-checking pipeline. So stage #1 of the Fake News Challenge (FNC-1) focuses on the task of Stance Detection.

In a nutshell, this interaction is the problem with the news cycle, and its the audience as much as its the reporting. Most people don't click on the link.

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From the FAQ, lower down the page -

> WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THE STANCE DETECTION TASK RATHER THAN THE TASK OF LABELING A CLAIM, HEADLINE OR STORY TRUE/FALSE, WHICH SEEMS TO BE WHAT THE FAKE NEWS PROBLEM IS ALL ABOUT?

ANSWER:
There are several reasons Stance Detection makes for a good first task for the Fake News Challenge:

Our extensive discussions with journalists and fact checkers made it clear both how difficult “truth labeling” of claims really is, and how they’d rather have reliable semi-automated tool to help them in do their job better rather than fully-automated system whose performance will inevitably fall far short of 100% accuracy.

Truth labeling also poses several large technical / logistical challenge for a contest like the FNC:

There exists very little labeled training data of fake vs. real news stories.
The data that does exist (e.g. fact checker website archives) is almost all copyright protected.
The data that does exist is extremely diverse and unstructured, making hard to train on.
Any dataset containing claims with associated “truth” labels is going to be contested as biased.
Together these make the truth labeling task virtually impossible with existing AI / NLP. In fact, even people have trouble distinguishing fake news from real news.

The dataset we are using to support the Stance Detection task for FNC-1 was created by accredited journalists, making it both high quality and credible. It is also in the public domain.
Variants of the FNC-1 Stance Detection task have already been explored and proven feasible but far from trivial by Andreas Vlachos & his students from U. of Sheffield. Cite: Ferreira & Vlachos (2016) & Augenstein et al. (2016).
We considered targeting the truth labeling task for the FNC-1, but without giving teams any labeled training data. We decided against it both because we thought a competition with a more traditionally structured Machine learning tasks would appeal to more teams, and because such an open-ended truth labeling competition was recently completed, called the Fast & Furious Fact Check Challenge.
Our discussions with human fact checkers lead us to believe that a solution to the stance detection problem could form the basis of a useful tool for real-life human fact checkers. Also see, next question/answer.

thats a substantially more thought out approach to the problem than Wikitribune.
> It is a ducted fan ground effect craft, no different than what NASA and USAF have worked on since the 1950's.

No, it's not. It's a modern multi-rotor, which have only been possible recently with computer control. No ducts, no (useful) ground effect. Ground effect craft have wings:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=ground+effect+craft
Thank you, this advice means a lot. Email is something I never thought of and I definitely plan on doing more of it from now on.
I politely disagree. This example feels like a piece wise function which isn't a utility function (or at least not one I have ever seen and I've seen a lot). Having utility decrease from its maximum to zero, or negative, at the next value is odd to say the least.
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For the record, I just tested, and it turns out that if you try and decode a string with escapes into a &str, it produces an error rather than giving you the escaped version of the string.
> I can't imagine you'll find many older, experienced devs willing to put up with the "we need to ship so you've got to put in 80 hours this week.

Yes, because we've fallen for that bullshit before, killed ourselves to meet the deadline, and found that the asshole manager made it artificially short to "motivate" us, and the other teams aren't even finished yet :)
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> In my view this directly contributes to the loss of faith people have in the Journalistic profession

I'd add that your second point also contributes to loss of faith: When propagandists call their publications journalism, and when other journalists treat them seriously, it brings down the credibility of all journalism. If any quack could call themself a heart surgeon then it would hurt the credibility of real heart surgeons.

Also, when people see their side publishing propaganda, they assume that all journalism is propaganda: One side says this, the other says that, it's all the same (that thinking is an explicit goal of propaganda - not to persuade but to discredit everyone, leaving no source of truth). But it's not the same; truth has real meaning and value, an only liars say 'well, everyone lies'.
The work you have done here is useful, but as pointed out in the original article, articles very quickly become outdated in the Javascript ecosystem. It's not just how libraries work (I haven't looked through the list too much, but I'm sure there are plenty of articles suggesting a Webpack 1.x configuration) but also the recommended way of doing things and what tools to use that changes.

I guess this is one of the advantages Rails has being a monolith - as it provides nearly everything, it's very easy for them to keep up to date documentation of the 'Rails way' to do things. React and Redux have been relatively stable, but it's everything else that goes along with it that is the issue.
What you have to optimize exactly?

If it runs fine on a iPhone 5, it runs better on an iPhone 7.

You are not writing drivers, you don't need to optimize anything.
I think you mean; They will do anything to make money.

Selling assorted junk from China and some books with a minimum of friction for the customer is just aligned with that goal.
What does this have to do with hacking?
The resolution of UWB radio ToF measurement is not 15.65ns, but 15.65ps. That corresponds to a 64GHz counter.

I wonder which UWB radios they use for positioning. It's clear that this is IEEE 802.15.4 UWB PHY with the ranging extension, but I'd love to know what is the chip vendor.

EDIT: read the original paper, it's Decawave, same chips that I use :-)
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note this is not really a scientific fact, and an idea which has been recently challenged as scientifically unfounded.
It concerns me that they don't know the difference between 'lead' and 'led'.

Otherwise I love the idea that there must be an attributable source to all information they present -- no more "senior government officials" or "anonymous FBI agents"...
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I disagree but perhaps it's on semantics... A better statement would be:

If the boxing/unboxing matters, don't use a language with objects. Use one that gives you value types to manipulate and serialize into. For some things, like Regexp, the language has almost zero overhead-- because it's done in C/bare metal.

Additionally you could provide which languages/runtimes one should use.
Strange and prevalent (at least in the US). Every state I've lived in has some form of this, be it in-school or out-of-school suspension. It seems like a way to train kids for prison. It's mostly just a way to keep them from disrupting others; in other words, it's the easiest way to deal with the kid (with no thought toward helping them).
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It should be possible, the brain is capable of interpreting vibrating little bumps on the tongue as "vision" after some training.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/device-lets-blind...
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Yeah, but the stock price is affected by too many factors to make the argument that it's a good proxy for any one thing.

Certainly, the stock value isn't going to rise or fall appreciably for most of the deals that the CEO will negotiate - it would have to be big enough to 'make the news' and/or show up in a press release, at a minimum.

I feel like I've heard the argument that "CEOs negotiate great deals and that helps to justify their compensation" before, but I've never heard of anyone actually basing a compensation schema on that directly. Given that we live an an Era Of Data I'd expect companies to be doing this (or trying to do this).
> But that wouldn't support very large populations.

Well I don't agree at all!
Apart from the fact that large populations can live without meat, I can easily envision a "scavenging farm" where animals are liked after until they die, and only then processed. It wouldn't be as efficient as our farms, but completely possible.
This sounds like an urban legend.
> How do you do this?

I draw them the Cone of Uncertainty (http://www.construx.com/Thought_Leadership/Books/The_Cone_of...).
A massive effort to find missing data?
I can say that Yad Vashem's database is actually sorely lacking. Their website is very difficult to search.

In my own family, my great-aunts filled out a Page of Testimony for their sister and brother. Their brother's page includes 4 children written in the sidelines and Yad Vashem only lists 3 of them, missing one that's written, and their sister's page leaves out her 1 year old son, so he's still missing. And they never filled out a page on their mother, or I can't find it, so in my own immediate family, the records are missing 3 people.
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I don't know there's such a thing in economics as 'taking' income. Money is taxed when it is transacted between entities; it's pretty simple. Buy something, pay someone, pass your inheritance to your children, etc., and it's taxed. (It's not taxed when it sits still.)

Now people want to give certain transactions a special status; for some creative reason, this time it's different. What I see is that the transactions that are 'special', such as corporate and estate taxes, benefit the same group of people. Also, the same people shouldn't have their income taxed as highly because they are more important than everyone - they are 'job creators'. How come it's never the taxes of the working class, such as sales tax, that need special treatment?
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Deutsche Börse created such a company a couple of years ago. Didn't go well, was shut down last year I think. I don't know how thorough the implementation was though.
> profitable

Not really, one thing is revenue, another thing is profit.

Those spammy sites pay a lot of money to appear on those clickbait tables that appear at the end of articles. And without guarantee that the user (victim) buys anything.
SOX compliance is unfortunately bureaucratic in the sense as long as you can prove control is in place no one cares if you can read customer's data. A business owner can approve thr request in some ticketing system (change ticket) then the auditor would be okay because it is not the auditor's interest to judge whether some business decision is good or bad. You can keep your private keys in a Git repo encrypted as long as you can prove control and audit logs are available because the underlying security is not an audit concern. Another example is as long as you keep data and logs for seven years, auditors would be okay; they don't care if you are keeping a yearly archive for seven rars, monthly backup for seven years, you pick.

Data and security governance is often a miss item.
I'm not a chemist, but I find it really interesting that some enzymes seem to be so versatile that they can destroy chemical bonds they did not originally evolve for.
Apparently this is being actively worked on: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35886348
97% agreement is higher than the level of consensus on much of medical care, diet, or technology.

https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/

Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals1 show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities. In addition, most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position. The following is a partial list of these organizations, along with links to their published statements and a selection of related resources.
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> I should have said current tax law, not tax rate, but the getting a lower rate abroad is clearly the main driver.

I wasn't clear: I don't know that I accept that, though of course I've heard it many times. It's a narrative that suits people who want to cut taxes for corporations, but those people always have very convenient narratives. Has anyone seen evidence?
Oh sure because satire wasn't commonplace in books long before the internet. How would those poor souls have figured it out it wasn't serious?! IMPOSSIBLE.

Regarding Poe's law, if it looks like sarcasm assume it is and move on, but I understand that commenting on the internet is of utmost importance and a task that shouldn't be taken lightly.
Sever push is really a different use case from web sockets. It's also an optional part of the HTTP/2 protocol, no guarantee of client support.

Also SSE has been around for a decade or so, not to be confused with HTTP/2 push.
My bet is not on the Chinese neither on the Americans. It's on the Germans (and other EU car makers in general).
Plus if you do it anonymously it's easy for the company to spin it as "hit pieces" which is what Uber does.
Good.

What you expect? You're not a big company like Google or Apple that owns the land.

Do you think that, for example, youtubers aren't farmers in the google's farm?

Or that web developers and content creators aren't farmers for the ad networks?
Why just deprecate? Can't it be made to proxy behind the scenes to globset?
Run many small fan motors out of phase.
Have this https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/project-details.aspx?...
As a data point here (in your strong favor), consider UK broadband pricing and the effect of local-loop unbundling.
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> But if you don't know who to talk to, then you are trying to solve two problems at the same time: who to talk to and how to talk to them.

Great point
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This was sitting all day, not for a half hour.
>Having utility decrease from its maximum to zero, or negative, at the next value is odd to say the least

I didn't claim anything such as this and I'm having trouble understanding what you are responding to in my post.

A utility function is just a value of utility received at different quantities and costs. They are just basic models for helping to simplify our understanding the world. There's no need to begin comparing expertise with utility functions. The author is talking about the utility he receives at the margin of one additional widget in his decision making process, and what that this type of scenario (when a commonly cheap item can, in our decision making process, can have a high marginal utility--ie quantity is only 1 and 1 is necessary for a finished product) means to us in our human experience.
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