skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate, applaud, and agree with your sentiment. It's such a good idea that I've been doing so for a number of years now.
More than the content, I find the way it is presented to be useful. I love the interactive tutorial with video, audio, and the ability to run code and see output (without having to set up your own environment).
The AI Cargo Cult

This is flagrant misuse of a Buzzwordy McBuzzword-Face.

Why y'all gotta be a try-hard, and call it "cargo cult"?
> It went up briefly, now it's back to -2.

And it's not net negative again now.

> I call them like I see them.

The motivations you describe are not things you can see, they are motivations you read without any solid basis into numbers.

> I see no evidence that this is "reflexive downvoters"

It's pretty common for posts on HN on controversial topics (on pretty much any side) that are substantive enough that they do the end up with a negative score after long to quickly downvotes. It's pretty clear that there is a pattern of people who jump to Dow vote positions they disagree with regardless of substance or quality making a mark quickly, but frequently being neutralized over time by other voters.

It's true that there is a visible alt-right and larger visible right-libertarian (and objectivist, also) presence here; there's also a conventional modern liberal segment, a conventional modern conservative segment, and various less-conventional (Marxist, anarchist, left-libertarian, and other) left wing groups. Pretty much all the unconventional groups are a greater proportion of the visible contribution to the site than conventional groups, but the site isn't particularly a haven for any one of them (or to just the right-wingers or left-leaning groups).

The downvoters you got are probably largely political disagreement, but there's no little basis for the belief that it was particularly disagreement from alt-right and/or libertarian sources, and even if it was, it's pretty clearly not because the site is particularly a have for those two groups, because that's simply not true.
Just remember, always remember, that the police don't want the perpetrator, they want a perpetrator. With minimum expended effort.
> And IB is basically the most expensive professionally focused brokerage.

Uh, IB is not a professionally-focused brokerage. It's the most professional retail brokerage though.

On what basis are you calling it most expensive though? It's much cheaper than any other brokerage I know when you look at fees holistically.
The testimonials strike me as all having the same writer's voice.

Someone needs to come up with a service that generates authentic-sounding testimonials, complete with convincing headshots.
> The problem with these initiatives is that they are all politically motivated.

So what's your plan? Stop trying?

>The previous governments have also done this though with a less "catchy" names with no PR.

Come on man. Hate Modi all you want and there are few reasons, but this is not one. He is trying to get people accountable, at least talking about the issue. You don't even understand the buzz a topic creates if PM of 1 billion people repeatedly reminds us about the importance of sanitation.

I don't want to start any objective discussion with a throw away account, so, I'd say keep an open mind.
You are forgetting the situation wherein you are the victim of a crime.
This is largely a myth.

I've run a pair of email servers - one small (maybe 250 outgoing emails/week) and one larger (80-100k/week) from 2007 to late 2016 and had no problems with deliverability. It's just there are way more factors than SPF & DKIM:

- static IPs that remain the same for years (no cloud)

- IPs not in questionable subnets (no cloud)

- forward-confirmed A DNS records for all sending servers

- a valid SSL cert on MX servers (anecdotal evidence here)

- never rapidly increase email volume. +50% day over day and +100% week over week is safe

- rate limit outgoing email by recipients server/domain
They are using ZFS, scrubbing is one command.
More processing, more intelligence doesn't sound right.

If I put a bunch of random reactive chemicals in a large beaker - I don't know what your "information" or "processing" would be there, but there should be a lot of that happening - I still wouldn't call it intelligent.
Many of the newer ETFs have high expense ratios and alarming clauses in the prospectus (e.g. a forced sale if the ETF drops below $x). If you aren't a professional day trader you should be very wary of the proliferation of opaque ETFs, especially the high leverage ones.
NSA is not the primary threat here. More conventional legal mechanisms are. Home serving is just as vulnerable to the NSA.
And a lot of people would test to know if they need to use the solution, don't they?

Look at this site and twitter account. You can't get any info on who registered the site because it's protected by "privacy guard", why should anyone trust this site?
And their twitter account looks more like marketing campaign from competition.
The CIA Was on to Something with Project MKUltra
I don't know, I wouldn't say ZFS moves files around any more than a typical filesystem.
From your own Wikipedia link: 'It typically occurs with an antecedent of indeterminate gender,' meaning that use with an antecedent of determinate gender is atypical.

From the same page: 'In some situations, an individual may be known but referred to using the pronoun they. This may occur because the individual's gender is unknown to the speaker, or because the gender is non-binary or genderqueer, so that they regard both masculine and feminine pronouns as inappropriate and thus prefer to be referred to as they.'

Mr. Wisenberg's gender is known and he presents as a man in his profile; there is no reason to use 'they' instead of 'he,' and thus it's simply wrong to do so.

I don't think you intended to be rude to him by failing to use the correct pronoun, but I believe you were.

And, again, you continue to ignore the substantive point.
Every single map that's not a globe, anyway... And even those are technically lies, since the Earth is not perfectly spherical.
I wonder if someone has the energy to establish connectathons for "above layer 4". Most of our interoperability problems these days are virtual (thanks to brick and mortar connectathons squeeing out any of the old layer 1-4 bugs). These days we could do them online, and automate the detection of regressions.

I was actually astonished that connectathons are still running; I haven't been to one in decades: http://www.connectathon.info
"A nuke's capacity" -- not quite. There are only a handful of nuclear plants running with net capacity over 5000 MW. The largest nuclear plant in the US is Palo Verde: 3942 MW from 3 reactors. The sole reactor to enter operation in the US last year, Watts Bar 2, generates 1165 MW net: https://www.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/ReactorDetails.a...

So multiplying capacities and capacity factors, for 2016 we get:

2016 nuclear: 0.925 * 1165 = 1078 MW

2016 utility PV: 0.272 * 10000 = 2720 MW

2016 utility wind: 0.347 * 8200 = 2845 MW

Last year's large scale wind and solar installations would be expected to produce as much electricity, annually, as 5 reactors like Watts Bar 2. Watts Bar 2 is pretty typical as far as capacity goes. The four new AP1000 reactors under construction in the US are each 1117 MW net, for example.

I personally hope that the US continues to build enough reactors to regain and maintain the institutional competence that was lost after the last wave of builds ended in the 1980s. Nuclear power has an excellent safety record, no air pollution, and is easier to manage at high penetration levels than wind/PV. But when I'm crunching the numbers I estimate that renewables will grow faster in North America for the foreseeable future; renewable projects scale down better, are cheaper per MWh generated even adjusting for capacity factor [1], and are much faster to go from first concrete pouring to first revenue.

[1] Cheaper per MWh than observed real-world prices for reactors currently under construction. Some older reactors can produce electricity at significantly lower costs.
If a human being is smart enough to realize that you don't want to paperclip the entire world, then surely a super AI would be smart enough, by definition. Part of intelligence is knowing when to ignore all those tiny chances. Human intelligence is less brittle than artificial because we can handle ambiguity and know when it's ridiculous to continue a task, just because there might be some small chance that it's not finished.

We also know that paperclipping the world will get in the way of other goals, like going to the show or making money.
I would suggest that the elites who deploy conservative propaganda are not practicing conservatism any more than they are fooling themselves.
Unless you're in New South Wales. I suggest you look up the Evidence Amendment Act of 2013. There your silence to any question may be used against you, so long as the question(s) you were silent about are any part of your defense.
'Mummy' Is Transgender: A New Commercial Is the Talk of India
Face it: for the type of work most of you people do--swiping left or right on Grinder, or sitting in a coffee shop pretending to write a screenplay--you don't need ECC memory.

I, however, won't do any production work without it.
Let us know the project URL if you start it, so we can follow your work!

If I would be doing it, I would probably go with python because of the existing ecosystem: NLP, readability, beautifying, image processing or deep learning, … Probably everything is already existing, the goal would be to assemble the pieces like playing lego :-) in a much more complicated way of course.

But I'm not doing it, so your choice is the correct :-) Have a nice time working on this project!

PS: Even the image captioning is almost already implemented, amazing https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/im2txt
This is meaningless without considering the granularity of the unit of measure. Most people are of average height when measured to the nearest meter. The motivation behind the measurement determines the granularity -- for a cockpit, the seat and pedals and stick probably have to be within a couple of inches of tolerance. For a society, how racist or treacherous or murderous does a person have to be before we no longer accept them in society?

I think there are simple guidelines: first, make clear the distinction between public and private spaces. No mandatory or secret surveillance in private places. Second, informed consent and transparency: Those willing to give up privacy for convenience within private spaces must have access to (but not be forced to read) clear, understandable, honest descriptions of what their information devices are doing.
What is the algorithm to solve this in the shortest number of moves. I have got it down to 7, but there might be something faster.
Since my computer's working but I am not, I do something NSFW.
I think you're responding to the wrong commenter. I didn't provide you with a Wikipedia link. The rest of your comment, which amounts to a rule saying "the singular they is okay but only as a last resort", is incorrect. Singular "they" is correct even with a known gender†. I can, of course, back this up with cites, but at this point you're going to have bet me $100 (charity of your choice) that you're right to make me continue along this tiresome tangent.

† (in my case: I used "they" because I didn't know or care to learn the gender).
They should probably have someone look at the English, there are a few easily spotted errors even in the short sentences explaining the features.
Some older AMD desktop chips support ECC.

I built a home NAS from an old board and Phenom II 545 CPU I had lying around, fortuitously they happen to support ECC. DDR2 unregistered ECC ram was a bit of a pain to find though.
The only detailed explanations I've ever seen for how memory errors can snowball into whole-filesystem loss on ZFS have relied on the assumption that you have a deterministically stuck bit in a region of memory that the OS is re-using for different parts of the FS data structures but never anything that could cause the machine itself to crash (thereby clueing you in to a hardware reliability issue).

Do you have a source for a more plausible analysis that takes into account how memory actually tends to fail?
There was a C port at one point - https://github.com/dbalmain/ferret, maybe others. No idea if it's current or what the feature set comparison might look like.
So how big does my struct need to be before its more efficient to pass a pointer to it to a function?
You can install the fix no matter what, it's innocent. They should have offered source code for their test app instead, but that's definitely not malicious.
React and Sketch
> Because there's scientific evidence strongly suggesting otherwise.

That's not actually true; extroversion/introversion, like other normal personality axes, does not, in the evidence, seem to be a dichotomy, but instead a continuum. It's a real area in which people vary, but not a binary one.

> That said, the author is using the wrong term. He's talking about social anxiety, not introversion.

Note that this is a fairly common conflation that is partially reflected in the popular Meyers-Beiggs personality typing system, in which the Extroversion/Introversion axis seems to combine both the Extroversion axis and the Neuroticism axis of the somewhat better validated Big 5 system.
That's Roma for you. I've seen educated Roma people, but they also have examples of some of the most parasitic and unhygienic behaviour. IIRC, various cultures have tried to integrate them and get them to behave in a more civilized manner over the last 1000 years give or take, with precisely zero success.
We appreciate all the comments. We'll think about this.
And someone took the time to register a domain and design the page and logo...
What I'm asking you to understand is that I may not subscribe to your definition of community. That I might be entirely disinterested in helping what you consider to be my community.

I've spent significant chunks of my life in parts of the US that have the sort of social infrastructure you seek. I have not found them particularly congenial places in which to live.
"two states better known for philandering politicians and restrictive voter ID laws than progressive politics"

What does this quip add to the article? Was it a necessary insult? Would the author make the same type of insult about Oregon and California?
> Sure, if the conversation goes anywhere else, lawyer up.

That's part of the point.

Once you're talking about the situation or really anything, people tend to continue talking. They don't realize that they've crossed the line or admitted to something else entirely. They don't realize that they should have kept their mouth shut and now they're in trouble. Or something as simple as mis-remembering something that they have proof of and poof now you're in trouble too.

Your pride will cost you.

Do the smart thing. Get an attorney and talk to them FIRST.
>1% of all deserts is only correct if you are talking about only today's electricity use. Even moderate growth and actually solving energy, not just the electricity subset drives these percentages much higher.

U.S. electricity usage has been flat for the past 10 years[0] despite a cumulative GDP growth of 34% over the same period. I'm not saying the same trend will continue to hold, but you are overestimating future electricity usage growth.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/201794/us-electricity-co...
As a (now former) wastewater engineer, I'd take sanitary sewers over septic tanks anyday.

With septic tanks you run into many more maintenance issues with things like clogging, overflowing, cleaning, etc. Not to mention this cost is borne onto the homeowner and not the municipality.

There's also persistent groundwater issues. Even if you have good soil permeability and aren't impacting an aquifer, multiple septic systems can really start causing environmental harm on surrounding waterbodies.

For many people, having sewerage isn't an option, but there's a good reason many municipalities are investing millions into moving their residents off of septic systems.
There's no a priori reason that property rights should survive a person's death, and plenty of arguments against allowing hereditary accumulation of wealth. Note also that currently the first $5.5 million is exempt, which is more than enough for the vast majority of individuals and even quite a few small businesses.
If someone's shooting at you, you're going to make damn sure you take every measure possible to not get shot.

There are no atheists in foxholes.
Follow-up: The changes clarifying the border between North and South Carolina were put into place last year: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article...
What Powers Step-By-step Code Tutorial Websites?
Does anyone know if there are any tools/frameworks for building the functionality for step-by-step code tutorial websites (bonus if it has an interactive code editor where the user can see what they're doing reflected as they code).
Or are these things custom made in-house?

A good example is O'Reilly Oriole: https://www.oreilly.com/learning/regex-golf-with-peter-norvig or CodeAcademy.
> You're claiming "There is no way they will go for business model 2, they will go for business model 1". But you have no presented any reason why they would do that?

There are two reasons they would do that.

The first is price discrimination. Suppose Spotify makes $2/month worth of profit but uses $0.05/month in bandwidth. Now Verizon can charge them $2/month for that amount of bandwidth and take their entire margin. Even if Spotify nominally continues to exist, they now have no margins to reinvest or use to attract new private investment, so they're walking dead. Which harms customers because now Spotify can never improve their service. And if Verizon does have a competing service (see also: TV and phone) then Verizon's service gets an insurmountable competitive advantage.

Which leads to the second reason, which is to extract monopoly rents. Suppose Spotify charges $10/month because they have competitors, so they can't charge more without losing business. But if they had no competitors then they could charge $25/month. Which means that Verizon can charge $25/month if they can get rid of all the competitors, which they can do by just charging them all unsustainably high data prices.

Hotels can't do this because hotels have real competition.
If they are shutting down, why not make (and share) an archive of the whole site, to preserve the works that's been done? Sharing through bittorrent is free and decentralized. They already host the images, and I get the feeling that sites in this niche are already in some gray-copyright area..
It's a thing, isn't it? I mean, as words and phrases go, it at least means something, like not just front-end, back-end, or client-side view-model reducer mapping specialist. AI is much close to fully content-free.
At the very least, one of them is obviously a headshot found from somewhere else. In general for a new service, I'd rather see no testimonials than testimonials of questionable authenticity.
Quora is probably one of the better resources on that list because rather that listing your product on the shelf next to 1000 others, it allows you to discover people looking for solutions just like yours.

For example, say you're building an Android weather widget (for some reason). Build a profile where you're an 'Android', 'Widget', 'Weather' expert and Quora will surface this question for you to answer* : https://www.quora.com/Android-Application-Which-is-the-best-...

This targeted approach is much more valuable for your product, your time, and for the person asking the question.

*Of course it helps to actually have the best weather widget.
Sure, but those are rare and usually include enough budget to include sysadmins and definitely enough to buy ECC memory.
For anyone weighing whether ECC is worth it, they are wasting time managing their email server.
Canadians on TN Visas: What's your plan when the US withdraws from NAFTA?
> President Trump is likely to sign an executive order formally withdrawing the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to a senior administration official, a move that would set the stage for renegotiating the deal with Canada and Mexico and fulfill one of Mr. Trump’s major campaign promises.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/us/politics/nafta-executive-order-trump.html
I always had a really big problem with the site: so little attribution (proper or otherwise) of images.
Patterns in Network Architecture
I noticed that we made a mistake not having it proofread. We're dragging someone here to proofread and make those correction. But in the same time, I'm thankful that the community here is correcting it! It's Audrey in real life!
They say the technique used on the bones was for extracting marrow.

I don't know if there could be any reason to break bones already more than 100k years old, but it seems unlikely?
I should also say that you're committing a crime if you try this.
"If I could talk to my 20 year old self I would recommend this: Stay away from the Internet as much as possible and don't look for general advice."

... which is also a piece of general advice, coming from the Internet.
Thanks for feedback. No limit on movie age. The way I search for movies is the following: choose several movies, then use years (for example 2010s) to find some movie that is similar to the ones I liked, but the new one. You can try the opposite - to click on 1970s.
$19.55 kindle for me
So we resolve all regional conflicts and unify the world under one country. It's not hard.
zpool scrub

(This may be a myth: It's not something you should actually do that often because actually reading the media may dregrade it.)
This advice is too generic to be used in every situation. If I see a van drive up, a man come out and throw a child in the back and speed off, I'm damn well going to tell the police everything I saw immediately, without waiting on a lawyer.
Conservatism as a distinct thing was born in the defense of pre-existing elite position by appeal to nationalistic and religious tradition, innate superiority of certain classes of people, etc., in the face of the rise of classical liberalism. The propaganda has changed slightly over time (though it still often boils down to the same factors), but the defense of the position of the entrenched elites is the constant over time in conservatism.

Everything else is window dressing.
MIT Lab and Steelcase Yield 3D Printing Breakthrough
According to the video in the middle of that story, they were found in a silt layer which would have been buried 15k years ago [0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/HyfSsgCrjb0?t=1m21s
Show HN: Drun – bash alias for one time commands in Docker
bleed is a nod to the vuln "heartbleed", not to leaks.
Sentopia.net founder here. I agree that the codebase could be better, a lot better.. but we have made heavy modifications and it's not a problem anymore, I should add that we have tried to work together with Sendy.co developers but seems our emails are being ignored.
Sendy is a platform, and a good one at that. but our value is on our SMTP server pools and their reputation as others have mentioned. We are always looking at new platforms like postal, that we can jump on board with if it means a better user experience for our clients.
As I understand it, I suppose it could make the cops suspicious, but "So-and-so refused to answer questions and asked to speak to a lawyer first" is legally inadmissible in court as evidence against you.
How exactly is the comment you're replying to "incendiary"?
Bought my first camera and went to North Korea a few months ago