skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I have no idea how this is relevant. I thought I was asking a pretty simple question: "What is it that the average person concerned about climate change actually believes is going on?"

It appears this is the wrong place to get an answer to that question.
There's more to it than that. Apparently AM faked female contact info millions of times, and tried to charge for more contact with the fake accounts. Simple fraud.

So not only a website that allowed immoral (in some views) activity. Actually an immoral website that perpetrated fraud and extortion.
There is plenty of supply of $POPULAR_ARTIST music too, or copies of Microsoft Office. That's the point I was trying to make. Only scarcity determines the value, not 'what it allows you to do' (not die).

The only reason they are selling the CD's for too much money is because there is no competition due to a government-granted temporary monopoly. The scarcity on that market it completely artificial.
I did some OData a few years ago when it was hip & trendy in .NET land. Right when Facebook announced GraphQL I got a deja vu - our problem with OData was that while the query syntax was awesome, making a server endpoint for it was super hard (unless you happened to be 100% entity framework and wanted all REST data to CRUD straight into the DB and back - which is of course never the case).

I now see people on HN have very similar complaints about GraphQL - how its power and flexibility makes making a performant and secure GraphQL backend significantly harder than making an oldschool REST API backend.

We ended up regex-parsing the OData query fragments that our app happened to use and made it work. We felt dirty for months after, though.

Does anyone have experience with both? Is GraphQL any better than OData in server-side implementability?
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There are other options too: borrow money from other creditors (preferably on better terms) and use it to pay off the original creditors; negotiate with the creditors to pay back part of the sum, rather than the whole sum; arrange for the creditor to forgive the debt; buy out the creditor (after all, if all they own are bad loans, they might be willing to sell out for cheap)...

In particular municipal/state/government borrowers tend to prefer the first approach - usually by issuing bonds. In theory they are secured by the government's ability to levy taxes in its territory in perpetuity, so its ability to pay the bonds should be secure so long as there's likely to be future economic activity in the territory.
Hi there, Paperspace Co-founder here. There's an in depth write-up here: https://medium.com/initialized-capital/benchmarking-tensorfl... We're about about a quarter of the cost of AWS. Moreover, the K80 GPU on AWS/GCP is very old and NVIDIA has made a ton of optimizations with the new Pascal architecture which we offer. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Oh, sorry if I was unclear, but I didn't intend to say that the TensorFlow team is trying to pass this off as innovation. I was thinking about why some readers might find this interesting and upvote even without the context.
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UX drives all of this
You misunderstand what Rust does.
I bought an 10" / A4 size e-ink Android tablet last year and use it as second/third screen. And I take it outside park/garden and use it with the stylus and a bluetooth keyboard. I feared the latency common with e-ink but it's quite fast nowadays and perfectly fine for coding in full sunlight, even watching YouTube videos in non-fullscreen mode works fine.
Cynicism is stupid
Well I certainly agree that nobody should take him seriously but I'm unconvinced that that matches up with reality. His blog does get a lot of comments.
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Yes, this is it exactly. Terrorism is scary the same way a random murder in your neighborhood is scary.

Anecdote: I live in one of the lowest crime neighborhoods in Chicago. Every now and again though someone is shot in the area. The first thing I always wonder: was it random or was it gang/drug related? Nine of ten times it's the latter and I feel better because I don't associate with gangs or regularly participate in drug deals in a McDonald's parking lot at 4AM. It's scary when it's random because it's easy to think, "that could have been me, it could have been anyone."

That's why terrorism is scary (and that's why the terrorists do what they do). Of course protections should be in place, but there's simply only so much you can do before you're policing every aspect of everyone's life to prevent the tiniest chance that something happens to a tiny percentage of people. But, damn, is it scary.
>The difference is that Wells Fargo does not brag about its crooked nature nearly as much as Uber

How does bragging make a difference? A crime is a crime regardless of bragging or not.

I think your second paragraph makes a lot more sense.
My first instinct is that the signal probably doesn't need to be ultrasound. In the same way that my phone will sometimes hear my car radio and falsely hear, "hello Google", I bet the beacon can just be planted on top of the signal and match filtered to a decent SNR. Similar to image steganography, it doesn't need to be perceptible to the listener. Compression issues would exist, but at least they wouldn't be fighting against the transmission hardware.
There are several different versions of Windows including those for Home and Pro users, upgrades to Enterprise and Education editions, a mobile version that runs on ARM-based phones, an IoT version that runs on a Raspberry Pi, and server versions.

If you cover the whole market from thumbdrives to server farms, you're obviously going to make different versions to fit different usage scenarios. People do that with Linux, too.

Windows 10S is just a new version of Windows 10 Pro that addresses certain needs in the education market in particular.

If you don't want it, don't buy it. If you buy it and decide you don't like it, you can upgrade it to Windows 10 Pro. No big deal.

It's frankly insane to have hissy fits about it destroying civilization as we know it. It's not.
That was my aside about them seeming to be shitty. I think AM was a scummy company enabling people to do something I don't agree with. I'd be more than happy if they got the hammer for fraud or something, but purely for enabling immorality, hell no.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. Marx was describing a reproducible commodity economy, i.e most of what we have within capitalism, with his theory.

Besides this, Russia is a capitalist country. My apologies if you weren't stating that it wasn't.
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Also google "somatic hypermutation". That multiplication process for B cells is inexact, and introduces mutations into the DNA (and therefore structure) of its children. There's a process which indicates whether any of these new antibodies binds better than the original one, which becomes a new candidate for multiplying.

There's fairly recent technology to sequence these antibodies en masse, which gives you a whole load (~10^6) of these antibody DNA sequences. It's a fascinating and frustrating exercise to try and reconstruct the mutation history and families of related cells from this data.
There's a difference in perception between personal, corporate, and government bankruptcy. Personal bankruptcy is seen as a black mark of either poor personal discipline or a string of bad luck. Corporate bankruptcy is largely ignored, held up in rare cases as a source of embarrassment (but little else), or more often in startup-land, a signal of "experience". Government bankruptcy is something else entirely, and generally unforgivable without significant outside catastrophes. You can blame the politicians, but in a Democratically-elected government, these are your representatives.

Interesting to note on the corporate angle, bankruptcy laws are a fairly-recent invention. (Where by "fairly recent" I mean "several centuries".) The US's laws, in particular, are credited with fostering some of the innovation in this country, as they reduce the impacts of failure.
> I also really, really want an A4 sized eReader but for reasons completely beyond me...

I think it's because e-reader screens are made on a glass substrate, and a large, thin glass screen in a large, thin, plastic device frame is going to be difficult to reinforce so that it doesn't break. There have been a couple of attempts to manufacture plastic-backed e-reader screens – I recall Plastic Logic from Cambridge a few years back, who were going to make an A4 e-reader but struggled to scale up the technology, and shifted to licensing.

E-Ink have just recently got their technology into production, called Mobius, but they haven't yet caught on in retail devices yet (given the market is mostly a walled garden quasi-monopoly, in practice I mean Amazon haven't used them in Kindles yet). Hopefully when the technology becomes mainstream it will remove some constraints on e-readers, and they'll become thinner, more robust, and easier to produce in large sizes. And hopefully alongside that we'll also get some competition in the e-reader market, and devices which are more open.
Amazon actually announced their service was closing down last week:
https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/appstore/post/cbadeae1-99...
> I think it's immoral to advertise vaguely about health benefits

But there are already laws curbing this behavior (misleading health claims), and they still need to provide accurate nutritional data (how much sugar is in them), in the EU at least.

misleading product marketing isn't quite the same as a service encouraging or protecting immoral behavior.

> My morality doesn't belong in the laws and neither does yours

Maybe it does, all laws follow from some morality. Maybe if you argue your point, yours should too? You don't really explain why you think your morality shouldn't be law.

> That Bob or Alice are married shouldn't matter one iota, it was their informed choice

AM marketed specifically to the married, and created a service with an air of secrecy on that basis. Should I be allowed to create a convert marketplace for people to fence stolen goods, so long as participants give informed consent? That's not at all the issue.

> This is even better in my opinion than having a standard dating site

The premise of AM would make it potentially less risky for a cheater - there wouldn't be a common incentive for the other person to expose the cheater if they found out.

> Are we going to force people to start wearing scarlet letters?

That's a straw-man. It's hard to legislate something, therefore allow even explicit forms of it? cheating is hard to legislate, but services explicitly catering to it can.
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Who left food in the fridge? The rise of the 'Dark Knight' workplace vigilante
Why would anyone enter a contingency deal with penalties? Relative to maximizing your sell price-- better to invest in extra fluff & buff, designer quality staging. Make sure your property gives buyers a Wow Factor.
Hey HN,

we're pleased to announce the release of Reactant, an iOS framework and architecture for faster app development. At our company, Brightify, we do everything to deliver the best and cleanest code to our clients. We tried multiple architectures, but none seemed like the best solution. We thought that React was awesome in having a single point of mutation, so we decided to take MVC architecture and enhance it. After many iterations, Reactant was born.

We already use it in our applications and wouldn't change it. It helped us speed up our development and cut down the costs. We hope it will do the same for you.

As a bonus, we have a Reactant UI, which is a way to declare UI in XML which is then precompiled to Swift. Apart from XML being better for UI declaration, it also allowed us to implement a Live Reload functionality. That way, any change in the UI is immediately visible in the Simulator, without the need to build and run the app.
I'm happy to see there's an option to use this with an AST as input, more tools like this should follow suit. Hopefully it can then push us to a place where there's a standard JS AST such that we don't reinvent that wheel over and over. Babel seems to be winning here, but I don't think it matters so much which one wins so long as any one does.

This tool looks interesting, particularly the future direction of it, but I'm weary about efficiency claims without a single runtime metric posted. The claims may be true, initializing is costly, but so is parsing huge unrolled loops. For an optimization tool, I'd hope to see pretty strong metrics to go along with the strong claims, but maybe that is coming?

Interesting work, nonetheless!
Great work! Any plans to get keyboard-shortcuts (or something similar) working? I use them heavily in vscode.
Copy/pasted from this Stack Overflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/37342136/300887
Musk Initiates Climbdown from Tesla's High Horse,Production Revolution Postponed
If net neutrality dies completely, Apple will take its 1/4 Trillion and buy a cable/phone company. Google likely will too. It's cheaper than having their customers balkanized all over the place and having to pay monopoly rates to be allowed to connect to them.
Thanks for sharing that link, looks really good. I'll be going through it after work.
> If the water company created the water, then yes.

Thank you for proving my point: if it's scarce (only one company can make it) it has value. So the argument that the value comes from 'what it allows you to do' (not die) is bogus. Water allows you to survive so if utility determined the prices water would be extremely valuable, but it isn't.

$1000 water is ridiculous, but I'll bet that if I drop you in the middle of the desert, after 24 hours you'd be willing to pay $1000 for a liter of water. Yet it's the same water, you need it to survive wether you're in middle of the desert or at home. Clearly utility has nothing to do with value.
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He is playing the word game, what a technical person might call a "backdoor" he will call a "front-door" or something else, so there's technically not a "backdoor" and he technically didn't lie, even if he wants what many of us geeks would indeed call a "backdoor". It's sort of how the NSA redefines the dictionary meaning of common sense words to mean something else, (for example something like: "surveillance" means breaking into someone's home to plant a bug in there, so technically almost no one is under that definition of "surveillance", even if capturing our emails, hacking webcams etc. would be considered surveillance as well, but since no one broke in to plant a physical bug, that's not "surveillance" - it's just a words game).
You're responsible proportional to the amount of influence you could've had. If you were a celebrity of a large nation and this large nation begins an unjust war, if you didn't speak out against it, you are responsible to some degree.

Just like shareholders in companies have the responsibility to vote for proposals that keep the company running.
All the owners of a company (ie shareholders) have are a vote as well. They might not use it, they might not win.

Few major companies have a singular owner who can act as dictator.

Also, in the USA, idealistically citizens do not require permission to do whatever they want. All rights are given to the states & people; the federal government is specifically given delimited authority that it can manage.
> 1. Are these colleges selecting students for some reason other than general intelligence, and if so, can we measure the IQ of men and women at these colleges and find a significant difference?

I'm open to being wrong, but my prediction based on the data I have is either a) the measured IQ distribution is going to be different, with equal representation of sexes; b) the representation of sexes is going to be different with equal IQ distribution;

> 2. How much is raw general intelligence useful for software engineering compared to the pedigree of having attended one of these top schools?

That's a really good question, and the answer again is that I don't know. I don't even know how to measure this.

As an anecdote, I didn't attend a top CS college, but I'm a high-ish ranked software developer.
DMARC basically doesn't work, many mailservers don't look at it and those that do frequently ignore the policy -- even setting a REJECT policy typically results in mail being passed through like nothing happened.
Interesting. What would this be able to do ? Current wireless speeds, even with state of the art technology, is going to be something like 10Gbit. That'll have to be shared by an entire city at least (correction: about 2 satellites per state on average. Less for New York), and of course there won't be any CDNs or HTTP caches "upstairs" so to speak. So 1 bit in = 1 bit back out.

Even at 4425 satellites that means, let's see. The earth is 500 million km2, and they don't need the same density everywhere, so some optimizations may be possible, so let's say 5000 satellites. That means 100,000 km2 per satellite. That means one satellite per decent sized country, only about 100 for the entire US. This is not geostationary orbit, so they'll have to aim for evenly spaced satellites.

Let's say they fix their satellites and do 10x what is currently possible, so that means 100Gbit/satellite. Current internet traffic into and out of the Netherlands is 50 times that (granted, more and denser cities than portugal, but the Netherlands would have to share one SpaceX satellite with Belgium and parts of the UK).

They would only be able to provide about 1/10,000,000th of a Satellite to a cellphone in the US, and if they have 100 Gbit/satellite, that's not even 1kbit on average. Even 10x or 100x that capacity wouldn't change much. Doubling or tripling the number of satellites won't fix this, we'd need between hundreds of thousands and to millions of satellites.

This will either need to be rather expensive (certainly as much as your cellphone, probably more, as this seems to indicate the system can only support 100x less users than the mobile network in the US, and even less in smaller dense countries or cities like the Netherlands or New York). Even at state of the art technologies, bandwidth limits are going to be tight. Like any satellite service, I can't see this work at city densities, or for mobiles.
and the people who voted no, and lost the vote
they are what .. non-owners

winnings the vote, doesnt give you owners ship of the country, it gives you ownership of the vote
Kind of makes me glad the Wordpress has finally become mature enough to have to be exploited in such a convoluted way. Hope they fix the issue soon and show maturity
Still a bad idea.
Its almost like you have to learn some marketing to sell stuff(?)
In a company having the right to vote means you're a shareholder. Citizens are shareholders of their own countries.

Also, people get too fixated on the right to vote. That's not what defines a democracy, it's just a means to an end. A democracy is defined by a set of liberal values and freedoms and the vote is there to prevent those values and freedoms from being taken away.

> he can do whatever he want with what he owns, not permissions needed

Well, big companies have multiple owners, so one owner cannot do what he wants unless he has a majority. Also a company is subject to market forces, customers voting with their wallet.

So really, an owner can only do what he wants for as long as (1) he can afford it and (2) his peers tolerate it.

In a society we are all interconnected. People that fuckup get marginalised.
You're kidding me, right?

What do you think "hedge" fund means?

Good luck on the next job if you lose a firm $44B
It's not the government I fear with this concept, it's that anyone with a brain can steal the master keys from the (generally inept) government and break into your house - and you can't prove who it was.
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Well the vulnerability is listed as one in WordPress Core so I don't know that it's relevant that a plugin fixes it. The vulnerability still exists in WP Core, and most people are not going to have an SMTP plugin if email works out of the box.
As a Canadian, I have to agree. Imagine someone in the States said something about blacks in Atlanta driving Bentleys.. There would be a riot. In Canada, however, it is cool to bash a whole race. This is not the first instance of this that I have seen and it does show true colours.
The emacs startup hack is in it's use of a glibc function called "unexec", which essentially serializes the program's state into a single binary which can later be executed normally.

One of the big downsides (and the reason it became well known) is it's lack of portability, as it requires in-depth knowledge of the system's memory structures.

LWN article and previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001796
Somewhat lower-level article that shines some light: http://emacshorrors.com/posts/unexecute.html
> It's hardly Apple's fault that people aren't willing to pay big money for fart apps.

Apple encouraged a market of many cheap-as-in-shoddy $.99 apps instead of inexpensive yet useful and reliable software.
Water is a commodity (unless you live somewhere where water is scarce, where it may very well cost €1000/liter), software is designed for a specific function and is not interchangeable at random. If I purchase software to perform business function X, the value derived is from the function it performs for me, entirely independent of the cost and time required for you to create the software in the first place.

If the software took you 5 years and €1M to produce, I as a customer will balk at any cost-plus price as my expected business value of using the software is say only €0.5M. But if you spread your costs over a hundred customers by copying (and maybe servicing) the same software, you can charge €0.1M from 100 customers, giving you €9M profit after your expense, and allowing each customer to derive around €0.4M business value. The value for both the producing and consuming side of the software was significantly increased simply by copying some bits :)
Why is IE missing from the support diagram? Are makers of new libraries not expected anymore to support it?
The idea of "hedge" fund is also to hedge their bets and preserve capital in-case of downside. Ackman doubled down on his biggest losing bet (Valeant), actually more than quadrupled down by taking up exposure to options that were almost worthless when he unwound the position.
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> I'm afraid corrupt regimes would be the ones who benefit the most from such tools.

They already do. But since the tools are under the radar there is not all that much pressure on technology firms to follow best practices.

For example, why don't we have fully auditable filesystems?
If you're a millionaire in China, it's extremely useful, for example.
You could say that about any corporate legislation. There's nothing stopping you from doing both.

Any effort to change attitudes will be more successful if it doesn't have to compete with corporate marketing; for example, it's easier to get people to reject tobacco, if they aren't constantly exposed to marketing making it seem cool, harmless, healthy(!?) and/or normal. Coke adds normalize casually drinking caffeinated sugar water. McDonalds even had athletes eating their burgers.

There are some people who will always cheat, making it easier to hide it from their partner is the best you can do.
Unless we all stop needing to eat, have lodging, or go anywhere, probably not. In fact one might argue luxury goods are the opposite of green since, by definition, they are not necessary.