skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14388706 and marked it off-topic.
Amazon has a huge problem with counterfeits. I've noticed that it's especially bad for two things: almost anything that you'd typically find at a place like CVS or Walgreen (e.g. toiletries), and cheap electronic peripherals like USB drives, SD cards, and cables. I avoid buying things from these categories on Amazon whenever possible.
When people are educated beyond their intelligence it makes them more convinced that their bad decisions are really good decisions.
top of every story probably
System and networks assessment quizzes
Elon Musk Says “Hardware 2” Teslas Will Get Better Self-Driving Software in June
Google’s AlphaGo AI is about to face off against the world’s best Go player
This is cool to see on HN. Joe Walker was a cousin of my moms and has always been an inspiration to me. I've never actually met any of that side of the family and would love to if any on here claim relation as well. (You know how families are sometimes)
2017’s “Board Game of the Year” shortlist is out–get playing
A guide to designing better data tables
Even the Victorian police said it was impossible to keep them apart.
Is this you?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/11/google-engineer-leav...
> but I think the solution is to talk about them and work them out.

Hey you're right, and I appreciate that you're open about your thoughts. But my position differs in that I think there isn't anything to "work out", because it's a non-essential technology. Sure it might eradicate diseases, it might. But there are other ways to tackle them that have far less controversial impact.

> But I don't think that getting it wrong is inevitable, nor do I think that inaction is better.

With tools that have greater potential to be massively destructive, they inevitably end up like that.

Look how we shot ourselves in the foot with the inventions of dynamite and nuclear fission. Yes they did open doors, but arguably we've upped our own risk of self-destruction too.

"Inactive" here just means rejecting this path and taking up another instead. And, the latter may well open doors more beneficial to us.

Look, I have to say that I dislike looking at society and social issues from the Darwinian perspective. It's just too cynical, and kinda missing the point of living. We're not just here to survive. Whatever age we live to, every one has a chance to witness the wonder of just existing. We keep passing the torch of enlightenment, but we're not supposed to fall in the trap that we have control and therefore power. Trust me, Nature will laugh right back at us.

And you can't compare this issue with our rich history of wit and innovation. For a start, the generations before were trying to change the world, and this is radically different to creating a new "breed" of humans, where going down this path is not only superficial, it's most likely very painful for a lot of us.

Let's shift perspective a bit here: with this new "species", ours can get wiped out.
Baking Soda Shortage Has Hospitals Frantic, Delaying Treatments and Surgeries
Other: the one you're most familiar with

If you're starting up a new project, choosing the "best" framework vs the one you're most familiar with is going to make everything that much more difficult. You're going to learn something before you can build something? And build something more slowly because you're trying to learn something?

My untrendy answer:

Frontend: Backbone/Bootstrap
Backend: Node
DB: Postgres or Mongo

If you don't know those things, then this isn't the right answer for you, but whenever I start up a new little project in my spare time and utilize Backbone, it's like a breath of fresh air, compared to most of the current popular frameworks and what we have to use at work.
"Communism" may be a distracting term, but I'm just going to throw this out for a fictional reference along the same general lines:

http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Infosocialism
Wow you completely copied my site including, design text and everything :/

https://betalist.com

Please take down the site immediately. Filing DMCA requests now.
ya right, fuck off TSA. They're just trying to pretend they're relevant.
Apparently you can file separately in order to not take spousal income into account, then file an amended return to make it joint instead without recalculating the debt relief. Seems a bit shady to me, but apparently not uncommon.
See also: https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
That's a classic. The second reply as well.
It mentions deleting data stored in backup systems so I'm interpreting that as the data goes away.
Yes, the Copper is a very cool thing. I've done insane copper lists with up to 52 splits per rasterline(each split is 8 pixels wide), and then a unique new set of colors for each rasterline. The result is very mesmerizing. It can look like this: https://youtu.be/d1axngYxuuo?t=3m19s and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFeHd5hoRyM

The Copper can also wait for the Blitter to be ready, and the Copper can give the Blitter new instructions and start a new blit. The circle would be complete if the Blitter could blit into the hardware registers for the Copper and other chips, but it cannot. :-( I think the Atari STe Blitter can do that though.

But you can use the Blitter to modify the Copper list, so perhaps they together are Turing complete?
I think rural America needs more than retraining programs, though you're correct that Donald Trump has made no mention of what he's actually going to do for coal workers.

They need new and dynamic industries that treat the employees with respect and agency. Something entire communities can benefit from.
I would go safe and use PHP(laravel)
I don't take my desk-hours too seriously because I know that while I'm out running errands, exercising, taking a shower, sleeping, etc. I continue to chew on problems, and sometimes taking the slow path to a solution produces a much more mature one.

That's a perfectly reasonable point of view, but in office environments it can quickly run up against crab-mentality people who make awkward comments about anyone whose hours don't match or exceed their own.

And at least in the software industry, current trends (stand ups, pair programming, etc.) are pushing away from flexible hours and focus on results.
If only they did that. One of the things that annoys me the most about modern smartphones is that every single feature has a separated, isolated app for it (usually each from a different vendor), and none of those apps properly integrate with one another. The more they can integrate at OS level, the better for the user experience (though I'm not having high hopes - Google has a long history of dumbing down applications to the point of making them barely useful for anything).
Is there some reason other than cost to do that? Curious.
This is an interesting meta article, but it skirts the bigger picture. "Personal essay" seems to be a euphemism for "first world feminist problems." Note all of the examples in the intro are wealthy(ish) women drumming up trivial problems somehow related to womanhood. There are no listed examples of men having equivalent problems (let's say having a mishap with his pant zipper), and there are no listed examples of lower class problems (let's say a dishwasher who gets type 2 diabetes). The sexual assault essays go both ways - some are genuine and useful to understanding crime, some are authors desperately exploiting other people's victimhood for their own self aggrandizement ("stare rape").

The author's failure to acknowledge the topic of the personal essay boom may stem from her own employment at Jezebel, a publication largely devoted to first world feminist problems.

Personally, I welcome this change. I've been very disheartened by what has been an obvious attempt at the Western upper classes to redirect money attention away from the needy and towards themselves. Sadly, I've seen a fair share of this on HN as well.
Baking soda shortage has hospitals frantic, delaying treatments and surgeries
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Hacker News is not a site for ideological battle—especially involving inflammatory handwaving—and you've often used it as such. Please stop.
The pent up sexuality! No wonder they conquered the world. Maybe we just need to get modern militants laid. I mean in the non-rape-and-pillage way.

Basic income, legalized marijuana, promiscuity, addictive video games. Tools for fools. Don't break anything.
Yeah, but it will be really easy and​ cheap to base your eye color on only a few donors. And side effects will be visible generations later.
The Seasteading Institute had some pages about concrete oceanic structures that captured my imagination a while back
https://www.seasteading.org/2010/11/green-float-the-botanica...
https://www.seasteading.org/2010/05/cocrete-structures/

They are not "boats" exactly!
In this case it worked out bad. But it could also work out well: Judges, just like software developers or any other profession have specialties, and a judge that is well versed in patent cases should be able to reach a better verdict quicker than someone who is new to patent cases.
Introduction to Kotlin (Google I/O '17)
The parent comment is of course sarcasm, but I wonder… Are there any studies that significantly concludes that engineers are more extrovert of more introvert than the general population?
Can I get any best GRE whatsapp group ?
Man who died is reborn as a bot
That is a very bad metric because comment rankings are a function of score and time.
Side question: any plans for IPv6?
That is the big question.

I actually had this argument out with a former Googler who expressed with incredible strength how importantly Google addressed deletion of data users said to delete. And so his argument was that if you deleted it from your history, it'd be deleted, but if you turned off your history, you'd have no way of telling them to delete it.
Amazon 2-day shipping is just regular ground shipping. The trick is they've strategically located products in various warehouses throughout the country and then spent a bunch of effort optimizing the lead time so pickers can get them out as soon as possible.
Phones will (and should) always optimize for being as thin and small as possible. Battery cases and packs can make the battery of a thin/light phone meet the needs of heavy users, but there is no accessory that can make a thick/heavy phone thinner and lighter.

The lack of success for the Moto Maxx is a testament to the idea that there isn't really a substantial power user segment that doesn't care about thin/light,
Michael Flynn Rejects Order to Hand Over Documents
Citizens United wasn't about campaign donations. It was about whether a corporation had the right to broadcast its own material endorsing or denouncing one or the other political candidate within a certain time window of an election.
Try buying Anker stuff on ebay?
Penn Jillete's "Bacon and a Kiss" airline screening.
Hi ixplored,
Yes absolutely. You can join one from here.

http://groupsone.com/group/GrePreparation

If you cant find particular group, try asking it here.
http://groupsone.com/AskGroup
A similar quote appears in Cory Doctorow's excellent keynote at the Eleventh Hope - highly recommend a watch; it's long but engaging:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qid6_J38BDI
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Private Location Tracking/Sharing
You could specify computation in high level API like TensorFlow, and then have the framework pick the best implementations available (ie, CuDNN for GPU, MKL for CPU, something custom for TPU)
People weren't abruptly pushed out of farming jobs, they left farms for better opportunities.
Apple will finally have makde it when they get mentioned alongside Samsung in an article about Samsung washers, or apparel, or semiconductors, or cargo ships, or telecom equipment.
Failure by fiaz

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121413
Eight Reasons to Switch from TensorFlow to CNTK
> But what's the advantage of Facebook over email and/or texting?

This is anecdata but among my friends, e-mail addresses and phone numbers tend to change more often than their Facebook profiles. I know people all over the world, but out of all of Facebook connections, I probably only have accurate contact details for 20% of them or less. The contacts I interact with most often are obviously in that bracket, but many of those I talk to once a year or less are probably not.

Case in point. I'm currently planning a trip, and while on a previous trip to the same destination I made a couple of friends there. I have a phone number to one of these contacts, but it's out of date. However, we're also connected on Facebook so I sent them a message their to let them know I'll be in their vicinity later this year.

For better or worse – and this is obviously my personal context – Facebook is the best mostly self organizing contact list I've ever had. I couldn't care less about the wall, or liking things, or whatever you had for breakfast, but as much as I hate it it's the only stable way I've been able to keep in touch with all these folks that I want to keep in touch with. If or when I no longer want to keep in touch, I just prune them from the list, and likewise I get pruned from other people's lists whenever they feel we're "done."

I don't want to use Facebook, but e-mail and phone simply doesn't solve my problem of keeping an up-to-date contact list. They also don't work simply because I can't easily look up a contact and connect with them, because there's no global phone or e-mail book. I'd love to use something else, but fact of the matter is that everyone I want to keep in touch with is there, and until they are also elsewhere in a list that organizes itself, I feel obliged to use it. :o(
I just ordered another item from Anker last night! I have tablet/phone stands and several usb connector types. I love them.
This bodes well for AWS. I think this is good news.
There's a long StackExchange answer about this: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/158164

But it boils down to there being no practical way for Let's Encrypt to automatically validate that a wildcard certificate is safe to issue.
Not if the source data is encrypted using a local key. What may be possible is deleting other user's data as I believe it'd all be authorized with the same API key.
Human Interface Guidelines
It's easy for beginners to learn programming, and it doesn't necessarily ever reach a performance bottleneck where you outgrow it and need something different. Python has libraries for practically everything, so you can use it for everything from coding a web app, to automating server administration tasks, to statistical analyis and data graphics, to orchestrating a MapReduce job on a cluster, so you also never really come to a task that forces you to choose a new language.

Therefore, even if other languages are better for certain tasks, the Python programmer is rarely ever forced to go looking for them.
That's amazing. I'm surprised these don't exist as AirBnB rentals now :P
This article seems to miss the fact ISIS took over Mosul international airport in 2014. Surely they got luggage screening machines in hand by then already.
This is great, I hope we apply it to the rest of the ocean life that we farm.
In this particular lisp's case, the interpretList function contains:

if (list[0] instanceof Function) {
return list[0].apply(undefined, list.slice(1));
} else {
return list;
}

Or in other words, a list is interpreted as a call if it starts with a function, or else it's interpreted as just the list as data. (1 2) is the latter case, since 1 is not a function.
Yeah, I'm a fan and own a bunch of their products, but I think it's crazy how inept their own web site and Amazon listings are at just listing the damn specs for the devices or offering useful comparisons.

What input does it draw? Does this support PD, and if so what modes and how fast? Will this cable work for Thunderbolt 3? How much amperage is it rated for?

These are some of the easiest products to quantify in technical terms; make that information easy to find, and give me the marketing pitch afterward.
Would be nice if it were tiered per org size rather than per user.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14225059

This one for me, it's so apt for HN.

Edit. I'm laughing, didn't take long for the down vote!

Come on guys, take a joke will ya!
I think you mean deduce or infer
Devs were always measured by velocity. It was just called "deadlines" or milestones in classical waterfall methods.

With Scrum (for example) that turns into a much more sane, smaller, easier to predict and adapt with metric. Which is due to smaller units of work and shorter turnaround times.

Scrum (and agile in general) isn't magic. It's just sane process improvements.

It's also not an all-in-one philosophy. You can take parts from it and still get benefits (usually ends up showing why you should be more agile however).

Simple daily standups, short sprints, and grooming+planning meetings each sprint will help most software companies a lot, even if they don't go full scrum/kaban/etc
I will let my source know your feelings when I next speak with him or her. :)

I think the implication that he or she was trying to make is that statistically, those on the coasts travel by air more frequently. As someone with a mom who was very afraid of flying and terror related risks thereto, I know that fear largely dissipated when I finally got her to fly a few times. It's not an allegation of ignorance but that of relative inexperience (was my take, anyway).
There are no secrets in the bathroom analogy. We all know what you're doing in there (or have a 50% chance at guessing). But you still want privacy.
The Titan Xp is better, but it's not so much better that it's worth almost twice the price.
> now they're systematically revoking the API keys used by popular open-source tools.

Would this also impact Arq users? I was hoping Arq would support Backblaze...
Pittsburgh is falling out of love with Uber’s self-driving cars
No, not really. If anything, it's likely those people might have a lot higher risk of suicide. (deaths of despair)

"Because at 54 years old, nobody wants me. I can’t retrain for anything else. For older people, you kind of get trapped. For every one that does well, there’s 30 that it destroys."

That feeling that nobody wants you is a killer. It may be true, it may not, but that lack of hope just prevents anything good from happening. "I can't retrain for anything" - you're defeated right from the start, and it's obvious people don't even want to take the leap to try.

It's hardest on people that had it good, and then lost it. Much worse than those that never had it, in that you feel like you're losing something. (endowment effect)

Here's an interesting article the WaPo did about whites and a lack of hope. While there is a race component to it, I think it'd equally apply to other races where people have had a good/stable life, but lost it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/15/the-w...
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/23/52108333...
I see the rare few towns along, say, the Dalton Highway on the way to Deadhorse, Alaska as being the first to go. Ignoring the weather for just a moment, that 400 miles of packed gravel would have to be an appealing target for autonomous vehicle engineers. Mostly straight, mostly flat (albeit with one non-trivial mountain pass), little traffic other than other trucks. And poof, there goes Coldfoot and Yukon River when humans don't stop anymore (except for a smattering of tourists).

Or maybe the tank range is enough that trucks don't stop between Fairbanks and Deadhorse the way it is now, and I'm talking out my ass. All I know is that the traffic I saw last time I was up there consisted of a lot of trucks, a minivan, one camper at the Arctic Circle that said they were going to Deadhorse, and the remainder of tourist traffic consisting of a bunch of dumbasses like me on motorcycles.
I know it's hindsight and all that, but why didn't you check your website analytics first? Seems a fairly massive assumption that should have taken 10 seconds to check.
Market price in this case is retail. Its the price that will move the inventory of lobsters for the most money, before they die of starvation or kill/eat each other in the tank.
Some fairly widely-used techniques include LSI, LDA, and word2vec or doc2vec. There a lot of different techniques out there! I'm one of the creators of Tagger News, and we used LDA with python's Gensim package. Here's a good tutorial: https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/tut2.html
Is it possible to convert this python code to js code?
>We're sorry if it sounds too noob. But this is our life's first encounter with Python.

We have [got a python function](https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/120746/68566) like this:

def m(n,k,c=0):x,y=n;return c if n==k else 7*(c>6)or min(m((x+a,y+b),k,c+1)for a,b in[(1,2),(1,-2),(-1,2),(-1,-2),(2,1),(2,-1),(-2,1),(-2,-1)])

which is being called like this:

print m((1,2), (5,6))

In order to understand it we were trying to add line breaks like this:

def m(n,k,c=0):x,y=n;return c
if n==k else 7*(c>6) or min(m((x+a,y+b),k,c+1)for a,b in[(1,2),(1,-2),(-1,2),(-1,-2),(2,1),(2,-1),(-2,1),(-2,-1)])

We're not understanding why is just a simple new line breaking the code

Once we understand this, probably we shall be able to convert this program to javascript:

<!-- begin snippet: js hide: false console: true babel: false -->

<!-- language: lang-js -->

function m(n, k, c = 0) {
x,
y = n;
return c
if (n == k) {

} else {
7 * (c > 6) or Math.min(m((x + a, y + b), k, c + 1) for a, b in [(1, 2), (1, -2), (-1, 2), (-1, -2), (2, 1), (2, -1), (-2, 1), (-2, -1)])
}
}

<!-- end snippet -->
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I just wish I could convince more people to stop using Facebook , I have started disliking it from last few years.
Backblaze is also unlimited, flat rate storage and is therefore also too good to be true.

"paying a flat rate for unlimited storage, or transfer, pits you against your provider in an antagonistic relationship. This is not the kind of relationship you want to have with someone providing critical functions."[1]

[1] http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/11/flat-rate-stora...
Dan Luu has a good list of HN comments: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/
Well shit :( We were 3, and it was possible to work from anywhere in the building.
Exactly.

But it also true that if you offer something unlimited you need to add reasonable limits / throttling so that pathological and cheater do not destroy experience of others.

Amazon Drive might be able to bandwidth limitation for users which are abusing the system but as I far as I understand they just route things to Amazon S3 so bandwidth limitation is probably hard for them. Also they probably do not want to add bandwidth limitation for people who use Amazon Cloud Drive for photos and movies. Not 100% sure but I understand they position.

And I read on redit how people started moving data to Google Drive thinking everything will be super fast - but Google already have bandwidth limitation in place.
Every site I've put in there gets a failing grade. From Google to Apple to Slashdot etc.

Wonder what the point is then.
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My wife works in import/export compliance. There are many regulations associated with many types of technology requiring you to get licenses, "know your customer", etc. I would guess the latest and greatest of this tech for would be governed by EAR if not ITAR regulations.

ref: http://ooc.usc.edu/overview-ear-and-itar
Great news for AWS and Java since AWS is a major Java shop. What will he work on at AWS?
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