skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked a similar question a while back specifically for art related topics (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625854). I remember having this feeling that I found some "secret" community when I first discovered HN, and I think that's essentialy the reason this comes up every once in a while.

An interesting point is that communities are about people, not technology. However, it's the technology that sets the tone. Take for example how the discussion here is text only, which encourages more thoughtful responses (or at least less memeful). Or the monologues people are sending each other on whatsapp. Or the <= 140 character quips on twitter. Obviously, just having the option to upvote and downvote has an impact too.

I think that maybe the consolidation that's happening on the internet is hurting the formation of these organic communities and is limiting how we interact through technology. But anyway, to answer your question, did you try Quora? The format is more of a question and answer site, and the quality largely depends on whom you're following. For music for example you can try Ethan Hein and Hans Zimmer.
Prices are set at the margin [1]. Most people can't differentiate high-quality and low-quality wines. But some can. They are on the margin and will set prices.

As an anecdote, I can blindly identify with pricing in respect of certain regions and grapes, e.g. Valpolicella, Amarone and the Cabernets. (That is to say, I will blindly prefer the higher-priced bottles over lower-priced ones.) I am willing to pay a premium for those. With other grapes, e.g. Pinot Noir, my tastes don't seem to correlate with prices. (This is also true, with me, for whiskey and absinthe.)

[1] http://optionalreading.blogspot.com/2012/12/laws-of-price-pr...
> It’s based on years of experience and real-world experimentation at FastMail

Here's a nice blog post about that: https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/23/jmap-a-better-way-to-em...
Sure, but they probably meant "would an average person be able to differentiate TJ Rodgers Pinot Noir from another high quality winery's Pinot Noir"?
> GPUs are really not built for paths

I remember a whole slew of "accelerated 2D" cards in the mid-1990s that had faster Windows GDI performance than we have today for certain 2D operations such as path drawing (the regression was in Windows Vista when they moved all GDI operations to the CPU).
You are still paying the $800 for that iPhone - it's built into the contract. There are plans that much much less without a subsidy. http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/11/16/republic-wireless-...
Thanks!

A CentOS 6 kernel source rpm that I unpacked recently had multiple patch files in it.
Neat! The player search for Overwatch is way more involved than I expected.. How many people are on your team?
I'd be interested in talking with this team about partnerships. Any chance you could make an intro? Also, the animations on their site load so slowly (at least for me), that often I was scrolling and just seeing white. By the time the animation loaded, I was already halfway past it.
Manual labor?
Rype Launches German Language Lessons
Looking at the build that's building right now, all of them have passed but one, which has been going on for 2 hours and 23 minutes: https://travis-ci.org/rust-lang/rust/builds/252052639

> "env": "RUST_CHECK_TARGET=dist RUST_CONFIGURE_ARGS=\"--target=aarch64-apple-ios,armv7-apple-ios,armv7s-apple-ios,i386-apple-ios,x86_64-apple-ios --enable-extended --enable-sanitizers --enable-profiler\" SRC=. DEPLOY=1 RUSTC_RETRY_LINKER_ON_SEGFAULT=1 SCCACHE_ERROR_LOG=/tmp/sccache.log MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.7\n",

iOS, it seems.

Looking at the other builds,

* s390x Linux

* i686-apple-darwin

* x86_64-apple-darwin

Seems apple is an overall slowpoke.
I would encourage you to try say Littorai or another small-scale Sonoma coast producer. I also enjoy Toulouse from Anderson Valley. Both have much cooler climates than say Napa and focus on wine that is both Burgundian in style yet distinct. I certainly agree there are great wines from Willamette, but don't miss out on ours!
> and their entire operation should be severely scrutinized by ICANN.

ICANN does not have 'control' in any substantive way over the ccTld's.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/cctlds-21-2012-02-25-e...
A total Solar eclipse of the sun is coming to the U.S on August 21st! If you haven't already, it's time to ask yourself - is this near-once-in-a-lifetime opportunity worth the trip!?
The same can be said of bad managers hiding behind a good team of direct reports. We've all had the bad manager who the owners or higher ups loved to death yet everyone on the team can tell they are incompetent. I'm not talking about the boss you hate but the truly incompentant ones.

The place I work now doesn't really care about competence only a body filling a vacancy. Maybe it's time to find a new job...I digress.
Should designers make courses?
Getting to the Roots of California’s Drinking Water Crisis
I think so i would ask you to open issues in crocs at github, so i can better keep track of suggestions and implement them.
>zero legal real world use cases

Except for paying people for services and goods with bitcoin? There are plenty of legal venues to use bitcoin.

>It's the worst sort of gambling: you do not even know the odds.

So...like all investing? lol. Like seriously dude what the fuck do you know? Can you please take your blowhard bullshit somewhere else?
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Ah right! Part of it was that they suspected it was only used for Asian countries (Vietnamese, Japanese, etc), which is why I went straight for Portuguese. This is useful, thanks.
Yes, I noted the quotes but the comment was still useless because it doesn't add anything really informative here. Also, further muddying the water (of course after my comment) was your sibling comment which says anything above 30fps is a waste of priority.
>"Was this a one time incident or do you go responding to every piece of irony on the internet pointing out that the writer must have meant what they said."

You seem to have greatly over-estimated your articulation and communication. But rather than entertaining the possibility that your intent might not have been universally understood, you are going resort to condescension and ad hominem remarks. Not very mature or constructive.
Some people are homeless in order to get away from the people beating or raping them at home. For such individuals, couch surfing or whatever can be a step up over what they have been dealing with.
It's worthwhile to note that Blink (v. the whole of Chromium) has had its build time quintuple in the past four years or so, and its starting point was far slower than Presto (which may or may not qualify as "fast" in people's books, depending on what features you care about).
It does not stably concentrate wealth. It does create short-term inequality of wealth. Every player will be the richest at some point if you play long enough.
Really good background from Dan Walsh who has lived through this entire journey for the last 5ish years. Many times, people don't understand all of the moving pieces, but this article explains it well...
Really great idea, and nice product man. I am considering building something similar for Overwatch specifically.
Well, I'd argue it's all about buying time. Obviously nothing lasts forever, but that's no reason to throw the baby out with the bath-water.

If we can buy our species another couple centuries on this planet, we can probably start looking at leaving. But if we continue on this accelerated doomsday course we won't have time to re-imagine the "form" of our species.
Besides those people already pointed (and Haskell - yep, the always slow GHC can do that), there's no reason C++ couldn't have both (except from large templates).
I had a laptop celeron 600mhz running xfce and abiword (I think it was xubuntu 14.04 or something) with no networking (only a dialup modem was available). It was a great, responsive typewriter with formatting and backspace!
Just to add some color to this: There was an attack last Friday on a few geo TLDs that ended up hijacking a bunch of traffic for a few hours, including .la, .es, and .jp:

https://news.gandi.net/en/2017/07/report-on-july-7-2017-inci...
I don't think think legally there are libraries not like that anywhere. To be removed, someone has to be committing a crime. In most cases with homeless people that aren't actually committing an obvious crime it's loitering (or solicitation if panhandling). In a library if you're actually reading a book or using a computer you're not loitering any more than anyone else there.
Of course he believes that, he's the creator of a language that doesn't even have a type system...
but not at any price.
Five Top Chefs: What's in Their Fridge?
Agreed. The one caveat I would make is in a case where something accelerated singularity tech, but was worse for warming/volatility, I would do the former.
Mais, in the winter, the waste heat is free heat. Basically, if you deduct the money that you would have spent on heat, the electricity is very cheap.

Another way to think of it: The heat from a bitcoin rig is the same that you would get if you used an electric space heater or an electric baseboard heater. These cost about 2-3x as much to run as a gas or oil furnace. So, if you're able to turn off your heat and just heat with a bitcoin rig, your "cost" is less because you're not spending money on something else.
> If evidence-based medicine is already far less evidence-based for anybody who is not a white male.

This is ridiculous and needlessly political. One thing I'm really disappointed with society is the persistence of tribalism based almost entirely on what people look like.
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Exploring the transformative potential of the digital supply chain
This is a controversial finding, and not well-accepted nor even abided by where it is a literal life and death matter, like in nuclear submarines [1] or the ISS. Either the LLNL experiment is somehow flawed, or systems designs that crew members depend upon for their lives for months at a time without any pause for the past few decades are poorly designed. By Occam's Razor, I'd rather look at the relatively simpler experiment first before I looked at these complex life support systems, and if anyone is to pursue the LLNL study further, they probably should start there. I'm willing to buy the hypothesis there are cognitive differences, but they would have to adequately explain what has been going on in submarines and the ISS that we missed earlier.

[1] https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/17/claim-co2-makes-you-s...
Thank you. I'd love to see what you build, Overwatch is really exciting right now.
Bollocks. With your DNA on file it should be custom.
The question is NOT about the morality of deportation, but about about the legitimacy of the UK's ownership.

The only two nations that have laid claim to the territory are France and the United Kingdom. (France lost it in the Napoleonic Wars.)
Do you still need an invite?
Few did what Git does, take multiple forks and merge them.

Most that came before were good at forking, but not so good at merging.
"It's a restructuring of the human system around symbiosis with AI".

This sounds more like to basically have a socio-cultural breakthrough, you want a technological entity (some AI or whatever it turns out to be in the future) to control and direct human socio-cultural thoughts and execution. Transhumanism seems to be more oriented towards equipping humans to be interfaced(through some HCI - human computer interface) with computers around an AI, and other human built accessories (atleast for now) to enhance their mental abilities to project them as more powerful humans. One question is, how much do we actually know the power of our brain and abilities, if its properly used rather than enhancing with computers etc., Yes, there are great use-cases for HCI. But giving control to an AI to make your decisions or control humans in the name of technological break through is absurd.
I think it will stick around for a while, if only because academics have adopted in great numbers. And academics are verrryy slow to change their tools ;).
I used to drive a four door sedan(Chevy Impala) and was perfectly happy with it (My then 17 year old daughter totaled it, going up against another Impala). When the time came to find it's replacement I had to meet a certain pragmatic requirement. My wife has now had six back surgeries. When her mini-van needed to be in the shop for a few days we realized that she has a substantial amount of difficulty getting out of even a large car like my Impala. We needed a second vehicle that she could basically enter/exit easily. I now drive a small'ish SUV (Kia Sorento). My Impala was probably more sturdily built, I certainly didn't feel un-safe in it.
But we require our students to talk a lot. At least in the libraries I've been to there's an expectation of noise level. That said, I haven't been to very many libraries.
This comment really does point to a couple of fundamental issues that would have to be overcome with any proposed solution. The first is that people often say they are willing to pay for a certain thing, but are generally not willing to do so in fact. The second is that people are not willing to pay for just any content. (TheGirondin, as an example, is willing to pay only for content that he/she construes to be NON-liberal.)

The first problem is that people say they are willing to pay for certain things, but are not willing to do so in fact. So even if you spend money producing NON-liberal content, you may, in a content marketplace with Facebook and Google, find few buyers who were ACTUALLY willing to give you money for it. This issue in particular, bedevils many industries. It's not at all unique to content industries, and even so, few people have found consistently workable solutions to address it.

The second issue is the fact that you would have to begin to produce content for sub-cultures. TheGirondin will only pay for content he/she construes to be NON-liberal. Others will be willing to pay only for content that they construe to be NON-conservative. Still others will want content they construe to be NON-Christian. And then some will want content they construe to be NON-Islamic. For some the content will need to be NON-Mexican. And some will want the content to be NON-Black. Etc etc etc.

We shouldn't underestimate the costs required to produce such content, nor the limited size of the audience of people who would ACTUALLY pay for such content. It is at once extraordinarily expensive for you to produce such content, and at the same time, extraordinarily cheap for Google and Facebook to distribute that expensive content for free anyway. In some of the worst cases, it's almost Quixotic to even try.

(Consider... what sports content could you produce without black people? You could certainly create sports leagues that disallow blacks. That would not be the issue. However, assuming you did spend all the money to do so...

you run into the second problem...

Who would pay you for that content with the regular sports leagues around competing with you?)
I never said we shouldn't respect software creators. All i said is that label companies take a major cut of money with disproportionate value added.
At DeNA, teams succeed by speaking up
Some of those yelp reviews are amazing - I can only assume they are coming from the same group of people that thinks that the homeless should stop being losers and just get a real job.
"Secure" and yet they aren't even using a memory safe language such as Rust.
>>Don't put solar panels on your house out of a personal sense of guilt about your own emissions, put them on your house because it grows the market for solar, stimulates research into better panels, and helps push forward the economies of scale that are needed to make renewables cost competitive with fossil fuels

Or don't live in a house in the suburbs. Opt for medium or high-density residential areas, which are far more efficient in terms of both land and utility use.
If he can afford a $1000 barrel, I'm sure he can ship some of the WV soil to SV.

"Typical tech billionaire, trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist" - He's not trying to solve a problem. This is his serious-ish hobby.
Facets: Visualizations for machine learning datasets
It seems to vary from build to build... Compare https://travis-ci.org/rust-lang/rust/builds/251809226 where everything is under 2 hours except i686-apple-darwin.
"This is especially concerning when it comes to medical data, which weighs heavily in the favor of white men."

None of the sources within the same paragraph corroborate this. They simply say that medical studies are biased, but they mention that it's more as a result of drug companies trying to select the patients that will perform best in trials, and don't mention anything about a bias towards while males.

In my mind this makes the article especially flawed, since this claim is the essential premise on how AI could affect minorities. I'm willing to be corrected, however. Until then, I'm going to continue to operate under the assumption that this is an author making stuff up for a trendy headline.
I used to get kicked out of the San Diego library for smelling bad when I was homeless in San Diego. It was a loose interpretation of some rule about interfering with other people's use of the library. I also know of a library system that literally has a smell rule. It pisses me off because it is basically a Jim Crow law. I have serious allergies and respiratory problems and it can literally make me ill when someone shows up stinking to high heaven of strong perfume. But you can bet the librarians would not have thrown them out had I complained.

That "you smell" thing is basically code for "no homeless people." There is no objective smell-o-meter that indicates when someone is actually a threat to public welfare or something. And in settings where people did not know I was homeless, I did not see evidence that I actually smelled bad. They would ask me about my vacation plans while cutting my hair.
ccTLDs are two letters long and gTLDs are everything else.
The Climate Leadership Council is an organization of Republican Party elders with an extremely solid proposal to immediately reduce carbon emissions through a carbon fee, which is a market-based mechanism to reflect the true cost of carbon at the source.

Link to proposal: https://www.clcouncil.org/our-plan/
Link to TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/ted_halstead_a_climate_solution_wh...
Also agree. I think we can practically do things that make sense economically, as well as environmentally that are no brainers like transitioning to renewable resources, solar, geo etc...

The challenge is the lifestyle changes that transitioning economies expect in terms of total household energy expenditures. I think the biggest thing is helping developing and transitioning economies continue to raise their standard of living but through renewable resources, and not just piling more coal onto the fire.
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a counter-point: http://nautil.us/issue/45/power/against-willpower
Looks useful, I will try this out.

In the examples, some of the plots (such as the classifier factory ROC curve) generate many curves, but this is not explained -- is it one curve per cross-validation split?
This is great. I wish vocational / professional schools in other fields did this!
The article didn't mention anything about why he thinks the SC mountains are good for Pinot. There's a lot of misinformation and lack of detailed journalism out there, in particular regarding how global warming will affect the varietals that are picky about temperature and soil conditions.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/1...
Firstly, now I feel like crap for using "living in a van down by the river" as my opening joke for teaching Microsoft Office (When I taught Word our first lecture was writing a letter of resignation, and then each lesson built on doing 'freelance work' like using Excel to calculate the necessary number of bootleg DVDs I needed to sell to not have to live in a van).

The number does not surprise me, considering there is a 1 in 7 chance a community college student will finish [1]. This stat was one of the reasons I altered my class to allow 3 hours of open lab time to work on homework with me available. I had a number of non-traditional students (former military, GEDs, single mothers). When they were not in school, they were working (or dealing with kids). We can joke about how computer science students are night owls working on their assignments for long hours, but that seems like an arbitrary ceiling when you have someone that doesn't fit the "young adult that has free time" mold. Hell, its the motivator for my PhD research, making CS work easier to understand/complete.

Now, I will also say, this study is glossing over "Pell chasers", who only sign up for community college to get the Pell grant and then never show up again. My initial thick skin came from building a rapport with students only to see them vanish as soon as that check came. It doesn't help they can do this for 9 semesters before getting in "trouble" (no legal trouble, just no more free money). At my school, you had to show up to class once (first day when no one lectures) to get your money.

I will say that teaching CC was very interesting and rewarding. I've met deadbeats, Pell chasers, former prisoners, former crack heads, and geniuses that dropped out of HS. Just showing them you actually cared about their learning could be the world to them - some are scamming the system, but some truly don't want to drive a forklift for the rest of their lives.

[1] https://www.texastribune.org/2010/02/02/most-community-colle...

Edit - Fixed some numbers I had wrong.
I was actually waiting for someone to bring up Project Fi, because in my opinion it seems to be one of the Google services that breaks the mold, in fact I've had more than a handful of interactions with their Customer Service and I've always left satisfied or with my problem actually solved.

I really do hope they don't kill it, because I have recommended it to a number of people who have gone ahead and signed up for the service, and they're probably going to remember who recommended it after it goes away...

But at the same time it seems like it should have the be quite profitable, and I have more faith that it won't go away. There's only one service at Google that gets my cash dollars for $80-100/mo, and that's my Fi family plan with three lines.
Trump Administration Blocks ‘Startup Visas’ That Tech Leaders Backed
> A major Windows release is kind of a big thing in the desktop world.

I can bet that LispWorks' customers (big companies and experienced lisp users) are largely away from the mainstream desktop world, and wouldn't care too much on how the current Windows UI looks like.
yeah...yeah...and the UK seized ".UK" from the Ukraine and this means...

save your politics for politics, not for a technology discussion. We get it, you're moral.
>We have a tiny window that we can possibly engineer ourselves into a new form of intelligence. Lets work on that so that these biological issues, and our fate as a (transitional) species aren't issues anymore.

What about the entropic heat death of the universe? Seems to be in vain cause its all gonna settle to an equilibrium of nothingness. Transhuman action isn't TRULY long term thinking
sic 'How to make a friend quickly'.
We'll just expand :)
There's probably around a dozen ccTLDs that are really competently run and that are world-class. Beyond that I'd stick with competently run gTLDs.

I actually just met a bunch of the denic guys at a conference they hosted a month ago in Frankfurt. They're on point with their Internet stuff.
Quantum cheques could be a forgery-free way to move money
It doesn't really matter at all. The land didn't come with a .io ccTLD. It's dervived from a name the British chose, so it's not like they stole the domain name from those people, right?

Displacing settlers is a different question.