skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a downside, because there was effectively no insulation, when it was 40F outside, it was also 40F inside. We pulled out the space heaters to warm up the bathroom for the couple of weeks of winter.
> How does one limit a free, public resource to only people with homes?

By only making it free for students.

> How do people without homes "completely destroy the purpose"?

I wouldn't say it destroys the purpose, but it changes the atmosphere and environment of the place. I don't think people want to spend time with homeless and weird people around them. It sounds harsh but that's the truth.
You seem to be confusing "monitoring" and "policing". Hint: "police" has power of coercion, "monitor" has only free speech rights to publish information.
Proposed solution: give the homeless a (publicly-funded) place to be that fits their needs even better than a library does.

In chemistry, when you have a both a product and a side-product dissolved in a liquid (say, water) and you want to purify the solution to have only the product, you don't try to take the side-product away directly; instead, you pour in another fluid with different viscosity that the side-product will prefer to its original solute, and then shake things up. After everything settles, the product is in one layer, the side-product is in the other, and you can now drain the layers into separate flasks and wash/evaporate/crystallize out your product.

People, like chemicals, can't just be told what to do; you need to give them a place they prefer to be if you want any hope of them moving there.
> There are many legitimate uses of Bitcoin

What are those. I have claimed here and will repeatedly do so -- there are none. I mean, sure, there are a few companies which integrate the sell-your-bitcoins-buy-our-product in one go but the volume of that is near irrelevant. And no, international transfers do not count as a usage because not only the sender needs to buy bitcoins the seller needs to sell them too...
I care about animals. I try to at least only buy cage free eggs and meat from humanely treated animals.

However I wonder if the author is also against killing lions, wolves and other predators. Those animals are so brutal in how they kill they make people look like angels. I don't understand how naturalists can so vigorously protect animals who's life depends on mauling other animals regularly.
use the storage interface in rclone project and plugin all their backends in one go. rclone is also in go.
Which sadly doesn't get enough love. It's going to take Gox 2.0 before people realise its true value.
Software patents are generally evil, and I used to feel that creating them was bad. Then a mentor taught me that often your patents can be used to offset other peoples patents. But with Trolls they have nothing to protect.
Not Google-specific, but:

Do no evil = "No, we are not going to torture these prisoners of war, period."

Don't be evil = "It's OK to waterboard them a little if they deserve it. Remember, we are the good guys, we're here to help."

(See also: rationale for the My Lai Massacre. Very similar thinking, it's possible to excuse awful things when you're the hero(es) of your own (indoctrinated) narrative.)
"Absolutely soulless"? How do you define soul? The middle of HK is the world's densest collection of enormous banks, paper-shufflers and finance types, with some desertified malls and generic retail. Granted, for geographic reasons Shenzhen doesn't have HK's network of (historically established, precipitous, mountainous) national parks, but Shanghai has no nature at all. Last time I visited HK they had ripped out the art museum, the one decent cultural attraction.
I think this is great but I also found the headline 'weird' since in the very real sense that 'millenials' are the majority of the adult population of working age they keep everything 'alive.'
You mean, what are legitimate uses for decentralized internet cash? Besides everything that physical cash is good for, plus many more uses made possible because you can send money without exchanging physical tokens?

Come on...
Looking at my own public library, the city spends $5.7m per year for libraries serving 90000 people ($63/pp). That's 2.85% of the city's total revenue, which comes from sales tax, property tax and business license tax.

It's a small cost but you are paying it.
Categorization is often a very short distance away from censorship, if it is made in terms of value judgements such as "toxic".

> Use all the fancy recommendation algorithms to let the scholars scholar, and the trolls happily troll with other trolls.

The problem is that this algorithm has nothing to do with scholarly value of the uterring, while it will be widely perceived as an objective judgement on such value. If you call somebody a "troll", it's just your opinion, if you use blackbox algorithm to do it, it's kinda objective truth. That's the worrying part - because there's no evidence blackbox algorithm is better, and actually so far plenty of evidence it's worse.
I think slide 21, "Me ~1980" is dated a couple of years too early. VT220's were introduced in 1983. Doesn't matter, that's what it looked like. That was my desk too. Although I had an overhead bin.

Chasing commas, in amber, at 9600 baud, 8-bit, no parity, one stop bit.
Assuming that's true for Facebook, how could they be so threatened by Instagram? Snapchat? And how could Facebook even make a dent in MySpace, who fit the natural monopoly definition above just as well?

If social networking were a natural monopoly, could a startup really stand a chance?

I feel the fast pace of innovation and customer behavior shifts makes these products very different from oil and railroads.
It makes more sense in the context of all the arrticles talking about the things that "millennials" are killing.
Thank you! I just read the poem. I feel like I've learned a new black magic to describe complex and ambiguous thoughts with clarity and simplicity.

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

- William Carlos Williams
> The data points become invalid.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/thorough-not-thoroug...

Every data from every experiment in every field has to be adjusted, raw data is meaningless
> So wait, they're incentivizing people with overdue books to wait on average 6 months before returning them?

In my public library system, at least, you can't check out new books when carrying more than $5 in fines. (I forget whether you have to return the books, or just pay the current balance.) Thus, it's not quite as simple an incentive system as that.
Sorry for the late reply. Didn't see it until today.

I think you and your family would be fine in a midwestern city like Kansas City. But I also know there are risks. The Indian men who were shot by a racist, were shot in a suburb of Kansas City. However, the city as a whole was horrified by the event. And it's a very diverse city. Not as cosmopolitan as cities on the coast, of course, but every time I go to the city center, I see people of all types and frequently hear languages other than English & Spanish spoken.

I currently live in a rural Kansas town. Living in a place like this as an Asian would present some challenges, but the overall attitude from most of the people is generally "If you don't scare the horses, we don't care who you are or what you do." It's a different place than the American South (or rural Pennsylvania). Here people just want to mind their own business. I couldn't guarantee it would be a great place for you, but if you want to try being rural again, it wouldn't be a terrible place to look.
Things to consider will you need a lot of custom database management? Are you comfortable deploying MySQL or another DB from command line? Are there tools in AWS that you will benefit from using - will they save you time compared to building them yourself, e.g. SQS versus managing a queue system.

If you are prepared to manage these are yourself, feel comfortable doing so, and your tech stack won't benefit from the AWS tools too much, using a VPS might be the way to go.

That said you're going for MVP - and you have 6 months to do it. Get going, move fast and break things!
The same reasoning can be applied to most of the things your taxes pay for though. How often do you need to call the police or the fire brigade? I haven't needed either in a decade either.

There are likely other things your taxes pay for that you use more than other people as well. For example my city allocates a huge amount of money towards maintaining roads, which I never use and sidewalks, which I use more than the average resident.
Compared to google they are, and that was the comparison mentioned.
This is a problem with the internet in general. In the future, we will have an archive of everything everyone did on the internet and can use stylometry, Facebook likes and clicks, and temporal association to uncover individuals. The only way to opt-out is to just stop participating.

All newer cryptography based systems for preserving privacy, like ZCash and Monero, are based around elliptic curve math that will one day be broken. As with 4chan or reddit, the belief that one is anonymous can lead one to engage in riskier or more controversial activity. This is at risk of being uncovered in the future, with potential for damage to the individual.
> you should check to see if your library has online services - mine lets you renew online, even if it is overdue (unless there's a waiting list).

I can't resist mentioning my library's bizarre set-up here: if books are due on day X, but are in the drop-box at the time of opening on the next open day (for that branch, so one can game the system a bit by returning to branches that are closed on particular days), then they are counted as having been returned on time.

Once, I took advantage of this, but, just to be on the safe side, also renewed the book online. (I've had problems, usually eventually resolved, with re-shelvers forgetting to mark the books as checked in, so that fines accumulate for a day or two.) It was treated as overdue. When I asked about this, they told me that it was the intended functionality of the system.
> I have trouble rationalizing this romantic view of the homeless as these poor downtrodden, down on their luck people who just need a hand up, with the realities I see everyday of mentally ill, dangerous, and completely uncontrollable people.

That is because this "romantic view" is a straw man you came up with so that you can rationalize writing a comment attacking the homeless and the mentally ill, instead of doing something constructive. Do you participate in the San Francisco Tenants Union? Are you doing anything to help SB562 (single-payer in California)? When was the last time you gave a homeless person change?

You can whine about homeless people all you want on HN but that says more about your inadequacies as a person than about the homeless. Until the lack of affordable access to housing and mental health services is resolved the homeless population in California will keep growing.
Hmm, I disagree with some of the recommendations on this list. Even if people could agree on the overall quality of books, it is not the only factor which should be considered when choosing a book. For example, one might choose a book which is lower quality(however that might be defined) in order to use a book whose goals more closely align with those of the reader.
> There is a bookstore in Austin that has a great coffee shop inside, and it certainly attracts folks to come in and browse.

BookPeople?
I had this at home in Australia! I could order books from countless libraries. In the Bay Area, my own local library unfortunately doesn't have anything like this but the San Francisco library does. I recall having a book brought in from Sacramento.
I'm a Vim user that did try to get into Emacs with evil-mode. However, I got annoyed when dired wouldn't let me user the Vim movement keys and went back to Vim.
You can get a Acer 14 refurb for under $200 which is a good dev machine using Crouton with ChromeOS. Nothing else is going to be able to touch this. Sounds like you are just not up to date what is now possible with Chromebooks.
> typing is generally pretty optional

Don't use Apache Groovy in typed mode -- hardly anyone else does, and you won't find any typed Groovy in its own codebase, only Java. Groovy was originally built as a JS-style dynamic language and is best used in untyped mode.
> I hate the idea that just because it's fuzzy to define what constitutes unwanted behaviour online that we must allow all behaviour. That we'll be censors destroying free speech if we ban trolls.

I think the correct idea is somewhat different. That we should be very careful in classifying speech as "troll" and extend the maximum effort in not using "unwanted behavior" as an easy substitution for suppressing dissenting opinion. There should be boundaries, and they should be wide enough to allow proper discussion - including challenging dominating opinions and expressing controversial and upsetting views.

> Automatic moderation won't be perfect, but neither will human moderation.

The concern is not that it will be imperfect, it's a given. The concern is that it would be less perfect than human one, while being perceived of being more perfect, due to the aura of "objectivity" that algorithms have. If a moderator unfairly targets you, you could complain about this moderator's biases, you could quote your interaction, you could appeal to other moderators or wider audience, you have plenty of options human interaction allows. You would not always get a just outcome, but there's some chance. If you are declared toxic by Google bot, what your options are? Argue with a bot?
>"The market is too large to leave."

Or stated another way "there's too much money involved to worry about ethics."

Yet Google left it and they seem to be doing OK. Apple could well afford to leave it too:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/02/apples-cash-hoard-swells-to-...
> - Most digital library catalogs have terrible UIs (broken back buttons, poor search results, etc.) They work, but they're not fun to use.

Talk to your librarians! In my experience, they welcome feedback, including of this sort. Sometimes the response is "all the systems suck, and this one is the best compromise we could find between suckiness and cost" (it always has been for me), but it's also a good way to get involved in efforts to fix it (for example, UI tests for proposed new systems).
Both actors could be perfectly rational and fighting over a scarce resource such as fresh water.
There have been numerous attempts to defund public broadcasting by those who disagreed with their slant. They didn't have the votes, because most of those in power have the same views as PBS.
I wonder if they make use of any other languages for other tools such as Spock, or if they get rejected because they are different.
Very bizarre to state the obvious use cases, then nullify it with handwaving.

The current cost to move $10m of bitcoin across international borders is about $1. Attempt the same via conventional means and you'll quickly realise it's benefits go beyond monetary efficiency.

As for current working use cases Factom[0] stores an auditable timestamped data trail in a merkle tree structure, which is then anchored into the bitcoin blockchain.

This is a tech minded site, I would hope people here understand the value of immutability. Real immutability, data that can't be altered or undone in anyway.

Many seem upset at bitcoins meteoric rise and the rampant speculation for good reason, but make no mistake blockchains will be around long after we are gone.

[0] www.factom.org
I expect people who want robust investigations of what half trillion dollar companies are doing to pay for news, not expect reporters to devote say 1/4 of a year to an investigation at a cost of probably $100k+ (their salary, expenses, editors, travel, etc) in exchange for a couple hundred thousand pageviews with $0.1cpm ads. Though spending $100k to make $50 is actually supported by the valley =P ... but it doesn't lead to a robust public press.
Bitcoin was not designed to be anonymous but this seems to be really difficult to grasp.

You don't even have to scratch the surface of Bitcoin to learn that at its core Bitcoin is a distributed ledger, powered by the "blockchain" which is open book for anyone to follow every transaction ever made. This is not a separate tracking system, it's the very fundamentals of how Bitcoin is able to function and it makes no effort to attempt to keep its users anonymous.

I can only conclude that claims Bitcoin is anonymous when compared to cash is either propaganda or ignorance.
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To add onto what /u/spraak said, it's not just a Russian thing. English uses "the" as a way to indicate a region that is part of a larger whole. I'm not from the America, but I can be from the Midwest and enjoy hiking in the Catskills, and reminisce about that time I worked in the Bay Area.

To refer to Ukraine as part of a larger whole, that larger whole is implied to be Russia.
How many poem anthologies do you imagine are published every year? My impression was: not many at all. Poetry doesn't sell.
i understand why we'd like to have near-perfect classification but do we need 100% accuracy in practice?

for example, the paper identifies an instance where a stop sign was misclassified as a speed limit under various conditions.

however, wouldnt applying bayesian priors ("how often do i see speed limits at intersections?") presumably negate misclassifications?

rather than chase the elusive ~100% accuracy from a single model, why not take a layered, ensemble approach?
One thing I think libraries really need to get on is digital preservation. Look at what the Internet Archive has done and think about how important and how expensive it will be in the future. Public libraries collectively have the funding but perhaps not the expertise.
> Or they are funded via models which insulate them from the government of the day

Can't happen. Somebody is deciding to hand them money. That somebody's views are going to be catered too. Maybe not exactly, but close enough to keep the money flowing.
That quote is an argument for why "not mentioned in the guidelines doesn't mean it is acceptable behavior", it's not saying that no written-down rules exist.
Which reminds me... When I moved from front panel switches to hooking up a teletype I ran into a problem. The teletype was a current-loop device (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_current_loop_interface) and the computer used voltage. I took the computer apart (a Data-General Nova), looked at the interface circuit for a while, and realized I could get current-loop if I made some minor hardware mods involving cutting some circuit traces. Fresh out of school on my first job it was kind of nerve-stretching to mangle a very expensive computer board (DG liked a single giant motherboard). Nevertheless, I persisted. And it worked. Whew.

Surely CS grads today learn electronics, right?
> Some SentrySafe models come with an additional lock and key, but the team was able to unlock it by using a Bic pen.

Um.. that also seems like an important problem?
Sell your body with prostitution.

Don't like that? Then take a remote job for 120k/year and then slack off for the first month, collect 10k, get fired.

Repeat
Yes it is using Crouton.
When you say "Chinese market" you mean mainland Chinese market. Google does just fine in Hong Kong and Taiwan, while Baidu is completely MIA outside of mainland China even in markets with significant Chinese populations.
Did they get http://btc-e.nz also?
> It can happen that 90% of programmers literally better than the average.

While mathematically true, in practice almost impossible
RNNs are a good model for things that are naturally sequential with limited state transfer. They are not so elegant for things with no defined ordering and a large amount of shared state.
This isn't an either-or situation. Both your issue, as well as the parent's, are true
This paper is a fairly convincing counter-argument to another recent work (https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03501) on physical adversarial examples for autonomous vehicles. The other paper argued there was "no need to worry" about such physical attacks.
To be fair, compared to Google, everything is.
Like Telegram Messenger
To all in HN:

It is a huge market which helping the people in China break the GFW (Great Fire Wall).
You can start a startup for that :)
Are you suggesting that you have done zero development yet? Develop locally until you need things to go "live". Don't buy AWS on day one, you won't utilize it. Save the money. There are many great ways to develop locally, even with teams. You can go far by utilizing dependency management services, like npm, etc. You can go far by utilizing local database init scripts, etc, for consistent dev environments after a fresh repo clone.
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The fact that everyone's vertical jump doesn't reach some arbitrary height in no way disproves that you can train someone to jump higher. All it proves is not everyone jumps to the same height. This is obvious.
Airlines seats shrinking, while waistlines are expanding. Seems like a recipe for an increase in the number of in-flight altercations.
I thought that required the $5k autopilot.
>Most of those in power have the same views as PBS.

I wonder how that strange coincidence came about.
I used to listen to FAIRs radio show. They clued me in to the sides of journalism i never knew existed.

Nowadays though, wapo and other are just not as relevant.

For example, HN has taught me via comments to expect counterfeit electronics on Amazon..

FAIR is still a net positive IMO
>Money laundering is the process of transforming the profits of crime and corruption into ostensibly "legitimate" assets.

>A cryptocurrency tumbler is a service offered to mix potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, with the intention of confusing the trail back to the fund's original source.

English might not be my native language but I can see lots of parallels.

I never actually considered this before but a mixer is the physical world would be getting mailed (by anonymous parties) 10 bags of money, 9 legitimate ones and one known to be from mafia and with sequential bill numbers known to feds and then repacking and mixing up the banknotes and receiving 10 visitors, each of whom gets one bag from you.

You just laundered the money, sort of... it gets screwy (that's a very technical term ;) although does it really? From 9 legitimate bags you made 10 (functionally) legitimate ones. You can't trace the mafia guy after your mixing, you can't pick a guy with a bag at random and say he is the mafia perp, you can't say each of these guys now has 10% of illegitimate money in his bag because they can't be responsible (and don't even know) about actions of other people who mailed you money. An entire money bag just got laundered (by the definition above, it was crime proceeds and is now ostensibly legitimate because it can't be distinguished).
You realize all countries have poetry, right?
0.1btc was only worth approx $200 in the last 12 months so I am not sure how you sold 1/10th of a bitcoin for $200 a few years ago because 1 bitcoin would have cost approximately that.
I wish they had more examples for time-series data.
Not really. The transactions are very far from anonymous. You don't have to attach your real name, which makes it pseudonymous. Cash is actually anonymous (assuming no serial number tracking).