skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, totally agree. It is total insanity to me that they allow many of their most interesting and popular questions to be locked by mods just because they involve a little subjectivity. Allowing the questions to remain open wouldn't harm the site in the slightest way and would increase engagement and user enjoyment significantly. The way the policy is implemented is incredibly user hostile and unfortunately is reminiscent of wikipedia and other places where you have power-tripping mods. Once the sense of community there reduces passed a certain level there, people will stop caring, and the quality of answers will continue to decrease.
I could invest in cryptocurrency.. it's innovative and would like to try..probably I'll do it
> having an always on, immediate access massive NLP DNN system translating every piece of text from any language on the worlds largest platform is a staggering feat.

Too bad that they also have an always on system that's tracking my doings and whereabouts. Seriously, we need to stop applauding these companies. Sad to see that LeCun and colleagues don't care to find an employer with more noble goals.
Sometimes the pleasure of reading fiction is simply to be entertained. Look at the popularity of TV and film - can you imagine never watching a fictional story again?

Teachers always tell their pupils to read often and to read widely. Why? Because the more you expose yourself to a wide range of writing styles the greater the chance it will help improve your own writing (regardless of whether you write fiction or non-fiction).

Fiction arguably lets the writer compose sentences with more freedom and creative licence than the non-fiction writer. The more you read, the more likely that some of that will rub off in your own writing or influence the rhythm of your own writing.
I agree with your point, and it makes perfect sense not to support a "tip-jar" option.

I know there is an option to cancel subscription at any time, but it just doesn't feel right. I would prefer a limited time subscription, similar to the physical magazines. If I like someone, I will sign up for 12 months of support. The author could count on a steady (to a degree) income for the next year and plan accordingly. If a year later I am still interested I will renew my subscription. And the platform could provide an insight on both current and a projected revenue, so consistency aspect is still there.
Do rental car companies take cars off the road that have recall notices on them? I think there are always recall notices going out, but I don't know what the legal responsibilities are for car rental companies to take cars off the road for every single recall issue, especially in a foreign country like Singapore.
> They tried to procure her medical records to verify whether the rape claim was true

No they didn't. They illegally gained access to the records. If they were trying to verify the situation's accuracy they would not have used illegal methods to do so and should not be given a pass since they did.
But, but... Clojure is dying language. Someone been crying about that all over the internet just a few weeks ago. Why Google using a dying language?
They succeeded in procuring her medical records. They then accused her of being a shill for a competitor. I think that's perfectly reasonable to summarize as "tried to discredit the victim." If anything, it's putting things a bit too mildly, since it fails to mention that obtaining her medical records was itself illegal and immoral.
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It exposes me to viewpoints, warnings, or subjects I wouldn't have learned otherwise.

For example, I've never given time to reading about gene editing, but after reading Change Agent I've been reading about gene editing and Crispr. I also have some minor understanding of the dangers and benefits of where that could take civilization.

I hadn't thought about what would happen in doomsday scenarios, like a large virus outbreak or an EMP blast, but Holding Their Own and One Second After exposed me to that.

Reading Seveneves exposed me to space travel and Lagrange points, I had no idea about these otherwise.

Authors like John Fante are great story tellers and he's such a joy to read instead of watching a tv series.
I don't trust that it as a credible investment
Yes. This so correct.

Linting efficacy is one of the many myths about software quality and team efficiency that abound in this industry.
My opinion of Sapiens is the same as well - very broad strokes. I feel Sapiens is heavily promoted because of ease in which the content flows? - maybe that's the selling point of the book?
It's one thing that the uk seems to do pretty well at https://data.gov.uk lots of data available. Not all in uniform format but it is at least available
Oh yeah, Binary Player. It was pretty interesting for how simple it was.
>But why is DefCon still in the US?

Most of the attendees are US citizens. They will lose a lot if they move it. It's better to just host another one outside of the country (and I think there are already a bunch) for people that don't want to visit the US.
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> It's interesting that t-mobile offers free unlimited roaming in some other countries (like Canada) but the performance there definitely suffers

Mostly that they throttle this to 128kbps.
I think what threw me off was when they say "capacity".

I don't work in power systems, I work with low-voltage DC stuff, so when I think "the capacity of the battery system" I think it would mean the maximum stored energy.

But "The maximum amount that can be produced" is also a valid definition of capacity, and I'm guessing this definition might be used in power generation more often ("the generator is operating at half capacity").
They seem to have handed over the keys to the first 30 owners during the event:

https://www.recode.net/2017/7/28/16053662/how-to-watch-live-...

Around the 3:42 time mark, they seem to hand it over to the first 30, aside from the 20 for the internal testing.
I can't share this kind of personnal information Thomas. I'm sure you understand! I guess you'll have to take my word for it.
Using a false name on facebook is against their ToS, is it not? There was a story within the last week about how violating ToS is arguably a felony in the US.
> There's no need to know the singular for pierogi, because no one has ever eaten just one.

That, friend, is hilarious, and so true.
Key line:

>More than half of the energy consumed in Texas is for industrial use, according to the EIA, while residential use—which in terms of sheer BTUs is the most in the nation, even as our per capita usage is relatively low—accounts for just over 13 percent.
The fact that Ripple is the 3rd largest cryptocurrency and I have never heard of it is interesting. Hopefully it will be able to grow and expand more.
My work laptop has it, and I'm resoundingly neutral. I think it was a mistake not to give it a genuine hardware escape key, especially since there's dead space to the left of the actual display where you could actually put something like, I don't know, A HARDWARE ESCAPE KEY. But beyond that, I think the hate directed at it is way blown out of proportion. Maybe other writers/developers need actual physical function keys all the time and will go bananas without them, but I've found that in practice, I just don't. I'm a touch typist on the actual alphanumeric keyboard, but have never been able to hit media keys and function keys without looking down anyway, so I don't feel any substantial rage that I have to look down to use the volume or brightness slider. I kinda like the emoji bar, on the rare occasion I use emoji. It's kind of neat to get a terminal that has both option and meta available instead of either/or, and I admit I use the man page button when I remember it's a thing. And, of course, if I hold down FN, I get all my function keys back anyway -- which is how I've had things set with the hardware function key row for the last few years (other keys by default, FN to access F1-F12), so in practice, there's no significant change for me. (And you can set it so it displays F1-F12 by default and does the touch bar woo woo stuff when you hold down FN.)

Having said all that, I'm neutral because it hasn't sold me as being a "must have" feature that's worth the ~$200 premium. I bought a MacBook Pro earlier this year, post-Touch Bar, and bought one of the lower-end 13" ones with the actual function keys.
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Every I support on Patreon publishes there content for free. Some have token perks, like early access or occasional patron only content, but not enough to justify paying. It is a patronage model. Donors donate so the create has the resources to create.
barf. yuck.

I found that article physically repulsive.

Patreon, if you are listening, don't buy into all the power that the article wants to shower upon you. They want you to influence your exercise of that power, and they want you to use that power to do their bidding in limiting free debate of ideas.

Patrons and the person that they support, that's it, that's all there is to it. The silver coin is being given by hands of patrons and taken by hands of one that is being supported, that silver coin shouldn't have opinions, emotions and desires. Stay neutral, that is the greatest challenge of our time, stay neutral. If a crime is being committed then co-operate fully with law enforcement, but don't give in to the pressures from lobbying groups with their own agenda.

Don't get carried away into the corrupting power the platforms like youtube, facebook, twitter exercise on the discussion carried out on these platforms. They have absolute power, and you can see that once you use it, it's addictively corrupting. Stay neutral, it is going to be hard to do, I hope you find the power within you to do so.

Good luck.
1. For me it's kinda subjective.

Some creators I support just because I like their stuff and want more of it. I usually think about this in terms of the impact my contribution will have on the creator and how much I'll end up enjoying it. For example a guy who makes hours of video in his living room that I watch every month and love (personally, Lindybeige) is worth more to me than someone who makes super high production value stuff very infrequently (e.g. CGPGrey).

Others I'll support for the rewards. I know Patreon is meant to be a "support people out of the goodness of your heart" kind of thing but a lot of creators I just want "stuff" from. Typically for me this is high resolution digital art or physical pieces of original art mailed to me.

Sometimes it's a combination of both.

2. Nope. I just think about how much money I'm spending on Patreon when I do it. I mostly think of creators as individuals, not a big bucket of stuff and I consider my monthly expenses as a whole. If I think I'm spending too much I might cancel a Patreon contribution because I've lost interest in that creator or I might cancel a software subscription or something.

3. See point 1. When the value I place on the support/rewards goes down, the contribution goes down with it. This can be because a creator no longer interests me, a creator has so many contributions from others that I feel mine no longer have impact or because the rewards no longer satisfy me.
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Vote with your wallet - you don't need big brother to do your research for you. Read reviews, (possibly) try out the service, and make your decision from there. Whatever you do, don't ask your government to decide what you should and should not have a right to buy. If you think "why not? what could go wrong?", then you are young, and will likely (and unfortunately) learn these lessons in your lifetime.
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Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14921018.
Thank's a lot for your extensive comment. It's good to know there are people out there who had similar doubts/problems and managed to overcome the difficulties. You seem like a living success story :)
Persistency is the key word here, since it's a quality I keep on missing. Maybe I get discouraged too easily.
Thank you for answering my questions and words of support.
Moniz, who said he balanced rehabilitation and punishment when formulating his sentence, called the case "a tragedy for two families."

Maybe, but only one of them lost a child :(
Czech also did a great job of this (unfortunately the word Czech itself seems to come to English through the some other spelling system). A few years ago I tried to learn a bit of the language before travelling to Prague, and I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to learn to read and write.
> The point was that the syntactic sugar isn't needed.

Yes it is. The success of CoffeeSCript is absolutely a validation that developers are more productive with syntactic sugar such as the class keyword, destructuring and many many other features.

Now nobody forces you to use them. So why complain? It doesn't make Javascript harder to read for you, quite the contrary.
BTSync and SyncThing are also in this space. They do work, and BTSync is even somewhat usable by less-technical people.
Since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922563 adds significant new information (or at least I assume it does), the discussion can shift there now.
If Newton had not discovered and articulated his 3 laws of motion when he did someone else WOULD have in the decades that followed. Is it an error to say Newton was the first to discover his laws of motion? By this definition how can anything be attributed to anyone?
Depends on the kind of fiction, and what you're trying to get, I guess.

Personally, I see lot of value in science fiction books. They're good at exploring impact of technological changes on people (both on individual and societal level), and they can also be very inspiring. Also, the less such work is about people and their relationship, the more I like it - what I look for in science fiction is ideas and inspirations, not the boring interpersonal drama our lives are so full of already.
I'll agree with you. I strongly believe instagram is taking over snaptchat. All of my friends switched to instagram from snaptchat. Some of them will still post on both instagram and snaptchat but it feels like they keep posting on snaptchat until their last set of contacts move from snaptchat to instagram itself.

I do believe that the people working for snaptchat are trying their best, and they are innovative etc, its just seems that instagram itself has become the new hip and its seriously competing with snaptchat.
But what's the point of even bothering to encrypt a plaintext password at all, let alone "storing it on an isolated server with the decryption keys on a separate server" unless there's an automated way for a human to see the plaintext?
Interesting question. I poked around a bit and found this:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/01/news/companies/rental-car-re...

To summarize: in the US, rental companies had no particular responsibilities on recalls until about a year ago. Now they are required by law to have recalled cars repaired before continuing to rent them out.
Ask HN: What single book has had the greatest impact on you?
I'm always interested in hearing book recommendations, but sometimes you hear one and it's clear the book totally changed the recommender's perspective on something and made them wish more people would read it. A lot of us have a singular book like that.

An example (and the inspiration for this post) is this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922949

Mine would probably be Deep Work by Cal Newport
Interesting. Sure, voter intimidation is particularly possible w/ public information, but I wonder why voters should be any less accountable for their decisions & actions than elected officials. Do not both owe some sort of responsibility to the country?
I disagree. There are shared services that Patreon provides that would be a pain for creators:

- Payment processing: Patreon consolidates all payments under one gateway account so fees are low for everyone.

- Support: What happens if the payment fails? Creators don't want to deal with that mess every month, it's less time to do useful stuff.

- Abuse handling: Patreon can deal with spam comments and the like.

- Service hosting: They integrate all this stuff in one place that creators don't have to host themselves.

- Consolidated management for Patrons: As a subscriber it's nice to see all the stuff I'm supporting and how much I'm paying for it in one place.
Yes, the situation is very different. Germany has the strongest privacy laws, Netherlands is practically a police state like the UK, and the French are at war like the US, with special police powers.
Everyone believes this myth now apparently, it is best not to bother pointing out the fact that there is no proof.
Not the parent but this article discusses benefits: https://open.buffer.com/reading-fiction/

They discuss benefits in:
1. Increasing empathy
2. Decreasing stress
3. Sleep
4. Relationships
5. Memory
6. Inclusivity
7. Vocabulary
8. Creativity
9. Pleasure
Well I think there was no need to have separate accounts to begin with. YouTube and Gmail had different accounts because YouTube was a separate company.

I work for Google but opinions are my own.
>Why any of the above (that have more or less a proven/provable origin and thus that can justify the provenance of the Bitcoin and somehow do the appropriate paperworks) would want to use a mixer?

I haven't made any darknet purchases yet, but if I do I'd like my legally purchased Bitcoins not to be linked back to Coinbase which has a lot of identifying information on who I am.
Why do big data projects fail?
Back pain is mostly subjectively measured outcome, and many types of back pain respond very well to placebo.
There are good reasons we prefer to control our own power supply to some extent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis

;)
Texas has 29 million people.

Texas is big, and is very dependent (unfortunately) on private transportation. Lots of cars, lots of roads, lots of lanes.

Texas is freaking hot for 5 months of the year. Texas can get surprisingly damned cold for 4 months of the year in some heavily populated parts (Dallas/Fort Worth for example). Texas uses heating and air conditioning because it can.

Texas pumps a lot of oil and gas. Texas has a lot of windy areas, some of which now have large wind farms. Texas could have a lot of solar, but I'm not sure how that's developing.

Point is, it's about as reasonable a metric as the frequently (stupidly) promoted articles talking about "the most stolen car". Per capita, and per capita per day per degree of climate outside comfort range, and on top of that, per mile of distance between homes and offices, I imagine Texas is not out of line.
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Like pain?
Yes, the Volt is really fantastic. I bought it December 2016 and haven't filled gas since then. I have about 5500 miles on it so far. I drive about 25 miles each way to/from work and couple of stretches are downhill on the way to work and hence the battery drain is minimal, usually 50% at the end of the day. The drive is very smooth and there is hardly any road noise. The buying (or rather leasing) experience with the GM dealer was also really smooth and impressive, unlike working with other high pressure dealer sales staff.
> Reading through Tesla forums, you'll quickly find out that Tesla has a service problem. A lack of centers, parts and awfully slow turnaround times. It doesn't appear that they really figured this one out yet.

Unsurprising since there really isn't any way for people to work on the car themselves or have an independent mechanic do it.

I suspect that the Model 3 is going to bring that to a head. I predict a lawsuit in Massachusetts.
Change Agent is great. I read it after finishing The Windup Girl, which is a book someone on HN recommended to me.

I do second The Windup Girl - in particular, I liked the exploration of technologies in a society so energy constrained, that the Joule becomes pretty much the most important resource.

If anyone has any biotech fiction recommendations, I'd love to hear them.
It’s not human? What does that even mean? What does this story have to do with capitalism needing more regulation? A company acting negligently already is subject to legal action.

Any idea how much dangerous stuff gets covered up by governments? This isn’t a problem with capitalism; it’s a problem with Uber.

As far as background checks, why should that be required? If it’s known that Uber doesn’t need do background checks, then consumers are free to choose another option. They can choose the level of risk they want to assume. Millions of Uber rides – so there are bound to be some outlier cases of bad actors. Taxi drivers have never committed a crime?

We aren’t talking water systems here, we are talking about a ride share/taxi service that nobody has any obligation to use. Using Uber is completely voluntary.

Don’t agree with Uber? Don’t use Uber! I haven’t used Uber for several years now. That’s how capitalism works – you vote with your money.

I personally think that the entire private car transportation business is filled with terrible people: taxi drivers in Seoul trying to rip you off, Shanghai taxi drivers refusing to give change, New York taxi drivers expecting a tip for driving all over Brooklyn to run up the meter. Taxi mobsters controlling medallions. Drivers showing up hours late for a scheduled pickup. I paid the French SNCF for a taxi booking to make a Sunday morning train and the driver never showed up. Missed my train and never could get my money back without Kafka-level bureaucratic insanity.

Uber does some bad things, but you obviously have never spent any time in the highly regulated taxi business. It’s a cesspool of dishonesty and cutthroat drivers, corrupt business practices and more. Look at how taxi companies exploit drivers – ridiculous things like charging 10% for credit card transactions, charging drivers for no-fault car damage despite being covered by insurance. “Leasing” taxis with extortionare terms which essentially make the drivers indentured servants. The drivers pay it forward by doing everything they can to scam customers out of an extra dollar here and there. There are plenty of good taxi drivers but you’re playing airport roulette when you arrive in Delhi late in the evening and need to get to your hotel. Good luck – you will need it. Only place I have always had a good taxi experience was London. But being a London cabbie is incredibly difficult. It isn’t a job for fresh-of-the-boat drivers, but for highly trained professionals.

The private car business is a dirty one and it has nothing to do with regulations or lack thereof.
This may be true, but may I suggest two things:

1. Any suitable choice of orthography will become unsuitable eventually. Pronunciation is not static.

2. There is, and has been, quite a bit of dialectical variation within the Poland and its diaspora. What may be suitable for one group, may not be for another.