skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Those I know who voted from Trump did so because they objected to Clinton politically. They did not in the least like Trump.

this statement makes virtually no sense to me. They didn't like Clinton's politics, but instead of voting for Bernie or a third party candidate, they voted for someone they didn't like? That kind of logic completely escapes me.

>> CNN is as reputable a news organization as it ever was.

I'm not sure how they can be. It's one thing to have a political slant to your reporting. It's quite another to tow Democratic party lines, publish fake or purposefully misleading stories to hurt Trump, and 90% of the stories you run about him are negative. That's not journalistic integrity, it's a running tirade about him and his administration.

How much does CNN hate Trump? 93% of coverage is negative

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/23/how-much-doe...

You can say Fox News reporting has a conservative slant and I won't argue that fact. Even their reporting on Trump during and now after the election has had an air of pessimism about it. They ran very few, if any positive stories about him during the campaign, and many of their more moderate commentators still hedge their support of him and his policies.

>> Hillary Clinton arranged the death of Vincent Foster.

I've followed the Clinton's since the 90's and have heard various conspiracy theories about them, but this is the first time I've heard someone talk about Hilary arranging Vince Foster's death.
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Also, you should stabilize that video on your landing page.
I find the "you don't want to shard" camp quite annoying. Of course, I don't want to shard! Who does?! It adds complexity, both implementation-wise and operational.

But if you got 5 TB of data, that needs to be in a SSD drive, then please tell me how I can get that into 1 single physical database.
The lack of a column for family/child related benefits is pretty symptomatic for startup culture. Interesting nonetheless.
I mean no offense, but you aren't Disney. Disney has been actively developing, innovating, and acquiring a huge library of content with proven demand for nearly a century. Clearly their priority is selling and licensing content. It sounds like your priority is getting your music in the hands of people who appreciate it in the best format possible. That's very respectable, but that's not how most companies operate.
If you are emotionally invested in the quality of your work and the product gets nerfed by some C-level executive power play, it can be just as demoralizing. This is not at all unusual in my experience.
Sadly this is something that Nim can also improve on. I will actually be looking into getting the stdlib ready for the highly sought after 1.0 release and will be keeping this in mind.
Ask HN: How did your first software project go?
.Net Standard isn't an implementation, it's a specification. Code that targets .Net Standard is guaranteed to run on any compatible runtime that supports it.

.Net Core has API's that aren't applicable to the Windows full-fat Framework, Mono or Xamarin - you don't need or want them there.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14969155.
Really disgusting, using defoliants on crops. It’s chemical warfare.
Ah, yes, this was implied :) only working code (as checked via CI) is allowed to show up in master and other long living branches.
And what would you do with that number? Eat it? Wear it? Grow a plant on it?

A shovel has intrinsic value. A sheet of cardboard has intrinsic value. A pair
of underpants has intrinsic value. Even silver, gold, and platinum have
intrinsic value, given their physical and chemical properties. Raw number,
even if timestamped, has no intrinsic value. That's the point.
Calling a group of women "you guys" is different from calling a person of unknown gender "guy" because in the former case the gender-neutral usage is the only possible interpretation, whereas in the latter it might either be gender-neutral usage or an assumption of the commenter's gender. Given that this ambiguity is nearly always a distraction from the primary purpose of the conversation (as it is here), rightfully or not, pragmatically it is better to use terms that steer clear of it. See Bryan Garner's Modern English Usage for fuller advice on safely navigating this linguistic and sociocultural terrain.
I'm afraid that I'm essentially nitpicking here, but the games don't really compare that linearly.

For one, "insane micro" was around before SC2 and was more of a deciding factor in BW than SC2. For instance, if you pay attention and analyze pro games you'll notice that macro (the boring repetitive work) that you think was flushed out from BW was actually just translated into other, equally monotonous tasks in SC2. Also, SC2's fights (outside of early skirmishes) are MUCH more based around creating concaves or fighting in favorable positions, and not actual micro. In BW micro is far more of a deciding factor in fights. (see: any pro-game fight consisting of supply over approximately 120 aka deathball)

Another thing, MarineKingPrime didn't really "invent" marine micro, he just excelled at it. And SlayerS isn't a player, it's a team name.

For the last part regarding optimal resource management and exploring timings and makeups, build orders have been virtually completely fleshed out and maximized. There really isn't much that say, 1000 APM (just a stupidly high impossible number to represent computer APM) could do that 300 APM (pro player human APM) couldn't in terms of gaining an early advantage in build orders.
>Plenty of people understand Bitcoin. Go read the whitepaper.

Plenty of people on HN. Maybe. And that's about it.

Mainstream acceptance is far, far away, and having a condescending attitudes towards those who struggle with the concept is not going to help.
Uber doesn't have to manufacture cars from the ground up, and has given no sign that I'm aware of that they're interested in doing so. They'll use after-market additions of their self-driving technology, and most of the manufacturing will be done by third parties, for a long time yet.

If they get to the point where they're even thinking about creating automobiles from the ground up, it'll be past a bunch of hurdles. Even then, they'd still almost certainly partner with an existing auto-maker.
I believe the 400GB is the total amount for the 65000 different game replays
There's multiple releases of .Net Standard, different releases of .Net Core target different releases of Standard. .Net Core 1.2 will be the first version to support the full .Net Standard 2.0 API surface.
Nobody is arguing against rational discussion. The problem is, you can not have a rational discussion about what rational discussion means, since all parties would need to agree on a position in the first place to have a rational discussion.
I would like to see IBM Watson dominate Jeopardy without a superhuman finger.
Why is it that on some maps the artist is very far away from another, but when you click on that artist the original one appears much closer?

Is the scale relative? Is there any indicator how scaled up or down the relationships are?
You get one of these

https://petapixel.com/2015/08/15/samsung-16tb-ssd-is-the-wor...
To go back to the post under discussion here, how does your comment interact with Aaronson's Amendment to his Law? His Law is he will work to discover & share the truth, no matter what, while his Amendment is that he'll go to lengths to avoid hurting people.

I really am not sure myself.
Separate from the "cable2.0" comments... I would say that nurturing/developing the content is harder than the tech side. Not putting down the amazing achievements netflix has made, but if you are trying to show a family a kids movie, it won't matter how the quality is vs. "wow that was a terrible movie". Pixar/LucasFilm/etc. properties that Disney owns are critical, and a streaming/digital footprint is the logical next step.
Yes, exactly, I use Sattolo for a random path: labels connected by goto statements, functions connected by calls, etc.
1 & 2 are basically the reason we started Hacker Paradise, to make it so you can travel the world without having to think as much about logistics, and while immersed in a tight-knit community.

Sounds like you're pretty set on being settled down, but if you ever do choose to travel again, definitely check us out! I myself have mostly settled now, but still like to get away for 1-3 months per year. A large segment of our community has that mostly-stationary lifestyle accented by stints of medium-long travel :)
1) Are you saying there aren't enough qualified women to hire? I agree. Hiring more women then creates competition which would increase their pay and make their jobs more attractive to more women. What's the problem?

2-4) I get the feeling we're probably on the same side but maybe arguing for it differently. I think tech positions already need "female" skills (however sexist that may sound) but we just ignore it in favor of programming abilities as if we all work in silos. That's just my opinion.
If you mean the rose pattern that develops on the scalp at the back of the head.

BTW, having two of those was a sign of luck, or so I was told.
The reason that there is a housing crisis in the Bay Area is that there is a lack of housing in the Bay Area. We don't need to make it so you don't need to live in SF to work in SF, we need to make it so that there are enough homes for the people that want to live there. And this means one thing, ZONING. The reason that more housing isn't built in the Bay is that the people living there don't want developers to build it, not that it can't be built. This is much easier and cheaper to change than public transit infrastructure (or maybe, the fact that it isn't is a sign that SF is screwed?).
I wonder when Node.js will (if?) support WASM. Assuming it does, then this becomes a cross platform server-side solution for PDF generation AND THAT is something I could actually use this very day.
>We should double our annual infrastructure budget. We can fund this by stopping the high-speed rail, and spend the $68+ billion we are planning to spend on that on better local rapid transit systems, improved bus lines, and new roads instead. This will allow people to live in more affordable housing and have a better quality of life.

Bad idea. More roads does not mean less traffic, More roads = more cars. And more infrastructure begets more infrastructure - You build more roads and buses and light rail lines, now you need all the staff to maintain these things, now you need somewhere for these staff to live, now you need more infrastructure to get the staff to work to maintain the infrastructure...

Stop the madness! The answer is not to transit at all. Live near your job, walk or bike to work. Build more housing dammit! Why the fuck does a software company need to be in the middle of big city? All you need is electricity and internet, move out to the country!
Considering how text messages and smartphone data usage have become far more popular than telephone calls, transmitting those messages via HTTP alongside other data traffic is probably cheaper than building out & maintaining a bunch of extra SMS infrastructure to handle the load.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Message_service_center
> Why is he talking about preference? Does that have to do with his thesis?

If preferences partially explain why psychology is dominated by women and why computer science is dominated by men, then preferences can partially explain part of why psychologists tend to be women and tech employees tend to be men.

And that's a big part of the memo: why is there a gender gap, what causes it, etc. So it's not surprising that one issue he focuses on is preferences. And he's not alone in doing so, that preferences are important in the tech gender gap discussion is something agreed upon by both sides:

* A lot of important diversity work done by progressives focuses on increasing interest in tech among young girls: girls' preferences matter.

* And on the other side, conservatives tend to say that preferences explain most of the tech gender gap and not discrimination.
Based on the numbers for lookup, it looks worse than that -- it seems to be linear (r2 = .9988).

df <- data.frame(
s=c(0,1,4,16,64,256,1024,4096, 16192, 65536,
262144, 1048576),
t=c(0, 1, 5, 17, 104, 440, 1780, 8940, 38000,
198000, 930000, 4260000))
> summary(lm(t ~ s + 0, data=df))
...
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
s 4.02825 0.04161 96.82 <2e-16 ***

Residual standard error: 45060 on 11 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.9988, Adjusted R-squared: 0.9987
F-statistic: 9374 on 1 and 11 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
I came into Google as a Test Engineer (pretty funny since I had written maybe 1 unit test before Google) on an SRE team. I did Mission Control, it was great. I didn't like the ultra-demanding on-call and its compensation model, but SRE itself is great. Wonderful team of brilliant people.
A lifestyle business seems fundamentally incompatible with a team oriented business. Let's assume the goal of a "lifestyle" business by a single founder is to automate all operations such that little to no work is required on the part of that founder.

Ok, that's all well and good. But some of that "automation" will inevitably be delegation to the founder's employees. So the employees have to work. The founder doesn't have to work. How can the founder possibly show good leadership and build a strong team if his goal is to work as little as possible?

As a founder, you are responsible for the well being of your employees. That's why they're employees, not independent contractors. If you're working four hours a week with a team of employees, there is a high chance you're shirking some responsibility toward them.

And if you decide to be a full time boss, then you're still building more than a business. You're building a team that you are responsible for. That is, you "answer" to other people - your employees. At this point, the advantages of a lifestyle business over VC funded business ("low hours," "not beholden to anyone") start to lose their luster.

If you're interested in building a team, and a lasting enterprise, then it becomes more logical to just take some seed funding so you can safely pay your employees and ensure an early growth trajectory. Whereas if you're only interested in a totally automated business to provide you and your family a stable income, then you should avoid hiring employees because you'll just end up beholden to them.

Thus the ideas of a "fully automated lifestyle business" and a "lifestyle business with a strong team" seem at odds with each other.
I'm utterly confused by why folks think any business should subsidize the speech of employees. If we all believe in capitalism as the basis of our economy then all businesses have a right to protect themselves from their employees when they enter into situations that would leave them liable for that employees behavior or speech. Damore using a company mailing list of was clearly crossing the line. He's free to publish all he wants outside of his workplace. It's getting into a scary situation that we expand free speech to mean "freedom to have an audience or a guaranteed means to get one." And that's what Damore and other conservatives continue to push despite their claims to be advocate for free markets (which as a consequence makes them free to not subsidize or convey his speech).
For all countries, you seem to be quoting percentages based on (primary) language, not nationality or self-identified ethnicity. Just curious, do you feel it's impossible for a native Russian speaker living in Latvia to identify as Latvian, perhaps both Latvian and Russian?

The number you present for Finland is highly misleading, by the way. We have around 6 % of Swedish-speaking Finns but they almost all speak Finnish, have very deep roots in Finland and certainly identify as Finns just as much as the rest of us -- and definitely not as Swedes. Swedish is even the second official language. As for the rest, I'm sure most of the citizens growing up in an Estonian, Russian, Somali etc. speaking household identify as Finns, too.
Yes it would be amazing to watch
I really like the idea of a helper AI that takes high level commands and handles the manual dexterity aspect of the game. That would make RTS games a lot more attractive for someone like me who prefers simple, thoughtful games rather than complex games with a steep learning curve.
I was browsing through the available classes and while I thought there were a ton of duplicates it turns out it's the same class on a different date.

It would make more sense for users to pick a class first and then see when it's available. So when browsing through classes you would see a list of the types of classes available (ravioli, sushi, etc), and once a user selects a class they can finalize their decision on the date.

Otherwise, browsing through classes is a bit annoying having to manually de-duplicate things you've seen before and checking them for minor details like, is this hand-rolling sushi class the same one or it with a different instructor? different restaurant?

Another suggestion, highlight the name of the restaurant. The restaurant hosting the event is bound to have more recognition than the instructor.

Make separate profile pages for all instructors, and have them linked straight from the cards that display classes on /products/

Where are the stars coming from? Every single instructor has 5 stars but there are no reviews and it makes everything come off a bit disingenuous. Get rid of those until you have real reviews.
>Even if I haven't lost the original, who exactly gave you the permission to watch my work?

What if I watch it for free at my friend's house? Do I need your permission?
I like the model where you vote electronically and you can see (through a clear material) that the machine prints out a copy of your votes and drops them into a bin.

You can throw cryptographic verification on top of that if you like.
> software tends to pass around multiple different teams with widely varying skillsets

I find this to be the most damning drawback: by design you can't ever get better with it, to cater to people who shouldn't be in the profession. There's a reason that using a spoken language clearly and eloquently is beyond the skill of a young child.

I agree that vendoring is the right solution for libraries that are not packaged for your target platform, in fact it's damn hard to reach truly deterministic offline builds without vendoring.
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If I understand you correctly, this answer requires ring-fencing AI into a purely advisory role.

Seems hopeful considering we can't ring fence internet users into the places we hope they'll stay without them breaking into systems that they shouldn't - and they dont have the computational power, sheer logic or persistence of an AI...
There's an interesting argument based on physics on why memory access is O(sqrt(N)):

http://www.ilikebigbits.com/blog/2014/4/21/the-myth-of-ram-p...

Relevant quote:

> The amount of information that can fit within a sphere with radius r can be calculated using the Bekenstein bound, which says that the amount of information that can be contained by a sphere is directly proportional to the radius and mass: N ∝ r·m. So how massive can a sphere get? Well, what is the most dense thing in existence? A black hole! It turns out that the mass of a black hole is directly proportional to its radius: m ∝ r. This means that the amount of information that can fit inside a sphere of radius r is N ∝ r². And so we come to the conclusion that the amount of information contained in a sphere is bounded by the area of that sphere - not the volume!

> In short: if you try to squeeze too much L1 cache onto your CPU it will eventually collapse into a black hole, and that would make it awkward to get the results of the computation back to the user.

But honestly I find all of these arguments equally pedantic.

People often forget Big Oh is a tool just like any other tool. It's useful for estimating number of X, whether X is cpu instructions, cache miss, disk read or whatever. When it stops being a good estimate (whether it's because your real world N is too small for growth rate to dominate, or stuff you're counting are not unit-cost comparable, or you're not even counting the right things in the first place), just stop using it and count cycles on a benchmark instead.
You have to intercept to gather metadata... but semantics aside, they are deceiving users.

First there is the marketing scam reported in the app store reviews, people who installed it because some web site told them they have a virus and they need this thing to fix it.

Second, the only mention of their logging practices is buried below the fold in the last line of their description: "Onavo receives and analyzes information about your mobile data and app use." This is just vague enough to deceive a user that believes it is merely to support their user-facing features, i.e. giving you a report on what you use... not Facebook for spying purposes. Of course, most users never even get that far in the description. They're installing this to "secure their phone" because of a scary ad they saw.

These guys know exactly what they're doing. Most of their users, not so much. That's where we come in. The App Store exists to help protect users from this kind of exploitation and I hope Apple and our community takes action.
For me the biggest appeal of static sites is that I now have significantly less attack surface to think about. The chances of someone finding an RCE in Amazon S3 are way less than than the same occurring on some old Apache 2 server where auto-update broke a couple months ago because of the linux kernel headers eating up all my inodes.
Crowding out? Hardly. Are you opposed to allowing people to have this discussion?
As an American who moved to the UK, I second your defence.

Awareness that you might be misinterpreting something and seeking to get clarity is a virtuous habit, both in programming and in productive discourse.
I'm more interested in "short" long term options, e.g. a year or two. For pure tourism, tourist visas are more than enough.

Canada, for example has a Working Holiday visa which lets you remain for up to two years, travel and find employment (if you wish). There are restrictions: age, nationality and there are a limited number, but it's essentially a free ticket for 24 months.
I agree with all of your points. Science costs money. Somehow, however, we've made incredible scientific progress over the last 650 years with Science and Industry tightly dependent on one another (Science on Industry to conduct new research, and Industry on Science to open up new possible products and markets).

Unless we change something we'll get Industry stifling new knowledge (as in your examples) and stagnating as a result of its own actions. All that said...somehow it's worked fairly well for centuries, so I'm reluctant to accept heinous actions like these as the status quo, even if corporations can usually be counted on to act in their own short-term best interests.