skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you say would apply largely to certain parts of right-libertarianism.

As a left-libertarian, the NAP is the kind of sophistry that makes me not consider right libertarian truly libertarian, as taken to the extreme it can be used to actively deprive others of even the right to life, reducing liberty more than it increases it. (Most commonly is it used to protect property rights)

E.g. if I monopolise all sources of food, strict adherence to the NAP prevents you from using violence to prevent everyone else from starving to death.

The left-libertarian view would be that the right of life is far more essential to liberty than property rights - if you are dead there is no way you can be free -, and so if many are at the threat of starvation over your property rights, liberty is maximised by taking your property from you, even at the cost of your life if necessary, as your act of monopolising an essential resources is morally equivalent to violence against everyone deprived.

This is a common good argument and individual liberty argument at the same time.
This just goes to show just how tragically far away we are from even beginning to build the rudiments of a strong general purpose AI. For all the fantastic achievements of systems like Watson and Alphago, and they are amazing achievements, they are radically optimised special purpose systems fine tuned to solving one extremely specific and narrow problem, and that problem only.

Watson is a case study in this, but I know Google has big plans for applying the tech behind Alphago in medicine. I wish them every success, but I'm concerned they will hit similar specialisation issues.
It's amazing how easy it is to set up a scam NPO.
> It was on the rise until Hitler physically liquidated the intelligentsia.

That's not true. Hitler didn't liquidate the intelligentsia. The first programmable computer ( by konrad zuse ) was created during that time. The first rockets were developed during that time. Hitler didn't wipe out all the nobel prize winners in germany.

Germany was still a major intellectual center before, during and AFTER ww2.

Germany is still the 3rd largest producer of nobel prize winners with 106.

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

Germany didn't go anywhere. Hitler isn't germany. Hitler is just a blip in german history.
BuzzFeed hires Eric Karp as its first head of licensing
When I worked at IBM I expressed concern that the television commercials depicting a HAL9000 level interactive dialog system were dangerously overselling what Watson could do.

The challenge, as I saw it, was that no matter how good the tools and products that were used to help companies with data analysis to improve their operations were, when they realize they can't talk to a cube and joke with it about misusing colloquial phrases their disappointment overshadows all the 'good' stuff it was doing for them.

No relationship works well if it starts with a lie and as this article shows, people do take those ads at face value and assume there really is a talking AI inside of IBM. Then they are hugely disappointed when they find out it doesn't exist.
I've heard the criticism that modern electronic music is repetitive from so many music snobs, but I still don't understand what it is they have against repetition. Why is repetition so bad? Also, why is lack of repetition considered to be superior?

Further, have these critics never heard of trance (as in the state of consciousness, not the music genre)? Or of altered states of consciousness brought on by drugs, (repetitive) music, and other means, to which the repetition in music can be so sympathetic? There is also the simple visceral response that people have to music -- a response that defies analysis, is not intellectual.

Many people clearly enjoy being in the space that relatively simple, repetitive music brings them to, and I'm still puzzled why that's seen as being so wrong.
Coinbase raises $100M Series D led by IVP
Microsoft too:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-service...
Conservatives have destroyed the meaning of the term by using it in every instance they see liberals agreeing with something they do not.
I worked at a Biotech. many companies store unpatented DNA sequences as secret intellectual property.
Exploring the census income dataset using bubble plot
What's a "safe implementation" of C?
Hearing distances like 12 light years makes you think if it is ever possible to travel there.

However, when you start to think about it, nihilist thoughts start to kick in.
Ah, apologies; confirmation by Google SERP was my ruination!
That's just not true. Normal people who understand and utilize this concept turn out meals much faster and much better than the ones who do not. It does take time to get it - but when it does it just clicks.
FYI Neil Patel is the co-founder of both CrazyEgg and Kissmetrics. He blogs, has a popular podcast and gives away some pretty valuable marketing information for free. I follow him and have never thought that he was primarily an SEO expert. He speaks about startup marketing and SEO is certainly a big part of that.

He does preach that unless you have the capital, blogging and SEO are one of your few alternatives for marketing in the beginning of your startups life. He may very well be wrong on SSL but surprised he doesn't have other fans on here. I personally have learned a lot from the guy.

https://thestartupchat.com/

http://neilpatel.com/blog/
My point is that if you are going to fake a graph to bolster your opinion, you might as well fake one that actually bolsters your opinion, instead of just mildly suggesting that not everyone disagrees with you.
They're being downvoted because their point, and yours, is absolutely bunk. You pick one or two token things on which they agree, and ignore an entire host of issues on which they have significant differences.
These quotes make for a nice dramatic effect, but the reality is much simpler:

Cooking & cleaning is a much bigger time investment than shopping for ingredients. In 10 minutes in a grocery store I can buy enough food for 10-15 meals, which would take hours to cook (in aggregate). The comparison stands even when you include driving to the store (before any pedants try to be contrarian)

Blue Apron is optimizing the smaller part of the time pie required for eating, but at a higher cost than delivery (that optimizes the larger part of the pie for less money, usually)

That's why takeout is a decades-proved business model and Blue Apron is a VC-subsidized non-business.

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That being said, I do agree with it being a virtual reality company. And by that I mean a company that can't really exist in actual reality.
Python has a nice trick for commenting regexs with re.VERBOSE. I use it for all non-trivial regexs.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#re.VERBOSE
ohh, i see
I doubt kickstarter pays 3% in fees...
As if ICEs are going to be replaced for emergency power generation any time soon. And with new tech coming out where regular gasoline engines can be as efficient as diesels (in fact using the Diesel cycle to a degree) if not more, you're going to find a resurgence of them in hybrid-electric vehicles. I doubt you're going to be rolling around with a solar-powered weed-eater to do your yardwork. I can guarantee you aren't replacing the ICE for things as large as earth movers any time soon.
sigh I know what airline status is thanks. I also know where I normally sit in the list of upgrades given the route and number of empty seats.

When I respond negatively to surveys I get upgraded almost immediately, others have noticed this trend as well.
I love mynoise though, when I'm fed up with ACRN this generator does a pretty good job too : https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/windchimesGenerator.php
I'm not arguing we shouldn't try to get things more balanced. Maybe a better analogy is one side of the see-saw is winning because bullys (gender discrimination) are shoving people off one side. So to fix the problem, we decide to start shoving people off of the other side too. So now it is in balance, but everybody is shoving each other and generally being jerks.
Musk Confirms 'Boring Company' to Build Underground Hyperloop from DC to NYC
I am pretty familiar with the Nazca geoglyphs. (flown over several times) I favour the theory of tethered kites as the are steady 25mph winds over the area, pretty much every afternoon.

While flying a local "expert" (Eddy Herran) on the area, he showed me a geoglyph resembling a basic hang glider (rogallo wing).

Flying over the Nazca lines, stands as one of the most mind-bending experiences of my life. The whole area is full of mysticism and unexplained situations.
There's no evidence that nonionizing radiation like microwaves can cause cancer. I think that was probably more likely due to the fact that everyone back then smoked about 4 packs a day.
The stdlib not working without GC, making not truly optional, is one of the main reasons I stopped using nim - though I haven't checked if this is better in some time.
It actually beats them.
> remembering the exact syntax of each of the different common regex engines

I have the same problem. There's no way around those little differences other than to suffer them. It simply isn't feasible to remember all the nuances of the different flavors.

I just know one really well and rely on getting it wrong for the others: guess, test, revise, repeat.
Should employees be allowed to raise concerns about practices that appear to waste resources or lower morale? (I'm thinking of things like compulsory diversity / bias training)
Oh it totally could be worse in an absolute sense. But for the BBC...this seems quite bad. Its one thing to get that language from an ad or distractify. Quite another from the Beeb
Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell, the first author is an undergrad CS student. If I had to pick anyone to do a study like this, it wouldn't be someone who studies CS, it would be a social scientist. That being said, that doesn't preclude this from being good work.

I lost confident that this would be good work after reading the fourth sentence, though:

"Research suggests that, indeed, gender bias pervades open source. The most obvious illustration is the underrepresentation of women in open source; in a 2013 survey of the more than 2000 open source developers who indicated a gender, only 11.2% were women"

This is a textbook non-sequitur. It is trivial to show that a gender imbalance in a group or field, even an extreme one, is not proof of gender bias in that group of field; it's not even good evidence.

To be perfectly honest, after reading more of this "study," it's pathetic that this made it through peer review. Shame on this poor child's advisors.

As I suspected, PeerJ is an open-access, pay-to-play journal. I have to ask what kind of "peer-review" is involved. A science blog should have better standards than this.
Not banning, but charging higher tolls for empty cars than cars that have a load or person in them.

Econ 101!
I'm a big fan of Yarn precisely because it supports an "offline mirror" feature right now. In addition to caching downloaded packages globally, it can be configured to cache them in a local folder that can be committed directly to version control. That way, the local packages will be used when someone else clones the repo and installs things.

I gave an example of using Yarn's offline mirror option in one of my "Practical Redux" tutorial blog posts: http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/07/practical-redux-par... .
why can't you use DM?
Only if you're intellectually dishonest, or you've not been paying attention. For instance, how many parties are actively trying to suppress minority voters?
Love RegexBuddy. That feature along with the "use" tab which generates code for whatever language you select. I don't have to remember the specifics in all the languages I work in. I just select from the dropdowns, for example, "JavaScript (Chrome)" then "Use regex object to get the part of a string matched by a numbered group". Replace the placeholder variable names, and you're good to go!

It will also do things like warn you if you use named groups if your selected language doesn't support them, and the "Use" dropdown won't provide that option.

I really wish it wasn't Windows only.
How to recover deleted files from Android? (Yes, it is possible.)
I have a small private office that I just lease myself. I bicycle in every day and work "remote" for IBM. It's fantastic.

If I want some noise, I'll work from home (I have a 3-year old.)

The down side is that IBM's management has recently done a 180 on remote working and is now "strongly encouraging" me to move to one of their offices and work in a cubicle.

I'm pretty sure they won't actually fire me for not moving, but any promotion is probably going to be harder to come by until things (hopefully) swing back in the other direction.

Or I'll just retire. The benefit of living in Ohio is that I can save like 40% of my salary and still live comfortably. (And lease an office for $225/month!)
Someone is organizing a protest at Google
I have always found Gnome's design to be horrible - the goal of the windowing system and desktop environment is to direct as much attention as possible to the application in focus; to be absolutely as minimal as possible to get the job done. This is also why I feel the osx dock is atrocious.
The example of the cafeteria employee is saying that poor people are disproportionately harmed by increased prices. That's true. I argue that despite the regressive nature of consumption fees, they're important for a well-functioning market. The problems of poverty are important as well, but should not prevent us from using market-based solutions for allocating resources.
Crypto Boom: 15 New Hedge Funds Want in on 84,000% Returns
Hopefully they'd make it so even cranked to 11 it couldn't hurt anyone.
AMD changed their mind and are now sending samples to Phoronix (albeit too late for a launch day article).

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ryzen-Seg...

> We will also now be receiving Threadripper and Epyc hardware for testing to confirm their Linux state.
IKEA adds HomeKit to existing smart bulbs with software update, new color bulbs
Oh, I'm pretty sure that's why. Unless encrypted.google.com doesn't use that information? Anyway, I'd love to have some way to personalize my DDG results and tell them what to boost. Alas.
No, it's only ~500KB.
Yeah, tail call optimization has been in since node 6, I believe. _Maybe_ behind a v8 flag.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4698
This title is a bit imprecise. They detected four planets with lower bound on their masses to be down to 1.7 Earth masses. Because these planets don't transit, there are no direct measurements from their radius. They can use mass-radius relations to infer the radius of these planets, but the key finding is their masses (actually lower bounds on their masses).
Getting rid of combustion in urban areas is one of the biggest public health wins available, on the same scale as famous past examples like banning leaded gasoline. The only reason we haven't already done it is lack of alternatives.
"German carmakers are likely to stop developing new combustion engines in as little as six years as they focus investments in electric cars and self-driving technology, Continental said."

http://europe.autonews.com/article/20170803/ANE/170809854
In my country where everybody has a national ID, you go to police station when you turn 15 to pick it up. You don't have proof of address when you are 15 because you live with your parents. So they send letter to the address of parents.
There are strong critics of free bookmarking sites (@Pinboard in particular). Their main criticism is that without a revenue model, users will eventually lose their bookmarks.

What's your plan?
Because I HN links per default open in the HN app I, which is convenient.
Wow, what a beautiful piece. Fascinating mix of philosophy and art and science. It also made me even more excited to see the eclipse on the 21st.

I had been wondering if people would scream.
I dropped him off my regular rounds quite some time ago and am generally wary of clicking his site when it comes up in organic searches. I find his site incredibly annoying and very rarely is the information so unique that it couldn't be found elsewhere.
> Also the O'Reilly book "Mastering Regular Expressions" is probably worth gold.

The book is worth it's price if only for chapter 1, definitely seconding this recommendation.
a more accurate term would be "BRE with GNU extensions", e.g. \(\)
The article says that's going to start in October.
My family used a site that does what you described for a few months. http://www.cooksmarts.com/
It's important to note that Dalio is a successful fund manager because he has managed to convince investors to invest. His main funds have underperformed broad indexes for a long time. Sure there are some funds that periodically beat the market, but it's rarely the same funds or consistent. Perhaps his management philosophy is useful in sales or management, but it has not translated to success in the financial markets when compared to passive investing
I have very deeply conflicted feelings about Jordan Peterson. On the one hand, I agree with you that his own personal writing and stances are fairly transparent and reasonable.

On the other hand, he actively attracts and covets the deeply right fringes, and claims no responsibility when they use his stances for extremist viewpoints and attacks.

Example:

Jordan Peterson: "I think making mis-gendering someone a federal hate crime is a step too far and infringes free speech more than it protects trans people."

His supporters: "Yeah, FUCK TRANS PEOPLE!"

Jordan Peterson: "<crickets>"
Couldn't the same kind of argument be made about buying ingredients from the grocery store to make meals?

"What making meals from store-bought ingredients delivers is not exactly convenience -- ordering takeout is a lot more convenient -- but the perception that you are doing something complicated and real and primal while you are actually, through the miracle of technology, doing something much easier [than harvesting your vegetables, slaughtering and butchering your own animals, grinding your own flour, etc]"
That's actually a very normal technique and one of the reasons professionally cooked food tastes so much better than most home cooked food. Frequent salting at different points of cooking improves the overall flavour of the dish, and seasoning ingredients separately can help with coverage.

Additionally something seasoned at the start of cooking won't be "salty" like if you were to add salt directly on the food after its plated.

You don't add a crap ton of salt 5 times, just a pinch here and there and the outcome is great.
Your statement that "he complained about the plight of the conservatives at Google, and suggested that women as a group are innately less capable technologists," is not a fair recounting of his arguments. He claims that Google's internal cultural dynamic is hostile towards conservatives, and that Google's hiring policy towards women is inappropriately favorable. There is nothing innately contradictory about these beliefs.

Damore never argues against using groups to make big picture, strategic decision. Quite the opposite. What Damore is arguing is that Google's strategic decisions are rooted in ideology, not research, and the consequences of those decisions are discriminatory at the individual level. Worst of all is that because those decisions are rooted in ideology, they can't be questioned.

Of course, Damore makes several other arguments. Damore suggests that Google's minority retention practices are discriminatory and ineffective, while agreeing that Google's corporate environment is likely a poor fit for women.

Damore does make recommendations on how to show sensitivity towards women in order to boost retention of women and he bases these recommendations of his understanding of current, replicable research in psychology. What's important to note about Damore's recommendations is that while strategically they favor women, on an individual basis they do not. The practices that Damore suggests would be as open to men as they are to women.
2 years back We used to get a cabin office @Qualcomm for all Engineers same as VPs. Now Staff Engineers and above still get cabin office and others have moved to cubicles. We have a lab where most of us sit in the afternoon to collaborate. I must say this is the only place where I saw in my career where a fresh grad got cabin offices.
It feels great to code in isolation uninterrupted. It also feels great to collaborate in lab with other folks and also code there.
The problem is not mise en place itself, that is important to not burn or overcook various ingredients, it is that they have you mise en place _everything_ when you might be taking 3 of those ingredients and putting them into a bowl. That's a waste of time and dishes.

Just say: chop these 3 things and add them to the same bowl you are going to marinate next

source: frustrated Blue Apron customer :)
It would make more sense that way.
What would be much more interesting is if instead of bickering, Stockhausen and Aphex Twin collaborated to create a new work together, like Beethoven and Goethe might have. What a wasted opportunity.
I always think "what did they do" as if they're a criminal when I see this. But, realistically they're probably as likely to be a victim!?!
Which components? The Jeopardy-Watson didn't have any components immediately relevant to targeted sentiment analysis; it would make sense to acquire the missing components externally.

Quite a few seemingly similar AI/natural language/etc problems are actually very separate.
"there are quite a few scientific studies linked"

to support the premises maybe, but even then the conclusions are still largely unrelated to the premises and unsupported by any of the studies cited. I don't see anything particularly hackerly about defending bad attempts at science and have been continually attacked for this opinion for some reason I'm sure has nothing to do with people on both sides ignoring scientific procedure when it comes to either of their political interests.
> Remote, IBM

Did this not affect your role: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ibm-tells-its-...
Wasn't this memo a reply to survey about diversity within Google? So they kinda asked for that topic themselves and there happened to be this one guy unkeen to jump into cheer pressure, trying politely and using best available to him science materials to defend his own belief?

Also, "Blacks on average are [insert negative here]" is quite a bad title, I agree. But "On average we don't get much productivity return from pursuing black candidates specifically and here's why" is probably more acceptable, even if math cited is bad, then someone could just correct you - or would you not talk about this at all as well?
Terminator has not been updated in 9 years, suggesting a lack of maintenance, and is stuck on GTK2, which means no native Wayland support. Tilix, on the other hand, is active, GTK3-based, and works natively on my Gnome Wayland desktop.
You can forget about Node.js, Python or Ruby for any meaningful app, like a web API. Erlang/Elixir is also iffy, I'm pretty sure. Java, last I check, had a default heap size of 64MB, and does badly on less.

I've written small Go programs that can consume around 15-20MB on low traffic. But they also have huge spikes in memory usage when you have concurrent requests hitting them.