skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's valid to prioritize access on the basis of social status, but I do think it's valid to prioritize need before entertainment. If you're playing a game and someone comes along who needs to fill out a job application form and there are no free terminals, you have a moral obligation to give up your seat.
No mention of Black Mirror?

Also: https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memo...
The paper went much further than presenting a summary of mashed up research from a variety of fields that investigate sex & gender variations. For that, all you need is some reprints of Nature and Scientific American.

Instead it wanted to connect that research to a) company policy and b) American-specific political divides. And to do that required a battery of assumptions regarding intention, merit, aptitude, worth, values.

That's where the wheels came off and everyone started projecting their own ideological interpretations, and you've been arguing past each other ever since.
My suspicion? A lot, and most of it from the older Metafilter users who, like me, miss the heyday of the link blog. That's basically what I use HN for.
I always see comparisons for gas consumption vs construction of electric vehicles but they never include the CO2 emissions related to producing ICEs and transmissions.
>> Christmas is worse than a puppy because you cant put Christmas in a sack and drown it.

I love this one.
Cooking is chemistry, enough adulterants in your flour would affect the final product. That's why there are different flours for different uses.

Also why are the bugs in the grain? Were they alive, or did they die in the grain after being doused with a pesticide somewhere in the mill and now you're eating pesticide too(besides the pesticide residue normally allowed on grains from spraying on the fields).
It's possible that Travis wants to regain control and suck out equity into this personal stake. Greedy mofo.
What? That's BS. I've been with Metafilter since its first month and its as great as it ever was!
The problem is more than it is hard to buy ads, they also missed their user growth target by a mile (24%). Slowing growth and losing buckets of money is not a great look.
Literally every one of their bios says they work for Google. My cat could’ve found them ..
I have a bit of a obsession with the Lisbon Metro, even though I don't use it very often. I started by building this:

https://github.com/gbl08ma/disturbancesmlx

This started as more of a statistics page for the service interruptions published by the Metro on their website, which I scrape. The slight tongue-in-cheekiness of my website, which opens up with a large text saying something like "XX days since the last disturbance", where XX is usually a single-digit number, made it become mildly popular (at least in terms of what I'm used to).

This particular subway system doesn't operate on a fixed schedule and doesn't show the ETA for the next train outside of the platforms nor on any app or website. (Google thinks there's a schedule, but they've been fooled.) They also don't publish usage stats for each station, which would be of great interest to everyone who likes daydreaming of expansions, network reorganization and the like. Furthermore, I read and heard multiple reports of delays and interruptions that never made their way to the website. So I decided to build a Android app to unobtrusively crowd-source data and communicate the service status back to the users...

https://github.com/gbl08ma/underlx

...and the very ambitious goal is to, one day, be able to calculate train positions and ETAs based on real-time data reported by the smartphones of people riding the subway. Pretty much "Waze for the Lisbon Metro".

Yeah, I've put months of work into this and there's absolutely no business plan; it perpetually feels 5% complete. But it's been fun putting together my second Android app, playing around with Postgres (after many years using MySQL), designing the REST API and writing the server in Go. I plan to use this big project as my sandbox for experimenting with machine learning and other AI techniques, as well as data analytics and visualization. There's already a small but extremely interested group of users, which really motivates me to keep working on this.
>It's an urban myth that Dvorak is any better than qwerty.

I think you're wrong. The Carpal X keyboard layout optimizer consistently ranks Dvorak as better than QWERTY for "effort" (which takes into account things like finger travel distance and how good we are at using certain fingers).

You can see the findings here: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?typing_effort

Their conclusion was to determine which layout is the best - their own layout, which I use, called QGMLWB was determined to be the one which requires the least typing effort. I'd recommend people try it.
Yep same in US. Social Security and Medicare are also paid by employer and most states have payroll taxes.
I think that's HPKP you're thinking of; HSTS only declares that the site plans to continue requiring HTTPS without specifying a CA or public key that it will use.
Who is putting up this kind of cash?!
What ultimately got him wasn't his "maverick rule-bending to compete against the establishment".

He created this bro-themed caricature of a corporate culture, and he did so for no reason other than enjoying that sort of atmosphere, or being incompetent to stop it. Or both.

Let's not start some sort of myth of martyrdom around Kalanick by conflating these two. Although, yes, this strategy of braking local regulations and expecting to win a power struggle with every government anywhere was also on its last leg when he left, and would've gotten to him as well, sooner or later.
It was a lowrez repost of a screenshot and most of them aren't using their real names, at least not legibly.
> We cannot ask a question "are we alone" unless we know exactly what a whale sings about (if anything) or what crazy complicated dolphin or beluga chatter means.

I don't follow. You could say the same thing about any Earth-bound phenomena. There is an endless supply of interesting things to study on our planet. There's also an endless supply of space exploration waiting for us. To pick one to the exclusion of the other seems very shortsighted, given that we don't know what we'll find in either place.

Seems like pursuing all avenues of exploration is the best way to move us forward.
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Amazon in talks to offer event ticketing in U.S
How American Game Companpies Avoid Paying Income Tax
Wow, lyft, left, wow.
i have never encountered a more intense progressive echo chamber than what metafilter has become, and i visited it regularly for a decade
You are right there is a large gulf between the deep learning theory hype and the measurable improvements in physical quality of life that the hard sciences have proved themselves capable of.

However I submit a notable exception! The vision system of self driving cars is a neural network that is currently changing the world and there is no lack of explication, we know exactly how it works. These "convolutional neural network" infer object boundaries from differences in intensity among matrices of pixels by scanning different patches of the pixel matrix and cross comparing these patches.

But you are right there is a lot of hype. I think part of the issue is the collective idolization of "algorithms". The limiting factor is data. And we don't have the data required to development models that are agent like in structure. Self interested agent systems, that employ subject-object language, have only been developed once. And they needed a training dataset measured in millions of years of evolution.
And for the record, it literally translates to "shit" in Portuguese :)
I honestly have same question for a lot of articles these days. Especially with any sort of "hard to read" documents like research papers and stuff like long proposals/memos. I noticed trend where journalists just want to get clicks at any cost and willing to take things out of context to do so. Also there are more and more people that want to push their agenda with identity politics and rather than judge each idea on it's own merits, they will reject anything that comes from particular person/establishment/group that they don't like. After getting burned by this a number of times in recent past, from now on I always read original source before jumping to conclusions.
On the one hand that's kind of cool, but also really sad. We should do better.
I love Dvorak and I love my Atreus in Dvorak-mode. https://atreus.technomancy.us/
I haven't run into any issues with the latest npm. I did run into issues with getting yarn to do a basic install.
In the US, the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" could apply. The case would revolve around "intent".

Explaining to interrogating officers that you hated password forms and wanted revenge would be 1 to 5 years in federal prison (better than state). Explaining to interrogating officers that you accidentally copy pasted wrong - the case would be dropped. This is why you need see a lawyer always before answering questions you will be mislead.

"intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

https://www.nacdl.org/cfaa/
Shame about the doxing(on either side of the discussion) but I'm not sure why it precipitates cancelling the meeting
IMO, macOS has the most sensible keyboard shortcuts [0]. Moving the primary modifier from Control to Command might seem odd at first, at least that was the case for me when I first tried out macOS. But in the long run, I think it's more comfortable.

Common User Access [1] tried to fix the chaotic mess that was DOS... But by then it was too late, so we ended up with a few really stupid shortcuts. My least favorite is Alt+F4 / Ctrl+F4. On macOS you close documents or windows with Cmd+W, or you close the whole application with Cmd+Q. Having to reach up to the F-row is awkward.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/macos/human-interface-guidelines...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
It seems to be more for brand advertising. Meaning you're not trying to convert people right from the ad.
metafilter used to have left slant but a degree of diversity. i specifically recall ironhands(? or similar) as a respected conservative commenter. those days are long, long gone. having the wrong opinion gets you run out.
That's just your opinion, which not everyone will share, and it is rather gauche to say it here. It is possible to compliment mefi on HN without insulting HN in the process.
Earlier post of same article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14985001
I am not sure why you are putting words in my mouth, I never said anything about me not understanding the subject or demanding that you should explain the subject to me.

Please read my post again and if you can, address the points made there.

EDIT: those points, slightly expanded, are:

1) Could it be that Newtonian/Einsteinian models of motion in extremely distant, never visited places are extrapolations in error? If not, how do we know that, since we cannot experiment there, with massive objects on astronomical scales?

2) Is working in line of a popular paradigm much more preferable to most researchers than proposing a radical new theory that is inconsistent with it?

3) Searching for different model / theory is hard work but if it successfuly explains something and provides directions to continue, is preferable to fitting massive quanta of data to a model with infinity degrees of freedom (density of dark matter in space).

4) It is hard to find an example of scientific theory fitting all the evidence. Fitting all the evidence suggests we are doing a fitting exercise, not a scientific theory.
Probably to keep employees who ask live questions from being harassed.
Nice edit to your comment.

Originally, claudfuen wrote something like:

"Wonder if we'll see more acquisitions this space, like askned.com."
I used to do this because I'd do personal stuff at work. recently i changed jobs where i face outward towards a wall instead of towards others. I work 100% during work hours on my work computer, though I frequently check social media/news on my personal cell phone -- especially while waiting for things like compilation or deployment :) so i guess I solved that problem by only using my handheld devices for stuff I'd rather not have anyone see. all in all its kind of nice, it raises the barrier to coming to distract me if my back is turned to you and my headphones are on. I thought i'd hate it but i wound up liking it just fine
The greatest thing VIM does for me is lettting me use comma as a shortcut key. Ctrl feels painful as a prefix key in comparison to using comma.
Perl and Bash too.
What value does NEM Blockchain add to currently available technologies
Considering how much Ticket Master sucks, it's a good call.

Aside: I'd really like to see blind auctions for seating... You name a price, when the round completes, seats are offered in best-worst order, then another round... After two, remaining seats are priced out at the average to min price paid in the auction rounds.
If you know, say Agda, Idris is not hard. The point is the concepts in Idris are hard, not the language. People learning haskell as first language in universities have more difficulty learning OO language than we have as we already know many OO languages.
To put it another way, the mods are modding. They're modding out reposts. Repetitiveness. Copypasta. The same-old rehashes. Trolls. Vitriol. Attacks on other users. Rule violations. Pile-ons. That's what makes it great and better than most of Reddit on any given day. That modding affects everyone. I had a comment deleted just last week: I was too chatty on an Ask Metafilter response and bloop, away it went.
"These days"? This is nothing new. People did the same with Coors back in the 1960s and 1970s. Quoting from http://www.cpr.org/news/story/coors-boycott-when-beer-can-si...

"For some Americans in the 1960s and 1970s, Coors—the iconic Rocky Mountain brew—signified views about labor, race, and gender equality. The Coors boycotts, beginning in 1966 and lasting, for some people, right up to the present, connected a wide spectrum of activists and organizations, much like the successful grape boycott organized by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in the 1960s. ... In 1969, 43 Chicano students at Southern Colorado State College (SCSC) - now Colorado State University-Pueblo- joined hands around the campus pub to keep people from ordering any Coors beer. ... The boycotts had a clear financial impact. In California, where anti-Coors sentiment was high, the company’s share of the state beer market slid from 40 percent in 1977 to 14 percent in 1984."

Here's a quote from "The Milagro Beanfield War", written in 1974.: "Okay, gimme a pack of Camels and a Coors tallboy. No, wait a sec, make that a Hamms, there's a boycott on Coors."

Here's an article from the Lakeland Ledger Dec 28, 1975, https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19751228&id=... . Among other things, numerous gay bars in SF stopped serving Coors already by that time.

Regarding K-12 teachers, see https://www.aclu-wa.org/docs/free-speech-rights-public-schoo... . They have First Amendment rights. "However, if you use social media to comment about students, school or other work-related matters, or you use it to engage in what might be considered conduct impairing your functioning as a teacher, the First Amendment may not protect you."

It then lists some examples:

• a court upheld a demotion of a teacher who posted derogatory comments about a school administrator on her blog.

• a court upheld the firing of a teacher who communicated with students through MySpace inappropriately, “as if he were their peer.”

• A court upheld the firing of a teacher who posted sexually explicit Craigslist ads (“immoral conduct” made him unfit to teach).

The relevant Supreme Court case is Garcetti v. Ceballos, which applies to all public employees.

As the last point shows, K-12 teachers are often subject to morality clauses, with a gray area in what that means. Olivia Sprauer in FL was fired for working in off-hours as a glamour model, wearing bikinis.
Exactly. This is potentially very damaging to every Californian, because suddenly a rich guy is able to block beach access from public.
What draws Americans to anarchy? It’s more than just smashing windows
Did you read the study?

From the Reuters article:

"Despite the widely held view that cannabis is benign, this research adds to previous work suggesting otherwise," said Ian Hamilton, a lecturer in mental health at Britain's York University.

There are several “handwaving” maneuvers in the paper, best summarized by this quote from lead author (PhD candidate):

"Yankey said were limitations in the way marijuana use was assessed -- including that researchers could not be sure whether people had used the drug continuously since they first tried it."

A direct quote from the paper shows this:

"Duration of marijuana use was estimated by subtracting participant’s age at marijuana use initiation from the age at the 2005 screen."

Then the conclusion begins with:

Marijuana use, especially prolonged years of use, may increase the risk of hypertension mortality…

------

Should be clear now.
I work on Empires Mod, a 10 year old real time strategy and first person shooter hybrid. It's playable for free and still has an active playerbase. It's very satisfying to fix bugs that have been around for more than 5 years.

We're currently looking for someone that can do UX design, if you're interested in making an impact on a live game send me a message.

https://empiresmod.com
How in the world do you have this kind of detailed insight?
>"Probably never will happen in social science, and in much of medicine. Too many confounding variables."

This is some kind of talking point. I'm not sure who is behind it, but it is totally false. There are tons of examples of this, especially from the pre-NHST era:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiber%27s_law

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

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17845298

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

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00221309.1934.991...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2916857/

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

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2007940/pdf/brjc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_output
Were they...unaware this could happen? Was James Damore not harassed over his internal memo?
Was not the fastest typer in the world a Dvorak user? http://rcranger.mysite.syr.edu/dvorak/ Not exactly a study but it can't be ignored in my opinion. Disclosure I am a Dvorak user so I may be biased.
You can use one for most of these functions if you switch to a tiling wm. i3 is popular and has very good defaults I find, I don't really need tmux when I can arrange terminal windows however I like with it.

Most tiling WM's are essentially 'tree style tabs' but for all windows. You organize tiles and children of a tree, in i3 you can also set tiles to stack so you get a tab-like appearance to a tree.
Yes - one of the problems
Imagine a theoretical scenario where they have 500 female applicants and 9,500 male applicants, but desperately want a 50/50 workforce. Then they logically would hire all female applicants, including those who are not part of the 2000 most capable applicants.

Using your number, with 2k out of 10k applications being indistinguishable elite, that means 1 in 5 applicants are suitable to be hired on merit. Assuming that female applicants are no better or worse than the men, you'd expect 100 of those 500 female applicants to be indistinguishable from 1,900 male applicants.

So then 400 women would be hired who are in fact distinguishable worse than those elite 100 women and 1,900 men.
Adding more nuclear makes energy cheaper and cleaner. Add more nuclear.
That isn't improbable - half the emissions associated with an IC-engine car stem from its manufacture[1]. Of course, the battery should be recycled, so you'd hope that in the long run those numbers will come down.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...
IANAL, but is it really a "taking" if the state wants him to maintain the existing level of access that the previous owner provided? At that point the public access seems to be implicitly part of the property he purchased and nothing is being expropriated.
http://socalabs.com/

I just started a few days ago, I'm making VST plugins that emulate sound chips from old consoles / computers. (There is also a weird vocal synth in there). Currently working on a C64, hope to have it done tonight.
I love this post. Really. I take public transportation from Long Island to NYC 4 times a week and I enjoy my zero-context conversations. It's a hoot-- "People"!

As with most things, once you draw a distinction, the factors go multi-dimensional.

To my example, many people I've met on the train don't wish to speak with anyone and they position themselves physically in the seats, in segregated spaces. But adversity and face to face seating bring people into relation. And with sufficient insight to a shared situation, and a bit of curiousity, people will find each other. They may never learn the other's name, but they will engage.

I might add, semiotically, context is just a shortcut, an economical expression of your message. What programmer doesn't like a one liner?!
How is that different than using a tiling window manager and opening new windows for every browser tab, terminal or editor buffer?

I personally like the current situation because I can group related work.
I'm starting to think it's a waste of time even pursuing battery storage on a large scale. Sometimes going low-tech is the better and cheaper way.

This tech looks _way_ more promising and it's already in use now:

Molten salt storage
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-concentrating...

I have no idea the costs, but I'm sure if ramped up it could be cheaper.
And the taste is totally different
It's likely not distributed evenly between their three investments (and perhaps three separate funds), and with the late-stage checks typically being larger, it might impact the ROI of that late-stage fund more severely.

I don't really think the urgency is there, though, VCs have been dealing with illiquid companies for decades, if they need to wind down the fund, they will either distribute the shares directly to the LPs or create a placeholder SPV and distribute partnership interests.
I work on a simple 4-7-8 breathing relaxation app for iOS:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/essence/id768594011

Great for practicing and exploring — architecture, value types, test-driven development, etc.
> Highlights one of the big issues in (Linux) desktop

Huh? How is this any different in other operating systems?
Just watched the episode today LOL Insane stuff