skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, this brings back memories of an adidas campaign I worked on for the Stan Smith launch in the UK. I had a backend that would automatically generate an image from a given tweet [1] but we were mindful of this exact sort of problem so built a whole CMS around it to allow a social media manager to automatically tweet back from the official adidas account. It would include their stylised label and various auto-populated messages they could edit if they liked.

All works well until the evening shift comes on based outside of the UK and they end up sending out a tweet [2] with a picture of Dr Harold Shipman - a notorious serial killer [3].

[1] https://twitter.com/adidasuk/status/422704045229219840

[2] https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/517511/evil-harold-sh...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman
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This to me, is one of the GREATEST advances since Unix was created. Seriously, how !@#!@# amazing is it to be able to yank a pool from illumos, Linux, FreeBSD etc and swap it into a box of another OS supporting ZFS and simply import it wether its encrypted or not but especially encrypted!

I don't know if most of you are old enough to remember the absolute HELL of dealing with tape drives, and UFS to trying to get data recovered or migrated before ZFS. It usually resulted in tears.
This reminds me Stanza (http://lbstanza.org/). Do you know it and what differences would you point out ?
Libraries serve a very important function, preserving and distributing knowledge. Yes, internet access can mitigate some of the needs, but even then many use libraries to access the internet.

Though an interesting idea would be to combine the roles of a library with a traditional pub house.
I experience these symptoms from work days during prolonged periods of high stress. I don't usually get it from programming during less stressful times and I've had just the same issues during a month when I somehow ended up with a bunch of non-programming tasks.
Why not fund libraries all over the world?
> I should have said, "the ruling in this case, has said it isn't clear if the agreement should be binding".

The injunction didn't say that either. The only thing it said is that LinkedIn can't block HiQ for the time being. This is common in lawsuits that both parties be prevented from action until a decision is actually made. The decision has not been made yet.

> Nobody is taking anybody's data.

I think I used a poor verb, or you misunderstood me. I meant that HiQ wants to copy LinkedIn's data for their own business. In some sense that can be viewed as theft, and that is the way LinkedIn sees it. Under that view, the verb "take" is appropriate, but it doesn't mean that the original copy is transferred or destroyed, it just means that HiQ is now in possession of a copy.

> There are many laws that may invalidate the EULA.

True, and I don't claim otherwise. "No court has ruled on the validity of EULAs generally". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_license_agreement#Enf...

> Its purpose is irrelevant if it is not binding.

It's (a EULA's) main purpose is for communicating expectations, which I'm arguing is relevant even if it's not binding. If the EULA says "we can refuse service to you", and then service is refused, then it's not a surprise.

In a legal sense, this could (but is in no way guaranteed to) reduce liability. What I'm suggesting is that even if the contract is not binding or valid, if you break the rules and get banned from a site, the EULA may still provide a defense in court from the site being sued by the person to whom service was refused. The site can say "we posted the rules, this person broke the rules" and the person may not have any legal support in favor of getting the service after they broke the site's arbitrary rules.
In fact, only growing trees have significant net absorption of CO2. Older trees, specially the non-fruit bearing kind, have negligible net CO2 absorption. Cutting down old trees may not be good for the ecosystem, but it is great for CO2 absorption, as long as something else is planted in its place, preferably a very fast growing tree.
For a different view on this, see The Trickery of the US Military Budget.[1]

"A key federal budget trick is using words to confuse citizens, such as labeling U.S. military spending as “defense” though much is for “offense” and sliding costs for wounded soldiers under “veterans affairs” and nuclear bombs under “energy,” as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains..."

Also, from [2]:

"The most recent figures related to President Trump’s proposed increases in Pentagon spending, along with cuts at the State Department, show the general national security budget of the United States rising once again, with the 2018 proposal in the ballpark of $1.1 trillion."

Finally, see [3], where the budget breakdown is:

The Pentagon budget - $575 billion

The war budget - $64.6 billion

Nuclear warheads - $20 billion

‘Other Defense’ - $8 billion

Homeland security - $50 billion

Military aid - $7 billion

Intelligence - $70 billion

Supporting veterans - $186 billion

Military retirement - $80 billion

Defense share of interest on the debt - $100 billion

[1] - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33833.htm

[2] - http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2017/06/02/1015056-the-milita...

[3] - https://warisboring.com/the-trillion-dollar-military-budget/
I think this is a best (but not perfect) analogy for hyperlinks.
No, it's not. It's regulated by the government.
For the past few years I've been doing the most boring thing but it works. I'm eating minimally processed foods, sticking mainly with vegetables, fruits, and meat, avoiding bread, pasta, and any drink with calories.

For exercise I've been focusing on weight training, specifically compound movements with a barbell (squats, presses, cleans, pulls) and HIIT for cardio. I had been working out at home but recently I joined a CrossFit gym and I like it better.
I don't want to spam you. I really think the list can help you. You can find books which talked by hundreds people in HN, Stack Overflow and Reddit.
You can checkout it here: http://toptalkedbooks.com/
I really like the parallaxed, knolled layout of a car's parts that you did for your ad for your 'Ultimate Video Course' (middle of https://www.howacarworks.com/basics/the-engine).
How long did that take to finish?
Well, coal is in a very real sense concentrated trees, accumulated over massive timescales. So it isn't terribly strange that a handful of decade's worth of trees couldn't offset that.
First of all, congrats. That sounds like an amazing opportunity and I am legitimately jealous.

I imagine the competitiveness is quite different between an online program from Georgia Tech for ~4,500 students[0] and an onsite program at Princeton for a few dozen. :)

[0] https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/prospective-students/numbers
Both fine here (UK)
Will cancer ever be solved? Isn't cancer many different problems that got the same label?
To conflate these 2 completely different things is very lousy of you, and pathetic. But It does let me see what sort of person you are, and were brought up to be.

So id like to ask you to please justify how you linked a controversial Google memo that got a guy fired, with the trash lines you just wrote. Now is your chance to explain yourself. Or... you can leave it for all to see. Its your embarrassment!
And we all know that only the United States can have libraries.
In my, outside of the valley experience, getting jobs is usually about talking to someone you know who know some one who knows someone. The sites where you spam your resume unannounced into a hiring inbox are not generally a high percent choice.

Do you have any local connections? The local development shops usually know a guy who knows a guy who has a start up who is hiring a few people. Typically, if you can find your way into a few local conferences, maker spaces, or gatherings generally there are a few companies who are hiring someone.

In a university setting, you are looking for professors who have some money to throw around of a one off project or know someone else who does. Think internships here. Typically colleges have a jobs/employment office specifically designed to find you jobs/coops/internships they are an excellent resource.
The book is based on research, and there are a lot more research that has been done on the subject since it was published. Feel free to read the book and the follow-up studies, or don't, but I am not gonna go and read it again to find citations to post here.

What surprises me is that you don't seem to agree any bit with the notion that less is more. I however see it all the time in my work as a developer. It's easy to add features in one long list, but users don't respond well to that. What makes a product that users appreciate is a tight package where features has been distilled to what is important and lets the user access the features they need in a convenient way. What doesn't make a user happy is when they have to hunt around for functionality or can't remember how to do stuff because there is to many features that clutters the interface and makes the experience of using the product more complex.
Not sure if it's relevant but you can avoid having elapsed time in the formula and instead inflate the scores of the newer stories (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9889750)

Then you only have to recalculate when there is a submission or vote.
He sadly added that in after the fact. The alt-right celebrated him not pointing fingers at what they just did.
Thats not my opinion, thats fact. Its been screenshotted on their website.

Strong condemnation came from other people like McCain etc. But not from Trump. The DOJ is currently headed by Jeff Sessions, ill let you google his views on race. (unless you want me to do that for you also)

You are one of many on here pretending to be moderate to normies. Not fooling anyone.
blue origin or spacex is going to send a rocket up there and comeback with a pile of literal bitcoins, in a treasure chest. Then we will fly to Mars and live there with the money we make from collecting bitcoins from space.

Everything about this is hype. Everytime I hear someone talking about bitcoin, I squint my eyes and think, I don't think you know what you are saying. This is another case of that for sure.
Spec loves data structures
All my friends use Stripe, but I'm stuck with PayPal b/c I don't have a debit card.
That seems quite dodgy and definitely a red flag. 3 months notice period is quite rare. You should push for more standard 1 month.
I'm kind of in a similar position. I have a PhD in a field kind of far away from CS (although that's debatable) and am thinking of transitioning more into CS.

The problem is that a second bachelors, while something I'm willing to do, seems kind of problematic for various reasons. Some of the curriculum in a typical CS bachelors seems like something I could benefit from tremendously, but some of it is very remedial. It's very uneven.

What I'd like is something like the Georgia Tech online master's, but with some kind of program for persons such as myself. I know some schools have these kind of postbaccalaureate degree programs, but they're not online.
>You use quotes to show that I said something but I did no such thing.

No, I explicitly stated that I was grouping your posts in with others that seem similar to me (and acknowledged that I could be in error on that).

>But regardless, at least they don't stoop to putting words in my mouth that I never used in that particular order and with that particular goal.

You're a software developer, right? So think a bit more abstract. I suspect my point fits to things you've written in this thread.

>Let's hope not, it would be painful for all involved.

Why? Thinking stupid things is part of growing up. The much more important bit is eventually correcting as many of those things as possible.

>But the present day Nazis and their sympathizers have no such excuse.

Here we're in agreement. If someone identifies as a Nazi then the game changes. But I just see a lot of e.g. Trump supporters right now that I can't shake the feeling that they're not being evil they're just ignorant on a lot of things the rest of us aren't.

>It's not going to be a large change but speaking out about this stuff is the least that we can do.

Please don't take my replies as trying to shut you down. My point is entirely about tone. Nothing else.
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It amazes me that the media & democrats still have not figured out how shrewd Trump is. The aforementioned consider themselves intellectuals, and Trump the buffoon. Trump has a hell of a track record turning everything they say against them. He is is REALLY shrewd. They keep playing by his rules, and end up with egg on their faces. Maybe the'll figure out not to fall for playing his game. I find it all quite entertaining; bait and troll.

Whatever he failed to say, it's deliberate and calculated, and they are playing right into it. They'd better just wait it out for 4 years, because their collective intelligence does not match his shrewdness.
The answer probably is: "Capital could be better spent on the core businesses" rather than that they can't.

Even Amazon with all its projects has limited attention it can spend. Becoming a bank isn't something you half-ass, which is why they'll just continue to do cobranded cards with companies who are already banks.
Can somebody ELI5 how cryptocurrencies don't run afoul of Ponzi scheme laws? The only way the price can be going up is if new money is coming in constantly, right?
Interesting, The University of Southern California announced yesterday that they dropped Uber (in what was probably the largest implementation of this type of program) for Lyft
This is also true of banks and other old, large companies with well established infrastructure.

But, I didn't think to look to the military or federal government. Thanks!
Hey that's me! See my other comment about China having the best chance at AGI.

Still not sure what idols you're claiming are being worshiped. Fromm is discussing that there is misplaced mysticism that is imbued onto material "things." Not sure how that is conflated with my point - however I suppose it's an easy conclusion to make with a trivial discussion on the topic. Glad to see that my point has made impact, now it's about how to refine expressing it.

Also I didn't advocate building it in the shadows and in fact I don't think that's really possible anyway. Google doesn't explain to the public how it gets your search results, but experts are well aware of how it works. That's really all I'm saying. Simply that you don't need to tell everyone everything all the time because it's unnecessary.
With all the shenanigans Microsoft is trying to pull with Windows 10 they obviously couldn't keep calling it "My Computer", because that's be... well... a blatant lie.
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That is figuratively the worst title I've ever read.
This paper battery is powered by bacteria in your spit
Wait, didn't he already replace the need for libraries with kindle and kindle unlimited monthly service? Heh.
Consider also "Quantum Computing Explained" by McMahon.
Why would anyone think libraries are important in 2017?

If things keep getting digitalized at the current speed, all knowledge of the world will be accessible online in our lifetime.

Unless you believe that a large percentage of citizens will not be able to afford a device for accessing the internet, libraries are a waste of money.

Oh and since librarians were mentioned, if AI keeps advancing, we will be able to have a conversation with a search engine within 30 years. So who needs a librarian?
Is there a college near you? They often have career fairs where employers are looking to hire entry-level employees. It may take some digging to find these fairs, because they often aren't advertised off-campus.
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A MongoDB Engineering Response to the Anti-Diversity-Effort Manifesto
In the comments, there's a link to this timeline of parsing techniques with one or two things I hadn't seen before:

https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Ocean-of-Awareness-blog/

Author then modernizes one of the better ones.
1) No one was fired.

2) He did that 3 hours after I posted this, and long after they had all left.
Well, Code and the browser are my main two applications... the rest take up very little by comparison. But, you're right, I wouldn't want to rely on a dozen electron based apps being loaded. That doesn't mean it isn't a good option for a lot of things.
My buddy and I gave a talk about how we solve the same problem at RedMart. We're not as large as Ocado (yet?), but this video has more technical content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fmFb3r7Tmg
Seconded - I'm reading it now and probably consider it one of the most personally influential books I've ever read. It doesn't hurt that Haidt is just a seriously talented writer.
I have only rarely have felt this from programming (at work or not).

But as a competitive chess player, I do usually experience it at the end of (especially) weekend tournaments, where there is generally 3 consecutive days of 8-10 hours of intense concentration. The fog is gone after a good sleep and day of rest.
I feel like this sort of abstraction is hyperpersonal, and if your parents tried to share this vague idea they would use alternative language or slight shading on the idea and it wouldn't stick.

I frequently find when I try to share an idea and it's this abstract, it makes perfect sense in my head but it's clear it doesn't land at all.
I suspect they are encouraging people to lie on their applications, which gives companies a defense to any sort of fired for cause lawsuit.
But small trees tend to die, so a better measure is by area planted. Internet is telling me trees fix about 7.7g/m²/d of CO2 (not carbon) and Pakistan has planted about 350k hectares. So that's about 4.6 million tons of CO2 per year once established.

Edit to add:

There is some hope though, as there are some people trying to work out the carbon fixation in the soil, indirectly caused by the trees, which might boost the numbers for healthy forests substantially over tree farms.
> Buffett's premise on not giving much of his wealth to his children

I mean, it's still an insanely huge amount of money he'd be giving to his children (Gates as well). 1% of his networth is $762 million - you're talking about an insane amount some people are going to get just by being born (even after taking into account inheritance taxes and splitting the money among siblings).

And we should also remember that charity is a form of conspicuous consumption for the ultrawealthy. Huge charitable donations are the modern day equivalent to monuments or statues. You're well passed the point where your money can increase your personal well being, so you might as well spend it on something that makes people pay attention to you, wins you accolades and gives you a legacy.
I didn't see anyone else point how much money is already spent on cancer research. For perspective, the National Cancer Institute has a budget of about $5.4 billion for 2017, and that's not the only source of funding for cancer research. So in short, more than $20 billion has already been spent on cancer research and while an extra $20 billion would obviously help, it wouldn't be any sort of guarantee, let alone instant solution.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/budget
1. The statement (politico) you refer to was made 5 days after the incident, in a private meeting, Obama said it was "hate crime", did not use the word "racist", did not mention they were BLM sympathizers.

2. Obama did speak up just one day after the events [1], but he did not specifically mention BLM in particular, claiming lack of confirmed info (justifiably so)

Trump immediately spoke up, but did not mention white supremacists, drawing huge criticism.

I am far from a Trump enthusiast, but can you not see double standard applied here?

[1] Full transcript here:
http://fortune.com/2016/07/08/transcript-obama-dallas-police...
Literally is non-figuratively no longer a word that means anything.
> I wonder if the author's energy level issues were due to his "ever-increasing consumption".

I'm the author. Apparently caffeine affects people in different ways.
Ehh modern engines are pretty reliable. They can easily do over 200k miles. The actual combustion part is basically a solved problem. Modern fuel injection (amongst other things) has done wonders for engine reliability. It's usually other things that cause people to want to ditch cars around 150-200 k. E.g. the automatic transmission failing, timing belt (instead of a chain) failing around 100k, alternator and other electronics, pumps, etc.
That's cool! I've never seen a parser generator that does that!
This shows up at least monthly; maybe eventually I will get around to writing up the recommendations but for now you're on your own:

Ask HN: What are your favorite podcasts? (62 comments 20170721) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14819798

Podcasts to make you smarter (49 comments 20170711) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14737772

Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why? (77 comments 20170623) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14616998

Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to? (62 comments 20170611) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529759
The unfamiliar directory structure was always an issue, but even worse was using ftp on windows, which defaulted the transfer mode to ASCII, so if you forgot to change it, you'd end up with corrupt files most of the time.
After Microsoft learned this lesson with "Tay" I'm surprised companies are still making this mistake. Also, "hijacked" seems like the wrong word. More accurate would be "misused".
I did not have an undergraduate degree in CS when I did my masters (not this program), I used her approach as well. I did numerous online classes, did community college courses etc. and shoulder watched classmates programming and asked lots of questions. It was not easy, but glad I did it !!!!.
Getting errors trying to run the default expression. HN Effect already?
This doesn't seem to distinguish between different types of masters degrees. I got a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from Cornell, and it's not a research degree^1. I enjoyed the program, but it was closer to a fifth year of undergrad. Similarly, the bottommost branch seems to assume you're doing the degree while having a fulltime job.

[1] If you were very self-motivated, you could do research. But, as a student who came into the program without doing so, I found myself unable to get into research. So the default was not research.
It's not belief. It's fact that a large percentage of citizens are unable to access desktop computers for work/jobs, though they might have an internet-enabled phone.

Have you ever been to a library in the inner city, or in any big city for that matter?
I just paid by PayPal. I'm reading this post on the couch relaxing and I have no desire to go get my wallet and dig out my credit card. Way easier.

Also, after watching a couple videos and reading the content, the production value and informational value of this is super high. By the time I learned what the price was, I was fairly surprised how cheap it was. $20 is what I spend on a sandwich and drink for lunch. So it was an automatic no-brainer. You could probably double or triple the price easily.
" ... literally ..."

From the article:

"Blockstream Inc. plans to make the digital ledger underpinning the cryptocurrency accessible via satellite signal so people without Internet access, or in places where bandwidth is expensive, can trade and mine bitcoin."
The same thing holds true for gold, diamonds, art paintings and fiat currencies.
Content from Stack Overflow has higher odds to survive than this, they've uploaded a data dump of all user-contributed data to archive.org: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange. It's all plaintext. This is really generous of Stack Exchange and shows they care for the long-term.