skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The internet vigilantes claimed some successes over the weekend. One rally participant, Cole White, was fired from his job at a hot dog restaurant in Berkeley, Calif."

Hmm.. so is that actually a win?

What is wrong with people? I seriously want to know. Both sides. How dumb do you have to be to march around with torches across the country because they are going to take down a statue of a Confederate general. And how much dumber have you got that you to be to try to prevent people from expressing themselves. Let them have a ball, march around all night with torches if they so please. Then buy a plane ticket home after the statue gets taken down having accomplished nothing but being a laughable buffoon. Why does it have to degenerate to intolerance and shocking stupidity in all directions? Has humanity always been like this? Or is it just spoiled moderns who don't live in the real world and think little tiny stuff is worth getting in a huff about because the vacuum of modern life has removed real problems from their conception? Anyway, the whole thing is disturbing. And unbelievable in juvenile foolishness. Very hard time conceiving what either side hopes to get out of their behavior here. The solution to people acting silly isn't to act silly yourself. It's laughter.
But hey, remember kids, it's just a bit of unfortunate collateral damage, totally justified when you gotta punch a nazi. After all, punching nazis worked well in the 40s.

/s
Who are the founders?
There's a service called college that millions of people begin each year. We'll barely be a drop in the bucket.

The demand for engineers is growing rapidly. You'll be just fine.
flux blows away the native options, which really feel like hacked together afterthoughts
Well it is rooted in basic anti intellectual thought. How can computer nerds possibly understand business? Therefore we will create fox pro and eliminate the nerds. In reality non programmers have to do guerilla tech work in secret. Yes, it was called guerrilla tech work because IT and nerds were so hated.
Must be a PERL programmer.
Dude has a

Tweets do not represent views of my employer, except when they do

on his bio, and proceeds to doxx (dox?) people in order to get them fired.

So much edge.

edit: formatting, typo
Underrated comment right here
And in the larger world?

What data are you relying on that suggests young men are advantaged?

I've just cited two very significant statistics that suggest otherwise.
Speed certainly can be a nice bonus, but you can also generate recursive descent parsers fairly easily if you have a suitable representation. My own parser generator attempts did that.

The feedback certainly is useful, and I'm all for people using such tools to validate grammars for testing. Though people manage to abuse that by writing extra code too (Ruby being a prime example of using a parser generator and then abusing the hell out of it in ways that complicates the grammar).

I really wish more work would go into research on automating error reporting, though. As much as I handwrite most of my parsers now, I wish I didn't have a reason to.
Would probably have to be. Our risk is much less.
I was actually disappointed that the title was obfuscated. I would have named it something like "P does not equal NP" or if I wanted to hedge my bets a bit more "A proof that P does not equal NP"
>Sentiment analysis of copyrighted text passages might be claimed as being a derivitive work for example.

So if a company releases a product that predicts likelihood of an employee quitting, you think you're going to have standing to sue because an analysis of a copyrighted passage you wrote comprised 0.000001% of the source material the algorithm was trained on?
>The more I am busy (with meaningful work) the less time I have time to feel bad about feeling bad or just thinking about this.

It can help as a distraction but not to fix the long term thought patterns - Anecdotally, I was super busy with meaningful work at university, but I was the most depressed I have ever been. The work offset it for some time, but it took a lot of non-work effort to improve the thought patterns.
Lowtechmagazine.com is a site worth reading article after article.
Been on that train for a while. Ever since Twitter banned Milo, who I'd never heard of until reading a news article about him being banned, the internet in the USA is slowly resembling the internet I experience in China whenever I visit the mainland. And the slippery slope is greased with "but muh private companies" even as these private companies become more and more monopolistic and indistinguishable.
As someone who has been doxxed, ridiculed, harrassed, hacked etc

I can absolutely confirm that life is better now outside of the public eye and I am very glad that google searches of my name has dropped off over the years
Interesting... In that thread, none of the commenters replied to any existing comment - they all replied at the top level. And it seems like a few skeptical comments were thrown in to make the discussion seem more credible - the users "cryptoscam" and "anash23" were also newly-created accounts with no other activity.

The text doesn't seem like it was generated by bots, however. The comments get shorter and shorter (with more typos) as if someone was getting tired of typing all that stuff.
the fact is that LinkedIn's EULA says that by visiting their site, you are agreeing to their contract

So what? The whole point here is that they can say and think whatever they want, but it doesn't make any difference if the law disagrees.
I occasionally quit caffeine as a way to recalibrate the tolerance that develops over time. But, within certain limits (my general consumption is 1-2 coffees a day, sometimes 3-4 if super tired or when exercising), there's very few negatives for most people, and quite a number of benefits. Nice explanatory video on the matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVE5iPMKLg
It's also completely trivial to arbitrarily change the "last modified" date of a file to literally anything you want on Linux with `touch -t`.
Are there any existing recordings of Alan Watts that don't contain a distracting background track? If what he has to say is actually useful, there is no need for the cheap trick.
Quite a difference between it being here in 5 years vs 25 years.
Apples may not be such a great choice for that - they don't reproduce to the same type from seed, many of the resulting fruits won't be much good (if you get any), and you need at least one other compatible apple tree in close proximity for pollination.

Basically the fruit is based on the tree you have, but the seeds in that fruit are a combination of the trees.
AFAIU, persecution of fundamentalist religious sects has never stopped in Russia; it preceded and succeeded the USSR. It might not often have the same imprimatur of the state as more notorious persecutions, but there's plenty of evidence that it has occurred up until this day. For example, this year there's been a crackdown on Jehovah's Witnesses, though I don't know if it's been nearly as severe as previous crackdowns. I don't care to debate whether these sects deserve to be let alone. My point is merely that the Russian police state can be exceptionally harsh. You can still find people and groups systematically traumatized by it; people and groups whose real experiences expose the ridiculousness of American conservative equivocations regarding persecution. The closest equivocation one could maybe reasonably make is to how the American state treats its black populations, but it'd still be a tenuous comparison. And even that disregards that the Soviet gulags were on another level entirely.

I can't know for sure whether my old co-worker was telling the truth. But there was plenty of circumstantial evidence that aligned well with the story. And while I don't know the precise timeline, it's not necessarily relevant.
You seem really hung up on what their EULA says, and I'm not clear on why. The question at hand is whether their EULA applies, so whatever is in it is 100% irrelevant to that question, right?
i care quite a lot for tea, but i use a kettle on the stove, not a plug-in one. it just tastes wrong, somehow, else.
I have zero experience with this, but I imagine working for three major competitors in such a short time can lead to some complicated situations regarding industrial secrets.

Compilers (specially open source) may be a stretch, but Tesla AI and Google AI? Can a contract clause protect one company when you're working for the other on the exact same field?

Again, I have no idea what I'm talking about, just curious.
It feels like a "duh" thing to me.

Emotions are adaptations. They trigger in particular circumstances and they cause particular behaviors. The entire point of having an emotion is to engage in emotionally appropriate behavior until the circumstance has passed. Positive emotions are attractors towards the triggering class of circumstances, while negative emotions are repellers.

"Feeling bad about feeling bad" pretty much works out to be something like "naive gradient descent on the function that maps attention onto emotional valence". This doesn't solve the underlying situations that cause you to feel bad - it's like not looking at pictures of your dead wife, rather than grieving, getting support from friends and family, and then moving on with your life.
Agreed on the first line.

I've been freelancing for people who sell my work at 10x what they pay me.

But honestly, you get money equal to the value you create. Having played both roles, IMO, the sales part is much harder. It is a lot of work to tell a client how much something costs.

Sometimes you deal with racist big company clients who lead you on but are just finding some excuse to reject you. You have to learn when to stop. Some clients are just using you as a point of negotiation, you offer them a cheap price and they bring it to some big shot contractor to negotiate.

And finally there is the politics of contracts and getting paid. Some people will try to sharpen their negotiation skills on you. I have seen deals like "On contract, we wrote $3M but I can only pay you $2 million. And you were 1 week late on delivering this animated PDF feature on Android so technically you violated the contract."
slippery slope... Damn them for forcing us to not want to fight for their rights.
Do you notice you are more tired in the afternoon on days you have had coffee in the morning?

For the life of me at around 4pm I start to feel snoozy if I had one in the morning.
> creating hundreds of thousands of jobs

I'd say it's a stretch to call these jobs until they're proven sustainable without VC money subsidizing drivers.
> It's an equity instrument, and we think it's much better and more forgiving than loans as a result of that.

I wonder whether this type of financing is more acceptable to Muslim students. Do most Muslims in the US avoid traditional student loans which charge interest?
Just a small nitpick, but #3 is not actually an isomorphic app, it's just a regular server-rendered one. Isomorphic typically means that the app is rendered in the same way (e.g. via React) on both the frontend and backend, and the frontend degrades gracefully when JS isn't enabled.

More on-topic: I just recently started a new web app using Rust on the backend. Though there is definitely a lot still missing, it's amazing how far the language and its ecosystem have come in the past year or so. I expect that within a couple years, Rust will be a viable alternative to Python and Ruby for backend web development.
FWIW: That is actually fairly rare.
Usually the answer is "well, the creditors can continue the lawsuit if they think it is valuable"
In no uncertain terms this is libel when they misfire. This is not a crime but it is a tort. Those who have been libeled on twitter and other written mediums (or slandered on Youtube, for example) should take immediate and full action prosecuting those that offended. Fierce civil punishment should be put forth to discourage this type of discourse in a lawful society.

We have laws for this kind of stuff.

Saying that, those that were properly identified should be willing to face the consequences of their repugnant actions. If that's not desirable then simply reject associating yourself with an uncivilized public mob of any sort.
I understand people wanting to keep what they consider part of their history.

If it was just for the pure symbolism or credentials of the person represented, shouldn't the Seattle Lenin statue be removed too?
According to Tesla it takes 1h15m for a full charge. If you don't happen to be around a supercharger and have to use a 240v outlet you're looking at 9.5h for a full charge.
It's true. The far right wants to celebrate racism and genocide. The far left wants single-payer healthcare and open access to economic opportunities for women and minorities. Very divisive.
I think the mid 1960s to early 1970s were a scarier period in terms of civil unrest, in the US anyway.
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This seems really annoyingly tied to the technology of the web. If the public, non-authenticated web was built on a broadcast mechanism (like radio) instead of a request-response mechanism like HTTP, then this argument wouldn't apply. Hopefully the court considers whether it actually behaves more like the former than the latter.
Whats support like for non MSSQL databases these days like?
Can MySQL & Postgres be easily hooked up and used??
Repayment is capped at $30k max, so the most we could possibly take is $30,000.
It _is_ isomorphic since he is shipping the rust code to the browser using web assembly.
Preamble

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

snip

Please read the whole document, proclaimed 1948 (a year after this film): http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
So basically you're saying that any independent invention of the same thing is also classified.
Who are the major players still working on AR glasses? Meta and Hololens? Magic Leap?
Every day is graduation day at Amazon Robotics
> Is anyone aware of how many female engineers come out of Iran?

Because it's a poor country. As wealth increases and women start taking careers they want to instead of careers that pay well they amount of women going into IT drops.
I think we go a lot deeper than you seem to think - we're not a 100% proxy with a full CS degree, but we're more CS degree than just code bootcamp.
Without having downloaded the order from pacer, if i had to guess, i don't think a click wrap would change anything.

The free speech argument is certainly a dud here.
The argument that has likely had any weight at all would be the antitrust/unfair competition one.

A click wrap will not change that.

It's almost certainly about linkedin's repeated claims about how they don't own these, they are public info, and they want to make them public, and now is turning around and saying "just kidding!", and trying to put someone out of business who depended on that, all so they can start their own analytics product.
Is it doxxing to provide a tip to law enforcement?

(An indictment would end up having the person publicly identified with the actions in the indictment)
"Don't be a Sucker"

If you think America is falling under the influence of neo-Nazism, then you're a sucker to the media propaganda. These idiots are such an extreme fringe that I wouldn't even say they represent the "far right." And it's naive to think the FBI isn't half-way up the colons of every one of these fringe groups.

Outside of our unfixable segregated ghettos, where serial killers are murdering people every day, America is fine. And the ghettos are easy enough to avoid. As is the news. Turn off the TV, talk to your neighbors and co-workers, and you won't have to understand why some super-extreme idiots met up with the opposite extreme idiots and it got out of control.
I think we actually agree - if competing theories both expect a lot of "normal" to happen, you make much smaller updates on "normal" than on "abnormal". What I take issue with in particular is:

>I think this happens because people generally believe that a anecdote confirming the null hypothesis serves as evidence for that hypothesis.

It is evidence. It's not much evidence, and it's evidence you should expect from "unusual things sometimes happen"-type hypotheses, but it is evidence.

Maybe the phrasing I want is something like "People generally believe that anecdotes consistent with multiple theories help distinguish them". Dunno. Probably a lot of this is just Bayesian vs Frequentist worldviews talking past each other.

>It is now logically impossible to prove the machine works perfectly at all times

It's logically impossible to prove anything at 100% certainty. The best you can do is gather more observations and make incremental updates each time. I can give you what my belief is that my next observation will say that everything is fine (if I don't know anything else, it's Laplace's Rule of Succession - if I observe it 100 times at it all works, my confidence level for the next time is 101/102).
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>Why does it have to degenerate to intolerance?

You are asking this question about a rally by actual white supremacists? Seems like an odd thing to ponder.

A bit less facetiously, every single one of your questions reads to me like ponderous handwringing. Things were much worse in the 60s and 70s. Yes, one person died and many were injured, but, for a rally where even the governor conceded that the racists were more heavily armed than the police, this went about as well as one can expect.
The point is, statistical prediction is definitely a thing, and is not "mathematically invalid" - it's mathematically well defined, with predictable consequences (increasing variance as the extrapolation becomes greater). Certainly, statistical models are not Crystal balls, but they never claimed to be. If you have a reasonable frequentist model and good data about an ongoing process, you should be able to make predictions with reasonable confidence bounds. If you have a reasonable Bayesian model and good data about an ongoing process, you should be able to coherently quantify your uncertainty about the future state of the system.

Obviously, this is more or less feasible in practice, depending on the phenomenon under study. Calling markets unpredictable is not evidence against the existence of rigorous frameworks for statistical prediction.

Don't let bad experiences with inexperienced and overconfident practitioners blind you to established, uncontroversial, mathematical truths.
I quit a heavy coffee habit recently.

I cut my caffeine in half each day (and went from a quarter cup to zero) I did experience some withdrawal symptoms, including headache, lethargy, and some mild but notable depression. The worst of it was over in a couple of days, I'd say the full deal took about a week and a half. Not a load of fun but honestly not that bad considering I was a heavy coffee drinker for 30 years.

I'd recommend drawing down a little slower than 50% a day. Maybe a third or quarter? Either way don't go cold turkey definitely draw down.
Your driving habits are atypical. Charging a Tesla at home every night or so is easy for those with typical driving habits. In fact, starting every morning with a full tank, rather than the approximately daily gas station visits that you say you often need, is a huge upside.
All hardware devices that allow firmware updates should have two things:

1. A backup recovery read-only image which can flash everything back to square zero via some sort of hardware over-ride (like a pin-hole button that has to be held down for 10 seconds)

2. A temporary place in memory to buffer and validate the checksum of any new firmware that is uploaded before flashing it.

Real time flashing over spotty WiFi (without any sort of post-transfer checksum validation) has got to be the dumbest, laziest, cheapest, riskiest thing a hardware manufacturer can put out, and any manufacturer that does that should be ashamed of themselves.
All hardware devices that allow firmware updates should have two things:

1. A backup recovery read-only image which can flash everything back to square zero via some sort of hardware over-ride (like a pin-hole button that has to be held down for 10 seconds)

2. A temporary place in memory to buffer and validate the checksum of any new firmware that is uploaded before flashing it.

Real time flashing over spotty WiFi (without any sort of pre-flashing validation) has got to be the dumbest, laziest, cheapest, riskiest thing a hardware manufacturer can put out, and any manufacturer that does that should be ashamed of themselves.
This points to using a cheap Linux box at host VPS.

AWS micro instances run Linux basically by default and have about 150-250 megabit connections.

I assume they loaded the documents onto a hacked AWS box running WordPress or similar and downloaded them later from there. Hackers almost always tunnel through at least one compromised machine because they don't trust a VPN alone for anonymity.

In no way does this imply anyone was or was not responsible. This is a common thing to do for any hacking group
The paper:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550617720269