skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have mixed feelings on this. In part because I want to be pedantic but also because I think there's multiple levels here. To be succinct, because that first sentence was wishy-washy, I don't think it's wrong to identify Islamic terrorism as being associated with Islam. THAT BEING SAID, it's not productive to have a public discourse from this perspective in my opinion because the general public is emotional and whimsical and so giving them a complicated debate only invites the opportunity for miscommunication and the development of hate in my opinion.

The reason I think it's important to identify terrorism committed in the name of Islam, Nazism, Christianity, etc. with their respective belief systems is because it empowers us to ask 'why'. Why are so many terrorist organizations affiliated with Islam, RECENTLY SPEAKING? Why has white supremacy become more visible in the American social space including the pre-charlottesville social space? I don't have the end all be all answer. But I think asking the question is important because whatever the true answer is, I think it's fair to say that it's probably regionally rooted, potentially linked to the economics of certain groups rooted in those regions, and because of the regional nature of many Islamic terrorist groups and white nationalist groups, I think it's fair to say that there is a cultural BUT NOT UNIVERSALLY CULTURAL element to it. I would make a similar assessment of the IRA in Ireland, Christian terrorists in Africa, and by now you can probably see where I'm going with this. Acknowledging the affiliations of these organizations and their beliefs is important because it explains THEM. It doesn't inform us about their beliefs, but it allows us to analyze why they have chosen to affiliate with those beliefs in a hopefully honest fashion.

None of that is meant to imply that Nazism should be viewed as American, or that Islamic Terrorism should be viewed as a sub-element of Islam, but acknowledging that these contexts exist with regard to SPECIFIC ORGANIZATIONS is important in my opinion because the root of these issues is often multifaceted and can only be combated, in my opinion, with a comprehensive understanding of these groups and their spiritual as well as political influences.

Edit: I will acknowledge when I edit an argument in the face of something that someone has pointed out. This post has already been heavily edited for my own satisfaction however because while modern examples of significant terrorism are obviously not evenly distributed across cultures, that does not mean that one culture is implicitly prone to terrorism and I'm trying very hard to keep my grammar and framing of arguments as neutral in that respect as possible while acknowledging the current configuration of terrorism, hate, and extremism across the globe.
http://xmake.io
http://github.com/tboox/xmake
Since they're moving towards their own logistics subsystems (everything from drones to cars a la Lyft to trucks to planes) ... I imagine not much
> Doing something for the first time, almost by definition, means one does not really know what one is doing and is going to do it somewhat wrong.

The Mythical Man-Month has a chapter on this titled "Prepare to throw one away". Brooks argues, that the program/OS/whatever you build the first time around should be considered a prototype. Then you reflect on what problems you encountered, what went well, and so on and use those insights to guide you when start over.

It seems like such an obvious idea, but Brooks wrote that almost 50 years ago, and it seems like only very few people listened. Primarily, I guess, because much software is already written under highly optimistic schedules - telling management and/or customers that you want to throw the thing out and start over is not going to make you popular.
I'm a parent of two boys (16 and 10) and I'd strongly, strongly advice tying it to chores and then using it to teach that performance matters. Do a good job? You get your allowance. Do a bad job? Sorry; no allowance. Saving is a hard skill to learn as is that performance matters. An allowance is a great way to teach both.
>Does someone being a member of the Nazi party mean we can let them starve to death? Shoot them and push them into a trench even?

Historically, yes.
You are deluding yourself when you call a protest with (significant, I might add) property damage fantastic and peaceful.

Are you not aware that multiple instances of arson were committed [1]?

Also:

> Yeah, there was property damage. So what?

What if this was your property? Would you be as callous if it had been your car that had been set on fire?

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-germany-protests-idUSK...
Not that I am any way supporting DS, but political orientation is not very plastic.
Just a reminder: antifa has devastated Hamburg during the G20 summit, for the simple reason that they were against it. I have yet to hear of any similar action perpetrated by another group.
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It's harder to DDoS Tor onion sites.
Not to mention colonialism, imperialism and corporatism.
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Religion is a choice, but you can't refuse to bake a cake for Seventh Day Adventists.
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"It's not about technology"...and then racks up technical debt that has to continually be paid.
In 2017 we have prisons and we don't starve anyone in there.
Americans are legally armed and have the right to defend themselves under the constitution. This ideology that Antifa is going to use physical violence to stop people in America from exercising there constitutional rights to free speech is one of the most dangerous ideas I have seen in some time.

These people in Antifa are going to get themselves killed and the people who use deadly force to protect themselves will walk away with out any charges. Its a miracle that there has not been any deaths up to this point.
One thing a lot of speechers don't seem to get around here: taking down The Daily Stormer is speech. Also, keeping them up is speech. If you want to regulate CloudFlare so that it has to carry The Daily Stormer, take it up with your congressman. But don't pretend you're neutral in the fight between those who value the constitution and those who would trample over it.
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>So whilst the new edited title is a bit click-baity, it is nevertheless more meaninful than the original.

It's also a lie, given that the bot was beaten multiple times by plenty of different people.
And the response as I've seen it on other threads: It probably doesn't make a big difference, and will outperform humans there too, and it would be a huge waste of computing power to train it that way.

I think OpenAI should show that the AI can derive (a close aproximation of) the API data from videos, but I don't think that building a closed training loop would add much value here.
> Properties are second class citizens on .Net, since you can't pass them as ref or out argument

There is nothing at IL level that prevents it, they can eventually lift the restriction if they feel like it.

> Properties don't help with changing more than one field either, so I'm not what your point is.

The setter can do a cascade set of changes while keeping the invariants.
>Your sexual orientation is not a choice.

Who says it's so for everybody?

There are millions who insist that their sex orientation is their choice. They can try X, experiment with Z, and whatever. That was part of the idea of "fluid genders" and sexual liberation in the sixties and especially seventies.
Funny how these things vary. I've got a 2013 macbook, 4GB RAM, 1.3GHz processor and everything is snappy. Good SSD and OSX I guess.
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Actually nobody knows why homosexuals are homosexual nor why Nazis are Nazis. There is very little scientific evidence to support any cause for either outlook.
Find and support people who are against persecuting thought crimes within the country.
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You'd have to convince me that lobster is a Veblen good. Yes, it's often priced as a luxury good once you get away from the New England coast--and sometimes even there--but that's not the same thing as saying higher prices increase demand. I expect the restaurant selling $25 lobster rolls would sell more if they were a more reasonable $12 but they might not make as much money.

I do like lobster when the price is reasonable. What is true is that it's very delicate so it's really wasted in things like lobster mac and cheese.
Not only human advancement, but I'm pissed off Elsevier is getting rich being the gatekeepers of research my tax dollars paid for.
Will this work in adults too?
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I think it's called "hate crimes" nowadays.
Presumably some kind of psychologist, either as part of an admittance form or to make sharing easier for her. I've emailed a starting questionnaire to a dentist before.
While the hack itself might be interesting, this is horrible, sensationalistic writing and lacks any kind of technical details. It even manages to mistype the microcontroller type (it's STM32F205, not ST32F05).
I guess that's the framing you choose if you want to lock people up.
Like I said, they celebrate traitors and terrorists, and they were mostly erected by racist terrorists later on during the days of Jim Crow, the KKK and the Civil Rights movement.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/08/the-real-story...
I have the right to police protection, but that doesn't mean I get to have a cop patrolling my building 24/7. That's why businesses hire private security.

Likewise, DDoS is a crime and TDS has every right to present a criminal complaint. Cloudflare is just the Internet equivalent of private security.
Ask HN: How unprofessional is your work place?
We all work in an professional environment but how often to you sit back and realize some of the things you do is so poorly implemented it is amazing the business functions?

For example, my place is internally known as an £100 million turnover business that runs off spreadsheets. We have a spreadsheet for almost everything, one of the biggest spreadsheets we have replicates a MRP system and it takes over 5 minutes to open and 40 minutes to refresh at 100% CPU.
I have lost count the number of times people told me they felt embarrassed showing new customers on how we run.

I also see it with some of our customers. Our customers are some of the largest automotive companies in the world yet when I have to access their services, they are so poorly made I cannot fathom to understand how it works. Of course, due to the nature of the services they are bespoke but thing's are so notoriously complicated it makes it an unpleasant experience.
Yeah, a lot of otherwise intelligent people are tripped up by the term "exponential, as in "Hey, the 2 is an exponent, so it must be exponential, right?"
"Like and share this if you think he should be free!"
> Actions accessible by the bot API, chosen at a frequency comparable to humans

I would guess that this already includes all the delays you are asking for.
Yup. Amusingly that statement is every bit as true today as it was in 1979, although the surprise may be of a somewhat different character.
I'm referencing work by the Drive Trust Alliance

https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil/wiki
I've got to agree. I was quite shocked by some of the comments on earlier threads about this topic.

For example, someone suggested that the German Nazi party was advocating mild socialist reforms very similar to modern social democrats, entirely ignoring "minor details" like that the SA actively beat up people on the streets and spread terror wherever they showed up, that the nazis attempted a Coup d'Etat, and that socialists and communists later went to prison and concentration camps for their political views. Not to speak of killing 5-6 million Jews and being responsible for the death of about 25 million soldiers and 55 million civilians in WW2...

The largest cognitive dissonance is with those people who suggest that jihadist propaganda should be interrupted but Nazi propaganda should be allowed to thrive unconditionally. That sounds very crazy to anyone who knows a little bit about history and can compare orders of magnitudes.
Discriminatory hateful speech absolutely limits the freedom of the discriminated group. If a Jewish person encounters an energized gaggle of Nazis, how do you think they will behave? Not freely.

The freedom to say those discriminatory things also serves no purpose - It's either a call to action, or empty rhetoric... the former is illegal, the latter is pointless.
A more realistic historical example than yours (which assumes hindsight): what about the McCarthyism? "If these guys are communist let's not give them jobs, particularly in the medias where they could spread their ideas".

The US liberals kept a pretty sour memory of McCarthyism. But fundamentally it is no different.
Congratulations, you've just employed the Sex With Ducks argument. Remember before employing slippery slope arguments to explain why we haven't already fallen down the slope when we banned terrorist websites.

And taking down The Daily Stormer was speech. If you want to regulate that kind of speech, it's your right to say so. But don't pretend you're supporting the First Amendment when you do so.
Swing voters, the folks who decide every election in a modern democracy, would disagree with you.
I thought about it but what if they consider it suspect that you have a burner or a freshly wiped phone?
This is why Europe has moved to the doctrine of "human rights" rather than "constitutional rights": that gives a strong yes to the second question.

Citizens and non-citizens aren't really seperate classes of human being. The rights restricted from non-citizens are those to do with residence and employment. Other rights to fair treatment should not be restricted from non-citizens.
This is all contained in the collapse of the hierarchy, no matter which way you look at it. It will all be the same.
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Great. The protests was free speech. The G20 and the interests they serve is what stiffles free speech.
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I dispute your point - not everyone could have chosen to stop being nazis and live.

"Approximately 77,000 German citizens were killed for one or another form of resistance by Special Courts, courts-martial, People's Court and the civil justice system. "

"Almost every community in Germany had members taken away to concentration camps. As early as 1935 there were jingles warning: "Dear Lord God, keep me quiet, so that I don't end up in Dachau." (It almost rhymes in German: Lieber Herr Gott mach mich stumm / Daß ich nicht nach Dachau komm.)[17] "Dachau" refers to the Dachau concentration camp"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_resistance_to_Nazism
Sure, but a project like Firefox has a lot of the old C++ too.
Im looking forward to seeing the pdf printing features develop. They are lacking a few of the formatting features of wkhtmltopdf.
No we don't, not when the religion (badly interpreted) promotes murder, ie radical islam.

Are you pretending that nazism can be interpreted charitably?

I can kill someone and claim it's for buddhism or my local sports team, but there is no basis for either of those promoting murder.

Nazism not so.
The TREZOR people have posted on Reddit that this article is describing a known issue which was fixed in the last firmware update yesterday.
Isn't multiprocessing almost syntactically equivalent to--but much more efficient than--threading in python?
That sounds similar to the structure of the Culture novel "Use of Weapons":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_Weapons
> How about the possible historical situation where a business owners doesn't offer services to the irish, jews, gays, blacks, etc?

I'm sorry if someone was born a nazi then.
>Are you not aware that multiple instances of arson were committed [1]?

Are you aware that some property damage and or arson in protests is a tradition in Europe, and we don't consider it the end of the world?

It's part of what it takes to have an actual democracy and an engaged population (at least part of the population).

Sometimes, we even behead our kings and burn down their palaces.
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You're forgetting the message I'm answering to

> Free speech does not mean a company has to take part in spreading it :).

IS false in practice. Some private companies cannot suppress speech.
Is it? I've never seen it in yogurt. I've always seen other Lactobacillus species (Lactobacillus is the genus).
Then you wouldn't mind if they didn't offer services to vegans, christians, hackers, etc, right?
I think there is inverse proportionality of development speed vs code quality + maintainance cost which management does not take into a count, ever, no matter what.
Putting their own compensation and bonuses way above what decent people would do for employees. Their short-sightedness and selfish thinking does a lot of harm to thousands of people in every organization. Why am I calling these as mistakes and not just brushing these off as "it's a capitalistic system, just live with it"? I do so because good management that doesn't do all this keeps many more people happier than bad management. But this is the norm, and management that doesn't do this is a rare animal.

What's the point of making profits and more money if we can't increase happiness levels among more people, especially the ones who work on building the stuff that makes the money in the first place?

P.S.: My point is concise and can be counter argued in many ways. This is what I wanted to say without writing a whole book.
> some forms of discrimination are reprehensible

Nazis vs Gay couples are easy, softball examples of "clearly reprehensible" versus otherwise. But if you allow the double standard, you'll find a fairly large grey area. Are meat eaters reprehensible too? The religious? The anti-religious? non-religious pro-lifers (like myself)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Cakes_by_Melissa

As I said, the answer is simply NO. The mob will try to destroy you if you're on the mob's bad side.

Oh you are a dear for air-quote acknowledging that there is a double standard that you approve of. A CEO can break his company policies and refuse to serve an ugly customer who is engaging in protected speech but that they find morally reprehensible. A baker cannot refuse to serve a protected class that they find morally reprehensible or else suffer government penalties, media firestorms, and a ruined business and reputation.

Four legs good, two legs bad, am I right?
just because "nerds" are experts in everything tech does NOT equate to good decision making / good management for the company as a whole.

You think a programmer's job and abilities stops where they don't. Programmers do understand what the customer want. They ship to customers. I'm not saying programmers don't need help though.
Great service! Their browser plugin is sadly not compatible with Firefox Nightly as it exclusively uses WebExtensions[1].

I won't switch back from Nightly. The performance difference is just too great to ever go back to the "stable" versions. :) Not had any crashing issues yet.

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/de/Add-ons/WebExtensions
Not when they start organizing murder, no.

I must have missed the memo on us hackers. What group of traits in people do we blame for our woes? Just so I know who we want to exterminate.

I know this isn't a place for sarcasm, but when I can't tell if your comparison is sarcastic or not, I have a hard time not responding in kind.
That is correct, what I was trying to say is, that the playstyle of the professional players is not used to those rules. It takes them out of their comfort zone and they have to adapt. I would love to see the bot matched up with a high mmr player who is playing matches with these rules on a regular basis
There is no "neutral" when people are questioning other people's right of self determination, existence and value as a human being.

To quote Elie Wiesel:
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
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I had very serious pollen allergy which was greatly alleviated by immunotherapy. Nearly 5 years of regular shots though (initially weekly after that eventually biweekly, then finally booster shots at less regular intervals). Since some pollen and food allergies seem to cross-react it also impacted the severity of my food allergies.
Well, actually...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/spoonuniversity.com/news/the-di...
No, there is a difference. The human player has to see, react and then shot. The computer has a direct API.

gun.shoot()

as opposed to

image of a gun falls on the retina
process the info sent by the eye
synapses fired etc

:)
> early on the message they conveyed was that document databases were here to replace RDBMSs.

The CTO still thinks so. Quote[0]: "MongoDB's CTO disagrees with this statement arguing that nearly 90% of database installations today would benefit from being replaced with MongoDB"

[0]: https://www.nemil.com/mongo/2.html
Google Sheets can be shared via a URL and anyone with a web browser can access it instantly. No need for Windows, no need for an Excel license, no need for a desktop computer. You cancollaborate in real-time too.
I'd start by supporting Amnesty International. An organization I've always trusted to put the spotlight on human rights issues and always manages to put pressure governments around the world to do better.

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/thailand-activist-...
It's quite clear in the context of the Preamble, which literally says that the non respect of such rights by the rule of law means that "man" is compelled to rebellion.
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The self-proclaimed mission of the alt-right: "Creating a Subculture Which Becomes the Dominant Culture"

https://web.archive.org/web/20170721194819/www.dailystormer....

I wonder if censoring the Alt-Right only reinforces them as subculture via Streisand effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Stress is not just a mental state. There are real, physiological changes, such as rising cortisol levels. To say that it is just a "psychology dependent" situation is to say it is all in your head.
Any website that promotes terrorism and hateful discrimination should be opposed.

That doesn't fit Communism, but that's the definition of Nazis.