skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is insane that we are allowing GoDaddy, Google and tech companies to be arbiters of free speech.

As a kid, I used to associate google, yahoo and the whole of internet as a bastion of freedom.

It is shocking to me that liberals ( a group I used to identify with until fairly recently ) are the proponents of censorship on the internet and in america. It is shocking to me that google, godaddy and the internet is now synonymous with censorship and propaganda.

Not only is censorship giving daily stormer and neo-nazis more sympathy/credibility, companies like google, godaddy and the liberal movement is making a mockery of liberal principles.

My first philosophy course in college was with a jewish professor. We were discussing free speech and the rights of neo-nazis/kkk/hate groups to free speech. I clearly remember her saying that protecting the rights of neo-nazis/kkk to free speech is the only way to ensure the rights of speech speech for everyone. Free speech rights exist to protect "offensive" speech - whether it be pornography, atheism or hate speech.

What has happened to the tech industry? What has happened to the liberal movement? How did the tech community and the liberal movement get hijacked by anti-free speech and oppressive extremists?

If conservatives are pro-censorship and now liberals are pro-censorship, what future is there for individual rights, free speech and the liberal world order?
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It's still available. I've been taking it for the past month or so.

After learning more about him, he's probably the only person in the world that I envy. I resonate with his ideas a lot, but I'm like 1% of what he is. It makes me a bit sad. I'll be taking his new course as well and hopefully one day I will be able to work in the same field as him.
Surely you can just add more digits? Once 07XXX XXX XXX is exhausted, you could start issuing 071XXX XXX XXX numbers. It's been done with POTS numbers before (e.g. Sheffield - transitioned to 6-digits in 1965, 7-digits in 1995)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0114
A fetchmail cronjob will probably get you pretty far. I use this to backup my mail.
Not Even Remotely Possible
Microsoft promoted this idea that F# is for mathematicians and engineers, so its no wonder that people pick this up. And I'm not sure who is pushing this idea that F# is not fine for OO work. It has all those features. So starting with F# as a "better C#" -- there's nothing wrong with that. Over time I think people will come to view OO as suboptimal, but in the mean time F# is just a better language to use than C#.

MS hasn't funded F# enough, and has crippled the marketing on it to continue to push C# rather than admit they've made mistakes. The tooling issues and other random incompatibilities are why I don't use it as much as I used to - it's too much friction.
This is a really important point not made in the article:

> I find the complacency argument to be flat. The Sawstop technology doesn't prevent injury, you still get nicked by the blade, it just dramatically reduces the severity of injury incurred. Additionally when the mechanism trips the break and blade are spend and must be replaced.
I think one of the clearer use cases is digital identity. uPort, Blockstack and Civic are some of the companies that are trying to address this need.
I work at RoboKiller.com

I've always thought the way to battle this problem is to waste the callers time. The longer you keep them on the phone, the more expensive and less profitable their robocall operation becomes. With enough people doing this, it could slow them down.

At RoboKiller we intercept the call so it doesn't ring your phone or go to voicemail. Instead what happens is we answer the call on our end and proceed to waste the callers time by tricking them into thinking they're talking to a human. Its really funny actually. We send you the recording when we're finished.

A couple weeks ago we reached a point where the top robocallers caught on to what we were doing. It was a proud moment for all of us. You can listen for yourself...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi-qtTuO9rY
Don't forget to check with your local optometrist for viewing glasses, got some for 1$ donation per pair.
Absolutely this.
Has anyone found something similar but for Python? The few I found all seemed to be abandoned or too limited in capability.
> Ethereum took the Bitcoin concept one step further.

Smart contracts, escrow and dispute mediation ARE already possible with Bitcoin with CHECKMULTISIGVERIFY.

And there haven't been has many issues in Bitcoin core than in Ethereum.
Trump CEO Strategy Council Is Said to Disband After Exodus
I'll bet that pisses off Trump to no end.
The news carousel is all AMP just by chance and ranks higher in the page than the results; arguing semantics over the meaning of ranking is irrelevant if the most clicked thing is always AMP.
There are two, closely related paradoxes:

There's the Downs-Thomson paradox[1], which is usually quoted as adding capacity to highways to the road network will not reduce congestion, and the one I believe you mean. What the paradox actually states is that "the equilibrium speed of car traffic on a road network is determined by the average door-to-door speed of equivalent journeys taken by public transport." That is, as you add capacity to road networks, you disincentivize people from taking public transport, because the roads are quicker, until the two level out in terms of cost/benefit.

I'm not certain how directly applicable it is to the housing market. Essentially, what is the housing market's "public transport"? I suppose you could argue it's still public transit, since there is a trade-off between the more expensive, but closer housing and the cheaper but farther away public housing. But I'm also in favor (and I think most of the people in the HN SF crowd are) of better public transit in the Bay Area and better housing/zoning policy. (Either would help me and many others: a better public transit network would reduce the need for housing in cities closer & further up the Bay.)

There's also Jevons paradox[2], which says that when "technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises because of increasing demand." This is mostly concerned with reducing use of the resource though, and I fully expect that better zoning policy would result in more and cheaper housing, more use of said housing, and more demand — all in line with Jevons paradox, but none of which seems detrimental when compared to the current situation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downs%E2%80%93Thomson_paradox

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
The author's arguments don't hold up. The facts he states are for the most part true - the Les Paul does have more sustain, a shorter scale length, etc - but these traits aren't inherently "better" or more desirable than the traits of a Stratocaster. They're two very different guitars that produce very different tones, and both have a place in music. I, personally, value the clarity and note definition of a Strat, which are virtues of its longer scale length and single-coil pickups.

A little secret about Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page - he's famous for wielding a Les Paul, but often used a Fender Telecaster in the studio, particularly on the first Led Zeppelin album...
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Aren't 3D games already 2D, as they are just projecting 3D world onto 2D plane? Alternatively, taking 2D intersection of 3D world would lead to something like 2D/3D mode of Miegakure: https://youtu.be/9yW--eQaA2I?t=46
Nothing concrete yet...
The gross revenue shifts toward the movie theatre the longer the movie is released. It may be a revenue split 90/10 first week, then theatre gets bigger cut each week. This is why second-run movie theatres can still make money showing two movies for one ticket price aside from concession sales.
If you look at the old player guides (the Super Mario World guide comes to mind) you'll actually find a couple mis-pastes where the image was laid out or cut badly before being photographed for the magazine.

It took a fair amount of work to only get pictures of the level's relevant features (and to always crop out the actual player).
Personally I agree that certain platforms have become so toxic that a portion of the users are leaving or failing to participate as they had before because of the right to free speech that many exercise simply for the purpose of being rude, hateful, or crude.

I will always advocate for an individuals right to free speech but at the same time I feel that a mom should be able to post pictures of her kids without trolls coming along and saying they are fat or ugly or worse, making inappropriate sexual comments about them. I do not think our founding fathers had this type of speech in mind when they protected speech as that was an enactment of a different time.

The internet allows the worst in people to rear its ugly head and we find ourselves here, at a moment in time where we have to question if a business owner is overstepping boundaries by putting in place systems to protect people from scummy comments.

I recognize the difficulty in balancing the rights of opposing sides. Surely there is a solution. At least Systrom and Ev William's have lofty goals in trying to clean up the internet.
I dont think this article is about clusters accessible via public internet. I think this article is about clusters accessible after breaking through an easily defeated ssh barrier and gaining full access.
it is exactly what you'd do in the event of an IPO. I just don't understand how investing tons of money in human capital could be considered a "cash out" as the person I was replying to put it. If anything, it's the opposite.
With Google I can never relax to think that something new will be a good thing for me, a user, but their "make mobile viewable" (or whatever the message is) reformatter for sites that still have 10 year old CSS could certainly result in some sort of signal displayed in search results. A mobile-viewability indicator, perhaps. I dunno, it sounds kinda hokey when I write it out like that, but I have to think they're going to productize it at some point.
Ah, maybe. I have been using Android all the way back to 2011, but this is my first non-Samsung phone. I have used "stockish" Android before (CyanogenMod) but I guess those don't come with the actual default app as shipped by Google.
In a game ideally you want money sinks that scale such as auction transaction costs.

If A is worth 10x in an auction you pay 10x as much in fees. This works best if players buying and selling is a regular part of game play such as a complex crafting system where sub components are traded and someone can focus on making them.

Alternatively, professions can have some useful waste for another profession. ie: Making an epic sword needs 10 blue and makes 5 green, an epic boot needs 10 green and makes 5 blue. Meanwhile you get 1 red and 1 blues per ore. So, now your weapon makers and your armor makers will be trading their waste. Downside is guilds can become self sufficient.

PS: As an analogy, the USD has value because people must pay taxes on value created in USD. This instantly creates trillions of dollars worth of demand each and every year and continues to scale with the economy.
Your response raises some intersting points and sounds reasonable. But also kind of too dreamlike.

Is it possible to seamlessly integrate a user managment system in f# into existing c# code? I guess, it's not that simple.

It also reminds me of an experience I had in a former job with C++. There was a very, very experienced senior who wrote a very clever library which allowed us to add varous metadata to domain objects in a a compile-time checked, type-safe and very performant way. When the guy left, everything went downhill and the code from then on was regarded as mysterious black box noone dared to touch.

Somehow I am reminded if this when I read about 'magic' solutions in FP. Is it possible to reach a state with FP where seeing through it all gets too troublesome?
Show HN: High-Performance canvas data grid
I see the question every couple of months, but it never gets many answers (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ask%20hn%20who%20follow%20twit...)

My interest is bootstrapped companies and I had some luck with a specialized conference hashtag https://twitter.com/search?q=microconf&src=typd and then starting following some of those organizers/attendees. Or https://twitter.com/search?q=%23apidays&src=typd, https://twitter.com/search?q=%23qcon&src=typd
What I meant is the system favors the criminal but the public uproar most likely saved the Chinese store owner and the Raccoon man escaped with probation and fines and public shaming. He begged for his life.
I'll make an observation that no one else has in this thread:

Effectively managing an organization that is at least partially remote is more difficult, and my experience in the Bay Area is that management skill is often overlooked and underdeveloped, particularly in startups.

I've seen several companies with very very competent technical founders, very capable engineering team, and not one person in the company that can manage their way out of a brown paper bag. The only way for that kind of structure to work is having everyone in the same room.
There are still random places with the glasses too. I had a friend that recommended Lowes (when I got there they said they ran out over a month ago), but I stumbled onto some at Kroger for $2/ea this week.
In what way is it "more sophisticated"?
You are right. They are indeed possible. It's a question of how appropriate it is for every use case. This must be addressed on an use case basis.

You can probably write Facebook in a low-level language but it may not be the best choice...
Here in America, we drive on the right side of the road, which is the only logical way and totally not just an arbitrary thing that seems right to me because that's what I'm accustomed to. I always wondered, in countries that do it the other way, how do the governments justify that to their people?
Or have AMC make their own movies since they are leeching off the movie creators after all.
Perhaps it's popular because it's not true. But it should be true, and everyone wishes it was true.

The evolutionary basis of xenophobia is well-understood. A quick search turns up, for example:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/...

Babies of about the same age as the ones shown in Obama's tweet already display instinctive xenophobia:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-babies-bigo...
Regarding Zimmerman's VoIP, Tarsnap does the same thing. The client source is available but you aren't allowed to use it for anything except building the client for the Tarsnap service.
Besides GPUs, memory (DRAM), storage (SSDs, hard drives), wired networking (Ethernet, Thunderbolt, Fibre Channel), wireless networking (WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular) and displays (monitors, VR) are all still keeping pace with their respective versions of Moore's Law. Of course they still aren't going to catch up to CPUs any time soon. (Never in the case of networking, since light travels only so fast).
Can't you just wear heavy gloves?
A lot of research has come here, especially with University of Rochester, and RIT getting a research program. UofR is a HUGE employer, Paychex, Rochester General Health, Wegmans, and like I said previously the food, and drink scene has just exploded. There are quite a few restaurateurs, chefs , and bartenders that have moved upstate from downstate. I'm directly involved with that stuff, so I hear/eat/drink quite a bit.
actually, circa 1949:

'racism is "not born in you! It happens after you’re born..."' [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve_Got_to_Be_Carefully_T...
This is just the normal migration pattern. Once you have kids and get married, the advantages of living in a big city start to go away.

Those fun bars and restaurant become generators of noise and parking problems. The fun diverse neighborhood translates into a school district where the legacy of desegregations means your kid will be dragged across the city for school. The list goes on.
'I am okay with not allowing anonymity on the internet'. The core issue with this is that it would be impossible to enforce, breach the freedom of speech that the internet has provided billions of people and put every person on the internet at real risk from people of opposing (extreme) views seeking revenge in the real world.

The internet is great in the way that it gives everyone a voice without the fear that comes with having a voice in the physical world.
Not even for Google News purposes? That's 90% of the AMP links I see.
I think it's easy to equate, because in our bubble we hear so much Mongo hype, but to the much larger world, they know as much about Mongo as they do Firebase or New Relic. Also, Mongo the technology has a different set of expectations than Mongo the publicly traded company.
The only way Trump will find this out is if it is reported on Fox news. That seems to be how he gets all his information.

I searched the web site and it doesn't appear to be there.
Well he does cite "the higher levels of anxiety women report on Googlegeist". If that's true, the female employees at Google themselves contributed to a meaningful statistic behind the claim.

He goes onto mention that men take on dangerous high stress jobs in far greater numbers than women, such as coal mining and fire fighting. If men account for 93% of work related deaths, it says a lot about their drive for that sort of work.

No need to take offence. It's just data.
> Salary. Usually the cost of living follows the pay scale of a local economy, but that doesn't help you when you want to buy things priced at a national level: computers, cars, bikes, etc. If you earn $160k/yr, buy a new MacBook Pro isn't a big deal; if you make $60k/yr, you have to put a little more thought into it.

I see this brought up a lot, but these expenses are such a small portion of my outlay that it barely moves the needle. Maybe I'm just weird.

Also, cars do vary across geographical areas. The MSRP may be the same nationally, but the drive-off price is pretty variable.
Right, thanks :)

Also, the train was moving at just 30-40 mph. Those are typical speeds for current vehicle crash tests.
If Nicolaus Copernicus was a Google employee, would he be fired?
Assuming that it is 1500s. And everyone is super religious, and hypothetically Google and Twitter exists.
Now if I am Nicolaus Copernicus and I write a document wherein I state that I dont' believe that earth is the centre of the world, it would obviously hurt the religious sentiments of a lot of people. Twitter would obviously go ballistic because I have committed a heresy!

Now a lot of Catholics work with me. Google can say that, how can those people work with me again, given the hurt that I have caused? My statement that earth revolves around the sun can be morphed into something like this-

"By saying that earth revolves around the sun, you have said sun does not revolve around earth, hence those who believe that it to be true are wrong. Since those people who believe in something wrong are obviously intellectually inferior to you. Obviously, you are saying that catholics are intellectually inferior to you. Hence you have violated our policies. Hence you are fired!"

Of course, corporations can do the most efficient thing in short term by firing people. But is it the right thing to do for the society, and also for the company in long term?
If you are migrating to AWS RDS, I recommend AWS Data Migration service. I migrated my live database (~50GB) from Mysql to Postgres (both RDS) with zero downtime.

I used AWS Schema Conversion Tool for initial PG schema. I customized the generated schema for my specific needs.
RenTech is unparalleled and Medallion has proven itself for decades.

This interview with Jim Simons is fantastic: https://youtu.be/QNznD9hMEh0
Figure of speech. The number of nodes right now is closer to 25K

https://www.ethernodes.org/network/1
For me, I only got into .NET because of F#, and even then I pretend C# doesn't exist. I tried learning OCaml, it has cool features, like parametric modules and GADTs. But I always ran into the issue of irreproducible builds. This didn't happened in F#.

I eventually tried F# because it was close enough to OCaml and while I was learning OCaml I always referred to this site http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com

I'm definitely an F# evangelist at work, but we are not a .NET shop. But I was would say that the introduction of ML features in other languages, (Swift, Rust) are good for F# evangelism, because it makes these concepts more familiar. I think the focus should be on moving F# away from .NET because F# itself, it is much more accessible that its cousins OCaml and Haskell. And if Microsoft won't give proper support, the community should move to other platforms. Some discussions are already happening here https://github.com/fsharp/fssf-ask-the-board/issues/4
Casually removing root files
the scroll-jacking on the page is quite annoying
Thanks for this. All the hype makes it sound like this is an exceedingly rare event, but it looks like the 2024 eclipse will sweep over a huge part of the US population as well.
Could serverless computing work in a volunteer cloud?
Strategies for Cross-Platform Code Sharing with RemObjects Elements
Be prepared to sleep in the car. If you know anyone along the path, ask to sleep on their lawn or something. Start driving down probably a couple of days out. http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/maps/whole-us.jpg

You probably won't get home Monday.
The Maddeningly Simple Way Tech Companies Can Employ More Women
Apple could guide you around your city using augmented reality
In Washington, DC, nobody but the judge and the lawyers gets to hear what the potential juror says. I suppose it would diminish the boredom of the voir dire, but when juror x gets sent back to the waiting room early or shuffled out of the box during the final cull, none of the other jurors have a clue what it is about.
Some interesting ongoing discussion (last post an hour ago):

https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/38803/where-is-...

In particular someone claimed to have found a flaw (which I can not comment on, not a complexity theory person):

'Tardos' function is a monotone function which is 1 on k-cliques and 0 on complete (k-1)-partite graphs. As far as I can tell, Berg and Ulfberg use ONLY these properties in their CNF-DNF approximation proof for CLIQUE, which hence prove that Tardos' function has exponential monotone complexity. Blum's Theorem 6 says that monotone complexity lower bounds by CNF-DNF approximation for monotone functions, give the same NON-monotone lower bound. Hence, Tardos' function have exponential complexity according to Theorem 6 (which is false)'
How will more housing do anything other than make the traffic congestion even worse? More people will move here, prices will be close to the same, and traffic will be way worse. More VCs need to start supporting the idea of satellite offices and remote cultures for anything more than a dent to be made.
But xenophobia is most certainly a spectrum of emotion, and that which occurs in babies can be taught quite easily out of them.

Once friendships occur, specifically, it tends to fade away pretty quickly.

So I'm not sure if baby-sourced studies like the one you show "prove" that "it's not true."

Not saying that the studies are wrong; just that we all have many biological traits that we overcome easily through nurture.
Instinctive xenophobia is different from indoctrinated bigotry.
I've been convinced P!=NP ever since I started studying semigroup lower bounds. Even black box group membership is exponential in the largest prime less than or equal to N. https://oeis.org/A186202
Sure, but it doesn't solve the problem of "I can't afford to live here".