skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>as long as they do not discriminate using the following criteria (which are enshrined in law)

And how long did it take for this to get enshrined into law, and how many people suffered unjustly in the mean time? Far better would have been for any discrimination of this sort to be illegal across the board, to avoid the need to build up enough political capital to create laws protecting vulnerable classes.

That there is a specific set of classes that it is illegal to discriminate against is the problem: the next class that we currently don't recognize has to suffer until they're capable of building up enough political capital to change laws. Until then they're subject to the tyranny of the majority.

> But political ideology is not, and should not be, a protected class

This the substantive part of this discussion. Why do you think political ideology shouldn't be a protected class?
> Fifteen - It would have full voice. It's something we dreamed of back then and we can do it now.

Eh, I don't know. I've never been a fan of voice acting in adventure games. You often have to repeat dialogues and stuff. Voice acting time costs, so it always puts constraints on the content that walls of text don't. Plus voice-over dictates speed in a way reading does not.

Some good ambient-matching tunes and occasional sound effects are all it needs.

The other points sound like a great non-plan though.
I find it somewhat hypocritical that this is in The Guardian, considering that they frequently publish the kind of questionable nutritional advice that the article lambasts.
That was an amazingly good read.

Possible Spoiler.

What is the process for programmatically generating code that achieved a certain result without caring about efficiency?
Yes. If Google ever didn't say this, they'd be ruined by users trying to assert their independence and regulators riding the wave of public resentment.

We have created a culture that depends heavily on certain implicit subtleties. Calling these out as invalid will make you a pariah. Using them to your advantage will make you powerful.
>Democracy is seen as a slightly longer but sure road towards communism

Not really. I can't remember Marx, but Marxists after him have made the distinction between what they call 'bourgeois democracy' and proletarian democracy. Marx was careful not to say that democracy inevitably leads to Socialism, and in fact correctly notes that proletarian movements have been supressed in democracies, such that revolution would be the only possible way.

>The logic here being that, if the criteria by which elected officials get into government is by promising the demos more and more government handouts, then the logical conclusion is that at some point, we'll have transitioned from democracy to communism.

This line of thought is ridiculous. Communism isn't about "handouts", it's got nothing to do with "handouts". More "handouts" doesn't mean Communism. Which people are proposing that Communism is about handouts? I can't imagine that there are intellectuals so misinformed about the aims of Communism such that they think it merely comes about by giving a lot of money away.

>The Austro-anarchists' solution is therefore to nip it in the bud and ensure that society doesn't employ democracy from the onset.

Then the Autro-anarchist position is flawed for the reasons I have stated.
There is more than you think and I expect a decent amount of people to come over from Perl5, Ruby, and Python if the language gets optimized enough. Just for small stuff at first, but in larger numbers as the libraries start to show up
Well... he kind of does, actually!

http://matt.might.net/teaching/compilers/spring-2015/
Demand 400k :P
>You forgot the inverter, the supports, and optionally the solar tracker

That's why I said "next to nothing", not "nothing".

You're right that in a grid-connected setup you won't have batteries in the setup. Ideally, you don't want batteries anywhere in the grid and instead do pumped hydroelectric storage, but that's not possible everywhere.
Actually neural networks are notorious for having biases. It's ignorant to think that just because it's a machine making the decision instead of a human that it's automatically a fair decision. Google is actually researching the problem of biases in neural networks: https://research.google.com/bigpicture/attacking-discriminat...
Sounds like something Facebook would be interested in.
> those who are members of the Airbnb community accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

When you are trusting someone to host you in their home, or trusting someone to stay in your home, it is important to have safety policies. For example, AirBnB's policies are related to fire safety, theft/vandalism, and fraud. This is simply one other policy to make both guests and hosts feel safe using the platform.

- https://www.airbnb.ca/standards
Well, that's the reason we have so many people driving huge SUVs too.
On some level that sounds good, but how does that protocol come into existence?

Does the government write the protocols? Wouldn't they just design what relevant (i.e., Google, Amazon, et. al.) lobbyists tell them to? Who penalizes companies to aren't compliant with the protocols?

What about the data? Data management isn't free and you can have a pristine protocols that are worthless due to garbage data.
It's interesting when people do and don't cite legal justification as the final consideration. It should be clear that I'm not concerned with the current legality.
An example of an existing easter egg (for reference): https://www.google.com/teapot
My compilers course has all the lectures recorded, and has starter code for all the assignments provided. It provides all the parsers, and focuses on the backend, including memory management and various details of value representations.

This is just my materials, I don't have an associated platform with verification/certification. However, some folks from HN have previously done the course and emailed me after, and seem to have gotten some value out of it.

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/sp17/cse131-a/

https://podcast.ucsd.edu/podcasts/default.aspx?PodcastId=401...

https://github.com/ucsd-cse131-sp17

Earlier offering:

https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~jpolitz/cs75/s16/
Let's imagine there is a just future ahead. How do we get there? Suppress white supremecy from public discussion, and hope it dies out from loneliness in a few generations? Good luck with that.

I want white supremacism die out, not white supremacist people themselves. I want their voice in the public dialogue. I want white supremacists to bring their ideology into the public sphere so that it can be visibly argued against. I want white supremacists to experience a change of heart.
Note that the "contributor" (Mark Nottingham) is also the author of the document in OP, and deserves a lot of credit for taking this approach. Given that his area of work is HTTP standards, I think he initially started removing 418 to tidy up and make things compliant and isn't just some bore who hates fun. Now he's managed to make everyone happy in a standards-compliant way.
It's the bigots who are most fearful. People also wouldn't rent to african americans because they were afraid of their daughters being raped, etc.

You know, renting your property is not an existential struggle and not everyone who reads Breitbart wants to have you and yours ethnically cleansed. There are laws to protect you, and you really don't need to be helping out the police with your fears.
I've not used either, but Forestry seems like a CMS-to-static-pages tool while Contentful is a CMS-to-API tool.
You're right it can't be done (Perl 6 does that a lot).

The feature could be made to start a new mapping of synthetic characters before it runs out, and throw away the mapping when the last of the old strands gets GCed.

Basically it is a problem in theory, but might not be in practice.
No, this would be in addition to that. Often the employed gardeners have maintenance schedules meaning they have limited time in each area. I know there are countless areas near me, my commute and my office that would benefit from a bit of extra attention.
Sets a bad precedent. What if this were an Arabic company banning jews from housing?

Fascism should be fought, but not in this way.
I've never heard of a "Sharia Rally". Can you point to one that happened in the United States?
Deceiving the citizens is also a very important tactic of war.
I'm building something that you might find interesting. Pragma (https://pragma.build), comes with a browser based Medium style editor and static page publishing by default.

I've been running an invite only private beta for a few months now, and most of our early adopters were tech-savvy people who were asked by their friends/family to build a site. They love it because it's less setup and maintenance burden for them. I also plan to open source the project in the coming weeks, so you'd have greater flexibility of hosting it anywhere.

If you like to give a try, request an invite on site (pragma.build) or send a DM (@PragmaApp) on Twitter.
I agree that at the draft stage it's not desirable to use LaTeX, or when you need to collaborate with non academic users. But Libre Office is really not a serious alternative to LaTeX (please don't ask why). Use markdown in the beginning, and when you have enough materials, you can export to LaTeX and do the final editing.
Yeah, I agree in part. But many do call all puns bad (bad). The emergence of bad (good) probably followed this.

I also think that the bad-awful spectrum is missing a category: the sublime/artful pun. See Shakespeare:

>Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this Son of York

>Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
Can you please expand on what you mean by custom layers and abstractions and stuff? Thanks!
funny no one's been noticing that it's 3blue1brown
I've not made the jump (indeed, don't have solar at all) since we don't own our house. But I briefly looked into the solution here, and a suitable gas generator is ~$5k.

Would be expensive to run, sure, but very quickly cheaper to have it on standby than stay connected to the grid.
Pandoc is excellent, but I'd recommend coverting Markdown to LaTeX instead of the other way around. I've tried several LaTeX to X converters (for any value of X other than PS/PDF) and frankly none of them are very good. The advantage of starting with Markdown is that you know that the format is a good match for the tool's internal AST, which makes the results much more predictable.

Pandoc has the advantage that you can still write LaTeX directly inline when you need to. You can also write in terms of divs and spans (which Pandoc understands natively) and convert these to whatever you want via filters. The latter approach has the advantage that different filters can generate the appropriate code for the format you're generating, so that you don't just lose the elements when you convert to an incompatible format.

Shameless plug: I've built a tool that helps manage the conversion: https://bitbucket.org/elliottslaughter/bookmd
HTML doesn't have a notion of multiple pages within the same document though?
WELCOME TO THE HYPERBOLE: Forget what you know and prepare to be emotional
TryGhost. It's still limited in features, but it is good for simple blogs.
I've worked with O'Reilly and Wrox and both have you do one document per chapter. Anything over 30 pages and MS Word starts to choke, especially with a lot of diagrams.

Neither gave me the choice to use LaTeX although I'm sure they might have been open to it had I asked.
OK. So you think he wrote the memo in bad faith and/or ignorance. Just say that. Why argue that it says things it doesn't?

The NYT piece could have just said something like, "...fired for harboring anti-diversity attitudes that are obvious from reading a deceptively worded diatribe," or something like that. At least be honest about what he literally said and what additional context and inferences add to the picture.
Does that template.html has some css links? if so, is that something that comes with pandoc?
It does switch voices. But also we were playing on a platform not supported by the remastered version, so we needed to use ScummVM anyway.
Apples and oranges. Haskell is defined by a language specification, not an implementation.
The contributor trying to remove 418 and the author of this RFC are the same person (Mark Nottingham[1])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Nottingham
> We criminalize all sorts of speech, everything from libel to copyrighted works.
> You live in a country under the permission of government. Never forget that.

You could equally and more accurately say government governs under the permission of the people.

> Don't ever ask simple questions. It shows lack of thought.

No, much better to dodge counter-arguments to which you are incapable of formulating a response.
Mortal Kombat’s 1997 was the opposite of a flawless victory
those "autogenerated 'synthetic' codepoints" aren't guaranteed to be identical across runs

Indeed: It's not an exchange format, but the format of the internal in-memory string representation.
Best comment of the day! Figuratively speaking...

You will probably like this:

https://xkcd.com/1576/

(Be sure to hover the mouse to read the tooltip...)
Co-founder of https://forestry.io here.

Forestry.io is a Git-based CMS that commits content changes to your repo (and optionally builds/deploys your site). Contentful is an API-based CMS, that stores your content and requires you to query their API during/after build time.
Slightly OT but until about 4 hours ago I was all in on solar, wind, modern battery tech, tesla etc. Having just watched Cowspiracy and What the Health back to back on Netflix I'm going to become a vegan and stop getting excited about anything else

Without drastically reducing animal agriculture, all other efforts at global sustainability seem almost pointless (and rather expensive, both in terms of capital and time).
It just says "calculating..." for me.

iOS safari.
> The moment you point out that the same kind of argument was made about black people not long ago, most of the trolls just disappear.

Or they completely stop taking you seriously.

The increasing absurdity of this discussion is astonishing.
Oh, come off it. You're creating a strawman - there's plenty of room for political debate around specific issues. And I don't think people who didn't vote for HRC are Nazis are anything like that.

You know what I think? I think you don't actually care about free speech.
A Nazi (a real, card-carrying Nazi) drove a car through a group of leftist protestors and killed an innocent young woman. He took away, by force, her right to freedom of expression.

But I notice you haven't voiced any concern about that - you only care about freedom of speech to the extent that it's used to protect Nazis (and those who associate with them). But when it comes to protecting the free speech of protestors who disagree? All of a sudden, your deep concern is nowhere to be found. Give me a break.
Jekyll works well with Netlify - you might just have needed a Gemfile or the like?
Yup. "I hate censorship" is 80% toxic :P
Depends on what youre using to host the html files, but you can probably deploy in two commands.

1. generate your files

2. copy these files to your host

Put these in a script, and your workflow becomes: update your content, then run your script.
Little Caesar's, the cleanest of pizzas for sure!
The author's thesis seems to be that Sears' woes are due to its CEO trying to run it like a hedge fund. I wonder if other ex-managers of hedge funds have done well in charge of other types of companies.
My experience with Hugo through v0.17 was that it takes ~1ms per post to generate. IIRc that was one of the major reasons why the author wrote, vastly increase the speed of regenerating the site.
> Apples and oranges. Haskell is defined by a language specification, not an implementation.
reply

Oh, a Haskell zealot. And to think I was about to start an argument!
Nazis, as a matter of written ideology, espouse ethnic cleansing. African Americans do not. I cannot believe I am having this debate, and on HN of all places. Has the world gone insane?
This may classify as a spoiler ...

Consider Malbolge and the methodology used to create "Hello World":

"... it was generated by a beam search algorithm ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
Reasonable. In the US, the limit where speech stops being constitutionally protected seems to be incitement to imminent lawless action. See https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/395/444/case.htm..., and a later clarification in https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/414/105/.
That's my reading as well. He tries to distinguish between "women can't be technologists" and "women can be technologists if they want to, but they don't generally want to".

I'm honestly not sure how one could in good faith make that case given the current climate. A couple weeks ago, I would have bet on his memo being generally derided but not anathematized.
The problem is I'm pretty sure the only illegal thing in that is giving away private information, if that.
The thing I really enjoy about these types of things is the alternate map projections / focus points from other countries (if you click through to the NYT page). For instance, Seattle / SF are both "just up the coast" from NK.
I just switch my consulting company to have all our documents (Statement of Work, proposals, NDA, MSA, etc) in LaTeX.

It has worked amazing well. For a few reasons:

1. We easily can typeset all our documents the same and if we do something like change the letterhead we can easily update them all.

2. Auto-generating documents (forms letters) is a snap.

3. Everything is source controlled.

3a. If a client needs customizations we can give them their own branch and easily diff the branch with master. Very useful for documents that have legal side effects.
>'Amazon said customers who did not receive an email purchased glasses that were safe to use.'

Or they did receive an email and it went into their spam/junk folder. In a situation like this it might be better to email everyone if only to say your glasses are safe. Although that would open them to legal liability if they're wrong.
> Oh yeah. Criticize any random silly move and you're against any and all progress, ever.

Not this person, or that person, but after you add all of the complaints together, the aggregate could be against any change at all. That isn't saying "don't change", but it does suggest that the promise of forking and fixing is not being realized, perhaps because not enough people have the combination of time, interest, and ability to do so.
> There is a tendency, especially among educated males of a certain age, to start to feel themselves quite clever.

This is clearly an emotive subject, and when reading this you should always remember to take a breath. Perhaps just before the words "quite clever".
Luckily every DRM system hasn't been cracked, so it wasn't all pointless and annoying
Goal Digging: The Pitfalls of Bad Goal Setting in Tech
Same google-chrome-browser
For those that may not know, Mark is also co-chair of the HTTP Working Group on the IETF[1].

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/charter/
I think the two lines of argument would be:

1. The 'private club' exception. An individual renter is a small operation, and could maybe argue that their property represents a private club. In the same way that businesses under 15 employees (or whatever the limit is) are exempt from certain civil rights requirements. They're too small to be considered 'public' accommodations.

2. The word 'establishment': "any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests,". Is an AirBnB renter an 'establishment'? The word is a bit poorly defined, but an argument could be made that since most AirBnB renters are not incorporated, they could not be considered to be 'establishments'. It may also turn on the degree to which the renting is a primary use of the home in question. I.e. if you own the house only to rent it out, you are an 'establishment', but if you also live there and only rent it occasionally, you are not.
W/r/t anti-gravity, what about written description and the enablement requirements?
> To those downvoting me, can you please explain why?

My guess is because you've condensed the central underlying premise into a compact, impossible to misunderstand, obfuscate, or mischaracterize idea, upon which a real discussion can be undertaken. This is counter to the goals of one side of this discussion, in my opinion.
> HTML doesn't have a notion of multiple pages within the same document though?

HTML is at a higher level of abstraction, but the HTML/CSS stack supports paged rendering, and browsers tend to support this for print (pre-Blink Opera did for on-screen use, though I don't know if current browsers do.)
what's interesting is the faces they decided not to portray in the movie.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/01/indian...
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If it were strictly a placebo effect, I would expect any sort of treatment-- anti depresents (I've been on a dozen), talking theraposts, anccupuncture, accupressure, hypnotism, etc. etc. To have worked. If it were just the fact that I was being treated that caused my mind to cure itself, why did all of the previous lengthy and cost-incuring treatments fail?

If "placebo effect" is proffered as a debunking explanation, I'm curious as to the explanation of why this particular sham treatment had the placebo effect, while other sham and real treatments failed to have any effect, real or placebo.
Finding the right representation of NLP data
Space whisperers: the Aussies guiding Cassini's suicide mission to Saturn
The "whatever star" seems like a less-well-implemented version of Wolfram Language's pure anonymous functions:

http://www.wolfram.com/language/elementary-introduction/2nd-...

Essentially, WL uses # instead of * and requires a "&" to indicate when you're done defining your function. So the WL equivalent to Perl's

(1, 2, 3).map: * * 2

is

Map[ #*2&, {1,2,3}]

(idiomatically you would use /@ as shorthand for Map[], so it would be)

#*2&/@{1,2,3}

Except WL is far more general with what you can do with #, and you can do things like this:

Outer[ #1 * #2 &, {1,2,3}, {4,5,6}]

which returns

{{4, 5, 6}, {8, 10, 12}, {12, 15, 18}}

because #1 * #2 & defines a function of two arguments, and "Outer" feeds the lists into that function. You can even use ## to refer to all the arguments passed into that function (regardless of how many arguments there are), so

Outer[## &, {1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6}]

returns

{{1, 4, 1, 5, 1, 6}, {2, 4, 2, 5, 2, 6}, {3, 4, 3, 5, 3, 6}}

And you can even do stuff like:

f[x_] := x^2
Outer[ #1[#2] &, {e, f, g}, {4, 5, 6}]

to get

{{e[4], e[5], e[6]}, {16, 25, 36}, {g[4], g[5], g[6]}}
That strategy worked so well in 1930s Europe (not just Germany).

Extremist views are hard to fight when they are safely hidden away. Like any infection, it's best to expose them to the light of day. It's more effective to point and laugh than to throw projectiles and yell. (Had that strategy been employed in 1923, there would have been no Mein Kampf.)
I don't know if I would generalize based on the prevalence of any particular style of humor on popular TV. Or I might think that English humor consists almost entirely of absurdist satire.
Lately, I've been seeing more pots on Perl. Is it just confirmation bias? or is Perl making a comeback?