skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dying at all the paranoid teenage librarians in this thread
> At Amazon the signing bonus you owe if you leave within one year but the relocation bonus you owe if you leave within two; both are prorated

Um, wow. Yet another reason not to work at Amazon.

How does Amazon still get employees when they just seem to pile these kinds of irritating, anti-employee behaviors up one after another?
> In the videos I saw

These don't seem to be very easy to find. Can you link some examples? (Honestly asking).
"examine (a book, movie, etc.) officially and suppress unacceptable parts of it."

that the definition I am using. What does it have to do with freedom of speech?
I want to see the same internet as everyone else. The more my experience is customized to me, the more disconnected I am from people who aren't like me, and the more our views will diverge over time. Ultimately it leads to bad outcomes; Trump, or possibly eventually civil war. So I am against too much automatic hidden customisation.

You might think that's hyperbole. I don't. I'm deadly serious; I think something worse than Trump is coming down the tracks because of an increasingly divided polis, and it's divided because of atomisation of world perspective. Filter bubbles driven by hidden preferences are directly responsible for shielding people from unpleasant perspectives, on both sides.
I can't reply to dead comments and can't link to the original page (because it's no longer accessible by DNS) but this article reports on examples of explicit calls for violence by far right commentators: https://itsgoingdown.org/unite-right-organizers-encourage-gu...

I understand the argument that such determinations should be 'left up to the law' but the corollary of that is asserting that regular people should not have any political agency to express their own opposition to movements they find threatening or inimical to their values.

I'm sticking to a very narrow interpretation of what counts as threats/incitement here.
You don't. You can't argue with crazy. Or as philosopher once put it, you cannot answer questions of value with statements of fact.
And? Again, it only lists media articles about hate crimes and bias.
If you're an avowed Hitler fan at a #UniteTheRight alt-right rally, and you drive multiple blocks at high speed into a crowd of people, and then drive multiple blocks in reverse at a similar rate of speed in order to evade capture, I think there's enough room to indict.
1984: Government's Attempt to Control The Mind and Bodies of Its Citizens

The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is an American classic which explores the human mind when it comes to power, corruption, control, and the ultimate utopian society. Orwell indirectly proposes that power given to the government will ultimately become corrupt and they will attempt to force all to conform to their one set standard. He also sets forth the idea that the corrupted government will attempt to destroy any and all mental and physical opposition to their beliefs, thus eliminating any opportunity for achieving an utopian society.

I guess Mr Orwell got it wrong, it won't be the government.
Google has already shown it's belief in "Diversity", but only how they define it, as experienced by the engineer they just booted.

Google, FaceBook, Apple, Twitter, and Microsoft will be controlling all the information. Don't be surprised if you see only what they want you to see.

People worry about the NSA invading your private life, the NSA drools about the data these Techno Giants already have. And of course they put on this glorified act of denial when the government requests information.

Yet people worry about who will police what these government entities are doing, so who is going to police these Techno Giants? Remember, these companies are in for the money and all that that comes with it.

Zuckerberg wants everyone to have a Basic Income, who is going to pay for that? But it is one way to buy votes. It sounds like just another welfare program.

Welfare is destroying this country, as it is today. It destroys incentive and when that happens, the mind becomes worthless.

I tend to go along with Thomas Sowell.
https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/thomas-sowe...

https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/instead-of-...

The ideology of the Techno Giants, "Your Life Belongs to US"
Ah, got it. Though it only worsens my confusion over why they can't dump enough current to do better than 0-60 in 5.5 seconds... Do those other technologies also have lower current output overall due to the lower energy density?
The same reason why you have first-degree and second-degree manslaughter, for example. Intent counts.
Not OP but I find the ad-blocking not to be great, and I'd love to have a JS blocker built in. Focus is nice to have as a "default to privacy mode" option, but I definitely end up missing my addons.
It's time for the cash grabs before the economy implodes
Depends on what it's tracking.
There's a huge difference between "On average Focus was started 30 times a day by any single user" (which can inform resource allocation decisions for that project) and "bigbugbag was reading hacker news for 4 hours on Tuesday" (uhm. no.)

They should be more transparent and upfront what they're collecting and why though.
Connecting to a BBS over WiFi? But you're missing out on the sqleulchy screechy modem sounds! :)

I remember using SLIP and PPP to get my Amiga 1200 onto the web with the Mosaic browser. Fun times!
How does employee cost factor into that, though? I don't do devops, so I don't know at what scale you start needing dedicated people to manage hardware and configuration at a colo. However, employees are really expensive in comparison to just about everything else, so even if you're spending an extra $10K a year on AWS than you would at a colo, if using it saves you just 10% of one person's time you're coming out ahead.
>The Hate News Index will keep an eye out for false positives

finding false positives means eventually you have to decide what you consider a hate crime
It's getting much better. Almost everything new is in UTF-8.

I've been writing code to clean up a 2013 database dump. The database stored everything in LATIN-1 fields. Not because the data is in LATIN-1, but because LATIN-1 will accept any byte value. This makes error messages during input go away. See this bad advice on Stack Overflow.[1]

Some of the data is ASCII. Some is UTF-8. Some is Windows-1252. Some data is none of those, but is mostly ASCII except that there's a 0x9d once in a while. (Still haven't figured out what character set that is. From context, the ™ or ® symbol is intended.) So I have recognizers for these cases, and convert everything to UTF-8, testing every field value individually.

One column has garbaged non-English names. Someone had tried to "normalize" UTF-8 to lower case by using an ASCII lowercasing function on UTF-8 stored in a LATIN-1 field:

KACMAZLAR MEKANİK -> kacmazlar mekanä°k
Anita Calçados -> anita calã§ados
Felfria Resor för att Koh Lanta -> felfria resor fã¶r att koh lanta

I have the un-"normalized" form and can fix this.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44251813/unicodedecodeer...
I love Focus. I wrote about it here[1], albeit poorly, but it just made me so happy to be able to use my phone again for web browsing. Sometimes I open Chrome and the tab that loads was something I was testing weeks prior... it's taken that big of a backseat to Firefox Focus.

[1]: https://epatr.com/blog/2017/firefox-focus/
Now you're just moving the goalposts. You don't need most of the jobs to have enough.
Why not? When my wife worked at an insurance agency they always refered people to mechanics/etc that stopped by and gave them candy every few months. Not all doctors handle their profession with the respect and care we'd like.
If you want to go overboard try Palace on Wheels.

Hilariously, "RATED NO. 4 LUXURY TRAIN IN THE WORLD".
I don't think this is a language problem at all. It's because of a stupid binary us vs them mindset. Any time you offer a criticism, it's automatically perceived as support of the other tribe. Any admission that your own tribe might not be as pure as the new-fallen snow, or that the other tribe isn't always completely evil, is enough to brand someone as a pariah.

As long as we keep up this attitude, we're going to continue - and deepen our political divides.
I believe the problem might be more common when exporting data from one system to another. I've written code to migrate (and merge) large datasets from old legacy systems. I needed quite a lot of heuristics and "best-effort" transformations in order to deal with data inconsistencies... mostly string manipulations where it's not hard to imagine bugs like this happening.
Oops! The poachers basically opened the season on themselves.

After this, no radical conservationist on the planet is going to have any lingering shred of remorse in going after their lives.
i really don't know how to describe my feeling as a syrian when i know the most important evidence that witnessed the regime crimes were deleted because of wrong call. And it's really confusing how artificial algorithm get confused between what is is obvious as isis propaganda and a family buried under the rubble and this statement makes things even worse. mistakenly? because there is so many videos? just imagine that may happen to any celebs channel. Will youtube issue the same statement? dont think so.
Judge shuts down key Uber argument in Waymo lawsuit
>Maybe I'm missing something.

The features you explained are exactly what I was looking for in a mobile browser. In fact, i wish they launch Focus for Desktops operating systems too.
Repo author here:

Unfortunately, a lot of the examples people give for text generation in general are cherrypicked, which leads to a selection bias toward the robustness of text generation (see my previous rant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14949220)

In terms of size vs. performance (including retraining), the 128-cell LSTM was the best balance for a repo like this. (The 3-layer 512-cell networks used in the original Karpathy examples are hundreds of MB)

I recommend looking at the examples in the /output folder for more robust examples than the ones in the README.
> When multi-billion dollar companies are gaining government sanctioned exclusivity to something through a patent, something seems off.

So, in your world, why would a medical research lab spend billions researching and developing new drugs, spend years going through regulatory approval and testing, only to have their drug be sold for pennies as a generic?
Use Closure Compiler for UMD/Node Bundles Instead of Uglify
George Orwell was British not American...
A somewhat misleading title for an article that highlights researcher bias and culminates in the stance that most sociology professors are liberal and without more conservatives in these positions our research findings will continue to be skewed.

Researcher bias can be difficult to detect when like minded people are the ones who are charged with detecting bias. The fear that conservatives and liberals will end up segregated at higher education institutions based on the their ideological diversity, if it continues to trend in that direction, can only result in a greater divide between us.
To be honest I (as an author of the Sciter [1]) do not expect too much gain from that.

Sciter contains source code to bytecode compiler. Those bytecodes can be stored to files and loaded bypassing compilation phase. There is not too much gain as JS alike grammar is pretty simple.

In principle original ECMA-262 grammar was so simple that you can parse it without need of AST - direct parser with one symbol lookahead that produces bytecodes is quite adequate.

JavaScript use cases require fast compilation anyway. As for source files as for eval() and alike cases like onclick="..." in markup.

[1] https://sciter.com
And JS parsers used to be damn fast indeed, until introduction of arrow functions. Their syntax is what requires AST.
Yeah dude. No one can talk about the PNW or California without spreading a little gloom and doom!

Nerds love gloom and doom!
From my experience visiting Kruger earlier this year, the overcrowding problem is fixed by simply closing the gate after a certain quota is reached. I was there during a local holiday and they closed the gate at around 11am as enough people entered already by that time.

I'm not sure if I'm confusing what you mean with 'Safari' with something else, but entering the park and driving around to spot and see wildlife, is not that expensive. Entrance to Kruger is under 5euros for South Africans for instance, definitely not for the rich and privileged only.
>> Q: What connection might there be between drug-maker payments to physicians and the current opioid use epidemic?

The article is pure speculation. They did not correlate the payments made to doctors with the prescriptions those doctors made, nor even more broadly with national prescription rates.

This article just makes the implied assumption that doctors push pills onto patients. I don't discount that at one time doctors may have been incentivized to play it fast and loose with pain pills, but those days are LONG gone now.

I would like to see research on the population in terms of predisposition to addiction and susceptibility to chemical dependence.
Pizzagate is a distraction manufactured by the the mainstream media. Hardly surprising someone with your false and dismissive opinion would bring it up. How is this obvious? Because the media focused on one pizza joint when there are extensive documented cases of pedophilia and child sex trafficking taking place. Heard of Haiti and the Clinton Foundation? Get informed.
Slightly off-topic, but a great video on why Electronic Voting could be a bad idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

I've wondered before why the UK doesn't have e-voting, and after watching it is sort of seems obvious. With traditional voting, it can easily be changed on a small scale, but is very hard to do in a meaningful way. Whilst with e-voting, its almost just as much effort to change on a small scale as a bigger scale, with much fewer people being involved.

I particularly like the idea that the reason we use pencils is as a protection against somebody replacing pens with ones with invisible ink. Not sure if this is true though.
I've always held the belief that"reinventing the wheel" in this context is at worst a neutral thing. At best it is part of iterative progress. Perhaps the wheel itself is the same, but one small part could be slightly better. Sharing your findings is a part of this.

What really seems to grind your gears is the curation. The fact that this "inexcusable" blog post made it to the HN front page. Blaming the author for not living up to your (extremely ambitious) standards seem silly to me.
How about a microscope, and then in a swab from your mouth.
This is great, and I'm not really surprised by its success. The stuff they have on there now is just total, absolute garbage. Right now it's:

"Courtney (one of the karsidhins) is an Egyptian Goddess"

"How Much Porn is Too Much Porn"

"Is this the Big L for Drake"

I just cannot imagine caring about any of this stuff, and it uses a lot of data to just load the previews. It's so annoying I did my first Instagram story this week.

Good to see snapchat is putting together some content that you wouldn't see in a tabloid magazine. I realize I probably sound like an old man, which I am not.
Having a support team they can call is a large part of why they pay RedHat or Pivotal for docker.
I worked remotely in Vietnam for about a year. It was pretty great. Fun and super cheap. I wasn't in a big city so I could literally pay my monthly rent with one hour of work.
My doctor had 16 payments in 2016. Mostly in the $10-$13 range for food and drink. Looks like a rep paying for lunch at the medical center cafeteria. Sounds a lot like "ok, I want to hear about your product, but I'm not giving up billable hours for it, so talk at lunch".

I'm not sure how doctors think, but there is no meal you can buy me that would make me go hear about your product if I didn't want to hear about your product.
Fixing Duplicate Redirects in PWAs Caused by Service Worker Cache
So is this like an always-on incognito plus privacy badger?
Except you organize that conference in Hawaii, all expenses paid.
You missed the example of the false positive:

> (casual uses of the word “hate” for example)
Agreed. Norwegian has a really fairly priced premium fare (not as nice as other intl bi clas, but terrific value).

The 787s that they fly also make a big difference in comfort because of the higher humidity, lower noise, and better air quality.
Yes, the seats getting smaller. I just had a flight this week and I am still raving about it. I never been so lucky I had a bunch of flights to get back home: 2h, 2h, 7h and 7h and I got assigned an exit row seat on 3/4 of the flights. Amazing those exit row seats. I am 6"7 so I could use the extra space :D :D :D
That drags in all the other google services and "telemetry" and gives google root on his phone, which he may not want
Like the article said, Apple licensed the 1-click patent from Amazon in order to offer the same frictionless experience to iTunes shoppers. This was for music sales, before the iPhone was even a thing, if memory serves me right.
Demystifying Dynamic Programming
We have already had this discussion politically, and businesses must make reasonable accommodations for those people that require them. Furthermore, businesses must serve black customers and white customers as equals. And if they bake cakes for straights, they can't refuse to do so for gays. If you want to discriminate, you have to operate as a private club business, and serve only members. That's our "out" for those kinds of businesses. If you want to do business with anyone who walks in off the street, you have to do business with everyone who walks in off the street.

And yes, amusement park rides are discriminatory, but sometimes no reasonable accommodations are possible. The design constraints mean the passenger dimensions have to fall within a certain range, or the physics math doesn't work out. It would certainly be possible to have multiple types of passenger vehicles and restraints, but it also complicates the operations, because you then have to sort passengers by size before seating them. The scope of reasonableness is subjective.

In the case of airline seating, the reasonable accommodation for ranges in height would be to reserve some seats with more legroom for tall people, and some seats with less legroom and lower seat height for short people. Height is normally distributed, so the tradeoff would tend to work out on average. But that would interfere with airlines' fare categories and gratuitous seat upgrade fees.
Historically, even though GA was part of GMS, it did not require GMS to operate. You might be OK without GMS ... but things may have changed since the addition of firebase.
Historically, even though GA was part of GMS, it did not require GMS to operate. You might be OK without GMS. I'm not sure now that there has been transitioning over to firebase.
I absolutely could not agree less. Every time Google shows me some sort of "magic" that I know involves their massive compendium of personal data, I'm reminded of how much I been detest that they've stolen that information from me. No matter how much I opt out, say no, and turn things off, they continue to extract wealth from my need for basic modern services. I can't tell you much much I appreciate Mozilla understanding that and releasing products that feel usable without being exploitive.
Memory Market: More Than ASPs at Risk
No tabs? Unusable. Great product otherwise.
That's a bit of an exaggeration don't you think? Who actually arrives at an airport 3 hours before departure?
Yep. The problem with this sort of thing is the definition of "hate crime" will stretch and grow to cover a whole lot of people to whom it shouldn't apply.

Also, they're inevitably going to make mistakes. How are they going to compensate the victims?
Norco is common because it's a mild opioid that is able to treat the majority of "intermediate" pains. If your pain can be treated with ibuprofen you don't need urgent care. If it can't then Norco is the lightest alternative most likely to help.
Docker for Mac has a default filesystem configuration that offers maximum consistency at the expense of performance. Unfortunately in some configurations that can result in "throw computer out the window" frustration, depending on the I/O pattern of your project.

As of Docker 17.06, 90% of use cases can safely change the settings and noticeably improve performance. See the documentation: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/osxfs-caching/#perfor...
Nothing more annoying then someone reclining it seat even during eating time, ignoring mine and steward's requests on a flight from Shanghai to Auckland. I ended up eating in one of the steward seat's accompanied by one of the stewards.
Ask HN: Should startups hire recent college grads?
What are you addressing? My position is that automatic type checkers are nice to have but not essential, and it is possible to prototype software without one. I am not arguing against their use, just what seemed to be your assertion that it is impossible to prototype/develop software without an automatic type checker. Anyway, I understand the pitfalls of not using one, but I also understand how type systems tend not to capture everything. There is no reason to be dogmatic about it: use whatever works as a tool for thought.

As I said before, "intuitive" is in the sense of intuitionism; not "easy to understand" or "obvious." A point of view: formal type systems comes from explaining what we see with mental perception (intuition). What do you do if your automatic type checker doesn't check every possible thing you want to verify is correct? Surely you aren't just blind to the types they "should" be. Seeing the invariants which must hold is seeing the intuitive type.

> if you don't mind an ad-hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a type checker that no one but you knows

I can't tell if I was understood or if you just wanted to quote Greenspun's tenth rule whether it completely worked or not: I was talking about a programmer with a type theory, not implementing an automatic type checker from scratch.
You're correct with both assertions. As someone who lives in Palo Alto and works for Docker, I can only wish that it were headquartered there.
$500 Box can bruteforce any iPhone 7 and 7+
They also clawback their contribution to the 401k if you leave before (iirc) three years.
It is absolutely a doctor's fault if they prescribe medications that are unnecessary because of kickbacks.
They just recently had a PR disaster because Firefox included Google Analytics in the Addon menu.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753546