skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they are too big, have too much information, have too many near-monopoly positions they abuse, and far too much control over the internet.

Same thing applies to facebook, and to a lesser extent Amazon.

break them up.
We speak about machine. How we can reduce attracriveness to simple machine learning arguments? We are humans!
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Allo & Duo are waste of time but Google still has the workforce to develop it so I don't think this is the reason.
You'd be OK allowing two people to fight to the death for pay? I'm stunned. You are the only person I know of that would be OK living in a society that allowed two people to fight until one of them dies for pay. I'm glad your view is not a popular one.
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Well, because there aren't always options for folks to avoid pregnancy nor get an abortion. I'd have been sterilized before I was 20 if it were an option to me. I've not had the unfortunate experience of being pregnant, though, and I'm 39 now. Happily childless.

And because some folks have kids first, then find out how horrible it is. The first child doesn't always seem horrible, so they have another.

And because even happy parents find a lot of the work involved absolutely horrible. I'm not sure if anyone gets joy out of waking in the middle of the night to feed the baby, change an overflowing diaper of shit, and/or deal with spit up and so on. Older children keep doing pretty disgusting things for years to come.

Even jobs taking care of folks are considered low-rung, crappy jobs with horrible pay.
I find the opposite happens. Without the protection of the compiler enforcing rules before execution can occur we get "engineers" writing a mountain of fragile, dynamically typed mess quasi-protected by untold numbers of unit tests (themselves fraught with peril) half of which implement (poorly) type checking.
Good. Corporations are not your friends, and you shouldn’t trust them. Their interests may temporarily align with your own but this is ephemeral.
What kind of polymorphism? Traditional OOP is subtype polymorphism. You can't really do that in Rust. It's main polymorphism is parametric and ad-hoc polymorphism a la Haskell. If that's considered OOP then OOP is so broad it's not a useful term
I'll happily put one of these in my Nintendo Switch for all the downloadable games.
Your android phone already comes with most if not all apps Google want you to install.

But the UI is nice. I'm using it as "inspiration" for my new material design-app.
Yes, but somebody still has to pay or donate their time and the 'human' computational time require is pretty heavy for an object detection task.

It's also usually ideal to just have one person label one image, people often miss things or mislabel things. If you want low noise data, you need to have people repeatedly labeling the same image until they reach a consensus. The more objects the more opportunity for confusion, requiring more labeling.

You have probably been prompted to use captcha-like thing for selecting portions of an image containing a street sign. That's object detection, for a single class of object.

To answer your question, yes it should be crowdsourced, yes it is being crowdsourced, but the companies that are doing it are keeping the data to themselves because of the value/expense in collecting it.
The science is very clearcut and unambiguous. If you think otherwise you're delusional. Both boxing and football are very bad for your brain long term. Some people escape the worst symptoms, but enough are injured on a regular basis to make it a very serious public health concern.
Same here. Clearly, it's the work of the devil.
The issue for hockey is players got faster AND bigger. You are right that average weight has dropped from the peak of 206 in 2005 to 201 today But in the 70's it was as low as 183. The slowest 200+ pound skater today would probably be in the top 20% of skaters back then. Larger players also lead to more shoulder to head hits, just because of size disparity (see: Crosby, Kariya).

The other thing that is hard to capture statistically, is that teams used to have big guys that rarely would see much ice time. Now you have many legit skilled players at 220+ pounds who are regulars.
Flash memory is usually rated to what, order of 100,000 write cycles? But it has much better endurance on reads. If they aren't used as something like a pagefile, they can usually last awhile. But I guess it depends on the use case, and I'm assuming this will be similar to what exists now.
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> My experience working 80-90 hr weeks was that as long as I had flexibility to vary the tasks I didn't sense any drop in productivity. In many cases the fewer context switches increased the amount of "flow", and projects went more quickly than they would have.

Did your experience rigorously measure how many mistakes (bugs, if you're a developer) you made during hours over 56 relative to baseline, and how much it cost someone else down the road in cleanup and opportunity costs to fix them?

With programmers, at least, they can keep writing code well into 100 hours a week and beyond, but the trustworthiness of that code falls off, and that's a problem. It's a well-known result that fixing bugs costs many times more than not making them to begin with.
I was going to read this, but then it tried to force me to log in. No thanks.
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In Haskell it is easy, you can not create cyclic data structures ;-)
Seattle. Abandon hope, all ye who enter.
Sure, but you are also comparing it to a 700$ phone (the iPhone) and I don't think it's fair.

Like, obviously, iOS will have a cleaner and less fragmented ecosystem, because they support far fewer devices (all of which they own).
I switched to DDG a while ago and while I do occasionally add !g to my query, I can count on one hand the number of times that it's actually helped. Usually if DDG doesn't give me good results, Google doesn't either.
I have no expertise in ancient philosophy, so can't comment on these philosophers.

Is 'cogito ergo sum' a logical or an empirical truth? For Descartes it was a logical truth (undoubtably true). However, from the point of view of Hume, it must be viewed as empirical truth, because it is based on an empirical observation. So if even philosophers of that time couldn't agree on the distinction between logical and empirical truth, I think I can safely conclude that this distinction was not at all an established part of the Western culture at that point of time.

Rationalists vs. Empiricists is what we call these groups of philosophers now, it is not that they grouped themselves in two schools of 'logical truth' vs. 'empirical truth'. In fact, Hume most probably believed that his own philosophical insights can be derived just by thinking, so they must be logically true. And still, this is quite different from what we today call logically true (i.e., formally provable).
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Why not? I've never wanted children. I'm female. I'm tired of being told I should want to be a mother, have children, or anything of the sort. I don't WANT children. I have absolutely no desire, and comments like that make me wish I were male so I wouldn't have to deal with it.
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I think calling Rust that would confuse people more than anything. They will look for their traditional inheritance style relationships and be frustrated that there is not really any support for it. Better to teach the features that Rust actually has, than to try and fit some uber generic definition of "Objects" that's not going to serve newcommers.
"I stopped following football after watching League of Denial on PBS."

The reason I cannot stop watching football is that the combination of enormous economic incentives and ruthless selection process has produced individuals that are performing at near-superhuman levels. It is arguable that when you watch a quarterback or a cornerback play well in 2017 you are watching someone do something better than anyone has ever done anything.

I find that fascinating and extremely compelling.

Further, this is the reason that I no loner have any interest in college football - the professional game winnows that population down so much and so dramatically that the level of skill is no longer comparable.

Consider: after all of these years and all of this fame and outreach and development, there are still only 8-10 people in the entire world that can competently play the position of starting quarterback. If you can perform this task with even middling competency there is an immediate 8 figure paycheck waiting for you. This (totally arbitrary and otherwise useless) combination of speed, agility, strength, resiliency and lightning-fast-OODA-looping is amazing to watch. And that's just the quarterback ...

I can't get enough of it.
Aren't all commercially available, and military grade, VTOL aircraft either liquid hydrocarbon powered or rockets? I'm not aware of any electric powered aircraft in the same markets.
Anecdotal, obviously, but:

I worked 80 hour weeks (including some time on weekends) for about a year and half as an early developer at a startup (employee 15) a bunch of years ago. The startup failed (pity-acquired by an investor a couple years after I left; common shareholders got nothing). I did learn a lot, and was fortunately paid very near market-rate, but it was at the expense of my physical and mental health, and social life during that period. And boy was I burned out by the end. Fortunately I was single and had no family, and even then it took a huge toll.

At my current company (been there 6 years, joined as around employee 70), I tend to work ~45-hour weeks (with occasional very-short-term spikes near a product launch). The company is successful (IPO last year). I've learned a lot, but most importantly I'm happy. I have a busy social life, time for a SO, and take 4-6 weeks of vacation a year (as one of the relatively few people who actually takes full advantage of the unlimited vacation policy). Don't get me wrong: I work hard. I get a lot done. I just get it done without grinding myself down into nothing.

In my experience there's a negative correlation between long hours and success&happiness. Certainly there are people who have found success through (or perhaps despite?) long hours. And maybe many of them have brainwashed themselves into believing all that has made them happy, and maybe even some of them are genuinely happy.

I just don't think it's worth it -- for me. Everyone has a different definition of success: for some it's making 7 figures and retiring at 30 comfortably. For others it's making 9 figures and retiring lavishly. For others it's making less, but having a steady, secure job, and having copious time for hobbies, friends, and family. And everything in between.

I think it's difficult to draw the line. For some people, working themselves nearly to death is actually what they want to do. I think that's fine, but the problem becomes when that is (as it somewhat is now) the norm, and people who don't want to do that, have to do so anyway just to survive in the industry.
Fucking business bullshit everywhere and everyone (especially the church for some reason) equating income to your worth as a person.

"Software engineering" is a waste of time and it seperates you from all the women.
I don't think npm became the biggest package repository by accident so it is sure "well designed".
It's a fun city; I'd love it if not for the people.

It's baffling and honestly distressing; I've made friends before in other places. I don't have political views anathema to how most people in the area think. I try to be respectful and unobtrusive and kind. I honestly moved here thinking it'd be full of weirdos like me. I dunno, maybe that's the problem.

And don't even get me started on dating apps.
> In the end, dynamic typing is just a way to make runtimes slow and building correct programs slower, in exchange for some entirely subjective aesthetic or ergonomic quality.

To be honest, I really don't understand what the benefit of dynamic types are supposed to be. People say it's easier and less hassle to get something up and running because you don't need type annotations but this isn't an issue with decent type inference and all you're doing is replacing compile time checks with runtime crashes.
Thanks for sharing this. Its sad, but I see soooo many startups that (somehow) get funding to:

* Build an idea that already exists, is cheap, and well-executed by another company

* Build something that is so limited in scope that it could be replaced by a competitor (or your OS) basically overnight
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I just rebuilt an old iPod classic and it uses microSD cards for storage, instead of the old hard-drive. It would be awesome to load it up with 4 of these; for a 1.5TB+ iPod. Stupidly expensive though.
Why do you have a major problem with consenting adults at college level, but not at professional level? How is consenting-for-money any different to consenting-in-hopes-of-money?

As for fame, which players get significant fame? Every team has over fifty guys on their roster - how many of those could ever be named by a random member of the public who isn't a diehard fan of that same team? The linemen are the ones that cop the brunt of the big hits - how many linemen ever get known by name?
> Generally, the rationale of term limits seems to be to prevent a dictatorial or monarchistic system from emerging.

In Brazil, we didn't had reelections in the executive branch. 20 years ago the president bribed the Congress to change the Constitution so he could be reelected.

It has been a disaster!

The person in power would use all the government machine for his/her reelection. The election of a second term becomes almost a plebiscite of yes/no if the person must continue.

The renovation of the elected politicians has come almost to a halt. The emergence of new politicians were stifled. A real mess.
This headline seems to be a bit of a non-sequitor. What does Apple spending $1B on original content have to do with net neutrality? What matters is how much online streaming Apple does, and given that they've operated the iTunes Music/Movie/TV store for 14 years, streaming everyone else's content, I don't think funding original content of their own is really going to change how much streaming they do, it's just going to change who owns the content that is streamed.
Reading your comments was an uncomfortable reminder of my 2.5 years in Portland in tech (and I had family there). I was like, "this is probably Seattle"
The plant is built on a flat piece of ground. They could and probably should be required to build a berm around the facility by pushing up dirt and created a 10ft/3m high wall. If they had a flood bladder they could of put it in front of the gate and basically kept the entire facility dry with the help of pumps running.

The couple of 100k it would have cost seems a small price to pay for flood insurance. I suspect they don't care and probably have the plant and it's equipment insured for 10 times the value. That's typically how these places operate. Now they can collect their insurance at 10 times the value of the loss.
You are advocating for changes to laws you don't want because you have a very fundamental misunderstanding of some very basic concepts. Comcast cannot do this now because there are rules and regs to stop them from doing so. Killing net neutrality will enable comcast to dictate traffic. If you don't want them to have that ability, you should be in favor of net neutrality. How are you this dense?
What an extraordinary statement. So it doesn't matter what the government does with the money, the average person always gets the same value for the same tax bill? I don't know why we bother to have elections.
If you're using a dependently typed language, you have to write maths proofs to prove properties hold. It's incredibly challenging and not going to be automated any time soon.
How am I getting downvotes for not wanting to help fund white supremacy? Who are the readers of this site?
Obviously the solution is to turn the thanks page into an API, add CORS headers, and then a bit of JS on the announce page to fetch the list from thanks.rust-lang.org and build the list on load or fall back to the current behavior.

Good luck determining whether I'm joking or not. I'm not even sure myself...
I have never experienced such extreme attitude to work anywhere personally in my 10+ years of experience working in SV, across four different employers, I do, however, hear anecdotes of tough demands at some startups but that does seem all that pervasive either.
More profits through more apps sales. Come on..
The Federal goverment can authorize a contractor to host authorized content: annualcreditreport.com

This is a bad idea, though, as it makes it easy and legal for non-authorized entities to impersonate the authorized ones: freecreditreport.com
This is interesting, can you name the company? I’d like to report them to the Landes- and Bundesbeauftragen für Datenschutz.

Collecting this data requires specific opt-in, and the user can not give that by entering a store, but only if they sign a form, or agree with a specific checkbox in an app.

Due to that, I’d assume this would end up in court.

Please provide an anonymous tip to the Landesbeauftragten für Datenschutz in your state. Alternatively, send it to the https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/ (they’re responsible for SH, but properly deal with PGP encrypted email, and can redirect them to the responsible agencies)
The minimum initial payment from Apple is $20M.

However since we have no data on the cost to Iowa or Waukee we can't say whether or not this is cash positive to the state or county.

My guess is because the payment is variable and a function of the size of the facility Apple is basically paying for its hookup to streets, water, electricity, etc. with a park thrown in on the side.
Not game ending options in Zork?
It's not a security standard.
You didn't watch the video, or you watched but didn't listen, or you watched and listened but didn't think. I can't tell which. I'm letting you know your mistake so that you can avoid being downvoted next time.

Normally it's hard to tell when somebody hasn't read before commenting, but given that a non-trivial portion of this talk is explicitly laying out the different facets of type systems and doing compare-and-contrast analysis, it's really obvious that your reply was written without watching.
Maybe it would not be just Apple but a consortium of companies. Google, Apple, Netflix, Amazon and Facebook(since they are launching their video platform now).
If net neutrality falls through I willing to bet there would be a great incentive for figuring their ISP thing. It would be in their interest after all.
Hi, I'm the Product Manager for Headless Firefox at Mozilla.

No, this wasn't a reaction to Chrome. We decided to implement headless mode last fall after research last summer indicated that it would increase website testing in Firefox and thus improve web compatibility.

Of course, I was aware at the time of Chrome's own efforts to implement a headless mode, and I've continued to pay close attention to their work.

I've also made similar decisions to Chrome at times (f.e. to use the same --headless command-line argument to enable the mode), while making different decisions at other times (like deciding to prioritize support for the WebDriver API, whereas Chrome has focused on support for the Chrome DevTools Protocol).

But my focus has been primarily the direct benefits to web developers of being able to run tests against headless Firefox; and the indirect benefits to Firefox web compatibility of more web developers testing on Firefox.
The founding of the United States can be seen as a rebellion against British crony capitalism.

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/tea-act

https://core.ac.uk/display/76558315 # Monopolies and the Constitution: A History of Crony Capitalism
That's exactly the point and what people are missing. If you used Twisted you didn't have access to the entire Python ecosystem and there was a lot of work that was required to get standard packages to work in a non blocking way.

Also callbacks for all that they're derided now were an easy paradigm to understand to get into the whole philosophy of async. The first prototypes of node supported different paradigms before callbacks were settled on IIRC.
I find it interesting that they assume that you treat passwords as plaintext in a security document :/
I think that's going to change. It's my completely biased, uninformed opinion that dependently typed systems are much easier to reason about than their counterparts.
> we've had many

> don't post off topic

Users of HN, please note "we" is Facebook and Facebook, or a representative of Facebook, is telling us what we can and can't discuss here.

This is why I quit posting here and use /r/hackernews on Reddit for my links. However, I occasionally make an appearance when I see patterns emerge, such as control where we didn't assume control existed.
And when the electricity went out, and then their generators were depleted, leading to the lack of refrigeration which caused the explosion. How would your solution have mitigated this situation?
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In the early days of the telegraph, farmers bootstrapped their own networks with fence wire (source - James Gleik's excellent The Information)
As long as you don't piss off cloudflare.
OK. That seems like a pretty fine hair to split in the context of the present discussion.
I already knew you were in Seattle from your other comments before I scrolled down to this one.

Just move to New York.
> I don't think we have that same effect in software but I think there is an related one: when you don't have the protection of a static type system, you may become more careful.

You could use that reasoning to argue we should be writing in assembly. I want all the automated checks I can get to get as close to bug free as possible. If you have to be careful about everything, you're going to exhaust yourself and miss even more bugs. It's much better when bugs are limited to smaller areas and you know where to be extra careful.
You can get pretty far with just 1000 words :)
https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/
I love the yellowjacket description:

> hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
I'm guessing they're referring to a group of people who go and get drinks? I don't really understand it either, but that's my guess from the followup being about going out for drinks with one of the founders.
It does require X to be installed, although it doesn't actually use X, and the X implementation can just be Xvfb.

Unfortunately, fixing that is hard. I think Chrome has the same limitation. For Firefox, the issue is tracked in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1372998.
Yeah. I'm probably going back to the East Coast in a year or so.
Given that prosecutors tried to show that Sergey Aleynikov was acting maliciously by using Subversion [0] (obviously it's subversive!), I wouldn't be surprised if they tried that.

[0]: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldma...
It's a pretty unfair comparison, though I'd expect it's largely representative.

A rugby union player has to run around the pitch for 2 bouts of 40 minutes [about 40 minutes of 'ball in play' time]. According to this article - https://qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-comm... - the average NFL match is 11 minutes of action, in [average] 4s bursts, over a 3+ hour period. Many NFL positions can optimise for muscle mass without worrying about stamina and sustained speed.

FWIW the measured tackle and at least one footage tackle [8mins 26s] in your linked video - https://youtu.be/TSc_Gxq1two - look illegal to me, lifting a player and pushing them down with head/shoulders first towards the ground (spearing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear_tackle) is a red-card offence.
It seems like they redesign it every 6 months