skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the next thing in mind. There are some minor bugs which needs to be resolved, will put rss feed after that.
WSJ, BBC, New Yorker and NPR should be under what liberals read. Other than that, good list.
I don't?

I judge actions, in context, but I avoid doing even that if I don't know a lot about the actions and the context.
Back around 1960, when I was eight and my little sister was six, we went with our dad to a chess tournament at the Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco. [1]

Of course if you're six and eight and not really into chess, nothing could be more boring. So we asked Dad if we could do something else. He gave us a few nickels and quarters and said "sure, how about riding the cable cars and go see the town?"

So we did! It was the most awesomest thing ever. We rode every cable car we could find, walked around town and saw the sights. The best part was when we found a street with our last name on it!

Everyone was nice. The cable car operators saw that we were a couple of kids riding around on our own, so they showed us how the grip and the brakes worked, pointed out interesting things to see, and made sure we knew how to ride safely - even when we were sitting on the outside of the cable car kicking our feet.

We forgot to ask for lunch money, so when we got back to the chess club as Dad was finishing his games, he took us out for a bite to eat and we told him all the stories of our adventure.

What a great day!

[1] https://chessclub.org
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The question is why we have poor and not a better distribution of wealth.

Not the Nazi-grade question if poor people deserve to have dogs.
In fact things like - got beer, free food (it should be food is available, you can eat here or eat outside; I would rather want to get paid for that and have a choice), TT table, foosball etc are traps.

I wish I could find a similar list (that can be trusted to some extent) for my country (India) and all I would be looking for is - work-life balance.

I don't want to drink alcohol in office (if at all I am into alcohol). Instead of playing TT in office I would like to go for a swim, or a game of badminton, or a quite evening stroll.
Don't forget fault tolerance! In my particular use cases concurrency is not really necessary, but I love the fact that I don't have to be quite as 'defensive' in my programming. Whenever a particular (Erlang) process/'Actor' fails, its supervisor can simply restart it and I can deal with the cause of failure later while the entire system chugs along (mostly) happily.
Obviously, it's a renewable energy source. But this is also a premium German product. It's designed to be quiet. So you don't have a loud AC roaring in your yard all summer. That allows builders to build houses closer together in premium developments such as serenbe GA.
This sort of thing is the absolute pits. Now that position: sticky is in CSS, are there any good reasons browsers don't rate limit onscroll event handlers?
Serverless dev practices questions
Hi guys,
So after spending some time exploring serverless practices (Lambda in particular), a few questions popped into my mind which i’d love to get some more experienced views. The development guidelines seem to be quite straightforward for some simple stuff to do and the given sample code demonstrate it nicely. Yet - what happens when the overall application isn’t as simple and requires more than 15 lines of code? Building the design and logic of the app shouldn’t be that hard, yet making sure that it actually works is what worries me more…
What are the given practices to test, debug, troubleshoot and iterate with the code i write in Lambda? The best i came up with is traces and log collection (most common), wrappers for the code in Lambda to collect more metrics and SAM local which should allow you to run stuff locally (but then, how to simulate the real context and the flow of the app)... are these really enough to test code in Lambda? Are there any other options around? Are there any other outstanding issues in developing for for Lambda?
The way blame gets assigned and risk gets assessed by human society is often quite pathological.

In a typical setting, there are options A & B. As an example, let A be the option to allow young kids to ride independently on a bus and B the option to legislate against letting young kids ride independently on a bus.

The cost of A seems high to human emotions and the lazy thinker, typically involving rare but high-impact events (something really bad happening to the well-trained kid taking a bus) that get cherry-picked as important to consider.

The cost of B seems low to human emotions and the lazy thinker, typically involving diverse continual low-impact events (all kids affected by legislation losing out on chance to learn independence, environmental impact of using a car instead of public transport) that get neglected because of their low emotional appeal and more complicated accounting. (It may be hard to prove that lots of low-impact things add up to a big thing -- there are too many things and causal relationships to point to.)

In many cases, the cost of A is actually objectively lower than the cost of B, so A is the better option. In such cases, whereas all options and their consequences should be considered together with their probabilities, in reality, option B is often deemed to be the better choice, and A a bad choice, because the cost of A appeals more strongly to emotional. Consequently, someone who picked A (law-maker or bureaucrat) gets blamed but someone who picked B doesn't get blamed and is harder to blame, including in court. To protect themselves, they pick the inferior option.

I think this sort of pathological risk assessment is the root of the cover-your-ass culture that permeates society.
> I don't care about the politics of the site(s) that have been taken down.

I'm pretty sure it was more to do with hate speech and inciting racial violence more than 'politics'.
While I agree with the general assertion in the article, cherry picking statistics for just one, very rare, crime isn't compelling evidence. Why not present the stats for all relevant crimes?
Stop it, now! You'll always have a second chance but please don't destroy your body.
The extra money isn't meant to protect you (the tenant) from anything. It's there to protect the landlord's interest in being able to recoup losses caused by a destructive pet.

If a landlord isn't returning your pet deposit when you move out, it's not a deposit, it's a fee. If they're misrepresenting it as a deposit that will be returned, you might have legal recourse, depending on where you live.
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He's right
are you working in japan?
Sure, definitely impossible to put random person's picture and some generated name under it...
Hearing reports of a thing on the news is actually a signal that such things are not common. That's why you don't see every little (or even big) traffic accident on the news. It's not special. It happens every day.
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What are those, if not political positions?

That's quite aside from the recent vogue for labelling all sorts of things under the ill-defined term "hate speech".
Yes. In agile development we have one "sprint" cycle followed by another. When do we stop sprinting?
This won't happen today in San Francisco city, because of decrease in social capital. I live downtown and I will not anyone's kids to wander around like that. First, you'll be lucky if MUNI driver is even remotely friendly, then there are druggies on the street, and so on. Illegal immigration, homelessness fueled by liberal/leftist policies, crime, gangs, drug trade have turned the city into a place quite unrecognizable compared to 1960. Leftism is a cancer, and a road to third world culture, paved by good intentions.
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Victorian era was sexist.
So what kinds of crimes are you willing to look at? Murders and abductions are probably the worst and easiest to track.

Robbery much harder and often unreported or reported as bullying.
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I like to think that the bar is actually very low. Like (moderate) people in a neighborhood proposing to maintain more natural-style parks but being held back because a city has to spend much of their time on and needs to CYA against foaming-at-the-mouth environmentalists who will never find anything good enough. Those moderates aren't as invested as the zealots, so they won't push very hard. It's the problem of the silent majority - people who don't really care but wouldn't mind are held back by those the few who are hardcore and don't think small progress is enough right away.

As for concrete plans - I've seen so many, but none of them are 'big' enough to really wow anyone. Small scale renaturalization projects being stopped because they don't provide the right habitat for this particular type of frog or whatever it was so now nothing's done at all and the whole coastline is eroding again (no frogs now either!); a pensioners' hobby group who build wild bee housing but the spots where those were supposed to be put wasn't optimal, so they were moved, demotivating everyone so the whole thing stopped. The 'fruit trees in cities' thing, drowning out those who just want something nicer than what there is now, and would be willing to invest some time or money, but not if it means arguing 50-page reports on why this tree over another. In all cases, probably if there had been someone with enough determination some solution could have been found, sure. What the zealots fail to recognize though is that they're only antagonizing those who would be favorable to a moderate version of their ideas, one that wouldn't cause them too much inconvenience.
Though I didn't flag it myself, this is just bad writing.

The post is so over-the-top inflammatory I can't take anything seriously. That's what people are likely reacting to.
You can double selling asteroid insurance.
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I can imagine Google not being very motivated to add a button that removes cruft, including (google) ads.

I'd say they did provide a solution in the form of AMP, which of course is much better for them because at the very least they get to suck in more data (and still display ads!).

Of course it's also entirely possible that the Chrome team just hasn't prioritized this feature.
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Robbery much harder and often unreported or reported as bullying.

Robbery/theft/assault etc. seems like the ones you'd actually care about. Murders and kidnappings of children by strangers are so rare that any data about them is essentially meaningless.
My ex had narcolepsy and had a service dog to help her. She (the service dog) did a number of things for her including detecting and alerting her to an oncoming cataplectic attack, giving her a little extra time to get somewhere safe. Her training was extensive and very expensive and she was incredibly well behaved. She was a ten pound miniature poodle though (my ex was allergic to dogs and poodles are naturally somewhat hypoallergenic (also very smart)) so she faced a lot of skepticism. Seeing what she went through on a regular basis, the fake service dog trend that's arisen since has really annoyed me.

On another note, I've been living in Europe and the UK for the last few years and one of the interesting cultural differences I've noticed is how common it is over here to just allow dogs in restaurants and pubs and on public transportation. That seems to be the default and only some places have "no dogs allowed" signs up. If the US would take a similar approach, maybe people wouldn't feel the need to fake service animal status.
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Is there anything like this for Gmail? The two large sticky bars (the bar where the search box is on, and the toolbar bar) are wasting too much of my screen estate. Thanks in advance.
I would say your fears are the real problem here.
If you don't stop you might loose any chance of a meaningful life and job for the rest of your life. A burnout is not always possible to recover from.
Service dogs are already not cheap -- the linked article mentions $20k as typical. Presumably (hopefully!) this cost is covered by insurance, and a certification fee could likely also be covered... for people who actually need it. And insurance companies are pretty careful not to pay for things a patient doesn't actually need, so that should weed out the fakers.
Why is it a "bullshit charge", simply because you are being asked to pay it?

Do you really believe there is no risk or concern a landlord might have for their investment and property. You comment reeks of entitlement.
Calculus. Surely any child who has ever ran, or ever seen a hill, knows about velocity and slopes - concrete instances of the abstract concept.

But I would say that that's not math, any more than speaking means you know grammar, or digesting means you know biochemistry. Math is formalization.

For calculus, it's slopes at a point without dividing by zero (using the cheat of limits).
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People with allergies have varying levels of reactions. Yours is a very extreme case, and truthfully, I would suggest that no matter what, you're going to be affected. Even in an airplane, most people with dog allergies wouldn't be aware of a dog on the plane unless they were within one or two rows of the animal, and even then, given the air filters in use, it would still have to be a person with reactions approaching yours.

I have no problem if you or your family chooses not to allow animals in your homes - that's entirely within your right. It's also within your right to have people not wave animals in your face, and to prevent their pets from jumping on you and such. But just like I wouldn't ban peanuts from restaurants, planes, or public spaces, I don't think that dogs should be banned either. At least, not on a legal level. --Businesses should have the right to make their own choices as to who to cater to in this respect.
> What are those, if not political positions?

> ill-defined term "hate speech".

Um...:

- Bigoted speech attacking or disparaging a social group or a member of such a group. [1]

- (Sociology) speech disparaging a racial, sexual, or ethnic group or a member of such a group [2]

- speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. [3]

Notice how none of them mention anything about politics, and they're quite specific in their definition. Hating people for who they are or what they look like/etc isn't anything to do with politics.

1: hate speech. (n.d.) American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. (2011). Retrieved September 6 2017 from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hate+speech

2: hate speech. (n.d.) Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014. (1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014). Retrieved September 6 2017 from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hate+speech

3: hate speech. (n.d.) Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary. (2010). Retrieved September 6 2017 from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hate+speech
The Guardian isn't particularly left wing. Try libcom.org, ROAR, In These Times, Jacobin, Dissent, maybe Current Affairs. This tool is correct in calling things like nytimes, etc. "liberal", but that's the center of the political spectrum, not the left wing.
Not when they decide to drive themselves and their kids on the freeway every workday.
To coin a cynical phrase, every job in the world advertises it requires excellent communication skills, and yet somehow they all get hired...
various other apps, ie TinyScanner are doing the same (for those who don't use these google services for whatever reasons, like me)
It's very limited. We are far, far away from what django or meteor can provide. The API, while using async, is kinda old school (no plugins, namespaces, conf hooks...) and low level for some stuff (where is my task queue ?), and yet too high level for others (you give up control of the even loop policy completely).

It's a nice attempt, but it's barely a draft IMO.
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Be careful not to drink too much water though, your body needs the salt that gets flushed away :-)
ironically, swift is aiming at implementing actor concurrency for its next versions (even adding an "actor" keyword).
Yes, exactly. In fact, kids are usually taught the way to elementary school in the last year of Kindergarten (for the non-Germans: "Kindergarten" here is approximately pre-school in the US. It is where kids go until they are about 6.)

The social expectation is that every kid walks or takes public transportation (unless that is not possible). There are usually no dedicated school buses, but the public buses have extra timeslots. You meet your friends on the way to school, which is an important experience. Everything is safe, especially because it is the social norm.

I have the opportunity to live either in the US or Germany, and the increasing craziness and hysteria around how children are treated is the major reason for me to stay with my family in Germany.
I wonder if this thing is used for Uber Eats in Singapore... Because I use User Eats all the time, the estimated time is MASSIVELY inaccurate. It's not even within 30% to be close to actual time.

The estimated time is always less than the actual time, but every minutes the estimated time re-adjusts. By the time it's actually delivered it's about 15 to 20 minutes more than the original estimate.

Note: I'm just complaining because the article uses User Eats as an example and as a service I use often I wonder if this ML Platform is used at all...
Just for a counter viewpoint, I have lived in Asia for most of my life and the US in the last couple of years. I greatly appreciate the fact that dogs and pets are not allowed by default in certain places in the US. Regardless of how smart you think a dog is, most of them are barely, if ever, trained.
At least we know how to get to Mars, and roughly what new technologies we'd need for a colony. For AGI we have no clue even roughly how difficult it is.

My own suspicion (and hope) is that we will eventually find we're able to build arbitrarily intelligent-at-some-task machines which avoid the unnecessary burden of having their own consciousness. I suspect consciousness is a nasty and inefficient evolutionary kludge rather than something actually necessary to perform specific tasks.
I dont really get it. It seems like every company aspires to all of those values.
Any country not in North America? In Belgium, the bus company had to ask parents not to put children under 5 alone on the bus, which happened in a couple of instances (see [1], in Dutch). Presumably they have no problems with kids older than that.

[1] http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20141120_01386041
I've always wondered about the prohibition on asking for proof that the animal is actually a service animal. Why is that considered too much of a burden for a disabled person? We don't let people into bars unless they provide proof that they're over the legal drinking age; why should we let animals into restaurants without proof that they have a legal right to be there?

It's somewhat ironic, since I see people flaunting their fake "service animal ID cards", which, according to the law, aren't required.

I really really wish more businesses would at least ask the "what task is this animal trained to perform?" test. I imagine it would weed out a lot of the fakers on the spot. I think a lot of people are "passive liars" in that they're ok putting on a fake ID tag and presenting it when asked, but will have a harder time actually lying about the animal's service-related capabilities.
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For shutdown, I use "sudo systemctl poweroff". I thought the other syntaxes were still working only for legacy support.
If you're referring to this story[1] person sentenced was engineering executive.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-sente...
>Hating people for who they are or what they look like/etc isn't anything to do with politics.

Of course it is. I would cynically claim that it's about one third of politics (with the other two thirds being about whining that "people like me should be given more money")
I'm not sure if it is a major reason, but it definitely is a consideration. N=1 - I feel those thoughts about my work myself, occasionally.

However, my experience with released software is as follows:

- Open sourced code I've seen is pretty shitty. So is closed source code I've seen.

- Programmers working in open source don't care that much if otherwise good projects have shitty source code.

- Bloggers and reviewers writing for general audience don't mention source quality at all. Hell, half of them probably don't understand what source code is in the first place. And it's OK, because general audience doesn't care about internals either.

- Reviews of application source code are very rare.
One of the earliest signs usually goes like this:

Hmmm I wonder if I’m burned out. I should Google about it.

By the time you’re thinking you might be across the line, you’re already past it. Your subconscious is trying to tell you things.

That’s how this subconscious health stuff usually works. If you think you might need a break, you do. If you think you might be tired, you are. If you’re thinking whether your job is a drudge, it is. If you’re thinking about food, you’re hungry.
We don't want do disappoint Scrum master, do we? If one doesn't like daily standups one can always change the job, right? /s
Author of the failed trig experiment here.

After looking at the comments from people more knowledgeable than me, I realized that it had failed mostly because the assembly that I wrote was pretty bad. You have to know assembly language pretty well to beat the compiler.

I have been spending more time with this. And I understand my faults a bit better now. There are a lot of places which can be improved. And I have sent a CL to add some commands to the Go assembler (so that I don't have to write the ugly hex codes :P)

I plan to revisit the code once the CL is merged. And see how it goes.

To answer your question - You might get benefits if:

* You really understand what the compiler is doing.

* You know the current shortcomings of the Go assembler and the latest amd64 instruction set.

* You know assembly language well enough to write custom code for your problem and beat the compiler.

From what I have seen - the Go assembler attempts to generate binary code which supports old amd64 processors too. As a result of which you cannot take advantage of the latest instructions which come as part of AVX2 extensions. If you are doing high performance math stuff and know the AVX2 instruction set like the back of your hand, then you are sure to reap benefits.

Cheers.