skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About a year and a half ago, I was on the verge of bankruptcy; the company I had worked for went bankrupt, costing me my last three paychecks, I had no job offers on the table, and after about a month of looking for a job with almost no money, I became behind in rent and my landlord drafted a lawsuit against me to sue me for back rent. I pay for my wife's school, but I had to ask her to take a semester off because I had no money in my name, and my credit card was maxed out.

All of this was exacerbated by the fact that I had to fly to Seattle for an interview with Amazon, and even though they reimbursed me for expenses, I didn't have even have enough money in my bank account to pay the pre-charge on the hotel they got me, and had to lie to the hotel staff and claim that my credit card got stolen at the airport.

I was incredibly depressed at this point, so I swallowed my pride and asked my father-in-law for a loan to pay my back rent, and eventually found a new job that I've been at ever since. I quickly paid back my father in law, and slightly-less-quickly paid off my credit card. I now keep my balance on my card incredibly low, to the point where it's now basically a glorified debit card. I also started paying half my rent every two weeks (synchronized with my paycheck), instead of the lump sum at the end of the month, since I realized it makes it a lot easier to budget when you do that.

That was a rough time for me, but there was a bit of good that came out of it; I finally learned how important it was to manage and save money properly, and to stay ahead of bills before they get the chance to pile up.
sorry for the minirant

This is something I find really frustrating in computing. We can do and are constantly doing such awesome and incredible things with computers. But at the same time transferring (copy-pasting) text from one application to another remains a challenge. And a reasonable solution for that is to bring in the 600lb gorilla that is a modern web browser to render fixed-width text into a bitmap so that it can be embedded into a presentation. It just feels so wrong, like the whole field is actually rotten inside under the shiny surface, while the state of the art blazes forwards thousand miles away from the real world. I, as a member of this community, feel utterly powerless to actually make the situation noticeably better, partly because of so much relies on interoperability, and partly because of the massive inertia that modern software carries.

I want out.
Also, why do I need to create an account to use it?
I have a desire to use something like this for a mining rig with 4 nvidia 1070 cards, but have conflicted info in what need.

According to https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/gefor..., the cards pull 150w. But how to know what setup work?

BTW: I live in Medellin, Colombia and have sun like half-day for sure.
Apologies, I checked the date and the comments before submitting and they looked recent. I wasn't aware that the article itself was a repost. Clearly I should've checked the date on the embedded Youtube video!
This tends to be over-used though. Unfortunately some employees would continue making $500,000 mistakes and never learning. It really depends on the employee's attitude and response to the incident, as well as the circumstances of the incident.
The latest iteration of this conflict, banning freshman from SH was one of the early stages.
Portacle (portable Common Lisp IDE) 1.0 released
Thanks for the heads up, looks like my site was hacked. I will have to fix that later today.
The national average cost for gas is $2.67/gallon, Electricity $0.12/kwh. Based entirely on fuel costs, the Model S 85 costs $0.04/mile and the 20 mpg BMW M4 costs $0.13/mile. In order to save $200/month on fuel with the tesla, you'd have to drive 2200 miles a month. In the area I live, where gas is cheaper than average and electricity is almost twice as expensive, that number is 5000 miles/month.
Why did you feel your roommate being a gay ex-mormon was relevant to the story? Not sure I have an opinion on it just thought it was an interesting detail and genuinely curious.
> Yes, absolutely, but it's still nowhere near being the one true answer to all the world's software development and deployment woes.

One could argue that besides its original flaws, the web platform has been hobbled and maybe downright sabotaged by the platform owners (Microsoft, Apple, to an extent even Google). Javascript could have been cleaned up 10 years ago, same for many other web concepts still in use.
> But like Obama actively campaigning for politicians in other countries

The source you quoted shows nothing about 'Obama actively campaigning for politicians in other countries'. In fact it exonerates him of your charges.

The most recent US interference in a foreign election (quoted in your source) was in 2000, when Dubya was President. You could arguable attribute that to Bill Clinton, since the groundwork would have to have been laid earlier than 2000.

> In 2000, the U.S. spent millions of dollars in aid for political parties, campaign costs and independent media. Funding and broadcast equipment provided to the media arms of the opposition were a decisive factor in electing opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica as Yugoslav president, according to Levin. “If it wouldn’t have been for overt intervention … Milosevic would have been very likely to have won another term,” he said.

Obama would come to power a full 2 terms later.
But never say never. "Reality/logic/math" can be a lot stranger than you think.

I understand it's a Black Swan kind of problem, but I don't think we live in that reality. Please show me a contradiction. The ramifications would be stupendous, to say the least.

There used to be a time when we thought that infinity ( aka countable infinity ) was the largest number. Turns how there are bigger infinities.

Yes, and we know how to build Turing machines that use countable infinity. Please show me a machine that actually uses bigger infinities. Please hypercompute the digits of a real number that cannot be computed by a Turing machine.

And of course quantum mechanics. The duality of light ( both a wave and a particle ).

Universal quantum computers are faster than classical computers, but they are no more powerful (they are not known to be able to hypercompute).
Build Your Own Machine Learning Visualizations with the New TensorBoard API
Since at least the 1970's, there's been a trend towards the current "Archaeological Ethics, Principle No. 1: Stewardship - The archaeological record, that is, in situ archaeological material and sites, archaeological collections, records and reports, is irreplaceable. It is the responsibility of all archaeologists to work for the long-term conservation and protection of the archaeological record by practicing and promoting stewardship of the archaeological record."

And the mantra "excavation is destruction". As non-invasive archaeology advances, and technology progress in general accelerates, the range of plausibly ethical excavation seems to narrow. Towards a limit of rescue-only. Of sites threatened by whatever - looting, construction, climate change.

Or here, by surprised archaeologists. A perhaps overly-aggressive excavation for large artifacts, seems to have become a challenge of molecular archaeology rescue. And there seems no awareness of that change. Just happiness at finding well-preserved curios.
The part of this story I don't understand myself, is how so many people had bandwidth to download and use an app, in an environment in which I would have assumed both power and the cell network–especially data–were limping or just down.

The implicit question is, what percentage of people in the disaster zone did, and did not, have a channel out through this app? Does this story represent the 10% case or the 50% case or...?

Not sure where to find the answer...
Or, like my father-in-law, you go and grab a paper towel, pick up the spider, and let it go outside on front lawn. I have never seen him kill a spider. And some percentage of the time, more and more with each passing year, even though I am terrified of spiders, I don't kill them because of conversations like the one you describe.

Just because some people react with their emotion doesn't mean everyone does and it doesn't mean we have to.
Well, sharing business logic can reduce # of bugs and keep behavior consistent between platforms.

That being said, actually shipping the same code on both platforms has its own costs and considerations.
I asked for specifics and the OP clarified with specifics by editing their comment. My comment will stand as-is to reflect the original posting.

Why would you ask if the point of view is upsetting, then drastically rephrase your comment to "clarification"?

Changing your comment that drastically is quite disingenuous. The original better demonstrated intent, which was to demean, not clarify.
"Whataboutism is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Because air moves in more than one direction. Wind shear is a serious threat to passenger aircraft.
>But to make the same joke in a public sub that was explicitly set up to ridicule fat people conveys a very different meaning.

How is a sub dedicated to ridiculing fat people more like a public space than a private setting?
When you think about the era Boyle lived 1627-1691, it was time of the Thirty Years War (1618 – 1648) and start for search for universally accepted religious truths or 'natural religious truths'.

People (mostly highly educated upper class) started to rely more of their own thinking than dogma that lead to horrible religious wars, sectarian conflicts and widespread misery. Different forms of deism started to replace belief in bible interpreted by priests.

Once you transfer from from Catholicism everywhere to different forms of protestant beliefs, next natural question to ask is if protestants hold the truth. This leads to abstract philosophical thinking and critical deism or atheism.
FYI: installer auto-downloads but doesn't do any OS detection. Looks like this is Windows-only.
Over two-thirds of that is ad-related code. The HTML, CSS, and basic Javascript needed to run the site appears to be on the order of < 250KiB. Images obviously bump that number higher.

You are not arguing against abstraction. You're arguing against the user-hostile influence of advertising on delivery of content on the web.
The Indian women eating with their families for the first time
> "like Obama actively campaigning for politicians in other countries"

The US has a history of campaigning (put politely) or interfering (more accurately) in foreign elections[1]. It's not really a partisan issue.

I suspect having other countries interfere in the US election, the bastion of democracy in the western world, has happened before. Just never so visibly.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_electoral_intervention
I'm building a site (not launched yet) to try to help with this problem: https://www.wikipaper.org

It's not just readability that's a problem, it's also that relevant code, data, etc are scattered all over the internet.

Another problem is that many people struggle with english which is the defacto language for research. This introduces two problems: first, one must learn to speak english, then, one must learn how to trawl through academicese.

There have been various similar projects to wikipaper in the past, but one of the reasons that they fail is that not many researchers have the spare time to contribute to a project like this. I spoke to the guys running Google Scholar and they told me this is the biggest problem. I believe I have an innovative way to solve this problem however, anyone who wants more details please get in touch.

I believe that making it easier to understand research going on in neighboring fields will dramatically increase the rate at which research is performed.
Take a class in Chinese to get the basics. You won't be able to have much of a conversation at such a basic level, but it will make life much easier around China if you can be self sufficient.

I was just in Shenzhen two weeks ago, and though I can speak basic Mandarin and read some Chinese, I was thrown a curve at the train station. Almost no English at the train station, which was also true in Wuhan and a few other places. That's a big deal, because taking high speed rail is much more pleasant than flying.
Isn't this exactly what happened with mass surveillance and terrorism?
Pretty much, yes. I've made known my views on freedom of expression. I'm a very strong proponent, to the point where I've recently been forced to defend Nazis.

Politically/socially correct speech doesn't need to be defended. However wrong someone is, the liberty to express their views, within the bounds of reasonable law, should be a social goal, not just an amendment that restricts the government.

What is socially acceptable today may not be socially acceptable tomorrow. What power is used against your enemies today may be used against you tomorrow.
There are a lot of big claims in this article. As someone who hasn't been paying much attention, is it credible that they have a near-ready-to-go self-driving car right now?
Playing night elf Druids in computer games doesn't hurt others. Your participation on the forums did. You like hurting people for fun? How do you sleep at night?
I've also got a Mercedes loan car, after a truck ripped the front off my Model X 90D.

The Mercedes S 350 is so much more sluggish than either my Model X or my Renault Zoe. Put foot down, wait half a second, and make a ridiculous noise in the process. I have to use the brakes way more often because of the lack of regen, too.

I am utterly convinced after 4 years of EV driving that 90% of drivers would switch to EVs for life, if they got to try one for a few weeks.

Driving the Merc feels like using an HTC Vario compared to an iPhone.
Ford was one of the original vertically integrated bahemoths. They revolutionized car manufacturing with the assembly line and many other things.

They are the old Ford of automobile manufacturers one could say.

http://www.economist.com/node/13173671
not only in the stores, widgets and general integration with the os (like actionable notifications etc.) are one of the things that make native apps a necesity. To appear in the widget screen in ios or make a homescreen widget in android you must have a native app.
Your basic point is that this problem is cause by a LACK of regulation and will be fixed by MORE regulation.

"These giant tech companies are doing too well, we need to burden them with regulation like utilities (Verizon, AT&T, etc) and that will give competitors a chance."

Let me ask you: are you happier with Apple or with AT&T? Apple? Then why are you trying to give Apple incentives to behave more like AT&T?
I had my identity stolen 10 years ago. 6 months ago I finally had the last of it wrapped up. I hope. It was a miserable experience that costs a ridiculous amount of time, money, and effort to clean up. And it seemed completely random.

This breach is likely worse than anyone can predict. It could lead to a near unlimited amount of identities for organized crime groups.

To illustrate, my wait times on the phone to the IRS was usually between 1-3 hours(during off-peak seasons too).

At this point it might be worth scrapping the social security system and switching to private keys.
I love simple interfaces. The only problem is that CNN is fake news.
China is leaving Donald Trump’s America behind
The next step is to start a virtual machine to run NodeJS to "improve" on this workflow.
I'm not sure why you got downvoted, perhaps downvoters would chime in?

I get that local organizations deal with some situations better than some large, clumsy bureaucracy but I tend to agree with wnissen, if this continues as trend relying on a patchwork of individuals (heroic as they may be).

I wish there was a non-military or less-military domestic version of this, I've considered joining the national guard for this reason but I'm don't trust that I wouldn't end up fighting and dying in a pointless war. If there was another volunteer force that was devoted to humanitarian issues and search and rescue I would be all for it.
Ugly UI doesn't mean a bad UX. I always point people towards craigslist and ebay.

I can get my news and put in my .02, when compelled to do so. Also, the community is authoritative and inviting.

What could you want from a new design that would add value to the community?
Or their dataset is a dating site and they are training a neural net to see features that are not there. 70-80% accuracy for a neural net is pretty bad if you have taken a neural networks course. The fact that Stanford students are publishing this is probably not because it's sound scientifically, but because ostentatiously riotous subject matter will increase the number of citations dramatically. Frankly, I don't think it makes sense to infer sexual orientation based on facial recognition, and I don't think it is sound science behind any of these findings. Yes, there may be features that imply correlation one way or the other, but the fact that these features would be "undetectable by the naked eye but still visually present" leads to all sorts of murky science that is "based" on neural networks. Also, this sort of "science" will no doubt be used wrongly to classify people who have not even investigated their own sexual leanings at all. People will be saying that their 7 year old has a propensity to be gay or straight based on the length of their nose? Come now, this is just balderdash and it's no surprise that it's contentious. Trying to provide some sort of defense for what is clearly just the Academia version of Clickbait is also a waste of time.
Apart from different colors (which can be achieved by changing the CSS here) and using 17x more data on initial load, what does this accomplish?
They shifted to Voat, not other places on reddit. Although that does solve the problem for reddit, the communities didn't disappear.
I’ve seen histories full of arbitrary fork points and merge commits that are definitely not simple.
I find the effects on "invaded" communities post-ban to be most interesting.

There seems to be no indication of any up tick in hate speech within communities that were "invaded" by former subscribers to the banned subreddits.

Similarly, there was a dramatic decrease in hate speech overall among the subscribers of the banned subreddits after the ban.

To draw an un-scientific and unsubstantiated inference, perhaps the power of crowd-psychology and echo chambers is responsible for more hatefulness than we yet can prove.

In some regards I would like to hope this is the case.
cool stuff! thanks for the share
I don't know what to believe. A few days ago I spent some time checking publicly available data and the result is that the current state of art is extremely far from an autonomous car that, could like used to drive a taxi in a busy city like Rome. Not far as "still some effort needed" but potentially "not clear when this could be available" far. Now there are those claims made by multiple companies... Go figure.
Most serious people who talk about preserving insects and arachnids do so because these animals provide the feed-stock for other animal populations, similar to plankton in the oceans, and they are an indicator of the health of an ecosystem, not because they are taken with their appearance (although of course some people do genuinely love their appearance).

One can easily espouse something like that while not wanting a big spider scurrying around in your house. Also, plenty of people (myself included) escort such spiders outside alive instead of smashing them, not the least because I don't want to smear their guts everywhere, creating more work.
Hi James, it looks like you've invested effort in the Expo SDK via expo.io to promote React, but aren't currently monetizing it nor do you have any patents under Expo that may be at risk. I understand that you're in YC S16, but the scenario below assumes you haven't received any investment yet.

Let's suppose that Expo SDK 2 has valuable IP that you've protected with a patent, and that you are now seeking investment so that you can grow a business around it.

It works! Investors are excited, customers love it, and business is growing! Well, until Facebook comes around and releases the Fxpo SDK with a large media launch at F10. It contains some of the same technology you added to Expo SDK 2, perhaps even some of that patented technology that enticed your investors. Wow, that sucks. So you call up your lawyers and setup a meeting with Facebook.

At the meeting Facebook says, "Tut tut tut. James, you can't sue us for patent infringement because we'll pull your license to use React. James, your entire business is built around React and it might cost, what, $1M USD to replace it with Angular. And how long might that take? Months? Years?! James, we see that you're a smart businessman. Look, we'll buy your company for $200,000. Think it over."

What will you do? Sell Expo Inc to Facebook for pennies, or fight them in court with the lawyer's fees and the loss of use of your money making product? Will you have enough cash to cover the gap? Will your investors, anxious to get their 5% return over the 10 year life of the fund, stick behind you or will they write this one off?

When you look back at the time you lost to dealing with this crap, wouldn't you have rather just used Angular or Ember or... Elm?
Caution: this is presented as a validated theory, but there are many competing explanations for the drop in crime in the 90s.
i have to admin that im not totally familiar with the internal works of kexec, but at least from my knowledge a full service restart is required[0].

The Minix team claims the upgrade happens "without running processes even noticing", that sounds better than restarting all the services.

[0] https://ma.ttias.be/kernel-patching-kexec-updating-centos-7-...
Not in terms of UI, no. If you write your non-UI code in shared libraries that are PCL or .NET Standard and have your web-server use them too, Xamarin enables that scenario, but doesn't really bring anything else to the table for a web app.
> That's why after 30 years of perfect marriage you might do stupid things when 23 year old hot blonde is sexually provoking you.

How is that not logical? Spreading your genes to healthy young women seems like a straightforward choice.
It was never about changing opinions. It's about

- making a statement to new users and new forums about what is acceptable and what isn't. Some times it's warranted to take some action even if only symbolic.

- making it inconvenient to be an ass. People are lazy and habitual. With luck, their preferred forum for hate disappearing mess they pick up knitting instead of looking for another forum (in the same way that preventing crime in one area doesn't move it but actually reduces overall crime.)
In the book Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell discusses about Epidemic Suicide in Minnesota. Just like that, Minds that are volatile would read things on hate speech and then believe them. I know a lot of people hate Trump just because a lot others they know hate him. A lot of people call themselves atheist because a lot of educated people they have spoke to claim to be atheist. Of course, this is just correlation and not equal to causation.
Nothing. What's wrong is the implicit assumption that the only way to accomplish more is by working at a job harder.
What disturbs me is the potential for a government, like in Iran or Russia, to use this technology to automatically screen and label people, as a precursor to mass-scale systematic repression.

I get that this study is problematic, but there is no reason to automatically assume it's not possible. What evidence do we have that there is no correlation between ML consumable physical characteristics and our sexuality?