skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't just decide what is true.

Think back to the US election you can't just "decide" that the story of thousands of Ohio ballots pre-marked for Hillary Clinton was true. http://www.snopes.com/clinton-votes-found-in-warehouse/

You can't just decide that the story of a protester with a rape Melania was true http://www.snopes.com/2016/11/14/melania-sign-at-anti-trump-...

You can't just decide for yourself that climate change isn't true.

The consequences of people deciding for themselves would be globally disastrous.
The Higgs particle experiment was awarded the Nobel just a year after the discovery.
> I hope they thought through that risk properly enough, because we didn't sign up for it and don't care what happens if you end up losing it all.

I agree, anything else would be hypocritical of me.

> Bitcoin wouldn't have to be anywhere. Either way we will ditch it and spawn our own currencies as we deem fit. Why should be start poor in any scheme.

Unfortunately you won’t have a choice, due to the network effect. You can’t, in general, expect to make money out of nothing. If you think that’s a viable business model, you probably don’t fully understand why bitcoin became valuable or the work involved.

> We won't. We don't even want bitcoin, we will start our own ones later.

Better get started soon!
Yes, I don't think they're poor because the rest are rich... There's a huge mental health problem there - and lots of drug use - and the administration has somehow seen fit to keep the poorest dwelling in the center of the most expensive city in the world, on purpose! I've lived there before - and that's how the tenderloin has been for a long time. It'll surprise anyone, even natives, that have not spent time in those parts. While that hasn't changed, I do see a continuous decline in the mental health of even the non-poor of SF.
I'm not a huge fan of asking someone to prove a negative, but I do feel as if in this case it is justified: Can you refute the claim? Is there evidence that people do not generally need a basic level of respect, care, and dignity? Are there people that you find to be not deserving of those basic levels?
We've always lived in a world where the best liar wins. The best liar is in the Whitehouse, we still live in that world today.

The preoccupation with objective truth is a relatively recent notion, and only of interest to what appears to be a minority of the population. The rest are happy to have their biases confirmed, it doesn't much matter whether it's true.

The difference between now and 30 years ago, is that now if someone actually cares about getting to the bottom of something, the tools for doing so are much more accessible, making the ongoing prevalence of bullshit that much more frustrating. We're not getting any stupider, but the gap between the informed and the disinformed or uninformed has widened substantially.

Even here on HN, when it comes to the handful of subjects I'm knowledgable in, it's pretty common to see some masterclass bullshitting holding top spot in a thread.
ELI5: Where are the data blocks in the IPFS?
If I install IPFS, does that mean that I'm part of the storage solution?

It uses a DHT, does that mean my machine becomes part of the routeing system?

I'm having a hard time finding a simple explanation of the basic operation of the IPFS - are there already ELI5 documents?

TIA.
vaguely P(observations|pure noise generator) ~ P(pure noise generator | observations)

I agree there are debates surrounding priors, especially when you get into higher order, meta or purely hypothetical territory (there is no actual noise generator here) like this, but I think these are unavoidable.
lol, yeah that's pretty awful. I'll work on the bot content soon.
Apache Guacamole is at least 1000 days old, according to the top comment on this post which was made 500 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744430
Seems you're on Debian. ATM, confinement doesn't work there, though they promise to fix it soon (https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/wiki/Distributions#debian).
You are right, but on the other hand, we pay Facebook dearly with our personal data and in return we get to do the work journalists should do, of navigating in a sea of information, most of it fact-free. There must be a more fair distribution of time and income.
I also watched it last weekend, and one of the interesting tidbits was when talking to Sebastian he mentions that there's no housing shortage, and he wasn't allowed off-world, implying that everyone had wanted to get off world and those left behind are those who couldn't. Which seems a little contradictory (if everyone's trying to get off, why do Replicants want to come back?), but whatever. I wonder if Musk has thought about Blade Runner through this lens.
I was wondering this too. I've been considering implementing a frontend "as a service" with it and charging something like a $10 annual fee. My use is I have a restrictive firewall at work to circumvent, would anyone else find a hosted quacamole solution worthwhile?
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Would anyone use it? I wouldn't. Intel's embedded offerings are weak and tend to get cancelled.
Picture: http://miljonytta.se/byggnader/lagrad-sno-ger-fjarrkyla/

(Site's down for me)
I think just the choice of name shows the typical big organisation doesn't 'get it' syndrome.
What if there were an open platform where these results could be published? Not only published, but the data related to variables could be fed into a database. So if you wanted to check which variables have been found to not be correlated, you could query the database. It seems like that could be useful for scientists who want to avoid wasting their time.
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I've came to realize how important it is to teach what you learn, in order to better internalize that knowledge.

It does not mean, you must have students - writing a blog post or even just imagining you are preparing for a talk about the subject is good enough.

I've recently written a blog post about the way I learn, which I improved gradually over years: http://nywkap.com/learning/effective-learning.html
It's not that easy. To trust a piece of news requires time (for example for cross checking over multiple news outlets) and that's a luxury I (and many others) don't have.

We do pay (indirectly) pay Facebook and Google and we do not get this filtering service at all.
What saddens me is that it works. Most of the people I know don't see through the propaganda.
I'm going by ISO/IEC 9899:201x, the draft, since I have not paid for the spec. This does include annexes, but some of them are normative...

Really though, this just furthers my point; page count is a terrible metric for this.
Wow, that is special. If I was on that train I'd be pretty pissed off with the people delaying me.
Ask HN: Why do US citizens need so many guns?
I recently read on Buzzfeed that there are about 63019 automatic machine guns used by civilians in states. I don't understand what is the practical need for a gun in the first place?
In many Asian countries only mafias own guns and they seldom see normal folks carrying one or having one. Why do folks in US want to own a gun? And what do they usually use it for?
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You don't have to use the Y Combinator in C# anymore!
Absolutely right. 4chan is a discussion board not a news site, and does not 'report' the news and is self-contradicting on virtually every issue (because it's a discussion board). Now observe the media try to pull a fast one by drafting off of Facebook and Google's algorithm issues. Their real beef is that heated discussion leads to a more organic narrative rather than the one they've loosely tried to script.

Also it should not be news that a website largely devoted to conspiracy theorizing heats up in page rank after an event like this. Even if the discussion is bogus, let's face it people deep down want to entertain the possibility of conspiracy after every man-made disaster event- so it's relevant, especially in those first few hours before official sources have commented.
Seems like this would have occured to them already, over the hundreds of hours of time invested.

Anyway, it seems to me that dirt would absorb more heat than ice, resulting in faster melting.
And when the contract ends, the permanent guys have to sort out the mess the contractor made.
I'm sure it was free for your mother, because she is your mother, so why wouldn't she?

For the rest of us who have to pay, what are the realistic odds a 64-year-old will get any sort of benefit out of banking stem cells?
> Welcome to public transit, where there are other people living their lives just as you're living yours. Different lives, of course, but that by itself need not be cause for fear.

Of course they should live their lives, but in public transport they should STFU about it and not harrass other commuters.
Or, worse yet, what it’d turn into.... Apache CRDG
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> You wouldn't call someone renting a house homeless, or houseless.

I'd say "houseless" was an acceptable description. "homeless", ok, that definitely doesn't work for a renter.
All code is replaceable. It's bad APIs that are hard to get rid of.

Most POSIX APIs, for instance, are confusing, obtuse and unnecessarily imperative but still good enough in spite of being 40 odd years old. There's way too much code that implements or calls them to justify making significant changes as this point.
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Why give hint, why not just state the fact in title grrr give me an old fashioned headline any day ;)
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On whose authority?
As easy as it is to blame this on rich people not wanting to pay taxes, tax payers have been quite willing to spend money on the homeless.

SF spent $241 million last year: http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-record...

At roughly 7k homeless people we're spending ~35k/homeless person in SF and making no headway. Which makes you wonder if throwing more money at it is the right answer.

LA recently voted to approve $335 million in funding for homeless people, but even before then was struggling to spend the money they had, at least partly due to NIMBYism: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-city-homeless-bu... (not the article I was trying to find, but does mention some struggles spending the money).
The Russians do. They even use typewriters in some dept.
Any problem which ends with "education is needed to fix it" will fail.

Education is a non-solved problem, and you may as well say "society will fix it", to get a better approximation of what Education entails.

Education on a subject is influenced and affected by

1) Student health, motivation, previous education, available time, availble security, water, electricity, nutrition, parental nutrition, parental education, stability, age, and so on.

2) Education and subject matter is affected by development of the country, politics of the country, cultural importance of the subject, job demands, payment/funds available for education, structure of educational systems and more.

So in other words, its not "fixable".

Do note, that if you developed a way to transpose both information and meaning and expertise, a la matrix, into someones brain directly - you would not only "solve" education, but you would also be able to program legions of soldiers/attackers/drones with the same technology.
Did you forget the /s ? My eyes must be deceiving me.

When I hear Apache Guacamole, I'm thinking of Native American / Mexican fusion food.
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"If this was good everyone would be doing it" is... shaky logic, at best.
What's the significance of using 'g' as a variable name?
Central London contractors can have daily rates of 400/500 easily. That's an equivalent salary of £90k+
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I think there is also room for more prestigious awards to be named and given out. Perhaps one could function exclusively to shine a light on collaborative efforts?

I also think there's a little that some of us can do in this same/similar space. Maybe not at this scale, but quite a few of us have sold their company and made a few dollars. It's not terribly expensive to start a small managed trust and provide things like scholarships in perpetuity. It's not the prestige of a Nobel, but it's a little something that can go a long ways.
> Sometimes the world gets food poisoning for eating raw software.

This is my new tagline. Thank you.
Now that autoscaling is available for Dynamo DB, my main complaint with DynamoDB is the lack of out of the box backup solution that works at scale.

Production DB without backups is unthinkable. It just takes one human mistake to erase tons of data. Consistent and regular backups are must have for any production system.
I agree. Perhaps a forward-slash (/) to denote subordination, e.g. 1507035873/11
> > You wouldn't call someone renting a house homeless, or houseless.

> I'd say "houseless" was an acceptable description.

“Houseless” would be a very strange description of someone with a legal possessory interest in a house.
This is comparing apples to oranges.
You can't just pick two startups, compare their revenues for a certain year and disregard their industry and operation costs.
I get the same nightmare results on Linux in Firefox FF 59 and Chromium 58.
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Seymour Benzer is an amazing scientist, and using of drosophila for neuroscience questions basically stated from his lab. And that book is a wonderful read
They don't need them. But many really really want them, and this "want" is often justified as a bonafide "need" out of concern for self-defense. In reality, guns are rarely used properly for self-defense and most deaths in a home from a gun are due to an accident or a suicide.

Gun ownership is deeply entrenched in American history and written into the constitution since centuries ago. When something is that fundamental to a culture and its government, it is unlikely to change.

Though I fail to understand why machine guns remain legal. You can't buy a grenade launcher or anti-aircraft missile system, so why other weapons of war? That's the one oddity.

Disclaimer: I have family members in the states; one of them own 15 guns.
For Sling the explanation is right on the front page :-)

A device for serving content very fast.
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More fancy things but its still a boat in the water with a rudder and propellors that's moving.
I'm just a casual observer so I'm probably way off, so grain of salt but, I believe we'll see more prizes get awarded more quickly as the people who initially lay out the theoretical physics and design the experiments to test their hypothesis are no longer living long enough to see the results of their experiments because the technology to test their ideas lags so far behind what would be needed. Just think of Higgs and the fact that the LHC had to be planned, funded, built, and then used to confirm the Higgs-Boson. Same deal with LIGO.
The death of “front-end developers”
It could also be intended to conjuring up imagery of yourself relaxing on an island in the Caribbean drinking a margarita, eating chips and Guacamole. A gateway to a clientless, remote, desktop getaway.
Dunno about you, but when I first saw some of the results, I was amazed. Here are a few more examples:

https://github.com/jcjohnson/fast-neural-style

https://github.com/lengstrom/fast-style-transfer

Admittedly, though, I haven't seen the Photoshop filters you speak of. Could you link to some of them that show these same effects?
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The awards went to the theorists who did the work in the 60s.
Those touch screen quizzes in pubs have a pretty low maximum payout anyway, and are known to be progressive (they have a memory of their payout history and a bank of practically impossible questions to ensure they pay out the right amount). I suspect it was just not ventilated correctly.
https://check.torproject.org/exit-addresses
SBO buys time.

"POSTing a script that looks like a custom FORTRAN-esque language" probably sounds a lot like "slower than expected progress" in Russian.

All cyber-security is just a way of buying time.

Depth is king. The attacker must be made to fight for every inch.

However long it takes a new hire to be able to do useful things is about how long it takes an attacker to do useful things without being bull in a China shop loud about it (this is also why key rotation is important).

Good attackers deserve credit though. They have to understand stacks that most of HN would just wrap and treat as a black box (and then pull their hair out wondering why their JS app breaks on edge cases).
For me the ultimate goal would be democratization of industry, factories should be run by the people who work in them, and all major institutions like banking should be nationalized.
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Let me add, not only are people paid very little, but they have no ownership (in the legal sense or otherwise) over the company they work for, and have less autonomy, which I believe leads to a less fulfilling work life.
This interview with Rana X Adhikari from Caltech who is involved with LIGO does give a perspective on the technical difficulties in carrying out such precise measurements and eliminating noise: https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-technical-challenges-of-mea...

Also to me, it seems that Barry Barish got his share of the Nobel more as he was the leader of the LIGO project and less due to his direct involvement with some experimental or theoretical work as is the case with most Nobel prize. Am I wrong in saying that? Also if this is true then has this occurred in past also when someone was awarded a Nobel prize more because of their leadership in starting a project or an institution then their direct involvement with the actual work?
Minus pension, minus insurance, plus accounting expense. So deduct a few grand.
I think the idea behind meaningless names is that they don't constrain your project. This is good for codenames, but for some reason, today codenames turn into official names (maybe because of "release early, release often" philosophy?).

EDIT: My pet peeve, though, is names that mean something unrelated and much cooler. Like (my go-to example) Terraform - glorified configuration manager appropriating the name of something infinitely more interesting.
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Dear lord, do the Germans know we're encroaching on their turf?
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Well, you could have been on a certain subreddit, and you would be worried about false flag operations after a point.

I will agree, that several networks can get information out faster than older systems.
Citrix has a html5 client. I think it just transfers png files
Tech is helping the blind to see
...so you outsource your Truth to Snopes, got it. I hope Snopes never lets you down.

people will always draw conclusions based on their own observations, good thing Einstein didn't have snopes to say "Actually, the Theory of Relativity is a myth: Pants on Fire rating!
Benchmark is getting deservedly fucked in public here for their atrocious behavior.

Wouldn't ever walk into their office as a founder after this. And repeatedly advised other founders against it.
It's seasonal. Bleaching happens in the summer.
lol exactly. eventually, it will be as simple as a single click to schedule a pickup at a time of your choice.
Quite looking forward to GDPR forcing Facebook to actually remove all records they have on me. It’s a pain to implement for businesses, but it’s ultimately the right move.
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I got bitched out by a boss once for using the number 666 in a unit test.
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