skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ll be looking at ways to take in feedback

James Damore worked on the search team. We all know how much his feedback was appreciated by Google execs.
Personally, I will not consider trusting Google again unless and until Larry and Sergey issue a public apology to James and seek to make amends.
That's my feedback.
Yes, a lot of people use "algorithm" to mean simply "procedure". I'm glad to see someone besides me pointing out the distinction between algorithms, in the strict sense, and heuristics. Complaining about the misuse of technical terms is unlikely to have impact on usage in the popular press ([0]), but I think it's appropriate in a technical discussion.

One of the most egregious misuses of "algorithm", in my opinion, is the term "genetic algorithms". Not only are these not algorithms in the strict sense, but referring to the procedures as "genetic heuristics" or "genetic search" would be much clearer.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10475884
This seems to be one of those "dark patterns" in design, where they try to persuade someone to perform a certain action.

At the very least, change it to "Save to Cloud" and "Save to Disk." But to be really clear, "Upload and Share" is definitely the way to go.
Yes, I successfully run it two older MacBooks for server use. I haven’t tried WiFi or sound but everything else, including trackpad and X, worked fine for me. There were other tweaks to make suitable for a server, but OpenBSD has otherwise resurrected the laptops. Bonus: this hardware predates Intel ME.
That it is subject to regulation by Congress is specified in the Constitution, and Congress has acted under that power and mandated single-member, geographic districts.
Maria wants a better browser
FEMA’s Faulty Flood Maps Put Homeowners at Risk
> I'm sorry but you don't. (Also, don't I get to decide that, not you?)

Yes, you do. Sorry if that came off as blunt - I only think that I understood you.

You're right that Mill considers both thought and speech in On Liberty, which is why I said Paine and not Mill.

That being said, Mill should be taken holistically -- he's a Utilitarian[1], and is firmly committed to his version of the principle of utility (the "Greatest Happiness Principle"). Reading a practical prescription of free speech as a moral (or even lesser, legal) prescription would lead to a contradiction in any circumstance where the GHP says that restricting speech would promote happiness (e.g., where incitement leads to murder).

[1]: Specifically, on my interpretation, he's an act utilitarian. I've seen him read as an rule utilitarian (and parts 4 and on of his Utilitarianism can support that reading), but his first formulation of the GHP is pretty unambiguous:

> [...] actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness [...]
Sony ZX1 Compact.
Once people aren’t forced to labor for basic survival they will have options. Right now industry tends to be locality based and very insular. For instance, had Detroit had more than one major industry powering it then the collapse of manufacturing cars wouldn’t have hit them so critically. My point is UBI would increase peoples’ liberties with their time. Suddenly there could be all sorts of cottage industries built ip alongside the larger ones. In times of economic stress, like in all complex systems, diversity helps spread and diminish stress.
Now that Vimperator is mostly dead, this looks like a potentially interesting alternative to have a programmable browser.
I can see how that is true for some kinds of software. For many examples, network effects don't matter.

The first license I can remember paying for was Metafizzy's 'Isotope', a jQuery layout plugin. Great documentation and performance. I can't remember the price at the time, maybe $40 (now it ranges from $25 - $320). It was totally worth it, I was making money and clients were happy.

https://isotope.metafizzy.co/license.html
There are a number of testing kits out there:

http://testkitplus.com/product/mdma-test-kit
> I can't follow whether you're arguing for or against interpreting the first amendment as prohibiting restriction of speech by private entities.

That might be because I thought it was obvious that the second amendment doesn't prohibit private entities from restricting speech. In fact, it is much more likely to prevent Congress from passing any law to limit the abilities of private entities to limit speech (since those editorial decisions count as speech.)

> If supporters of "free speech" clarified what exactly what flavor of "free speech" they are talking about (1st amendment prohibition of federal restrictions;

My point is that there is no "flavor" of free speech only "flavors" of censorship. The importance of freedom of speech and its value to society does not change based on which "flavors" of censorship are being used.

Ultimately, our misunderstandings might be based on you trying to refute an argument which does not occur in the article and of which you provide no concrete examples.
If you have a disclosure policy, chances are googling "company name + disclosure" will bring it up. Don't really see benefits of standardising this, not going to help any companies that previously had no disclosure policies decide to implement one and "discoverability of existing disclosure policies" doesn't really seem like a big issue.
I agree it's terrible and Chicago could do better but my point is if you really look at the number this stuff is blown way out of proportion. That's no comfort for those who are affected by it, but the odds of it happening to you even in a place like Chicago if you just take a few minor precautions are vanishingly small.
Yet, they are. And as for the "I was arrested for saying something," I think that can be pretty disingenuous, given that "something" can range from "All (ethnic group) are a bunch of (ethnic slur)" to violent threats. I don't believe the first one should be an arrestable offense, but I don't believe that either of them have a place in polite society.
I don't do neural nets, but if I had to crudely estimate...
10,000 songs (the outputs) * 16 layers * 16 parameters per node * 4 for the bytes per float = 10MB + a DB of song/artist names.

I'm probably underestimating the parameters per node, and overestimating the size of the layers closer to the input. Further, it's more likely structured as an LSTM than a convolutional network, since sound is a streaming source.
How imminent and serious does it need to be for us to ban it?
One of the biggest qualities of the US, hands down.
If you want to build something like this on your own, check Page.REST.
It's a surprisingly modest lean:

> That data shows that Kennedy is no different from the rest of the court: You don’t want to be on the receiving end of his questions. When Kennedy votes for the respondent (which would be the Wisconsin Democrats, in this case) he directs 93.3 words to them (57.5 percent of his speech). When he votes against the respondent, he directs 102.0 words to them (61.1 percent of his speech).
Interesting, I would simply be cautious that publicity is not sought out by many communities. Also, people can have significant financial incentives for these places to break apart so communal property may be sold off.

PS: I am not personally interested in living on one. However, I do know people who have for ~30 years and see a host of upsides and downsides.
I have no objection to these giant shoe size phones being available, just that my only choice of phone now is an SE (and frankly I'd go back to iphone 4 size if anyone brought out a top end small phone). I'd buy a maxed out nano version of an X in a heartbeat at pretty much any price.

But what I'm really talking about is not myself but the thumb diagram in the article. It seems extraordinary to design a consumer product that is known to be uncomfortable. It's almost like the South Park It bike was released. I get that there was optimisation for eyes at the expense of hands (and portability, in a mobile device!) but the point of design is to balance constraints - it's a definition of bad design throw half of them out of the window.
This could cause the next computer revolution. We would suddenly and abruptly increase our computational power exponentially. No, asymptotically. The ability to create a stable, functional, and enduring trinary computational system will make everything we have accomplished in the last 50 years appear laughably small minded.
best is concept 2 or 3 layout (for right handed person) except it should be numbered 1 on the left and ascend numerically as it goes diagonally up and to the right. ie the natural movement of the thumb.
no, you could save away messages.
Everyone jumps to OVH for dedicated server price comparisons, but what about pricing for similar US coastal datacenter locations? Are there even US dedicated server providers with pricing lower than “call us?”

I totally believe that OVH is cheapest for European companies serving European customers, but that’s apples to oranges when we’re talking about American cloud providers.
The Apple ][ version of SoftPorn (written in Applesoft BASIC) lets you bet negative amounts of money in the casino and then lose on purpose, to easily make lots of cash!
They are talking about songwriting royalties which are easily less then 5% of the royalties paid out by streaming companies. The vast majority of the royalty goes to the recording artist and their label in this case Justin Bieber.
The atmosphere ignition thing was mentioned by Hamming via this anecdote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming#Manhattan_Proj...

Shortly before the first field test (you realize that no small scale experiment can be done—either you have a critical mass or you do not), a man asked me to check some arithmetic he had done, and I agreed, thinking to fob it off on some subordinate. When I asked what it was, he said, "It is the probability that the test bomb will ignite the whole atmosphere." I decided I would check it myself! The next day when he came for the answers I remarked to him, "The arithmetic was apparently correct but I do not know about the formulas for the capture cross sections for oxygen and nitrogen—after all, there could be no experiments at the needed energy levels." He replied, like a physicist talking to a mathematician, that he wanted me to check the arithmetic not the physics, and left. I said to myself, "What have you done, Hamming, you are involved in risking all of life that is known in the Universe, and you do not know much of an essential part?" I was pacing up and down the corridor when a friend asked me what was bothering me. I told him. His reply was, "Never mind, Hamming, no one will ever blame you.
Amelia’s Astronaut Connection
No, it does not. "Academia" generally means studies funded by public grants (which, as I said above, very rarely would cover drug approval studies) and in some cases academia might implement studies funded by the pharmaceutical companies, but they're not really an independent source of funding for research, at least not in expensive/labor intensive fields like medicine.

In fields where solid research can't be done by a single part-time person (e.g. a teaching professor), research happens only to the extent and in the direction where there's available funding. Even putting a couple grad students on a project for a year (i.e., a very small project) requires external funding, much less the extensive studies needed to prove that a particular chemical is safe for human use and has a therapeutic effect.
As an operator of many websites... I don't want more emails from "Security Researchers" who want $100 to tell me the obvious such as, "Login form should be rate-limited" or "emails can be enumerated using password reset form" and the like...

Instead, we should have a central vulnerability repository that is open-source, standardized, public, and transparent. This repository should vet vulnerability reports before contacting the software owner prior to disclosure.
Yaron Minsky? (https://blog.janestreet.com/author/yminsky)
Hmm, my best guess is a member of the Silhouettes (Philly group with one huge hit - "Get a Job" - and nothing else very notable...)
Free as in cost-- the cost is nearly free.

The point is--- if the cost is nearly free, why not do it yourself? You're right that youtube/google/spotify are going to take a cut for distribution, but you really don't need the record companies. And if your music is good, and you already have a following, you can just sell it on Bandcamp.
I'm not aware of any major language where even a significant minority of users input text by drawing characters. Most East Asian users type in some kind of romanization and then use predictive text to pick characters. In general, only elderly users tend to prefer drawing inputs.
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For work? I quit working at 6pm. For fun? I've tried doing video game/movie all nighters like I did when I was 13. At 23, I just can't any more for some reason.

It's a lot easier for me to stay up all night if I am outside doing something, but that is rare.
You've definitely been added to a list somewhere for all those searches, lol.
Gilbert Gottfried would beg to differ.
I recall having AIM before I had a cell phone. Particularly since IM over AIM was free, and cell phone companies were still charging people for each SMS message in those days - I want to think it was something ridiculous, like a nickel an SMS.
Sure it can. One joke was about how there was a video of the vegas shooting, and there was a guy running out of the frame with a full beer, as if shielding the beer was the most important thing in that situation. "The beer must've been pretty expensive... But the shots were free."

It's tasteless, yeah. But it's comedy. It's hard to say there are limits.
And then there's Scott Foe's educational mobile game, "Douche Defender"!

http://www.develop-online.net/press-releases/big-head-mode-d...

San Francisco, California: From games industry legend Scott Foe, Big Head Mode announces the debut of Douche Defender, a fun game that helps women to identify real-world pickup artists, free-to-play for iPhone and iPad in the Apple App Store.

“I’m always trying to bring something new, something that people have never seen before, something from the way-way out-there machine, and we have definitely achieved that uniqueness with Douche Defender,” said Foe.“There is a huge subculture of seduction lurking out there on the internet and this is both the first game that I have designed with female players as the targets and the first game that I have designed with real-world implications outside of the game, and so I am very excited to see how Douche Defender is received.”
sure. its like saying the qwerty keyboard is well chunked and can't be improved on... the point is to improve ergonomics and can be improved depending on how the user holds the phone.
For the 9.7” and 12.9 screens, you can buy 5000 4:3 LCD panels per week:

https://m.alibaba.com/product/60629586392/wholesale-9-7-Inch...

https://m.alibaba.com/product/60590281374/Original-Multi-Tou...
If one doesn’t believe that a market with only two companies could be competitive, they should consider Uber and Lyft. I wouldn’t be surprised if employees from each dressed up in war paint and brawled a la The Warriors.
Our voting system is definitely an issue, but if we want to use the efficiency gap as a metric of gerrymandering then I think this is a big problem. As it stands, the efficiency gap treats a 75-25 split as a "perfect election", which means that it's actually a measure of how far elections are from this ideal. So if we start using the efficiency gap, then there will be a huge incentive for states to draw lines to be as close to 75-25 as possible, which is obviously not what we want. It could even further polarize the country.
Columbus, OH lol
I suppose I'm probably just unlucky, but you can't deny that the odds of this stuff happening goes way up in an urban area.
That's interesting. I love the idea of sites exposing various types of data through plain text files with well-known names. Kind of like (a vastly simplified) RSS feed, but for whatever. Or something vaguely like Gopher sites, back in the day.

But then, the company would want to brand it, and the marketing team would want to track views, and the sales team would want some kind of call to action, and the product managers would want to make it cross platform and internationalized. And suddenly we're back at something that looks like HTML. sigh
I always try postmaster@ first, when reporting mail problems.

Unfortunately, I'd guess that ~75% of the domains I try to contact about that don't have it. (And only slightly better with abuse@, for that matter.)

And then there are the shops who seem to believe that sending mail from bad addresses and publishing no public email addresses for anything is cool. I'm not fond of this solution, but have started considering them spammers and blocking them entirely. (I don't particularly care about them - if they want to send email to my systems they can put their big-pants on and join the rest of the responsible operators; I just don't like seeing services balkanizing like this.)
Pro Support or standard warranty?

Sounds like basic support to me, with pro support a tech had been at your place the nbd.
I agree more with this essay: http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

>What it really is is a form of religion. People have called a belief in a technological Singularity the "nerd Apocalypse", and it's true.

>

>It's a clever hack, because instead of believing in God at the outset, you imagine yourself building an entity that is functionally identical with God. This way even committed atheists can rationalize their way into the comforts of faith.

>

>The AI has all the attributes of God: it's omnipotent, omniscient, and either benevolent (if you did your array bounds-checking right), or it is the Devil and you are at its mercy.

>

>Like in any religion, there's even a feeling of urgency. You have to act now! The fate of the world is in the balance!

>

>And of course, they need money!
Add a setting to use right, left, or ambidextrous (probably just the old design). Bonus points, make them pick the first time they use the phone.
Life is hard for cross-platform environments. Cross-platform apps, never mind runtimes and sdks, don't have wide use. React Native is the only notable exception. While tools like Xamarin can make a living, that's mostly outside of mass market apps.

Web apps on JS are the most compelling example of an app ecosystem that has come unmoored from underlying OSs, but iOS and Android have brought back the dominance of native apps, because the underlying platforms and their capabilities are interesting and useful.

Maybe Flutter is a good UI stack for Fuchsia, and maybe easy Web app compatibility would be a boost to both Flutter and Fuchsia, but it will be tough sledding to get Flutter apps accepted by Android and iOS users. Flutter needs to find a place where it is essential, not a compromise for developers searching for a panacea.

The reason Java is the most widely used language is that Android turned Java into a platform-specific, UI-stack-specific app language.

The irony is that, because of the mountain of highly capable modern mobile apps, I'd bet that the Android runtime on ChromeOS quickly becomes the most widely used cross-platform runtime, in terms of the number of apps actually used by people and running on multiple platforms.
1. scan online forums for common problems if one exists. This is a manual effort, but it can pay off as you will be building something that is already in need.

2. do some customer development, but be very careful about introducing bias into your questions. This would give you bad data if you ask the wrong types of questions. See the book The Mom Test

3. listen to a few podcasts where founders are interviewed. The older YC podcasts are really good. If your going for a two sided market, I would caution you. This is more challenging than other types of ideas.
Firefox Quantum
He's a sleazy dude trying to get a date. As others have said it is part of the humor and part of the difficulty.
> I think the easiest "trial run" for proportional voting in the US is using two-winner elections (preferably Schulze but maybe traditional STV) to elect Senators

The easiest trial run would be at the state level. Making each states Senators part of the same class instead of being from two of the three separate classes would require a Constitutional Amendment, since it would change the terms of some sitting Senators to something longer or shorter than the Constitutional 6-year terms.

It also (presuming Senate terms aren't changed besides what is necessary for transition) would mean each state would have six years between elections for the Senate rather than alternating 2- and 4-year intervals.

> Unfortunately this is subject to game-theoretic problems because it tends to make the Senatorial output of a state less polarized (California might have one Republican and one Democrat instead of two Democrats), which could result in a political swing towards those states without proportional Senators (Wyoming might still elect two Republicans with FPTP).

This can be mitigated by increasing the number of Senators per state; even 3/state would probably make it a non-issue, it would make 2/1 splits common initially, so you wouldn't have most states even with the others 2/0.
Before Slack there were other examples in corporate chat solutions like Lync which had a good run. It's not like corporate messaging is new. Wonder why that was missed. AOL too consumer focused?
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> if you are catching spam to abuse@ or postmaster@, well, do the math.

Well... the most recent time I've seen abuse@ mentioned, it was Hetzner looking at fake IPs on DDoS traffic and spamming abuse complaints at the wrong people. https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/70dwa6/ip_banne...
"It's worked so far."

Yes it did. But remember Mutual Funds? "Past investment returns are no guarantee of....". You should either read "The Black Swan" or read it again.

Also: "The threshold necessary for small groups to conduct global warfare has finally been breached, and we are only starting to feel its effects. Over time, in as little as perhaps twenty years and as the leverage of technology increases, this threshold will finally reach its culmination -- with the ability of one man to declare war on the world and win."
You actually said:

> Without type annotations and checked structured data for everything, it can also be hard to remember what a function does, or what its variables represent, when you read the code later.

I showed you how to annotate types in Common Lisp.

You also said:

> The other feature that occurs more often is in-line documentation.

Which exists in Lisp since 80s or earlier.

> but I'm really talking about compile time checks.

(declaim (ftype (function (integer string) cons)
foo))
(defun foo (a b)
(list a b))

(defun bar (a) (foo "baz" a))

Running the SBCL compiler:

; file: /private/tmp/test.lisp
; in: DEFUN BAR
; (FOO "baz" A)
;
; note: deleting unreachable code
;
; caught WARNING:
; Constant "baz" conflicts with its asserted type INTEGER.
; See also:
; The SBCL Manual, Node "Handling of Types"

At least some type checks are done at compile time...
The first thing every attacker will do: replace security.txt