skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but companies like Snap or Twitter are much easier to poke holes at. They both tried their best to screw over a legit co-founder. Sadly Twitter succeeded.

Both already had some toxic people near the beginning of their time. I'd say that makes them a toxic company from the get go too. You can't say the same thing for a ton of other companies. In these cases we didn't need to give much time at all. I think that's an important distinction.
Found it on Reddit. Title was "In Portugal, with no net neutrality, internet providers are starting to split the net into packages. This is the future of the Internet if the FCC gets its way. It's not theory. It's happening already."
I'm the journalist who wrote the story and I would love to hear from any current or former employees. craig.silverman at buzzfeed.com.
There is a book, "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell. (Yes, the same one who wrote "1984" which is all about Big Brother).
He writes of his times as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War.

I recommend reading it as there seems to be quite a lot of similarities between what happened then and what is happening now. Much of the fighting takes place in Barcelona.
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Made my day :)

Or even - do i get a greater chance that someone sending me mail is actually willing to accept a reply in the same channel?

Many nowadays just force us to go to their websites, login, find a contact form, read through faq’s first, then find a form that, even though i just signed in, doesn’t know my name and customer number, so i have to enter all these again... to receive a standardized reply a few days later.

So, mail is just abused to force marketing messages down our throats in a single-direction communication.

And most companies investing energy in Mails looking greater do it just for this sake, is my prejudice.
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Norway and Sweden was once in a union, and my home country Norway certainly had a lot of autonomy, yet independence brough a lot of advantages. I don't think anybody in Norway today would think staying with Sweden would have been a good idea. Nordic countries have all been together at some point, but I think we are much happier as independent countries. We do lots of cooperation anyway and have very open borders towards each other.

I don't get why it is so dam important for many people to retain huge political unions. What is so great about being big?

This idea that we will be so much happier, peaceful and friendlier if we are all just one country is easily proven wrong by the good relationship all nordic countries have with each other.

People try to perpetuate the idea that WWI and WWII started because people were too much into nation states. Quite the contrary, neither war would have started had not Germany and Italy been forged into bigger political units in the first place.

Ultimately all these wars is a result of the poisoned thinking that big is always better. It is the expansionist mindset which is at fault here, not a desire to be independent.
We have put `ensurepip` back in place and uploaded new Python packages for all platforms. `conda update python` should see you right. Thank you for bringing this up.
This looks very interesting - unison is a great tool. I rember fighting to get plan9 networking working with qemu/kvm and Linux, and never quite figuring out how to connect the dots. On paper it appears 9p should be a perfect fit for the use-case. (However, I just found [1] - maybe I'll give it another shot).

But it seems kind of obvious that the functionality needed to get this stuff to work, is an entire network filesystem stack. It seems the obvious choices would be to build into VirtualBox either nfs, or webdav - or leverage host/external support for nfs, cifs, or something like OpenAFS. With sshfs as another pragmatic option. Maybe in the future ipfs will be a viable option too.

But I think cifs is still the "mostly works, with/without complex auth, cross platform" - with webdav a distant second.

[1] https://www.ueber.net/who/mjl/plan9/plan9-obsd.html
Yes. I'm leaning towards a "didn't really think it through" oversight on the author's part, rather than fundamentally confusing signal-to-noise ratio (which is what more bits give you, if you treat em right) with numerical range.

Hell, I like to think I'm somewhat knowledgeable about these things and I read straight past that line thinking "that's a million, that's about twenty bits, okay".

But you are absolutely right, now that you pointed it out it's obvious.

And indeed you can get the same range using only one bit (per channel, that is) and if you had high enough (very high) resolution and proper dithering, you'd totally get away with it, too. In that case, the tonemapping goes just before the dithering.
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I don't agree that every profession should make the same amount of money. If that's what you find unacceptable, I find it acceptable.
I agree, this is the right way to compensate for work that can potentially be used in production as a means of interviewing the candidate.

I faced something similar to the OP and posted the results on Workplace
https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/88138/working-...
To make it look more like JavaScript.

OCaml looks rather foreign to the regular JS dev and the last versions of Reason looked more like JS, but still had a few strange parts.
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Doesn't sound particularly controversial. I've heard dafter things from American politicians and celebrities.
Did you intentionally up your salt intake? Apparently this is important for energy on keto for some reason.
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Trust the hubris of Facebook engineers for wanton name collision.
And I'd say that would be fine. Your thinking betrays a certain authoritarian paternalistic streak. That somehow the plebs can't grasp what is best for them. It ought to be assumed that people would not automatically assume ever bigger divisions is an improvement.

You have to put faith in people's ability to think for themselves. In most of these independence referendums people DO end up staying. People are not stupid. They would have likely voted to stay in Catalonia, had Spain respected their desire for a referendum and not acted so authoritarian.

Remember lots of countries have voluntarily joined the EU despite the fact that that means giving up some sovereignty. So it is simply not true that people want ever smaller units. But these decisions should be allowed to move both ways. Those who want to forge political unions should be allowed to and those who want to split should be allowed to.

When you don't allow splits, what you eventually end up with is civil wars.

I'd say the US is an excellent example of the stupidity of insisting on large political units. The country is almost ungovernable, due to the huge political polarization. Lincoln should never have tried to maintain the union. It would have save many lives and avoided future political gridlock and political polarization.
Bingo!

The fact that you have to scrape the bottom of the barrel of lying Trump sycophants as the source of your misinformation explains why you were so reluctant to say who those "people who have said" were. That totally undermines your argument and proves you're Putin's unwitting useful idiot.

So now we all know where you get the lies and weasel words and Russian propaganda that you parrot, and why the talking points you parrot are intellectually dishonest, worthless and not worth considering. Please go back to /r/TheDonald where you belong. This is not the place for parroting Sean Hannity or spreading Trump's birther conspiracy, pizzagate or crowd size bullshit.
The STEPS was more or less finished if I recall correctly. The last report took forever to get public, but they did get a proof of concept out.

Many people asked for something usable, but that wasn't really the goal, so they didn't do the polishing —it sure takes work, but it doesn't prove much.

We can still take the ideas, though. We could integrate some of them in the current ecosystem to write simpler programs, or even simpler ecosystems. How about something like squeak or pharo, only 10 times simpler?
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The only negative result you're certain to get and can't avoid is a low signal-to-noise ratio. You only get banding (unwanted spatial artifacts) if you do it badly (without dither).
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In other news, ip based geolocation is not realiable and just guesswork.
But if you don't see it as a machine learning method, and don't care if the things the GAN spits out are just memorized photos, that means you don't actually care about the synthesis parts of the GAN? Thus the only reason to get excited about it is the interploration stuff; which significantly reduces how interesting it is in my eyes.
All could've been avoided by a simple wateproofed satphone with an emergency plan. Inmarsat ones are like $650, plus a few hundred a year for emergencies.
But can you easily get addresses that start with "nytimes" and end in words? (I'm genuinely curious btw)
But you just love to watch and parrot Sean Hannity, and use his own favorite weasel words "people have said" to obscure who you're getting your conspiracy theories and marching orders from. Go figure. Tell us more about how everyone is suffering from cognitive dissonance except for you?

Let me rewrite your post so it's more honest about where you got your misinformation from:

"Sean Hannity has said that the "Russia won the election" conspiracy theory is the Democrat's equivalent of "Obama was born in Kenya" birthers."

I'll leave it to you to explain why you didn't write that in the first place, and why anyone should ever take your seriously.
If you were able to post on Facebook, why didn't you have a GPS signal from which you could deliver your co-ordinates over the internet? (Just curious, not sure if I'm missing something)
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> is Alan Kay for real? Where's the Lisp equivalent to this C code?

Have you ever heard of the STEPS project? It's a complete OS, with applications libraries, and compiler collection, all in 20,000 lines of code. Pretty real if you ask me. Here are the reports (latest first).

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2010004_steps10.pdf

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2009016_steps09.pdf

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2008004_steps08.pdf

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf
Thanks Ray, it's very much appreciated!
Nice collection for meditation!
> In Elm, if you have a list that gets too large, you have to manually break it up into different lists

To clarify, for anyone who comes across this later: there was a bug in the Elm 0.18 compiler that was triggered by enormous list literals. (Hence the workaround of concatenating smaller literals.) Nothing to do with the data structure itself.

After all, it's a singly linked list; there's not a whole lot of variation in how those are implemented. ;)
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Basic income is a bottom-up stimulus package, like how bailouts for banks are "stimulus" packages but nestled in Reaganomics, i.e., expecting the money to trickle down. Except that bailouts sequester the money almost exclusively in the banking industry and so are useless for everyone except those who are already rich, and the government itself.

Basic income fills the economy with money that can be really spent, and like the article says people will vote with their dollars. I can't understand why free market fanboys don't like it! It's the best way to incite competition in the marketplace by removing the exploitative (i.e., freedom-revoking) abilities of the companies that prey on the lifestyles of low-income workers who are stuck working multiple jobs just to get by.
Perhaps I am biased being Norwegian, but the obvious countries to compare to here is Sweden and Norway. Norway was until fairly recently (1905) part of Sweden, and like Catalonia we had great levels of autonomy, our own parliament and democratic elections. Like Catalonia we also are culturally very similar to Sweden. Certainly more so than Denmark.

Like Catalonia we had not been an independent country for a very long time. In fact Norway existed as an independent country so far back that Spain didn't even exist as a country then.

Like Catalonia, when Spain gained its independence it had not previously existed as an independent country. The same could be said about the Netherlands. Netherlands like Catalonia was also once part of Spain. Until it declared independence from Spain, it had never existed as a country.

In fact this has been a problem for dutch identity, in that there really is no clear way to identify dutch national identity before independence from Spain.

Which I thing brings me to the point, that ultimately it is about what people feel themselves.

Despite not having been independent for almost 600 years, Norwegians still felt like they were a different people than Swedes or Danes.
Would it not have been much more pragmatic for FB to have collaborated with MS instead on F# support in dotnet core? That seems more practical given the context that F# can directly benefit from things like concurrency support in dotnet core.

Of course, F# has not always been the favorite lovechild of MS, but the OCaml ecosystem does not seem to be in a particularly stellar state either.
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Assessing the threat the Reaper botnet poses to the Internet–what we know now
This. Set aside the performance of the initial load for a moment. When I interact with the SPAs we’ve built in recent years, I am still shocked how snappy they are as I perform actions throughout the site. Every “pageview” requires the download of a tiny REST API response and comparably tiny HTML fragment. As a user - that experience is a pure delight compared to a full blown page re-load, re-download and re-render with every action.

As a user it infuriates me when I fill out a long form, hit submit and find out I forgot to select the proper “Mr. Mrs. Ms” title and my password, credit card number and PIN have all be blown away.

As a user I’m willing to pay a few more seconds upfront for snappy and seamless interactions as I use the app.

I think the mistake that is more often committed (and where I myself as a user have less patience) is treating everything that can be accessed via URL as an “app”. If the user is coming to just download bytes, don’t build an app. An app is only justified when a user is coming to manipulate data.
I'm no fan of “modern js-based design”, but I can pay for a lot less server if I can get the client to do all the rendering for me.
And that's the thing. I used SmartOS for a while and while there's nothing wrong with a ZFS root, per se, you're still at the mercy of boot loaders and whatever Amazon will or will not let you do.

So I've taken to having ext4 or whatever as the boot drive and a zpool for anything I care about :)
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Good thing in real life there's no such thing as truly zero photons, then (which is a detail the article actually shortly touches upon).

Also, if that type of "wonky" throws off your rendering pipeline, you're bound to get something else wrong.

Such as ever having a linear scale with a small number of bits in your pipeline. The linear scaled brightness stays afloat all the way through (cause floats have this handy feature of being transparently sorta-logarithmic in the way they use their bits, even 16-bit floats beat 20-bit ints for that purpose), only at the very end you apply the tonemap+gamma function(s), then dither, then truncate to fixed (8) bit integer.
Twitter urged firms to delete data during 2016 campaign
No, you need to assess where your customers are and focus there. Just because a market is growing, it doesn't mean that market contains customers for your product. That depends on numerous variables including pricing.

The US will add ~$570 billion to its GDP this year. That's equal to 25% of India's entire economy. An increasingly large part of Europe is back to generating solid growth again. Even Japan is showing signs of life. You don't need to focus on 2G markets if there are few customers there for your products.
It looks like he needs the JS to load first for the browser to make sense of his custom elements: "If our example document wasn’t reliant on JavaScript to construct the <my-app> custom element, the contents of the document would likely be interactive as soon as enough CSS and content was available to render meaningfully."
It's also funny how many of my friends use $TrendyJSFramework for a portfolio site! Personally prefer to have all my content statically served unless I'm building some sort of an interactive single page application.

I run https://discoverdev.io for which I wrote my own SSG framework in python+jinja, I spit out html and push it to netlify's CDN network. It's smooth, I don't have to worry about scaling and it works like a charm! (I could still do a lot of optimisation wrt image compression and minification though)
Some stress testing with older SSD's here -
https://vi-control.net/community/threads/performance-to-be-e...

I use Spitfire stuff, mainly Albion, but the voice requirements these guys have is on another level. The Optane speedup would certainly mean more voices, and perhaps remove the need to have separate SSD's for each large kontakt library?
> most people can barely be counted on to show up to vote

One reason so few people vote is voting systems that make some voters very much more influential than others. Political parties realise this and target the most influential voters. Many of the least powerful voters correctly perceive either that their votes are less influential than other votes or that the political parties are neglecting them.

These voting systems are susceptible to gerrymandering. Such systems are used for the main legislative elections in the US, Canada, France, the UK and Australia. Even if not purposely gerrymandered, these systems almost always represent voters highly unequally. Australia has papered over the cracks by making voting compulsory.

In the dozens of European countries other than France and the UK, proportional voting systems are used, giving each vote approximately equal weight and therefore resisting gerrymandering. These systems are associated with an increase in turnout of 5% or more.
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Less than 20 years ago it was forbidden to publish a program that used a key longer than 40 bits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
Yea, but this looks much better.
http://blendberg.com/pl/aktualnosci
It’s all about how and where you use it.

Imagine a world without AJAX. This is obviously an opinion, but it would be super annoying if every button I clicked sent a raw POST to the server and refreshed the page.

Do news sites need to be rendered client-side with React + Redux + React Router + all the Babel polyfill garbage? No, I don’t think they do.

But some sites are definitely better in my mind for being SPAs.

The problem is that people pick technology that they like or are familiar with instead of working backwards from the ideal user experience. What we should be doing is picking the minimal set of technology that achieves the UX goals of a project. Instead, you have people loading 200kB of dependencies to render pages with a level of interactivity that could be achieved with 30 lines of vanilla JS. Oh, and then Google, FB, Twitter, and Optimizely tracking scripts.
It's ok, context matters. There are places were you won't get snow - ever. So it's not something you'd worry about when deciding if the car is self-driving.
Historically if you want to pay _lots_ of super cheap traffic, you get it from porn sites. Not the ones with monthly subscription, but the ones where each click leads you to a new domain with a 50/50 (or 95/5 depending on your "value" [US>Bulgaria, Mac>Linux, ...]) chance of landing on some scam site / ad.
I would wager that most people who say this have never actually calculated the cost of server side rendering vs bandwidth costs + users dropping off the site
Don't forget it was the people like the minority represented by HN who built substantially all of the internet infrastructure.
Actually, GANs reach state of the art in anomaly/outlier detection and drug/molecule prediction, so there is certainly more to it than just artistic applications:

https://openreview.net/forum?id=S1EfylZ0Z

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28703000

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b0034...
Does Facebook listen in via your microphone to tailor your ads?
Rightfully accusing you of "whataboutism" IS simply calling out your views or comment specifically for whatever logical error it contains.

You're trolling in bad faith, demanding people provide specific examples then refusing to provide any yourself, and making untrue blanket statements about cable news and then trying to excuse your ignorance by claiming you don't actually know anything about cable news and never watch it. Yet you claim to know so much about RT, but never provide any links to back up any of your claims about it, even after being repeatedly asked. You said that Rachel Maddow's coverage of Flint was suspect because she made an overreach in her coverage of Russia, yet you have no problem with RT broadcasting Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine and don't think that reflects on their coverage of Flynt, to which you conveniently can't find any references, so we just have to take your word.

Your arguments have no merit, because you're being intellectually dishonest and trolling. And this is not the place for that. Take it somewhere else where it will be appreciated like /r/The_Donald, if you're not going to stop it here.

You're the one who didn't know what the word "whataboutism" meant, and who posted an incorrect definition, yet with your very own words, you actually explicitly confessed to being guilty of whataboutism: "OK I'm guilty."

So do you still stand by your confession that you're guilty of "whataboutism", now that you've bothered to skim (but not understand) one article about it?

There is nothing "silly" or "made up" about the word "whataboutism". That's proven by the fact that there is a 15 page Wikipedia article with 116 citations in it, including references to "whataboutism" in the Oxford Living Dictionaries and Cambridge Dictionary.

What's "made up" is your incorrect definition that you gave for it: "Counter-factual scenarios that reveal your opinion to be illogical and cherry-picked for some emotional reason".

What exactly is so "silly" about this -- it seems pretty serious and on-topic to me, comrade:

Tactic: Propaganda technique

Type: Tu quoque (appeal to hypocrisy)

Logic: Logical fallacy

Active period: Cold War–present

Prominent usage:
Soviet Union propaganda,
Russian propaganda,
Russian annexation of Crimea,
Russian military intervention in Ukraine,
Donald Trump,

Related:
Ad hominem,
And you are lynching Negroes,
The pot calling the kettle black,
Red herring,
The Mote and the Beam,
Clean hands
Kotlin or C#?
I cannot decide between these two:

C# Pros:
- Is more popular therefore easier to find a job
- Is more general purpose as it allows for the creation of games on any platform with unity or similar, for mobile apps with Xamarin and it also does web,desktop stuff pretty well

C# Cons:
- While we can now develop apps on any platform it still kind of locks you into windows since that's the only OS for which it offers superb tooling

Kotlin pros:
- Modern language supported by google
- Removes a lot of the boilerplate
- Has the best tooling

Kotlin cons:
- Isn't as general purpose as C#
- Isn't mature
- Not as popular so it's harder to get a job

Anyway which one would you guys use?
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