skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the problem.

If companies get bigger, they get more specialized people.

When you got 3 people, the dev is probably also the admin and the tech support, if you got 30 you get multiple people for each job.

It's only logical to get some specialized people (the leaders of the union) to negotiate salaries, while the rest of the the workforce does their work.

Sure, if you see the companies success independent from the employees success this doesn't make much sense, but if you see the both entangled, why shouldn't this be okay?
I've never heard the tunnel analogy. Seems odd, since tunnels generally only have one entrance and one exit...

In a lot of fields where the stakes are high and mistakes are costly (aviation and emergency services are the two I'm most familiar with) the analogy used is a chain. Break any link in the chain and you prevent the event.

https://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/inst_reports2.cfm?arti...
There is more than one legal form of union-busting. They could’ve reorganized departments and “eliminated positions,” but instead they chose to throw everyone out on the street as collective punishment to send a message.

This is why reporters need to form independent, co-op, subscribers-funded news in order to avoid the strings and slavery of corporate advertisers and exploitative owners. Corporate news doesn’t work.
My Cassanda db can be "decentralized" too by your definition because I can have it distributed between multiple corporations, where multiple people have read/write access. This is extremely common practice.
Wikileaks is famously silent when it comes to Russia: Assange famously bragged about ‘kompromat’ they held and planned to dump on Putin, kompromat which never materialized - then subsequently censored Syrian leaks to hide evidence of Russian bank transfers.

I wonder if this attitude has anything to do with the TV deal Assange signed with Russian state media. Others, like Pussy Riot, have confronted Assange on these facts and he was conspicuously quiet.
Comcast has a monopoly, or, at worst, a duopoly in huge swaths of the country. How is anyone being forced to watch web videos online? There are dozens of alternate entertainment sources, and several high quality news sources that don't use much video.
As we say when teaching new riders to ride a motorcycle, a crash is often an intersection of factors. If you remove even one of those issues it likely would have prevented it.
The attacks are resistant to noise, or at least can made to be so. If every single input is tweaked in exactly the right direction, noise won't undo that. Most inputs will still be pointing in the adversarial direction. The noise will move some inputs back to their original position, but others will be pushed even further into adversarial territory.
typo in the URL, but the correct URL also 404s https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
Send them to archive.org.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160428013428/gothamist.com/
We've asked you many times not to violate the guidelines like this, so we've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Your link has an extra d. The real link is

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

...

oh shit

Archive link for posterity,

http://archive.is/tdyiQ

Twitter banned the POTUS
Ask HN: Preferred hosting for your clients and why?
Android used to about a crappy Samsung app on my phone in the details view:

- Using sys.whatever.whatever [redtext][Should only ever be used for debugging.]

I can't remember what app it was but it had an insane amount of unnecessary permissions even though it was just a simple app. I used to tell people it was my NSA app.
"at once"

meaning slowly over 100+ years. How many people left these flood cities over the last decade? Because this pace will be the same going forward. There is no refugee crisis.

I'd be concerned if GW was going to increase ad infinitude, but it's not. We eventually use up all the fossil fuels, and the results will be minor.
That still doesn't encompass the advantages of a statically-typed language...
> For example, the greenhouse effect is a piece of well-established science. Climate change is even less scientific. To what extent humans contribute to the problem is even less scientific.

I've run into conservatives who believe that, and invariably it turns out they have only looked at a small part of the evidence.

For example, they might dismiss the extent of human contribution to rising CO2 levels as mere correlation, claiming that scientists are just noting that the CO2 curve matches some other human activities and are assuming that those activities are responsible for the CO2. Maybe it is just coincidence and the rising atmospheric CO2 comes from natural sources.

If that was all scientists had, that would be a good point. But that isn't all scientists have. CO2 from burning fossil fuels has a different isotopic composition that CO2 from natural sources so scientists can directly distinguish "our" CO2 from "natural" CO2.

Then there is atmospheric oxygen levels. Burning fossil fuels should not only release CO2 into the atmosphere. It should also take oxygen from the atmosphere. Guess what? The atmospheric oxygen levels have been doing just what they should be doing if scientists are right about how much of the atmospheric CO2 comes from us.
It works for me. I see his twitter.
Perhaps you are thinking of some other block explorer.
Here's the one I use regularly to get all the insights I can think of: https://etherscan.io
I feel like it's a law on HN that the first comments criticizing the article are always actually in complete agreement with the article, and either didn't read it or completely misread it. Every time, that happens.
There is a huge industry for folks who are finding ways to bypass Facebook's/Google's ad moderation. They pay you if you craft ads as per their liking and it approved.
The irony of this quote in the intro is palpable. "They reveal a society that is painfully divided, gullible to misinformation, dazzled by sensationalism, ..."
It doesn't matter. They still shouldn't have done it.
Ask HN: What would you do with the data sets of Google, FB, et al?
Hypothetically, say you had full unfeterred access to the major world data sets as possesed by the likes of Google, FB, Amazon, Twitter, etc., what would you do with them?

Curious what interesting and creative use cases HNers could think up besides using the data to sell advertising.
You're right: nothing in that article mentions the UI.

I learned about the incident in my computer ethics class in college (along with Therac-25, etc).

Quickly-skimming, it looks like Cracked has a decent writeup of the UI issue specifically [1].

[1] http://www.cracked.com/article_19776_6-disasters-caused-by-p...
Your profit came from an increase in the profits of the company. The company chose to reinvest some of those profits instead of paying it to you, which further increases profits, thus increasing the inherent value of the stock.

That's the difference. Apple generates revenue, BTC does not. If every BTC generated money, then this wouldn't be an issue. But since BTC can't generate money, the only way to profit from it is to get someone else to pay more than you did for it when there's no fundamental reason to do so.

Plus, it can't last forever, like gold can. It has no use like corn does. You literally just buy bits in a distributed database, tell people how it's will be worth infinity dollars because there's only 21 million of them, then sell them for more than you paid. And repeat until you have infinity dollars or the bits are worth less than you paid for them.
Before you launch into a "recode the whole thing" project, read this:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

Having your code base in python would be great, but do consider doing it piece by piece. Try to see if there's a part that would benefit greatly from the better organization features of python, and start there.
That shows more your lack of understanding of the word virtuous than anything.

If something is hard, takes a long time to do and makes you better you are right to feel virtuous.
(Hi, it's Trent here, CTO of BigchainDB.)

We can do a lot better than the scale of Bitcoin. And we are. Scale is part of the point. And you don't need to centralize to get scale. We did improve upon the Model T, didn't we? Or, I remember programming with 16K memory on my computer. Technology improves. And it is here too. That's what we do at BigchainDB.
Suburbanites and sports fans. This may be a somewhat unfair characterization, but the Tribune has for some time felt to me like a sports paper with additional sections on business and local news.
You can put traditional desktop apps in the store using centennial bridge. No need to use special dev tools or ui frameworks.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/deskto...
Because they aren't noise: they just seem like noise to humans.

If you add in noise, then you have to train the network to disregard that noise. And the adversarial input will then be features that occur above this noise floor you ignoring.
It's a tough spot. Ethically you can't spend investors' money when it can't benefit them, and you can't incur hosting bills that won't be paid.
You’re bikeshedding on a switch versus a button, still an extra, unnecessary step to forget. Same problem. You failed. Try again.
I'll never understand this. The pattern is the same every year. They announce a product, "journalists" say it's a failure, they sell more units and make more money than ever before, and the cycle repeats. Apple will definitely drop the ball someday but I think people are a little too quick to make that call. I realize most of that is in the never-ending quest for clickbait but still...
it just came back...
nah. java is actually slowly moving towards being a modern language and a reasonable choice for a wide variety of tasks. go is going to inherit ruby's place
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Decent odds you've flown on an airplane with a similar UX for primary flight controls.

Airbus uses two "side stick" controllers that are on opposite sides of the cockpit. This was a contributing factor in the Air France 447 crash.
https://twitter.com/pierce/status/926222729660862464
It's the perception tunnel. There are many branches, but only one route is followed. In hindsight, you can see all the branches and call out everything that went wrong.
I totally acknowledge that there are pros and cons for both dynamically and statically typed languages. (We could start a 10 page discussion here. But I've been there before, perhaps you have too, how about we save our energy? ;)
Gotta be the change you want to see. None of my hidden service .onion sites are anything "of interest". They're just electronics and radio hobby stuff like the web has always had.

Put everything on Tor as a hidden service and eventually the stigma will go away.
iPhone X isn't included in these numbers as it just went on sale for pre-order this past week. We'll really see where it goes once the next quarter rolls around.
HN is like a huge echo chamber and a bitcoin basher. Every single time the same arguments (bitcoin is a currency or store of value), the same questions (should I invest?) and the same reasons for talking oneself out of going into it. Even when bitcoin gets to a half a million value people will still be saying oh it’ll crash any time now, bitcoin is useless, can’t trust bitcoin because it’s not backed by US economy or the government. And you know what, keep living in your bubble because those that capitalize on the shift won’t have to say I told you so. I wholeheartedly agree on many arguments against bitcoin but we have to agree that we are seeing something unprecedented happen and nobody really knows what they are talking about 100%.
Ahhhh, I see now. Well, yes, of course I was thinking about those Softcoin, but preferred using values in "dollars" that would make some sense to the reader ;)
I'd rather watch Enterprises opening theme song on repeat for an hour, than "Discovery". But if the movies couldn't drive this franchise into the ground I doubt this continuity breaking, sjw-ish circle jerk will.

In a few years, if we're lucky, they'll just reconn Discovery (and all its lens flare) into the Abrams timeline where it belongs.
> separate files instead of one massive one, yay!

Matlab doesn't give you a choice here... every single function has to go in its own file.

I'm also not a huge fan of matlab.
> EB2 actually has per-country caps. Once you are in the Eb2 queue, you have to wait 15-20 years if you were born in India. [...] The process should be completely merit based.

Because... can I ask why, exactly?
Wow. It's rulings like this that have driven jobs to other countries. You should always have the option to legally shutter your business and liquidate its assets.

Members of the union would then be free to collectively band together and purchase such assets if made available for sale as a whole.
Why does anyone care whether it's caused by humans? If we knew an asteroid was going to hit the earth, it wouldn't matter that humans didn't cause it.
Well, this is getting more attention because it's important for the "ad network moderation". If Google/FB fail at moderation using these methods, they'll have to HIRE lots of humans to do it for them, which often involves contracting it to outsources like Accenture. This will put downward pressure on their billion dollar revenue. Humans are expensive but vastly effective at ad moderation.
Why would it be the same pace going forward? The rate of rise is accelerating and the consequences become much more severe as it gets higher.
Hi all! My team has been working on this project for about 6 months and our goal is to show students that MIT faculty members have crazy life stories and really cool personalities. We aim to make it easier for students to approach professors and to secure research.

Hope you enjoy!
and, to add, it was made of recycled metal. I read that on the sign while on the first platform. The urge to go up further did not increase while learning about that :)
Is there a successful database written in python? I probably need to dig through your code a bit more to understand how your utilizing it.
These reporters are always free to start their own blog, alone or collectively.
I'm a freelance journalist. I've done occasional work for Gothamist over the years, mostly interactive maps and data visualizations. Everyone I ever met or worked with from Gothamist or DNAInfo was great, and I'm really sorry to hear this news.

Archiving digital content isn't trivial. A lot of Gothamist pieces are more than just text and static photos.

I actually just sent out a query letter to a publication last week where I included a clip from Gothamist. It included an interactive map built with the Google API--pretty simple to build, thanks to Google's hard work, and it was easy for Gothamist to host on their own servers and iframe in to their CMS.

But it's not easy to archive the whole package offsite. A PDF of the page isn't ideal if I'm selling my ability to deliver a feature with interactivity. Showing the map on its own isn't the same as showing the complete package. I could mirror Gothamist's page on my own hosting, but that raises various issues, and I'd need to take out stuff like their ad and tracking code and hope nothing breaks. (The Internet Archive versions don't work, for whatever reason).

I have the technical skill to deal with that, and in my case I have other clips that show the same abilities so I'll probably just not bother. But I'm sure there are many other journalists, many of them more talented than I am but with different skillsets, who will struggle to archive stories with embedded video, photo slideshows, audio, JS quizzes, etc.
> I'm led to believe there must be a deeper root cause that prevents someone from objectively looking at data and seeing that some change is occurring

There is, tribalism, and his tribe's political beliefs have decided it's fake, so he'll rationalize that however he must.
Bear in mind that you’ll need to either embed all your resources, or only use CORS-enabled resources, or fake the origin for your HTML document so that it can access non-CORS-enabled resources on a particular domain.

Encoding your HTML as a data: URI might work for this service as-is (provided you use no non-CORS-enabled resources). Haven’t tried it.
That's, what, 0.1% of his net worth?

That's like an average family donating $100.
I mean people can already do that to human drivers. You can easily remove a stop sign. Or put a sticker over an important sign. Any human driver will be fooled! Yet this doesn't seem to be a prevalent problem.
That's a neat little human interest story!
As the author of the comment in question, I think some of parent comment is fair criticism - that my comment is general and too superficial, without a strong basis in fact and it doesn't contribute much hard knowledge; it's all analysis. Also, it's long.

I considered those things myself before I posted it. However, I didn't see how to overcome them; some issues don't lend themselves to strong factual bases, and some are much more nuanced than can be addressed in a few words - issues such as leadership - and yet they still are important enough to discuss. The problems of the world don't always conveniently fit our model of how we prefer to address them. How else could these issues be addressed?

> It's a cliche hacker news comment

This I strongly disagree with; these issues are rarely addressed with much serious thought and that's one reason I posted it.
That's the alarmism talking...

The rate of increase is linear with population growth. Meaning we are also linearly more ready to handle the small flow of refugees to linearly more cities and food market changes.
Hm interesting, what do you think makes Patreon different than other services in this area?

It does seem like they have figured out something that others haven't.
The smartphone model where you click "yes" to everything?
Super easy to use, connect to the CI and discover/fix bugs. You get an indication about very step including screenshots so you can see compare the expected outcome vs. the actual one.

In about 2 hours we authored 12 tests and connect them to our Jenkins. They ran smoothly for a dew days. We actually discovered a number of bugs using the system. Today we have about 80 tests running on every code push testing IE, Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox.

We use little custom code (JS). This is much easier than Selenium and much more stable!

By the way their documentation and support are great. If you need assistance they have ppl responding through the chat all the time. In most cases they will point you to the docs, which is find to be very helpful
It's good advice for a lot of people and I know I'm not as systematic about it as I should be. If you, say, write for a company blog, and that company goes out of business, your work may be on archive.org but it may be fragmentary and may be hard to find. And if what you wrote was behind pay or registration walls, it's probably not available.

The writing I did for close to ten years is no longer available on the original source. I have most of it either because I directly saved copies or because it was cross-posted on another site. Nothing malicious here. The company just went out of business and its website went away. That's pretty much how it works.
As described above, some versions of Windows require drivers to be signed proving who made them. For this to work Windows needs a list of CAs trusted to issue the certificates. Whether "I am not paying somebody £100 for a cert" constitutes a valid reason is arguable. But that seems to have been their plan here.
Come now, I think you're aware that we're trying to have meaningful discussions here.
Technically, unit price has gone up for sure. Profits also depend on costs, so it probably went up, but you can't say for sure just from this data.
What a waste, isn't it? Or maybe better put, how presumptuous to think that years of statistical modeling and formal economic theory somehow endow someone with effectively better intuition than the next person. Maybe if those years of training actually lead to better investments there would be something to consider, but you can't argue that professional gamblers are better than casual intuitive ones if the pros don't actually yield better results.
If you consider it, a convolutional neural network is applicable to any type of picture, including those that are not pictures of 3D scenes, such as seismic data. So, in order to handle pictures of 3D scenes well, you are going to have to take extra assumptions about the data. This Geoffrey Hinton does, by taking the assumption that a scene consists of objects, with associated pose parameters.
For the latest and greatest 10 pages about that; just search for the the Hickey 10 year Clojure (rant-ish in places) talk and the Haskell community responding to it.
Some types of data need to be geographically stay in a certain area. For example, European PII data cannot be hosted on servers outside of the EU. That's easy to handle if you're using AWS for example.

How can a company comply to these kinds of laws using a distributed system like BigChainDB? Is there a some kind of geo fencing possibility?
YMMV, but I'd rather prefer browser vendor to work on a browser, rather than try to become an operating system, with its own libraries and update channels.

A web browser shouldn't normally bundle image decoders, audio or video codecs, on-screen keyboards or printer and video card drivers.

Obvious exceptions apply, of course - e.g. if OS doesn't have built-in image decoder for a specific format it totally makes sense to bundle one.

But this is really getting off-topic.
For me - a Pi is mostly about battery powered portable projects, and GPIO.

If I don't need either of those, a 2nd hand office grade pc can usually be had for the same price as a Pi3 around here.
There is plenty that can be done. First off, stop denying there is no climate change and start educating people on what they can do to help stop it. You would be amazed at what social conscience can do. While doing that, start making industries pay for the CO2 they emit. Incentivize companies to do a better job at lower their C02 foot print and companies that are better at this will do better in the market place.
Scapegoats abound. It’s never the readers’ personal responsibility for retweeting conspiracy theories, The Onion as fact or PR-manufactured articles. Maybe NYT trying to get the InfoWars demographic / fly-over country back on their side?
A “Silicon Valley” actor is terrified by what’s happening in Silicon Valley
The actual database is not written in python.
Those exact ambiguous laws are the ones that are abused most easily.
There is a hard balance between being general enough to cover bad things, without being so general as to allow authorities to prosecute anyone on some charge.
I consider myself tech savvy (by no means do I understand that much more than an average user). When I tried to enable my company’s mail on my personal iPhone, I was prompted to install a certificate. In my haste I thought it was just a certificate for *.my-company.com domains, but iPhone showed me a message in the likes of “the owner of the certificate would be able to read/modify all my network communication, monitor/install/uninstall all apps I have... “ and so on. That was enough to stop me in my tracks and now I’m waiting for a company phone instead.
This is ultimately the problem. The dialog could say "This will trash your computer, empty your bank account, and kill your dog. Do you want to continue? YES/NO" and users will click YES if that's the only way to install whatever software they want to work.