skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll give a very personal account. I was in the past harassed on Twitter. I received death threats and users were giving out my phone number and address to other Twitter users via DM.

I filed an official complaint, and Twitter's response was this is not harassment, we won't do anything. I am pretty sure because of my political views the Twitter support representative decided they didn't like me. The hypocrisy, bias, and subjective filtering is rampant in silicon valley. It also unfortunately is a thing here on HN as well. To this day I still get downvoted not for the content of my comments, but because solely people "recognize" me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15617243

:-)
Modern automatics are almost always more efficient. The biggest is that the torque converter has a lockup clutch during crusing, and often more gears and a near perfect knowledge of when to shift gear.
But if it leads to them not being able to steer through a busy area in peacetime where thousands of ships go through every day (many larger than this destroyer), this clearly failed. With this happening I'm not sure if they would've reacted better if they had suddenly been under enemy attack. Would they've been less confused then?
strictly off-topic, but has anyone else noticed on the Yoga Book (the 'Halo' Keyboard') that they screen printed the physical locator nibs from the F and J onto the flat keyboard :)
Child sex offenders to be named as such in US passports
It reminds me more of Ready Player One, a book in which society has deteriorated to the point where the only escape is a VR world.

The book briefly explores the implications of this, including how the hierarchy of human needs is met in a VR-centric society.
As I understand it, it was their last day with the company so they'd still have had their credentials.
We don't need technology, we have drugs, it won't necessarily be a new problem when we can do it with technology too.
What happens in Silicon Valley ought to stay in Silicon Valley!
Some machine learning terms
Please re-consider your use of the term "SJW" as a derogatory term. I had hoped that garbage would stay on reddit. Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln were 'social justice warriors'. The more accepted definition is of an extreme leftist which in truth is statistically irrelevant % of the population. SJW is a strawman term that's great for dividing us and categorizing those with opposing views as the boogeyman.
Yes it's using the Vive camera
Please see https://www.airbornos.com/docs/security or http://blog.airbornos.com/post/2017/08/03/Transparent-Web-Ap... for a description of how we solved that.
The API at https://query2.finance.yahoo.com seems to still work [0]

[0] https://query2.finance.yahoo.com/v8/finance/chart/VZ?period1...
You find FX data everywhere because it's public. But Yahoo also had stock data. And that is hard to find for free online. I guess Yahoo had to shut it down because exchanges didn't like them giving data away for free via API.
Well, yes. But still, more often than not, when I encounter interoperability problems, if both sides actually did what the spec says, there wouldn't be a problem. SIP itself is quite sad, but in my experience many implementations are even worse than the spec.
I think they meant it's because traders knew that these brokers wanted to buy (to hedge), so the price was only going to go up further.
It seems like for most entry level engineers ranged at $100-120k who wants to live in a one bedroom apartment in SF, a 30% off in rent could potentially be better than 30% cut in salary, considering the current tax rate.

In China, there have been attempts by startup companies offering employees sleeping pods near the office, while providing water and shower so that the employee can simply stay around the office during the course of a year long employment with occasional "offsite" airbnb living. But unfortunately such attempt was shut down: https://www.techinasia.com/china-napping-pods-startup-forced...
The person you are responding to is probably talking about modern humans. Where groups separated by geography and with a different language have definitely existed.

Though I would argue that at least in the modern times, communication and transport mean that no identified group of humans is actually totally isolated anymore from the other humans, which makes it more difficult to argue that they can be different species on this ground.
I interviewed the people behind Intrinio[1] for Indie Hackers. I haven't used their product myself, so I can't tell you how it stacks up against the Yahoo and Google APIs that were killed this month. But I do know that they provide financial data and APIs to developers, and their primary goal is making it super cheap and pleasant to use.

[1] https://intrinio.com
The real funny thing is that this will clog up the news cycle for the next 36 hours or so, unless more than a dozen people die all at once or something.

People actually care about this. Holy cow.
If both shut down within a short period of time it's probably due to the vendor. I'd guess one of the major exchanges in the US has changed the terms of the license or started enforcing it. They make money with this data so it's understandable that they don't like free APIs.
They broke functionality on their own pages, yikes.

E.g. the export button on the desktop version of https://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/MMM,IBM/view/v1?ql=1
Keep in mind that we have it good in part because we've avoided a nuclear war so far, and the bigger environmental and climate change issues haven't impacted us yet.

In the future, we will potentially have designer viruses, weaponized nanotech and AI to concern ourselves with. So it's probably good that a few people express their worries about unethical uses of technology.
It's not necessarily the UI that must have been confusing, it might have been that these modes of operation are inherently confusing.
I wouldn't trade on it but they were reasonably good to get a sense for where stuff trades. E.g. monitoring your portfolio with this worked well, esp for EOD data.
Art is restored all the time. The places these labels were put are not where the valuable details rest. I grew up around antique collectors all my life. You are overreacting.
I think this whole text, but especially the paragraph about British WWII is a good example of what "Military Intelligence" is about
> If your answer to the question "why can't a billion dollar industry provide me with instantaneous channel switching?" is "because they are lazy", you are severely misguided (at the very least!). There are hundreds of extremely talented engineers working full-time on these problems. If the solution were as easy as you propose, the issues would be solved.

The answer is never "engineers are lazy". The answer is, the company doesn't give a flying fuck about this problem and will actually prevent engineers from working on solving it, because they can sell you a TV perfectly well with this problem still present, and there's other work for engineers that makes TVs easier to sell than actually delivering a quality product.
There's always eminent domain, aka Theft By Government.

"Screw you all, we gave you a chance to play ball and you didn't. So now we have to do things the hard way."

Or, more reasonably, just stay the fuck away from silicon valley if you're looking at starting a business or working for a tech company. Things will even out eventually. Or not, but the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

I don't get what's so great about the area, anyways. Every time I've been it's just seemed like an insanely expensive shithole...but I guess I'm not the one splashing billions of dollars around.
>Firstly what makes them think this was the work of the Russian government vs private sector Russians with an interest in US politics?

The opposite reasoning also works. Why assume this is a private sector Russian with an interest in politics, when there is a more simple/straightforward answer in who would create something like this?

I do agree that Russians should have been interested in the election, as most of the world should for a country that has a large impact on the socioeconomic fabric, but any time you begin to input your own time/money into something, you immediately become obviously vested in the outcome of something you have no right in influencing.

>Secondly, how are these ads meant to benefit Russia specifically? What are these ads supposed to achieve? The evil plan being to "sow division in society"?

Come on, it should be very clear to you why these are beneficial to a supposed Russian effort to affect the election. Demonization is a classic, and effective strategy to influence opinion, and while I do agree that this meme is a very ineffective rhetorical strategy to you/me when we look at it in a more skeptical light than normal, just seeing this on your Facebook feed randomly could be very effective to many people.

>The whole Russia-American-election story continues to look to me like a huge set of suppositions and dubious mental leaps.

It's an investigation that hasn't been finished yet, so I do understand a skittishness in the veracity of some of the claims made so far in the dossier, but the idea that the entirety of the Russian collusion saga has just been trumped-up charges is a joke. Two men have been indicted, and another plead guilty to crimes that are at least casually related to a possible Russian collusion.

>It's all very clearly an attempt to get Trump impeached. Motivated reasoning is bound to follow.

Politically it's absolutely an attempt to impeach Trump, yet day after day more information is released/revealed/found that is more and more damning to the idea that something illegal didn't happen in the 2016 election.

Remember, the idea of Russian collusion isn't something that was just made up after Trump became President. There has been a natural build up of evidence/steam that has slowly shed more light on possible activities by those strongly linked with Trump, or by Trump himself.

>PS. I am not a Russian.

Neither am I. It doesn't matter.
This is amazing and frustrating at the same time. The biggest problems, both of which are I think unavoidable, are the necessity to be aware of serialization and the version lock.
This is really nice for a crunch time. It doesn't have to be 5 years I believe. Even 3 months is possible, and this can be discussed with the boss as well, if you have a job.
Whenever numskull journalists write the phrase "exercise pill" they're talking about growth hormone secretagogues or anabolics. This one is an anabolic SARM; a particularly nasty one that seems to be pretty carcinogenic.
Note that people who take SARMs or regular anabolic steroids look pretty good, but they're certainly not achieving any real health benefits. Long term use nets you cardiovascular problems and eventual chemical castration.

Anyone who would tout taking this as some kind of supplement is insane. Soylent arguably more healthy.
Since the chance that a major earthquake will occur within the next -1000 years is about 100%, I wouldn't invest a dime in long term real estate in SF...
These replies... How'd they feel if their accounts were banned by a random Twitter employee (a secret Trump supporter or something)? It's like these people have no self-reflection at all.
Appcelerator AMP: an open source CaaS with Docker Compose stackfiles support
Cars with automatic transmissions cost more.
Intrinio (https://intrinio.com/) has an awesome API for Financial Data. While not completely free, they do have 6 months free program for developers.

They've also been featured on Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/intrinio
How is a bitcoin sitting in your computer an IOU? Who owes what to whom precisely?
Lines of death in Firefox
I don’t think there’s a real stigma for people who can afford to rent an apartment but live in an RV... it’s almost hip at this point. However I don’t think it’s as practical as you think. Addresses are very important.
I know the founder Alan and I know Priyanka and I can verify Alan's version. There is no dispute about the ownership. Priyanka bluntly lied to HN and I am shocked to read they would fall for it. I guess everyone is especially careful to not discredit a self-proclaimed "female founder".

I experienced Priyanka as a dishonest person, solely focused on personal gain, who had no issues with stealing credit from others (including from me). It's terrifying to see that she continues to leech off Alan's hard work and even damage his success. Alan only listed her temporarily as Co-Founder on the website (almost 2 years AFTER he founded WakaTime) to build up her confidence in talking to investors (an idea she had btw). She proceeded however to use that for self-promotion, giving interviews all over the place of how she was a "female founder", despite it being a fake title. She would tell Alan that it was all to help Wakatime. Alan was too patient and trusting, even though many people who met Priyanka and saw through her manipulation were warning him about her. Despite finally realizing what she was doing, he kept her listed on the website for many more months, because it was helping her get new job opportunities. He was THAT generous and just didn't think she would exploit him and his hard work.
She has now woven such a big lie that all she can do is continue lying. I hope the truth will finally catch up to her.
The only thing is that, when this presentation was given, it seems they hadn't worked much more than MNIST (so the new thing now would be the toys-recognition net).

The paper however details their experiments on Cifar-10 and other datasets in the discussion section.

They don't produce good enough results but the paper proposes certain hypotheses for the poorer performance and that it could be overcome in the future.

Arxiv-link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09829
There was a series of articles a few years ago about closet GOP supporters in the tech industry fearing being "outed" for the damage it would cause to their careers. In your experience do you feel that this concern is justified?

(I think there was at least one startup CEO who declared that if he found out that anyone at his company had voted for Trump, that he would fire him/her)
I am against censorship, however as an European I agree with our country's constitution that says freedom of speech is granted only as far as hate speech isn't involved.

Of course who should have the power to identify hate speech and censor content and what the definition of hate speech is, that's debatable.
However a platform like Twitter is also private property, another right protected by the constitution and people don't necessarily have free speech rights on somebody else's property.

As for the compelling arguments about letting Nazis speak in order to identify them:

1. read some German newspapers just before 1933 – the same arguments against censorship have been used then as well, nothing new

2. if you want to see actual antisemitism, some literal Nazis, go to https://gab.ai — nothing on Twitter is as bad as what goes on in there and the moderates that are against censoring such opinions usually don't realize how bad they can get or their reach

Again, I'm very much pro free speech. But free speech is not my religion and it needs to be balanced against the other rights that we have as well, like property rights, or the right to feel safe and to be treated fairly and respectfully.
Last time I checked, China was roughly following the policy of "leave our internals to us and we will leave your internals to you".

Are there know cases where China recently meddled with foreign elections/governments?
the robinhood API is unofficial (for now) but it's an easy way to pick up stock data for free.

https://github.com/sanko/Robinhood
> the creation of more competing social media outlets

Like gab.ai? Not allowed on iPhones.

Perhaps Twitter could be considered a media company with editorial discretion, but Apple?

Either treat these giant SV companies as utilities, or break them up.
If numbers are a concern, we should outlaw having sex with multiple partners, as that spreads enormous amounts of disease and leads to many unwanted pregnancies and abortions.
It's a bit ironic given that it's been illegal to bury people in SF for over 100 years.
Why not?

"Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful; but the proudest boast of our free speech jurisprudence is that we protect the freedom to express “the thought that we hate.”"

-Justice Samuel Alito, 2017

The debate on this topic has unfolded over hundreds, even thousands of years of Western political thought. The philosophy enshrined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is that in fact we should let this speech go on because the alternative of suppressing it is worse for all of us in the long run. There are people of great intelligence and distinction within American society who still feel that this is true.

(It bears mentioning that while Twitter is a private entity and not bound by the same rules as a federal entity, the mass movement of speech from public to private platforms is one of the biggest issues under consideration.)
Can someone explain what is this?
Why someone might need this??
You are right that we don't know, but the user said indistinguishable, which is true.

It is interesting that they actually had larger brains than modern humans, as did the Cro Magnon homo sapiens we have also found).
If the employer is worried for security reasons, they can send the employee home but must pay his salary for 3 months (in France at least, I don't know for other EU countries).
They tell people to update their certificates, but their servers have been constantly overloaded.

I've tried dozens of times over the last three days, zo no avail.
This comment and parent are pretty master level HN trolling.
I don't think there is currently any easy way to build a GUI app using .NET Core. This might come in handy for such projects.
"I'm personally center left" ... <Reactionary talking points>

Hopefully I don't get dang'd by observing how common a meme this is.

Companies, public and private, have the legal right to take on whatever political position they have, and beyond having the power to control dialogue, there is no way they can abdicate exercising that power; it's unavoidably emergent from their technology that someone's tweet has to show up top when you log in. This extends to anyone that writes code connecting a query to some media content.

Since asking for Government intervention in this realm is highly illiberal, the exercise of this power is a matter of corporate social responsibility. And how the CSR shakes out around the use of a platform to encourage hate and violence of any stripe is a point of contention.
If you own the land underneath the building, and you're on non-land fill land, then maybe it's okay.

Buying a unit in a highrise in SF never really made sense to me.
> and the so-called Nazis are literally the only ones being censored

False. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Twitter
Virtu and others (that aren’t as public, some of which i’ve Worked for) flip coins in the order of 1,000,000 times a day, and have had less than 30 days of losses in 15 years; if you believe that this is pure luck then I suspect we cannot reach any agreement.
Viewing US political culture from outside makes this even more entertaining. It appears to many people in Europe to be mostly two center-right/right groups calling each other nasty names.

Of course the standard left/right dichotomy is a historical accident and contingent on many local factors. And yet we continue to reify it as if it were some Platonic truth.
Self regulation is a thing which shows that industry groups often act to avoid legal changes when the legal system doesn't match society's moral view.

As I said, I'm not entirely convinced, but nor is it an absurd view.

Also, I hate the HN rate limit which applies when I get voted down. It makes it hard to argue the point.
Many people like C#/F# more than Javascript (and it's derivatives).
There was an article about that a few days ago that got a lot of attention here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15595586
The fundamental difference is that one is an economic ideology from which the genocidal ideas can be separated, and the other is a genocidal ideology. National socialism is an ideology for which certain types of people cannot exist, and such it is wholly incompatible with modern societies. Compare this to the fact that socialists and communists have been part of peaceful modern political systems. It is not that difficult to draw the line.
Show HN: iOS/watchOS app for viewing your progress on your BOINC projects
We see the "I'm a Democrat but don't support this Democrat" (sub with Republican if desired) position all the time in astroturfing campaigns. The giveaway is usually in the choice of language, e.g. "sjw" as opposed to a less charged term like "further left"
Well on one hand we tell people that they were unwise for moving to an expensive area. On the other hand we tell people in areas where jobs are disappearing that it's their fault for not being willing to move out of their hometown and move to an area with job growth.

Heads they win, tails you lose?

(long term I would think that access to education will be the solution to this, and yet I also know that if everyone in the rust belt were reeducated with some great skill set, we still wouldn't have enough jobs for them at the pay they would expect)
There are many atomics libs and compilers that support atomics that predate C++11.

If you went to school in the multi-core era or slightly before that it shouldn't have been a problem.

There isn't much need for atomics on single core, single CPU machines so if you went before that, it's understandable.
“So-called nazis”, huh?
I've been using this for working with people on managing/reviewing data. I can get them to enter some data on google drive, then lookup relevant info from various services and fill in

It's a really nice setup for bringing data from APIs and other services into a more usable, query-able setup for people more used to spreadsheets.
Absolutely. I've been lucky enough to be self-employed for a bit, but if you walk into any bay area startup nearly everybody will be a vitriol against Trump and conservatives very publicly. It is not even subtle. I'm the kind of person who actually enjoys a debate, and my lack of PC offends some. If I were an employee, probably would be problematic.
So your solution is to shutdown the person who disagrees with you?
What makes you reject the IPCC estimates?
I am currently working on .NET/QML integration here: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/net-core-qml

Not quite production yet, but it will be soon.