skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Torch Implementation of “Pixel-Level Domain Transfer” Using GAN
Actually true... Google had amazing robot grasper arms once upon a time. These were much better than anything that was in industry.

The team got killed because it wasn't a "toothbrush test" business
I was on PPIs for reflux for about 6 years before realizing how damaging they could be. Getting off them was really difficult but your suggestions here, in addition to some ginger supplements, helped me to ween off them. Getting off them was a terrible experience, but I'm much better off because of it. I rarely experience reflux anymore.
whats new since the Show HN of 99 days ago?
Suppose Elon is a bad guy. What's to stop him from dragging a big space rock into orbit and holding the planet hostage in X years? Government will build in redundant checks and balances at extra expense. Corporations, not so much.
Whereas I would choose the one with the cleanest shop.
Elon Musk has proved again and again that he is a gift from heaven to the human race. We must continue to support genius like him for the sake of humanity. Stop wasting money on endless wars, entitlements, fraud, waste, abuse, etc. Give our tax dollars to people that want to help mankind make a quantum leap forward. Extending life beyond earth is a necessity for the sustainment of humans
We're getting a little off-track here.

The parent claim was that a high percentage of renters implies an increase in unemployment would leave many homeless, which might increase civil unrest toward rioting aimed at the wealthy.

I'm saying the vast majority of renters would be in the same boat as mortgagers, which is that they won't lose their jobs. Of the minority that do, they may miss or be late on some payments, but ultimately recover and continue living there as they find another job or make other arrangements. The number who would legitimately become penniless and forced to move is small, and we have public housing available for those affected.
> the previous gods have been replaced by low-rent hacks

Do you have any idea how much an actual god costs?! This is the best we could manage. Be grateful this low-budget universe is still here.
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No one says they had to take away money from somewhere. But most likely the stock market. With the markets being up a ton over the last ten years, most HNWIs could have easily borrowed against their shares portfolio at <2% a year and put it into crypto, if they were up for it. (Portfolio) margin debt is at an all time high.

If you had the balls to lever up your portfolio 3x you would have made a killing after the 2008 crash with just a few million in capital, and that's just by investing in the stock market.
What is the correct move? Refuse to follow the law and withdraw from the market completely?

How about when Apple removed apps from developers based in Iran because of US sanctions?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/technology/apple-iran.htm...
Europe may have strong laws regarding privacy. Those laws don’t apply to government requests. That’s a difference.
Why almost no journalist ever links to the actual research papers, or, at least, properly name the authors and the paper title? Is it that hard to put a DOI in a small font somewhere? (Or am I just blind?)
Woah, seashells is awesome! Especially cool (and useful) how you can `cat` and it shows up as you type.
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VM's tend to lose the overlay layered filesystem which can dramatically reduce disk usage. Having the filesystem reset to a clean state for every new container is a huge feature of containers. And VM's tend to need predefined dedicated resources for things like memory. A process in a container would only allocate memory when it needs and can free up for other processes to use. It's not all about the startup speed.

That said, VM's have their place, and docker has the option to switch out backends. It's entirely possible to replace runc with some other tool that starts VM's instead of containers. (That's already happening today with Windows containers.)
Is that really improvement if you need to run a browser to run the app? I guess most of us have the browser open all the time anyway, so adding an Electron app is just one more thing, but I know that Chrome on my machine soaks up a lot more than 130MB ...

I've got a lot of tabs open right now and I'm not sure how to read the memory usage in Chrome's task manager, but Chrome appears to claim to be using about 450MB just for the browser, plus some additional amount for each tab I have open.
please do, i'd read it.
You’re right, not every criticism is about disliking Musk. But I’m pretty sure this one is.

I dragged Tesla into the conversation because I think it’s relevant. So do they.
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I am backend developers who got a few side projects.

I learned basic css, jQuery, and Bootstrap CSS. This let me get my ideas out there. Then if I feel it is worth improving, I would hire someone off Upwork and Fiverr. Usually, it is a lot easier to work with frontend developer when they can see a functioning website. Also it seems to be a lot cheaper than starting with idea on paper.

Although, I am working hard to learn more and more frontend dev, so my cost will be lower.
China is indeed a major exception to most tech companies policies. It's either play by their rules or don't do business in that country, and unfortunately it's not just Apple who makes the financial decision over the human rights decision.

It's one of those things we choose not to talk about because it's very uncomfortable to see where our loyalties actually lie.
"Musk has given lavishly to politicians, especially Arizona Senator John McCain (R). In return, McCain added Section 1615 to this year's defense authorization bill, which includes language to restrict the military from investing in new launch systems."

As much as I love Musk, this is fucked up. Just a normal day in the American democracy I guess
Do people use kafka for situations where data loss is not tolerable(eg: accept credit card receipts).
I just typed a `q` out of impulse.
A possibility exists that North Korea might be able to bait someone into a nuclear war.
It would help to put the salary on a yearly basis.
I didn't even really realize I had these confused until you pointed it out. This makes a lot more sense and helps me understand the results. At first I was confused at how brain structure analysis predicted suicidal tendencies/thoughts.
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Disagree, we can basically eliminate the personal part of it. Blind interviewing. I don't need to know name/gender/school etc. Technical skills test as a filter given to current employees to track if it actually tests for necessary skills. Second part of interviewing can be assessed by people who don't see the candidate and we can obscure their voices.
Wow, your product looks really cool!
I'm not intimately familiar with the details of this issue, nor with the various "flavors of conservatism" mentioned in comments here, but this article makes a strong argument for a few points that we can probably all agree on: SpaceX likely isn't responsible for pushing for the legislation in question (as some news outlets claim), but there does seem to be ample evidence of private influence on the government leading to proposed legislation with anticompetitive characteristics. If it does pass, SpaceX is expected to benefit as a result, so whether or not they are pushing for the legislation themselves, the end result may be just as worrying as if they had.

Instead of debating labels or levels of political congruence among the various people who have brought up this issue, perhaps it would be more productive to discuss the possible ramifications of this legislation passing. Also worth considering is the topic of private influence over government (especially in defense, where it's largely just "the way things are done"), and whether or not business practices that benefit from such arrangements actually qualify as capitalism.
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> It is that people want the poor to take care of themselves.

> I know I get jealous when I think of a certain girl I know who dropped out of high school and had a few kids and collected welfare to pay for it. I worked hard to pay for my college education, now I'm in part paying for her bad decisions, my share of her support could be spent on a widget I want instead.

And what percentage of the poor make these "bad decisions", and what percentage don't?

If you're truly jealous, try living on welfare.
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There's nothing to gain from exhausting someone else's quota. People will go to great lengths to exploit anything for profit, but just messing with other people without anything to gain personally -- that's not a good motivation.
Deflationary money (a fixed money supply) encourages people to hold money and not spend because the same money will buy more goods and services tomorrow. This leads to a decrease in economic activity.

[update: I see this argument is raised over and over in other parts of this discussion, I didn't add much]
Why loan money at a negative interest rate? Just keep it.
Because everyone wants things much more today. Seems like a partial solution for our failure to save.

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Ron Paul and Rand Paul identify as libertarians and are as close to libertarian as the (R) party gets. Ron Paul has the added benefit of having wacky neo-nazi roots that he disavowed during the Clinton era. They loathe any sort of government investment. McCain is the only real conservative mentioned here. The alt-right has their true god (Bannon) and their lesser god (Trump). Trump loathes conservatives, and conservatives mostly loathe him, but they need each other (for the moment). McCain has traditionally been a huge backer of Mueller, and is openly looking to take Trump down.

Both sides have seen ideological purges, and the "blue dog democrats" and "Rockefeller republicans" were purged over the last twenty years. The last real moderate was probably Boehner, and the combination of the Tea Party, and aborted "great compromises" by Obama did him in. The former Senate Majority leader claimed to be a pro-life (personally) Democrat from Vegas, but increasingly abandoned this as his party lurched to the left, and was replaced by a corporatist Democrat with deep deep links to investment banks (Schumer). Biden is still out there as a moderate Democrat, but was completely marginalized in party politics when his great compromise efforts with Boehner were torpedo'd by more activist portions of Obama's cabinet. (No one has ever taken credit for actually convincing Obama to ask for additional trillions in tax-raises last minute both times). I think Biden is just about the only candidate who could have won against Trump in the last election.

The so-called "Neo-cons" (their original name was "Vulcans") were not neocons because they were reformed conservatives, but rather former Wilsonians who turned more Jacksonian over time.

As for Musk, Shelby and Ryan, more then anything else, they are opportunists.

There is a very similar fracturing and disintegration on the left right now, with the AntiFa, the move on crowd and so called progressives all purging those who disagree with them. Then you have much much more radical elements in the colleges and universities.

The French Revolution comparisons are not without merit.
The Citizens Healthcare Rights Act
Was it marked as a requirement by the job posting? Because if not, that's just a test of knowledge, not ability.
>Refuse to follow the law and withdraw from the market completely?

Your tone of voice seems to indicate you don't think that's actually an option.
What’s clear from all these comments is that economic theory is bankrupt and impotent at explaining or predicting anything. It’s quite odd constantly hearing why bitcoin can’t work or whether it can be labeled a currency according to academic theory X, yet reality doesn’t care.

Bitcoin is amazing simply for showing us that monetary economists have no clothes. They’re astrologists that use math.
In everything that keeps happening in the US with regard to leaks and advertisers watching you and Facebook profiling you... I’m not sure it’s fixable.

Until a large chunk of congress, and probably the R chunk due to their privacy law stance, gets a TON of embarrassing stuff leaked to the public or better yet ‘shared’ when they weren’t expecting it... I don’t think anything will change. We won’t get real laws to protect people.

And a decent sized part of me says not even incidents like that would do it. It would just be blame-the-victim and you-accepted-that-policy and the laws wouldn’t really change.
I don't want to go too far off topic, but every time I turn on the news lately I feel like I'm stuck in a dystopian cyberpunk thriller. Funny how we never got the flying cars and jetpacks from our 20th century utopian sci-fi, but the Phillip K Dicks and William Gibsons seem to be right on the money.
Playing Doom 3 on Linux in 2017
That's a lot of conversations! Have you considered using some machine learning techniques?
Apple hears AV geeks, will give Apple TV 4K owners more settings control
I don't mean accessing data on their servers, but rather analytics and the like. They don't get shader content in their crash reports because it might have been generated from user data somehow.
I'd be curious to know about this. Do you or someone have more information?

Every company I've been at it involves writing a check to the company unless the company is public. I don't know why a bank would take on the risk on a private company.
That's not how that works. That's not how anything works.
Kafka needs additional infrastructure (ZK cluster) if you're going to handle it yourselves. Kinesis wins that category, but it has atrocious write performance compared to Kafka, and limited data retention time, if that's important for your project.

I'd look at a hosted Kafka solution before going with Kinesis.
> They made a point to drop that terrifying B-bomb in the title, sending shivers up the spine of many a HN reader.

I chuckled at this.

I think your analysis of their rhetoric is apt.

That said, the lede of the article is the media campaign pushing the pay-to-play narrative, not the righteousness of SpaceX (which is expected to be taken as a given).

Overall, the article was informative because I wouldn't have known that there was a counter argument to Sen. Paul's narrative.
It has always been clear to me that this privacy stand is maybe 20% Tim Cook and 80% strategy. The privacy card works well as a differentiating feature from Google products. So, we have a situation where the interests of Apple and a chunk of users are temporarily aligned.

We have stay continuously aware that this is probably a temporary situation and laying all your eggs in one basket is a bad idea. When governments of larger economies start forcing their hands with bans, etc., they will follow the money.

In hindsight, I think the popularity of macOS among UNIX fans has been detrimental to the development of open source software and open ecosystems that can provide more long-term privacy, by sucking a lot of manpower/energy out of the Linux/BSD ecosystem. (I am also guilty as charged.)
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> Incidentally, discriminating on the basis of familial status or disability is illegal in various jurisdictions.

Indeed it is, and it should be, but many companies successfully use proxies to get around that. It's a lot harder to win a suit because a company demanded long hours than because they explicitly refused to hire people with families or above a certain age. I didn't mean to encourage such chicanery, which is why I already had the parenthetical comment about discrimination. My point was that if there are expectations or behaviors like this, then they should be addressed specifically instead of under a "culture fit" umbrella. Often that will make their il/legitimacy clearer, and help to prevent discrimination.
Grab, the Uber rival in Southeast Asia, is now officially a payments company
Strong encryption is not the first and won't be last technology for FBI to fight