skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love this. It´s amazing how he on his own maneuvered from a life with no order to creating his own order and sticking to it. I would wonder how he achieved that. I guess it was out of necessity.

For anyone that is planning to become more organized and get more done during the day, I´d recommend https://zenkit.com

(Disclaimer: I work at Zenkit.)

Btw: my author of choice would be Tim Ferris. If you don´t know his books, definitely check him out.
https://tim.blog/tim-ferriss-books/
Sorry but nobody is for small government. Nobody is for a balanced budget. It is a farce.

We all have two piles: a. Things we want the government to do b. Things we don't

If you're for a balanced budget, you'll oppose current tax cut plans and demand government cut spending. The problem is of course where do we cut spending? Find me a dollar of "waste" and I'll show you someone who benefits from it. Can we please stop pretending?
I don't understand it either.

And it's actually easy to handle: My employers always gave everyone the same breaks - how you use them is up to you. Smoking, eating, chatting - all of it. However smoking outside those breaks was a no-go. And as a former smoker I don't even see how this is up for discussion.
I would let a delivery drone have access into my house. Not a human.

I would happily install a remotely accessible window not accessible from the street, and give amazon the authentication to open it and close it for their drone to drop stuff in my house, IF losing packages was a recurrent problem for me. It isn't, but drone delivery is plausible in future so worth thinking about.
> How is this possible? No machine learning algorithm is perfect and they make mistakes — albeit very rarely.

Right.
>Sure, but I thought we were talking about the context of documentary /instructional /information videos.

Even in that context, amateurs and people starting out with a subject, might prefer to have less information density and have things explained in easy steps -- instead of lots of stuff they don't get crammed in 5 minutes.
I doubt it, insofar as employees of Twitter are expected to have authority and access to these tools. That isn't to say that they didn't violate the employee code of conduct.
We still have a secret ballot in this country, and this is why.
I am no expert, but extracting data related to the word influence from IMDB for Tarantino (or any actor/director) is quite doable. Even by employing rudimentary NLP techniques using NLTK and Freebase/wordnet APIs I can gather all Tarantino related documents in which the word influence(or its many synonyms) have appeared. Then I can look for proper nouns in the vicinity of the word 'influence' which will give me a list of all people who have influenced Tarantino.
Doing the next level analysis is hard, finding the degree of influence, building a timeline graph of how Tarantino was influenced over a period of time etc.
I find the topic of extracting such graphs quite fascinating. I was thinking of doing the something similar for Prof.Snape in the Harry Potter series.
Yeah but he has a point. I can't keep cookies in my own house unless they are in a cupboard ("out of sight, out of mind") or I'll eat them late at night when I seem to have no self-control left. Meanwhile some Cinnabon locations heat up sheets of just cinnamon and brown sugar under purposely under-powered fume hoods.
This is were abstractions like religion come into play. Unfortunately it's taking awhile for them to modernize and adjust to the point where they're culturally relevant again so we can stop socially shaming people who participate in religious groups/orginaizations. But I do believe we as a society have, of late, over-zealously crusaded against the religious archetype in a rather naive stance that science will lead the way...
Yeah I'm sick of reading crap about employees being made to feel “safe“. It's patronizing.

Also, the employees at company X make +$100K per year, they're totally owning the game of capitalism and therefore life in general - They're damn safe and if they don't feel safe then they should see a shrink.
Dockerizing your Scala application
Well, entitlement is just an opinion too -- surely it's not an objective fact that someone is entitled (except we're talking about a king, an inheritance, and so on).

Specifically, it's the opinion that something must be a certain way because you want it like that.
Twitter will soon be subjected to regulations that mandate transparency to their decisions, data, and algos.
With open source OnlyOffice, move away from Google Docs and Office365
You realized that’s probably half of the startups and companies out there right?
Ahhh, sorry for the surprise. :( Best of luck!
I think many articles make the front page not because they're good, nor because they represent a 'HN consensus', but because the discussion is interesting. I at least often find myself upvoting a link because I thought the discussion was worth upvoting.

Judging by the predominantly negative comments in this thread, I think that's the case here.
It's enough having a problem with things others put out (and for free) not being to your specifications to consider it entitlement.

Besides, one can't make actual demands when they have no power.
The representation is the distillation of pattern matching. They are isomorphic.
It validates that narrative, but that must be weighed against how access to platforms allows them to influence the dominant narrative, especially where kids etc are concerned.

The YouTube recommendation engine is a far bigger culprit. It doesn't take many clicks to go from fairly innocuous, but kid-popular stuff like H3H3 or PewDiePie to one anti-sjw or cultural war video and then the recommendation engine will hand hold them right down the right wing extremism tunnel (or continually show up until they do)
Sorry dude. I have a lot of respect for those who voice non-left opinions publicly. Something I would never do myself because of the repercussions in SV. Its insane. And I would not expose my IP to any of these services either, because as we see, there are uncontrolled, bleeding-hearts who are probably not afraid and maybe feel its their duty to unmask/dox ppl.

This time period has solidified my acknowledgement for the need for true legal protections of freedom of speech, and ultimately the need for society to respect this as a whole. Something that should be ingrained in all citizens as much as possible. Before Trump, I never thought that people could go this crazy with censorship. And I somehow thought that the smart people of SV would get this...
If you are an entrepreneur in a certain field, such as deep learning, and need to stay at the bleeding edge by having people with extensive experience to bump ideas off and hire as employees or partner with, it is one of the best, if not the best, areas in the world. For example, the number of AI meetups in Silicon Valley proper is many times that of East Bay, which is a hub in its own right.

If you work in a right position for one of the tech giants in the area, the compensation you get will leave you with more savings than working in a much cheaper place with smaller salary.

Correct me if I'm wrong. I wish to have other options as well.
Or sugar because apparently we don't need fructose in our diet at all.
Or just work remotely. The vast majority of SV work does not require physical presence.
I think you might find some suitable job opportunity (with relocation) here: http://bit.ly/2yqqaGc. Good luck with your search!
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There's a huge difference between the Googler who lives at the Googleplex (with showers, cafeteria, plenty of rooms to hang out, etc.) and only sleeps in his RV and the Standford admin who has nowhere else to go than her RV.
So you are saying that if we grant our governments the awesome power of city planning (which the government already has, do you think cities are just a random collection of buildings brought up by the first person who could buy a spot of land?) what slippery slope would we go down?
Yes cars are harmful, to everyone, and they don't make a city more accessible (old people also can't drive when they start losing their sight for instance). Public transport makes cities accessible. You can live your life however you want, until you start hurting everyone else's.
It just enables you to serve pages from an ASP.NET server running locally. In the client code, you get access to nodejs apis, in the server code, you can call electron apis using the api bridge
> Look at non sw developers using computers: usually they look for keys and are slow. They are the huge majority of the market.

Citation needed. (Seriously, I was looking for statistics on that recently and couldn't find any)
So? That's a non sequitur.

Someone wanting e.g. avoiding pregnancy to rely on "physical discipline" doesn't mean they are in favor of anybody having 15 or 20 pregnancies -- just that they are in favor of people having the discipline.
Freedom of speech is an absolute. You have it or you do not.

The moment you start restricting it you don't have any. I'm from France and there is no freedom of speech here.

If you think laws made to fight against "hate speech" will stay in their current form you forget about what happened with special anti-terrorist laws. They always get applied to more and more things. What is accepted speech today can be hate speech tomorrow. Remember: the power we let good government get will also be available to shitty government later.
Thank you kzisme and webmaven and deafferret and bret and ChrisJohns and RichBrey and jacqueline and peterdavidhello and citruspi!
Somebody has to.

"Let's do X just because we can" has often lead us to more trouble than merely not doing X.

Especially when we half-understand X and what it affects.

Case in point, as others mentioned, albeit positively, Soylent.
I honestly think your comment would be much stronger if it didn't start with the viciously flawed comparison.

It was emotionally difficult for me to get past that first sentence. I otherwise agree the US Constitution, in theory is, potential, exceptionally powerful.
What I don't understand is: why do these people live in SV? I can understand tech worker staying with their big salary, but non-tech workers would live a much better life in a more "normal" place.

Then after they all move out, maybe the tech industry will figure out a way to make it livable for those people when they realise they need them too.
The Sixteen Sansakars in Hindus Describe by Dr. Puneet Chawla
The only fact in your statement is that you received threats. Rest is all your interpretation which suits your argument especially how Twitter didn't look into your matter because of your political inclination.

I am surprised that Twitter didn't react more strongly especially given your claim that you received death threats on the platform. Maybe there is something missing here too?
Sure. What's the percentage of startups in SV working on such bleeding edge technology, as opposed to e-commerce, social media, or on demand delivery?
> I have even less for closeted conservatives when I eventually find out.

> I don't tolerate bigotry, tough.

> No, I'm not going to imagine anything.

You just did, man.

I'd be afraid to express my views around you, as anything that approaches conservatism will be labeled as "Bigotry", and therefore "not tolerated".

Whos knows what opinions you are throwing under the bus. Best to not risk it.

It is perfectly rational for someone to not express their opinions around someone who is going to misinterpret them.
The point is not whether criminals are democrat or republican, the point is to weed them out either way.
I love his punch line: "We're quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.". How can we stop it ?
thanks for this comment!

A great reminder that "the way things are" often are just accepted, never questioned, even ritually enforced; all while drifting further and further from better ways.
https://www.schneems.com/

Recently his headlines have become very clickbaity... if that's any inspiration, particularly the Python one...
It’s called gardening leave in the UK
And like anything and everything this plan can fail. It is quite hard (or lucky) to pull off in fact.

Three problem with this plan is that it is very fragile.
At least in Germany there are mandatory rules. I think after 6 hours of work a 30 min break is required. It's meant to serve as an actual break between long stretches of work. Using a break to reduce your non-stop 8 hour work day to slightly less insane 7:30 hours of (at least theoretically) constant work isn't healthy.

Is this the same community that raves about sleeping breaks to incease productivity? I think this is useful regulation.
Old people and the handicapped would IMO be fine. Car free streets make street crossings a lot less scary and allow for streets that are less wide.

Those that still need it could safely use strollers and wheelchairs.

There also would likely be fewer handicapped. Allowing healthy people to drive huge four-wheel drive “wheelchairs” from the time they are 18 doesn’t make the population healthier.

I also doubt people currently live the way they want. If you ask a 40 year old with diabetes and a BMI of >30 whether they do, do they say so?

“Government of the people, by the people, FOR the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”.

Governments should shape society to make people happier. Just as with other tasks (product design, educating kids) that doesn’t mean giving them what they say they want.

Judging by things such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index, some governments are better at providing what their people want then others. Call me an optimist, but I think the top ones have been granted “that level of power”.
The 40 couples left must been really celebrating the narrow escape in 69,999 BC.
This of course ignores how truly ancient levels of CO2 would be unlivable for any modern species, like, e.g. humans.
You normally can't stall an Airbus aircraft, except in cases where the flight mode changes as it did in this situation. This was a huge part of the problem, an emergency occurred and the pilots were effectively flying an aircraft they hadn't flown before.

Fully pulling back the stick is what you'd normally do in an Airbus to gain altitude. It's guaranteed not to stall the plane.
That is entirely fair. You are not entitled to a business model, especially not to a business model that is malicious.
51% attack?
I concur. I guess those are tied to investors who live in the area and do not wish to fund startups they need to travel too far to oversee? I read that a prominent SV investor values his time at $200,000 an hour. If that's true then I guess it makes sense for some investors.
I think this highlights the need for Microsoft to open source Edge’s new rendering engine. I’d love to be able to use the renderer in .NET Core for a whole host of applications (including rendering dynamic HTML to OpenGL) but unfortunately EdgeHTML has remained closed source! With many components of the .NET stack being open sourced, and even some of the Edge stack, I had high hopes for seeing the rendering engine open sourced as well too - but no such luck.

Can anyone on the Edge team comment on this? There would be so many major use cases for this in .NET. Currently we have to use CEF but I really don’t like being forced to delegate work to Chrome - it further secures Chrome’s place as “the only browser”. Not to mention the Edge team would likely receive many benefits from open sourcing the project in the way of pull requests, even if this is a little more managerial overhead.

This has been requested on MS’ UserVoice site. Would love to see it get some love. https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-microsoft-edge-dev...

Also, what I'd love to see would be some sort of UI subsystem that all vendors target. Something built on a protocol that can be implemented in any language, and communicated to by any other language. That way all browsers' HTML renderers would target the same UI subsystem, and any UI framework could choose to either target HTML or the UI subsystem itself, as well. That UI framework (if it targets the UI subsystem) could then be run in a different context (say a JS engine running in .NET) and its output could be routed to a .NET implementation of the UI subsystem. This would allow any components built in any language to interface and work together using a common protocol, and as long as you can host the language a given UI framework is built in, you can use it to create UI elements in whatever platform you want. I see this as being THE solution to JS/web/UI stuff - there's tons of amazing developments happening there, but we can't use them in the desktop world. I'd like to see that change, and in a way that doesn't require running an entire browser inside a desktop app.
I'm OK being "instantly" terminated as long as you pay me for the duration of the notice period.
Yeah - I am not sure what the expectation is. So, going forward, every account reject needs to go through 3 approvals? Then, we will hear how Twitter is so slow tackling abuse and hate on its platform (and ftr, it is already pretty slow).
Probably in part because it was from his side business. It is a form of advertising.
If an employee feels they can deactivate Trump's account of their last day, and seeing the left lean of all top employees, I think its pretty clear what the culture is like inside the company, and that this kind of abuse is probably widespread.

If the messaging and actions from the company focused on supporting free speech, listening to all points of view, etc. then you might think otherwise. But it is clearly hostile to the right, and even publicly mulls over deleting the President's account because he supposedly bullied Kim Jong.
Windows has User-Mode Driver Framework and Kernel-Mode Driver Framework where UMDF exposes only a part of the kernel API.

KMDF drivers have to be signed with a CA that's not user installed while UMDF drivers may be.
Eminem isn’t a good example. He hates politicians and Hollywood “elites”, and Trump is both
Why wouldn't Apple have editorial control over their own private marketplace?
And yet, if you go around claiming that their are millions or hundreds of millions of Nazis these days, as many people are claiming, you'd be wrong.

The brush that people are painting about who is a Nazi is very broad, these days.
I wasn't there, so I don't know what happened, but the allegation is that Hillary said this in November 2010, when he was a free man.
No please. There's enough room to discuss incidents of actual violence. I'd like to see them, backed up by sources. It would be interesting to compare statistics.

7 celebrities talking shit does not equate a massive, unified, violent left-wing movement in the US with conspiracy-like powers and tactics to censor the right. I think the right is pretty well represented in the US.
The main downside is social. Many founders are ruining their personal lives.

(Also in consequence ruining lives of others.)

The gamble is not free at all.
Yeah, that comment started out as "anatomically modern humans" with a caveat on later interbreeding before editing; I hope the elisions were a net gain for getting the point across, if slightly less precise.
This is a willful misinterpretation of the ideas of Marxists and an underplaying of the fact that National Socialism is inextricable from genocide.
Twins beat Face ID
Can't we just make a proper, easy to use portable desktop application framework please? I really don't care what language is used so log as JS is avoidable (It can still be a compilation target so it could even be JS), and I can make a snappy desktop app that takes 10 not 100mb.

I'm not even sure which one I'm hoping for at the moment. Xamarin seems to have bet fully on mobile. Avalonia looks nice but feels like it would need some enterprise backing.
So any customer support employee has the right to disable accounts without any checks? That would be worrisome.

For context, I used to work for Google's Search Quality Evaluation team, which was in charge of removing spam from search results. No junior user could remove anything without several other people approving it, and senior colleagues were extremely diligent and meticulous. It would have been unthinkable for anybody to remove a website for personal reasons (as in this case), as seems to be the case here.
As an outsider (well, I have plenty of experience with pleasure boats/yachts, but none with large ships) it seems really extraordinary that just maintaining a heading would be a full time job.

Somehow in airplanes a single pilot manages to control not only the rudder, but throttles, ailerons, elevators, flaps and whatnot while also yakking on the radio. And airplanes zip along at 500 knots rather than 20 like a ship.
IEX has an official, documented, supported, relatively clean, and entirely free API for their market data:

https://iextrading.com/developer/docs/

It's just US stocks, and quote data is just for their exchange (and you can get the deep book if you're interested in that stuff). But they have basic company info: earnings estimates, split info, dividend info, etc. as well.
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Yes, but Twitter isn’t the government so they can’t deny someone their freedom of speech. Only the government can do that
This reminds me of the "first world problems" meme only in this instance it's more like a first world shanty town.
Nazism [0] is broadly defined as fascism with:
> Usually characterized as a form of fascism that incorporates scientific racism and antisemitism

Communism [1] is broadly defined as
> which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production

The issue that people have with Nazis is mostly the systematic racism. A better comparison is fascism to communism, which is a broader political term. It’s thrown around in an insulting way just as communism is, but without the same intent.

If you compare a modern day Marxist to a modern day Nazi it would be a better comparison

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
>What Russian hackers? What's the evidence for that. It keep getting repeated, I still haven't seen anything convincing

There have not been any alternative explanations. Crowdstrike, government intelligence agencies and Infosec professionals all agree.
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that sounds like the snooze button on my alarm clock
> He’s objectively a problematic person as a leader

This is the problem right here. You are speaking from your bubble. I don't see how people can use "objectively" for such broad declarations such as "problematic person".

The MSM is ridiculously left biased. They don't even see that they are either.

Record highs in the stock market, +3% GDP growth, low unemployment. I'm curious, how else do we measure a President?