skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly never said that was "my method".

I disagree that we can tell most of the time. I think we can't tell most of the time. Most Americans couldn't tell in the 60s- about 33% of the country had a favorable view of MLK. Most Germans couldn't tell in the 30s. And so on and so on. If we were any good at tellint, then evil wouldn't be so scary!

My point is that here you are again, in a similar situation to those, saying the exact same sorts of things the people who were wrong in those circumstances said. It's possible we're not in that kind of situation, but I hope that you realize that (a) some of the things that you're upset about (educated people pushing some ideas out of their institutions; radicals and communists protesting in the streets; highly charged and accusatory language) were the exact same sorts of things the people who ended up being wrong in those circumstances were upset about, and (b) historically, people sympathetic towards these bad ideas or unsympathetic to their opponents could not tell the difference in their own times.
I think it's important to note that women's issues in different cultures are often very different, and if you start diagnosing one culture's issues with the yardstick of another, you will cause a lot of false positives and negatives.

For instance, India, where the author comes for, is often celebrated for having had a 1) female prime minister all the way back in the 60s 2) a female president 10 years ago, and lots of women in the three pillars of democracy. Compared to the US, that makes India look like a bastion of women's rights.

But anyone who's lived there will obviously tell you that women there have their own set of problems. And in fact, when it comes to the president and the prime minister too, some would argue that they were instated as 'puppets' (Google for "Indira Gandhi dumb doll"). It's a different matter that she towered above all that and developed an identity of her own.
> Open question I still have - what is the "geometric interpretation" of the transpose operation? A^T?

AFAIK, there is not a solid geometric interpretation. Part of the trouble is that the transpose can change the shape of the matrix.

For example, for a vector the transpose turns it into a matrix outputting a single number. These two objects seem to be rather incomparable geometrically.

The best intuition I have for transposition is that it represents a time reversal (but not necessarily an inverse). In the case of a vector, you have to think of it as a linear transformation that maps 1 to that vector. The transpose instead maps that vector to its length squared. I have more vague intuition for the why its length squared and how it relates to projections, but its hard to put into words.

With rotation matrices, this time reversal results in the inverse. So essentially rotation/skewing is reversed, but scaling is not.
I encourage you to check out https://hdtracks.com. As far as the expense goes, yes you're right it's a drag. One thing I like to do is buy used CD's on ebay or Amazon (usually about half price from a reseller, or even cheaper from private sellers) and rip them to flac.
To be clear I am not saying they’re wrong. It’s like being told to recycle everything in a magazine that is full of adverts funded by the toxic waste industry. Yes, I agree with recycling (and do so myself) but it’s hard to trust the source. I guess this is more of an idea than an organisation though, so I hope they will do some good and wish them luck.
I do believe that most parents who give their children the time and freedom to grow up are very aware of risks like those you mentioned, but they'd rather take that slim chance than raising a child that, in a way, may be crippled for life.

At the end of the day it's just weighing a bunch of different risks and outcomes against each other. Different people come to different conclusions about "what is best" and there can be no definitely right or wrong approach - not unless people could agree on what they actually wanted to achieve/raise.
That's just one example. There are all sorts of lists like "Notable people from X city" that get pretty ridiculous.
How to code (JS). Coming from a business/sales background, I'd love to have the ability to build my ideas.
Hunt Minotaur lol
Or the astroturfing was automated, and didn't expect to catch literally barack obama. However yes, I agree a comment system is not equivalent to a democratic forum.
>"How do you know what they paid?"

It's well known that artists get paid less than 1 cent for a stream [1]. Do the math with the figures they mentioned in those ads. Now look at the ad rates for the New York City subway stations.[2]

>"They're not using someone else's art for these statistics."

When you are an artist and you write songs, those songs belong to you. So yes they are using somebody else's art.

[1] https://www.spin.com/2013/12/spotify-details-royalty-payouts...

[2] http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/1...
This is not correct (or at any rate is oversimplified). A rotation matrix can represent any arbitrary path through the space of possible rotations (SO(3)) by smoothly varying parameters. There is no inherent “gimbal lock” or the like.

In general I would recommend avoiding Euler angles as a formal representation of rotations. There are several choices of better representations, some of which are described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_formalisms_in_three_d...
Yeah, I've seen something similar done to the art budgets, but hiding memory from programmers is impossible if they had any clue, especially on PS2/Xbox (32M/64M RAM). You could read .map in 5 minutes and see anything suspicious. Same with delay loops - good luck with that.
Though I've observed some "miraculous" recoveries due to utter idiocy. E.g. a PS2 game using double floats (because your time calculations will break after few hours with a 32-bit float, duh!). The CPU had 0 double support so they were all done in software and the library with it was rolled into the standard math lib. Or some incredibly misguided GPU programming done to a "non-lead SKU". Nobody notices that one system runs 5 times slower than another until it's close to shipping and you try to bring it to QA.
The article confirmed my suspicion from the headline, that this was a "failsafe" and on some level at least working as intended. I'm sure there are lots of lessons to learn here, but at least one to be reinforced is the concept and proper implementation of defensive failsafes is critical to overall system safety.
I think there are a MILLION of different things you can use for this type of information. I don't like Confluence much, but it does work.

Best app is probably an internal Wiki. Works extremely well, easy to setup, searchable, etc.. etc..

I think that was always my favorite. But don't store passwords here. Use a secure PW manager. Sometimes you can even link to it from the Wiki.

My issue has always been the bulletin-board type of things. "Client XYZ expressed concern about this. Let's make sure we're sensitive to this."

I've rarely seen companies even make an attempt at spreading this type of info, and the ones that have have not thought of a good solution. No, sending emails to the entire department is not a solution.
Denmark have reasonable competition.
Exactly for the reason you assumed. A small ISP just rents the cabel.
I suspected something like that from the beginning
You're right about some of the ads touching the individual level, but if they're following any "best practices" in their data models, those individuals are likely just unique identifiers.

Granted, everything I'm saying is most certainly speculation. There could most certainly be some folks scouring this data with insensitive intentions. I'm just pointing out that that there are actual technical AND practical limitations to doing such reporting effectively.
I don't think it's clear from the article what information the CIA specifically provided, nor whether the use of Telegram by the suspects was discovered by Russian intelligence before or after the tip.
Piketty showed in Capital that most modern work about the trends in economic inequality was flawed. We usually think of the industrial revolution and modern era as periods where power and wealth became much more fairly distributed. However, if you go far back enough into the records, as he did, you can see a clear trend of concentration of wealth even now in the current system. The trend was briefly disrupted by the two world wars which were so destructive to our economies. The necessary reconstruction led to massive wealth redistribution and evened the playing field somewhat.

It seems that the graphs in this tweet are another confirmation of Piketty's observation.
Garage door openers frequently operate at 433MHz, very likely your neighbor was hitting the button as they left?
Users flagged this...? Really HN? :/ It's difficult enough to have a conversation about this stuff already. Thanks for unflagging it, dang.

Now, serious question: Are there women here who have a counter to this article? I do know a few who got into tech through specialized programs such as "<Project> Girls", but I also know many (possibly more) who have been turned off by the constant.. uhm, patronizing feel to them.

I'm not a woman, nor am I a minority (not in tech at any rate), so I can't confirm or deny whether it actually is patronizing when in that position. It sure feels to me like it is: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQ3iqzTVoAANW7X.jpg:large

No offense to React.js Girls, I've not actually heard anything negative about it in particular. But ... am I crazy to think it's incredibly rude to put so much emphasis on gender (or really, anything)? Like, if these events were about skin color, sexual orientation or religion in place of gender, who here would find this appropriate?

I should also say, I was invited to help volunteer at a local Django Girls event a few years back. I turned it down because it sounded a little creepy to me to have an event be run only by men, that invites only women. (Note: this is obviously not the case all the time; it was in the instance I was invited to.)

So, what am I missing here? Obviously I'm missing something because, whenever I see this opinion getting expressed, it gets downvoted or, in this case, flagged.
Thankyou for the thoughful reply. (I'd have replied sooner, but of course I'm throttlebanned, because that post was downvoted and now I can't defend it - which is kinda a good example of how things are wrong here)

I'm not arguing about putting "most important things first".

I think that intellectual curiosity is very important. But I think that people are using the HN rules to push agendas, they are good at it, and I don't think that is the same as "intellectual curiosity".

Take that Rwanda thing. It's pretty clear that the parent comment isn't just indulging in "intellectual curiosity". They are playing the whole "escalation of opposition" game: "oh, maybe hate speech doesn't lead to violence" -> "there aren't enough studies showing it does" -> "it's not really a problem" -> "you are a problem for opposing hate speech".

Even in this very thread we see this same behavior:

Justifying downvote: "you told people to look up a topic but did not provide any link as a recommended starting point" (which is fine) https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jlg23

But then: "I am actually very familiar with the topic and I am thus aware that one can find many, seemingly contradictory, sources" (Oh, look at that! Someone who rejects clear evidence which doesn't agree with their views)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15947869

When you say "some of the ideas he thinks are bad are promoted and grow on HN" I don't know what ideas you're talking about. But if you mean ideological ideas, yes, they certainly crop up here, but I don't believe they're growing here.

I think the Damore essay is a good example of something which would be an upvoted comment here.

Or quotes like this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOfLPY5VAAAw7cC.jpg:large (which was on the Naomi Wu story.)
The income by the inheritor was never earned. Hence it's perfectly logical to tax it.
The tragedy here cannot be overstated. The truth itself has been demonized by people who claim to be "just speaking the truth" when they lie, and people who can't see through it and believe it's ok to sacrifice truth on the altar of their ideology.
We're going to release Lad beta soon (uses Koa), https://lad.js.org. Right now our tests use ava, which runs in parallel. Feel free to join our Slack.
Can't read the post, because of the paywall, but I have witnessed (almost?) exactly this thing.

Once, when I lived in Germany, a self-inflicted SNAFU had me receiving hospitality from my neighbours, whose young daughter was camped on the living room floor, because she had not been allowed to go to her school's campout. The poor child even got evicted from there, because of me.

On the one hand I thought the parents were being a bit "helicopter". But it also seemed very natural to me. As a South Asian, I find this this is just the way parents usually behave, and always have. And indeed one of the parents in this case was also Asian (though not South Asian).
Why do you tax income? That's a disincentive to be productive, that's not good - we want people to be productive.

Taxing wealth is basically paying a rent to the society that allows that wealth to exist. Your land in manhattan is only worth $10m because society hasn't gone all Syrian. Your copyright holding over your film is only worth anything because we don't let people freely copy it.

When the wealth is owned by the people who aren't productive, you have a problem. It may be that those that are productive Leave and move elsewhere - who runs your hospital/golf course/power station then.

It may be that the productive say "enough is enough" and decide to invent the guileteen.

Either way when people have less to lose than you, it's a dangerous place to be.
Something I've noticed after 10 years in tech/finance is that there are very, very few western women in engineering roles. I think I've only ever worked with 1 woman who wasn't an Eastern European or Asian immigrant (and yeah, I eventually married one of the immigrant ones).

The gender gap is purely cultural, and we should be learning from what those cultures are doing that's different than us. This article really hits the nail on the head in terms of what we do in the west (ie: "math is for boys!") vs other places where your sex isn't really factored into what subjects are appropriate. It's very good.
I would consider what you say as good judgement.
I believe the point is that separate cannot be equal.
Well, it depends on how you reckon REST. I can assure you the real world issues I've run into don't have anything to do with the frameworks used. The impedance mismatch between what one would consider a sane API that could just as easily be implemented as a compiled library and the mappings of that API to HTTP verbs and what is considered proper REST were where the problems were.

My question would be, outside of convenience to SPA developers, what do you see as the specific advantages to REST over XML/JSON RPC or SOAP?
So you would be in favor of taxing someone's social security or charitable receipts - since the benefits are not earned?
"It is not a question if web turns into cable tv, it already has."

Not really. With cable, different providers have different channel packages, based on negotiated deals with the channel owners. Sometimes people with one cable service will lose access to a channel they like just because of a dispute over a contract renewal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_(broadcasting)

Thankfully such things do not happen on the web, at least not yet. People are upset about net neutrality because they fear that will actually happen (and mistakenly believe that is the worst case -- I am more concerned about the even worse things ISPs might do, like blocking VPN services, or only allowing devices that are "compatible" with their service e.g. by requiring people to install a special app, etc.)
Maybe the rear lights has something to do with it, could be a faulty light oscillator for led if you are using one
I think they where talking not about tbills, guilts or consols but riskier shares
Tell HN: AMAFeed spamming HN users
I am receiving unsolicited e-mail from "AMAFeed". The post they are referencing simply says "Nothin has changed..." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15919367)

Here is the e-mail:

https://imgur.com/a/jw4nj
Well, faced with all this suspicion and negativity, what incentive would anybody have to present their photos to the public? And so let's just scrap this whole incident at the airport. No pictures, no video, no UFO. There is still a substantial body of photographic, video, expert reliable witness accounts of unexplained phenomena happening in our skies going back decades. The government's chief skeptic guy that headed up Blue Book eventually changed his mind over the years in the face of this relatively small but very reliable subset of witness accounts [0].

The vast majority of people are looking at Venus or the moon or streetlights or drunken hallucinations. But we don't care about those people. We care about the 0.0003% (or whatever) of people that check all the boxes on a long list of reliability factors. And yet, that still isn't good enough for some people, because of the hugely negative pseudoscience context that this carries with it. "It's folklore!" In fact, I'll assert that a strange enough advanced aircraft could fly nuclear weapons over this country, and until our pilots shot it out of the sky and spread the wreckage across three states, it would hardly get any attention because of the context this subject carries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Allen_Hynek#Change_of_opini...
> I feel bad about not being able to find a way to let the author know that her article is currently being discussed on HN

Her Twitter is in the site's footer, FYI.
All the countries are present throughout the 700m band.
I think you mean capital not income
> I'd imagine it just would try to maximize utility -- remaining undetected in all scenarios may come with its own costs and risks.

That's true, and there could be "rogue actors" who care less about the detection. But - again, borrowing the X century analogy - there's a lot of tools that can be employed to eliminate the witnesses and such.
Show HN: Collect v8 test coverage in Node.js
I have not experienced this. How does it play out in real life? Can you give some examples?
The "starve the beast" strategy has crippled our government. If this were the early post WWII era we'd have major government projects to do this kind of infrastructure and do it well.
There's also the case where an email seemingly had a physical distance limit :
https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
> artists get paid less than 1 cent for a stream

Spotify pays 70 to 85% of its revenues to music labels as royalties [1]. The problem isn’t with Spotify. It’s in the contracts between the labels and artists.

[1] https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-revenues-topp...
It would be, if it were ads for ISP peering, or bundled network access, or promoting anti-network neutrality stance.

As it is now, you're just trying to derail a conversation into irrelevant nitpicking. If anything, your motives should be suspect.
On the other hand, computers can pay attention to many things at once. We are terrible at that.

It seems a human augmented with computers should be the first step before any kind of full autonomy.
But the engine speed doesn't change until you lift the clutch. So if this were due to the RPM, putting it in reverse while stationary surely wouldn't do anything in particular.
Quoting article:

> I come from a country and a back ground where intelligence and the ability to work extremely hard is valued highly, with beauty, money and popularity ranked far, far below. Growing up as a South Indian in Mumbai, neither me, not anyone I know or grew up with, has ever had to defend their choice of or fight an uphill battle while selecting engineering as a career choice, regardless of their sex.

I come from the different country but I've got few Indian colleagues. We're talking a lot because I've been always interested in cultural differences. From what they said I feel like above sentence is not true. Male's role in the society is to become an engineer and bring money. Female's - to get married and raise kids. Society's expect you to fit in your role and it's difficult to do something else without tons of comments from your family and friends. One example could be a male colleague who's interested in cooking and wish he could open a restaurant. Yet, he's an engineer. Another one says he didn't really have a choice - he could be an engineer or nobody so, obviously, he choose to be an engineer.

Could anyone confirm how does the reality look like? Maybe it differs by region. It's a big country after all.
Is this the one you're referring too?

http://www.umuc.edu/academic-programs/bachelors-degrees/comp...
First they would have to buy enough crypto, which will drive up prices, and they’d had to wait for prices to go up to gain any benefits. 3rd, the US will probably start some heavy regulations on it as it could start to pose a national security issue
Just did this yesterday, and eventually found it was the neighbours one that was flat. It’s the 3rd time I’ve knocked on a neighbours door (different people each time) to ask them to take a battery out an alarm. I’d consider it a feature if they combusted after alarming for a day.
Project Amiga Juggler (2010)
On account of the vastness of the Pacific ocean, there's broad scope for the antipodeal intersection to be outside of any nation state.

Someone (Charles Darwin's son George?) proposed that the Pacific basin was a consequence of the moon being spun off from the Earth, but plate tectonics put an end to that theory.

https://imgur.com/r/Mapporn/QDeiIpc

http://lunarorigin.com/lunar-origin-models/
I feel bad about not being able to find a way to let the author know that her article is currently being discussed on HN

Her twitter account is linked at the bottom of her page - https://twitter.com/iyermallika
Wonder if a full battery with a resistor in series would prolong the agony.
The Linux support of Pine64 was terrible when it came out. Is this still the case?

I bought one without looking too closely into it after seeing it mentioned somewhere online by someone who said it was cheap and it was ARM64. Only after it'd arrived did I learn that it had very poor Linux support. I've got mine laying around without ever having bothered to even boot it due to this.

For example, here's a key quote from what Hackaday had to say about the Linux support of the Pine64:

> The Ubuntu experience was tremendously slow on the Pine64 and I suffered several reboots. As of this writing, I have tested all of the software distributions on the Pine64 wiki. Only the Ubuntu distribution works poorly, and right now I consider the Pine64 to be a waste of $15.

https://hackaday.com/2016/04/21/pine64-the-un-review/

Has Linux support improved recently? Anyone here doing anything useful with a Pine64?
Seems like the neighbors home security system should have a log of which sensor is tripped. Once you know that it should be pretty easy to figure out what is going on.