skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And how many Indian- or Brazilian-born users went to a high school without a mascot, or grew up on a street with no name?

Was helping my (Indian) grandfather and came across a similar issue–very little applied to him. We finally got him to settle on some questions, but then when he forgot the password and went back to reset it, it kept dinging him because one of the questions was like “what was your third grade teacher’s name” and he had forgotten how he had Anglicized it.
> I am okay with 100 good post being automatically removed it if means 1 bad post is also removed.

Why? Posts on the internet are pure data. I'm okay with no posts ever being removed.
I agree

Some banks allow you to specify it it's the receiver, the sender or if the fee should be split
World's elite universities will tell you right away that as their CS student you are considered the best group they have and that math students go slower than you are, and increase your load to crazy levels. I am not going to post "unsubstantive" comments that I haven't heard at those places. As a CS student, you are expected to master (continuous) calculus, discrete calculus (discrete math proofs, hypercubes for parallel algorithms), optimization (machine/deep learning, compilers), category theory (functional programming), logic (up to automated proofs, i.e. including set theory), differential equations, topology (computational geometry, distributed algorithms), probability and statistics (reinforcement learning, queueing), number theory (cryptology), graph theory (almost everywhere)... There is no functional analysis needed yet, but it's heavily used for PhD degrees anyway. You need to know all this down to the level of proving theorems if you want to achieve anything in CS.
Those are all good points.

I guess the one part I remain a skeptic about is whether or not people are going to be ok with it, much less demand it. It feels like the underlying attitude towards policing is the sticking point - the same attitude that lets police literally get away with murder would also prevent people from demanding unarmed police.

Perhaps I overestimate how pervasive this attitude is, especially in big cities. It is definitely something I'd love to be wrong about.
Not really (though again I emphasize every school is different). At least my school doesn't teach these abstract algebra covered in Chapter 1 except in discrete mathematics, which is not offered to most engineering students.

Sure some axioms, vector spaces, some polynomial, logic, here and there would be covered in calculus, differential and linear. But large part of the content would not be part of a CS/Engineering classes. Only what is relevant.
JSFiddle has got a brand new suit
Chelsea addressed this in her post if you had read it.

"I have worked with legal counsel throughout this entire process. I have strongly considered the idea of seeking criminal charges in Germany against Jacob, but initiating lengthy legal proceedings in another country which I am neither a citizen nor a resident is a significant barrier for me. That said, I would gladly discuss this with any interested German authority and would be willing to testify in any court of law about this crime without hesitation."
> Nobody uses cheques, obviously (although they do exist).

Cheques are now mainly used for business to consumer payments, and for large value transactions, where it's done as a bank-drawn cheque usually.

The bank I use doesn't have a branch anywhere near where I live, so when I got sent a cheque a while ago I had to ask how to go about depositing it. Turns out the bank I use for my credit card will happily accept them via their ATMs which print out a receipt with a scan of the cheque.
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Wow, never heard of this. My experience has been the exact opposite. Even though I've built tons of Ikea furniture I've always considered it disposable. Most of it is not made to last a single move. Some of them might survive if you disassemble them before hand. I've been proud to have built it but that pride never translated to any attachment.
This claim is preposterous.
> I don’t feel like I’m saying FU at all. My perspective is that I spent over 15 years in a house that I initially took a risk on. I helped build the neighborhood and community and schools that made it a nice place to live. And, now people who didn’t have to do all that work want to live here cheaply. And, they’re trying to use government and political power to force me to give up what I’ve helped build. Why is that fair?

You are not the owner of the community you help produce. In fact, every renter that lived in your area also contributed to that community and for their favor they were slapped with higher rents. Are you personally going to pay renters for their contributions to the community?

> As I’ve said in the past, No one is addressing the demand side of this issue. Make places less attractive, demand goes down, and prices go down. There are huge swaths of the US other than San Francisco that are in dire need of industry and people. Why not encourage companies and people to move to those places?

Why not encourage landlords to leave, by the same logic? Renters in the end are actually more people that landlords, so by simply trying to benefit the majority might as well punish landlords, right?

> Also, the elephant in the room is foreign buyers. I looked through SF tax records the other day. I picked a random street, and most of the homes were owned by foreign trusts. Why not try to stop that first?

You can stop all things together buy allowing to build more. Not only that, you could also use Land Value Tax to replace income tax, and eliminate income tax and sales tax. You could remove prop 13, rent control and mortage interest deductions from income, and it would make taxes simpler, easier and would stop speculation, would stop landlords wanting to keep 100 year old unsafe houses with mold, etc.
"Unless you live under a rock, you're aware of the controversy about armed police response in the US."

Not an American here - what is the controversy?
Wow this is awesome.

'High frequency modulated video signal is generated internally (via I2S/DMA) and all you need is a single piece of wire to play antenna. Even though it's extremely weak, it can still be picked up on your TV in the same room.'
First, you should internalize that your happiness is far more important than how much money you make. If you could give all your money away to be happy forever, you certainly should, even though it means you are broke and homeless.

With that in mind, the most important thing for you to do is to find a great community. You should really move to somewhere where people have similar interests with you so you can bond with them and form great relationships. You could maybe have long distance friendships, but they will never be the same as living within minutes of people you really love and want to spend time with. It's OK to spend a lot of money making that happen, because this will most likely increase your happiness more than anything else you can do.

Finding a "direction" or purpose is probably very important to your wellbeing as well (this is supported by evidence-- people who say they feel like they have a purpose in life are subjectively happier on the average). What do you really care about? What do you think is important in the world? Find a way to spend time moving that forward. For example, I like spending time on lots of different things-- coding, making art, making music, cooking, etc etc. but I need to decide how to spend each minute of my life so I just picked a metric I wanted to optimize for-- the net happiness on earth. Now if I feel directionless I just ask "Well what would help make the most people the most happy" and I can start heading in some kind of direction. It works well because the metric is really exciting and important to me. Another way would be to ask yourself "In 100 years, how do I want to be remembered?" or something of that sort. Just find a way to answer the question "what is my purpose in life" and you should be set for a while.

Those 2 big things are worth trying. But there's also lots of little things. For me exercise has a huge influence on how happy I feel on a given day-- if I exercised in the morning or the day before, I'm usually much happier. Eating good food has a significant impact for me as well. Talking to friends and spending time in nature are some more. Try out a bunch of that sort of day-to-day happiness/well-being advice and pay attention to what makes you feel good and make sure to do that often, ideally daily or weekly.
Life Is Not a Journey – Alan Watts [video]
No discussion of rogue would be complete without mentioning Rog-O-Matic. It was a bot that easily outplayed most humans.

You could watch the bot play in real time. It would give you status as to what it was doing. E.g. when it was wounded and in danger of dying, it would flash "Run Away!" to tell you what its current strategy was.

It was easy to connect Rogue-O-Matic to rogue; simply a matter of stdin and stdout. That was the simplicity of Unix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rog-O-Matic
I wonder whether mov-oriented programming would a useful obfuscation technique for malware authors. I'd assume that typical disassemblers are not very helpful.
If you've tried the new iPad Pro with Apple Pencil then you'll have your answer. It's fantastic for sketching and taking notes - the new display eliminates all lag between the stylus and the screen.

It is an expensive solution for sure, but as that kind of technology becomes cheaper, the use case you describe for paper will be reduced as well.
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From macroeconomic perspective it does not matter if the monetary supply is fixed or just pre-defined, it is equally bad idea. If you want to have a currency that society runs on, that is.
Almost all of our furniture is from IKEA and I built all myself. I enjoyed the "building" part very much. I hate the furniture though. Generic shitty stuff.
Banks still take them. I remember shops in my area starting to refuse them about 2000.
Posts on the Internet may be pure data, but that doesn't give support for why they should never be removed.

IRL analogy: the dog shit that my neighbor throws onto the sidewalk is pure matter. Just atoms and molecules and such. Should it not be removed?

EDIT: Not that I agree with the 100 sacrificial removals for each good one. I don't. But the "pure data" argument doesn't work for me.
What is the best domain name ? According to my research .ch or .li are the best for privacy, do you have more alternatives ?
I'd add another reason: the pleasure of crafting and learning. LEGO for adults.
The most absurd/invasive thing that tech platforms do
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visit online grade calculator website like.
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A Course in Networks and Markets [pdf]
The police cannot shoot someone to save a car, even in America. They would however be allowed to shoot if they had a "reasonable fear" that their lives were in danger.

The question is why are American cops so much more likely to find themselves in these situations?

I think first and foremost Americans are just a more wild and criminal people. Our murder rate is much higher in general. So there are going to be many more situations that really do justify the use of force. You can't change this easily.

But the police take the real threat and hype it up. American cops do have to fear someone shooting them. But the police take that fear and train as if they are going to be under fire at any moment.

I've seen a police training simulator made by a major weapons company. The simulator had a scenario where the office spoke to a homeless man with his hand in a bag. You were supposed to make him show his hands. At the end the man points the bag at the office and shoots a gun hidden in the bag. It's a ridiculous scenario and it is designed to teach the office to fire his weapon because someone MIGHT have a weapon.

The cops are basically taught to shoot first and ask questions later.

The public isn't outraged because most of the people who get killed where already playing with fire. It is taking the publicizing of these instances were innocent people die to get people to notice.
What a useful breakdown!

It seems like the narrow definition of “explicit” that the author uses is equivalent to “deterministic”. If that’s true, then “explicit” could always be replaced with a more precise alternative.
I'd say my mother's full maiden name is pretty hard to find (I am not American) -- until, of course, someone finds it in one of the breached database dumps. If I were indeed using her name.
> However on the internet with regards to what normally amounts to pointless shit that people post on the internet. I am okay with 100 good post being automatically removed it if means 1 bad post is also removed.

If you don't like Internet then just get off it!

You probably never noticed, but some people have this thing called self-actualization. By removing good posts you step on it with your greasy foot. By removing controversial posts you also step on it. That's a lot of damage that you did to innocent people right here.

We've got to get off HTTP just that people like you never have the chance to step into other people's homes, decide what they can and can't post and view.
Are there cities where the majority of the people has off-street parking at night? I would be surprised if that were the case, at least here in Germany.
The key difference is the easy availability in the US. It seems to me that the GPs are eager to prescribe you some opiates, whereas here in the Czech Republic they would have to go through quite a lot red tape to do that. Which, given the potential harm, seems like a good idea. (Even though we do have some problems with opiates not being used often enough. But compared to the US situation that’s a great problem to have.)
GPS Tracking Stands on One Level with Data Privacy and Security: Fact or Myth
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Extensions/addons makes working on browser easier and efficient. What chrome extensions you use to stay productive?
Looks like you got of easy.
They are disposable because of the low price, but they are sturdy. I own several Ikea furniture for nearly two decades, and they have done just fine even after being abused. Most pieces survive moving, with or without dissassembly. I do not remember losing any piece if not for getting tired of it, and giving it away or selling it.

Bigger pieces like big cupboards can be more fragile, but nearly any other brand would also be fragile - except maybe massive wood pieces, very heavy and not able to be dissassembled, and very expensive by comparisson.
I don't take adderall, but I'm not too convinced by the concerns listed here. The drug seems far less risky than alcohol on all counts, and I'm pretty sure all amphetamine users are aware that their playing with some sort of fire.

I think the compelling question is why people feel so compelled to take a pill to sell their souls to a rat race? Seems like an almost Huxleyan Prisoner's Dilemma to me.
You should exercise alot more.
But the argument you responded to was that more guns were related to more gun deaths. You might as well have countered any tangential "argument".
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That's it, for me.
send to kindle

OneTab

AdBlock

Google Dictionary

Wappalyzer

Adobe HDS / HLS video saver

LastPass
The reason it is a low cost and zero tax place is because a lot of people do not want to live there. You pay for what you get. So a bit of tax and expenses will get you living in a more vibrant, stimulating place. That is why lots of people prefer to the cities.

Being frugal is a trap. You don't want to be Scrooge McDuck. Better to have a bit less money and far more fun.
That’s not addressing it. At all.

Rape is serious crime. It is therefore an ‘Offizialdelikt’, which means that it must be prosecuted if the Staatsanwaltschaft knows about it, and once they know about it, it becomes their case.

Not pursuing this through the criminal justice system because you can’t be bothered, but instead resorting to public defamation instead is at best fishy, because in the context of an Offizialdelikt, the distinction she draws doesn’t make sense.
I'm not sure what you mean by "hpme" - do you mean "home"?

If so, I suspect you're just commenting without basis, and have no actual inkling what this content is really like.

I work for a large internet company, and have to deal with some of this as a tangential part of my role. Trust me, there is stuff that most normal people would never even want to go near. (No, I'm not talking some angry rants, or some naughty pictures).

I'm all for freedom of speech and all - but I have no qualms about this stuff being flagged as inappropriate and put behind a filter. If you really want to find this stuff, you can - there are communities and chat groups trading in it - you wouldn't have much trouble finding it. But I would posit that most people that want this stuff are actively looking for it, versus wanting to see it on their Facebook or Google+ feed.
If you support bad posts being removed from the internet, do you also support bad text being removed from people's hard drives? What about bad thoughts being removed from people's minds?
Unless the regular American is from a low income household and can not afford bail. For example: Kalief Browder.
It's one less statistic for government busy-bodies to obsess over reducing or optimizing at the behest of conflict peddlers.
Chrome Extensions I use -

Onetab - to manage multiple tabs

Wappalyzer, Whatruns - to find technologies used on website.

Alexa, Similarweb - to find popularity of a website.

Pocket - for bookmarking
There doesn't seem to be any point to this discussion for GP to miss because the premise was plainly incorrect. As multiple people have pointed out, Android itself is completely independent from proprietary services. If you buy a Google-flavored Android device (which is a spectrum itself), your device will come with proprietary services on it. That doesn't mean you have to use them, nor does it mean you have to have a Google-flavored Android build. You're free to use apps that use Pushy or some other third party push messaging service, OpenStreetMap or some other map provider, Bing or some other search provider, Fastmail or some other mail provider, etc.
Ray Dalio runs his entire business based on best idea wins. He even has custom software to facilitate it.

That's not to say that everyone runs the company. Tay runs the company but he is armed with the best his team has to offer.
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Heh, I had soft-modded the original Xbox via the plug-the-running-harddrive-into-another-system trick. XBMC ran great on it for a while, until one day popping in a new game disc it auto-updated the dashboard and un-modded itself :(
tl;dr security questions are insecure because most questions are flawed (like what's your mother’s maiden name)
Because Bitcoin used to work, and now it doesn't. Bitcoin Cash scales appropriately.
I felt extremely sad on taking Adderall and other similar stimulant medications like Ritalin.

Maybe the sadness effect would have gotten less with continuing the medicine, but overall, I didn't feel like taking drugs since they cause a lot of other side effects like insomnia.

Now I've been able to control my ADHD successfully. Atleast upto the point that it has stopped affecting my life and career so much.

a) 0 sugar in diet. Not even fruits.
b) Try to sleep for atleast 8-9 hours a day.
c) Drink lots of water throughout the day
d) Exercise and no junk food.
e) Have got an accountable job. Leading a software team so I know that procrastination will hurt me in the long run, so forced to do stuff on time.
> Cheques are now mainly used for business to consumer payments,

I vaguely remember a couple of times years ago (late 2000s, I think) I had a cheque sent to me, but it was done electronically in most cases. Point taken though.

> and for large value transactions, where it's done as a bank-drawn cheque usually.

True, but a bank cheque is a different thing altogether.
I would expect that social media websites whose content is largely decided democratically (via votes, shares, or the like) would relegate the majority of this content to a place where it is not seen by many. I would argue that the best way to handle this issue is to let the sites mechanisms deal with the content accordingly and then focus efforts on developing processes that will be able to detect and remove it automatically.

The article implies that they are forcing moderators to view the content at a high clip. Why, so as to get false positives back online as quickly as possible? Maybe moderators should only review content that reaches a certain threshold of complaint, and other content is left as is?
I must say that I have never experienced this effect. We own many furniture items from IKEA but I’d sell them (and have sold) on the spot.

For me, the effect is somehow even reversed: I try to avoid IKEA as hard as I can because I feel assembling the items is not the worth the time.
> -"wiring" money between european bank accounts is free (and not called wiring, not sure what in english though), for as long as I remember. It's not some special type of transaction, it's the main way to pay bills, get salary, pay each other, ...

Many business accounts in Europe do charge per transaction however
It's an enormous leap in logic to go from things removed from public forums to private hard drives, let alone one's mind. The fact that creating boundaries is a difficult and messy business does not mean they're not worth creating, even with the flaws.
> There are reasonable arguments to be made that climate models are inaccurate or may not make the predictions claimed

Please, can you link some sources of those reasonable arguments?
This public shaming without any police report is really troubling. A woman can totally derange a mans life with zero evidence. Either you feel you have been violated, and then you go to the police, or you keep it to yourself.

This "trial by twitter" that's going on at the moment is disgusting. A person is supposed to be presumed innocent, and then the alleged victim has his or her day in court. With this, the alleged perpetrator is assumed guilty, and he doesn't get a day in court.

She writes:
"I thought Jacob was a friend and engaged in consensual sexual relations with him during those three days. It took me five months to process and understand that Jacob had violated my trust and my body."

I'm sorry, that's not rape. If you give consent, you can't take it back months after the fact. How is a guy supposed to know what will happen months into the future? By this standard, any male can without knowing he has violated a girl suddenly be accused of rape on fucking twitter or medium? WTF?

Hopefully, there's more to her story than that text. What I can read, is that she didn't do a police report, but instead tries to destroy the guys life without any trial, she just decided that he is guilty. From that, it seems like she has put pressure on conferences, his PhD advisors and organizations to destroy him.

She assumes no personal responsibility, it's always the guys fault. She writes that he "pushed his sexual agenda" multiple times. Why the fuck did she not just walk away? That's not victim shaming, since I'm not saying she deserved to be "raped", I'm just saying she put herself in a stupid situation, and taking zero responsibility. Swap the genders of that text, and no-one would bat an eye.

Seriously, at this point, why would any man have anything to do with women, workplace or otherwise? Look at this story, she calls men that are interested in women for "sexual predators"? How is a future husband and wife supposed to meet?
Or even better: commit to build renewable capacity to cover their customers to avoid that the “green” energy is simply taken away from the power mix of everyone else