skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My gut feeling is(was) that C++ is a first class citizen on OpenBSD. Its interesting having my beliefs challenged like this from someone so influential.

The question becomes; if its not C++, then what is the first class citizen on OpenBSD. And if it is C++ then how do we improve support? Just going to ports seems like a poor answer.
Does skype allow this? I can barely find new conversations in skype let alone look for old ones.
These guys would never hire you with such poor sight.
Moreover, it is a very dim-witted program. sub-2% chance of a reward? Take a sick day and lose elgibility? Welcome to an environment of malicious compliance, UA.
We've banned this account for provoking a senseless flamewar and having a trollish username.

Please don't create accounts to break the site guidelines with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is there a correlation between "do their job" and "learning the latest thing"? I've often heard that the best advice is to use the most boring/stable tools which tend not to be the latest and the greatest but which focus on getting the job done.
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How does this handle plotting huge dataset? E.g. 500000 points?

Is Windows version somewhat on the roadmap? E.g. For mingw-bash or cygwin?
You add in the word "foreign" for no apparent reason. What makes you think the EU is targeting FB for being American? I see no proof of this. Size, sure, but the EU also has many regulations for the internal market. For example, we actually have net neutrality, and there's now regulations to limit roaming charges.
Some video poker machines with jackpots can actually end up becoming +EV, or in other words you win money (in the longrun) with each play. The immediate payout rate for many of these machines is already quite high with a house edge < 1% given optimal play, so in other words on a $100/play game you'd really be losing less than a dollar per play on average even without any additional incentives. Factor in hotel comps, and it can be +EV even without jackpots. Wagering $100k would only be a house edge of ~$800.
I'm wondering, as well, if no archival leads to freer discussion with less fear of saying something stupid that will live forever. And if that's worth anything. Maybe it depends too on whether Slack is used strictly as an impartial way to coordinate professional communication, or if it is also social and informal, which the parent article has some interesting points in favor of.
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If machine is learning who’s teaching?
If machine is learning from examples, who’s teaching?
Ha! We got the exact same message. Really weird getting a glimpse of that part of the internet.
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We've banned this account for engaging in the worst kinds of flamewar. That's not allowed here, and you've done it repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> We can say that Chinese are more likely to be shorter than africans.

whats a chinese? whats an african? and what is it about those categories that makes it necessary for you to speak in probabilities and not certainties? if those categories accurately described features of reality, and were not mere artifacts that stem from your worldview, you would be able to rigorously tell me a relationship between gene(s) and features.

> Race is defined by a combination of genetics in the form of phenotypes and culture.

> for how you test for a race the answer is that's pretty easy, 99% of the time you can just ask someone and they will tell you.

exactly, its a made up category, i.e. not a real thing.

> We can prove this through cluster analysis, where you take a sample set of people and first ask them what race they are from a set number of selections. They then can read SNPs from each of the participants and hand that to a computer without the self reported data the people provided.

you can do the same thing for things like "hippie", "biker", "nerd" etc. it doesn't make those categories leave the intersubjective realm.
The argument they’ve made is that they are targeting FB and not their competitors. If true, it has many possible abusive implications, one of the common ones being protectionism. It might not be that, but it is a huge red flag that it could be that.
The shift away from coal to gas started a long time ago and was driven by costs more than anything else.
Compatible with Firefox Reader View: https://pastebin.com/raw/hZ32q3Rv
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I doubt it's that. It's more likely that it's a combination of low quantity of software/tech jobs and low quality ones. "All" the people with any talent leave for places where these things aren't true.
Not a huge fan of Blogger. There have been quite a few instances that I've linked to below where Google has taken down blogs for no apparent reason. I don't want to give someone else control over my content.

https://www.vox.com/2016/7/30/12303070/dennis-cooper-blog-de...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/feb/11/google-deletes...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/artist-loses-14-yea...
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This is a super interesting piece of behavioral economics in action.

We know from Prize Linked Savings Accounts that people prefer a really small change of winning a lot to a really high chance of winning a little. [0] [1]

> The new program replaces that system with a lottery. If United meets its goals, all employees would have a chance to win prizes, including Mercedes automobiles and cash up to $100,000. About 1.6 percent of employees would win something.

If I recall, there was a study that showed that people were happier when given a paid vacation than when given an equivalent bonus.

[0] http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/08-061_17c22e...

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016726811...
$100,000 is way better than $1,500, right? Knowing the airline industry, this is a cost-cutting measure designed to try to trick you into thinking it's an improvement.
I switched my chrome extension to a paid model (one off payments). Most the offers from these shady people, work out as approximately 1 year worth of sales.
Violence in video games isn’t really a problem
I'm having a little discussion on a parallel thread where someone absolutely is advocating for some sort of racial determinism and thats the context for the comment. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16517930
Pretty sure that not too many. Some do, but again, most are capped at about 180k (that if with 7+ years of experience)
For some stock options make a difference, but again, that is if you're lucky
I like network transparency and the ability to move running streams from speakers to USB headphones.
The man is a genius but why openBSD? FreeBSD would have been my choice.
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I’d like to know that too
I disagree. While you can't deny the supremacy of the elite coastal universities, there do exist great schools in the Midwest: Uni. of Illinois, Chicago, Case Western, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Northwestern, etc. Oh and probably the most prestigious, Carnegie Mellon.
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OP here I have an affiliation with the above business but I have been using them. Had only positive things to say.
The Facebook page loaded fine for me in Firefox Reader View!?
on BASIC, not
I agree that free will, in the sense you've defined here, doesn't exist. But it may exist in the sense that there are levels of determinism to our actions. I like how Steven Pinker explains it in this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYbpfKgDKR0
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>On some level, I suspect that Deep Learning being so trendy tweaked a little bit of contrarian in me, and I still have a little bit of a reflexive bias against “throw everything at the NN and let it sort it out!”

I am the same kind of person. But when John Carmack approaches this with scepticism and concludes that it is indeed not over-hyped, I guess its worth learning after all!

CS231N, here I come.
In computer vision at least, deep learning has been a revolution. More than half of what I knew in the field became obsolete almost overnight (it took about a year or two I would say) and a lot of tasks received an immediate boost in term of performances.

Yes, neural networks have been here for a while, gradually improving, but they were simply non-existent in many fields where they are now the favored solution.

There WAS a big fundamental paradigm shift in algorithmic. Many people argue that it should not be called "neural networks" but rather "differentiable functions networks". DL is not your dad's neural network, even if it looks superficially similar.

The shift is that now, if you can express your problem in terms of minimization of a continuous function, there is a new whole zoo of generic algorithms that are likely to perform well and that may benefit from throwing more CPU resources.

Sure it uses transistors in the end, but revolutions do not necessarily mean a shift in hardware technology. And, by the way, if we one day switch from transistors to things like opto-thingies, if it brings a measely 10x boost on performances, it won't be on par with the DL revolution we are witnessing.
Ya lying to people smart enough to see through bullshit does that
How likely is it that the game was really the first outing of a leaked secret name? A random name clash or copying from another source seem just as likely.

Also, making names secret under threat of criminal punishment sounds quite problematic. A name itself after all doesn't convey information, and you have to be able to name something to, for example, contest its secret status through legal channels available to a citizen.
Whenever anyone asks me if they should read Design Patterns by Gamma et al, I tell them to go read Refactoring. If they say they've already read it I tell them to read it again.

The patterns are loosely what to do, but that's not the thing that lasts across the years and languages. Refactoring is why and how.
At the level where it takes more than one lifetime's research to reinvent your field from ground zero, it's literally impossible to progress the field without taking something on faith.

Well before that, though, it becomes impractical to re-check every single thing. And the longer-established a field is, the more you have to take on faith.
>This basically calls for specialized hardware, which may or may not extend the limits of computable problems beyond Turing completeness.

In... what way do you think human brains are hypercomputers? Keep in mind that quantum computers are "merely" Turing universal, they can't solve decidability. (If you think that human brains can solve the halting program, then I would like to ask you to produce Busy Beaver 100)

To the contrary, I believe human brains are what they look like: a glob of regular, boring old proteins, interacting with each other using normal atoms. No exotic physics, closed timelike curves, integrated information theory phi factor, Penrose quantum spookiness, Sam Hughes infolectricity, nothing. Humans aren't special, we're just atoms, capable of being simulated by a sufficiently gigantic Turing machine.
Maybe I didn't drill deep enough, but I didn't see the part where they tied it to sick leave. Wouldn't that be illegal?
Using cookies with Domain option allows you to share a cookie between `api.site.com` and `www.site.com`.

You can combine that with a `Authentication Bearer` for releasing a public API access.
I get a chance once every year when girlfriend goes to her parents for a week. Having uninterrupted time like that with no pressure is really nice.
Well: «Please note that I could not find a dedicated channel for reporting security bugs on Emirates website.»
Their support is as bad as it gets. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16347525
I find this interesting since I used to get so excited as a teenager when one of the id peeps updated their .plan file.
I wondered why he didn’t use LLDB; thanks.
Besides being a weak argument in such a context, it's disingenious. FB set the industry standard. Maybe half the standard along with Google.

FB's system is much more reliant on tracking though. Google's can at least work anonymously, eg searched 'dentists' in some area. FB's is almost useless without tracking.
Upvoted to compensate down-votes. While this is an opinion that tends to be repeated in APL threads and can seem ignorant. It it also the initial reaction many of us have had.

Presenting it with a reasonable follow up question like this gives a perfect opportunity to provide examples of it being used and the reasoning behind why it might not be as terrible as it might seem at first.

Down-voting such comments only discourages conversation IMO, what about giving a good answer instead. (or in this case, just link to arcfide and his interesting explanations about how he uses Dyalog to be productive.)
The best way to advance AI is probably to make the hardware faster, especially now that Moore's Law is in danger of going away. The people doing AI research generally seem to be fumbling around in the dark, but you can at least be certain that better hardware would make things easier.
I live in Portugal, an EU country. After a complaint, our National Data Protection Commission fined one of my neighbors for having posted certain personal data of other tenants on our building hall.

They care.
The problem in both cases is urbanization. Soviet central planners explicitly set out to industrialize their agrarian society; market forces are moving America's center of gravity from the Midwestern factory to the coastal R&D office. As populations move (or are ordered to move) to follow these changes, it creates blight and abandonment in the places they leave and a housing crunch in the places they head to.

The empty houses are in the places that are no longer economically relevant; the housing crises are in the places everyone is moving to.

The Soviets responded by building space-efficient housing in cities as fast as they could, which was just not fast enough. American cities are actively refusing to let this happen at any significant scale.

We would first need these cities to decide to want enough housing for their ballooning populations. Then we could argue over whether the state or private developers should build it.
> they don't care about the moral and psychological aspects

I disagree. Authoritarians are always obsessed with being able to control peoples access to sex. Because that's a powerful lever you can use to control people.

For instance dominionist evangelicals and polygamist Mormons are obsessed with taking sexual rights away from women and commoditising access. Keeping young people and especially young men from access to porn, same deal.
Not to mention a $100K bonus is enough for some people to quit, and take their lives elsewhere, so theoretically, there’s probably a motive of attrition as a subtext to force out a cross section of expensive veteran employees.

Brain drain is a factor in this, but probably some brutal downsizing is in the picture, and on the table already. Hold on to your butts.
"enable hundreds of thousands of businesses"

sure, I guess the entire tech industry would be dead without tracking users
... books by the authors of such patterns ?
I know these aren't your words but man what a crock.

The user and their browser can change about every aspect of the presentation by design including showing nothing at all to sight impaired users and just reading out loud. It's so blatantly obviously about ads that I don't know why they bother to mislead. Just admit you the user will always be second priority and that if you have to choose between making money and making the best anything they will always by financial position be obligated to choose option a.
Seriously, I was really surprised to see Youngstown instead of say.. Columbus or Pittsburgh.
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Looks pretty slick! Unfortunately, I'm unfamiliar with React. Nevertheless, I'll definitely consider trying it out once I give React a shot. Thank you!
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I second his recommendation of CS231N: http://cs231n.stanford.edu/

You can probably go through the whole thing including assignments in under a week full-time.
Not familiar with React so I'm going to give this a pass (for now). Will pick it up once I'm familiar with it. Thank you!
From the article:

> in order to be eligible for the lottery, employees would have to have perfect attendance during the time period. Employees took that to mean no sick days.
I don't think many of their competitors have the same reach as Facebook. Nowadays sites have social plugins to allow their customers to "share" content. This in turn adds the problematic cookie/pixel.
This is pretty cool! I've just started picking up the basics of Vue. I'll give this a shot once I'm more familiar with it. Thank you! :)
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484204
Not a name, but many people do this to help them focus and read. Having a smallish block of selected text enables easier visual tracking (so less likely to skip/repeat lines). It is more common in the ADHD and dyslexia communities, in my experience.
Looks good! I'll test it out today and see how it goes. Thank you!
Serious question. How many of YC's startups implement their products in Lisp? Is it > 0? Why so few?
We changed the URL from https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/amp32858/drugging-of-t....
The replication crisis most associated with psychology also appears to extend to many behavioral economics results. There's good reason to be skeptical of many of these studies.
This is inconvenient and disables other functionality.
Whataboutism isn't an argument... if you're going to start somewhere, you have to start with someone, especially in civil court. Setting precedents will open up other websites to lawsuits
Which brings us back to one of my original points: at which point hate speech or other kinds of weaponized speech cease to be deserving of protection. Should governments and corporations enjoy this right?
I'm no military strategist, but it seems like strapping backpacks full of rocket fuel on our combat troops might be a tactical error.
I find this highly unlikely for a couple of reasons, but the primary reason is that GURPS Cyberpunk was not published until _after_ the SS raid on the company as a part of operation SunDevil.

The actual chronology is closer to something like this: feds target a bunch of hackers, one such hacker is also working on a game for SJG, during raid on his house feds notice all of the galley drafts and docs for GURPS Cyberpunk (some of which may have been internal phone company docs and manuals that would look very suspicious to a non-technical agent who signed up to look cool standing next to the president and has no idea about most of this stuff) and so they ask him about it, he happens to mention all of the other docs are just down the road at the SJG office, some fed gets a bright idea and a bunch of them head over to SJG to make a very big mistake...

Source: Straight from the mouths of Steve and Loyd. I was hired by Steve to start Austin's first real ISP with the money he won in this case and my future brother-in-law worked for SJG at the time of the raid.
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You are suggesting that the EU is picking on the outsiders. However, do you have any proof of that? For example, if you look at fines handed out by the EU, some of the largest ones concern companies from the EU:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/27/the-largest-fines-dished-out...

If you look at EU court decisions concerning privacy, you see that it mostly concerns European companies and government bodies (e.g. people storing their fingerprints being stored for passport applications). Those cases just don't get as much exposure in the US:

https://ec.europa.eu/anti-fraud/sites/antifraud/files/casela...

Another factor here may be that EU companies generally stick more to privacy rules, because it is easier to get sued directly by their citizens. E.g. in Germany many institutions and companies are paranoid when it comes to privacy and go out of their way to avoid lawsuits.
recent new improvements in voice synthesis could make this happen soon enough tbh.., capture you speaking in the super market, filter your voice out, then beam that shit in. i like the idea :D i can already see us all comming home... why the fk did i buy this milk, why do i keep drinking this milk.. wtf :D (paranoia 1.0) wonderful world!
You're the one in control of your browser. You know it's side effects when you load pages.
After Big Data and AI? I’d say MEMS and MOEMS. Not as sexy yet but give it ten years.
A low-odds, high-reward gamble may still be preferred to its complement, but we must also consider aversion to loss of the bonus to which employees are accustomed. The new program could--but probably still wouldn't--make sense if it were an incentive in addition to the bonus.
That leads to writing a law for every little technological innovation, which is an arms race legislators can't possibly win. Prosecuting a corporate body for violating a general principle sends a clear signal to other market players using an unethical tactic: comply or you're next.
He does address that though:

>Please note that I could not find a dedicated channel for reporting security bugs on Emirates website

I agree that he should've found an email channel but Twitter is their official customer support interaction.
No, it's $210k cash. Additional RSUs and bonuses up to $70+ depending on company and individual performance.

No hype. I work harder than anyone else and complete projects at least twice as fast. I constantly push for promotion and raises and hop jobs to get the raise.
This is my point! Date of this article Thu 12 Oct 2017 18.20

Release of the recordings were at the same time surprisingly? (They would have gotten a heads up from requests to comment)

ie October 12, 2017 2:04 pm
https://globalnews.ca/news/3799810/recording-cuba-sonic-atta...

Someone wanted to bury this theory, and it worked.

It's not common talked about anymore, yet it fits perfectly. High stress environment, away from home, different foods and illness to deal with, symptoms that are not measurable and vague (The alleged brain blah was not measured in many people) and no commonality between the staff other than working in similar jobs.

It's 'cover-up' is probably just someone wanting not to look bad, but it's ramifications were wide and shows how problematic the system is.
watch this: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carme... its really bad apparently
Since reddit banned deepfakes, including SFW content, does anyone know where the community is now congregating? The appeal of the technology from online avatars to cheaper cgi is undeniable. Is this a case of throwing out the baby with the bathwater?
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Ex-Google recruiter: fired for opposing hiring caps on white, Asian male nerds
Vegas is also much less centered around gambling than it was 30 years ago. With the World Convention Center and other venues, there's not even an expectation that convention-goers are going to gamble, and if they want to, they have to go out of their way to get to a casino.
Thank you sharing your experience. It reinforces my appreciation of how such things are never "one size fits all" and that in every distribution there will be examples on both sides of the median.

I particularly resonate with this sentiment; "... just make sure that you want to, and that you're ready to spend the time to do it right."
AWS and Twillio costs are more or less location independent (w/in US at least).

Good point about significant portion going to salaries. Somehow author of the article wrongfully omitted it from the top 3 expenses.
p.s. and then the employees salaries to go pay for rent; so the "landlord" part is rightfully there; I just have no idea how AWS and Twillio ended up on the list.