skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't hurt to try emailing the HN contact address hn@ycombinator.com asking to remove or edit a post after the time limit.
Wait, it sounds like you think mentioned that Snopes routinely "fact-checks" satire, as opposed to it being a random one-off miscommunication, is somehow counts towards Snopes being more respectable and not them just forgetting what "fact checking" used to mean one day?
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> Who are you to say they wouldn't have found a better use of $5000

In this hypothetical future scenario: I am both a) the parent of a minor child and b) the guy with the $5000 and a Jaguar.
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America needs to figure out what it wants from diversity efforts. Does it want--

1. To just achieve color-blindness.

2. To achieve color-blindness AND help counter-act the cumulative effects of past discrimination.

It is wants to achieve 2, you can't use a purely meritocratic system for college admissions or hiring.
Certainly, and it's probably difficult for smaller tech companies just barely making a profit to cover the high cost of hiring a software engineer.

But typically the companies who complain the loudest about "not finding qualified engineers" are not small consulting shops, but big firms that are already very profitable. They _could_ afford additional engineers, but they'd rather make another $1 on their dividends. It's often just a question of priorities.
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>You don’t have a right to have that opinion.

Which opinions does someone have a “right” to have? Is there a list? SPLC has managed to do a lot of damage to its credibility by adding otherwise nominal conservatives to its lists of bad actors.
> You know that the English language doesn't originate in America, right?

Of course, but it's not relevent.

> I see the spread of the Spanish language a step in the Peruvianization of the world, which is a shame.

Peru isn't driver of Spanish-speaking culture the way the US is the driver of English-speaking culture.

TV shows, music, film, technology news and discussion websites, …. Most are US-made, and go hand in hand with the spread of the English language. An English lerner in ${X} will watch Breaking Bad, House of Cards, Spiderman, … (all in English, maybe with suptitles), will listen to Rhianna, Eminem, …, and will talk about "Performance", "Data Center" or use other English loanwords (if working with technology at least). It's obvious to me enough exposure to US culture does lead to a US way of thinking.
It seems that in Stockholm burial space is almost as hard to buy as property.
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I can't access their status page and I"m curious of other regions are functioning. NE US, here.

https://twitter.com/awscloud?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Status Page was updates and the issue seems to have been resolved: https://status.aws.amazon.com
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This is the concern I hear from policy makers. If Uber/Lyft drivers are "optimizing" their rides and only seeking out the most profitable routes and areas, then cities no longer have a egalitarian transportation system.

Need a ride and you're in an obscure part of town? Welp too bad.
Because those are personal attributes of the author, not aspects of the work itself. The book isn't a collection of his tweets. What does his admiration for dictators have to do with his explanation of the Lindy Effect?

I realize today we are obliged to write off every aspect of a person's work due to their personal failings, related or otherwise. Personally I don't think that is a good or healthy thing to do; nobody is perfect and we risk throwing out an awful lot of babies in our desire to bathe only in clean water.
How is a command hierarchy where a board of investors appoints a CEO fair to the people who actually built the company?
They almost certainly can't be too efficient. There's a proof that if markets are efficient then P = NP.

This isn't really about whether markets are or can be efficient. This is about corporate governance. Boards of directors should not permit CEOs to play these games, and compensation of CEOs should be structured to not create such destructive incentives.
To be clear, my confusion is due to the fact that sites like Gab and certain Chan boards host this type of content, yet they do not have issues. And again, I am not understanding why social media websites are to blame for what may happen as a result of them creating their own websites or joining hate-friendly ones, versus what seems more sensible: Blaming infrastructure providers when they actually do take actions against clients due to speech, which appears to be your actual concern, right?
For you and me sure. Check out Literally Unbelievable, social posts reacting to satire stories as if they are real. Seems like a lot of people fall for this stuff!

http://literallyunbelievable.org
Don't be so sure[0]

[0]: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91644-is-free-will-really-free...
Buybacks make sense only if you have more cash than you know what to do with.

What the previous poster is trying to get at is that a big-ticket buyback signals an inability to invest that sum in a way that will improve growth or profitability. The best move to increase EPS is invest in capital improvements to increase earnings. If you can deploy money effectively, that means you're also growing in the long-term. Reducing the number of shares via a buyback also increases EPS, but it doesn't improve the top line.

In other words, a buyback is a way to increase your (and the CEO's) earnings per share even in the midst of stalling growth. So what I'm getting out of the previous comment is: don't confuse a buyback with continued growth; it's actually a "cashing out" moment.
Given how many people mistake The Onion for being real, that service is needed.
YES. They can't even load their status page. (When it does load I bet it is all green).
If Snopes didn’t provide references for their fact checks, that Forbes commentary would be alarming. As it is, it reads like a hit piece.

Are they biased? I’m sure. Everyone is.
How much the casino pays to chips factory so it doesn't manufacture more chips to sell them on the side?
Clearly the best current candidate for a 'Theory of Everything' is Poe's Law.
> which is why stock buybacks sometimes have the surprising effect of elevating the stock price, at least in the short run

All large stock purchases have the short-run effect of elevating the stock price. It would be shocking if this didn't happen; it is not surprising in the slightest that it does.
Well, at least they are smart enough to know a satire site when it says "this is a satire site". Apparently, some people are not below admitting they are in desperate need of such service. Not smart enough of course to not confuse factual "true/false" ratings with noting that this is a satire, which can not be true or false since it is not a statement of fact (it's like rating Little Red Riding Hood story "false" because obviously wolves can't talk) - but this may be their premium service offering or something?
So put yourself into the right place. There's a reason people move to Silicon Valley, for example. Put the video game console down, turn the TV off, get up and go to where the opportunity is.
Attaching a bootable USB drive to a HTML5 based KVM? Sure it could be accomplished in other ways buy why not this way?
Here's a tangentially-related question: if I want to start-up a consultancy or agency for web development as a co-operative, are there any resources for getting it organized as such?
> Another problem of word vectors is that any word might actually have multiple senses, while vectors are just point estimates. If we wanted to be correct, we needed first to find the right sense for each word in a phrase and only then assign the vector. There is research in "on-the-fly" word vectors that adapt to context, but it's much harder to use.

This is interesting, and there seems to be a bit of debate about it (at least with compositional distributional semantic models). [0][1] seem to show that sense disambiguation helps in some contexts, and [2] show that they don't in others. It doesn't seem immediately clear who is right here. I agree with you though that it seems pretty likely that disambiguating would be helpful.

[0] https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W13-3513

[1] https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P16-1018

[2] https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D10-1115
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I have a feeling people are being a bit short-termist here. We can judge whether all roads lead to democracy/liberalism in 30-50 years but not yet.

In the meantime, my personal opinion is that China is heading for disaster somewhere along the road if they don't liberalise increasingly over time.
It's just one of these discussions. We create abstractions to describe reality and happenings around us. And then something happens and it's not clear whether it should be described with abstraction A or B. And people tend to have super strong opinions on the matter.
In spite of that we make quite decent flamewars in the social media.

We're good mental fuel and I wonder sometimes if there is any liveform in the universe that feeds on that (god ;p).
I can't access Slack and a few other services as well...
Sounds like your own personal Overton window is drifting further off into the distance of the culture wars instead.
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saved you a click:

time distribution follows a log-normal distribution (fat tail to the right)

statistically modeling pathogen progression over tissue spatially (2d, 3d) seems to confirm the real world distribution
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Latin emphatically did not disappear with the fall of the Roman Empire. Classical Latin was preserved not only by the Roman Catholic Church, but also as the lingua franca of all educated discourse in the West into the 18th century (at least!). Initially, this was probably because education was typically provided by the Church, yet its use persisted after the Protestant Reformation and through the Age of Enlightenment before learned folk began to variously adopt French, German, and eventually English.

Classical Latin aside, sermo vulgaris ("the common speech"—"Vulgar Latin") never died so much as it evolved over time into our modern family of Romance languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Occitan, Catalan, Romanian, Dalmatian, Sardinian, …; the list goes on, but I'm sure you get the idea.

I think that, in the context of what I'm seeing throughout this thread, (and to be clear, this isn't directed at you specifically) before we worry that English will establish some sort of linguistic hegemony over the globe, we should first consider the processes by which some language or another comes to dominate international communication in such a way, and likewise the processes by which such an "auxiliary language" comes to be replaced eventually by another. I contend that the main reason English now serves the role once served by Latin is because the Anglosphere currently has much influence on the sociopoliticoeconomicocultural stage, yet it is not currently without rival on this stage. A century from now, it could happen that everyone will be learning Mandarin Chinese or Arabic or something else altogether. Perhaps Esperanto will finally take off.

Returning to Latin for a final thought: throughout medieval Europe this side of Macedonia, all educated people could read, write, and speak Latin, and no doubt they found that these abilities came in handy from time to time. Notwithstanding, it remained in place as a second language, reserved for specific situations and purposes, and they continued to employ their native language in their day-to-day activities—after all, we still have English, Irish, Gaelic, Scots, French, Dutch, German, Polish, Spanish, &c., &c. in the present. These are not the same languages that were spoken in the Middle Ages, nor are they the same languages that were spoken 100 years ago, but, as you pointed out, languages evolve and change.
His arguments are sometimes very fragile and overly broad.

He has this fetishism about past times. For example, He claims things that stood the test of time have proved their worth. But he just ignores things that have stood the test of time but are loathsome, like sexism and racism. Not only have they stood the test of time but these ideas often co evolved over diverse populations.

Much of his examples are extremely cherry picked and I’m really not into his embrace of what basically amounts to grandma wisdom. It has a place but he isn’t nuanced about it and is incredibly arrogant. I do think he has some interesting ideas though but he strikes me as insufferable at times
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Not everyone gets to kick somebody off Facebook because they didn't like them, though. Snopes has been awarded this privilege, for some reason.
Sortix aims to be a "clean and modern POSIX implementation". POSIX mandates, say, ed[1]. Xv6 does not implement ed; it's absolutely spartan.

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ed...
Why don't they just use the Deutsch-Schorr-Waite algorithm to store the mark stack in the heap itself with pointer-reversal tricks? This would remove the additional overhead.
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Fact-checking satire is... a bit silly, don't you think? (Unless the fact-check of satire is itself satire.)
You're conflating character assessments with moral ones.

A racist may be both immoral and good natured.

Exploitation is a moral term. It says that the mere existence of a whole group of people is immoral. It's not clear that it is, nor even really what "exploitation" means.
That's possible. That's one reason I don't take this quote as gospel or anything. Like I said, it's just food for thought.

As far as that goes, we don't even know for sure that we have free will and that we ever actually make any decisions at all. Maybe the whole universe it totally deterministic. I mean, it's hard to see an explanation of how it isn't so. That said I prefer (well, I think I prefer) to believe that we do have free will.
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>Having a black doctor for a parent probably provides more benefit than having a white dockworker for a parent.

Sure, but having a white doctor for a parent is very likely more beneficial than both of those examples. This should not be a very controversial point.
The patient would have probably been even better if the sham surgery wasn't performed at all. Placebo effect nowadays is understood to be very small or even nonexistent, see e.g.[1][2][3]. What is actually going on is that patients most often just tend to get better with time, and this is just as true for common cold as it is for pain or injury. Researchers just confused this with some mental effect of giving placebo.

[1] - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200105243442106
[2] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15257721
[3] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20091554
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Yes. They took satire seriously. That's very funny, but they clearly missed some clues.
I'm not sure if you are agreeing with me, or if telling you that your statement to me stated my own sentiment on these institutions better than I did and I found it ironic, and get the impression we might agree where the level of discussion should be. I hope that makes sense.
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I am making 105K and i am not sure about happiness. I am happy some part of the day, then i am sleeping then i am working and then i am not happy for some reason for few mins and then i am happy again for some other reason. Sometimes mins are hours and some times day are days.

Is there anyone who is happy 24/7/365?

Why is there such measurement of happiness? When it cannot really be measured.

Some times when there is one kid playing with me i am happy and when some times there are 10 kids around me screaming i am not happy.

I think these days we really need a down vote and dislike buttons as i don't understand why money and time is being wasted into such misleading research efforts.

You can be happy with $0 and happy with $1,000,000. and also you can be not happy with $0 and not happy with $1,000,000.

It is the amount of time you are happy, and i don't think anyone on this planet can be happy 24/7/365.

The number of happy moments may be something that is measurable but that also cannot be tied to any other factor.

I think if the AI is built on top of such false big data then its just going to result into artificial stupidity.

We don't need more of those.
I think the source for that is the fact that some readers reported the story to Facebook. The whole reason Snopes even fact-checked it is because they were asked to.
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Due to some recent discussions here and on Reddit I decided to take a look at APL again. I'd previously toyed with it several years ago, and J a couple times before that. I started on the Mastering Dyalog APL book [0] this week and it's an excellent tutorial so far. Came across this site while trying to show APL to some colleagues. It's been posted here several times before [1], decent amount of discussion in 2015.

[0] http://www.dyalog.com/mastering-dyalog-apl.htm

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=tryapl.org
The solution to this is pretty simple - Facebook should work with the sites it uses as fact-checkers to have a new marking of "Satire". Just having values of "True" and "False" aren't good enough if you're trying to use those sites as tools against fake news.
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There are an awful lot of English-native and English-speaking Commonwealth countries (including the UK itself) which have non-negligible influence, including on the US.
Can you blame them? People act in their selfish self-interest.

It's the same thing with cops and firefighters. Their pensions are calculated based on the earnings of the last few years of employment. So that save vacation days the last few years to inflate their earnings the last few years.

If there is one thing you can count on, it's human greed. And I'm not pretending I'm above it myself.

The problem is that the system is set up to be exploited by the CEOs/etc.
I would be very surprised if anyone outside a few fringe email newsletters would agree that racism and sexism are not moral accusations. In a case where that statement were true, where sexism and racism were intrinsic facts of a struggle between exploiters and exploitees and not circumstantial beliefs to be mitigated by discourse, there is no possibility of peace, tolerance, or coexistance. And yet, these manage to exist today almost everywhere where people who do not believe that sort of thing live.

The main implication of such a view is that discourse is just an artifact of that oppression, that only postpones an inevitable conflict that is necessarily fatal for one of the exploiter or exploited. It also excuses the exploited from being held to the ethics and morality of the exploiter.

Hard not to see such a system of belief as beyond reason and even incarnate evil, but as they say, the devil's greatest trick was convincing us he didn't exist. :)
This idea that people are blindly just calling "Bigot", as if it isn't based on the actions and words of the people in question, is pretty old.
Before my time, sadly. But am familiar with the title from Masters of Doom, the id Software story

In 1990, Richard Garriott's company Origin, released a space-themed combat flight simulator called Wing Commander, which became a favorite around the id lake house. Carmack figured he could do better. Flight sims, he thought, were painfully slow, bogged down by their heavy graphics and leaving the player to snail through the game play. What he and others preferred was the fast action of arcade games such as Defender, Asteroids and Gauntlet. Carmack tried to see how he might do something that hadn't been done before: create a fast-action game in 3D
More than twenty years ago I once went with a friend shooting around in the woods. That was extremely dangerous and stupid of us. I surely do hope that this is made more difficult for young people of today in Switzerland.
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You can say that it's silly, but if it's applied evenly to either side of the aisle it's a little difficult to say it's culture war.
When they cremate pets they just toss a bunch of animals in the bin at the same time and then give each pet owner a proportionate amount of combined ash.
Also possibly a problem with the version of UUID used. A v1 UUID is somewhat likely to collide if machines share MAC addresses and/or have problematic clocks.

The likelihood of a v4 collision is tied to the strength of the platform's (crypto) RNG.
People are dumb.
You can't experience much of that said culture without learning the language and something tells me you don't speak more than 3 languages so you end up with houses painted in 3 different colours while the rest are hidden in a dark wood.
I imagine it would be latter, but I am not sure, hence my question. I have little knowledge about Iceland. I know for example in Quebec outside of Montreal, everyone assumes you speak French, regardless of your ethnicity.
Why an HTML5 based KVM? A desktop app would be great for that!
The world has an excessive amount of food production capacity. That is why all the subsidies many governments give to prop up their farmers.

I thought a key American ideal is freedom. Why would you want to restrict people’s freedom and only give the privilege only to the few who just happen to be born early enough to get property there? (Even some California native sons and daughters cannot afford to buy a home in their own home city.)

By the way, flippant answers are not appreciated. Consider reading more about the topics before giving thoughtful answers?
Those arguments could be used against any sort of worker mobilization ever. I do agree that they aren't great reasons to unionize. The real reason the workers should unionize is because they can, and if they do they can capture a greater percentage of the profits that the company attempts to keep for themselves