skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are some of what I use:

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I don't like Facebook either, but I actually very much like the part where they want to let people talk knowing fully well that what gets said would range from Nobel Peace prize worthy, to undesired, to wanting to burn the whole universe down.

Can you imagine Bic worrying like this about what someone might write using their pens?

Do you imagine the restaurant worker who served breakfast to the 9/11 hijackers having second thoughts about serving food?

Answer to Facebook's woes is to return to Free Speech with compliance with law enforcement if laws are broken. No proactive banning of speech with the fear that it might be illegal. Let the legal process enforce laws, Facebook should comply with lawful orders to take down content, but not before. Facebook should embrace bubbles. Let people chose the bubbles they live in and let advertisers choose bubbles that they advertise in. If a advertiser doesn't want to advertise in "self-defense" bubble, then any content tagged/identified/categorized as "self-defense" doesn't get ads from that advertiser. Make people explicitly aware that there are bubbles out there that they can choose to be part of, or choose to be excluded from, or choose to peek inside for just a bit. Make default no-login/under-age view safe i.e. at least 1k logged-in views where at least 20 people did not raise "inappropriate content" flag.

Free Speech, embrace bubbles, comply with law enforcement and that should make Facebook relevant again.
I'd love to see (and taste) one too!
i dont think its only that. there is also the aspect of being a target of tons of hackers trying to hack they way into ICOs accounts and gaining access to all users registered for ICOs and sending them mails trying to scam them to send the Ether to some other address.
I saw it happening first hand.

So a handful of criminals are ruining it for everybody else.
Im not even talking about some of the ICOs being "scams", what clearly is the case and happens.
It's like we're going back and killing off the megafauna we missed the first time around.
Private prisons lead to lobbying for harsher convictions to improve the bottom line of those prisons, that is why they often come up.
This study was done on college students, not elementary and HS students, college students at Cal. There are a lot of caveats here and trying to apply them to elementary education is good, but outside the scope.

Aside: If you really want test scores to improve, give the kids food. My SO is an educator and she's had kids come in that only get food at school. All weekend they may only eat a bag of Cheetos, sometimes up to 2/3 kids on Monday mronings. School breakfast and lunch are sometime the only food they get.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/...
> What perceptrons feed into the next layer are not features- they're activations.
> They can't be used as features because they don't represent attributes of some concept.

I think we have very different definitions on what a feature is. You can use these activations as features in a model.

> With language learning pipelines again, you're not adding a newly learned model to a set of features- instead, you use that model to label parts of your data that were not previously labelled.

I'm afraid I don't understand what you are trying to say. In an NLP pipeline you use the predictions of several models as features for your final model. How is that not composable and modular ?
Hey, you guys are in Austin right? Is your Chote Ave location a store? If so, I'm planning to stop by later today to buy some yaupon. :)
You’ve twisted my words.

I’m not saying they’re like a phone company, I’m saying this would be the equivalent of a phone company saying what I said.

There’s a very clear difference.

I’m also not saying Facebook is a social good here, but those wrongs, valid or not, are tangential to the memo.
If you're worried about rare videos going away, don't just watch them on YouTube. Archive them yourself. You are the one who sees value in them, so do your part to keep their storage decentralized. Just a thought.
> Salaries are dramatically lower in Europe and taxes higher — so even when all of these benefits are tallied, Americans still have more disposable income along with lower unemployment and a far more robust economy.

I wonder what you mean by "Americans", I really don't see how a minimum wage American part time worker has "more disposable income" than someone in Europe with any measure of health insurance?

Minimizing America may be fashionable, but the awful situation of a lot of working people in America is not at all made up, and, no, the money doesn't compensate it. It just compensates it (maybe) for software engineers.
Why in the world is this a felony? If it's "mere" disenfranchisement you're going for, why not simply… don't count the vote?
There's a lot of handwringing over whether Mailchimp did the right/wrong/good/bad/neutral thing, or why ICOs in particular.

But ICOs did this to themselves. This is the collateral damage from our terrible stewardship of Blockchain and cryptotoken reputations.

In the sprint to massive investments and skirting regulation, the whole cryptotoken space collectively harmed it's whole reputation. Fraud, scams, poor security -> hacks, flagrant money and securities crimes, etc; the list keeps growing! That collateral damage is why Google, Facebook, Mailchimp, and many others are pulling out of this. The winds of winter are howling for cryptotokens because we weren't stewards of our collective reputation. Who would want to operate in such a cesspool?

A lot of people will reference the Dot Bomb era, but a more fitting example would be the Video Game Market Crash of 1983 [1]. After Atari vs Activision opened the floodgates, loads of low quality but expensive games flooded the market. ET is the crowning turd, but that was atop a pyramid of turds. Customers, unsatisfied with the products they bought, deserted the market en masse and games disappeared for two years.

Both video games and cryptotokens have very low economic utility. Nobody wants to play a bad game, much less pay full price for it. Nobody wants to have a useless token, much less pay a high premium for it.

The classic Market For Lemons is setting in. As customers leave the space, stung by these lemon tokens, the reputable providers will start to exit the space as well. Mailchimp, Google, and Facebook are some of those reputable providers that left. They don't want to be associated with the taint ICOs are leaking from every pore.

Winter came, and it was us.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983
A lot of it is due to athletics - my school had to end practices before certain times and could not offset the school day without blowing away athletic programs.
That’s why I feel it’s a very tacky, out of touch memo, but it’s also showing a pretty cliche startup mentality.
The US criminal system isn't meant to rehabilitate, and a corrections officer told me that directly once (after I asked for a Bible and he said no).

It's only meant to provide the public with a false sense of security. "Another scumbag has been locked up, key's been thrown away, you're all safe once again. Enjoy the rest of your evening."

But it's okay because people are easily forgettable. If you have 100 people on a block, and 1 is taken away unjustly, you still have 99 who can quickly forget about that 1, provided they're distracted with enough beer, books, movies and memes.
It's a joke. I don't think anyone is mistyping it, as it's two characters on alternate hands on the home row.
Show HN: Get Elixir/Phoenix Performance Metrics into Chrome Dev Tools
What did leaking this memo actually accomplish? If you are someone who wants tech companies to be accountable for their impact on society you should welcome these internal conversations. All that the leak will do is make them less likely.
This seems to reinforce the brilliance of the Erlang VM. Basically, make "fork" super super cheap. Full process isolation, "let it crash" error handling, and lots of other benefits.
Not sure why people are so upset with Mailchimp when they are simply reacting to what the blacklist operators do, which is their whole value proposition. They don't want to send content that triggers blacklists, whether that content is for ICOs or Beanie Babies.

Shouldn't the ire be directed at the blacklists?
The difference is power. Denigrating a politically weak group like black people is just bullying. Denigrating the dominant group is standing up to power.
One of the important qualities of a great place to work is that decisions are made based on sober analysis rather than reflexive corrections. Maybe you're right, and Facebook is just too important to allow that, but I think it's fair for Facebook employees to be unhappy about this.
> Students are autonomous though. I can imagine that school pupils are not and they cause troubles for parents.

We could have made school children autonomous far sooner if we wanted to.
Snel buikvet verliezen zonder je gezondheid te schaden: hoe doe je dat?
My first and only new car was a VW Jetta. Unfortunately it was purchased in the first few years of VW's Mexico plant which was still working out the kinks. I'm sure cars made in Germany or Mexico are equivalent today, but at the time not so much. It was really disheartening to need regular repairs on a new car. It was also no fun to discover VW hadn't engineered for the South's heat. Every plastic window hanger failed after two summers, leaving the electric windows stuck. Combined with regular issues with the AC system it turned me off buying another new VW or Audi for that matter. If I ever buy another new car it'll be Japanese.
Formerly deeplearn.js (https://deeplearnjs.org/). For those who were following deeplearn.js, from the TensorFlow.js FAQ:

> "What is the difference between TensorFlow.js and deeplearn.js?"

> TensorFlow.js is an ecosystem of JavaScript tools for machine learning that evolved from deeplearn.js. deeplearn.js is now called TensorFlow.js Core. TensorFlow.js also includes a Layers API—a higher level library for building machine learning models—as well as tools for automatically porting TensorFlow SavedModels and Keras HDF5 models.

Github repo has been redirected. Nikhil Thorat (nsthorat) and Daniel Smilkov (dsmilkov) look to still be leading. Formal announcement expected at 10:30am PST at the TensorFlow Dev Summit (livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gplTc2F5Wvk)
The basic problem is bandwidth. If you don't decentralize hosting with something like BitTorrent, then only a few large organizations have the bandwidth to safely host videos that could go viral. A decentralized index with centralized hosting doesn't really solve this problem.

(PeerTube and WebTorrent don't fully solve this problem either, but that's because the core problem is political/economic rather than technical.)
How to Craft Better Content by Analyzing the Reaction of Your Readers
Discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16714018
Frugal, froogle was the old name for google shopping.
Companies make things that they can sell in a marketplace it is necessarily not what that place needs. For example social media companies just want to sell their social networks in any country with internet irrespective of that country have drinking water problem or humanitarian crisis.
It's the "eyes open" part of this that matters. Opinions and personal desires can't be argued with, but my experience is that a lot of people are plainly ignorant of basic facts about a lot of the U.S.

If you're staying in the SFBA because you imagine, say, the Midwest to have no culture and no jobs and no future, then I'd propose that you're operating on incorrect information (not just subjective feelings).

Software developers are very well paid in the middle of the country. And every medium-sized American city is (more or less) a liberal outpost, with gay bars and music festivals and meetups and tech scenes and Wolfpack Hustles and craft beer and on and on, even in what many imagine to be farm country.

Look, I get it, I live in NYC now, because I wanted that experience and I was willing to pay for it. But I'm not here because I think Cincinnati or St. Louis or Nashville are culturally-deficient wastelands with nothing going for them.

I think folks are really underestimating what kind of life they could be living by leaving the most expensive parts of the country behind.

If you're in your 20s and dating? Sheesh, by all means, pay to experience the wonders of San Francisco or NYC. But if what you want is a family and kids, then you owe it to yourself to know what your options are. They're better and more diverse than you might expect.
Already happening
It's like you've just been brutally assaulted by Facebook and here you are saying, please sir, may I have another?
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I find five years a bit surprising, but what do you think the proper penalty would be for a felon committing voter fraud should be?

Edit: I'm utterly amazed that this comment has been downvoted to silence. Disenfranchising felons — i.e., those who have committed extremely serious crimes — is while somewhat controversial a long-standing practice. The woman in question committed voter fraud by voting without being legally permitted to. This raises some questions. Are felons seriously not told they may not vote? Why not? Is five years a reasonable sentence (I don't really think so in this case, but for someone who commits large-scale voter fraud it might be)? Certainly the woman seems hard-done-by. At the end of the day, though, she did commit a crime under the laws of the state, and while the sentence seems harsh some sentence is necessary.
"That said, I think the argument for a 'paid facebook' breaks down quickly when you realise that as a communications / event planning / promotion tool, it's usefulness is directly tied to its network size."

I generally agree with the business analysis as you gave it, to which I'd propose the idea (in conjunction with my other cousin post) that if the government makes it non-viable to build a business whose business model is based solely around selling private information and serving ads , on the grounds that it is short-term enticing to people but long-term destruction to social capital and cohesion (where government regulation is really in its wheelhouse), we could find out whether social networks are viable at all.

Note I didn't target social networks there; the entire business model needs to be made much more expensive. For once, something regulation can accomplish with ease! I almost don't even care about the nature of the regulations, I just want to see this business model made more expensive. It doesn't even have to be banned, per se, it just needs the bar raised so that the bar for "when is it worth it to abuse trust and exploit our information" is a great deal more than $20/year. (I don't necessarily want to ban it; there is value in certain high-end variations of this theme. The corruption is in the way that modern computing has become so cheap that there is no discretion applied for what is grabbed and what is bought & sold, it's just all grabbed and dispensed freely.)

It is possible they are simply not a viable business. Or, once the easy-yet-culturally-destructive option of doing it by abusing human cognitive limitations and screwing over your customers where they can't perceive it and weigh it properly is regulated away, perhaps someone will find a way of delivering enough value that it is something people will pay for, once the weed of the free option is no longer sucking up all the sunlight. There are, for instance, quite a few long-standing paid forums on the internet; it's not an entirely unviable business model.

One thing I'm not doing here is that I am not implicitly accepting as a goal the idea that Facebook itself, or an entity the size of Facebook, will necessarily exist in the new order. (Nor am I directly accusing anybody of doing that, but it's something I feel is ambient in the discussion.) If it turns out to be simply a non-viable business, so be it. As in my opinion Facebook's net social value is negative, that's still a win. If it turns out to be a viable model, but it doesn't scale up, again, so be it. The possibility that those will be the end outcomes does not justify keeping something as destructive as Facebook around.

My best guess is that no single business could grow to Facebook's size, but that there would likely be a steady state of a lot of little networks of various kinds. And don't just think 25 Facebook clones, but thing Facebook vs. LinkedIn vs. the SomethingAwful forums vs. Reddit; I would expect significant diversity.
They could easily route riskier traffic over a separate set of ips and domains without affecting delivery of other domains. This is standard practice in the industry.
Yep, and it's often a team employee too.

I know the webmaster for the Washington Capitols is their backup.
Societal utility is a weighted average. Any worthwhile process will have positive and negative outcomes. Those that endure will provide greater upside than downside.

I believe that a process where any idea is given consideration is preferable to one in which ideas are suppressed. We need all the "bad" ideas to discover the "good" ones.
I wrote this because while I like the basics of YAML, I think 95% of the spec is idiotic and needs to be tossed away:

http://hitchdev.com/strictyaml

Ideally there should only be one scalar type (strings), two ways to represent strings (simple | multiline), just one way to represent mappings and lists. No nodes/anchors, no "YAML is a superset of JSON" silliness and absolutely no implicitly typed scalar values.
Searching for "oddly satisfying" is another good way to find videos with misleading thumbnails.
> Generally, the goal of schooling is to get everyone to a better, more knowledgeable version of themselves in preparation for the world.

Call me cynical, but I seriously doubt that this is the actual goal of schooling for pretty much anyone. The real purpose of school seems to be a) to get rid of kids so they're not muddling about in early hours; b) to generate a hierarchy of kids so we can figure out who to put in the lower castes.
I think the law she is guilty of far pre-dates the corruption of the system. I do agree that parts of are prison system have very corrupt parts, but this is a much older law.

5 years seems too long though.
So do police and prison guards' unions, and they're much larger: https://reason.com/blog/2015/06/02/are-for-profit-prisons-or....
There is the "WikiLeaks justification": leaking this memo will force Facebook to have more vigorous internal controls for locking down information, making them less efficient and hastening their downfall.
I have 14 yrs work experience in Software Dev and Product Management. USCIS is claiming that I don’t have work experience for a PM job, even though I have an MBA from a top school in the US. I made 300K last year
It seems like a poor lie in this case though, doesn't it? His statement doesn't say "let's talk about this", but he is specifically saying that the ends justify the means.

And provocative is important, but I would be surprised if employees didn't agree that "Facebook causing bullying or terrorism" is a bad thing.
Great section in the book Chaos Monkeys about the 'Sec', basically an internal KGB that monitors all employees actions and access
Chrome OS prepares to support ARCore for augmented reality apps
Blame the fraudsters for ruining the research.
This is likely a very old law, or old sentence. I wonder if more of our school system could be focused on teaching people every single law that could screw them over.

We learn the rules of math, science, etc, but not our own system?
>"That's quite the objective statement statement you have there."

I feel very confident making that statement. Considering his personal and professional conduct, his backpedaling on earlier statements, his absolutely disastrously inept attempts at diplomacy and a whole host of other issues, it is accurate to say that he is absolutely not a person you would want to have any sort of relationship with, what so ever.

>"It would be relatively simple"

You're arguing from a biased starting point. You're assuming that media coverage is the most important factor in a president's popularity rating, not his actual actions and fuckups.

>"show what Obama's disapproval numbers would be if he had suffered the same media bias as Trump."

>"the whole point is that comparing Obama's disapproval numbers to Trump's is not an apples-to-apples comparison because of the extraordinary bias of the media against Trump."

You're ignoring the massive backlash, smear campaigns and outright hate spewed by the right-wing media during Obama's presidency. I'm not sure if you've just forgotten it, or if you're willfully ignoring it, but it was everywhere, endless pandering to birtherism, outright racism, doomsay prophecies that he would turn the US into a socialism/communist hellhole, that he would take everyone's guns, put all white people into camps, the whole spiel.

In contrast, most of the coverage of Trump is simply detaling what new stupid thing he did.

But if it's so simple, why haven't you done it yet?
Yes. And they are going to take away our guns.
Or
"Uncle Jordan: #MAKEAMERICAGRATEAGAIN"
> Telephone companies don't coerce you into becoming an addict

If you were around at the turn of the 20th century, you might think very differently. Gossip lines, heck, when lines were shared you could ease drop on your neighbors conversations. The telephone company must have had some idea of what they were enabling in society at the time.
Conversations where bosses tell their employees we should connect more people and grow the network no matter the cost? You're right we should have conversations about this, but publicly.

Facebook surrendered it's right to discuss such things privately when it's willfully kept lax policies on sharing users data. Stuff like this should leak earlier so we can talk about it before, rather than after, awful things happen.
Their hope is that maybe they'll be able to change the future for the better by making an example of someone, even if they have to be excessive, cruel, or unjust toward that person. They're justifying the means by the hoped end.