skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Failed attempt at humor on my end apparently. No, I don't want those attempting to quit to fail. The point I was attempting to make is that by making them taste good (as opposed to at most flavorless) is that it both makes them more appealing to non-smokers (esp kids) and likely encourages many smokers to kick cigarettes but pick up a vaping habit rather than a tool to wean them off of nicotine.

Now one might say 'who in their right mind would want to start a nicotine habit?' Well centuries of tobacco use to more recent times with people eating detergent pods, huffing glue etc should readily provide the answer. Also, the tobacco industry knows what they're doing and I suspect it's not about getting people off nicotine but rather changing the delivery mechanism. (You do know big tobacco is big into vaping, right?)
If you know python and college level statistics you should be able to find someone. Everyone needs to crunch data (and some graduate students feel its beneath them :-)
She was criticized for being female regardless of her misconceptions on military spending and how many jobs people have. A huge chunk of the world doesn't give equal forgiving or demands of females as they do males - they demand more and forgive less. Ever looked at PolitiFact for just about every other politician? Just look at Serena Williams.. she blabbed and it may be the end of her career (or a lingering black eye)yet for other males in the sport, it just means the front page on the newspaper and nothing else the next day... We can't ignore this. I wouldn't want AI to shape the views of women any worse than they already are just as we shouldn't use targeted bias in user comments to make her look unique in light of her male counterparts than ran against her - of which they all have/had faults and screw ups themselves.
For communities not focused on policies there's a certain amount of fragmentation along what I would call sj/pc social norms. In my boardgame group, for example, if you intentionally refer to someone using pronouns they do not like you get ejected; in which case you could leave our regular meeting place and walk 4 blocks down to another gathering where that sort of behavior is tolerated.

As far as expressing disagreement goes, the rule is the same as it's always been as far as I can tell: The degree to which a view outside the local Overton Window is expressible is directly proportional to how much the listeners respect your politics/thought process/moral grounding and how far outside the Overton Window the view is. The more the listener respects your politics/thought process/moral grounding, the more radical the idea you can argue to them without being dismissed. Go too radical for someone who doesn't know you well and you lose the listener.

So in direct response to your question, I'm very comfortable stating disagreement on topics that it's socially acceptable to disagree about generally and am comfortable disagreeing about anything with certain specific groups of people. This is, as far as I can tell, the most any society has ever achieved. A Bay Area neoreactionary will be shunned by most for expressing their belief that a woman's place is in the home just as a progressive in Birmingham, Alabama would be shunned for suggesting there's nothing wrong with abortion.

I would go so far as to say that if this level of self-censorship is new to someone then they have been fortunate to spend much of their life in communities in which their views fit comfortably inside the local Overton Window; for everyone else this is normal.
Follow up question: do such games use something different for chat vs gameplay, and if so why?
Machine Learning Papers with Code, Sorted by Stars
I'd love to read them, could you share a doi or link?
As someone who is homosexual, I'm... not entirely certain I disagree with that classification. From a purely biological standpoint, if I act on what my body would very much like me to continue doing, I will never reproduce. It's not a lethal condition, but it's an evolutionary dead end, so ... close enough? I haven't studied biology or medicine in great detail though, so I don't know the proper distinctions for something to be considered a disease.

Either way, I don't see the point in trying to be politically correct about what I call myself, or how other scientists try to classify me. My condition is an oddity, a trait is a trait, and classifying those traits is what biological sciences are all about. I think science is awesome, so more of that please. :)
I don't think anyone claims Californians working in SF aren't liberal.

What you really mean is you want to be a mildly bigoted in peace and/or demand attention because historically disadvantaged groups are getting attention without any backlash while simultaneously telling others to get over their own insecurities. When people say you have a persecution complex you think its a liberal agenda.

Case in point, no one thinks caring about industry standards makes you racist. Not caring about what makes others uncomfortable so you don't have to learn a new word is what's frustrating. The appropriate response to a silly request like that is "oh, uh, sure whatever. Just update the wiki."
The problem in China is that ethical standards right across society are severely corroded. My wife is Chinese, we visit regularly and she has relatives in various business and state institutions. Corruption is endemic, it is the system. It’s hair raising. The problem with being ruled by a corrupt system of government for generations is that it infects everything. It’s really terribly sad, China is making terrific progress in so many ways and has huge potential, but so much of it goes to waste.

The one mitigating factor is that the commercial sector is so savagely results driven that actual success really matters. That’s the one thing that stops the whole system devolving into a soviet style downward spiral of bureaucratic failure. Ruthless social and economic Darwinism has it’s costs, but at least it keeps some aspects if the system honest by pure necessity. I doubt state sponsored research and academia benefits much from this, but I don’t have any direct experience of that as none of my relatives are academics.

We have a family friend who is a university lecturer in CS. The one anecdote I can pass on is that, apparently, students there can graduate in CS on a course based on Java at his institution without ever having to demonstrate a program actually running. Apparently it’s all theoretical. I find it hard to believe or understand how that can be, or how prevalent that is but that’s what he said. This was 3 or 4 years ago.
Yes, but I ignored that because it didn't support my argument. And you caught me!

You're right of course, although I still maintain plugging the car into a wall socket for an hour is easy to do almost anywhere - realistically this would get enough charge for most people to get to a charger (in my case it would get me to a rapid which would top up the rest of the battery in another 25 minutes).
inbox made gmail slower, used more memory to display the same content, just give me alpine in a browser with decent search
Quantum computers are difficult to scale because of noise. Applying a quantum gate to a qubit using teleportation is a protocol for performing fault-tolerant quantum computation.
I worked on LogDevice at FB until about 6 months ago.

I'm not that familiar with Kafka, but in general LogDevice emphasizes write availability over read availability. There are many applications where data is being generated all the time, and if you don't write it, it will be lost. However, if reading is delayed, it just means readers are a little behind and will need to catch up.

So, when a sequencer node dies and we need to figure out what happened to the records that were in flight -- which ones ended up on disk & can be replicated, what the last record was -- LogDevice still accepts new writes. However, to ensure ordering, these new writes aren't visible to readers until the earlier writes are sorted out.
I checked and results are very different if you spell her name with a z, as she does.
You can do that with http://visual6502.org/ today! :)
You might want to check out Squirrel[1]. It has some major differences when compared to Lua[2], such as a C-style syntax and true objects, but like Lua is known for easy embedding in C and C++. The Source Engine includes Squirrel as one of its supported scripting languages[3], and it's used in non-gaming applications such as the Code::Blocks IDE.

[1]: http://squirrel-lang.org/

[2]: http://wiki.squirrel-lang.org/mainsite/Wiki/default.aspx/Squ...

[3]: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Squirrel
Gold is not valuable because we “decided” it’s valuable. This gets repeated a lot, but it’s wrong.

Gold is an amazing element with very many applications. Due to its rarity on the mantle and difficulty in extracting it we use inferior, still expensive, but far more affordable alternatives (I.e. copper for many, but not all, applications).

Othewise your mobo manufacturer wouldn’t have blown it’s margins putting gold traces. And a Chinese “recycler” wouldn’t give up their health to recover it.

And this is without going into the aesthetics of gold. As engineers I guess many of us are uncomfortable with something as hard to quantity as aesthetics, but Au is almost universally considered pretty. Few metals aren’t off grey, and those that are tarnish.

So no, there wasn’t a council of info-Europeans and African tribes 10k years ago to decide that Au is worth a lot just because.
It's not about control it's about ease of use. You can get a cheap shared hosting account and upload your php site in minutes without configuring a thing. Not everyone wants or needs to manage a server.

Think about a small business with no tech experience that just needs a basic marketing site. They download some cheap Wordpress theme, make it say what they want and upload it. Easy! Digital Ocean would be a disaster for them.
So we shouldn't research anything related to the social sciences because some people might lie about it? What leads you to believe that smokers lie more than nonsmokers if not social science research?
I live in the Bay Area, I grew up in San Francisco, I'm firmly left-leaning in much of my political views.

I upvoted your comment because in my opinion you are right, although overstating it a bit.

The "Left Coast" is biased. There is a lot of tribal knee-jerk reactivity, and there are rabid haters. (Yeah yeah the right has 'em too. There's a reason Tim Chevlier and David Gudeman were both fired. Not my point.)

"Not all lefties" though, okay?
Choosing to ignore politics and your ability to change it is itself a political stance.
Utterly bullshit.

HN is part of the liberal groupthink.

Fuck your lies you loser.
> A person like you is definitely better off using macOS or Windows.

I'm not necessarily going to disagree with this - I switched from desktop Ubuntu to Mac and have hardly looked back because I really don't miss constantly dicking around with config files playing UI glitch whack-a-mole. Mac UI certainly has its own healthy share of warts - in fact I find it practically unusable without Divvy and Moom, for starters - but on the whole it's polished, functional, aesthetically pleasing, and usually doesn't get in the way of doing work. Those are all very important qualities to me as someone who spends a non-trivial amount of time doing things outside of a terminal.

Just because I'm capable of rolling my own desktop environment doesn't mean I want to or that it's a particularly good use of my time, and I imagine a lot of potential/would-be Linux users probably feel the same way. Being dismissive of that perspective is counterproductive if you believe that the world would be better off with more FOSS usage (as I do).
Well.. these people you speak of can find their own.

Something something cold dead hands, etc.
Hookah is unfortunately one of the absolute worst offenders health-wise. Think one hookah session is easily multiple cigarettes, likely on the much higher side too
I beg to differ, especially in an atmosphere of rapidly intensifying sentiments of voter disenfranchisement and citizen unrest in the United States; particularly amongst many millenials.

I believe it to be accurate to say that there is a party with a vested interest in making sure that Corporations have more rights on paper. I do not believe it terribly fair to make the assumption however that EVERYONE is okay with that.
Can you show some data? I'm interested to see how exploitable popular PHP frameworks (Laravel and Symfony?) and the language itself are over the years in comparison to JavaScript, Python and Ruby web stuff. Not interested in anecdotes or bad code from bad programmers (aka Wordpress plugins) being used as an argument.

My company has some legacy PHP stuff that is rock solid, making money for years, survived every single audit (and PHP 7 cut our server costs by half).
Absolutely. I went to the New York Times on a low res machine (1366x768 or so) and there was one visible line of text after the ads
hhvm had some performance advantages over PHP 5. They are largely gone with PHP 7 AFAIK.
Good point! I stand corrected!
Here in the U.S., my friend's perfectly capable trail horse (who also has a variety of other training and has even done a bit of dressage) was around a $1000, a few years ago.

Camels have a reputation (I'm not sure to what extent it's deserved) of being somewhat more obstreperous; nonetheless, I have a hard time extrapolating to 50K, were camels in a like position to horses in the U.S. Not for a "decent" camel.

In current Saudi Arabia, sure, maybe. But current Saudi Arabia is not what's being talked about, as being "down the line".

P.S. Just don't hook my friend's horse up to a cart or sleigh or the like. She was never trained for that, and at this point, she's not having any of it. She also doesn't think much of jumping; smart horse, her joints will last longer.
Why Male Midwives Concealed the Obstetric Forceps
I wonder how things would be different if HyperCard were still around.
>I think you have this very wrong. Until personal computers went mainstream, all programming was for business (or the military, or research).

You're misunderstanding my point. I said all of their code. I was referring to the code written by the early "hackers", in university labs. Of course there was computer code being run to compute payrolls and run industrial systems. But you'll notice that that code was very rigorously written, and an Easter egg of this sort would not have been accepted into those codebases.
I've had good success flipping between an audiobook while commuting, and reading the next chapters at home at night. My brain was able to seamlessly meld the two modes together.
Cost, availability of talent etc. It's like asking why not everyone is driving Tesla Model X.
> Why would you use a language with few open source libraries over a very similar language with exponentially more?

Fewer unvetted libraries from a security and code quality angle.

Not saying it's good from a general engineering angle, but in an environment like Facebook which can afford to over-engineer, the third party dependency risk mitigation is a good side effect.

But my argument here is a pretty polarizing one as it implies security-through-obscurity. I promise I'm not; I'm just pragmatic about how many abandoned or poorly maintained open source libraries end up being relied-upon regardless of how that challenge is solved-for in CI/CD.
The term for this situation is ”streetlighting”, where the possible reigns over the correct.

“It’s dark in that alley. I’d never find my keys there.”

Doesn’t matter if it’s extremely difficult to get good data here. What matters is we can’t substitute bad data if that’s all we can come up with.

And although I stated it as smokers lying, the implication is that the nonsmokers are lying (by claiming to smoke).
When penicillin was first used to treat syphilis, thousands of cured schizophrenics were released from mental asylums.

https://www.newsweek.com/diseases-mind-133263
I don't know what dang's answer will be, but why would you assume that you are allowed or encouraged to treat your "throwaways as throwaways"?

The written FAQ doesn't exactly encourage them: "Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create them routinely. On HN, users should have an identity that others can relate to. "

Separate from dang's moderator tools, you might also note that there are strong claims that textual analysis can reliably associate related accounts even without inside information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17944348
I may be the outlier, but I don't think the Prius looks like crap. It's not super appealing, but IMO most modern cars all look alike and they are boring. At least the Prius looked a bit more quirky when it came out, so a little more interesting. Now, they are so ubiquitous that the quirky sense is gone, but it's not worse than your typical sedan.
Do You Want a Casual Hookup with Granny? What's the Right Thing to Do?
Sounds like you've covered all the bases, including shutting down your service, but you've rejected every option that doesn't involve selling out your users to advertises. It comes off as a sense of entitlement that you have some sort of right to profit off this service when you don't.
What if your quitting tool is so appealing, that people who don't have addictions are appealed, start using the "quitting tool" (as it is often used today), and start being addicted to nicotine as well?

I don't get why this isn't obvious.
You should separate what Californians think of conservatives from what they think about Republicans. California has a lot of liberterian leaning views but not a lot of respect for the GOP.
Every topic that PHP was mentioned in years has comment like yours basically reduced to "PHP sucks". Everybody already knows there are people who think PHP sucks. If you think PHP sucks, don't use it. Stop wasting your time by going to topics where people discuss things about PHP only to proclaim that PHP sucks. It's not contributing anything. Just spend that time doing something useful.
Increase tax on tabacco products and include e-cigs
You've used some jargon here that I don't understand, so I'm probably just missing it, but I don't see where any of this addresses the claim that, "Smoked a cigarette in the last 12 months" is a strikingly low bar.
I'm honestly unsure if your post is sarcastic or serious.
Are you suggesting that everyone who wants a pay raise deserves it just because they can build a website? If so, then I want a pay raise. But I'm unwilling to sacrifice my users' security and privacy to do it.

Nobody said it was easy to raise money. If it was, everyone would do it.

Crowdfunding and donations make plenty if money to afford a dentist or other basic needs. There are plenty of full-time groups making money with it. I don't know why you think thats not possible when it is already happening.
I don't believe Scribe and Kafka are equivalent. Isn't Scribe at-most-once?

Unless we're talking about two different projects named Scribe, which is certainly possible.
Japan is neither ethnically nor culturally homogenous despite an image at home or abroad regarding this; see Sugimoto’s Japanese Society if you want a book-length takedown of it.

For an example of how this affects who can live where and how where one lives affects non-residential opportunities, you can read up on burakumin (a disfavored heredity pseudo caste). Burakumin status still exposes one to highly non-trivial societal discrimination, and is primarily observable based on “Have you or yours ever lived in a burakumin neighborhood?” This makes e.g. historical maps which mark out burakumin neighborhoods into socially contentious informational hazards; Google Maps had to take them down after a (utterly well founded) fear that at least some employers and schools would cross-reference neighborhoods with current or historical applicant residential addresses and then go full Harvard University on them.

Similar observations can be made about ethnic Koreans, Japan’s rapidly growing population of long-term resident foreigners, etc.
You are part of the problem.

Is antibiotics development changing the world? I should hope so. Do bacteria care about which presidential candidate won? Absolutely not. Most fields, in fact, do not involve the acrimonious political issues of the day.

The idea that "everything is political" is a lame excuse that activists use to hack politics into spaces where it doesn't belong. Even if a field has some tenuous connection to some political principle somewhere, bringing the political aspect to the fore only creates distractions and sows division.

Workplaces can and should be non-political and denying that political neutrality is possible is a particularly annoying strain of political activism.
Breitbart leaks video of Google executives' candid reaction to Trump victory
I've not read all the comments yet (nor TFA) but my spouse works in Tinseltown — where major deals might be enabled by mixing at social functions — and her guiding tenet is "The 50/50 Rule," which is basically what it sounds like:

'Aim for the ratio of your conversation time (or word count) to be equal to that of your fellow conversationalist.'

Meet someone who has an interesting career / hobby / culture, but they only speak in single sentences? Game on, then, for you to draw more out of them! Likewise, a dullard with no original ideas or fun topics to draw on? — hey, it's up to you to find a way to make them hold up their half (without their knowing, obvi).

It took me some time to adapt and get the hang of it, but I must admit that it's made my abilities in the casual or friendly (e.g., "annual friends") social settings much stronger. You'll also find that people will remember you as being fun to chat with and they'll be more likely to catch up with you intentionally when or if you again cross paths.

Highly recommended.
That is where we're at, but the word "exponential" makes me worry that it won't be where we're at for very long.
I'd use Laravel over Rails for a new project in 2018. The community is more active and correspondingly the freebies more modern. Rails' front end story became a ghetto once SPAs became a thing.
You're not an evolutionary dead end. Evolution takes place at the level of genes, not individuals. If you contribute to the survival and reproductive success of your family, then the genes you have in common with them will live on.

Think of the honey bee. Most of the individuals in the hive will never reproduce but they all contribute to the survival of the genes they share in common.

Humans in a family are not all identical like worker bees but the principle of gene conservation and propagation is the same.
What a catastrophe. Can't wait until the EU is disbanded and that dysfunctional union is laid to rest in the history books for good.

All I can say is I hope Europeans enjoy their new walled garden, because I sure as hell won't be complying with these rules.
People need to understand that fake news is an algorithm used against people - whether or not there is tech or AI pushing it. Those who push fake news know how it programs humans.

Having humans interpret what is real/fake is hard to do without bias, cheating, manipulation, favoritism and so much more.

Google knows social signal processing, it could implement ranking/scoring based on sites like PolitiFact and how many major news outlets are covering it, how the bios of the writers/contributors are - what the social graph of their reach is yaddy yaddy yadda.

We have signals for so much - that even humans use to sort/score what is real/what isn't. An AI would be able to do much of this based on social graphs and understanding of sources, targets, links, attributions and so much more.

For me, the scary thing isn't using AI to filter known lies, the scary thing is that we have AI that can do this but don't do anything because we have let the value of fake news be worth more than the value of standing for truth.