skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if your measure of "objective" goodness is utilitarian calculus, as it seems to be, you're leaving out the fact that employees getting the shaft tends to correlate with cheaper goods and services. I disagree that this is any more objective than my initial assessment that "this is OK for now" or my later assessment that "this sucks, I'm going back to school." But this all comes back to what I said about "objective" being a slippery term. You and I do not agree about what it means.
>A YouTuber with viewerships as high as mainstream TV shows can barely afford "2 guys and a mic."

Do you have a source for that? because it seems to me like there's a lot of youtubers out there making pretty good money.
Our difference of opinion is that I think you are refusing to make bad the enemy of good
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Please, no. As someone who actually wants to play games on PC the proliferation of launchers has become a huge pain. You have to log in to them separately, they all want to update about as frequently as I want to play the games in question, and they all have their own unique ways to annoy (let's all use different key bindings for overlays! Let's all embed web browsers! Let's all have our own friend management!) If it weren't for Loot Boxes, I would say that launchers are the worst thing to happen to PC gaming in the 10s.
Perhaps not everyone thinks their career is the most/ only important thing. They might even actually care about others rather than simply seek to virtue signal. Imagine that!
A color palette generator for the design 'impaired'
I think you’re suffering from a lack of imagination. It’ll be interesting to see where closed loop directed evolution[0], which is what I was alluding to above, ends up in five years with these kinds of advances.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_evolution
I knew pro-anorexia groups use slang like "your friend Ana" to hide their actions, but had to google "thinspo" and "meanspo".

Thinspo (thin inspiration) is positive anorexia reinforcement, like anorexic role model pictures.

Meanspo (mean inspiration) is negative anorexia reinforcement, like aphorisms demonizing fat or destructive critic.

Why are young girls so vulnerable to mental disease trends? What can we do better as a society to strengthen the resilience of kids?
Yeah nice story but it's fake af sorry.
I would love to find a modern USB joystick in the form factor of that Competition Pro. Alas, these days, the only joysticks anyone seems to make are giant hulking flightsticks.
The vast vast majority of advertisers do not want to be displayed next to porn.

Think of tumblr as nothing but a way to get pageviews for Cheerios and Volvo ads. It explains their decisions perfectly.
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I can only wish! "Aardvark Adventures" would finally get its due!
What We Learned from Delta's Product Developer for the A220
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another silly anti-facebook propaganda article from the media. In the real world software devs are still flocking to FB for their high salaries.
I'm also reading the readme and trying to guess why I need this package?

One more question, why treating feature engineering and ML models the same way is important?
Surprisingly, the thing I'd been using it most for, was that it's the only major social media website I know that still shows posts in chronological order.
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Audio as well. I think it was '89 that SoundBlaster came out with sampled audio for PC's. It wasn't anything close to what the Amigas could do though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY9p1oiE1_Y
Oh, and appreciate the correction regardless because I too think English is hard enough for foreigners to learn without these extra introduced wrinkles
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Please don't post snarky, unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
It seems it really depends. My '12 Jetta TDI was super reliable, never had a single problem apart from it destroying the earth and lying about it. But other people with the same year, same car, had all sorts of problems. I feel like there's perhaps quality control issues coming off the line in Mexico.

Our new-used '13 Audi Q5 is made in Bavaria. So we shall see how its quality compares. So far no problems.
Some very dismissive comments on here. For context, Grey Alien is responsible for one of this year's best GDC talks about how to survive in the indie world for 10 years without a hit. He's been doing this for a long time and so I think he's a really great resource for this type of discussion. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/286091/Video_How_to_survi...

Steam is a bit of a linchpin for indie game success for better or worse. The audience is there, understands the platform, and uses it extensively. But just as is the case with any marketplace, they do not serve the interests of indie developers first, they serve the interests of the marketplace owner first (in this case Valve). I think indie devs mostly understand this, but I think its totally reasonable to call out what the current situation is. Grey Alien points out considering other avenues of revenue, but how they mostly just don't show the same level of sales.

My take is that if we want both indie games to be a thing and have good indie games, then maybe Valve should pay attention to this sort of feedback and make sure the hard-working, full-time indie devs are getting enough attention to be sustainable. Otherwise you basically get the Youtube model of lowest common denominator drivel.
Khashoggi friend sues Israeli firm over hacking he says contributed to murder
Show HN: AI background removal for product photos
(Note that I am not a lawyer...)

In a nutshell, copyright ownership gives the owner(s) the choice to license their work as they see fit. The word "copyright" is often misunderstood as meaning "copying of the work in question is prohibited by law" -- people often throw around the phrase "oh, you can't copy that - it's copyrighted!" -- but that's not what copyright means.

Because the misunderstanding generally comes from people's experience with books, I'll use that as an example.

Say I write a book. As the author, I'm now the copyright owner of that book. I could then sell (or give away) that book under whatever terms I choose. In the real world, those terms usually are something like "you may not make and/or distribute copies", and the rationale should be obvious: if an author's income depends on people buying their books, they're going to have a hard time paying bills if people make (or distribute) copies.

But back to me and my book. My income is independent of any copies sold, and if someone can't afford the book (or is even on the fence), I'd prefer they have access to the information contained therein rather than require they pay me. In my case, what I might do is ask that people pay me if they're willing and able, but allow for people to copy and redistribute the book if necessary. I might also allow people to make derivative works. That would be done by providing a license; that could be, say, one of the BSD licenses, or GPL, or one of the Creative Commons, or whatever.

Now, what prevents someone from saying "Hey, cstrahan has written a cool book; I think I'll just copy it and release it under incompatible terms in which everyone is required to pay me and redistribution is prohibited!"

That's where copyright comes in. I'm the owner of the work, and so I'm the only individual legally entitled to distribute that work under my choice of license. If someone tries to distribute my work under an alternate license, they're in violation of copyright law.

In short, copyright ownership and the terms of (re)distribution are two separate concepts that shouldn't be conflated.
I think monitoring the child's online activity is a must, until he's mature enough and at 12 years old, that's basically the start of adolescence, when children aren't very trustworthy :-) On the other hand you can't let them know that you're constantly monitoring them, or they will feel suffocated and start a rebellion.

In other words I think having some kind of anti-virus software on their computer or tablet, that logs the websites they visit, the articles they view, is totally fine.

The problem is that many parents aren't very subtle when bringing up sensitive issues, causing anxiety and determining the child to hide in the future. And I don't have a good solution for it — my son is only 8 and I'm still thinking how to tackle such problems.
> From what I've seen, Tumblr can be a very toxic place and I could understand why advertisers would have problems with the content that ends up next to their ads.

The content you're describing is not affected by this Tumblr policy change. Secondly, the content that you're describing is pervasive across all social media networks (Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and so forth).

I'm sorry for your daughter's health struggles, and I wish her (and you) well, but it's a completely separate topic from today's announcement.
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It would be great if apps could know the display is in grayscale mode (perhaps it is?) so they could switch to a more appropriate design.
This strikes me as a heck of an opportunity to create a system (with a tumblr importer) specifically replicating Tumblr, but for pr0n.

"fumblr" ?
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How to build a training pipeline in Tensorflow without getting lost in the woods
If you talk about ecosystem as a number of community-built packages for a language then this argument is meaningless.

Just start creating packages for this language and very soon you'll have a rich ecosystem too.

This is not an inherent characteristic of a language itself, it's something powered by the community and built over time.

The larger community is => the better ecosystem we get.

Re: lacking features. Feel free to submit a request here https://github.com/dart-lang/language

Dart team is already working on some nice additions to the language. If ADTs are something many community members are looking for, I'm pretty sure it'll be added.

> and brings absolutely nothing useful

Dart is a language that's predictable (no WATs), performant, has the best built-in tooling to facilitate quick iterative development, the best package manager and can be used to build web, mobile and desktop apps with high level of shared codebase between them.

It's not the best language by any means but it's already a good language. And it's getting better and better.
Thank you for this! I had a pretty successful Tumblr where I posted all my crazy, colorful class notes from my math and physics classes and I've been wanting to get all those scans off there and into another place for safe back up. I had hundreds of posts on there, this will actually make it feasible to do this.
This sucks. I just deleted my profile since it'll all get deleted anyway. It's hard to get out there with particular fetish interests in the gay community. It was a great way to meet some genuinely awesome people. Now all I've got is Recon, which is aimed more at dating.
What a silly/confused article. To say it’s not stats because someone can implement a GAN without deep stats knowledge is ignoring everything that’s lead to that point. It’s like arguing there’s no assembly in programming because I can write and understand hello world in Python. Your fancy GAN is not coming from a vacuum. It’s been built on top of a ton of math+stats, and then you end up implementing it in tensorflow which itself is a bunch of abstractions done for you.
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Yeah but those are not adult content. They are undeniably very bad but tumblr is only banning porn.
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There are also many scripts out there in many languages on Github to 'archive' tumblrs. YMMV.

;)
these are the kind of articles i like reading, well written, interesting subject and good content length. Too many times i read bold headlines on HN, "Why X is bringing america down", then go to read it and just when they get to the crux of the matter i find the article has ended smh.
Yeah, good luck with that. :D
That's one way to look at it. Certainly at least the privilege of being able to quit a job in protest is present. Does it change the message of the letter? I don't think so. I'm not sure motivation actually matters all that much in this case.
Nope, not going to convince you. Convince yourself or keep using javascript.