skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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No, comparison of text rather than comparison of ASTs is is better for that purpose. There are many good reasons for ASTs to be equivalent and few good reasons for text to match.
Louis Theroux's documentary Law and Disorder in Johannesburg touches on the topic of private security. As someone with no experience of such situations I found this fascinating:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZJ1w9-Umcw

One section shows a situation similar to that which you described, in which the private security guards beat a suspected criminal to discourage repeat behaviour. Interestingly, the most brutal of the private security guards later falls foul of a mob of citizens, and must be protected/arrested by the real police (there's a chance I'm confusing this with another Theroux documentary).
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This is a classic example of open-loop behaviour. People behave like assholes, but don't get the feedback they would be getting in real life.

It's like the restaurant in tourist areas. Bad meals? Unfriendly staff? No problem - the customers won't be back, no matter whether the service is good or bad. They are tourists and will go home tomorrow.

There's no tit for tat, no negative feedback. This doesn't work in engineering, and it doesn't work in human interaction either.
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I am not sure. I think that descriptive identifiers can indicate the type and be augmented by documentation.
The Nobel committee doesn't give out the prize for theoretical advances that aren't backed up by experiment. Since the data was not yet overwhelmingly conclusive at this time last year, this year's award was basically the earliest possible award date for a decades-old idea.
Tell me something, where do you draw the line? Do you think it's okay to make offensive jokes online? In the workplace? Just with close friends? What, if any, kind of offensive jokes are too offensive? Jokes about being overweight? sexist? racist?

Or is having to think about any of this too much trouble; your definition of "obsessively avoiding". Maybe you don't bother at all drawing a line? Perhaps You just say what you feel like to appeal to your/friends' sense of humor?
First time this is reported to me. Please check the last slider. It produces sonic content above 16 kHz. You may have pushed that slider to the max because of a possible hearing loss. Although the sound you hear is quiet, the acoustic pressure may be higher. This is the only reason I can think of...
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There is never ever going to be a period of time in the human history, there was none in the past, nor will there be in the future where we shall attain peaceful uniform equality among humans. The very concept is against our very internal wiring. Equality means, every one gets the same regardless of their efforts in getting it. This is a very strange concept, and the human understanding of motivation rejects it.

My crystal ball is probably murkier than yours but I would disagree with the assertion that that humans will never achieve equality as you define it. All our current systems of economics and power are predicated on the belief that "resources" are limited and must therefore be allocated (owned, shared, distributed, exchanged) on the basis of scarcity. In such a system, the question of distribution becomes critical; the models been some combinations of "according to effort" or "according to need". However in a "post-scarcity" environment (free or cheap energy, for example) in which the belief is no longer true, other models of distribution become possible. It's far fetched, but I wouldn't bet against it. Just think of the various social, political, economic and technological changes over the past few hundred years.
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The real issue is that the image science has of itself is completely wrong.

For instance, all of the talk about the "scientific method" and "reproducibility" means very little, because few scientific results are ever reproduced. It's no secret that the median scientific paper is wrong.

If you look at the history of general relativity you can see pretty clearly how scientists are stumbling in the dark.

Great minds including Einstein, Rosen and Feynmann couldn't make up their collective minds as to if gravity waves were real into the 1970s.

Then in the 1970s a generation of physicists spun an elaborate theory of the semiclassical black hole that never made sense, because it introduced an "information paradox".

When you solve for the shape of space-time near a black hole you get a singularity at the event horizon as clear as day. For years you'd take an intro physics class and somebody much older than you with tenure would then do a sketchy coordinate transformation that made the singularity go away at the event horizon letting you see a different one inside.

Quantum mechanics (semiclassical or exact) clearly states that the interesting stuff at a black hole happens at the event horizon which is an information rich object. That coordinate transformation voids the warrantee on the space-time continuum and as a result the whole picture of classical black hole interiors has been wrong for decades.
Using all caps does not make an obviously false statement true.
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Oh dear, I've upset the fanbois!

Antennagate

Magsafe power adaptor recall

Scratchgate/Scuffing

Maps

There's no doubt many companies/products have glitches and design faults, but the eulogizing needed a bit of balance.
You made many valid points! Thanks for sharing these.
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Funny enough, I wasn’t even angry at first. I was actually kind of amused. Who doesn’t laugh at unfortunate shots of poorly dressed strangers? I’ve certainly done it before; the Internet runs on this kind of anonymous scorn.

If you read the article, she was more unhappy about the extremely negative comments from people, not the original picture and joke.
This is only true for very basic Ethernet hardware. Various interrupt mitigation schemes came along in the late 90s along with gigabit ethernet. Even low-end Realtek gigabit chips have various segmentation offload and interrupt coalescing features these days.
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Thank you for sharing it. Really insightful.
Could anyone recommend some solid introductory material on data analysis/data visualisation?

I'm thinking this data set seems like a fun way to fill a rainy weekend, going for a dive into these worlds :)
http://cryptome.org/2013/10/sadler-white-complaint.pdf
Relevant posting from 2 weeks ago about a similar case (anti hipster):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412708
Reducing drug abuse was once the goal, but not anymore. It's all about punishing people now.
This is such a great idea - good luck with it!:-)
Curious on your analytics process (how you gather and compute since it is a lot of data/events and virtually realtime) ?
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My guess would be that people downvoted you for your reddit-style comments that add nothing to the conversation rather than "the fanbois" taking up for Apple. You aren't new here so I assume you either (a) knew that, or (b) are assigning the blame for the wrong reasons. Had you taken as much time (or put in as much thought) with your original comment as you did with this follow-up, I suspect you would've had upvotes.
It's legal, but you increase the odds that the IRS might pay extra attention and consider whether the company is de-facto US. I don't know US regulations in that respect, but many countries give tax authorities wide latitude in determining that an entity is due tax in their country even if it's not incorporated there.

Note, though that theres still nothing illegal with it (unless you try to explicitly hide what you're doing) - it may "just" impact your tax bill.

If the company hosts it's service in Europe, sells to European customers and otherwise does not have much of a footprint in the US, chances are good they'd accept that the company is foreign.

Of course any income he takes out - whether salary or dividends - will still be taxable in the US (subject to any tax treaties if he were to do the work in the EU too).
They could have awarded it to the CMS and ATLAS experiments as well. No need to award it to CERN.
>and to the fact that it costs more to build a network than it does in small, densely populated European countries.

No. Finland has population density 16/km^2, United States has 34.2/km^2

It's not ever correct for urban areas. Population density in Helsinki (urban area) is 1800/km^2 spread out American city like LA has urban area density 3200/km^2.

The number of cell towers is related to number of people using the services. If you have densely populated area you add them more close to each other because ether has bandwidth limits. The cost increases only if the population density is so low that towers are not utilized even when they are as sparsely placed as possible.

I could not find prepaid provider in Finland with strict limits for data transfer. For example in Saunalahti mobile prepaid 0.861 EUR/MB (maximum cost is 1.9 EUR/day, after that data transfer is free). In other words, you get unlimited data transfer for ~$57 per month.
> I am now thinking we are confused between leisure and procrastination.

It's even simpler than that. We're addicted to the instant gratification of easily digestible information packets. Humans like to be informed and we innately think this is valuable, even when it isn't.
Look up Godel's ontological proof before getting all ragey on me.
Of course, philistines hardly understand the concept of any proof and end up attacking the conclusion. So the point is usually lost on the intended audience.
> if you continue to flood the internet with begging, people will become completely immune to those types of requests

Is there research to confirm this?

It could be that people's willingness to respond to "internet begging" doesn't tend to zero but rather a nonzero constant as they encounter more of it. In that case you'd be better off with more websites that do it.
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>>However in a "post-scarcity" environment

Scarcity of which commodity? The western civilization is already at a point where food and clothes aren't even a problem. Yet the debates about rich and poor are common.

Problem isn't the lack of things. The problem is the people thinking that rewards must go in proportion to efforts. That will never change.

Tomorrow if every one were to get free food, clothes and a home to leave. There will still be arguments of inequality as to why its unfair the rich can drive a Ferrari while the poor can't.
> But Kanban doesn't let them.

My point was simply that Kanban is helpful for solving non-pathological cases: people who don't really understand how to manage a software project and find the framework helpful for pushing them towards a known-productive decent workflow. What it – and any other productivity system – can't deal with are the pathological cases, so a key skill for engineers is recognizing when you are likely to be able to make a cultural change and when you should simply move on because the company isn't yet ready to break bad habits.
Pterodactyl song? :)

(And yes, I know Pterodactyls aren't actually birds.)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11505
The award is for the theory that is confirmed. The people of CERN didn't get awarded because they didn't come up with the theory, they just tested it.
You are forgetting that it is that meat which is doing the building. And physics is subject to the laws of math. If ghat hunk of meat is simple, shouldn't that simplicity stop it from understanding itself.
Every single business doing really good needs to take great attention to security (as well to other areas).

But, if you are a startup, just starting I mean, I don't think you need to be a security guru at all. Whatsapp started sending messages in plain text and look how many users they got. That's because users didn't matter about security until the company was so big that security became a real threat.
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Friend, if something so well written and argued leaves you feeling out of place, perhaps you'd do better to examine yourself for faults, rather than the essay.
As a fan of the stack exchange network, I can recommend you history.stackexchange.com . It's still beta but has already many interesting questions and answers. For example you can sort them by votes: http://history.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes and see the most upvoted questions. And wenn you see an interesting topic and want to know more about it, just google it.
He addressed the kernel / userspace limit by noting that 10GigE card performs better. At this level, I'd start checking driver settings — particularly since, as he noted, this is rather different from the traffic most things are optimized for.
So you are saying a service designed for the lowest common denominator suffers from the lowest common denominator abusing it?

Why do people have facebook accounts, seriously?
Look's like it's been removed. Damn.

Edit: Not removed, just unaccessible. 403.
Bird sounds played at slow speed sounds incredible. Couldn't you just layer the natural bird sounds with some down-shifted ones?
Which is, as we can see in the GP, is hard ;).

Whatsapp - broken encryption
Google Hangout - NSA
Texts - NSA (and others)
Facebook Messenger - NSA
iMessage - probably NSA, though I don't know.

and so forth. Most commonly used text services are woefully leaky.
I wanted to point that either.
In both cases the bullies behaviour changed the minute they realized it was a photograph of an actual human being who could feel pain from their comments.
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We need a constitutional amemdment to apply the equal protection clause to the federal government.
I often find that physical problems that have to do with appearance rather than functionality of a human being are often ridiculed at. The ones making fun never realize that they are taking a potshot at something that you often have no control over. Some are sensitive to realize it while others aren't. I have friends that fall in both categories. Unless you know the problem, you tend to take it in a light and often mean spirited way. I'd say that you work towards keeping your spirits high and learn to forgive the ones who are making fun. Most of them are ignorant, not malicious.
I applaud your attitude of taking the issue head-on. For my case, I've trained myself to forget such shortcomings with myself and most often I don't realize that they exist.
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Anyone looking for more praise of idleness should look into the works of Tom Hodgkinson. How to Be Idle is particularly brilliant.
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This was already discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6468617 a week ago.
Not really. In at least some of the internet communities that do this kind of thing, there is actually pressure to conform to the community's norms - it's just that the norms are fucked. For instance, anyone who stands up for the woman in a picture like this will get called all sorts of insults in order to pressure them to back down.
Those schemes have varying levels of effectiveness. I personally experienced this wasn't a given even as late as the 2005-2010 era, when our purchases were shifted towards certain models specifically due to the issues with drivers or buffer limits.

I learned never to underestimate how much functionality a major vendor will be willing to cut if it saves $.10 per unit shipped…
Are there any plans to support gzip in GET the way http-get does?
Multiple awards seemed to be sponsored or product unique, that is why I wonder on this point. Certain items I would imaging having a hands on beforehand would be quite leg up. Excuse my mixed metaphors ;).
Seems a misconfiguration error, which occurred in May, revealed that one of the dedicated servers used to run SR was owned by GigaTux.

http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/10177/anyone-use-gigatux
This is one of the (probably positive) arguments for Google's "real-name" policy on G+. Perhaps another tactic we could use is to pick the most blatantly rude and obnoxious commenters on 4chan, etc and DOX them ... Once identified, we could comment on their pictures and let their family and friends know how they've been behaving.

The worst part is, I think we'd find many of the worst offenders are 14 or so ... they either haven't developed their humanity yet, or they'll be our worst nightmare as young adults.
I know exceptions. For example the Argentinian outsourcing company Globant had an excellent staff and they have low wages. Obviously the employees move to other companies once new opportunities arises.
Furthermore, it's not the users' fault that 4sq isn't sufficiently rate limiting or otherwise protecting this data. Why should arbitrary users be able to see the social graph of others they're not friends with? Also, why should people outside of your immediate one-hop social graph be able to see your checkins?

Giving it to 4sq for data mining is different than giving it to UMN and/or the whole internet for data mining and/or deanonymization.
Does NaCL automagically solves the problem of streaming encrypted data? I don't think so. You still have to know quite a lot to not mess up.
Birds are reptiles though.
> Communities like HN have a much stronger super-ego, and unwanted behavior is put down

Before we sprain something with collective back-patting, have you seen what happens when anyone suggests that HN might have issues with gender or privilege? That class of unwanted behaviour has a bimodal response: some forms are slapped down but others are dismissed or even encouraged.
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Perhaps you need to take a step back and realise that making a joke does not mean misunderstanding an issue. I for one certainly found it amusingly ironic that in an article supposed to be sympathetic to a fat girl had an "Enlarge" button on the picture. Not to mention that the article it's self in fact propagates the image even more.

Also, are you really saying humor has no place on HN? I see nothing in the FAQ about banning humor.
> I don’t generally view my body size as positive or negative — it simply is. I eat right (most of the time) and I exercise (an inordinate amount), but it does little, thanks to a struggle with polycystic ovarian syndrome and a failing thyroid gland. I’m strong, I’m flexible and my doctor assures me my health is good, but the fact remains: I’m larger than someone my height should be.

I feel for her and the negative comments are reprehensible, but what I hear in this particular paragraph are excuses. Having issues with POS and the thyroid gland do not make it impossible to lose weight, just more difficult. My advice: ignore the haters and come up with a game plan with your doctor to lose the weight in a steady and health way.
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Please, can you post me an article about the addicitive nature, and the negative health effect of LSD ?
I think you just declared war on MMORPGs.
Have the sensors ever been good? I've always found the compass to either constantly lose calibration, or when it finds it, it's a good 90° off where it should be. Since they introduced the hardware in the iPhone 4, essentially.
Most large US banks or banks with a US presence will allow opening a US bank account reasonably easy. Call around. It is generally easier to open one in person (but if you make a trip, make sure you know what identification they require first as it varies wildly), but at least the larger banks tends to have no problems handling foreign account holders with the caveat that the paperwork can be a bit annoying.

I once opened a Chase account from Norway, and had to go to the US Consulate in Oslo to get an apostille on the application form (basically the consulate had to attach a document by seal that confirmed they had seen my id and matched the details to what I claimed on the application, and watched me sign the form - apostilles are expensive, I had to pay about $100 that time, and it's unusual to require it to be done at a consulate or embassy rather than "just" a recognised notary public).

TD Bank is another alternative I have more recent experience with - it's a Canadian bank group with branches in lots of US states, including Delaware, and a company I'm involved with had them open US accounts for a US company we set up, though we also had an account with them in Canada opened from Canada by a Canadian citizen, so I don't know how easy or hard it'd be to get an account set up by them from elsewhere - they did fedex me documents to the UK to sign, though. And didn't require any apostilles or other expensive verification.

Depending on your location, you may also find it possible to open a US held bank account from your home country by looking at which (if any) of your local banks have branches in the US (this applies in general for many country pairs, but especially if you want to open accounts in major financial centres - my old Norwegian bank has a branch in London, for example). Note that in many cases they will have "branches" that are not generally open to consumers and may not be advertised, so you'll want to check online and call their business banking people. Major international banks like Barclays or HSBC for example may often be an alternative.

It is also easier if you "only" need a dollar account as opposed to a US held account - many banks offer accounts in the major currencies without offer a general banking service in the relevant countries -, though I'm assuming you actually need a US account.
You are aware that a disease such as the one listed can affect body weight and some people genuinely cannot lose it? The same way that some anorexics physically can't gain weight because their body won't allow it.

If you're not trolling (which it looks like you are) then you are incredibly ignorant and need to poke your head out there a bit and do some research :)
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It must be nice to know everything about a persons health and life so easily.

I bet it makes you feel really good about yourself.
Perl. It really whips the camel's ass.

FTFY
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