skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure I follow you here.

If you 'cause me trouble' on drugs/alcohol, that is a decision you are making as an individual. If you drink and drive, if you punch me, you are actively choosing to cause harm.

Being drunk or high isn't really a valid excuse for bad behavior or committing crimes.
Documents Show N.S.A.’s Wiretap Moves Before Congress’s Approval
Unfortunately, there aren't any great APIs in the health IT world but we integrate with various hospital systems. We do not ask staff to enter any additional data than what is already in these systems
Interesting, didn't realize hUMA was coming to PCs. Thanks.

The GDDR5 behavior is a much bigger hurdle than I think most people realize.
Yeah, I edited it, but understand I figured you were the kind of person who wouldn't barf all over a thread with your spiritual beliefs, and meant that part as a compliment.

I've advocated your same guidelines in the past, as they promote a healthy site/forum, but they are not HN's guidelines. PG has actually encouraged the antithesis of your guidelines in the past, so I'm compelled to tell you as much.
Should Our Tools Dictate Our Passion?
Mostly because I've always used wxpython for my python 2.7 projects.

I'm doing some reading about PyQt5 now and I think I'll give it a shot.

Thanks for the reply.
My girlfriend and I noticed this in 2001 with the movies "Sword Fish" and "Traffic", We made fun of it and called it the cool movie filter. lol.
The money insiders make would otherwise go to other parties/counterparties when the news became public. Insiders charge a rent on everyone else. So do non-insiders doing above-board sales research, but they are subject to competition, keeping the rent/tax down.
In addition to the rent, there is also a benefit provided in accurately pricing securities, but there is no law of economics saying this benefit will exactly cancel out the rent or anything of the sort.

There are fundamental things (like limited number of sufficiently high-level insiders) restricting competition in conventional insider trading to minimize the rent charged from insider "research".
Awesome news Jeff! I have been waiting for this since I asked for it at a DynamoDB presentation ;)
Agreed, much of the startup advice from YC and other outlets is geared toward 20-somethings, and thus may come across as simplistic to people who have:

a) worked in a professional setting (e.g. a large corporation)
b) managed other people
c) been married
d) been alive since before 1980
A collection of tools of a simple web guy
> unless the SF rental situation differs markedly from NYC's (pre-2008 crash), most rental situations don't require the applicant to be the first to call. It's a seller's market, and even if the seller wants to get out quick, they still want the best of several applicants to choose from, and there are things that keep the process from being an instant transaction (background checks, and the like)

The SF rental situation may be more different than you expect. When I rented an apartment there (2012), I got the apartment by virtue of being the first person, of a big group who all showed up to see a different apartment in the same building, to return with a money order for the rent.
Stash on Docker
Price it so the sibling-company breaks even. You don't care which company's making the profit, you own both of them.
Conceding! Conceding! Eject! Eject! Eject! :)
They also do this in a TV series called "Charlie Jade." In the show there are three known universes and each has its own distinct color and hue. You know which one you're looking at by the color change alone. It really helps keep the universes (and by extension, the timeline and story) straight.
One thing that isn't mentioned is that realism doesn't seem "cinematic." It's just like people not liking high frame rate because of the "soap opera effect," or even some people's preference for black and white. Visible grain, non-subtle bokeh effects and lens flare, etc are other things that aren't realistic per se, but for some reason they make it seem less "cheap" and bring more emotional weight than a more perfectly realistic image.

I think these sorts of forced palettes do the same thing. Maybe a different color combination will become trendy at some point, but for now, orange/blue is a pretty safe bet that it will achieve the emotional effect, without it just looking weird.
Great comment. What ROSS does in addition to what you've described is ask questions against the context of a case. The case facts (inputed by users) will be factored into the queries so as to produce the most relevant information (rules, precedents and other connections across a vast body law) that would take an associate (especially a junior) many hours to unlock. And absolutely, ROSS is not the end. The quality of the execution lies in a legal researcher working well with a cognitive system that provides around-the-clock legal intelligence. And e-discovery is definitely on the radar for the future.
They asked "When starting a personal project, which Python version do you use?" Strangely, they did not ask "When starting a production project, which Python version do you use?"
Not really. The only hurdle is the developer agreements. Even game engines that are able to run on consoles (Godot, for instance), generally won't give you the export templates unless you're an official developer.
Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen
My understanding from the linked paper in another thread, is not to do it the way Spivak does. That is, the article says Lamport "walked us through a proof of a corollary to the mean value theorem from that textbook, pointing out statements that he felt were not precise or rigorous enough and rewriting the proof using his technique."

My reading of that is that Lamport found faults in Spivak's approach. Did I missread that?

I will say that this really looks like a way to write proofs for computers to read, moreso than a way to write them for other people. Probably has great value, but not too surprising that it isn't widespread.
Great news!

But my heart still yearns for CMYK and (to a lesser extent) spot colour support.
The keyboard dictation feature in iOS is indispensable to me. It's about 90-95% accurate which is just enough for me to be able to generate any written communication faster.
It's not a great film from a storytelling perspective, but I think Beyond the Black Rainbow is a fantastic example of this sort of use of color
Protein folding can't be "solved". For a small protein of 100 amino acids, there are 2^432 (20^100) possible combinations (http://xray.bmc.uu.se/~lars/biowww/Proteinfolds.html). Bitcoin's SHA256 has only 2^256 possible values. So in a practical sense protein folding is a harder problem that Bitcoin mining.
Handling Security Issues in OS Projects
I don't think that example is insider trading. Insider trading is trading on material nonpublic information that was obtained in violation of a duty of confidence (and for a benefit). Do Chipotle's suppliers have a duty of confidence regarding their order sizes? I suspect either it's explicit in the contract, or they don't.
Your claim is completely worthless. My claim makes perfect sense and is backed up by the existence of booster shots as well as CDC recommendations.

I sincerely hope people who work harsh environments don't disregard tetanus boosters every seven years because of unfounded claims of longer effect.

The reason some studies may claim a longer immune term is more likely due to reinfection than vaccine induced immunity. For example, polio is often present, even in first world environments. So its only normal for people to have a testable immune response that would look like immunization response. Clear double-blind studies can not be done because there is no way to differentiate at this time.
> are these really such strange vernacular?

Nah. I'm proud to say I got everything except Brobdingnagian, which on further investigation is more of a literary reference than a "real" word.
Spoken like a true Stalinist, and so true. It would be complete debauchery. Unless the comments auto-delete after N minutes. This would create a very interesting metric giving insights into psychology at the same time. That is, it would be interesting to explore the relationship between N minutes on downvote thread and number of down vote comments in other threads. With conclusions like "1.2 minutes is just enough downvote-thread time for the individual to feel they released their angst enough while also having a R powered reduction on complaints overall in other threads"

I don't know why HN doesn't do these types of crazy experiments in social/political science. I'd have a heigh day.
you can also directly edit the SVG though a very nice dialog that gives convenient and organized access to the XML tree.
Great breakdown of the relationship challenges startups and agencies face. This is a beneficial read for anyone looking to work with startups. I've experienced startup timelines, vocabulary and methods creating barriers with those unfamiliar.
How BitShares Prevents Front Running
I have issues with open source projects suddenly becoming companies and startups. A few people profiting off the hard work of a community.
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To be fair, you don't always have a choice when starting a production project.
I find C to be interesting -- my gut suspects it's probably correct & accurate, but not having ever been married I'd be interested in hearing you elaborate further on that point specifically.
Coming Soon – AWS SDK for Go
How would you bring 300 religions to work together in an organization?
The Definition of Broadband Has Changed in the US
I was just about to post this link as well. Glad someone else had the same thought. Cracked, while an absurd humor site on the surface, is one of the most reliable resources of new-perspective intellectual stimulation on the web, IMO.
There are a group of people who suggest that downvoting should only be used to hide comments that don't add to discussion.

PG has said that downvote to disagree is acceptable.

Can you point to anything in the guidelines or introductions or faqs about not downvotig for disagreement?

Since it's impossible to eliminate downvotig for disagreement you may as well just let it happen.
I've never seen an anti-vax argument that was supported by real data. What I have seen are things like:

1. They cause autism.

2. They contain nasty, toxic chemicals.

3. They are unnecessary.

4. They are unsafe (in some unspecified way) and are just pushed for profit by big pharma.

The only one that comes even close to being supported by data is #1, and that's completely fake data.
I miss the price guide :-)
Just curious, what evidence (if any) would cause you to change your views?

Also, given that you keep bringing up CS as somehow unique, does this mean you attribute other STEM fields without women (e.g. physics, aerospace engineering) to a different cause?
Scala is an interesting language -- It's big - there are a lot of concepts, and on first glance, I didn't particularly like it because it wasn't very opinionated - there are 5 different ways to do anything, and no real indication on which one is "right".

For me, taking Martin Odersky's Coursera class made the language "click" for me. That is, Odersky invented the language to express a particular way of thinking about problems and breaking them into components. The "other" ways of doing things are side effects of this, but there's a definite thought process that Scala facilitates that is a bit unnatural, or at least unintuitive in other languages. It's worth trying.
Even for the computer it is Ω(n), because it must transmit the entire problem to the person.
How many Goldfish can you fit on your cat before it wakes up?
There are a host of people who feel like disagreeing with their opinion is a personal attack.

When I realized that, it explained many things.
Google Offering 24 Hours of Inbox Invites for All
I'm in the same boat: it's weird seeing the comments describing the blu-ray as "green-ray" and that things are SO GREEN when I literally can't see it. For those of you with decent color sight, was the original... more orange?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguis...
I love "sesquipedalian", because it's so self-referential.
Right now, we have vaccines that are perfectly safe, but some people think they are unsafe. In a completely free market, economic forces would create a profit incentive to fix the perception of safety, while weakening the incentive to provide actual safety, so we'd have vaccines that are less safe but everybody thinks are safe. This is not an improvement.
I just mean that married people have experience partnering closely with another person to achieve shared goals, and will have hopefully developed some strategies to do that effectively.
I made a custom one that I like:

-.5 | 1.5 | -.5
1.5 | -3 | 1.5
-.5 | 1.5 | -.5

It produces a cool digital edge blurring effect. What's that called?
DanBC speaks truth, and I stand with egg on my face for playing the racism card, when it turned out I was actually the racist one for assuming the name was a joke.
I'm not convinced that ones age has anything to do with it. Personally, I think it has to do with maturity.

A person is simply the culmination of ones experiences, training and beliefs. For some, it takes 40 years to build those things and for others it takes 20 years.

Although age and maturity usually correlate directly, it's not always true. We've all met people in their 40s that act like they're 18, and 18 (ok, maybe 25) year olds that act like they're 40.

Disclaimer: I'm in my 20s
Now if there were only a way to automate the showing up, preparing the paper work, competing against other bidders, and the remainder of the apartment leasing process.

Task rabbit? Or one of those other personal assistant as a service sites?
This is great to hear. If this had come out 8 months ago, we would have definitely not taken out AWS from the running. Our startup choose Go as its primary language, and Amazon's lack of a Go SDK definitely turned us away.
"I understand where you are coming from, but I'm not trying to engage you in a 'sophomoric' debate."

Considering the entire rest of your message consists of you essentially trying to lord over me whatever superiority you seem to think you have, and not missing an opportunity to slide a snide comment in, which I'd also observe is consistent with your original post, I've come to the conclusion that the rest of your post belies this claim. You're being abrasive and abusive while trying to pretend to be so much more open minded.

No sale. I recognize that tactic and refuse to engage with it. I'm sticking with my original assessment; you're being too sophomoric to engage with, and I reject your attempts to psychology me into engaging with you in the presupposed frame of your superiority.
I had no idea that LibreOffice can't be forced to recognize that a .txt file is CSV; that sounds annoying.

Watch out, though, for handling CSV files in Excel if you're using an encoding other than ANSI.

Excel for Windows does not correctly write UTF-8 files[1]

Excel for Mac lists 'UTF-8' as an import CSV encoding option but Excel for Mac does not import UTF-8 CSV files[2]

[1]Response from MS employee: "Unfortunately, not all applications can encode files in UTF-8 by default, and Microsoft Excel is one of them."
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_...

[2]Response from MS employee: "Excel for Mac does not currently support UTF-8" -- despite UTF-8 being an option in Excel for Mac
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-m...
I was formerly in the same lab as Leslie. As a side project, we (Tom Rodeheffer, mainly) used TLA to verify the correctness of Naiad's coordination protocol. The protocol is very simple (distributed reference counting), and my initial "proof sketch" was about two paragraphs long (and very unconvincing, apparently :). Tom's TLA+ version was closing in on 200 pages, available at

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/183826/paper.pdf

A short publication about it, with some reflective discussion of why it was hard to write down, is at

http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/199767/clock-verif2.pdf

My understanding is that part of the problem was that Tom needed to explain (re-prove) many meta-facts we take for granted.
I don't think they can. The information age is rendering national governments obsolete.
That doesn't matter though. Choice or not, what do people use?
^agreed - no ANN can be treated as a 'jack of all trades' because of the success found in one domain (it seems more networks are designed to boost performance on one type of data)
For abstract patterns, points are chosen "randomly" (grid with randomised offsets). For photo-based ones, I'm using JSFeat's YAPE06 (http://inspirit.github.io/jsfeat/#features2dcorner), plus some own customisations. I'm constantly looking for ways to improve generating photo-based patterns; if anyone has some ideas here, I'd be happy to listen.

I've played with genetic algorithms, but without anything practical. Indeed, this might be more appropriate for desktops.

I've experimented with Voronoi too, but the results weren't as pretty. The cells were more rounded; and the low poly style was gone.
Analysis is not pedantry.
Some words are ambiguous enough that a dictionary cannot fully describe. I think this is one of those. Second, wikipedia is a horrible source to trust for anything debatable.
A New Faculty Challenge: Fending Off Abuse on Yik Yak
Is it a transfer of income, or a genuine loss of resources? It seems like the losses to everyone else are offset one to one by the gains to the insider traders.
> And similarly, the right to free speech has traditionally been seen as protecting the rights of minorities, whereas recently we've seen an uptick in folks claiming that free speech mostly protects those with power.

This seems like a self-refuting argument. You want privacy if you need to be protected from those in power. You want someone else to not have privacy if you want those in power to protect you from them. But those in power being against you is practically the definition of a persecuted minority.

Think about the phrase "women and minorities." The reason women have to be mentioned separately is that they're actually a slight majority of the population, but not (always) an ideological majority of the power base. What matters is who has the majority of the power, not who has the majority of the population.

But then that goes the other way too. There are specific issues on which a demographic minority (or women) have the support of the majority of power. In that case the "minority" consists of e.g. falsely accused defendants.

Which means that when you hear some historical minorities saying they don't want privacy, what you're really hearing is that in some cases they are no longer ideological minorities. Which I suppose you could call progress, but that doesn't make the new majority any more right than the old majority about what what the minority needs.
The porting question could possibly be explained by people just not bothering to port older stuff. I've got production code running in Python 2, and it's fine where it is. New stuff is in 3, and if I have to rework the old stuff at some point it'll probably get an upgrade.
Ask HN: Special Celluar Network for Defense Contractors?
i was just looking at the specs for Boeing's Black Smartphone http://www.boeing.com/assets/pdf/defense-space/ic/black/boeing_black_smartphone_product_card.pdf

and this really Stuck out:

"Boeing Black has a dual-SIM capability that enables users to switch between government and commercial networks."

So are defense contractors etc. using a separate cell network?
Yup. Going to the third party provider as if it owns your data is a complete bypass of the 4th amendment. To make an analogy it would be like the federal government having to serve a warrant/court order/gar order only to your local mayor to search your house without your permission.

Imagine how messed up that would be. Yet, it's exactly what happens in the digital world, and somehow we've learned to take it for granted. If it's your data, the warrant should be served to you. As for terms of service and such of online services that say once you upload your data to their cloud, then it becomes "theirs", that's complete bull, and such a thing should be made illegal.
Marriage is not the only way to acquire the skills mentioned.

At 15, I was living in a small village in Chile, without parents. There were 2 English speakers in this town, and we learned to work together to learn a new language, adopt a new culture, reconcile differences, and more.

Those experiences have shaped my outlook on everything from relationship management to problem solving to effective communications.

IMHO, a great way to become an effective entrepreneur is to immerse yourself in high stress, difficult situations that require on-the-fly problem solving over and over again.
I just finished a course in Coq - it was pretty fun. Seems like something of the same the guys paper is about.
Extending this a bit further, I think this applies to things like cars or cosmetics or fashion or wine. Pretty much any consumer good actually.

I remember a study (might be from the Ariely book) where they took wine from the same bottle, put it into two decanters, and said one was way more expensive than the other. People were asked their impressions of the two wines. The more expensive wine received rave reviews while the supposedly cheaper one was marked only passable.

Interesting on one level, sad on another. And exploitable for profit, as some smart marketers have been doing for a while.
It's using WebRTC which is peer-to-peer for the actual audio/video streams, you just need some kind of intermediary to exchange SDPs to connect in the first place. (There are some examples of clever workarounds for this, like copying and pasting SDP strings over IM, but they're not a good user experience.)
Many of the industries/groups you cited don't have nearly as much wealth wrapped up in them. That's what makes the tech one worse, more wealth concentrated with less gender equality than others.

Once you reduce that list to ones with as much wealth as tech, its a pretty dang short list and it'd be interesting at that point to compare gender % in each.
Machine Learning Slack Group
Hey guys! Like many of you on here I've become absolutely fascinated by machine learning and related algorithms. Unfortunately it's very hard for me to learn by myself. Especially when watching a bunch of course videos or trying to understand academic papers that seem way over my head! I'm a developer by trade and have always learned best by hacking away at problems, and learning with other people!

So I've decided to create a machine learning slack channel at: https://machilearn.slack.com

If you're even the slightest bit interested in:
-Learning with other people.
-Being apart of an excited community.
-Becoming someone's mentor (Paid/Free).

Please comment below with your email and I'll invite you to the channel.
I wonder if it would be possible to create a parallel stock market where insider trading is permitted? People could then choose to trade shares (the same shares?) on the normal stock market, or the new free-for-all stock market.
If people who knowingly infect you with AIDS get thrown in jail, why should it be any different with people who knowingly decide to increase your chances of contracting any other disease?

I say supervised interactions with society is a very sane compromise for people who pose a danger, but may still have something to offer. As opposed to outright killing them.