skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It isn't a double standard. Neither side should be engaged in any such thing and anyone who does is wrong regardless of which side they're on.

My point isn't about the standard. It's about selective enforcement. That is, the people I see telling people interested in social justice that they're just too darned strident don't obviously demonstrate an equal desire to police the people causing the injustice.

> It's not about a specific individual case, it's about the concept of applying generalizations to individuals.

I think that can be done poorly, but I think it's a generally useful first-pass heuristic. Especially so the way I'm applying it here, which is to say that my fellow white dudes should spend more time listening to voices they would not otherwise hear before holding for on topics which they are much more likely to be ignorant. Those who have already done the listening are not harmed by that.
Interesting, thanks for the answer!

Is it a local policy? Could there a be a proposition at the local level to change or overturn this?
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Its not 100% agnostic in that I built it for myself — so it includes some custom aliases and variables beyond the typical ones everyone has (gs=git 'st', etc.), That said, it is highly configurable in terms of both what is installed and how it configures your system. Just clone the package first rather than using the one step cURL/wget method of installation.

All you need is a computer running Mac OS X with Git preinstalled and configured. This means if you're using OS X 10.8 or later you're good to go from the start.

Would love to hear some feedback or hear about any new features you think it should have. I'm 'boichee' on GitHub.

Enjoy!
It's fiber directly to the home above 1Gb/s. At or below 1Gb/s, its Docis 3.1 over the cable last mile (with fiber to the neighborhood node/cabinet).

http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/imagine-where-2-...
there is a big problem with harassment on Twitter, but this is capitulation to only one aggrieved group. At least twice Rickey Gervais has tweeted pictures of young women hunters next to their game that has resulted in widespread death threats and harassment of the women. During the Suey Park #CancelColbert thing, I watched as one of her friends systematically told everybody replying to her to "die in a fire", "drink bleach", "kill yourself", and then when someone said the same thing to Park, Park declared she was getting death threats.

This is just going to be another system abused to shut one group of people up while another group does the same shit with impunity. The evidence is all there. Just recently I saw an argument about this on "The Mary Sue" where one person demanded proof that the other side of an Internet flame war was also getting death threats. When it was proven, the person declared that because the death threats against these people were not the result of oppression, they mattered less, and talking about them was "derailing the discussion." This is about ideology, not about a general concern for human safety. Some people being harassed don't count.
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Were there any other side effects observed besides an increase in creativity? Poor quality of the study aside, there are various studies [1] that have shown assorted links between creativity and mental illness.

[1] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/10/...
Mark Zuckerberg is globalist scum who openly spies on his users. He's right...they are dumb f'ers for opting into spybook.
And Osbourne probably preannounced so early because of the competition (to pre-empt users switching). Preannouncement and failure were correlated due to a common cause.

OTOH MS vapourware has scuttled competitors. So it depends on your market power. Osbourne was against IBM and a disruptive tide.
It wasn't just layoffs. "Stratasys also announced a $100 million write-down on Makerbot’s valuation in February."

Link: http://makezine.com/2015/04/17/makerbot-lays-off-100-employe...

But you have a point, they're not dead yet. They might turn the corner, hire again, and regain that $100 million in value someday.
There are lots of people trying brain stimulation on themselves at home using parts or kits bought online.

This kind of bio-hacking seems more difficult than average to do outside of a research or clinical setting.

Besides the normal concerns around placebo and biological differences between people, you've got brains that differ in physical size and shape which can affect electrode placement. Most of the equipment used is not standardized or FDA approved.

Even the body of research that's out there hasnt been widely repeatable.

I really want this to work, maybe this team is steering in a good direction.
The difference is that in the US and EU, stuff generally works. People are educated and there's some sense of doing things properly. This sense seems far more diminished in South America. And many people just come to expect this. So people that can do well, they (rightfully) look out for themselves. When everything sucks, there's just more important stuff than worrying about a state official stealing millions.

If things in the US started falling apart then I'm guessing folks would get upset and demand changes.
I just want fiber for the improved latency. When I had Verizon FiOS in LA I was playing Quake Live with 4ms RTT to local servers! It was glorious.

The worst thing about cable is MoCA ("Multimedia over Coax"), because it seems to always add significant latency/jitter.
I think this quote is apt for what you describe:

Never attribute to malice that which could be equally attributed to incompetence

All that you describe is not unique to Technology or anything else. Anywhere there are power relationships there is the cronyism and nepotism that you describe. I wish I could say I am with you in this fight, but I think it's just a fundamental part of human nature - making countering it a Sisyphean task.

"as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen."
so, google is forced to reveal how it affects and processes search results, at least to the french government (this part was unclear to me). i don't really see what's wrong with that. if google has to approach the market so as to encourage more competition from france, i dont see whats wrong with that either. i dont see why any european company would want to be dependent on an american-based search or really any type of data-handling company at this juncture in international politics. at the very least, reducing google's control on french markets is not a bad thing, and is something google could overcome if it played ball well. if it's not possible to do something fairly, legally, and respectfully, its not worth doing at all.
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Why is it considered "misbehaving" when men don't act like women?

What does it mean to act like a woman? You think you know. Name a behavior, I guarantee I can name a woman who does not engage in said behavior.

But the world is not all roses. Sometimes violence is not only an acceptable way of dealing with a situation, sometimes it is the only way of dealing with it and achieving a successful outcome.

But the GP was not talking about the entire world, they were specifically talking about child bullies.

The bully and I were lucky, as the bully got bored and moved on.

And yet the lesson you draw from this experience is that children should be taught to respond violently to a bully?
I am talking about the uplink to the router.
True uncapped is only ideal if you download a lot. Personally based on my usage, I wish there was an option for fast, cheap, and metered service.
What I generally do is "I've got Rev C for sale. Source and schematics for Rev A remain available on my wiki, sources and schematics for Rev B now are available on the same wiki."
I was trying to make an analogy. JoeAltmaier's comment implies that it's justifiable for a nation to invade another and kick them out if the latter does not have a military, because it's not really a nation (by his definition). So my analogy meant that by that line of reasoning an unarmed neighbor has no "household" and it should be no problem if someone armed invades it and kicks the family out.

Of course this is all messed up. There's no reason a nation shouldn't be considered a nation just because it doesn't have a military.
What may happen to a market in the future does not affect the monopoly status of a business today, nor does it change how a monopoly may or may not be abusing their current (or past) position in one market to unfairly influence other markets.

Google probably[1] has a monopoly in some areas. It doesn't matter what will happen in the future or if they wanted this monopoly - in some markets, they clearly are the dominant[2] player that could set up barriers to competition in other markets if they wanted to. This means new laws apply that restrict some business practices that would otherwise be legal, and they might have governments coming after them if those laws are not followed, like France seems to be doing right now.

[1] probability will vary depending on which sovereign's antitrust laws under consideration
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> but midnight to 8AM is exempted.

That reminds me of old times in Brazil. Phone calls where charged for a single pulse from midnight to 6am or 8am (can't remember). Dial-up was the only option available and we'd all go online between those times, usually sneaking to the computer so our parents wouldn't see us, because we had class the next day :)
The challenge of being an open source hardware manufacturer in the presence of an economy that is better suited to create hardware than you are (China in this case) is that you really have to execute well. I agree it was a huge mistake on Bre's part to leak the upcoming Rep 2. Without incoming orders you have to fund current orders and R&D out of cash on hand, and that doesn't work without a big line of credit.

But it is also really unfair to second guess someone who is riding a bucking bull in a nursery. That is what running a very successful startup can be like, lots of money coming in, decisions needing to be made with too little information, large outcome swings based on them with precious little runway to correct for errors. When you are in that space and someone reaches in and offers to lift you out, it can be hard to be rational about the choices you are making. It seemed to me that Stratasys knew exactly what they where doing, and less so for Bre and crew.

Unfortunately for Stratasys they failed to understand why Makerbot had been growing like it had, probably taking the late product launch as all the rationale they needed for a cash short company. I believe that had they understood what they had stepped in to, they would have approached it very differently and made very different choices. Not the least of which would be a mixed model of open and proprietary gizmos for their printers.

I am convinced that their lack of openness lead directly to the C.F. that is their "SmartStruder" which now has people calling for class action lawsuits.

A company with the Goodwill of a Printrbot and the resources of a Stratasys would have dominated the 3D market completely. Instead small printer companies are flourishing and kickstarters for new printers regularly cross $1M in pledges (and that is for printers no one has any right to believe can even be built!)

I found it hugely ironic that Bre is on the cover of this month's Popular Science [1]

[1] http://www.popsci.com/2015-invention-awards
Well, I won't get into semantics fight and will concede this to you. Yet, you are still looking at the fact that you can take pictures with a film/glass camera that are either very expensive or impossible to take with a digital one. Specifically, you won't be able to get the same depth of field with the same composition of the frame for the reasons we both seem to understand.
Emphasis on education, but a lot of very hard work. Intelligence will get you some of the way, but hard work is everything.
"Surely a company researching the cure for aging would have taken this possibility into account before starting."

That only reinforces my point. Several of them never get started, much more silently.

"Medical breakthroughs aren't a linear function of funding. What if making medicine more available slightly slows new drug development but drastically increases quality of life for most people? Would that be worth it?"

That's a very good point, if actually progress is not that much dependant on cash.
Lately I've been advising people to use find -delete rather them rm.

Ever tried to clear the current directory with rm? It's actually amazingly tricky and dangerous to wipe out dot files without moving up directories. Whereas find has the benefit of saying exactly what it'll do before it does it (and being a bit faster IMO).

The thing I'm really missing in find is a native -chown and -chmod flag now.
Why is it poor quality? It's not the strongest result ever but it seems interesting enough to justify continuing the work.

As far as greater creativity being a risk for mental illness, I havent seen anything supporting that kind of concern. I think a bigger concern is its long term safety in general, which hasn't been proven.
We just can’t stop building robots that look like humans
This is a great short documentary on the history of hair analysis at the FBI:

http://www.retroreport.org/video/how-dna-changed-the-world-o...
I'd assume a custom Comcast provided router, with individual ports at 1Gb and wireless at 802.11ac. Very few, if any, consumer devices out there with 10GigE hardware, and an even smaller amount of sites out there that will let you saturate a 1Gb link directly (torrents perhaps).
Also, http://artpacks.org
Yes, they are called recurrent neural networks. The disadvantage is higher memory and time requirements. You need to store the state of the neural network at every time step, and then at the end iterate through the whole process in reverse.

Whereas best I understand it, HTM is online and updates the weights every time step without needing to keep a running memory of the states it's been in.
I think I'm missing something: How is the function println not pure? It always returns nil (for inputs that it doesn't fail on).

Doesn't that mean it's pure?

Edit:

I'd define pure in this sense as the same thing as referentially transparent, meaning f(x) will always return the same thing for a given x.
I've started seeing it prejnstalled on a few machines and Google has rather obvious marketing on the Google homepage, enouraging you to 'upgrade to chrome'.
It's not clear what parts the author modified last month, since the bulk of the article is from the past. A separate, additional article would be interesting to hear author's recent views and experiences.

For something upcoming, http://www.augur.net is an attempt at a decentralized prediction market.
That's a big cat.
Only 2 to 3 percent of all inventors make any money from their inventions

Oh how true. How true. I invented ToDoCal, the large format todo list / calender hybrid. My customers loved it. It sold like crap. I could never sell more than 300 a year. It was on blogs, amazon, ebay, etsy, my own store. It would not sell more than 300 units a year.

Loving a product and wanting a product are 2 different things.
Author probably has future plans for the class. I've seen people write classes like that to later do overloading. Others write out the methods to sort of document that those are the ones they are using. I know it might not be one's cup of tea, but let he who writes perfect code every time push to production without testing it first.
What a lot of hooey. A sensational storey about one person. I'm sorry for their loss; but national policy doesn't (shouldn't) get made that way.
Well, if somebody breaks the kernel so that printing doesn't work, it will most likely return something strange, in the case of Clojure, an exception.

A pure function always returns the same result because it only depends on its input parameters. An impure IO function does not.
The MakerBot's problem is simply that low-end extruder-type 3D printers don't work very well.[1] They're easy to make, so there are lots of variations on that theme. TechShop has, over time, had one or two of all the major flavors. They're useful for making relatively thin parts, but anything taller than 3cm or so usually founders on the basic fact that ABS has too big of a coefficient of expansion to build something tall without delaminating due to thermal stress.

The frontier in 3D printing seems to be to get the cost down on the high-end processes, which are now very good. The Form1, the low-end stereolithography printer, is a nice little machine, and it's real. TechShop SF and Hacker Dojo in Mountain View both have one. Form1 charges $145/liter for the working fluid, so that's how they make their money.

Eventually, somebody is going to get low-cost laser sintering of metal powder figured out. But not quite yet. The Aurora Labs 3D metal printer turned out to cost about 10x the original $4000 price. MatterFab hasn't shipped their device. There's a low-end electroplating printer, but that's inherently a very slow process.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/why-3d-printing-is-overhyped-i-should-kno...
no it's not valid html.. that's like saying writing gibberish is valid HTML. You can't read mixed case attribute names.. jQuery nor Javascript. It's always converted to lowercase without you knowing.
> or you can think of better languages, like fortress or functional languages, which are not encumbered by not-properly optimizable side-effects and aliasing which harm most modern language designs.

Remember, if you ban aliasing then you can't express any problems requiring aliasing! That kind of sucks for writing programs that are fast in the first place.

I've never had to use a language with really no aliasing (Fortran?), but many languages forbid possibly overlapping arrays, because of the pain interior pointers make for GC.

If you were ever to write an image decoder in Java, you'd see some steps involve reading and writing from different parts of the same image (usually called intra prediction), but now you have to pass all these extra coordinates along with the image array. And the optimizer is not good enough to make up for all the extra work it was just given.
I'm curious to see how 3D Robotics handles a similar situation. Their drone platform has been open source hardware plus open source software. There are Chinese companies cloning the hardware and selling it for much cheaper than 3D Robotics sells it for.

3D Robotics just raised $50M in a series C. It will be interesting to see how their commitment to openness holds up.
Yes, some NLP POS (part of speech) taggers do use context. I'm not entirely sure if they work in the way that you describe. I believe that they use the grammar of the sentence to derive what the tags over the sentence are. That is, they can tag the sentence on what they know and then iterate over the sentence until everything can fit into the grammar (or corpus) that it was trained on.

If you want more background - the nltk book, in particular chapter five is a good place to start: http://www.nltk.org/book/ch05.html

What library did you use? NLTK on Python 2.7 gave the following:

[('We', 'PRP'), ('will', 'MD'), ('project', 'VB'), ('our', 'PRP$'), ('earnings', 'NNS')]
Recycling? More than you might think! The iOS version of Avernum 2 was a port of the desktop version released a few months earlier, which was a remake of the original version of Avernum 2 from around 2001, which was itself a remake of the 1996 "Exile II". The graphics and game engine changed a bit, but the storyline was essentially identical.
I completely agree, but it can be intimidating to offer feedback to someone who you idolize as a mentor, that's why I think the relationship is especially important as a foundation from which to provide that feedback.

Edit: Typo
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Is website language localization really what's keeping e-commerce from taking off in Europe?? Having only 4-5 languages seems to cover most of the population, no?

Also, many of these people in these countries speak several languages already because of the close proximity and business with each other.
Why is it that so many people misunderstand monopoly/anti-trust? This isn't about search or pagerank, because having a monopoly is generally not illegal. It doesn't matter what the future of the search market might be or the ease in which customers can switch to a different search service. The complaint, according to the article, is:

"...accusation being that it uses this closed code
to promote its own products ahead of rivals.“

Search only matters in how it might be a tool that can be abused to gain influence in other, not-search markets.

Being a monopoly is usually legal. Monopoly status simply means new laws apply relating to how that power is used. Google is patently a search monopoly right now, so France is well within their right to accuse them of abusing that power to take over other markets. Some sort of trial will determine if those charges are true or not.

What is obvious - regardless of the outcome or politics surrounding France's legal action - is that the exact nature of how Google's search algorithms work is the exact evidence needed to properly judge how Google's search service (via the algorithm it relies upon) is unfairly interfering with the markets that Google may also be participating in.
People don't seem to like the actual prediction markets which have been tried because they were biased. However if that's true, and you know it, then it means you can effectively use them as a free money pump. E.g. just bet for whatever Nick Silver predicts.
Computing after Moore’s Law
Unless they make their schematics and blueprints open-source, this isn't worth my time. Space needs to be fundamentally open, driven by visionaries like Musk and Bolden who care far more about the future of humanity than selling product. The hackneyed "open for business" commentator for the video and the seemingly copious patents they've filed for this vehicle don't give me much hope. A far more interesting venture is Copenhagen Suborbitals -- they've lost many key people over the years, but their vision is much more altruistic and deserves much more support than some VC-backed team who decided to apply the startup cash-grab culture to rocketry. (and yes, I do know that's an incredibly loaded thing to say on a web forum run by a VC)
Gee, thanks, Bre. Again, why do you think that's true?
How did you come to that conclusion?
What do you know that those of us still in the "fantasy world" don't know?
Aha, that's it!
MakerBot fell victim to the Osborne effect, where talking openly about future products hurt the sale of their current products.
Sales dropped, so they got scared and went closed.
That sounds like a way more honest and real answer than the non-existence of an open source steel bender.

Commenting on the tone alone, this strikes me as the logic of someone who has already arrived at a conclusion (the MakerBot founders are concealing the real reason behind their abandonment of open-source), and is merely searching for evidence to back up a conclusion they've already arrived at.