skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was a successful improv actor

So you were unhappy and had an interest in developing a talent in pretending you were funny ... huh ... I wonder if that supports my theory.

Anyway, I wasn't talking about acting. There's a difference between real life and acting. When you're acting, you know you're acting and so does everyone else.

I was talking about the kind of humor where a person can genuinely make light of a bad situation they find themselves in. That's not something someone who's unhappy can do in a real situation. If they could do that, they wouldn't be unhappy ... they would simply make light of their circumstances. You see where I'm going with this?
> What if the team lead is transgender?

What if the team lead is a reproductive rights activist who doesn't like Elia's avowed anti-abortion stance?

> Seriously, you need to take into account that there's another human on the end of the screen.

I'm not a sociopath and I don't appreciate you painting me like one. Interestingly, if you applied that in the other direction you might find that Elia is a person on the other end of the screen and shouldn't be callously dismissed because he holds views you don't like.
by being "lamest" it is most reasonable for humans to go to, and most likely to actually be useful to us.
As mentioned, this is illegal per EEO, take it up with the courts.

No. The NFL has been using the Rooney Rule for quite some time.

Otherwise they weren't being systematically ignored for consideration.

You keep using EEO in your argument. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Not to mention that about 3 months after the IPO the share price was down about 50% from the price it traded on the first day.
Making Video Games for Everyone (Not Just the Able-Bodied)
If anything, some of those images are just a more elaborate version of a kaleidoscope.

I put it to you that your 'self' is not much more complicated than any other elaborately iterated strange loop.
Just to be clear, the Titan "boat" was really a buoy. It would have dropped into a lake and drifted. That still would have been amazing (imagine video from a lake on another world!), but the science would have been limited by the cost of dealing with the environment and the tight budget of the Discovery program.

The biggest issue, however, was the problematic development of the needed power supply[1].

There is another option for these missions, of course. A nominal increase in NASA funding to increase the number of missions we can fly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Stirling_radioisotope...
It's control. Create an environment where you are unable to have a certain opinion without your job or livelihood being threatened, and it effectively render those views too dangerous to utter. It should be obvious the existential danger to free speech and the free exchange of ideas such a state of affairs entails.
On the myth of the 10x Plumber
> Some of these cultural norms are regrettable, but you'll have a hard time getting large groups to agree on which ones are regrettable and which are the very foundations of our society.

Which is why I suggest caution when punishing someone professionally for what is seen as an extreme position personally. Moderating (but not removing) our desire to punish the outsider may yield a more fair society. I hope. I think it's a good goal to have, even if it's often unachievable.
https://youtu.be/fibDNwF8bjs

Whitest Kids You Know illustrated this perfectly in a sketch routine
that was the plot of 2061...
> Interestingly, the 14.25% tax rate is not new.

Paul proposes a 14.5% rate, so, even if novelty or lack thereof was relevant, I'm not sure what the relevance of the novelty of a 14.25% rate would be.

> 14.25% one -time wealth tax on personal wealth

Yeah, not only is 14.25% different from 14.5%, but a one-time wealth tax is different than an income tax. So, again, what's the relevance?
Does this provide any inspiration?

RAM AD PC
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-*-- |-----*-*|-|-| ; BAR
-*-* |-----*--|-|-| ; FOO
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*--- |--*---*-|-|-| ; a grand tradition in ROMs
*--* |--------|-|-| ; though this isn't a ROM
*-*- |----*---|-|-| ; anymore, is it? :)
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Android used the Oracle javac compiler until this year, so blaming anything on Google's new compilers is a little strange.
Great read for someone on the business side of the coding community. Very in depth and relevant to those with no coding experience and experts at the same time, curious to see how this sparks coverage on coding and its application to those who haven't ventured into it yet
Might make more sense to put the RTG in the nosecone; why ship something radioactive and useful all that way just to throw it away?
I have to say, while it is a bit offtopic, that this is a beautiful paper (from the purely aesthetical / visual information display perspective).
Implementing New Streaming Technologies Using MPEG-DASH: DASH-IF Panel Video
Have you guys seen these awesome GoT necklaces/ I got the house TARGARYEN ONE
I imagine that the probe would set up a transmitter on the surface, and drag a cable behind it through the ice-hole, then deploy another relay at the bottom - probe signals underwater relay, relay passes it onto the surface transmitter, transmitter phones home.
People often complain about the rich using loopholes to avoid paying less taxes, but when laws are proposed that will effectively close all those loopholes, they balk at the possibility that their own loopholes would be closed too.
You and a few others made the same comment. Comedians are professionals who read a prepared script. All of them.

I was talking about genuine, spontaneous humor. Not in a setting where you're acting and where others know you're acting. Not when there's an audience. Spontaneously funny about bad things happening in real-time, in real-life, in a personal setting.

Even really good unhappy comedians would have a hard time with that one.
What words do you think they should use? Don't you think the fact that they are talking about software provides enough context to determine exactly how important those rights are? Clearly they can be no more important than the software itself. So I don't know why you'd think software is on the same par as human rights, and that this'd be a problem with first recognizing the importance of software in human life.

That is, software rights can't be more important than software, and if software is critically important to human life, then software rights are human rights. And whether or not software is that important today, it is quite likely to be in the future.

>Well, you know, that's the only thing language can ever do. Make people imagine what you think.

Yeah... So why'd you quote the first half of that statement to make an irrelevant observation? Language doesn't force you to be offended.
What does a changeset from a trans person look like?

I'm pretty sure people get more worked up about spaces vs tabs (at least they used to) or curly braces.

I totally agree that any transphobic comments or activity connected to the project needs to be dealt with.

But it's weird that people think this behaviour does anything to persuade the bigots. It's totally ineffective method of persuasion.
It was interesting but lacking any technical details.

Are there any analysis on the attacks done by these individuals?

Something juicy like the analysis done by Symantec and Kaspersky.
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A more modern language (modules, closures, pattern matching, package management, type inference) and memory safety are nice. If I were writing a new codec, I'd seriously consider writing the lion's share of it in Rust, to save time and to avoid security problems.
It's probably substantially less damage than the rocket required to launch the extra mass that would be required if we used an alternative, heavier, method.
When people talk about Napoleon plublicly (on TV for example), it is still very political. There was another emperor nammed Napoleon III until 1871. France lost a region called "l'Alsace et la Loraine" and it leads to WWI.

British tends to compare him to Hitler but he is more in the bag with Alexander the Great or Caesar. Warlords.

Hitler is with Pol Pot and Staline.
By describing 'the situation as it actually existed', he did a massive disservice to the company he helmed. I am not saying it was the reason Nokia failed, only that it was a huge contributing factor.

You do not expect a company CEO to do negative PR - he damaged Nokia's brand and greatly harmed the confidence developers/consumers had in Nokia.

> I don't think it's realistic to blame so much on a few hundred words.

From the article I previously linked: "Gerald Ratner[1] was CEO of British jewelry group Ratners (since renamed Signet Group). He made a famous speech in London to the Institute of Directors in 1991 in which he said his company products were sold for such low prices "because its total crap." This remark was then published and caused his company to collapse and was only saved by his departure - and the rebranding of the company to Signet."

Ratner destroyed his company in 43 words (relevant part of speech is on Wikipedia).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
Show HN: FaceGrab – Create image-set for computer vision with FB profile images
rust code can incorporate assembly just like C can and low-level rust should be just as fast as low level C so it sounds like rust will be a great replacement to write production-quality codecs
I don't know, but it was certainly worth much more than the $0 they would have paid for HotSpot if they'd had the guts to go with the GPL. That's what's missing from the timeline:

* March 2007 -- Sun open sources the JDK at the perfect moment for Google to adopt it. Google chooses not to because they don't like the GPL.

I think the phone vendors would have caved. It might have taken another year, but they would have realized they had no choice once the app store opened in July 2008, as none of them could have had the brand recognition to build an attractive software platform to rival the iPhone.
Bitcoin Hardware Maker Case Wallet Pockets $1.5M
Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging
And if you have no hammer? Do you see no nails? Just because someone has a hammer doesn't mean there aren't a lot of nails. Arguing that someone must be wrong because they have an emotion is wrong - the amount of nails is independent of who has what tools, hammers included.

Disclaimer: I use a mac.
Because there is actually a chance people could live there for extended periods of time.
Windows 95 was painful to use even with 8 MB. 12 MB was minimum amount that didn't cause it to swap all the time when actually doing something. 16 MB was nice.
Samsung Galaxy Tab E with 9.6-Inch Display Goes Official
I didn't get that from his writing. Yes, you can look at it that way but it's perhaps cynical. I thought he was genuinely trying to say here is a better way.

You should read it again. He's talking about kindness and giving people space to come out their shell (amongst other things). That's not him bragging, that's him helping the interview go well (if it can).

Shrug. I thought it was a good article.
I'm simply commenting that using some of the same behavior that is deemed unfair when use against a transgender person against a transphobic person does not immediately make it acceptable. I think the behavior itself if part of the problem, and I think it's sad that this is not seen the same way by many people.

I understand the desires of the transgender community, and my desires align with theirs, I want to see vocally transphobic people punished in some manner. I accept that as my nature. I also believe we are all better off if we keep these desires in check, to a degree. It's too easy to feel justified when the situation is reversed.
Hey, guys. You should all stand in a line and start lobbing lead projectiles at each other.
I'm just questioning whether an autopilot with a profit maximization heuristic is the best tool to guide technological progress. With democratic control I don't necessarily mean our current democratic systems but any kind of decentralization of decision making by voting. Yeah, I know that's vague, but given what appears be at stake it seems unreasonable not to consider alternatives.
"An Infamous Army" by Georgette Heyer has a very good account also.
But what's stopping us from making exact copies of this probe/sat (say... 10) and launching them all at once?

Or at an interval of say 6 months a piece? That way we will have low cost since the r&d will be basically 0 for all the extra models and we get 10x the data and larger time span of coverage. Plus we won't be putting all our eggs in the same basket.
A few of these I certainly agree with--using the gender neutral pronouns for hypotheticals is actually handy, because it denotes that gender doesn't matter in the issue at hand and also because it lets me fill in whatever I want.

I similarly agree with using "folks" instead of "guys", because it's technically more accurate in a mixed group (and because it sounds...well...folksy and kinda adorable in an anachronistic sort of way).

I think the author ignores the infantilizing "boys" in common use as well as "girls", though if called out on it I imagine they'd correct themselves. It can be condescending in either context, even when meant with adoration--such is the problem of diminutives in any language.

The entire notion of preferred pronouns kinda is just being nonconformant with the English language, and honestly gets a bit absurd--neutral pronouns exist and are sufficient.

"Master/slave" is common and reasonable terminology...in the former case, it pretty well describes the relationship compared with secondary/primary. Consider: does a slave get promoted to master? There's a nuance in word choice (though I'd prefer to see more entertaining language, like top/bottom, domme/sub, etc.) that reflects typical usage.

"blacklist/whitelist" is common terminology.

"blind spot" is something referring to an inability to see certain things, despite functioning fine otherwise. A common discussion I have with friends on tech projects is "what are our blind spots here"; this is not because we are ignorant, but because we accept the possibility that an issue may approach us from an angle we wouldn't normally be observing. That's pretty much the textbook definition of blind spot.

I see what they're getting at, but I don't really think it's something worth doing myself.

EDIT:

Also, I'd prefer if the npm folk's spent less time being sensitive and more time fixing the fucking lame and short-sighted slapdashery of their package management.

Least of all because those chucklefucks are endangering the ecosystem in the pursuit of magical VC funbucks.
The only reason to implement a codec in hardware is speed or power consumption. Software codecs are much more flexible with the parameters you can tweak, and more tolerant of variances in the input such as buffer under/overflows, etc.

In that respect, software codecs are much more interesting, but hardware does allow you to get cutting-edge compression to market more quickly.
I think the plan is that FirefoxOS and Firefox for Android will transition over to Servo, presumably because of the major benefits of parallelism on mobile. Desktop, as you say, it's just limited modules.
People have been quoting others/impersonating others/copying others to raise their social capital since the dawn of language. This has nothing to do with internet jokes. That's just the form you're most comfortable with criticizing considering your age.

>Jon Stewart as a rare type of funny sort of betrays the point you're making. He's very much part of the "sick references" club.

When I was a kid he was more of a standard stand-up and not at all political. I use him because he's universally acknowledged as funny.
Lightning Network has a number of problems as the solution for Bitcoin's problems:

2. It's a sidechain - that is to say, an altcoin that claims a link to Bitcoin. The forces that would cause mutually-distrusting individual humans to maintain the linkage is unclear.

1. Like other sidechains, but unlike altcoins, it ... doesn't exist. This is a subtle point, but I think it might be an important one.

(not that I am any fan of altcoins either. But basically, the Bitcoin protocol as it stands was never designed with scaling in mind.)
The paper in Cell Metabolism is here: http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131(15)0...
>Spring MVC is probably the best Java "Action" framework

I'm not so sure. But, just the fact that it's even arguable is depressing.

The rest of your comment is right on. Feels like I'm just gluing together a bunch of small messes into one big mess vs. coding.
Hi, FaceGrab lets you bulk download anyone's Facebook full-size profile image from their username or userid without any need for login. It uses Facebook's Graph search.

This project was a code sprint. I started it when I needed an image set for a machine learning problem. I came across a Facebook graph feature which returns full-size profile images. I thought I could use this feature to programmatically generate a data-set of actual images. I consulted Facebook about the use of this feature as bug, they responded that the profile pictures are public and its not their responsibility.

So, I created this to generate a data-set of Facebook profile images. I think it could be useful for anyone requiring a big image data-set for computer vision problems involving image processing or machine learning applications, or maybe more. Any comments are welcome and feedback is much appreciated.
By being permissively licensed, it was free from all the garbage and ideological baggage that GCC has, so they could use it in meaningful ways besides being just a compiler. Like using it to do analysis on code in the IDE.
I think this comment is unfair and kind of disrespectful. GuiA is saying that he has evidence that people found him funny, but he didn't feel happy. You're off on some tangent about acting that seems to suggest that acting funny isn't the same as being funny? Different gradients of humor? I have no idea.

The point is, GuiA presents a valid counterpoint. No reason to go hostile on the counterpoint. Listen to Marc Maron's WTF podcast. It's a generally safe stereotype to say that many if not most comedians struggle with depression.
They won't cap salaries at $50,000.

If there is a 14.5% flat tax, then it wouldn't make sense to have a salary anywhere between $50,000 and $58,479.54. That still leaves a company free to offer a "competitive" $60,000 salary to lure employees away from a competitor who would cap salaries at $50,000.

This argument goes away if we only tax the money after $50,000.

Either way, salaries won't be arbitrarily capped at $50,000.
Why the downvotes? It's a benign(albeit groan-worthy) reference
okay, really lovin' this. After years of working with behemoths like marketo, hubspot and the like, with their crazy licensing fee structure, AllydeMautic is a breath of fresh air. As far as marketing automation tools go, Mautic is easy to configure and get going on. The price is a complete industry disruption.
The median individual return is under $50,000, and more than 80% of filers in that group just take the standard deduction. Not to mention, they get free use of most electronic preparation services.
> You see where I'm going with this?

I don't see where you're taking them, but you're definitely moving the goalposts.
Good point but I think that hurts Apple more than the artists. There are plenty of more popular alternatives available - but Apple will fail if it's missing too much content.
Actually without providing some benchmark results, the statement, that PostgreSQL has performance problems because of on-copy updating of JSONB, is groundless.
>No. The NFL has been using the Rooney Rule for quite some time.

Doesn't invalidate my point. Also funny that it is largely only applied to the primarily white coaches and not the primarily black players. But I'd be racist for pointing that out, wouldn't I?

>Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, protects applicants and employees from discrimination in hiring

I don't even need to quote EEO past that to prove my point. If you are being systematically ignored for consideration based on the above criteria of race or sex, they are in violation of Title VII. Otherwise - you aren't being discriminated against.
He straight up says Transgender people are insane.

How the hell is that not bigoted?

> That's interesting, you must have read different tweets than I did.

I'm reading reams of tweets saying transgender people refuse to work with a transphobic person.
Even these "cheap" missions are a half billion each, so it's a little more than nominal. Choices have to be made, even if NASA's budget was doubled.

TiME was always a longshot proprosal, but I'd personally rather see the lower budget Discovery Program missions doing riskier stuff. And while I love a good Mars mission, Mars gets all the marquee missions anyway. It's kind of a shame to see it eat the resources of the lesser missions too.
While they may be the silent majority, they are, at least in America, largely silent. Put another way, while being transphobic is not yet marginalized, publicly expressing transphobic views is quickly becoming marginalized (thankfully). The fact that there's a discussion about this issue is proof of this, in my eyes.
You have to. And even some http libs only use Bytes in py3.
Dealing with Sockets also only works without unicode. Thats just horrible.
First thing that came to my mind, too. Came here to post this. :)

Don't sweat the votes. HN mashes the down button for anything confusing or foreign to it.
> Comedians are professionals who read a prepared script. All of them.

Wow you sure know a lot of things. Can I subscribe to your newsletter?
A very complex piece of software is exactly the sort of thing you want to avoid writing in C or assembly. The last person I know writing a codec implementation did it by machine-translating the spec into a functional program that output assembler, C, python, Verilog etc as targets. That did require handcrafting "leaf nodes" for things like matrix multiplication, but they were small enough to verify.
I'm not sure of the use of the feature if it requires you to touch your keyboard and mouse in order to open up a new window to use it.
I don't think any sort of SIMD data type is necessary. There are so many wrappers/libraries for this already, and so many different requirements and nuances to be able to make a one size fits all data type. There are hundreds(thousands?) of intrinsics, how do you keep up with new ones and expose all of that functionality?
Sadly, with the rise of VP8/VP9/webm, this got lost.
> It is also true that Apple is sitting on huge amounts of cash

While it may be appealing to you to hamstring Apple with some foolish law, that law would have to apply to all companies.
Slamming into Moore's Law: What More Could We Do with More Powerful Processors?
I really did not enjoy Lisp50. I was surprised to discover such a disconnect between the old-school and new-school Lispers. Guy Steele and co really didn't seem to have any interest at all in what people have done with Common Lisp these past 20 years or so. That is a pity because I had always really valued the perceived continuity of the Lisp community.
But I'd be racist for pointing that out, wouldn't I?

Hey, you said it, not me.
The Problem with Software Analytics
This is the post I created to discuss this on reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/3abgbo/webassembly_ru...