skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems simple enough to feed a NN with that abstracted data.

However, the advantage to the texture approach is it's abstracted from a lot of other information. You don't want a classifier to say sofa, when it's a picture of a person on a sofa.
I don't think this answers the quoted question at all. the question isn't about whether the money was earned or not, or even how it should be spent. Rather it's about the doucheyness of writing about it.
My comment about this from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9713814
Etherplan Pitch Deck – Feedback to improve is welcome [pdf]
Hi HN, I'm a newbie and impressed by the community!

I present the pitch deck of my startup Etherplan. I made it similar to the super pitch deck of Airbnb:

http://www.slideshare.net/benjaminevans/air-bed-breakfast-pi...

I read on Quora that it's a good idea to open it for discussion and to improve it.

Your feedback is more than welcome!
Right off the bat you tip your hand: you are selecting against people who are depressed. Rather than try to help them, you'd rather let them wallow in misery, fail, become unemployed, schizophrenic and eventually die homeless.
> Happy employees are more productive

I understand studies on this have a different take: Making employees more productive makes them happier, but making employees happier doesn't make them more productive.
Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?
That doesn't work on that level. I mean, you need visa to enter, too, which also would be "discrimination based on origin" by that argument (and is a requirement for getting education)

The often quoted right to choose place of work/education freely (which the article you linked starts with) clearly says "All Germans have the right...".
Great satirical video. That essay by PG lost me a lot of respect for him. It's the kind of out-of-touch fantasy perspective you'd expect to hear from a multi-millionaire businessman, but not from someone who so famously identifies with hacker culture. Maybe you'd argue those types aren't mutually exclusive, but it sure feels that way to me.
I prefer bright text on dark backgrounds, so I set my OS accessibility settings to invert my screen.

Presuming your OS has such features, you might find it helpful to invert the screen when looking at pages with light text/dark background.

(I change my screen to normal for such sites.)

HTH
The fourth sentence in the readme links to commander.js and answers your question.
yes, it's unusual. I'd also like to be able to interpret that group of skyscrapers toward the right of the chart, for the third clinic. It's far more than what any other clinics prescribe (including the fraudulent clinic, which doesn't prescribe that drug) and also it is far more than anything else that that clinic prescribes. It is also fairly static year over year within that clinic. So what gives?
It answers the core of the questions he raised and linked to: is it wrong for the rich to have luxuries?

> I don't think this answers the quoted question at all. the question isn't about whether the money was earned or not, or even how it should be spent. Rather it's about the doucheyness of writing about it.

So you're telling me that someone writing about how they bought a motorcycle and a chopper trip is so offensive that they need to self-censor or be censored?

He has the right to write this piece and you have the right to not read it.
No, when you save the credentials of the wifi password locally that solves the problem of having to ask your friend for the password every time you go to their place. There's no need to broadcast the password to every friend to fix that scenario. This is your friend sharing out your credentials to everyone they know automatically--perhaps to people who you don't know or don't want to have the password.

What happens when a jealous ex or stalker that's still a mutual friend suddenly gets access to your wifi network? What about the security implications of MS' servers storing the passwords, and do they disclose whether those passwords can be subpoenaed by law enforcement? This seems like a hornet's nest of nasty privacy and policy issues. It boggles my mind why they think this would be worth doing.
Sony's robotic dogs are dying a slow and heartbreaking death
Absolutely! C Interfaces and Implementations should be read by anyone coding C these days. Absurd how little known it is though.
Let's celebrate MySQL bug #11472 now 10 years old
No, I'm suggesting changing IP every time you get blocked.

If there was a large need for it there would be extensions that do it automatically (and with IPv6, you would have no shortage of addresses, which makes it easier to obtain new ones).
Depression causes schizophrenia?
That was my thinking too -- if I had a Facebook account, and this happened, I'd just shop a couple things together, print them back out, and give them the finger while scanning them back in.
The suing people in is kind of a loophole. A university has to take as many students as it can "service". People then sue and say that the number they accepted was wrong and they actually have capacity left over, and of course in many cases you can find an argument that yes, they could support a few people more if someone in some department would do less research and more teaching, ... So universities often give in and "admit" that they can take some random number more instead of trying to fight a complex lawsuit with unknown results. And possibly add a safety margin in the future, because letting some more people in is easier than proving that their capacity planning was perfect.
On the other hand the fake niceness of some workplaces is just as repugnant. And it makes it harder to find out where you stand and what needs to be done. I fully agree there is no need for hostility in the workplace and it shouldn't be tolerated. At the same time I believe many people have become oversensitive and forgotten the massaging of their personal feelings are not the reason a company exists.
Setting up the wait for 10k file descriptors will still be O(n), the actual wait is O(1). And presumably you're waiting many times, and not changing which 10k files you're polling for each wait. Each wait is O(1) because the kernel just calls you back when your wait is satisfied -- it associates a list of waiters for each file descriptor.
I wouldn't say causes - but the statistics speak volumes. A quarter of homeless people are schizophrenic.
= for equals, or assign, or compare, < for less, > for more, + for adding, - for subtracting -- who's got time to memorize this kind of complexity?
You might like Federated Wiki http://fed.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors
U.S. Higher Ed is expensive, So, I just planned out some degrees at my local state schools to see what they go for (tuition only).

Year 1, 2 (graduate with an A.A./A.S. degree) - Community College: ~$4000/yr

Year 3,4 (graduate with a B.A./B.S. degree) - State School, starts as a Junior: ~$11,000/yr

Undergrad: <$30,000

Grad Program:

Year 5,6 (same school, graduate with an M.A./M.S.) - State School ~$15k/yr

Grad Program: ~$30,000

Total Cost: ~$60,000

As an alternate:

Year 5,6 (same school, top-50 Law School, graduate with a J.D.) - State School - ~$25k/yr

J.D. Program: ~$50,000

Total Cost B.X.+J.D. ~$80k

Total Cost B.X.+M.X.+J.D. ~$110k

Things have definitely gotten more expensive since I did something similar (A.S.->B.S.->M.S.) for <$30k. But it's not the worst. If you work through it, you can probably finish an M.X. program without debt (you "only" need to pay off $10k per year). Even if you take loans, we're not talking a house. If you get Pell Grants, it covers the A.X. degrees easily, and half the B.X. degrees. I took some loans and paid them off within 5 years due to my increased earning power. I'm pretty sure I could have structured my life to pay off 2-3x the loans in about the same amount of time.

American Higher Ed. is stupid expensive for bad reasons, but you can get at least an undergrad for what you'd pay for a new decent family sedan. This sounds crazy to most of my European readers, but unlike Europe, the U.S. doesn't have 50% youth unemployment rates. Most people out of college in technical fields can get good jobs that pay far in excess of the local "decent standard of living" allowing loans like this to get paid off quickly.

It's complicated, but it's not rocket science. I'm always a bit bothered by people who talk about $200k undergrad programs like it's their only option. Trust me, I'm ~20 years in on a career and you'll generally end up in the same places as your elite-school colleagues within 5 years without the crushing debt.

It's not rocket science.
You're probably thinking of a directed antenna, something like the BlueSniper rifle that was all the news like 10 years ago...
This only applies to Kindle Unlimited books, aka they're Netflix-like service that loans you books as long as your subscription is active.

It's about as acceptable that Netflix knows exactly what minutes and seconds of any streaming videos I've watched.
You're the target of this repo [0] that I put up! It's meant to give you a complete environment for building a frontend application. I just wrote a comment [1] explaining some of the features it provides.

[0] https://github.com/cesarandreu/web-app/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9751949
Son, I don't got time to read the fucking manual.
Except in this example the student has some work experience already. Doesn't that count for something?
Your site seems interesting as a tool to look up chronology and deep dive into information, but it seems to me that the focus is completely different to Wikipedia even when it comes specifically to news events.

If you see yourself as providing competition to Wikipedia in the news space, your aim is frankly off. I'm saying that not as criticism of your site, which seems interesting and might be useful, but because if I go back to your site in the future, it will be for entirely different purposes than the purposes I'd have for going to Wikipedia:

If I go to Wikipedia to look up a recent news event, what I expect is a summary, and condensed background, coupled with references for further reading. In other words: I expect the starts of encyclopaedic information about the subject. I don't expect an in depth timeline of events.
I think Snowden/Wikileaks/EFF/ioerror etc are probably much better at endpoint(ie the computers used to access the documents) security than most governments. AFAIK they are not using Windows, all the hacks the Schneier mentions are on Windows systems, rather Tails Linux and other such tools.

There is alot of spin when it comes to security.

It's pure speculation from Schneier. Also Interesting that Schneier has not mentioned this article on his twitter.
Could be good to defeat RF snooping attacks.
It seems you're getting downvoted even though you are mostly right (some people might have considered "whiny" to be unnecessarily pejorative and unhelpful). I have the same mindset...I like Facebook, a lot. I haven't yet reached the point of burnout, but that's because when I am in a negative mood -- which apparently is a bad time to be on Facebook because you subject yourself to a constant stream of your friends' happiness -- I log out. I actually set my password to a random arrangement of my fingers smacking the keyboard, which I copy-paste from a text file, and I move that file somewhere that's just annoying enough that I can't reflexively just recopy-paste the password. It's not hard to retrieve, and I can always reset my password...but it's annoying enough that the only time I'll go back on to facebook is when I really want to go back.

But how to practice self-control and etc. is tangential to the OP's point. It's a little more complicated than that but I think much of it does boil down to cost and security. The pseudonym policy cuts both ways: it inconveniences those who have good reasons to not want to be easily found. But it also inconveniences those who use anonymity to abuse people. And when you're targeted by such people, you'll appreciate that flag button.

So Facebook has to deal with both kinds of flagging. How does it do that so that it's not just a flimsy process that a troll can dodge, and yet not be overly burdensome to the innocent? Well, the answer is not (well, not yet, anyway), "more machine learning". The OP wants a (more) human decision and FB apparently thinks such a process is too burdensome to scale.
Have enough heart to acknowledge what's going on in front of you.
Who needs instructions? Page faults are Turing complete: https://github.com/jbangert/trapcc
Their iOS app[1] looks promising, but the reviews seem to indicate it's still not there yet. Back in 2004, I had friends who grew addicted to casual browsing of Wikipedia in the browser. I'm not sure if that activity translates well to mobile browsers, but that it's probably a variety of factors: lack of integration with the device OS, longer average latency, more user actions to navigate content (accordion interface). As far as editing, not having input accessories for the markup syntax makes editing on mobile painful. Luckily, these problems all seem surmountable.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia-mobile/id324715238...
That's horribly off-topic, but I'll continue being horribly off-topic, only because I had a very strong realization about this today.

My boss has been bugging me to get stuff done since there are some crazy deadlines coming up for us. I realized a few days ago that were it not for the craziness at work, I would be very lonely... I have nothing to do. And it's precisely when I have nothing to do that I start having negative or suicidal thoughts. So having a job really is a blessing for me, it gives me something to keep my mind preoccupied, and gives me an easy opportunity to socialize (walking up to someone and starting a conversation with someone is a lot easier.. when... well, you have to, because work requires that you have to :)).
That's because the schizophrenics were basically evicted from the psychiatric hospitals. With nowhere to go and no one to care for them, they ended up homeless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_and_mental_health...

Also, how did you manage to relate this at all to TFA?
"just".
Thanks for sharing. I don't think it's off topic.

"It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t."

It's just a really really mean thing to say, especially coming from someone who is a manager / mentor.
> It matches the theory "AI advance way ahead of his time that Lenat keeps secret with a cover story" ...

This might be the case for all I know; As you say, Occam favors a simpler explanation. But that's not what bothers me - what bothers me is that so many references just take this folklore as truth without any critical thought.

I first read about Eurisko in a book[0] (the existence of which is hard to confirm on the Internet - kind of surprising). I was 12, it looked fantastic then, but it was fantastic of the "when I know a little more, I might have a grasp of how that works". But it's been 30 years since - and now, with a little bit of knowledge and scepticism under my belt, I'm almost sure that -- however impressive Eurisko might have been -- none of the praise written about Eurisko was written by someone who had witnessed it working or was even able to critically review its output.

Not much different than any other kind of lore. Definitely not science or technology.

[0] http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/books/info/methuen/The_Hitch_...
It's not only your friends sharing when you don't want it. It's end users that own the router that want to share it. If you put yourself into your grandmother's shoes it may be less mindboggling. Security is all about securing content to the extent to which it is valuable. Many people would argue that their wifi password is not that valuable and therefore not requiring the greatest amount of security. Some people will find this feature convenient. It's for them and clearly not for you. You are no less insecure than you were previously. If you trust the people you give your wifi password to, then there's no issue.
Android 4.4(KitKat) for Canvas A92 – The HowTo Tutorial
I thought this was a good article. I believe most people who are worth having want to be part of something bigger themselves, want to contribute to the world and are willing to sacrifice a bit to do so. These are the people to identify and reward and it is always frustrating when this doesn't happen.

Per brobdingnagian's comment... everyone has bad days on occasion. A good manager can work around this. But a workplace is about work. Not therapy.
Multiplayer functionality is on the way with the introduction of the galaxy client. I hope that spelunky receives the daily challenge.
i actually think that's a pretty reasonable process. I'm assuming that the verification process is light...maybe there's a offshore human who goes through a queue and eyeballs each submission? Either way, there's no way that that person has knowledge of what each countries/states IDs look like. So they might err on the side of reasonable caution.

If you're a threatened person, and yet you still need to be on Facebook...then the time it takes to Photoshop something will be insignificant to the apparent benefits you get from Facebook. For the troll? Not so much...getting to be an asshole is not the strongest incentive to jump through the hoops.
That accounts for some of the homeless schizophrenics.

"Also, how did you manage to relate this at all to TFA?"

Just what exactly do you think the real world implications of this attitude / policy are more generally?

"It’s terribly difficult to manage unmotivated people. Make your job easier and don’t."

He is saying: don't try to manage them. Fire them.
I support people leaving Facebook forever. Facebook is selling you as the product, and does not care about making your life easier or better, or making it easier to connect with friends and family.

I agree with the article's stance on how Facebook enables stalkers to stalk their victims, and the very nature of Facebook makes it easy for them to do that.

If you are at risk of such things, please do not have a Facebook account. With the example of being homosexual in a country where the punishment is death, foreign governments may be able to use Facebook to find you due to any number of security issues that have existed, exist currently, and will exist in the future, so please, just stay off Facebook altogether.
Yeah I remember the video. I think it was shared here inclusive.

It's incredible how amazing is the people. Even with their fragility, their own limitations and problems and yet they can do amazing things.
Our front end developer seems to like it. We decided to use React in combo with RxJS[2], utilizing a unidirectional data flow for a new project[1]. React plays well with D3 and local CSS[3] to create reusable charting components. Our app produces a relatively high number of objects in a "table". The results would otherwise be paginated from here to oblivion and back to make it usable. Lazy rendering the results does the trick in our case.

So far we feel that Reactive Programming allows us to iterate quickly and swap parts of the back end rather easily, because, quite honestly, we don't know exactly yet where this journey is going to take us. We develop based on user feedback and the data we gather from them.

[1] https://keywordbrain.com (Preview of the front end is outdated)

[2] https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS

[3] https://medium.com/seek-ui-engineering/the-end-of-global-css...

[4] https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754 (Good primer on Reactive Programming)
It doesn't work as stated. Users have to opt to share the password when they connect to wifi router. This checkbox is empty by default meaning you don't share the password by default.
Yes, I use it at work. Yes, I'm happy with it. My thoughts are:

The core idea behind React is that it makes a ton of sense to think about views as being composed of pure functions which transform (immutable) data into a DOM. It's a very good idea, and React is a good (and certainly the most popular) implementation of it.

It's not hard to implement in a way which is performant (which is nice), but much more importantly it lends itself to code which is easy to test and reason about.

In addition, it also works well with a flux architecture. It's not the easiest way to write a web app, but there's simply large classes of bugs or potential issues that simply don't apply if you embrace one way data flow and immutable data.

There's nothing magical about React, and there's certainly some alternatives floating around. And you can certainly write terrible React code. But it's still a pretty good starting place, and the more serious you are about the app the better. If it's large, complex, needs full test coverage, and will be maintained by a team of people for the indefinite future, React is pretty good. If it's a weekend hack project, it might be overkill.

As for particular issues I've had:

1) The React team is trying to embrace ES6 syntax (and for good reason) but it's not quite ready for prime time. Some core React functionality relies on mixins, but ES6 classes don't really support mixins. So either you write hideous ES5 code (ewww), or find weird workarounds for the not-yet-ES6 ready bits.

2) Facebook also pushes the testing library Jest, and a lot of React projects use it. Jest is so slow that many people will give up before ever seriously using it, but if you do persevere it you'll find that it's actually a steaming pile of buggy crap. A modern mocha/chai/sinon testing stack will be 100 times faster (I wish that was hyperbole), much more stable, and much better supported.

3) There's a lot of, well, flux, when it comes to flux implementations. I like Marty and Alt, which are both really good (and apparently might be merging soon), but there's several more excellent ones. Which is kind of a problem; it'll be good when things settle down.

4) React doesn't enforce immutable data, probably because it's not a mainstream concept yet, but everything works so much better when you use it. And it's a lot easier to use if you're using it from the start.
Java != JavaScript. While offering some cool new things, ES6 is overall a fairly incremental change. I would concern myself with learning the fundamentals of the language first.
I'm not sure why the author thinks Facebook should let her know who flagged the account.

After going on about how stalking and protection from stalkers is important, surely she should be able to realise that protecting the reporter's privacy is important to prevent any sort of retaliation (not saying the author would do this, however it should be a cornerstone of any reporting/flagging policy to keep the flagger/reporter confidential).

Besides, it might not have even been anyone she knows or knows well. 'Nads' is a pretty common slang term for male genitals so I can see why some random person might flag it as a fake name.
I agree that's a shitty thing. Also, sadly, it is a norm to think in this bleakly capitalistic way. By and large, you will not see normal people viewing the providing job/no job thing as something moral.
That's really a false dichotomy. Ideally you aren't a nice person outside of work and a jerk at work. You are just a nice person. And if you see someone struggling, you don't fire them: you help them.

Just like most of the best practices here haven't been tied to success, it's also true that helping people going through a hard time hasn't been tied to failure.

The right thing to do is really obvious here. Help them.
I got a fair way through SICP using DrScheme (now DrRacket) a few years ago without any special compatibility modes, and found the set-up to be pretty great.

Now there's better compatibility thanks to

#lang planet neil/sicp

http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/
Kindle has always synched your last "read to" spot across devices. It's a feature.
Surely if this is possible you could find one example in all of human history.
not even if they paid me man. not even if they paid me.