skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what is it; Can I build whatever I want on any property I own, or can the government stop me from building a paper factory next to an elementary school?

You've thrown out two contradictory statements. If you agree with zoning in certain circumstances then you can't hold that property is a right for use by owner as they see fit(without the threat of being kidnapped or stolen from). Just because the current zoning system in most locales is overly bureaucratic, or even corrupt, doesn't mean the idea of zoning should be done away, or that property is a right the government can't interfere with.

Criticism is one thing, but framing this as an issue about the government taking away our rights is not productive.
People make subconscious determinations based on appearance. It's built in to our decision making process, it's integral to our self-defense / self-protection calculations, and nothing can ever change that. There's no amount of conscious effort that will prevent you from making all sorts of automatic judgements about people based on their appearance. You'd go insane before managing to turn that off. I don't think there's any argument for it possibly being sexual harassment, most professions have appearance stereotypes that have more than a little reason for existing.
Someone can still be a great engineer and struggle through an early class - there's plenty of reasons for this to happen and universities/colleges need to address these problems.

For example - someone who has never coded before in their life - there shouldn't be some expectation that you had a computer growing up, built a website for peers in middle school and are already an expert by the time you hit your first class. There's plenty of capable people who a) never had the advantages/wealth to support some of these things b) haven't discovered their interest and "weed out" core classes don't help with that. You may take longer to get up to the same place as someone with the advantages above, but that doesn't rule you out from being an effective engineer/computer scientist.
"but that niceness is from the assumption that you don't belong"

That is a load of crap along with this whole "microagression" movement.

I see a girl that seems interesting to me, screw up my courage, and try to say something that sounds helpful to start a conversation. Then you come along and classify that contact attempt like a KKK rally and I'm a racist?!? No wonder studies are showing that male students are starting to steer clear.

With all these social apps, we pretty much have destroyed anything social in person.

Now, I should say that my life experience is not white-suburbia, so save time on the name calling.
The 5 ES7 Decorators I want to use, now
I don't know about the 50s, but by the sixties traffic was as bad in some places as it is today. Traffic in Southern California, where I grew up, is actually better today than it was in the 70s.
It's a combination of all those factors, plus other factors like lawsuits and such, that, in my opinion, combine to make medical care so expensive here.

I'm not sure how your question relates to my comment.
I think this is one of those things where you want to talk to the end user, a sight impaired person with a screen reader, and see what they want.
Do blur filters have legal personhood?
Are you being sarcastic ?

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...
I tried reading that article, but for a topic that I find interesting (especially as someone who has studied AI and machine learning) I hoped it would be more approachable and easier to read. Can anyone explain the last few sentences for me?

>The increasing sophistication of generative software and the reality that all creativity is algorithmic compel recognition that AI-authored works are less heterogeneous to both their human counterparts and existing copyright doctrine than appearances may at first suggest. AI authorship is readily assimilable to the current copyright framework through the work made for hire doctrine, which is a mechanism for vesting copyright directly in a legal person who is acknowledged not to be the author-in-fact of the work in question. Through this legal fiction, the machinic creativity of generative code can be recognized for what it really is—something other than (but owing to) the human creativity of its coder
Say you have a class that starts out with 30 students. 18 white, 10 asian, 2 black.

Say the course is very hard and it cuts 2/3rds of the total students. If the cuts were proportional by race, we now have 6 white, 4 asian, and 0 blacks.

There was no racism involved in the class, the fact that no blacks remain is a result of the class brutally weeding out 2/3rds of the students and that the initial number of blacks was very low.

You can quibble over numbers, but the basic idea remains that large percentage cuts in an unbalanced population can make it tend more toward homogeneity.
> There are other things you can do, but I find this to be the lowest hanging fruit for the best security.

During the years I've found that changing the port to something like 7865 decreases login attempts up to 100%. Personally it's always the first thing I do along with changing LoginGraceTime to 5s
The biggest barrier I've run into while mentoring lower income kids is time on a computer. They don't know how to type. They haven't had time to explore or play around.

It does take some privilege to have a computer. Maybe the kids who are dropping out haven't had the time. Maybe they just need a longer runway to get up to speed.
At the root of the whole problem is that we collectively have an idea in our heads about what a "computer science nerd" looks like, and then we make judgements about people based on whether or not they fit that image. In cases like this the overwhelming factors are being black and being a woman -- if she were a white man who cared about her appearance she wouldn't face the same difficulties.
Just got set to the default on OpenBSD, so it should be shipped in 5.8.
This post makes far bigger deal of (somewhat) recent rune usage than it actually is in my opinion. It's not like this folk used hieroglyphic alphabet when the rest of the country used latin letters. Runes are basically the same thing as latin/cyrillic letters. Just one more phonetic alphabet with different shape of the letters. Well, and it's old. Nothing special about that, really. In fact, it could be more surprising that all germanic languages adopted latin alphabet so easily. Yeah, there's pretty clear explanation why this happened, but it could have happened the other way as well.

And local dialects are anything but unusual, they appear even in not so isolated regions of small european countries. Which is a lot less likely place for a local dialect to survive than northern Swedish forest is.
Just assuming she got in on affirmative action and the ones weeded out were just "not smart enough" is plain ignorant.
APL uses special characters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols
I'm certainly not an expert (although I too have been diagnosed twice), and I'm not here to denigrate your experience. Like I said, I'm glad you made it through it, by whatever means. I'm just saying, your advice is usually considered unhelpful by people with depression (just decide to be happy!)

I think other people in the thread have good advice on practical steps to take - big ones being meditation/mindfulness training, changing circumstances/surroundings, and diet/exercise. All of these things can do much more to alter brain chemistry and enact a positive feedback cycle than just "deciding" something.
Why would it need to be more complex than "a little bit of bash" if it fulfils the task intended?

Surely that is better than a convoluted, 1,000,000,000 LoC application that no one outside a handful of core developers understands? Right?
>Do the other comparisons and you'll find that you are off base -- people today do make enormous sacrifices to start families at a young age, and people in the 50s to 80s who were single with no children did live lavish lifestyles.

... which was my point. People in their 20s today have it no harder than their parents and grandparents. They're simply choosing not to have families in larger numbers.
I don't think you really should have removed that paragraph :). Yes, it jumped on me too, but after thinking about it for a second, I actually appreciated it. I've never been able to think myself out of something like you did, but I found it reassuring. I actually envy you that skill; myself I was also drinking myself every night for almost a year; at some point I run out of money for cheap beers, stopped drinking, realized that I like being sober and never returned to the habit. So in my case this seems more like random walk around the potential gradient, with hope that at some point I'll accidentally escape the local minimum.

If you have any tips about "excruciating existential anxiety" (of which I've been suffering for half the decade already, recently successfully moderated by SSRIs) I'd be more than glad to hear them. Right now the only coping strategy I have is to ignore it, but it interferes with my ability to concentrate and plan for the future - I'm literally unable to plan for more than a week-two in advance without getting serious emotional pains.
Interesting work. And 10% of those lines are simply closing braces which can be collapsed to the previous line, and half a dozen lines can be reclaimed from the help function...
Micro-what?
If you're young and reasonably fit, you can pretty much get anywhere. But most people would never consider riding on high speed roads or where there isn't a bike lane.
Cause you're entitled to start a conversation with every girl that seems interesting to you right?

edit: because people here can't comprehend the view from the other side, maybe louis ck can help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDh4qk1Tl8k
The best products I have release have been programmed by people who plan well, take their time, and get it right first time.
> Take away the makeup, mess up the hair, add 50 pounds, add glasses with unfashionable rims, change to a ratty old T-shirt, and nobody will ask, "are you lost?"

This is utterly ridiculous. That description matched about 10% of my 100-strong CS class.

White and/or male, on the other hand, matched about 98% of it (so if she really wants to "fit in", gender reassignment surgery & skin lightening would be far more effective).
As big of dicks as these researchers are, I just have to say, to anyone out there working on software to run cars, airplanes, robots, other mobile vehicles ... some day, within the next 5 or 25 years, it's pretty likely some nut job is going to use an exploit take control of one or more of these vehicles and crash them/use them as remote-controlled / swarm weapons, possibly killing lots of people.

If you're writing that software, make sure you do a really, really good job on security. Because no one wants to be the guy 'git blame' shows wrote the exploitable feature that led to ??? deaths.

The industry really should have stringent standards that prevent ridiculous breaches like this, I would say as well as simulators (or physical demo vehicles) available online/open source that people can pen-test against and win prize money. And maybe write all the code in Rust?
> I do take issue with her blaming the CS107 professor for contributing to sexism.

If the professor doesn't have the responsibility to make the class accessible to a diverse group, who does?

> She seems to be saying that CS107 is discriminatory merely because it is difficult and many people drop out.

She does not say that. You implying that she says that or that that is the reason is BLATANTLY racist and sexist. The reason that there are not enough black women making it through that class is NOT because they are stupid or lazy.

I find your attitude offensive.

EDIT: I'll take your downvotes with pride. Care to actually indicate how I am wrong?
BrowserMob, that was a sweet service (based on selenium). Does anyone know what happened to those guys after they sold? I've always wanted to learn more about their story.
This is all I need to switch:

1. Actually work (strangely, current IE can't accomplish this on some of my machines)

2. Tree Style Tabs

3. Support for popular ad-blockers

4. Easy on memory (including ability to unload a tab and actually release that memory, something FF can't seem to figure out)

5. Don't constantly take a 45 second timeout with lots of tabs open (like Firefox)
Friends who majored in music theory (not performance, which is worse) tell me that you have to pass a competency test to be admitted into the school as a college freshman.

(At least, at the good schools; this may not be true at third rate schools, I wouldn't know.)

This requires that someone spent years playing an instrument, typically with lots of instruction, both of which are very hard to do with no money.

Some may get this free in high school, but the high school I went to had performance exams to get into those high school freshman classes.

There was no music at all at my junior high.

I got 6 months of instrument training in 6th grade, and that was all that public schools offered me, and I know that some people had even less than that from the schools in their area.

The point being that it's not just computers. If we want to give an equal opportunity to students, there's a tremendous amount that needs fixing that is not at all limited to computers.
I think a lot of people are REALLY underestimating the 'access to birth control' part of the equation. People wait longer today to have kids because they can CHOOSE to wait.
It might also refer to the forced redundancies that will follow after everyone has received their pay rise and the organisation need to make budget cuts. Then of course projects start to fall behind and so temporary funds are release to bring in a bunch of contractors, who are on way more than anyone else.

And before anyone says that Google is too profitable an organisation for this to be an issue, remember that PLCs have shareholders who can demand that costs be cut in order to increase profits. If you have a pension, you could indirectly be that shareholder.
Hey folks, Looie founder here.

Lots of interesting points. In NYC there's a dilapidated restroom infrastructure for the city's 10 million inhabitants and 50 million annual tourists- Looie gives them a clean, safe and comfortable alternative.

For the keyfob thing most people don't get, it's for two reasons. We're going to be in everyone's keychain - which is an awesome place to be. We'll also be there when your phone is dead - just in case.

DKnoll, good points on branding. Looie is a character - kind of like Oscar (health insurance) or Casper (mattresses). We hope it's a brand name that our users will grow fond of. One day we hope people will be asking for the "Looie" instead of restroom. The term is also more light-hearted than "restroom" and more accurate than "bathroom". Going to the looie doesn't have any of the negative associations that weigh down the existing terminology.

@VQC - really cool stuff. We had to get our hands dirty and demonstrate to businesses our value add. Now we're at the point where they tangibly understand what hosting a Looie does for their business.

As for pay toilets being illegal - it's an incredible history of why things are the way they are. Here in NYC, the Municipality has only introduced three pay toilets in the last 9 years or so. It's a serious public health issue in the city - that's why we're working like animals to fix it.

Cool stuff.
That's a good numerical analysis. However, you also have to account for the fact that, on average, black children in the US get a poorer education. There are studies and statistics and on and on. Is it controversial to think that somebody might be less smart because they got a worse education? And then is it so surprising that when they get into Stanford due to affirmative action, they can't handle the course load? The whole system is a mess.
Exactly. Calling this NN AI (as in general / strong AI) is ludicrous.
It's true people have perceptions but they exist in all places all the time. A guy walking into a gender studies class could get treated differently too. I had to go into such office once and it was a bit strange.

Walking into a restaurant in a barrio-like location gets me weird looks. It'd be better if things were not this way but these actions are not extraordinary nor typically directed personally.
Because of Johannes Bureus people see runes as some sort of magical alphabet, but really they are no different from any alphabet like Cyrillic, Latin, Hebrew, Coptic, etc.
Free medical care in this case means that an individual with health insurance would NOT need to pay the additional out-of-pocket costs associated with a procedure or test. This out of pocket component is comprised of the deductible, copay, and coinsurance. Currently, if you have insurance and get a $5,000 procedure, you have to pay several thousand after the fact. CareLedger rewards the individual for going to a high quality, cost effective doctor and facility -- in this case free care.
In today's market, I don't see any customer being like, "Man, I wish this came faster." Look at Blizzard... they focused on speed for their last expansion, and they lost 3M subscribers. Look at all the automotive recalls this last year. And really AOL... wasn't even first to market, Compuserve beat them but like 10+ years.

There are many ways to get ahead. Bureaucracy sucks.

But just saying, "Speed man, speed... that's the good stuff..." It's only true when it's paired with customer demand, high quality, and all the other things users demand.

ICQ vs. AIM? I can't actually think of a single example of a product being first to market and that making them better than the challengers. Getting to market... no question, that's great. Blowing away what exists in the market... that's what gets you customers. So inherently being first isn't advantageous since you're opening the door to others taking your idea and improving on it.

I'll say again, build the best thing you know how to build... if you don't build it great, people will notice. Nobody wants a quick and dirty solution once they see the well-designed, delightful, secure, improved, etc. solution.

Facebook > MySpace

Instagram > Facebook

Reddit > Digg

Any modern software language... nobody is like, "Man, give me some ASP VB, that came out before Rails or Node... it must be better." We evolve. Speed, it may be a factor. But what you build has to survive past launch. Do your best to give it the legs it needs... and maintain it as vigorously as you can. ROI is in planning.
It's called a Variance, and in my county(Marin county) they are never issued anymore. They used to be issued to "good ole boys", but those days are even over.(I'm glad that's the case. Why should just rich boys, or networked boys get what they want?)

My dad was on his city's zoning board for a few years. What he learned was that a variance was only supposed to be used in cases where the intent of the zoning ordinance was inapplicable, such as some physical obstacle in your property, or as an extreme case, a person who had no back yard and wanted a fenced-in place for his toddler to play.

But "hardship" cases were supposed to be rejected. What really happened was that the board approved every case, and my dad quit the board after that became apparent.
You haven't addressed the fallacy which you are in fact making.
Documents Published by WikiLeaks Reveal the NSA's Corporate Priorities
Meet Ralph, the New Horizons probe imaging tool responsible for Pluto photos
Bizzaire mistake in programming by a hot Indian Startup
The video on their page says that the tags work for up to four months, which suggests that they upped their scam even further.
Their total value is irrelevant; what matters is the ROI you get from increasing or reducing each of them. I submit that taxes offer the lowest ROI of the three from the perspective of most businesses (but I admit that paying taxes to be in a good location can deliver ROI).

So as a business manager you ask: what do we lose by exiting this tax jurisdiction and what do we gain? And most importantly, what's the ROI? If my margins are tiny (say, most retail and restaurants) then saving 2% of my budget per year on taxes can mean the difference between a 4% and 6% ROI if the other factors remain equal.

That may sound like a small difference but it is not: it is as large as the spread between equities and bonds at most points in time (so if I'm only going to make 4% why be in business at all?) Why not just fire all my employees, use my budget to buy Walmart corp bonds, get 4%/year, and not have any management headaches or employer liabilities?

As economists say, most decisions are made "on the margin"; so the total amount that goes into tax is not as relevant as how much can be gained or lost by shaving off tax liability vs other kinds of costs.
In the eyes of the law, wouldn't the images be considered derivative works of all the data the Neural Net was trained with?
Aren't people entitled to start a conversation with anyone they want? (Outside of some very traditional pre-modern societies where certain people are not even allowed at all to talk to certain other people, mostly by kinship.)
> That description matched about 10% of my 100-strong CS class.

If it's on all points, that's a lot.
For some reason thinking about what I've done helps calm me down at the end of the day. Some of the best sleep was when I was learning javascript and laid down while thinking about what I learned and how I wound up making it work.
A new invention of the SJW community.

"The term “microaggression” was used by Columbia professor Derald Sue to refer to “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color.”"

Like when they say white male. Oh, nevermind that does not qualify because it is against whites and males, so it is ok. Sorry a little confusing here... :)
> If you have affirmative action helping people get into university with lower test scores, isn't that exactly what you'd expect to see?

Ah, and here we have uncovered the elephant in the room.

Damn elephant.

I'm sure this woman has a legitimate complaint, I'm sure at least two people have asked her if she was lost before. I'm also guessing she may be bloviating a little bit. Nobody in college gives a damn if you're lost, lets be honest. If you're lost, you ask for directions. Happens all the time. Unless, of course, you actually look lost. Even then, people usually don't give a damn.

I went to UMD, College Park, and the weed-out classes were damn hard. UMDCP is only a top 15 program, I can't imagine how hard Stanford would be.
A good downvote sounds like when your parents/friends tell you to behave yourself and you somehow know that they are right.

A bad downvote sounds like when your parents/friends are asking you to behave yourself and they are not right. Bias will always exist. In HN they exist too.
Can't believe this didn't already exist. Grats!
This reminds me of hours I spent as a child deciphering the Norse runes Richard Garriot borrowed for his Ultima games:

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/u5lazarus/images/d/dc/U4...

In the area right below the title: "The Lands of Britannia"
Rhino horn camera 'could save rhinos from extinction'
This is an idiotic way of thinking that shut off any potential for discussion.
what do you mean by port knocking doesn't really add anything? It sure does. Use a good port knocker. ie. http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/knockknock/