skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But is incivility communication? I mean, I don't think people should be forbidden from most forms of communication, but on the other hand I have no problem with individual actors like Reddit (or HN) setting standards. If you're at a party in my house and you start behaving obnoxiously towards one of the other guests, I'm going to throw you out, and I won't feel bad about it. Likewise, if someone comes to me with a complaint that the stripes on your shirt are triggering some bad memories and that I should do something about it, I'm going to suggest that they take themselves off to a less stimulating environment.

Now I do prefer a distributed system like Usenet, where individuals maintained their own killfiles of whose bullshit they'd like to screen out and NNTP administrative overhead was relatively flat (ie it wasn't too difficult to set up a new newsgroup, or if I remember correctly anyone could set one up under the alt.* hierarchy).

But Usenet/NNTP ran into a huge tragedy of the commons problem, most famously from Canter & Siegel's 'Make.money.fast' posting which they crossposted to every newsgroup, resorting to a capitalism/free speech defense when everyone else took them to task for it. You could also point to the abuses of anonymous remailer systems like penet.fi by bad actors (who were obviously able to easily outrun killfile entries) and trolls - I was still active in a couple of Usenet grousp until a year or two back and I could point out people who have been persistently targeting individuals and communities for over a decade. I'm sure many people with roots in Usenet could point to similar individuals.

I don't feel like going on a research dive right now, but I'm thinking of a social science paper I read a few years back about tipping points in social networks, which mainly exxamined persuasive campaigns, but you could see by the same logic how trolls could easily wreck an otherwise productive forum by lowering the signal-to-noise ratio below a certain threshold. I think it was from RAND corporation but the title escapes me right now.
Smartphones are not PCs. Redefining all these terms is a silly way to buttress your POV.
How does it handle receipts in Japanese or Chinese?
Agreed. NLTK's value is not that it should be your go-to source for NLP algorithms -- when there's a specific task you need to accomplish, there'll be a specific solution by now that works better than NLTK.

NLTK's value is that it shows you how to write NLP algorithms, and gives you an understandable starting point when you need to do something that nobody has implemented yet.
It's a third party plugin, it's definitely a Neovim issue because the file corruption doesn't happen with Vim. No idea why it happens. I'm fine living with it because I just check the file back out if it corrupts it. It's only an issue when opening a new file so it doesn't cause work to be lost.

A github issue about it https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/206
I think it's reasonable if you consider the opportunity cost of waiting in the queue for airport customers, instead of searching elsewhere.
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There are currently no proven means to prevent or treat Alzheimer's disease. All we have right now are many methods with weak evidence for reducing the risk of the disease. It's mostly a crap shoot. I think the best advice right now is
1) get plenty of sleep every night
2) avoid head injuries

There are many others, use at your own discretion.
I use a text-based launcher (Quicksilver, Gnome Do) to launch my apps at the 'speed-of-thoght' by typing a few charatcers of the applications name on my desktop, why not the web?

I thought: how come we cant control websites and the display of information using text? Especially on mobile devices, having an input field that could control multiple display options could eliminate the need for a bulky mobile menu.

This is what I came up with, it runs simple JavaScript functions as 'commands', giving me at-a-glance access to a few key thingd. The UI is a cross between a terminal CLI and a tabbed document interface. The command output is graphical and often interactive, but the output is stacked in a 'log' above the prompt. At any time you may opt to close a previously output command, or clear the entire history.

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (no jQuery) and consider it shared under the MIT license!

http://staticresource.com/joe.html

I'm hoping it captures the best parts of CLI and GUI. I just learned that individual pages may request to go into native full-screen mode to the browser, so one of my next steps is to see if I can enable a fullscreen 'isolation mode' for the output of any command, allowing you a way to exit that context and go back to the prompt and output log
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> So does the world

The world relies on case law to resolve ambiguity
I disagree. Twisted is a sprawling codebase, it started as a game library that turned into an async library along the way, you need to read books to get the full documentation, and some of it doesn't even have docstrings or comments.
Spez quoted the existing harassment policy. It is not as simple as “feeling harassed:”

Systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation, or (2) fear for their safety or the safety of those around them.

The key phrases to me are “systemic and/or continued” and “a reasonable person."
All communities pursue free speech policies until some toxic truly is spewed forth that no one likes.

/r/ShitRedditSays has really called into question exactly what "free speech" means. Its like "downvote brigades" are anything new these days. Does anybody remember "message board invasions"???

Its fine to say whatever you like, except you have no right to assemble a downvote brigade. Which is speech. You have complete free speech, except you aren't allowed to make /r/picsofdeadkids, /r/HurtingAnimals, or /r/rapingwomen. Even then, the Reddit owners are looking for a way to cut back on the downvote brigades, which really is the "invasion" problem that has always been eternal on these forums.

There is _always_ a limit to free speech. And when a community figures out exactly what that limit is, then the "free speech" nutters leave. I dunno, maybe they'll leave for 8chan or some "more free" place. Whether or not that causes death for the site... its a question.

The Gamefaqs LUEsers were neutered because of message board invasions, as well as the "shock sites" of Goatse and Tubgirl. Reddit is "free-er" and seems to be accepting of internet shock humor like Goatse and Tubgirl (As well as grossly / weirdly pornographic material like /r/clopclop). But there will be a day when the Reddit admins draw a line and say "No, you aren't allowed to talk about that here".
One of my favourite things about the anti-SJW movement is how they confuse privately-run forums for government-imposed law.

Nothing is stopping them from running to one of the great many zero-moderation forums that exist online, but of course those forums aren't very attractive to a critical mass of users, so they have less content and fewer third-party tools to integrate with.

The irony is, of course, that by demanding that Reddit cater to their demands, they're impinging on Reddit's freedom of expression. It's their toy; they get to set the rules on how it is used.
> People think "The Federal Government" is a monolith, and they could not be more mistaken. It is a collection of individual entities, operating largely independently and often at odds with one another.

That's definitely an accurate description of the US federal government.
In all fairness, there's a reason I'm on reddit but not Facebook. "new content streams" is definitely part of it.
> Is 18F sufficiently independent, or this project sufficiently below the radar that it just isn't an issue?

Nothing below the radar about it:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-everywhere-...
What good is an FPGA if it isn't 'workload-specific'? That's what they do. That workload might be a processor, it might be an interface, ... you get it.

Workload-specific FPGAs are here, now. They're not 'promising' because they're doing exactly what they were made to do!

>I don't know what the outlook for improving the memory latency situation is. It's probably going to involve gobs of on-chip embedded RAM, which is expensive.

They already have a name for that and you already named it.

It's called cache ;)
I kinda want to say, if you're worried about this being a likely thing that might happen, own it. Have a section of the site where you talk about enduring relationships accreted on your service.

If two people end up married because they first met on your workplace-sharing site, is it really a net loss if they stopped cutting you in on a hookup fee? Or if they go on to form the next Google? Or even if they just become friends? Sure, you don't get any more money from them. But you just made two people's lives a little more interesting. That's worth something if your balance sheet includes more than just money.

I mean, don't advertise that as one of the main features if the focus is "finding interesting places to work outside your home". But something this intimate definitely has a "meet interesting new people" aspect to it.
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Given the spec and the deadline, I would quote a ballpark 100k. Drop it to 50k if they can relax the deadline. Maybe to 25k if they can accept a list of caveats about what will and will not be included and off the shelf solutions where they will have to accept some limitations.
That's actually a really good idea; Reddit is summarily gentrifying. They are "thirty" now, want to make some money etc. etc.. Users should love it or leave it perhaps for the original "social network,"Usenet.
> not a safe platform

in today's world that means a platform where too many people disagree with me.
I actually prefer to open images in new tabs. I do use the keyboard shortcuts though. If I had to use the mouse to switch I'd probably go insane too.
As you are probably aware, there are more works of Banks to read, both in and outside the Culture universe, and my favorites are somewhere in there, I can't pin it down to one exactly.
Have you ever used uber? There's no tipping, no "credit card isn't working" bs, cars are generally nicer/have water, drivers more polite (because there are ratings)... I'd pay more to use an uber to be honest.
But "modern", Javascript-enabled web browsers are generally not my friends. I am rather circumspect in when and how I use them.

If I need to use a modern web browser on the open web it is generally because I _need_ Javascript. Bank, etc.

Most of the time I can get what I'm after without using a web browser, and when I need to browse HTML I can do it with browser that has no Javascript engine linked in.

It all depends on what the user is trying to do. And not all users are the same.

For retrieving content I find I do not need a web browser.

For reading HTML I find I do not need a Javascript-enabled browser.

Looking at photos is a different task. When I used to use X11, there were a few good options for viewing large number of photos quickly.

Watching video is a different task. For this I prefer a dedicated application. Interestingly enough, the player I use on the iPad has a built-in FTP server, HTTP server... and a web browser. Quite useful.
I entered my house to SFO in blacklane and wingz to see their prices, and they seem to be a little bit higher than taking uber would be. Getting an uber from SFO is usually just 4 minutes of waiting.

So it seems like these guys are basically surge / traffic insurance?
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This is a great point. I've been thinking about the problem exogenously- as a group of racists (/etc.) out there that we as the internet have to deal with. (People are still getting convinced of racism?)

It definitely becomes a balancing act, then, of whether the flow is more towards normalizing radicals or radicalizing normals. I'd hope it's more the former, and actually spez's NFWC category might help with that- since you'd have to manually opt-in to the cesspit, sort of like turning on HN's showdead.

And maybe because it's easier to stumble on it's easier to get out- once someone's hooked into Stormfront they're probably irretrievable; every aspect of their forum experience will be framed by that fact. Whereas on reddit they might have 10 cat subreddits diluting that content, it's just a matter of getting them to click that "unsubscribe" button once.
I'd personally love to see a frontend-heavy codebase that is using relatively new tooling (for example, ES2015 with Babel, React on a significant scale, etc.) if anyone would like to share :).
Maybe if they didn't have a queue and instead used an on demand app...
They could at least have allowed the Internet Archive in the robots.txt, since the way things stand all www.twitter.com links will be unavailable from the Wayback Machine. That will obviously be a huge loss to researchers.
The US, since that is where reddit is based.
I usually go one by one. They end up in a chain of ideas so I just follow that chain down.
Eh it might help increase active user counts. Instead of getting a simple over-18 prompt, users will see a page line "sign up for a FREE account to see this stuff we can't show you otherwise".
This. Just. This
> From my ~20 years of internet usage, I have learned the one constant is you never lie to the internet.

I believe Gabe Newell said it best "You can't lie on reddit".
Looks really nice under Chrome. But does not render any of the example except Simple and Customizable under my IE11.
All my basic needs are met plus some.

That doesn't mean I don't still want a Tesla, a lakehouse, a new deck on my house, landscapers to mow and pull weeds for me, etc.

I don't think you're asking what the point of having money is, I think what you're really asking is, if everyone could live comfortably without working, why would anyone work?

My reply would be twofold:

1.) Why is it a requirement that everyone work?
2.) There are plenty of people that work a lot harder than they need to, because they love their job or they love the pay, etc.

Teachers don't teach because they like the pay. Lawyers don't work 100 hour weeks because they couldn't make ends meet if they only worked 40 hour weeks.

In theory I could probably get a job working 20 hours a week, make half what I do now, and still live like a typical middle class household. But I'd have to move to a crappier town and a smaller house and wouldn't be able to vacation for a week at a cabin on a lake, wouldn't be able to buy new tech toys when I wanted to, etc. So I don't do that. If the world suddenly had guaranteed income to give everyone $40k/year per adult, would I just stop working? Probably not.
Yeah I have plenty of pages filled with the project. Not having them searchable is a pain, but every time I've tried to use vim for it, it ends up being a bigger distraction than the ideas themselves.
Too many dependencies and layers as compared to a pure python solution like bokeh, or seaborn and flask. I like that dataframe integration.
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I have similar experiences too.

Trying to keep data immutable introduces scenarios involving stale data, and a new problem to solve. I have seen interesting problems with cache coherence that were quite subtle in their manifestations.

Understanding the system-wide implications of immutable-only data is a non-trivial design task.
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What sort of experience is 18F looking for? Mostly senior devs or a range?
Taxi driver's attitude problems are the main reason why I wish uber would take over. I was in Vegas recently and got a taxi to take me ~0.8 miles. He was so sarcastic about how he was happy for me that it's such a short trip. I don't need any of that attitude when I hop in a a car. I have almost always had pleasant conversations with my uber drivers. Customer service is so important and it seems like uber got it right.
This is strange. I thought the new ticker would appeal less attractive to investors as it does not have any voting rights but it is more expensive than the old ticker. Does it have to do anything with volume of shares for that ticker?

Thanks to everyone for responding so kindly and quickly to my queries.
You needed to claim something like "the vast majority of murderers have non-murder priors" in addition to "the majority of all murderers never commit another crime". Otherwise, based on what you wrote, it is unclear whether you believe someone whose first conviction is murder should get a short or long sentence.
And then no watter what, if you're broke you will go to all lengths jumping through hoops and calculating tiny scores even if it's a waste of time... Because you're broke :p

Sorry, what's the context? Admin / account and login areas don't care / matter much, because they want it :p they'll wait...
Yep I think it might be a winner.

You could have an added feature that let startups match up with other startups when renting a location. It can be pretty hard to find exactly the amount of space you need - two or three startups could list how much space they needed and the app could try and pair them up to match the space available.
I'm sure what they have in mind is pretty well-considered, however, the pitfalls I outlined above still remain. For instance, different people have different ideas of what a `reasonable person' is. Generally, one which is pretty close to themselves! Also, ``systemic and/or continued'' also means different things to different people. For instance, the opponents of Gamer-Gate claimed (and perhaps genuinely believed) themselves to be targets of a `harassment campaign', when in fact, they were receiving disagreement and mockery from many different sources, each only communicating once or a handful of times. [1]

So, that wording of the policy still leaves plenty of leeway for the sort of abuse I described above.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity
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Thanks Caspercrf. Will try these out. Cheers!
Agreed. The font choice was also very odd. Everything else looks incredibly cool though!
Uber shouldn't have to wait in line with the other taxis, since they're there to pick up a specific individual, and not any random person looking for a taxi.

Uber is acting more like a friend/relative picking you up than anything else, and as such, the $17 fare represents a $17 fare (or whatever the amount happens to be), and not "a 15 minute wait for a measly $17 fare".

Like airplanes, taxis are only making money when they're in transit with a fare. So, because they're losing money waiting in line, it discourages them taking short fares because it doesn't give them the opportunity to make as much money, lowering their overall hourly rate.
If someone is trying to go heads-down, then can let other people know (or maybe use a do-not-disturb sign / flag or similar), but I think of it more as something you would do when you're in the mood for possible engagement/interruption rather than just straight working; in cases where you wanted to be sure you'd not be interrupted, there's always regular co-working spaces/your apartment/regular coffee shops. This would be more for "I'm working, but not so intensively that you can't talk to me" times.
addart a = array ((-1,0),(n,m+n)) $ z ++ xsi ++ b ++ art ++ x
where z = ((-1,0), a!(0,0)) : [ ((-1,j),0) | j <- [1..n] ] ++ [ ((-1,j+n),a!(0,j)) | j <- [1..m] ]
xsi = ((0,0), -colsum a 0) : [ ((0,j),0) | j <- [1..n] ] ++ [ ((0,j+n), -colsum a j) | j <- [1..m] ]
b = [ ((i,0), a!(i,0)) | i <- [1..n] ]
art = [ ((i,j), if i == j then 1 else 0) | i <- [1..n], j <- [1..n] ]
x = [ ((i,j+n), a!(i,j)) | i <- [1..n], j <- [1..m] ]
((_,_),(n,m)) = bounds a

From Matrix.Simplex https://hackage.haskell.org/package/dsp-0.2.1/docs/src/Matri...
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novelly every person in the world will have a smart phone. Many will not have a desktop or laptop. Need I say more?
I'd have to agree with you on this. Lumosity has claimed similar (positive) brain effects occur when playing its games online. Not sure the exact ratio, but I know for a fact there are many doctors that disagree these Lumosity games have a significant (if any) positive improvement to cognitive abilities/functions.
And how does the Right Question appear if not through exploration and manipulation of the data?

Theory can obviously be very useful, but much of this stress on advanced statistics and phds is just a smokescreen for academics who suck at programming.

If you can't program and manipulate data, statistics won't save you because you won't have the ability to dig deep enough to find valuable insights. On the other side, if you know how to slice and dice data quickly and reliably, you can learn a huge amount by applying only the simplest statistical techniques. Generally the simple techniques are better anyway because they make mistakes less likely and your findings are easier to communicate.
Saw fellow Austinite Chris's post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9869093

and thought I'd post my personal site code too (decided to steal his icons in the process).

What's cool about this site is you can host it free on heroku. Hope you like it!
R has no native bayesian library like Pymc 3 (Must use stan which is c++). Also Python is better for ad hoc and agent based modeling and for out of core data with blaze and dask.

So no, R is not ahead in everything.
If your devices use DHCP to get their DNS server, you can probably setup a firewall/router with the appropriate filtered DNS.
> Google should figure out a way to monetize that isn't just maximizing clicks and optimizing ad revenue.

After many years of things like 20% time, no one at Google has created anything that monetizes at a level close to ads. Why would they double down on what hasn't worked?
Loosecubes was just this. Eventually the real estate market took over co-working here in NYC eliminating a disruptive marketplace. http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/13/loosecubes-shutdown-casts-a...
I wonder if this is good enough for advertisers. The problem content is still there, is still hosted on the site they're paying money to. Someone can still say 'Walmart is supporting a site full of hate speech' if they advertise and be right.
I agree with you except for the sentiment expressed by "Their primary research papers appear to be typeset in Word for christ sake."

I don't remember the name, but there was a computer architecture journal which had papers printed with dot-matrix printers (this was in the 80s). I would not discount the value of work due to this.
That is such a silly thing to say. Of course you can. It's very easy.

People get so excited when they catch a liar and think "See you can't lie", not realizing just how many lies pass right by without being caught.
This is almost certainly true when you consider almost nobody understands what as humanity we actually know right now about the universe.

The chance that the smartest person in the world is just smart enough to understand exactly how the universe works is very unlikely considering understanding of the universe has never been under evolutional selection. We are going to have to wait for the Singularity to tell us how it really works :)
I've been wondering if it would be possible to make a modern version of Usenet. Rather than everything copied to every news server, it could be peer to peer and you just sub to what you want. Someone picks a name and they 'own' that. Maybe even make it tie back into the web, so that there are browser plug-ins so that you can have boards regarding an individual website (not to mention those not affiliated with any site).

But that's all just idle thinking with no code to back it up.