skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean, not on a low enough level? I'm an avid user and donator of Karabiner, and I'm interested to know what you couldn't map?
>has been one of the most vocal critics of globalization and global inequality.

How can he simultaneously be a critic of globalization AND a critic of global inequality? The one thing "globalization" brings with it is low skilled jobs but relatively better jobs to underdeveloped nations en-masse, if those nations don't squander things, they can parley that into higher economic rungs (as has the US, Japan, China, throughout history.

Yes, wages stagnate in the rich countries but they increase in developing nations. Sometimes you sell goods to emerging markets but typically their PP is too small to matter and healthy local firms can take advantage of the increased local purchasing power to push into neighboring countries.
Maybe; but on a Nexus at least, you can't delete a lot of the basic Google services. For example you can "disable" Google Wallet (or whatever it's called now), but you can't "delete it permanently". It'll always be in your settings page, waiting to be reactivated. It's the same deal with things like Google Music.

In the MS anti trust days, you couldn't delete IE either. But you could use Firefox instead, and just pretend like IE wasn't there. Android seems like that kind of situation to me--you can't delete the Google defaults, but in a deep, dark advanced menu you can disable them at best, after a scary warning. In other words, you can use alternatives to Google apps, but you have to pretend like the defaults aren't there--but they always are.
>the commenter upthread is presumably commenting about because it was the topic of a Last Week With John Oliver episode a few months ago

Somebody is clearly more well versed in popular culture than I am.

>The dispute resolution process excludes tobacco, according to the NYT.

Which apparently happened just yesterday. Perhaps "pop culture oversight" of trade treaties isn't such a bad thing.
I'm just using my gut impression. Sorry for not being more clear.

My main point was that seeing the raw numbers may also present a skewed perception of the how impactful those deaths were on society. Especially when you see them side by side, and one looks so much more "important" than the others by virtue of being an order of magnitude larger.

You might be right that a death from smoking related disease is more impactful on society than a murder, I have no idea about that and my speaking about it probably confused the point.
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" no ideal mathematician would say that a proof is simply "an argument that convinces someone who knows the subject." This entire student-mathematician exchange is facetious at best."

From your point of view, what would be a possible definition of proof from an ideal mathematician, and what would be a more-correct form of the article's definition?
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Short comment is :-1:
This is a killer feature for me as well. Unfortunately DDG's results for other things lack compared to Google, like searching for specific technical things like "how do I do this in code" or "wtf computer why are you doing this specific thing". Google's also a lot more helpful with forum threads in their results.
You absolutely should ignore mass shootings. Paranoia about terrorism has created the NSA and TSA, and all sorts of other nonsense. People watching airplane crashes on the news think that airplanes are incredibly dangerous and drive instead.

The raw numbers are important. People are actually surprised when you give them statistics like how rare murders actually are, or how rare shark attacks are, etc. That wouldn't be surprising if people already had an accurate model of the world. We should strive to inform people, not misinform them further. Knowing about the risk of auto accidents is far more important to the average person than knowing about the details of mass shootings.

The news actively misinforms people about risks. It creates irrational fears and behaviors. The "social impact" you are talking about exists because of the news misinforming people. It's an effect, not a cause. If the news reported on every traffic crash instead, mass shootings wouldn't have any impact on our society or people's behavior.

Maybe people living in such a society would be more likely to buckle their seatbelts, and less likely to own guns.

Our goal should absolutely be to minimize death and suffering. Everything else is secondary and subjective. We should strive to be more rational and consistent, not embrace our irrational fears of rare things.
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> You're right though that smoking shouldn't be top. Everbody dies of something but we can't save all old people from old age diseases forever.

The CDC disagrees. If you click through the last link in the post above they list in great big bold letters "Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death." The key word being "preventable". You're right in that there is little value in worrying about unpreventable causes of death but, please, don't make the mistake of thinking smoking is by any means unpreventable. Also, it's worth pointing out that smoking including second hand smoking kills people of all ages
I think you're coming from this already feeling that privacy is very important. The people you're trying to explain it to probably don't really care.

With that in mind, here's how I'd see you explain in that way to a lay person who doesn't get why it's important:

> I wrote a program called uWho(https://github.com/jwcrawley/uWho) for our hacker

You're a hacker?

> With a permissive license (OpenCV) attached to a GPL3 (Qt)

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about already.

> My version was nice, in that it saved a one-way hash of the person's face. It is a 2 liner to save the full face instead of the nice method I did.

If I was following, the only thing so far is that you were taking pictures of people and recognised faces and it was really useful, and you're trying to convince me that we should be worried about others taking pictures of us and recognising faces?

> Now, tell me this: what would happen if a company downloaded every face in a user's profile, checked the names of tagged faces, and ran all of them through a face recognizer like what I already made?

What would happen? The company can recognise who people are, like facebook can and I already allow and don't care about / like?
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I've still not read a super convincing argument as to why TPP is terrible as a whole. Certain bits, especially those with respect to copyright, sure. But on the whole free trade is generally a good thing. And lots of people are up in arms on this and most complaints I've found don't have much substance beyond South Park level "dey took er jerbs!".

So, HN, I ask of you. What's the best argument against TPP on the internet? What's the strongest case as to why it's bad and why I should lobby my congressman to push against it?
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Yes, you can customize Chrome's search box in "Manage Search Engines". I've setup a few frequent searches -- w=wikipedia, am=amazon, anything-you-want for site:anysite etc.
The devil is in detail, a good case for or against can be only presented after we have draft. People are going by assumptions, which may be likely part of the agreement, but assumptions none the less.

note: The economic center of the world is moving eastward to Asia, so US has to pivot to asia both militarily and economically and TPP on a grand scale is part of the economic pivot.
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The waste of space makes me wonder how it'd feel in a grid layout instead of one big column. Maybe throw some bootstrap on there, add some rows and col-lg-3 classes to the posts and it might feel a little better. What's your goal with this?
Why didn't they just use Ada then? Ada have been long before Rust and is a good alternative to C.
Yep https://scalingo.com/meteorjs-hosting
> Yes. It's a huge fucking issue. I think I speak for plenty of people when I say that we don't want to be part of a culture that's known for bullying, harassment, sexism, etc...

Participation is voluntary in open source. So no one forces you. But you are not entitled to acceptance in any community. I on the other hand there are people that like it the way it is.

You are totally free to fork the kernel into PC Linux with strictly enforced rules and see if the talent will follow you.

> That crap is the whole reason I got into computers in the first place. It was a safe haven away from all the jocks and other very similar BS in highschool.

And here I think we get to the core of the problem. In flight or fight situations some people have the flight option turned off and counterpunch on any adversity, even if it stupid. They won't see a problem with the linux kernel culture at all. But the flight only people - they will see.
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The EFF should by a bus ad with this pitch on it.
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That's a very different argument than "I dont get it - Facebook has some of the most robust privacy settings of any platform"
I did not understand the highly synchronous, sequential, blocking behavior of the code examples. That would absolutely make the events example not work. Or is it implicit that an asynchronous operation would replace today's blocking `next()`? That `itertools.consume()` or the final `next()` would provide an async upgrade, similar to the way Unix's `select()` works? That was never explicitly mentioned...but is the only way this pattern would make larger sense / scale usefully.
Skipping the court system in case of disputes in favor of an arbitrage.

Let's say a country established a law that prohibits smoking. A company conducting business there (selling cigarettes), can complain based on the loss of future income. According to the bilateral agreement, they demand an arbitrage that is performed in secret by a third-party and is binding and final.
An unchecked "sprintf" is a potential buffer overflow, especially in something like this where the input and output string buffers are parameters to the function.

I didn't even go looking for bad code. I was just curious to see what language they were using. This was near the top of the first file I looked at.

The code looks like C code circa 1990. If a first glance turned up this, what else bad is in there?
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> Obviously if someone is stalking you or something, that's a different story.

Yup.
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> Fuck you [...] you heartless piece of shit.

Please remain civil on HN, even when you feel strongly and someone else feels heartless.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Funny thing is, Microsoft did almost the same thing with Windows NT. However, unlike Netscape, they had the resources to keep iterating their old junk while they worked on the totally new version.
People used to do a lot of unethical behaviors in history - doesn't justify them.
The Asian equivalent to TPP is RCEP, it includes China and India, and has more draconian IP terms than TPP, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/just-when-you-thought-...
As are Fox, MLB, NHL, and MLS.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10333920 and marked it off-topic.
Investment dispute court is terrible. As an idea it is deeply disturbing to anyone that values national sovereignty.
Haha have you been to China? It's really not as bad as you are imagining. The controls on internet access is not as extreme as portrayed in western media. I'm not sure where this mobility issue is coming from. If you're talking about poor factory workers being constrained, well poor people everywhere have a hard time being mobile. Although at least in China's case, they have some of the world's most developed high speed rails to get between places. Chinese New Year is the world's largest annual migration.

Although many are, the "vast majority" of rich Chinese people are not moving to the West, that's extreme hyperbole. China is full of terrible things: massive income inequality, pollution and smog, corruption, scams, copycat, scandals and more. But there are also amazing things: innovation, one of the world's richest histories, strong families, and a hunger for progress. Life has been improving there for the past 30+ years, not steadily improving, but improving at an explosive pace of progress. It's not "an awful place to live" (at least I hope not for the 1.3 billion people there), and there is far worse you could do on Earth right now.
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Because thw majority of the world uses Android.

In many countries the choice is between Android and Windows Phone, not iOS.

Specially in countries where people go with pre-paid and the average salary cannot afford the usual iOS contracts.
Kind of reminds me of Geary.
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> That means that 96% are guilty. That's beyond a reasonable doubt and probably not far from the best accuracy you can expect from an inherently fuzzy system.

4% is not beyond reasonable, it is still in the quite plausible territory. 0.0000000001% is beyond reasonable. (And with 7, 000, 000, 000 on the planet and the birthday paradox, even that)
I respect the general thrust of your position in that we as a society must evaluate things like death on all axes including social impact. But until thing like social impact become less nebulous and more quantifiable I will continue to base my opinions on the the "raw" numbers because at least I can compare apples to apples.
I think that actually as you increase surveillance the problem gets simpler. If you're always in view of a camera then I can simply track your motion and I only need to recognise you once. Given that I've seen you in your car, I can already narrow things down significantly.

> Consistently identifying a single person from a database of 100Ms/billions of people

I don't need to, there aren't billions of people who are likely to be at the closest ATM to your house.

> constantly gaining weight, growing facial hair, etc

But I see you several times every single day.

> false positives will become an exponentially bigger problem as you increase the candidate space.

To be honest, I think that this is the most likely thing to scare people, that you won't be allowed to fly because a computer made a mistake and everyone trusts it or can't override it. That the police get called when you go to pick up your son because you're the same height and rough build as a child molester who was released from prison yesterday
I'm very interested in this subject, but not especially expert at it, plus I haven't kept up with the technology on a daily basis for over a year, so I have no clue what the cutting-edge trends are right now. There is a HNer that has organized a couple of conferences around this theme at Berkeley and Stanford in the last few years. I will try to do some catching up on the issue and post anything cool I find.
Bullets only will do. A gun without a bullet is a ineffective baton.
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Your old graphing calculator still costs a fortune
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...and in the mean time their current process continues to shut down the accounts of people who are using their "authentic" names but don't have proper documentation. It's disingenuous for them to be calling this an "authentic name" policy when they have no intention of enforcing it as such.
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I apologize, but I was incorrect. The governor has stated that she does NOT have the authority to commute Glossip's death sentence.
I'm not suggesting we ignore "raw" numbers. Just that we should realise they are not directly comparable, as they are not all measuring sudden or violent terminations of life.
TPP moves toward killing off government-mandated data sovereignty
I won't go into details of how I never said I supported "a culture of personal abuse". If anything, I meant to say that I don't perceive harsh wording related to my work performance as "personal abuse".

I was actually referring to zeveb's comments, which in my view received unfair downvotes of immense volume, despite being very well-formed and constructive. My own comments didn't even get downvoted that badly, and as of right now I'm still in net positive.
In 2011, the UK had a few days of rioting and looting where kids were supposedly using Blackberry's private pseudo anon messenger system BBM to advertise flash mobs of looting.

UK authorities complained BBM's encryption was to blame for the looting.

Within a few days afterwards, the BBM service experienced some rare downtime, during which presumably, accommodations were made to cater to accessibility of the encrypted messages for the UK gov.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2470761/mobile-apps/201...
As an engineer who worked in a couple plants and focused on QC and the like, I damn near have an allergic reaction when any level of management says something like that. I immediately assumed that sort of conversation took place, and it's a strong signal something unethical is afoot - or at least a call for something unethical. ("I'm not saying you should ignore the samples, but sometimes you get different results if you test again, you know?")
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You've just described the future of Siri, not the future of Twitter.
People are already ok with being tracked constantly.

You and I must know very different people.

Being resigned to it, feeling they can't do anything about it, or accepting some level of (usually ad-related) tracking in return for some other service are all different to being OK with being tracked constantly.

It's also striking how often people don't realise the full implications of these technologies. They're OK up to a point because nothing bad ever seems to happen to them, until it does. Sometimes they're also OK with it up to a point because they think it's necessary for some greater good, which may or may not actually be true.
In the tradition of the Daily Show, a six-minute video on the rules of ISDS courts where (non-tobacco) corporations would be able to sue TPP governments, https://youtube.com/watch?v=M4-mlGRPmkU
I agree with the comment about diversity; "Everyone talks about diversity in tech. I think the best thing you can do is not talk about it but just act on it".

With over 40% of women leaving tech, we (http://keepwomen.com/) have been doing research into this topic and talked to lots of women in tech. One of the things we found out was the importance of finding a company culture that’s right for you.
Those women who persisted and changed jobs eventually found a company that was a good match for them. So we think one of the ways to "act on it", is to help women find a company culture that's right for them.
Because you can globalize inequality, such that a transnational set of very powerful oppressors can use cross-border agreements to make the lives of those disenfranchised on both sides of the border equally miserable, skimming the cream of their surplus and absconding with said fruits of labor to parts beyond the reach or purview of those stolen from, while using against them international laws that are difficult to understand and are powerless to fight?
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Url changed from http://qz.com/516040/the-world-bank-says-giving-money-to-ent..., which points to this.
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China has plenty of "original thought[s]". I bet India does too. I always find it amazing that in the U.S. we tend to judge other countries as being "unoriginal" or "lacking creativity", simply because we are better right now. We forget to factor in that we are the wealthiest country in the world, have been for hundreds of years. We have the best resources, and that create a compounding effect for our accomplishments. Not to mention that a lot of our original ideas likely come from specifically China and India.
Really?

I would have thought putting multiple choice questions online (internet or intranet) would be incredibly easy. Infact, I've done so myself.
This article is deceptive because it speaks of raw numbers rather than percentages. While the number of people living on less than a dollar a day went up throughout the 20th century, this was because populations were exploding over the same period. At the same time, the fraction of people living on less than a dollar a day plunged dramatically. In fact, this trend slowed after 1990 - since then this rate has declined less quickly than it did during the seventies, when it fell from almost 30% to less than 10% in 1985. See https://orderorder.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/capitalism.jp... e.g.
here: http://valleywag.gawker.com/jack-dorsey-screwed-his-friends-...

Dorsey often tried to act as if he were in control, posturing that his actions were all part of a bigger plan, but employees saw him frequently pacing in frustration around South Park. He also habitually left around 6 p.m. for drawing classes, hot yoga sessions and a course at a local fashion school. (He wanted to learn to make an A-line skirt and, eventually, jeans.)
NONE of the comments defending the TPP reference ANY POSITIVE reasons to support it. They all reject negative claims or argue process ("It is too democratic!" "Amendments are often bad!" etc.)

Obviously the TPP has major costs, both directly and indirectly. IF as I doubt the TPP is worthwhile, then proponents should be able to give examples of its benefits.
Right... I should have known this. Thanks.

I actually have a secondary-school teacher as a Facebook friend and she does in fact selectively publish things to different groups, because she has some of her students as friends on Facebook.
No. Stop thinking about fancy modern UX. Forget it. Criaglist is still profitable with a horrible minimalist layout. Reddit is a million times better... so stick with the old version man.
> Seriously, there is this thing called Google and Wikipedia, you might want to try it some time.

Please don't make acerbic swipes on HN. This comment would be just fine without the first sentence.
Tobacco has been excluded from Investors State Disputes Settlement provisions

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&o...
> We should get states to provide some sort of transitional ID or something.

The fact that identification is difficult to change for transgender individuals is an enormous fractured problem. Also consider that Facebook is used around the world in various political climates. Even in the state of California it is necessary to go through treatment and get a doctors note and pay several hundreds of dollars and wait several months (You can forgo the doctors note if you're willing to publish it in the local newspaper a few times).
I don't think anyone is claiming that "you can't really spin an agenda on <the NYT>" (which I assume is what you meant?)