skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough.

All those resources are actually markdown files that are being built for use in our doc browser — but you can also browse the raw .md.

Here's an example of how to retrieve raw .md:

http://urbit.org/docs/user/intro
http://doznec.urbit.org/home/pub/docs/user/intro.md
Well the definition of a valid email address is very hard to get right and it can conceivably change.
I'd love to see the video too... LeCun is probably most interesting person to hear in this topic...
>Facebook privacy settings only prevent people talking to you. >They don't prevent people talking about you.

It's still easier to ignore that people talking directly in your face. (I'm not saying it's not a problem, just that it's somewhat easier to control).

>The law will rarely do jack shit, though.

In the example I gave the person was actually charged. This was a little town in rural Canada with a handful of police officers, about 5 years ago. And it was just a minor politician lying about something on facebook, not anything as disturbing as some of the cyberbullying cases.
While it's true this is mostly justification for further investigation, correctly categorizing 12/12 people into 2 categories actually has a p-val of .000244141 = (1/(2^12)), which would easily allow you to reject the null hypothesis of random categorization. The stronger the effect, the fewer samples you need.

We consider n=12 generally underpowered only because many real-world effects are way weaker than the ability this woman demonstrated.
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I think the OP was talking about (aggregate) telemetry going back to facebook (crash reports yes, battery usage stats nope).

Battery stats telemetry is almost certainly only available to Apple, and not shared with third parties. (If you dig into your device's settings->logs, there are log files that seem to record every imaginable interaction with the device)

Also, for a long while, ios devices that have mounted the developer disk image provide some extra battery logging in settings, but that will only provide insight on the developer's own devices.
It's not the difficulty that is the problem, but a fear that it can't reliably deal with changing environment/edge cases/anomalies. It's a lot safer and comfortable to have "man-machine symbiosis" for many tasks where machines are used as tools by humans. Machines do most of the work but supervised by humans where humans do high level abstract decisions but most of the work is still done by the machine. Best example I can come up now is probably flying planes, they are mostly flied by the computer but I bet you feel safer when pilots are there even though they do almost no work.
PC companies did WHAT?
That's because there are hundreds of thousands or millions of draws occurring. You need to account for what's called the multiple testing problem. [1] Some ways to do this are to control the family-wise error rate (FWER) or the false discovery rate (FDR). You can control the FWER with the Bonferroni correction or the Sidak correction and you can control the FDR with the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure. You are completely correct about things like this happening by chance, and this is the cause of publication bias in science (since there is a predisposition for publishing positive results).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem
"successfully abroad to counter terrorism"

What the metric for success? Because the ones I've heard about don't make any sense.
Thank you for your tips! I'll give them a try.
I taught 3 cohorts of the Web Development Immersive program at General Assembly and most of my students are in the work force and doing great. I don't know about any other programs, but I do know the course that I taught was very effective.

For more info see my other comment on the main thread.
Excellently calm and informative article. I wish all Fukushima reporting was like this.
Fair! We do a pretty good job of generating this response.

The point is that we ought to have a permanent, immutable home for our personal computation that's universally available on the network. Not an app, not a service, but a general-purpose tool that I trust and can program. I have one on my desk, but I want one in the cloud that doesn't feel like flying a 747 (aka being a unix sysadmin).

Our approach is simple: the reason this doesn't exist is not because it's not a good idea, but because existing old-school system software is too complicated.
If this is sound, the theory that bitcoin is just the first cryptocurrency of its generation is now confirmed: bitcoin is dead.

If that website about bitcoin obituaries is around this update should be added there.

Clarifications as requested:

1) The article is about ECC

2) The article doesn't mention secp256k1, but it mentions EC curves in general and special those in the 256 bit field -- which secp256k1 is one of them

3) If NSA is able to crack 256 bits curves, what makes secp256k1 special to all this? Nothing.
But is that data reported back to the developer? When you have half a billion users, what anyone one person sees isn't very representative. This iOS 9 feature is focused on helping the end user (which is great), not the developer (which would also be great).
We (Spire, building breath tracking wearables) have an unfortunate amount of experience troubleshooting these issues. The developer tooling around measuring battery drain/energy usage is not useful for debugging this sort of thing.

We ended up wiring a disassembled iPhone to battery simulation hardware and are now able to measure battery drain while stepping through a debugger/pushing the phone through an integration test to identify power usage regressions.

Curious how other folks handle these issues.
Sorry to hear about your dog. Hope he/she gets better.
I guess after the test they told her the results (i.e., you're wrong on 1 person because he's in the control group and doesn't have Parkinson's), at which point she insisted that he smelled the same as the others, and then the journalist wrote that up as 'she was adamant he had Parkinson's'. Or she really did fully believe in her sense of smell as an ability to detect Parkinson's without doubt, at which point it as much sense for her to say a person has Parkinson's as you to say the sky is really blue because your eyes tell you and the journalist simply relayed that. There's various readings of the phrase that can make sense.
Maybe the researchers informed her of what they thought the correct results were afterwards and she insisted on her interpretation.
That's not the switch for human consciousness (at least, it's likely not). That's a switch that, if thrown, will turn human consciousness off.

Think of a CPU board. If I disrupt the circuitry at point A, I can turn off processing. But there are probably a lot of points like that (any point along the path that routes the clock to the CPU, at a minimum). That doesn't make point A "the switch for CPU activity".
First, my mistake, I mean to type "wealth redistribution".

Second, no, that is not what he's talking about.

He's pointing out a symptom of "income inequality"

The solution is not "wealth redistribution", the solution is to be fair.

Pay a fair wage, provide universal healthcare, reduce the cost of tuition, close tax loopholes, end corporate lobbying, etc...
Something similar has been demoed publicly before by DARPA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA

I still don't see an argument here, just quotes from an editorial, can US intelligence agencies track everyone in the continental US sure, they can also enforce traffic using AGM-114's doesn't mean they do.
Preach. My gym teacher Mr. Burns, bless his heart, would famously settle any hint of a dispute by _requiring_ both parties to box three rounds. "Settle it in the ring, it's a civilized sport."

This was genius because if you were big, it was considered extremely cowardly and unmanly to enter a dispute with someone smaller than you.

If you did, your friends would make fun of you for picking a fight with no personal risk, since everybody knew that no matter what it would come to blows. There is neither honor nor glory in a cruiserweight battering a featherweight for six minutes, and everyone knew it.

And little guys never picked fights either, for obvious reasons. In fact it ended up in practice that hardly anyone ever disagreed about anything if they were even approximately near Mr. Burns, and we all learned a bunch of very important lessons about character, civility, and how to stay on your feet after you get hit.

If I ever have kids I will go to great lengths to have them grow up somewhere like that.
Or for that matter http://urbit.org/home/pub/docs/user, which is a simple-html rendering of the OP link. Some of the pages require JS to list children components, however.
And get a real synthesizer instead of a VST. Though synthesis will be a bit more restricted, nothing replaces the pleasure of learning by tweaking real knobs on a synth.

My first synth was a digital one , a novation nova, a bit cold sounding but it had nice features though it lacked of FM synthesis ( so no "piano sounds" ). Back then the Access Virus was the shit .

But today analog synths are really cheap, no need to spend 2000$ on a broken old Juno or a Moog. People doing electronic music today and wanting to buy real gear have no idea how lucky they are.
Inexpensive phone calls are a human right?

Keep in mind this wasn't a ruling by SCOTUS citing the constitution. It was a ruling by the FCC meaning that ultimately it WAS a community voting on them. The only debate here is the size of the community that should get a vote.
She needs to be "adamant" because that person was in the control group". He was supposed to not have it but she was certain he did and he got tested for it.

I have a red coin and a green coin. I hide the two coins behind my back and ask you to pick the red coin. You pick my left hand, revealing a red coin. You then tell me to reveal my right hand because it also has a red coin. Even though I told you I only have a red coin and a green coin.

I don't believe you. Why should I? I selected a red coin and a green coin and you had already guessed which hand held the red coin. You stand firm. You're absolutely certain my other hand contains a red coin. I open my right hand and reveal a red coin.

You wouldn't need to be "adamant" if you told me that my right hand held a green coin. I know it was a green coin - I placed it there!

She had to be "adamant" because everyone thought she was surely wrong. After all - that was one of the control members. They believed she was wrong. Turns out she was right.
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> Rioting is one of the expected consequences when more peaceable ways to resolve problems - problems that threaten one's self or one's family's safety - prove ineffective.

Quite possibly, but irrelevant to the original poster's point. If rioters are physically endangering your home or your family or the place you work, you're not going to be in any mood then or afterwards to thoughtfully consider it from ten thousand feet.
Okay, no worries!
> the Waltons are rich because they built a big, successful business.

This is where we disagree.

Yes, they have every right to be rich because of their business success.

But their unequal wealth is a result of a broken system that allows for "income inequality".

Some would go as far as saying their business success is a direct result of their ability to exploit "income inequality".
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This assumes that people 50% of people have Parkinson's and that the people are chosen randomly from the population. Unfortunately neither of those things are true.
To add to your list (disclosure: I am the author) is http://gunDB.io/ which is an Open Source graph database written in javascript. Although we currently have not implemented any query languages (we'll be adding SQL soon), so you can only do graph traversal as of now.

I'm curious to see what would be the popular vote of what query language the industry wants to standardize (I definitely hope not GraphQL, I'm personally think RQL and LINQ are interesting). Rather than some company attempting to standardize it, I want to see the users vote. What would you choose?
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Whether 5-door, hatchback, cross-over, SUV, what-have-you, it's all just filling in space between the sedan and a van/truck. If you brought someone to 2015 from 1955 via a time machine nobody would step up to a cross-over or an SUV and be agog at how utterly different and incomprehensible a vehicle it is. It's just variations on a century old theme.

Big, station-wagon-y cars with extra height, that's what we've got in various different iterations. But the station-wagon is still "uncool" so we invent special names for such things, but really they are the same damned thing.
Not that one can do nothing significant, but that one is significantly advantaged by his or her parent's wealth.

And studies bear this out. One of the greatest predictors of a person's wealth is whether his or her parents are wealthy. And this, even when corrected for such factors as environment and behaviour.
Doctor Rat.

But don't read it if easily made unhappy by literature.
> It's still easier to ignore that people talking directly in your face.

But that's not the real-world analogue. That would be people spreading rumours behind your back.

> In the example I gave the person was actually charged.

It does happen, but more sophisticated cyberbullying is often not prosecuted.
There's a bit of context that goes along with this, but in short the above quote is ridiculous, because they're throwing up a slippery slope argument in response to the smallest and most reasonable request, in a situation where there is no "right thing", since the software serves different people in different ways and making one way that serves all equally well is impossible, and hard-coding one locks out one user base. This is made worse by them locking out previous users with their changes by disabling usage patterns they previously provided.
$200k ? My recruiter has screwed me then.
What opportunities are you referring to, exactly? Which of them are inaccessible to some, but not to others?
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You are free to your opinion. Preventing someone from keeping in touch with their family while they're in prison through extortion-level pricing of communications services is violating their rights, and the FCC appears to agree. If it has to go to SCOTUS, so be it.
This article is terrible -- it sets up a false dichotomy. The article actually refutes it's own conclusion in the paragraphs about what people view as the ideal income distribution. We don't want total equality but we do want less inequality than is actually present today in every 1st world country. So we should care about the current (and growing!) levels of inequality -- even if we don't want a perfectly equal distribution, we want one that is more equal.
I disagree. Grew up in NC, spent a year and change in NYC, in SF for the last two years.

The biggest difference was the cost of a pack of cigarettes, when I still smoked. Now the biggest difference is the weather, which I gather varies quite a lot just within CA.

My coworkers are variously local and transplants like myself, and I wouldn't be able to tell except for being told.

One of the effects of the last half-century of mass media is the wholesale homogenization of American culture. I'm fine with this, and I wish our political structures would adapt accordingly; I happen to think American norms of 2015 are considerably better than North Carolina's norms circa 1965.
The prior in this case isn't for people in general, it is for this person.
That's helpful, thanks. What I was after is how the apparatus in this experiment maps onto the CHSH description given by Scott (if indeed, it does). It seems clear that the x / y values are used to determine the basis of measurement of the respective detectors, the a / b values are output based on whether each detector fires, and it's the correlations based on difference between the bases that allows you to beat the game.

The basis of measurement here is analogous to the angle of a polarising filter in a photon detector, but the detectors in this experiment are directly measuring the spin of the nitrogen vacancies (so what is the physical implementation of the different basis of measurement?).
The courts exist for this purpose, but they aren't supposed to have to make a ruling for EVERY law. It would be very wasteful if lawmakers did not think at ALL about whether their laws would pass court scrutiny. Some laws are so obviously unconstitutional that they should not even be attempted; that will just waste taxpayer dollars. Of course, lots of things are in a grey area... that is where it makes sense to try to pass a law and see if the courts agree.

But for most of the time, lawmakers should try to only pass laws that are clearly legal.
There's a missing variable here: she claimed that she can tell the difference.

We are interested in the following calculation:

P(skill|claim&data) = P(claim&data|skill) x P(skill) / P(claim&data)

The upper limit of P(claim&data) is P(claim). If P(claim) were above 10^-4, I think the researchers would have met somebody else with the claim, so 10^-4 is a reasonable pessimistic value.

So, Bayesian reasoning won't save you here.
because of "rants like this" open standards evolve and these issues gets fixed, otherwise if nobody ranted - nothing would have been fixed
Do you have any recommendations? I happen to know how DAWs work, but have no clue when it comes to analog synths.
Another step towards my dream of an Uber-for-'Skyhook'-style-personal-drone-transport!

('Skyhook' was a cold-war era technology for lifting people up to planes flying overhead, kind of a reverse-parachute, involving baloons & long tether-lines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery... )
This is the third time this has been posted recently.
No offense taken; I too do not trust US law enforcement to use this technology in a manner that respects the privacy and rights of law-abiding citizens.

Nonetheless, it is a fact that this technology has been used to trace the location of people responsible for the placement of roadside bombs in warzones abroad, and has been used to locate the headquarters of an organized crime group in Juarez, Mexico, a place that averaged 8.5 killings per day in 2010.

I highly recommend listening to the Radiolab story, it raises some interesting points.
Doesn't an iOS app have to declare that it is going to do background audio? If so, what was their original legitimate use case for having background audio?

Edit: Here's a link to the apple docs that show apps have to declare what tasks they will perform in the background.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iPhone...
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Well, since it seems likely there's now a scent-based marker, we could train dogs to sniff Alzheimer's out, but we'd still want to know more about the molecule and biochemistry for treatment purposes.
To be fair, accusations tend to fly faster when trust in maintaining users privacy has been previously eroded. When there is goodwill built up, people tend to be more forgiving.
One idea I've been toying with is to not cite papers submitted to rip-off journals such as this in order to encourage people to submit to more reasonable venues. The downsides I see are that (i) you might get rejected for ignoring previous work, and (ii) it's a bit unfair on researchers who submitted to those venues before many other options were available.

As a potential solution, you could only cite papers submitted to those journals before some cut-off date. The cut-off date could be in the near future, and could be advertised in advance as part of a campaign to get other researchers to do the same thing.
I've never seen much evidence that great software engineers always have degrees. In fact, the best ones I know don't have CS degrees.

You're acting as if your example of the 50-something engineer without a degree is starting his career. The more plausible scenario is that his days of needing a degree to prove himself were over decades ago. He's getting jobs based on the knowledge and experience he gained at work, and if he isn't, he's been doing it wrong.
Another average white guy here. I've had over 100 interactions with the police. More than 60% of the time, I was doing nothing wrong at all. Just gotta live in the wrong neighborhood.
Heh, should have checked before I made the assumption.
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> My point is precisely that this property isn't critical for identity.

I don't know what you mean. I think you'll agree that it would be undesirable for me to insist being called by the same name as one of my coworkers, for example. Name collisions are definitely a problem for identifying people in practice.

> And no, blockchains aren't trustless, at least not in the sense in which trustless is generally used. In the case of Bitcoin, you have to trust that the miners will behave in a certain way. There are no mathematical guarantees.

We might have different meanings for "trustless." Can you give an example of a non-trivial PKI system or protocol that you consider "trustless?"

I consider the blockchain to be "trustless" because it's extremely hard to make a convincing forgery of one, and because I can verify with high probability that the blockchain I have is the "right" blockchain. I can verify that a blockchain is well-formed, I can calculate a highly-probable lower bound on the number of compute cycles needed to generate it, and I can compare this lower bound to an expected value based on my external knowledge of electricity costs, semiconductor costs, history of Bitcoin's compute capacity, and so on. The only thing I need to assume is that the blockchain I received was generated by a set of peers who spent the majority of their combined cumulative compute power to mine it honestly. However, I'd argue that this assumption holds true in practice, because the amount of compute power an adversary would need to use to generate a valid but wrong blockchain is enormous and costly (it may very well be cheaper for the adversary to achieve its goals via some other route).
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When I read the title I got excited because I thought that Apple had implemented some battery abstraction for iOS that gives a virtual battery to each application. Now I'm curious to know if there would be any benefit to something like that, or if it would be at all useful in any way?
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(Off Topic Aside: Does anyone have a theory on why "loose" and "lose" are so often confused? I swear I didn't notice people doing this until this century.)
Some blogger did pretty much that awhile back;

https://medium.com/@MinneapoliSam/fleet-of-government-aircra...
Progressive taxation is wealth redistribution. What definition of "wealth redistribution" are you working off of?

In my opinion, it's just word-trickery to call it anything else:

Take money from A, and give to B. As opposed to: Take money from A, pay C to provide service to B, so that B doesn't have to pay.

Moral discussion about "taking" vs "voluntarily giving" aside, of course. That never ends productively.
They don't: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/autos/story/2012-01-17/...

People hang on to cars much longer now than they used to.
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