skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i wish infoq would make transcripts available, i find slides, mp3s and videos tiresome. i can read transcripts a lot faster.
I live in an area that was hit by tornadoes that day I found an interior door from a manufactured home in my back yard.

The closest mobile home that was hit was probably 10 miles away "the way the crow flies". This door was about 28 inches by 78 inches and the door knob had been bent and sheared off. It probably weighed at least 15 pounds but all that surface area gave it plenty of lift.

It was a startling find.
It's a bit exhausting to have to pick up all the citations but I can certainly find a good reference or two for the first part if you know a couple phrases. Firstly, there's a couple papers on the phenomenon of "acting black" that shows how even gifted black kids are held back by themselves almost http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2008/03/acting-black-hinders-gift... or perhaps as a set of papers by a Harvard professor that grew up poor and black in a rough area http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/30/me... This other paper explores how drug use is correlated with peer drug use but can be mitigated by relationship strength with the mother, which can be rather darn hard if she's working 12-hour days http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.darnell/peer_pressure_and_dru... If you add in anti-social behaviors, being poor translates quickly into anti-social behaviors as the sort of "unproductive behaviors" that is being banded about in the thread http://www.researchgate.net/publication/232460627_Poverty_Pa...

We're not here on HN trying to solve the world's problems or something in comment threads anyway, so being a bit qualitative and subjective is something that goes with the territory of a lot of social science. We could go really rigorous but measuring people and behavior is really, really hard to do well without making the results of papers so narrow they're irrelevant for making meaningful social commentary arguments.
The distinction arises when the full text of a clause is not possible to claim by law, but some weakened or lesser version is OK: If you missed the 'maximum extent permissible' part, your clause would be completely invalidated. Its a hedge.
I published this blog post after reading maybe you would find it interesting to disagree about :)
I don't think it is impossible. And humans have a way of doing things that really seem impossible at first. I'm sure a hundred years ago no one would have thought it possible to walk on the moon. We now have workable methods to turn the dirtiest of water into pure drinking water. Agriculture is a long, long way from being as efficient as it could be; we find ways all the time to quadruple the food output of a plot of land, and there will continue to be innovation in this area. Our diets are largely wasteful around the world as well, it is possible to live on much less food than the typical American eats, for example. And as for space, the world average population density per land is actually not that high; certain places are, but when spread out, there is tremendous room for physically placing more people. So I'd say it is well within possibility to make 100 billion people stay alive. But, a lot would change to do so.
What country are you in?
no, gaussian is a bad reconstruction kernel.
Making a great algorithm _combined_ with suing the fake reviewers might be even better.
Nice find, perhaps the link could be changed to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista#Origins ?

(In case it does, original link was https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/655306196128280576 )
Legal agreements was used to be a agreement between two parties where an equal agreement was reached. EULA tends to be one sided agreements where the company take away your rights.

"I gotta run it on Apple hardware (no Hackintoshes).
I can’t help anyone else do that."

Isnt help anyone else doing that taking away your legal right of free speech?

I have also seen agreements where the company says you may not publicly mention any security holes that you find in their software. Does a company have the right to take away your free speech in their license agreements? Have this been tried in the highest court?
Pragmatic problems with disagreements
links that influenced my writing are:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10405288

and https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/deceive.pdf
I believe it was in C, written mostly by Mike Burrows (also known for the Burrows-Wheeler transform). He went on to work at Google, where he has had an extremely productive career building some of the most fundamental technologies at google (Chubby) as well as their high performance primitives (https://www.chromium.org/developers/lock-and-condition-varia...).

He is one of the few people I've worked with who is a veritable genius programmer. He understands atomic locking at the physics level.
The position the founding fathers held on freedom of movement is known based on their writings. I don't think it's too speculative to debate about which way they'd lean on the matter. That said it should be an exercise in futility since we do live in very different worlds but it isn't because the constitution's only flexibility is interpretation by federal judges.
Why We Can’t Rule Out Bigfoot
My daughter, my wife and I visited the University of Alabama campus in late February of 2011 (about a month before the tornado) and started her college career there in August. When we returned to drop her off, the scale of the damage where the tornado ripped through Tuscaloosa was astonishing. There was an entire subdivision of suburban (stick-built) homes that looked like a pile of matchsticks. And there was a surprisingly small interface between the "completely destroyed" areas and "untouched" areas.

By the time she graduated this May, the damage has been cleared away but the path of this tornado is still visible. There are many brand-new buildings and a lot of open ground, but none of the new construction aligns with the grid of streets in the area. For a family from Pennsylvania (where we rarely see tornados or their aftermath), it was quite eye-opening.
It certainly makes a headline unlike "we made a new algorithm!".
A great summary including a link to a (lengthy) position paper by the FTC:

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2014/01/26/fake-reviews-everyone...

In summary, reviews like this are illegal.
http://nsq.io/

http://nsq.io/overview/internals.html

The service you are thinking of might be https://github.com/ddollar/godist

You can see the download links on https://github.com/ddollar/forego use it.
"One of the bad things about pictures is that they are almost always overspecific. One cannot make a picture of "an arbitrary triangle": as soon as one has made it, it has either an obtuse angle or not, whereas for "the arbitrary triangle" the property of having an obtuse angle is explicitly undefined."

Still one can make a picture of all the arbitrary triangles at the same time and in an interactive visualization explore them to get the complex behaviour and constrains the notion "arbitrary triangle" actually represent.
For a good example have a look at:
http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
Estonia benefits from not taxing profits. So if you invest your profits into the company or just keep the cash in the company there is not tax. Distributed profits are taxed at 20%.

Depending on what you do this may benefit you and makes deferring taxation indefinitely trivial.
and I was thinking this was about queue consumers, celery and distributed systems, how naive of me.

article is about how to represent a person by a number (credit score)
Any experiences creating merchant account on Play store with this? (from unsupported countries). Do you also have to pay income/sales/other taxes to Estonia?
Brain communication very much interests me, because it comes down to the essence of how we encode knowledge in biological signals. Like Google Deepdream, understanding how concepts of what a dog looks like and how it is related to other things, encoded as a series of bits, is just absolutely fascinating.

I know we still don't understand beyond a very probabilistic level how the brain encodes this information biologically, but I've heard lots about prosthetics. Can anyone answer me how they control robotic arms using just the brain [1]?

[1] http://www.instructables.com/id/Mind-Controlled-Robotic-Arm/
Right. And the advantages of the Gaussian kernel with respect to image processing:

1. It has no negative coefficients (hence the output will always be a valid color value.)

2. It is circular symmetric, yet separable (X and Y may be filtered independently) -- a property which simplifies the implementation considerably.
Wouldn't suing the businesses paying for the fake reviews, be more efficient?
I moved to the UK from a foreign country (from the EU though) and found it quite easy to start my company and open my accounts.

It really depends on the bank and branch you're walking into. My advice: Avoid doing what I did and don't apply for your first current account online. It might seem more efficient and time-saving but it's actually not - because of your non-existent credit history in the UK - they will have to ask you for endless documents.

Once you're in the UK, walk into a high-street bank that is actively seeking customers. Lloyds Bank or Barclays comes to mind. Ask for a basic bank account, which they will open for you without proof of address. Make an appointment with the same bank for a startup current account - sometimes they will send you to a different branch - if they don't do business banking themselves.

They will ask you about your business and estimated turnover. Make sure you bring your incorporation documents.

It's worth noting that I'm the only director of my limited company and the companies registered office was my home address - so no further proofs of address were required.

Waiting for your cards to arrive in the mail is what takes the most time, but I was able to use my online banking account even before I had my card.
I don't know if the definition is really that grey.

Tom Mitchell's popular definition (from his book "Machine Learning"), which is is even quoted in the opening of the Wikipedia article on Machine Learning, comes to mind:

"A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E" [1]

[1]: Mitchell, T. (1997). Machine Learning, McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-07-042807-7, p.2.

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning#Overview
If Apple is not motivated to do it themselves, why would they use\buy a start-up?

Feels like a soft problem where Apple can do it badly and not feel any pain or see the needle move if they did it better. Mildly frustrated users won't leave because they have to climb over the garden walls.
The following sections on the website would be useful

* roadmap : planned features with rough timeline, and an option for the public to be able to request/prioritize/vote.

* comparison : a list of features of MS Access that Kexi can do, and more importantly, what Kexi can't do yet. Its completely ok to state that something is in the roadmap, or even that it currently is not in the works.

This is very important to potential MS Access users or those who understand that world, who might consider migrating.
Perhaps they want to learn exactly how they do it by forcing the discovery process on them. Then they can use that information to build better detection mechanisms.
If you limit reviews to only Amazon customers, you limited the number of people who can write reviews. I buy a lot of things from other places as well, not just Amazon.
With this smartwatch, smartphone, Chrome web app you can your internet of things using custom voice commands via IFTTT: https://youtube.com/watch?v=46eSBFtfaVE
Novice question:
Is the "www-" just part of the given subdomain or is there something else that occurs using that syntax?

"http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/" resolves to the same resource.
"Isnt help anyone else doing that taking away your legal right of free speech?"

Not in the US at least. In the US the legal right only prevents the government making laws that abridge them. It doesn't prohibit any private person or company from limiting speech in any way they like.
I don't -want- to be negative, but how relevant is this (* nix only, runs on single machine) in a world ruled by browsers?

My gut feeling says the Access world is dying rapidly, and if that is true, a * nix version playing catch-up does not have a bright future.
The Ripple Effects of Parents Not Using Their Vacation Time
They didn't even have a car or appliance to break...

My parents were poor because they were born in a shitty country with a shitty economic system and there wasn't anything they could do except leave. That's bad luck.

If you're born healthy in the US you start with opportunity and have to actively fuck it up.
wow... didn't know this was still going. I remember reading about this (probably from slashdot) in 2004/2005...

last couple projects of mine have been rebuilding access and filemaker stuff for the web. filemaker, as nice as it is in some respects, introduces relatively high licensing costs (at least relative to my client's test pricing). i guess had he used kexi it wouldn't have been a problem... :)
Now take Selfies Quickly
And this what happens when you bring a Computer Scientist into the gym! One question: how well would a neural network recognize a more complex and involved exercise like Kettlebell Turkish Getup compared to an exercise with simple movement like Push-ups?
> It doesn't matter that their bosses told them to do it. They did it.

It's not that easy. Sure, what they done can be considered "evil"... but what if they had refused to do it? They would have most likely lost their jobs and they would have no chance in a court trial. Volkswagen has a army of lawyers and is in tightly connected with every relevant government agency in Germany.
IIRC once the FDA reclassified it it was no longer classified as a "wheelchair" so it wasn't covered by insurance / HMO's which with it's cost pretty much meant it would not be bought by anyone.
Newly created blog as response to tough problems of our time
After log time of ponder and preparation blog is alive. I am kind of shy with most of my ideas, so it took very long time (too long if you ask me) to get into the stage that I can (being comfortable) write about my ideas. Before, I was thinking that maybe someone else will eventually realise same things so I do not need to do this, as that has not happen or I have not searched enough I have decided, for what it's worth, to do this.

Most of the things I will write about are stories, metaphors, life philosophies, science, politics, and other random things. Furthermore, as I have a background in technology, I will, from time to time, propose practical solutions for the problems I am going to write about.

This is just a first step. In the future you can expect lots of ideas and stories.

http://grisanik.com
"We've also moved over 50 percent of the data that was in our primary database onto its own deployment. The data was orthogonal and didn't need to be co-located, but its heavy use was causing contention and fighting for shared resources. So we built out a new DB cluster and did an on-the-fly migration of that dataset."

I always watch for solutions with this "pattern" - you can often alleviate a problem (sometimes significantly) by reorganizing your systems, but eventually that DB will be busy enough doing it's own "core" functions that you'll have to either scale up or scale out.
Agreed.

I simply can not understand how one can be faster with a millimeter-only caliper than with one marked in centimeters and millimeters.

He is right that engineering does not use centimeters. But that's for clarity of communication, not for individual efficiency.
Ad hoc data analysis/discovery on event data with Clojure and Spark
Because reviews are used so heavily in the ranking algorithm, buying reviews on Amazon is like buying links on Google. Breaking the ranking algorithm potentially hurts their core business, so of course Amazon is going to take legal and other punitive actions.

It was only a matter of time.
Of course you can't retrieve destroyed information.

But information is not destroyed by perfectly unpredictable (uniform) distributions of noise.

> Yes, your result would be a very clear image of one possible license plate.

Fortunately there are methods of evaluating how well your statistical filter works, if it's precise enough you'd be fine with indeterministic nature of your filter. Or even better, you could generate all of the highly probable licence plates, instead of having only one - given by your deterministic algorithm.
They have legal grounds to sue them clearly, in the sense that they have at least superficially plausible causes of action. If they didn't then they wouldn't have been able to find a lawyer past the bar willing to file a summons and complaint.

In the US of course one can be sued for just about any vaguely plausible set of damages. That doesn't mean that they have prevailed on the facts and the law.

The next step then, by definition, is to hear a response from people who are otherwise in a life position where they find themselves writing Amazon reviews for $5 or less.
Thanks for the link. This is the best comment on this thread because it gives an actual reference instead of just stating an armchair-lawyer's opinion of the case.
Isn't this basic enough to be covered under tort law?

The reviewer is negligent through misrepresentation (withholding the fact that the reviewer is being paid) and Amazon suffers.

On a separate note, it's a shame that many of these reviews are bought by advertising agencies and the manufactures or the products usually have no idea when this is done. So the manufacture might be looking at online reviews thinking people love the product when in reality it's just some of the advertising they paid for.
It depends on what "bad things" are.

I'm not religious myself, but I think there's a clear cut difference between criticizing or scrutinizing an idea (the religion to which you subscribe – or political ideology, for that matter), and "otherizing" its subscribers by way of negative generalizations.

That being said, I agree with others in this thread: People that are unabashedly rude in public might not be the kind of person you'd want to have to deal with on a regular basis.
Writing the software is one act. Being the one to greenlight taking this software and putting it into machines that will be sold to end customers is another.

I can see many reasons why software might be written, or maybe even configured, in a way that could be lethal when deployed to an actual customer, but have completely valid and sane reasons for existing (all maner of testing comes to mind).

Unless it can be proven that the developers had intent and did follow through, there is no particular reason why the blame should fall entirely on them.

Additionally, if he is so intent on having a "profession" that punishes illdoers, he should first call for one that protects good members.
I suppose you could make the argument that these programmers did not
know what they were doing. That they were simply given some specs, and
they implemented those specs, and didn't know that they were
accomplices in a case of massive fraud.

I think that argument is even more asinine than Michael Horn's. They
knew. And if they didn't know, they should have known. They had a
responsibility to know.

I agree with all the points in the article except for the point that the programmers should have known.

For me it is a plausible scenario that the programmers have been told that his feature is needed for some good reason (probably testing).

When I was a young engineer I had a mentor. He was a war baby and a strict pacifist. He was also very good and his advice was much sought after so he could afford to refuse all offers from the defense industry.

He once told me that for his whole life he manged to never designed anything that could be used to harm people - except for one thing. When he was young he was hired to design a gear rim for a crane. He told me, he was given the load specifications but never saw a drawing of the actual crane. That was a bit unusual but nothing he worried about.

It turned out that the gear rim was actually for a Howitzer. He never worked for that client again.

There are all kinds of reasons why a car has to behave differently while on a dynamometer and there are all kinds of special code branches that are executed only during test. For the programmers it probably was just another special case among many.

Don't be evil and don't be a fool, but you can't be expected to do a full ethics check for every feature you are supposed to implement.

EDIT: Spelling, style and removal of some superfluous chatter.
I love argument maps, they work much better than an essay form at trying to capture the complex aspects of an argument. But, an additional editorial aspect would be nice.

One problem I see here is people wrapping too many ideas into a single premise, which then makes arguing for or against it too difficult. Each should really be as small and isolated as possible.
React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10
Is there a point to studying philosophy?
The Video Game That Teaches Business Strategy Better Than Professors
Nice find :)
I don't know about "dying rapidly". Access seems to be in maintenance mode since 2010 when they added web application support. It's going to be dying slowly as end users migrate to other technologies (proprietary applications and the like).

It's a bit clunky but you can run Access applications in a browser [1]. So Access is no longer synonymous with "shitty little data entry desktop application".

[1] http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles...
While IANAL, the monopoly part is a misnomer. It is really about abuse of market position.

When Microsoft got into hot water during the browser war with Netscape, it was about abusing their position in one market (computer OS) to gain a position in another (web browser and web server). This by bundling Internet Explorer for free with Windows, that in turn had special binding to their IIS web server.

So when EU is looking into Google, they are looking into how their position in one market gets used to affect other markets (like say when they re-jig their search algorithms).
It's harder to catch them.

It's pretty easy to comb through fiverr and pick off schmoes advertising fake reviews.

Identifying buyers is a different matter entirely.

I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon leveraged their position against the sellers to have them turn on the buyers.

I mean, how much loyalty is five dollars going to buy?
Some people know those as cuisenaire rods. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00074U7SO/

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

They're brilliant, but go careful with some of the work books that are available. ("Blue + red = ?" cause confusion.)
We are using Gmail Postmaster tools (I work at a small ESP), and while this tool is certainly useful for diagnosing rejections, delivery to Gmail inbox / promotions is still a black box.

In our case, a number of IP addresses we are using started showing up as "bad" in Postmaster tools, despite having no increase in complaint rates (actually, in Spam rate dashboard it shows 0.0% for the past 90 days). We have implemented Gmail feedback loop headers into outgoing emails to diagnose the issue, but the Feedback Loop dashboard also does not show any data.

All of these IPs have a Senderscore reputation in the high 90s and deliver perfectly fine to all ISPs, except Gmail. Contacting Gmail team through their form also yields no response.

My takeaway from this situation is that once Gmail starts not liking your emails for some obscure reason, you have practically no way to fix that, apart from getting a new IP / sending domain and starting to build sending reputation from scratch.