skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The parallel between paid Google links and paid Amazon reviews is apt. Therefore, I do not understand the conclusion that Amazon is going to "take legal ... action".

Faced with link farms, Google penalized the beneficiaries in the search rankings; they didn't file lawsuits.
This is really good!
Notice the long-known bug, Gimp doesn't manage gamma properly, the scaled picture looks slightly darker.
Is the VW emissions-test bypass a consequence of developer culture?
>A drone is one of the few things that can smuggle itself. Both US-Mexico and US-Canada borders are wide.

Fixed that for you.
> Hah! Good one. The best datacenter is one you never see, and never have to see.

Maybe i am being snarky, but that seem like wishful thinking.
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1. Reproduction is not a natural right. If you reproduce beyond a sustainable level your offsprings will pay for that with reduced life expectation and being unable to reproduce in consequence. It's essentially the same thing that happens in predator prey cycles. And you don't have to cease reproducing altogether, just limit it to a sustainable level of about one child per human.

2. There are of course advantages to stable population sizes, most importantly resources will last longer and allow sustaining human society for longer.

3.1. larger communities for people with low-frequency deviations from social norms

It is not obvious to me why that is a good thing.

3.2. a broader spectrum of human social and psychological possibilities represented, increased production and creative capacity

That seems to be the best argument for larger populations besides increased production capacity because that is countered by an increased consumption.

3.3. greater base of working-age citizens to support the non-working portion (retired, children)

That is not true for a larger population, the proportion is the same as for a smaller one. It is only true while the population is growing and that is either unsustainable or the effect is unimportant if the growth is marginal.

3.4. more people at the top of the bell curve to draw from for important positions (better leaders, more geniuses, etc)

That is essentially the same argument as 3.2.

4. Smaller populations are not necessarily better, you benefit from decision of labor, scale effects, you are more resistant to disasters. The optimum is definitely somewhere in the middle, it is neither one human that can no longer reproduce and will easily go extinct, and it is also not ten to the hundred for obvious reasons. The question is therefore definitely not whether or not we should seek for a stable population, it is where the most desirable level is.

And here I argue we should first bring the entire world population to the levels of wealth, education and consumption of the middle class of leading developed countries and then we can have a look at how much resources are left, what happened to environment and climate, whether we need more smart people.
"Revenue solves all problems".

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/schmidt-...
> I don't -want- to be negative, but how relevant is this (* nix only, runs on single machine) in a world ruled by browsers?

Ruled by what now? Sounds like a HN pipe dream.
they invented pizza there...
That's an interesting point. The problem here would be that video input would not provide accel+gryo motion information, which is what the network needs in order to learn.

If we instead simply used video information to track exercises the problem would be scaling that to consumers. They'd require an external camera to watch them.

But the idea of using Mechanical Turk is quite smart. It'd help me get varied form - especially if I can get them to wear a band/phone that has the sensors.
Thanks, I was wondering about this.

Noam was a very successful early googler. He was one of the feel people at early Google who actually did fundamental work in machine learning (George Harik was the other).
It is now understood that products can be built with far fewer developers, who leverage machine learning on large data sets. Much less code has to be written, and the ML does most of the work in tuning the product behavior.
Note: this article is about the uses of actual orphans as subjects in fictional literature.

I thought that this would be about typographical orphans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans) or possibly orphan works (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works), but no such luck.
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> Obvious exceptions are non-associative functions ...

You mean "non-commutative"
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I'm not so surprised about overpopulation fears.
We have a non-sustainable use of non-renewable resources. The problem is that especially in the wealthy countries this is hardly visible. We add 1 hectare of forest and at the same time somewhere else in the world 10 hectares are destroyed.

Basically the argument that Malthus was wrong and thus we shouldn't worry about overpopulation is the same as ignoring upcoming problems and saying that we will solve them when they will come up.

We as humans can solve problems but sometimes we're destroying much in the process, we're not fast enough or it's even just not possible. There have been numerous catastrophes and downfalls in human history and the amount of nature we destructed is extreme.

Maybe we can have orders of magnitude (10 billion, 100 billion) people living on this planet, but the question is whether it would still be livable, especially without nature.
>In my Western European country

He quoted you a price from Toronto. You can probably find Ryan air for under 200€ roundtrip - bigger problem will be that you'll probably spend 2 days on it.

Also 20k $/year as a developer ?! You earn more in Eastern Europe unless you're a PHP "developer" or something like that.
Maybe harder to detect but easier to prosecute. Also, the effect of a single convection is greater.
Is there any practical difference?

We can't create matter, if that's what you're saying. But we can learn to transform or interpret previously useless things as very useful resources. For example, flint was just another valueless stone before we realized we could make fire with it, or uranium might've just been another stone before we discovered nuclear sciences. In that sense, we can indeed "create" new resources.
That's a good question! Turkish Getup's are very complex like you say. Given my current setup and window length, it's unlikely that it'll recognise them, because one rep is very long. Maybe if I did exercise based window lengths it could work better? I'm honestly not sure. But that is something to try out!
Good news for the likes of Volkswagen I guess
There's a different type of brain-to-brain interface: I remember reading something about neurofeedback(eeg biofeedback) , when they trained to users to increase a certain brainwave pattern(their alpha wave) in some synchronized fashion and that created a strong feeling of contentedness between them .

I'm not sure this is true though, because the field of neurofeedback has plenty of bullshit.
just now there is open AMA in Nomadforum, some useful information there https://nomadforum.io/t/i-m-kaspar-director-of-estonia-s-e-r...
Yes, I think, the whole news industry will be changing. Also in my country, the big papers are trying to secure their income streams -- with partially idiotic actions -- for example, they pressed the government to make laws that Google must pay for small text phrases taken from their news side .... but when Google dropped their linking, they also where not amused (they thought, Google would just pay and go on making their linking so, the news corporations just got more money ...) STUPIDITY!

Can you explain the phrase "omnibus paper"? Is this a fixed phrase?
"People in this neighborhood choose to not rob this particular old diner"? I too am not sure what you're trying to say.
No magic. "www-nlp" and "www" are explicitly configured to point to the same IP address in the DNS.

Then (in the simplest case) the responding webserver is configured to treat the two hostnames (and possibly others) as identical and serve the same files.

So I guess there is magic. CNAMEs and virtual hosts and HTTP1.1.
If news doesn't have to be truthful [1] why should reviews?

http://www.projectcensored.org/11-the-media-can-legally-lie/
It is absolutely plausible that the programmers had no idea.

From the excellent Metafilter thread:

> i mean, how do the product managers rationalize this feature to their colleagues? what to they write in the spec that isn't all-out incriminating?

Modularity

Department 1:

Req 1: Software should enable emissions controls upon receipt of control signal A.

Req 2: Software should disable emissions controls upon receipt of control signal B.

Department 2:

Req 1: if epa testing device is detected send signal A.

Req 2: if epa testing device is not detected send signal B

http://www.metafilter.com/153117/EPA-Accuses-VW-of-Emissions...
s/efficiet/ethical/

I may be generalising but I believe most of the individuals targeted by the lawsuit are not in the position to just shrug off a fine and lawyer costs. But as Donzo said, it's certainly easier to sue them than the businesses that (IMO) are to blame for the fake review business. Maybe the goal is for the reviewers to turn over their accounts and thus the businesses involved?
www-nlp.stanford.edu is a CNAME that points to nlp.stanford.edu. Tip: use the `dig` tool to examine DNS records.
The church next door might have an influence: http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/1dfc9a53402155b7687767caf6f8...
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It's to the point where Amazon really needs to re-investigate this policy though. They have enough sales volume that they can limit to verified purchasers and still have plenty of good content. Quality would trump the quantity too.

That's just one of a dozen things Amazon should be doing here though. We work with a few startups close to this situation, wow is it a mess.
Also how about sole proprietors contractors/consultants based in another EU country?
Everest out did that in 2015 with 19 killed on the day the earthquake happened. I guess there will be risks.
This is interesting - I do believe shill reviews are a form of fraud, and this lawsuit will put that perspective to the test. We'll get a court answer eventually.

What I find interesting is trying to prove harm done by the fake reviews. If they're against the terms of service, okay, ban the accounts, and take some back-room steps to monitor if those persons try to rejoin (e.g. limited utility of IP address focus). I don't think we're talking about criminal masterminds here.

I'm kind of joking here, but I'd almost try out the defense that paid five-star reviews are a "necessary evil" to counter the inevitable "idiot with a keyboard" which enables any wrong-thinking person to write a one-star review. What I mean is will this case include evidence that non-paid reviewers are just as damaging - if not more so - than paid fake ones. Or, in other words, can Amazon prove genuine harm via "fraud" is able to be differentiated from "stupid people saying stupid, wrong things" in the comment environment.

Personally, I think it's an "in-house" Amazon issue where they should be 'moderating' comments, but that takes labor and effort; if I've learned anything about Amazon's view of menial labor tasks such as fulfillment, I don't think anybody would want the job. If there's better money in fraud than policing the fraud, then maybe the business model should be re-evaluated. I'm not trying to justify what is done for hire - to me it's about on par with "essay writers for hire" and I hate that shit - but it does make for an interesting problem of commerce.
It would be nice, if there was a platform like Kexi that allowed you to make not just desktop apps, but mobile apps that allowed large (>1GB) local storage of data on a phone or tablet.

Filemaker has this for iOS, but not android.

It may exist, but I haven't see it.
This article makes the claim that engineering culture easily can lead to long-lasting misfeatures. The author surmises that the emissions workaround started as a debugging hack, and gradually got institutionalized. The author compares it to the flight simulator easter egg in Excel 97 (but makes clear the different scale of consequences).

It also says modern cars have 100 megalines of code.

I wonder how plausible these things are? If the engineering-culture explanation is plausible, I wonder if our profession needs some kind of registered professional engineer status? I wonder if we need a code of ethics that we're each personally answerable to?
I don't believe corporations in the U.S. pay taxes on dividends they disburse. Generally the principle in the U.S. is that whenever you receive money you get taxed. There are lots of ways to reeive money hence lots of different taxes. It seems reasonable. If one form of income were not taxed then things would end up getting skewed in that direction.
I think CAP is really more about how much consistency and availablity you need. This FAQ talks about "relaxing" and that's the right word.

Some systems tolerate that a database (for example) is unavailable for a couple of seconds. Some don't.

When you add a value into a distributed database, how much time are you ready to wait for replicas to propagate? In some cases it's fine to wait several minutes (think DNS) in some other it can have catastrophic results (think finance/banking use cases).
It’s probably this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjBWJbHtYHo

I agree, though – the Google Video URL invalidation is a discrace. One would think that Google, who owns YouTube, should be able to create 301 redirects for all its own videos to their location on YouTube.
Professions are tools workers use to increase their bargaining power over employers and put up barriers to entry into said profession. See doctors.
I'm thinking this too. They need to solve the actual problem, not chase the side effects.

1. They need better AI to determine bad actors. It's not like they don't have smart coders working there (right?) and if you look at a fake user's review profile, it's very easy to see the web of fakes

2. They should strongly consider only allowing verified purchase reviews, or highly devalue or have some kind of moderation for non-verified purchases. ie, you need to provide a unique picture.

3. They should strongly consider permanently banning spammy products that have consistent and high amounts of fake reviews.

Some corners of Amazon's marketplace have definitely started to turn into eBay. They need to prevent that at nearly all costs.
The proof is questionable. Read here: http://markburgess.org/blog_cap.html
Four hours in and I don't see any comment here with the right take on it, so here you go: Amazon is not suing these 1,000 "John Does" in order to win, they're suing them in order to identify them and ban their Amazon accounts.

Once Fiverr is forced to divulge all the info it has regarding these people, Amazon will ban their accounts and drop the lawsuit.
Deconstructing the `CAP Theorem' for CM and DevOps
Gigabit should be more than enough for that. There's no way your CPU/GPU can process video faster than Gbit/second.
It's not useful to compare the DOM to a simple array which doesn't do most of the real work which you need to do. Comparing rendering that text using canvas or WebGL would be closer if it also had a layout engine, dynamic sizing, full Unicode support, etc.

Similarly, React is significantly slower – usually integer multiples – than using the DOM. The only times where it's faster are cases where the non-React code is inefficiently updating a huge structure using something like innerHTML (which is much slower than using the DOM) and React's diff algorithm is instead updating elements directly. If you're using just the DOM (get*, appending/updating text nodes instead of using innerHTML, etc.) there's no way for React to be faster because it has to do that work as well and DOM + scripting overhead is always going to be slower than DOM (Amdahl's law).

The reason to use React is because in many cases the overhead is too low to matter and it helps you write that code much faster, avoid things like write/read layout thrashing, and do so in a way which is easier to maintain.
Amazon contacted many of these users and the people targeted in the lawsuit were offering guaranteed 5 star reviews and/or to let the purchaser write the review. Given that Amazon actually contacted many of these users, it may not be so hard to be successful with the lawsuit. Amazon is claiming breach of contract and violations of several Washington state laws (including the Consumer Protection Act). If you read the actual lawsuit, there are examples of things like:

1) a user who claims to have 100 different Amazon accounts and will guarantee whatever star rating is requested, and asks the purchaser to provide the product review

2) being willing to receive an empty envelope to create a fake shipping record for a "verified purchase" review.

However, actually getting damages against the users is fairly unlikely, particularly since the users may not be US based.
Scott Aaronson's view on academic philosophy could maybe of help to decide between philosophy and math/science courses:

Scott: Well, let’s start with the positives of academic philosophy!

(1) I liked the philosophy of math and science courses that I took in
college. Sure, I sometimes got frustrated by the amount of time spent on
what felt like Talmudic exegesis, but on the other hand, those courses
offered a scope for debating big, centuries-old questions that my math and
science courses hardly ever did.

(2) These days, I go maybe once a year to conferences where I meet
professional philosophers of science, and I’ve found my interactions with
them stimulating and fun. Philosophers often listen to what you say more
carefully than other scientists do, and they’re incredibly good at spotting
hidden assumptions, imprecise use of language, that sort of thing. Also,
philosophers of science tend to double in practice as science historians:
they often know much, much more about what, let’s say, Einstein or Bohr or
Godel or Turing wrote and believed than physicists and mathematicians
themselves know.

(3) While my own reading of the philosophical classics has been woefully
incomplete, I don’t feel like the time I spent with (say) Hume or J. S.
Mill or William James or Bertrand Russell was wasted at all. You’re right
that these “old dead guys” didn’t know all the math and science we know
today, but then again, neither did Shakespeare or Dostoyevsky! I mean,
sure, the central questions of philosophy have changed over time, and the
human condition has changed as well: we no longer get confused over Zeno’s
paradoxes or the divine right of kings, and we now have global
telecommunications and the Pill. I just don’t think either human nature or
human philosophical concerns have changed quickly enough for great
literature on them written centuries ago to have ceased being great.

[1] https://intelligence.org/2013/12/13/aaronson/
Depends a bit where you live, plan to live and where you pay tax.
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I know that verified purchase reviews won't fix the entire problem, but it would get you most of the way.

Is there a reason Amazon allows reviews of the product from people who haven't bought it? How is that beneficial?

They provide a question and answer section for presales/post sales follow-up.
From what we know about the software on these TVs, upscaling there works using whatever code the cut-rate programmer could 1) google and 2) efficiently integrate into the product with minimal fuss.
Just because it’s possible doesn’t mean that it’s plausible or even likely.
A 20lbs object of metal packed with a highly energetic battery that turns into a powerful explosive when destructively smashed to bits. These things a far more dangerous than a typical bird or debris strike.
99% of them have unsubscribe buttons, too.
So going along with the idea that misrepresentation of fact is fraud and you can be sued for it, does it mean that users who put a fake name in order to get free service in a freemium can be sued?

In that case, I would expect the answer is tighten up what you do as a company to make it not worth the time. That is the same answer I have for this situation. It should be on amazon to protect their review portal from false reviews, even non-automated.
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The FTC regulates advertising with a much stricter scrutiny than free speech. There are few limits on what opinions you can express, but there are many limits on what you can advertise. I'm not saying that the FTC is involved in regulating online reviews, but the precedent seems to be set here. Especially given that these reviews are compensated, it seems clear to me that we're talking about regulation of advertising, not restriction of free speech.
I subscribe to the NY Times even though I am in Missouri. The actual weekend subscription with digital was cheaper than digital alone.

I've been a subscriber for over a year and enjoy the morning and evening wrap-ups delivered to my phone.

What I don't enjoy are the constant, 3 a week, emails trying to get me to add something to the subscription. In fact, they change the offerings often enough I have trouble differentiating what they want me to buy. lol
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After a lot of fiddling with different options
I use Vimwiki running in separate Vim instance
on dedicated virtual screen.

Hit ^6, hit enter, hit F4 to put the timestamp, write.
Done.
"Real" airplanes have the same issue. That's why all the charts and databases are updated frequently and pilots are responsible for ensuring the latest data is available and loaded into the onboard computers. On a typical small general aviation airplane that typically involves uodating the electronic flight bag app on your iPad and popping a new memory card into the on board navigation computer.

Other short term updates (like firefighting flight restrictions) are reviewed by the pilots on official FAA endorsed websites or by calling a flight service center (like customer support for pilots) before each flight. One of the most basic elements of the required preflight planning for any flight of a "real" airplane is to do all the above to make sure you have the latest data and know about any temporary restrictions.

There's no reason why drone pilots couldn't or shouldn't be required to perform a simplified version of the above before flight (if you want to do anything other than flying the thing under the treeline in your own backyard).
You do realize that boards of companies are not involved at all in the day to day operations of companies? Boards are useful for 1) meta governance (e.g. hiring CEOs, setting CEO compensation) - presumably Elizabeth Holmes has control, at least moral authority as founder if not voting control, so this is somewhat moot; and 2) connections.

And you definitely can start taking upper level chemical engineering classes. It's very common in college to ask to pass out of a requirement by taking the final. I passed out of the required intro computer science course in college (and not with AP Computer Science), for example.
You know, I've been wondering about this. I wrote about an email token system here [0], let me know what you think.

[0] https://roj.is/blog/a-different-approach-to-online-account-m...
The complaint is available here: https://www.scribd.com/doc/285422882/Amazon-Complaint
The vast majority of people working on the Manhattan Project had no idea they were building a bomb.

What says the programmers knew?
Isn't that Quora?