skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Anyway, his theory on capital accumulation is based on a completely flawed framework, and completely useless for understand what's happening today."

Sorry but you've never read marx if you're saying that. Also check what a former national security advisor has to say on the matter.

"capitalistic accumulation itself... constantly produces, and produces in the direct ratio of its own energy and extent, a relatively redundant population of workers"

On the spying...

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397
I'm amazed at how well Microsoft is doing these days.
>but I do think we have a problem with capital accumulation by the very wealthy.

Correct.

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
i run one like that too (a little further along) but i'll never mention the name here. there's no point, and it's risky. the other guy probably thinks the same. our businesses survive on sales and operations, not internet name-dropping.

i know you're curious so instead of teasing i'll just say: all of these kinds businesses are basically the same: think of something people or businesses pay money for, then do that. generally the business morphs as you get better / identify new opportunities. and you can grow it very large given enough time.
For smaller business, my rule is that you need to be great at one of these things and other things do not matter so much.

Do not try to do everything: like have a "great idea", "great team", "great product", "great execution", etc. Think as company as product: if you try to make everything "great" then everything will be actually "half-ass".

If you are great at two or more things: you are unicorn.

For example, if you are great at customer acquisition / SEO then you can just make something very very simple and ask people for money. No need to have "great product" at all.
OP acknowledges this... "Unfortunately, using the mean as a test statistic is flawed - it only works when the pre-selection distribution of A and B is identical, at least beyond C."

To me the rest of the article is asks the question, "requirement (c) is really strong, is there a way we can use post-selection statistics to determine bias while weakening (c)? what if we tried measuring the post-selection minimum instead of the mean?"

Also PG edited his essay to add that disclaimer only after WildUtah's comment, so it's possible that OP hasn't read the updated version.
Most of it is not a technology problem. Most of it is a human problem. Humans are not as good as we think we are at communicating in precise details with others.
Url changed from http://motherboard.vice.com/read/9-out-of-10-of-the-internet..., which points to this.
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Neural-storyteller: Neural network for generating little stories about images
> This is not true. Unless you have a god-compiler that takes your JavaScript and spits out compiled code that doesn't use dynamic typing or a GC, the nature of the language has a significant influence on performance.

Well , my point is JS is a spec. You can argue that some language features will make the language slow(er than statically typed languages),and I'd agree.
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> Dart for mobile

Dart was originally designed for the client-side as a challenger to Javascript, and I consider it to have generally succeeded in its ulterior goal of spurring the Javascript standardization committee into greater velocity out of threat of competition. Recently it's pivoted towards server-side programming, though I could see it finding a home in mobile app development. Given its familiarity to Java, it was always more likely than Go to succeed Java on Android (though IMO less likely than a typed variant of Javascript).

To be clear I don't think this is an "official stand" proclaiming Dart as the future of Android (and regardless of Oracle's asshattery, I don't see Google outright removing Java support any time soon). As other commenters have pointed out, Google has more than one ongoing initiative in this area.
Yeah right like. What system cannot be compromised when you have physical access to it?

You think if they ran openBSD or Windows or Apple Server, that they would not been hacked? All systems are exploitable with [BadUSB](https://github.com/adamcaudill/Psychson) for example.

To secure this szenario. You'd have to make sure that the Sticks are not infected by any kind of malware. Or use a USB condom. No OS will ever be able to secure itself from such attacks.
There's more to geoengineering than just aerosols. Ultimately, it'll be about giant mirrors and barriers in space to modulate the Sun's radiation in various places. It may sound fantastic, since these are huge surfaces involved, but you can block or reflect the Sun's light with very thin materials, which can be folded up on their way up.
Ah, I get it now. You're just looking to argue. Feel free to carry on without me.
I wonder if Apple will ever release an API that allows apps to do this kind of hot updating natively. I could imagine breaking up an application into multiple containers and then orchestrating some kind of update process by calling out to the system APIs.

At least then it would not compromise the security of App Store / Test flight. As more meta-data was extracted/tagged with these containers you could imagine Apple reviewers start to care less about the code inside the container and more the interfaces (does it use health kit? apple pay? etc) and whether they are likely to be reviewed again. Could also look at size of binaries changes and things like that, or perhaps at LLVM byte code level for more detail.
I did a poor job explaining - the policy rules are the friction I was describing in my original post.
Just to be clear, you should be impressed with pagefair, not the economist. The PF blog has even more information with a no BS mea culpa that would make your grandmother proud:

http://blog.pagefair.com/2015/halloween-security-breach/

"If you are a publisher using our free analytics service, you have good reason to be very angry and disappointed with us right now. For 83 minutes last night, the PageFair analytics service was compromised by hackers, who succeeded in getting malicious javascript to execute on websites via our service"
What struck me from the FAQ is this:

"Flutter is optimized for 2D mobile apps that want to run in both Android and iOS. Apps that use Material Design are particularly well suited for Flutter."

Which means that, if Flutter succeeds, iOS users should expect to see more and more apps built using Google's Material Design language. It's already happening for some of Google's iOS apps--the floating action button in Calendar, Hangouts, Photos, Docs, the iconset in most of their iOS apps (Gmail and Chrome are partial exceptions), etc.

In other words, Material Design is making significant inroads into iOS. But Apple's design language isn't doing the same in Android world.

Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder of Recent News (https://recent.io/), and we borrowed some Material Design concepts for the iOS version of our app.
Nice! I am using some of the funny characters!

Some remarks:

I doubt if it is needed to launch a sub-process for each markup directive. This is fine for small output, but will slow down processing of larger chunks of text. I would be interested in a bash solution based on associative arrays.

As an example, one might want to look at the zsh implementation of the colors script in the main distribution[0], which makes colors available as an associative array:

# Set once in shell init script:
autoload -U colors && colors
# And use it anywhere:
print $fg[blue]hello colorful world!$fg[reset]

[0]: http://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/master/tree/Functions/M...
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Am I wrong in thinking that Dart VM on Android is the only other VM that has been officially released by Google ?

Doesnt that make for a pretty strong statement ?
The thing is, almost all laws are mostly good. Controversial stuff can usually only be passed by burying it in something completely non-controversial. It gives everyone who supports it a wide range of CYA, which is a very important thing to have in politics. It also makes it very difficult for opponents to effectively oppose.

In the US, budgets are usually the most popular place to drop in dangerous/controversial amendments since there's usually a timeline to pass them and there are serious consequences for the constituency if that countdown expires, which won't win the incumbent any points back home. Treaties are worse because they're usually much more difficult to alter than your conventional federal law.

A mostly good bill is mostly good, but allowing it to become law is very bad. We must make the bill totally good, meaning that it can't contain any actively harmful or bad elements, no matter how good the rest of it is.

In a democracy, you have to accept that every law will probably be less than your ideal, because some compromise with other people will be necessary, but it must not contain any actively harmful or dangerous elements.
What about it? It's already proven so still nothing new. Just new version.

I think new can be summarized as a new business model, new way to monetize something, new innovation like a product or service that didnt exist before, new industries in general, etc.

There can be multiple startups doing the same problem but most "startups" in SV aren't really doing anything new, just a more modern approach or revamped UX of existing solutions so I wouldn't call them startups. There's nothing wrong just being a small business that grows into a medium and large business.

Not everything has to be brand new and it's not always worth it either.
What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory [pdf] (2007)
Yup. The author mentions that noise is a serious problem for this method in the article, and talks about some ways he looked at trying to reduce it, but didn't come up with a good one.
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Yes, but it is also kind of trivial. I mean isn't this philosophy something that every agent ultimately follows?

I would like to see an example that would be useful to classify social systems, as ctlby attempted to do. But I don't see it. Once you put "social system" into it, killing happens for collectivist reason.
Don't just throw around some Peter Thiel shit like it justifies any argument you want it to.
Possible. In this case, we're not looking for outliers or measuring based on financial success, but trying to tell if the VC is systematically biased anti-woman.

It's not clear that dropping outliers is a bad idea there. It's also not clear it's a good idea, granted.
"The basic idea of how we do democracy is more-or-less sound."

Sorry to tell you but... human beings are bad at reasoning:

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

On democracy

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...
I don't work for Google, but as far as I can tell Go was developed for helping with Google's internal server issues. They found the C++ code to be too difficult to get new Googlers acquainted with, and they had legal and other issues with Java. Dart on the other hand is a migration path for their heavy use of Java in front end areas for cross client-server usage with their GWT toolkit. It's also designed to make Javascript 'nicer' to use for some of their developers who do not like using Javascript.

However, Google is really big with a lot of differing opinions. They still have a lot of developers working on GWT. They still have a lot of developers heavily involved with C++ standards etc. So some Googlers are not going to be giving up Java or C++ any time soon. Some Googlers who really like Dart want to use it for everything. Some want to use Golang for everything. So the languages aren't really pushed or designed to be complimentary and they're more along organizational boundaries inside Google.

From the last words on the topic, Android itself is still staying fully Java and Dart or Golang will be alternative ways to deploy certain kinds of applications to Android which don't need very heavy integration. This Flutter appears to be closer to a Google replacement for javascript-based Cordova cross platform apps in the same way Dart is designed to be a replacement for Javascript websites.
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This is much more psychobabble than neuroscience.
Lobbying power, poor and simple, which is just a push term for legalised corruption.
You can but you have to use jquery.
No correlation between uncorrectable and correctable memory errors [pdf]
>Admittedly it might look a bit out of place on iOS

Since last year, Google's iOS apps have gradually adopted more and more elements of Material Design, including the color palette, the app bar menu, the MD iconset, the floating action button. And they typically remain best in class; it turns out that Material Design works well on iOS too.

(Note Google's implementation is not necessarily consistent--just look at the different button tap effects for Calendar vs. YouTube on iOS. Sigh.)

We've also borrowed MD concepts for the iOS version of our new app (https://recent.io/) without user complaints.
Why is it appropriate to drop outliers? (The fact that something is common does not make it a good thing.)
Cross-platform on mobile isn't the same as cross-platform on desktop, so there really isn't any irony there.

Android, iOS, Linux, and OS X are all Unix-like, and Windows is... Windows. There's a ton more work that goes into supporting Windows than a *nix variant.
> Dart was originally designed for the client-side as a challenger to Javascript, and I consider it to have generally succeeded in its ulterior goal of spurring the Javascript standardization committee into greater velocity out of threat of competition

Dart was never a threat to JS in anyway. I don't think it had any effect on ES spec. ES spec evolved "faster" because the committee changed, the old guard (anti OO ) moved on and Microsoft didn't sabotage the effort this time. Things were way different back in 2007 for those who remember it. MS had a commercial interest in not wanting ES4 to succeed ( Silverlight ) while ironically Adobe and the Flash team were pushing for a strong standard. So I fail to see how Dart has anything to do with ES6 success.
You could use the mean of the bottom decile.
This is the best it's going to get, it seems: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/mobile/app
Amplifying – or removing – visual variation
Optimized 2D engine? Hmm, is there any chance that there's a hardware-accelerated version of Skia somewhere in there? A while ago I was looking for a nice OpenGL vector (read: path rendering) library for an iOS app I was working on, but none of the available options at the time were good enough. Ended up hacking together a custom implementation in Cocos2d. (Actually, still hacking...)
The app I want to write is basically a service that just does stuff (with files) based on signals from other devices/services. The UI is actually client side webapp. So I was hoping to write the service bit in Go which then would run on Linux, Windows, Mac, Android. Oh well.
Oof. I sell through Gumroad as well, and now I'm a lot more worried :-/

I had been using hand-rolled Stripe integration. They're not bad, but I really like the invoicing in Gumroad, and that they accept PayPal.

They've been great while I've used them, though.
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>And they typically remain best in class; it turns out that iOS users enjoy Material Design too.

Ugh, no thanks. Please keep the low information density, searing color blocks with white text, FAB covering content, drop shadows, and overdone animation away.
> if everything is so screwed up, why it has been the dominant technology for 24 years?

I understand your point, but why is Windows a thing?
For anybody doing the VC thing, they need to be able to plausibly promise their VCs to grow really, really fast.

That means hiring a lot of engineers, designers, etc., really fast.

That's much harder outside the Bay Area, and especially outside really expensive areas generally -- Seattle isn't that much cheaper than the Bay Area, for instance.
It seems incredibly risky to block Microsoft hosts and stop updating Windows. I'd rather Microsoft abused my machine than an attacker.

I'm also curious: if someone has the privileges to run something like this, they're probably not under the thumb of an IT department, so why not switch to OS X or Linux?
Looks like so, as per their architecture diagram: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cw7A4HbvM_Abv320rVgP...
No you didn't. The dividend cash would just be subtracted from the market cap (roughly) the next day when the market opens.
Dart can do this already. It works in Server Side just fine (Win, Mac, Linux - x86,Mips, Arm).
> they had legal and other issues with Java

Note that the legal issues with Java revolve around Google's custom implementation of Java that ships with Android, which is certainly not the version of Java that Google is using for its internal server programming.
I am wondering in what world self app updates would be considered a good thing. As an end user it terrifies me. Although in android you have to declare permissions beforehand, does it cover that? With android 6 would you be able to update to require anything and just ask on demand? Is the fear irrational?
Flutter ships with a functional-reactive style framework, inspired by React.
Flutter gives developers access to any service or API that the host operating system provides, via Mojo’s IPC system

If I can write android apps with the SAME performance as Java, then this is effectively a replacement for me. I was seriously considering Kotlin, but with Google making a play here - this is the way I'll go.
> Googling suggests that DNA evidence shows that about 5% of "white" Americans carry Native American genes

I'm one of these, at least according to my Genographic Project results.

Prior to getting my results, I assumed my father's family's oral tradition of a Cherokee ancestor was fiction. But maybe it's true after all.
I actually fully agree with you that the quotes - and really everything in the Bible - should be understood in its social and historical context. I think the trouble arises when someone tries to take scripture out of the contexts and treat them as some kind of universal moral guideline. This is what I am protesting. The cultural contexts of Jesus and Paul (not to mention the many other authors in the Bible) are quite different and they have quite different agendas. If you try to combine them into a single message, you will gets lots of contradictions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8489788
This is awesome, just a shame there isn't anything like this for MS PowerShell.
This sounds extremely similar to the way I was personally taught trigonometry, calculus, linear algebra, and tensor calculus.

First you are asked to work out some monstrous 4 page problem by hand. Then you have a lecture on the specific tricks in each of those courses (SOC-CAH-TOA, differentiation by dropping the power, linear algebra by matrices, tensor calculus by superscript-subscript interaction). Then you are asked to do the same problem again in 3 lines... Perhaps it's not outright failure, but you are forced to "discover" an advanced concept for yourself before being given the proper tool.

I feel perhaps the author is too bold with:
"Singapore, the land of many math geniuses, may have discovered the secret to learning mathematics (pdf). It employs a teaching method called productive failure (pdf), pioneered by Manu Kapur, head of the Learning Sciences Lab at the National Institute of Education of Singapore."

I feel a bit more research will show that this is an extremely well established teaching methodology. I mean, who _wasn't_ taught integration in this manner?

["Given the curve f(x), find the area under the curve from x=0 to x=10" so you pick a bunch of random points, find the value of f(x) at those points, multiply by however far you chose to put the points apart, go in with the wrong-but-kind-of-close answer "Oh, by the way, there's this thing called integrating, sit down for a sec kids"]
I have a paid Economist subscription but it's less hassle to not login and use a combination of expiring cookies, self-clearing cache, and some specific AdBlock rules to read their content...
Looks like it's there but I don't think it uses OpenGL. (Also, the page states: "Today we don’t support for 3D via OpenGL ES or similar. We have long-term plans to expose an optimized 3D API, but right now we’re focused on 2D.") Still, this is very promising!
Not for those located in countries where iOS is only for the riches.

There Windows Phones are the only alternative for those that don't want to get an Android device.

Android also doesn't have a proper POSIX kernel, its Linux version is very customized, for example IPC is out.

What POSIX stuff (it is just CLI and daemons anyway) can you really use for mobile apps?!
This is due to Apple's proprietary toolchain which is required to develop for iOS.
Until I see this as an official Android SDK language, or presented at Google IO as such, I will ignore it.

The Android team has been very clear where they stand.
Interesting, sounds like another instance of problem solution ordering: http://mkremins.github.io/blog/doors-headaches-intellectual-....

>Think of yourself as someone who sells aspirin. And realize that the best customer for your aspirin is someone who is in pain. Not a lot of pain. Not a migraine. Just a little.

>One of the worst things you can do is force people who don’t feel pain to take your aspirin. They may oblige you if you have some particular kind of authority in their lives but that aspirin will feel pointless. It’ll undermine their respect for medicine in general.

>Math shouldn’t feel pointless. Math isn’t pointless. It may not have a point in job [y] or [z] but math has a point in math. We invented new math to resolve the limitations of old math. My challenge to all of us here is, before you offer students the new, more powerful math, put them in a place to experience the limitations of the older, less powerful math.
It's similar to the strategy they're running on Web Components with Polymer: http://polymer-project.org.

They have a number of Material Design web components that are very easy to integrate into your site but also more difficult for people to override.
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this seems naively similar to the "problem-solution ordering issues" post that was on here a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483695

face people with the problem first, let them struggle on their own for a bit and try to figure it out, then show them a way of solving it.
I tend to agree that Dart was never a "threat" to Javascript (smarter hackers than I have remarked at how difficult it would be to have both V8 and the Dart VM playing nicely together), but at the time of its announcement Dart (nee Dash) was certainly the cause of much consternation over potential fragmentation of the web. I recall more than a few of Brendan Eich's impassioned denouncements of Dart during that time. Dart's origin was just as much political as it was technical (though I do think it's transcended that origin to become quite a nice language, though still trying to find its foothold in the dev community).