skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm Not sure exactly what you're saying here. (I understand that perhaps English is not your native language)

There are many christian churches and religious groups that function more as social organizations than religious ones. I wish they organized around something besides religion as it would make it less confusing but I don't really have a problem with this. I just don't expect the same views and behaviors from them as I would from myself or from people who take their religious beliefs more seriously.

Most political leaders in the United States these days make only the most feeble attempts to convince constituents of their "faith". So it should not surprise you that this country is not a beacon of Christian values in policy or actions.
"cyber to spider" would be a fun new addition to the "cloud to butt" browser extension.
Not quite @chipperyman573. A few points to make here:

-- Since we only have city-level location for most users, declaring the area isn't as hard as drawing on a map. We usually just select a number of cities, regions, states, or countries that are affected by the crisis.

-- We always allow people to declare themselves into the crisis (or out) in case our geolocation prediction is inaccurate. This means we can be a bit more selective with the geographic area, since we want to be pretty high signal with our notifications. We actually use notification click-through and conversion rates as downstream signals on how well a launch went.

-- For something like Paris, we actually just selected the whole city and launched. Especially with the media reporting "Paris terror attacks," this seemed like a good fit.
Silicon Valley vs. Civilization
Also in most other western countries nowadays. In the U.S. it's been illegal since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Historically one of the more common cases of discriminating based on religion was the prevalence of businesses with "no Jews" policies, but that was eventually banned.
Your contributions aren't that important. What is important is how much you pander to the senior members of your team and other teams. Your manager will consult with them to determine your worthiness. If the senior engineers think you're "smart" and a "good fit", you're on the trajectory to career advancement.
It's true in scientific computing too... there's plenty of times when a quick Python script that takes 10 minutes to bang out is better than writing a chunk of C++ in an hour. The lost time isn't necessarily in the salary of the scientist, it's in the time spent. A lot of the scientists working in the big government research labs have one-of-a-kind knowledge and their time is at a premium in terms of other stuff they could be working on.

But I agree, if you're writing a massively parallel simulation in Python and running it on a supercomputer it's a net waste of money. There's a big trend in the government projects to build libraries like Trilinos or MOOSE, which work kind of along the same philosophy as NumPy - let specialists implement the parts that really matter (in terms of computational expense) in a compiled language and let the scientists glue together those parts in a higher level language. It's a good strategy IMO, especially for technologies like CUDA where there's a huge benefit but also a steep learning curve.
Yep, that would make far more sense... For some reason I assumed it was an image encoded on the postcard. Rereading the original post, that's not what it says, is it...
France is a pretty big country. If you are in Nice, you are a nine hour drive from Paris. It would seem a bit silly to ask if you were okay, and not someone in Belgium who is much, much closer.
Who is above the law? The FBI is above the law...! Who follows the rules? Not the FBI, not the FBI.

But do let us surveil all your conversations, we promise we won't abuse the privilege. You know you can trust us, because we follow the law.
Annotated version of Lebesgue’s 1901 paper on the integral
You're right, but I didn't mean only phone calls and unencrypted email. I considered adding "or their equivalent back-doored technologies," but I hoped it would be clear. Using a compromised technology is the equivalent of unencrypted email and phone calls to whoever has the key. All it does is draw attention to how important it is to communicate in secret. This will be the Streisand effect of crypto.
> If you are in an area impacted by a disaster Facebook will send you a push notification asking if you are OK.

I guess that's great during an earthquake but can be terrible when you're hiding during a terrorist act.
Early developers pre-mining coins during development, coins need to be mined to test that the altcoin actually works but it's really unfair if the developers start off with a ton of coins because they mined blocks before it went public.

Satoshi did this but I don't think any of his BTC has ever been moved from his wallet.
Unless you're talking to an undercover informant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._White
I use my own machine. That and you have to keep in mind a few things. Does the company actually have the money to spend to go after a developer who made some simple app? Would doing so piss off their entire engineering department? Is it really worth it to them? Usually the answer is no.

Not that any of the above matters since I do this on my own time, with my own resources.
> Most critically, the Murphy-Johnson bill provides incentives to fund expanded treatment, called assisted outpatient treatment, or A.O.T.,

If you decide to websearch for this be aware that AOT often means "assertive outreach teams". They're different, although they work with similar people.

> only for those with a long history and pattern of proving a danger to themselves or others.

This tends to mean at risk of killing are trying to kill other people, or at risk of dying by suicide. I'm not sure if the author's son would fit the definition.

> The specifics of A.O.T. vary by state, but judges can order patients to undergo treatment while they live in the community instead of in prison or a hospital.

In the UK "community treatment disorders" don't seem to reduce rates of re-admission to hospital. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-03...

> But A.O.T. is not carte blanche: It still requires court action and has strict criteria to limit treatment to the most seriously ill.

It's pretty scary. I'd want to see more details of the checks and balances involved.

> Samhsa has used much of its budget to deal with less pernicious conditions like trauma and stress.

Author is severely wrong here. "Trauma" covers stuff like borderline personality disorder, which can be a debilitating illness, with a high suicide rate, and high rates of accidental death, and a lot of very severe self harm.

Also, early intervention is important.

> It has also funded activist groups that oppose medication

That's not outrageous. Medication often fucking sucks, and there's not much evidence that it works effectively. It's often better to give people techniques to live with their illness, and keep people engaged with MH services, than to just give them a depot injection every six weeks.

> and mainstream psychiatric care for the seriously mentally ill.

Again, you don't have to look too far to find serious unwarranted interference with human rights when you start looking at MH treatment. This isn't just force feeding, or forced medication, or restraint and rapid tranquillisation, or detention in hospital against your will, but the lesser (still important) stuff like being fully involved in decisions about your life - what you eat, what you wear, how you spend your money, where you live.

Without details of the groups it's hard to know if they're idiots or reasonable.
Thanks for the insights. I can definitely see what you're saying from the perspective of a software engineer.

I wonder if those same concepts translate over to onboarding people who might have a weaker programming background, such as mathematicians / theorists who may have a more difficult time making the switch. For example if they've been using the same toolset their entire careers.

This last point isn't in response to your comment, but more a response to the ideas presented in the article. I don't necessarily buy the idea that the data is incentive enough to researchers at the top of their fields to leave what they're doing to go work at Google. Surely they have access to plenty of public datasets large enough to accomplish what they want to accomplish. So the requirement for switching tools may be a much bigger hurdle when trying to recruit for ML. Maybe I'm wrong in assuming they are targets for employment at Google.
I should have been a bit more clear - obviously they need to know who I am, and they need to figure out billing, but they don't need to keep any long term records or use those records for anything else.
I don't know why people in general join ISIS but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of it does in fact have to do with an "evil" appeal. Darth Vader made some good arguments, too.

People love this kind of fantastical good/evil stuff. Who's good and who's evil depends on what side you're on, of course. Like that Russian book I heard about that's a rewrite of Lord of the Rings from Sauron's perspective.

Look at what games boys and young men so often choose to play. When I was seven I was out in the forests with my friends with fake guns. It was really fun. Then I put down childish things and got into Counter-Strike. I loved playing the terrorists. The AK-47 was just great and the avatars looked pretty cool.

This is kind of off-the-cuff sociological speculation or something, but: religion is a very powerful aesthetic phenomenon. In combination with war, you get a combination of thrills, ecstasy, excitement, danger, meaning, and hope that's hard to beat, for certain personality types.

Look at the ISIS propaganda videos. They're not laying out a rational strategy for improving the world. They're presenting an aesthetic image, a very masculine one, full of cars and guns and desert missions and fighting and stuff. Combined with the pious literalist faith that also has its own appeal. They do offer a hope for a future world, a glorious Islamic caliphate and whatnot, probably the deserts will bloom and peace will reign and Muslim Jesus will rise from the dead.

They say things like "Are you satisfied with your shitty life in suburban London or Paris? Do you like the way people look at you? Do you feel alive? Do you love your life? ...no? Come here. We not only have an exciting virile lifestyle full of action and terrible sublime beauty, but also we are the true messengers of the true prophet and God is on our side."
Is it really? In practice there's not much difference between money that's never used and money that's destroyed. As long as it's out of circulation, it doesn't affect the economy. Apart from big, public actions of destroying BTC that many parties know about, I'm not sure there's any real value growth from the BTC burning.
I read that as reinforcing my point. Christianity was not a motivating factor, ethnic politics was; abuse of houses of worship in any culture is not unusual throughout history, subverting the trappings of righteousness to promote evil. How that promotion was manifest, I don't know; no indication AFAIK of any equivalent of "Allah Akbar" being declared during the slaughter.

Beware the rationale of "X had its bad moments, so you can't criticize Y." The current question remains: how to draw a line between the "good" and "bad" actors? lines are being drawn, and better to help draw them well before people act on them being drawn badly.
Of course, that is why most religions are wrong in the same way.
Incidentally that article implies that Facebook contstantly tracks your geo location even when you do not expressly check in.
I've never read about the ether needing to have inertia.

Also, a modern version of the ether is pretty well accepted - quantum fields that occupy all of space. Particles etc.. are disturbances in this field. Ether is something of a tainted term these days so quantum fields are not referred to as ether.
...most chart libs use SVG. Beside Highcharts (not open source) I have yet to see a SVG based charting lib that is fast and lightweight. d3.js and chart libs based on d3.js (like plot.ly) are very heavy weigth in comparision (= more than 100KB minified JS code; plot.ly is 1.05MB huge: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/master/dist/plotly.... )

SVG wasn't supported until Android 4 and only Internet Explorer/Edge is really optimized for SVG (thanks to their VML investment). On the other hand Chrome, Safari and Firefox render Canvas much faster. (only relevant if you want to render thousends of objects on a battery powered device)
Or like in the movie "Wing of Honneamise", a character goes to meet with officials and speaks for awhile in the standard language. One of the officials says, aside, to him "you can switch to vernacular if you like". The character responds, "oh, well in in that case I'm done speaking."
StackOverflow real-time tagged traffic
What are you confused about?
Diary of a Food Tracker
To be fair, Armenia has taken in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. It's not covered anywhere in the news (doesn't fit any convenient narrative, like the one you outlined), but as far as I recall it's one of the top hosts relative to population size. Can't find the source ATM
That is a great article for both Amiga lovers and new people entering the scene! Thank you. Though the title could be modified to include year of [2012].
When will NATO destroy an entire nation, civilians and all? How is that a remotely reasonable response? That's like suggesting that Pakistan would be justified in nuking Washington DC because American drone strikes have killed civilians there. There's no world where its justifiable to murder a nation of civilians, ever.
We are not OK with the NSA doing this and (theoretically) not viewing the data.

We are OK with Facebook doing this and exploiting the data for monetary and market advantages.
You could also catch BadUSB...
That's not exactly correct; we don't have GPS-level location information for the majority of our userbase (only those that turn on the nearby friends feature).

We use the same IP2Geo prediction algorithms that Google and other web companies use -- essentially determining city level location based on IP address.
It's easy to get a work permit if you've bothered to get a decent education in all sorts of desirable first world countries.

Japan is one. Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, Korea. Probably lots of places in Europe, though I can't say which ones; people seem to go to Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic a lot. Most of those places you can literally just show up and be working in six weeks. Some take a little longer.

The only way it could be years of preparation is including your whole education.
The Land of Sugar & Fat.
But most sites let you "trust this device" once you've done 2FA - passwordless doesn't have that option from what I can tell. Also, 2FA is an extra, optional layer for most users. They can choose if they want the extra hassle in exchange for security. Passwordless gives you no such option, you have to switch apps, period.
Thanks a lot really great advice. One thing more do you check or conscious about grammar while listening or reading others while learning language?
Inside the Lab That Pushes Supergrid Circuit Breakers to the Limit
Would you consider any crime which the settlement is in the hundreds of millions "petty"? If not, then http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-05/sanctions-s... is a counter-example.

See also http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-20/shh-credit-..., http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-18/bny-mellon-... and http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-20/accidental-...

Clearly neither being really smart nor having a lot at stake will prevent someone from sending sensitive things over email.

As for terrorists, a short search turns up https://books.google.com/books?id=VqY4Wr3T5K4C&pg=PA410&lpg=....

I think if you claim that major criminals' encryption usage would be unaffected by making it difficult to use, you need to support that at least as well as I've just argued for the opposite.
Right, I didn't word that very well. It's a computer generating the playlist, not a curator.
Abundant open space? Cheap spacious housing?

Can't say if you are being sarcastic or not?
This is exactly what happened to me on MULTIPLE occasions with multiple websites. Right down to the special characters table flipping.

But the best one yet was my car insurance (have since switched to another one). I logged in maybe once or twice a year and that thing was asking for a PIN. Turns out this was not actually a number they were asking for. When clicking through their password reset forms I found out that they were actually asking for a password (with multiple rules in place to make it more secure). Gaaahhh.

Ok, sorry for rambling…
Intel's 72-core processor jumps from supercomputers to workstations
This just is an evidence that scam schemes like Groupon are not possible in Skandinavia. Good for them !
A modular design would be great. Every chart type could be a seperate plugin / npm module.
If it's any comfort, most people have push notifications turned off for the main Facebook app (understandably since we send quite a few of notifications). However anecdotally some of the survivors of the attacks mentioned that they got phone calls from concerned friends / families while hiding in the Bataclan, which was understandably stressful.
The web is full of misleading garbage, but you can get every book ever written inexpensively or free from some combination of Archive.org and Amazon. Many books are trash, but at least we have some means of sorting them.

The web is a big popularity contest, with Google search / Facebook rank being a modified popularity contest. What's popular and entertaining is unlikely to be what's true or useful.

People are very willing to pay for accurate, useful information. Most people do not need accurate or useful information for the majority of their needs in life -- nor do they even want it as we can tell from their revealed preferences.

The web is not even all that popular compared to television. Judging from the websites of many formerly prestigious magazines, many people just use the web as an enhanced edition of TV Guide with some chat features built in.

TV is many orders of magnitude more popular than computer media in the developed world. Many people are happy to pay TV subscriber fees for inaccurate but entertaining shows. The most popular programs are fantasies and sports games rather than documentary programs.

>I fear that since things have been free for 20+ years, people aren't going to ever pay for written content.

Someone tell Jeff Bezos that all those book sales are illusory. But yes, we should expect the web to more and more be the equivalent of a trash heap of brochures and junk publications pointing people towards higher quality options, with the occasional equivalent of a curated public library (like Archive.org).

>I think people, abstractly, might be fine paying for good content.

They really do when it's important to them. But what people say is important to them when other people are looking is not necessarily what is really important to them.
Here is an alternative that actually makes sense for users and content producers, instead of favoring Google's ad business:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/11/tipsy-a-simple-chrome-exten...
A Yubikey-like device is actually more secure than what the parent comment describes, because it prevents the private key from being viewed or copied by the host computer. You can think of it as a dedicated piece of hardware that runs something like ssh-agent, except over USB instead of a socket.
The article claims the recording devices were placed to catch bidders colluding in a real-estate auction. That particular moral high ground is unavailable here.
Is there any reason why someone just doesn't make an adblocker that surreptitiously clicks the ads so everyone gets paid and gets to keep their sanity?
In the US case, it "only" took 40+ years - and now we are sadly almost back at 100%+
I used to work with Steve, he's a great guy and it's good to see he's still working on this stuff.

There's a nice archive of papers plus some simulation models we put together at http://www.ultraglobalprt.com/about-us/library/
Micropayments are hopefully becoming a thing: http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/11/tipsy-a-simple-chrome-exten...
I believe he or she is pointing out that, while there is currently no evidence that the FBI has violated a defendant's legal rights, their actions could very easily have had this result and that was probably their intention.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_W...

Armenia estimated 17,000
if you give out free coins you are decreasing the value of your coin. if you destroy them, you are theoretically increasing the value.

since the popularity and value of these things are very correlated, it makes way more sense to destroy. Who is going to spend real currency on a coin that is losing value day 1 because everyone has coins to sell?
Pinterest rolls out (sub)image search using deep learning this week
All the same, studying the design decisions that went into Erlang/OTP/Beam is a great place to start.

One of the hardest things to deal with is learning how to deal with all the different permutations of failure cases that can happen with hardware, the network, software bugs, etc. Erlang was designed from the ground up with all of this in mind.
Ah, I think the concept I'm going for is that this is not a painting robot (despite the title), but that it is a set of things I have given the internet to see what they will do with it.
HacKeyboard, a mechanical keyboard built from scratch
You have a good point. By open sourcing TensorFlow, Google will benefit from innovations contributed by the community at large.

Machine learning frameworks are now commodity software. I give my point about this in a blog post titled "TensorFlow is commodity software" http://blog.eriksen.com.br/en/tensorflow-commodity-software (HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10574444)

You last phrase is right too: Google built a massive infrastructure because it had Google File System, BigTable and MapReduce. Hadoop, inspired by the published papers, turned into a more sophisticated software (an ex-Google engineer said that, but other Googlers denying his claims) and grown into a big ecosystem of products and services. But while Hadoop was matching the feature set of Google's proprietary implementations, Google was getting even bigger.
Perhaps if the investors in these Midwest startups enabled founders to take some funds off the table from a round, it could help to alleviate this problem.

If founders have all the stress of low salary + not much savings + lots of work to do + maybe starting a family, of course a $10M exit starts to look good.

But if they're achieving good results, why not give the founders a small taste of the billion dollar carrot?
Senior Web Developer Nanodegree Course by Google on Udacity
Ads don't pay that well. A small subset of people willing to pay are able to support the content. There will always be freeloaders, but it costs almost nothing to publish content.

As adblocking becomes more prevalent, the garbage-y sites will die, and the market will pay for the content that's actually good. Sounds like a good thing to me.
The rule of law was a real thing for much of American history, and it's a real thing in many other countries. If we want it back, we can't be tricked into thinking this problem is in any way universal or inevitable.
Somehow I think they'll get over it.
VR company announces Dungeons and Dragons debut to virtual reality on Monday
This would eventually backfire if ad networks look for click fraud.
because that would be fraud?