skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which government?

In a shit sack world, the inquisition just points out that there is noise in a lot of your messages and you're done, you don't get a chance to wax philosophical about your intent.

In an even worse world, they just insinuate that you might be communicating secretly.
>one of the few views of DevOps I can get behind.

What parts do you have a problem with? If you don't mind me asking. I'm looking at it as a way to change things in my organization and I would like to see some criticism of it beyond the most common one which is basically "my management is a bunch of idiots and lacks reading comprehension".
I love that Netflix by mail logistics pushed you away from popular content , but online caching servers push you toward poplar content!
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Out of curiosity, what are the regressions?
LOL, up voting.
A MITM could also deny SMTPS ports. If you want to ensure STARTTLS is in use then most smtp software has a setting to force STARTTLS or drop the connection.
Seriously. My lack of desire for lots of social interaction is just a feature of my personality, it isn't something to be proud of or brag about.
Lemmas aside, how is this different than only checking repeated prime cycles in conjunction with one of the existing partition algorithms like NAUTY? Laci personally rejected my note submitted to Information Processing Letters saying the lower bound formula was "trivial", https://oeis.org/A186202
Inplace is a nice late phase optimization, but the root problem here appears to be that Google's convolution kernels are crap compared to those in cuDNN3 and Neon (I asked Scott Gray about this directly and I trust his wisdom).

No surprises there whatsoever. The tensorflow engine is the most gold-plated POS I've seen in a long time. if it were running on 1000+ servers, I'd get the level of overengineering they've applied here. But single server pthreads? WTF?

Also parameter server is dumb unless you sweat the implementation of the gather/reduction ops, but I digress.
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It is a choice. I choose to turn off facial recognition and continue to use my Facebook account. I find some values in using Facebook, just as I find both open source and closed source each exists with its own value.
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Maybe it wasn't a sinus infection? I hate the damn things because they're a lot like a cold and it seems like the recommendation is "if you're still miserable after 2 weeks, maybe you should go to a doctor". Then you discover that you could have been feeling better days ago...
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So, instead of 5 extra minutes of ads, you get 5 extra minutes of bad content. Is that a win?
This is literally the capstone of iOS. You have no power, or privlidge. You work in the languages the master wants, using the tools the master has you buy, using the APIs the master blesses you with.

You never come close to owning the device, and you don't own your software for it.

The greatest irony is how many walked into this with open arms, and how many continue to praise this. iOS only thrives on the developers who sacrifice their power to Apple's will. Apple stands atop a glass house built on lock in and memes about how good their products are. Its the users that pledge allegiance to that manipulation that hold it together.
"Magic" is a nice euphemism
Does your motherboard's BIOS allow flashing custom firmware? How about the firmware for the flash controller on a USB stick? If that's your standard, virtually nobody has owned a device in the past 15 years.
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Namely why I stopped using an iPhone long ago, damn these bastards for making such good computers though...
Interesting. The same applies to CPU and memory resources too.
A great example of why looking at the data alone leads to false conclusions
Note that the study only tracked people for a single week, so it's likely that while it does show a positive improvement on moment-to-moment happiness, it neglects other longer-term effects like, possibly, social isolation from cutting yourself off from a major communication medium.
That is a good point. To me, however, an important part of the appeal of Firefox has always been a belief that having multiple competing rendering engines is fundamentaly good for the open web -- that it keeps the HTML and CSS standards from growing in too much of an implementation specific direction. I had thought, perhaps without grounds, that this view was shared by Mozilla.
No, you're saying that people should add noise to everything, which steganographically masks the times when they add encrypted data instead.

The noise, which is added to everything, is not compressible so now everything takes a lot more badwidth.
Hard to say. Sometimes Apple's OS is just legitimately missing the feature (I'm reminded of the tricks needed to have one process render into another process's window before QuickTime needed that feature for 10.6).

Honestly, I'm surprised more people aren't responding "Wait, why _isn't_ this possible in iOS? Windows has had the necessary tools to do this for years."
The biggest problem I see with it is the author's allergy of functional programming. He even attempted to remove some of the existing ad hoc FP features in the move to Python 3 or the like. Hence my comment about wasting time fighting the language.

It plus Java, as MIT and I'm sure many other schools do (those that aren't just pure "JavaSchools") are going to leave students who don't make extra effort ... deficient when it comes to FP, the virtues of which I don't need to extol to you, although I'll add that it seems to be one of the good answers to making the most of our current "Moore's Law maybe", "Dennard scaling no" multi-core situation.
I don't think the GP is talking about a centuries old diet (note the use of tense e.g 'in modern china, most food is).

Sure, the vestiges of that diet still exist today as do many of the cultural beliefs and habits e.g. only eating cooked foods unless they have a thick, peelable skin, boiling water before drinking it etc.

The point I am trying to make is that the Chinese have taken that traditional diet and added a huge amount of sugar, salt and MSG, not to mention significantly more meat (in recent years, this can often be doctored with water and/or various chemicals by the vendor). If you're eating at a restaurant rather than at home, meals probably contain a good dose of gutter oil too.

That should not be taken in any way as being healthy, and because it's also relatively recent, the effect it will have on the health population is not yet highly visible.

In mainland China they also have a poor concept of proper nutrition and this is exacerbated by the one child policy, with parents and grandparents feeding their only child whatever they want to eat (often sweets, candy, soft drink) rather than what is good for them.

On multiple occasions in China I've known children under the age of 5 with rotting, horrible teeth and when I brought it up with the parents and/or relatives (who I also knew) they laughed it off and said "oh it doesn't matter, they're just baby teeth and new ones will grown in soon and they'll be ok".

They completely failed to realise they were setting their children up for a lifetime of diet, teeth and health related problems.

I've got no problems with the concepts of traditional Chinese cooking, but it's increasingly difficult to find that in modern China.
Wait, you do professional photo retouching on your iPhone?
In level of severity:

0. Control yourself
1. Use tools to block problematic websites (e.g. K9, StayFocusd)
2. Use tools to temporary disable internet (e.g. Freedom)
3. Don't do programming, take up a hobby that doesn't involve dodging mental crack the whole time
4. Get rid of your computer
What is noise anyway? I can program a generative model and inverse generative model couple and then you can transmit data as a image that doesn't look "noisy" but has incompressible information (what I referred to as noise), which could be a cryptogram. The model might generate anything, a innocuous conversation, a picture of a house, whatever. For good models the "inquisition" cannot distinguish you from your neighbor in terms of suspicious activity.
Typically your labs and vitals will tell you if antibiotics are indicated. Things like increased WBC, lactic acid, hypotension, tachycardia etc. Blood cultures, too.
hmmm, one thing we could really use is some tests. Maybe you could write some simple capybara/rspec or equivalent integration tests for the site, just to make sure that its parts are functioning correctly?
My dentist won't let me do that :(
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> Agh, this thread is just full of people boasting about their immunity to interest in Facebook. Congratulations, you're fantastic, oh that we could all be as enlightened as you.

Finally someone brave enough to stand up and break this hype about "stop using Facebook."

> I'm not sure what the answer to that is. Some say Snapchat is a much better place for people to be their true selves - I can believe it.

I am in my twenties and I find Snapchat really weird. I don't know, I find both typing out the message from a computer keyboard and a straight google hangout/skype chat more natural than a (what??) 5-second snap story... my impression is Snappers tend to make vine-like videos with snapchat and that is just so unnatural....
I really don't get the "hackathon" thing. I hear people refer to them, and they are supposedly popular, but I've never heard about one happening in real life or had any conversation about one with anyone in the industry. If people I know are participating in these things they sure are keeping mum about it. Where do hackathons come from? Where do they happen? Who organizes them? How do people hear about them? Or is this just another media-hype bubble over nothing?
"Incognito mode" is meant to stop data from being stored on your computer, not Google's. This is written in plain English every time you start a process in "incognito mode".
You are actually conflating two separate issues:

1. Whether users should be able to run any software (binary or not, proprietary or not) which they happen to have access to, on hardware that they own

and

2. Whether it is right for people to distribute, to users, software which is useful for a purpose, and therefore attractive, but where the users cannot change or even inspect the software itself (and cannot hire anyone else to do these things for them).

The issue at hand was the first one, and you answered by talking about the second one.

I believe the usual Free Software Movement arguments go like this:

For the first question, it is obvious that users should have a right to use the things they own however they wish – otherwise it can hardly be called ownership. For the manufacturer to give such restricted hardware in exchange for money, but still retain this degree of control over the hardware after the transaction, should therefore not be allowed to be referred to as “selling”, since the recipients/possessors of such hardware cannot usefully be considered the full “owners”.

For the second question, while it is obvious that it is unethical to tempt users to give up their freedom to change and inspect the software, or have it changed or inspected (since this checking and tinkering is one of the things which drives a good society), it is certainly not obvious that it should be out-and-out illegal for anyone to offer such unchangeable and uninspectable software to users.
You're really talking about how companies abuse devops as a way to hire someone who can step on everyone's toes without regard. Or save money. Or some political crap. But really devops is about sharing pain and aligning groups. And not even just Dev and Ops, that was just where it started. Anyone at a big company that's dealt with their finance, legal or HR teams knows alignment is critical.

Companies that abuse it are basically trying to save money by trying to coopt the concept into an excuse to hire someone to do both jobs (which typically results in average or worse results in one or more of the roles). Or it's a power play by an exec. But ultimately it sours the whole thing for everyone that has the misfortune of being subject to it.

I know there's a boatload of people that have "devops" in their titles these days and while I get that they're just taking advantage of a bad situation to make some extra money I still can't help thinking that most of them know they're hurting the concept by cooperating that way and that's pretty shitty.
http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v4/n10/full/tp201498a.html

This gives some information about method.
In my personal experience, the biggest wedge is in planning events. With the caveat that this probably only applies strongly to people currently in their mid-twenties:

For a lot of social circles, facebook is the only service that almost everyone will regularly check and that lets you coordinate events. My friends who don't use facebook will regularly miss (or not get invited to) parties, book club, skiing trips, etc. This isn't because no one likes them or thinks to invite them, it's because they opted out of the platform.

The other big point of stickiness that I can think of is that facebook is many people's cloud. Years of photos are backed up there and only there. It's unfortunate that they've relinquished control of their files to a closed-platform third party, but that's the way it is.
I noticed I started sending a lot of personal, narrative, long-form emails a couple months after deleting my facebook. It turns out some people are bothered by this, or have no idea how to communicate this way. YMMV
I deleted my Facebook account and I believe doing so did (marginally) increase my quality of life. It has forced me to focus more on real-world interactions with people.

I also find it emotionally draining to be in constant contact with people you never actually see... it feels as if Facebook allows fake or weak friendships to continue that would naturally die off without it.

The only thing I do miss is the ubiquity of Facebook Messenger and the features it provides over SMS, which I have now reverted to for communicating with friends.
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This is kind of a Turing test. If you can't find the answer by experimentation, you're not a hacker.
"How do you know if someone doesn't use Facebook? Don't worry they'll tell you" should be the new, "How do you know if someone doesn't own a TV..." joke.
why not just use the website?
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If your research code is a big ball of mud then all it's results are meaningless. And all your research should be rejected by any competent journal. Sadly, journals tend to ignore such huge issues.

But, hey it's not like reproduceable results are important in science or anything.
I'm the wrong person to answer this because I am not a social butterfly (though I'm not antisocial either by any stretch) so being up and up on everything my friends are doing is not important and consequently I only have about 40 friends in total on FB. Half of which, I could probably get rid of right now and not care.

1. People use it for event planning. I don't get texts asking where I am anymore or what i'm doing. Events are organized... Personally, I despise this because I love impromptu meetups, but that's just not how my friends do things anymore it seems.

2. For all non-business communication the answer is yes. Professional contact is still E-mail driven (or Slack/IRC for dev-friends). That said, LinkedIn is starting to pickup some of the professional communication in my circles.

3. I've been okay with the trade-offs, but that decision fits my social profile. I have to make an active effort now to get invited to things though which kind of sucks, but I suppose that's OK too since it allows me to be more selective about what I go to.
The simple solution for me has been to unfollow everyone in my friend list. You then have an empty news feed, apart from the birthdays which apparently are really important on fb, for some reason. And, of course, a good ad blocker. That still doesn't make fb enjoyable from my POV, but it's still an improvement.
It might also be the passive nature of the two activities.... browsing facebook and watching TV are very passive activities. You do not use your creativity or skills to do them; happy people tend to do more creative and constructive things.
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That's a good thing (the size not the energy thing) people need space, Europe could use a wakeup and start making bigger living spaces a 2 bedroom flat in London is the size (or smaller than) of some studios in the us and most 1 bed apartments.
It's a very novel way to look at it, but I think you're right. Constructed reality by its very design replaces the use of actual reality. We've seen this trend with the internet and I can only imagine it will continue.

People are driving less, interacting less, working from home more, and using screens more. I'm fairly confident this isn't going to change when you make staying at home even more convenient and pleasurable. It should naturally accelerate.

Take a look at this graph:

http://blog.sgws.org/files/2012/04/MediaUseGraph.jpg

In fact, if you want to enter the rabbit hole of tech pessimism, read this report from 2010:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whywaldor...

It isn't pretty.
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I wouldn't say you have no power or privilege. For their 30%, they are putting your device in a market that has the most affluent users of technology, in the world. There's a reason that they've been able to get away with what they're doing--they're giving consumers what they want. It's just that important things like this aren't decided by popularity, e.g. freedom. They're rights bestowed to us by our government. I'm not saying that what Apple is doing is right or wrong. I am saying that them doing it is a great loss of freedom for users and developers.
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That so intolerant to not tolerant questioning political correctness!
Unless you change a single setting that allows you to do so. Guess how many of those malware toolbars pop-up a message that says "Click here and select this option to allow us to fix the issues with your system"?
I know this might sound like a really non-efficient thing to do, but you can individually unfollow every single one of your contacts. I only have around ~200 friends so unfollowing them wasn't that hard.

Nowadays, I love going to Facebook. My news feed is completely empty.
And also a life-saving one.
Whoops. Guess I missed it too.
Can confirm. Did the same
Except that for many users, they would GREATLY PREFER to have the RIGHT to acknowledge the risks entailed, and use the device how THEY WANT TO USE IT. They purchased a physical device, and they deserve to be able to use it how they want. This is just another example of why the DMCA needs to be dismantled.
(This is off topic but) there's probably something fascinating to be studied about it. The assumption I've heard a number of people make is that their anti-socialness means that they read more, code more, and as such it's actually a positive quality that elevates them above others. Even as someone who can be antisocial themselves, I think it's a load of bunk, and it's sort of interesting to see human interaction being dismissed as frivolous.
My odd mnemonic is associating "latitude" with the fictitious word "flatitude", since in the most frequently used projections latitude lines are straight and horizontal.
It happens mostly in large cities like SF, NY, Austin, Seattle, near where tech center is, Most Hackathons I know attract students and young professionals. There are some more professional hackathons like AT&T's. Facebook for example has a FB Hack and you can compete for the trophy at FB Headquarter, I don't know the first hackathon but my impression is FB's hackathon has turned into a popular icon and everyone soon follows.

Major League Hackathon is an organization going around US and now some part of the world to help organize hackathons.

I've been to FB's, Google's, a couple NY Hackathons, MIT Hack, and a few other smaller student-init hackathon events. I basically hear them on twitter, on facebook, or from friends.
You consider a qualification four paragraphs into an article “buried”? Christ. I know attentions spans are short these days, but that's pretty pathetic.

You're acting like the author proposed this as a serious encryption tool, but no sane person could read this article and reach that conclusion. You're only feigning to believe it in order in order to have an excuse to show off your supposedly superior knowledge of encryption.
> distributing proprietary software without users being able to see the source is a Bad Thing.

That's a completely separate issue. Apple cares not a jot whether you can see the source; they care that someone was distributing iOS apps outside the garden.
Looks like almost any other Silicon Valley office to me.
I'm pretty sure that second one is a joke.
Rights are not bestowed upon us from our government -- they are natural and inalienable and a part of what makes us human.
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I meant least-privileges in a general sense. Disallow tagging of you without approval, upload as little as you like, show as few details as you like, and for the app, deny any permissions you're not interested in giving up the keys to the castle for.
This is hilarious, but does Google's Self-Driving Car actually understand siren? or is someone constantly watching the live camera and has decided to pause the experiment for the siren?
It seems that your first sentence saying is saying that we don't (and won't) take political correctness seriously, and then your second sentence is saying that everyone but right-wing kooks already takes it seriously. I must be mis-reading, but I can't see how.