skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure your argument is valid. People in Bangladesh are competing by offering their cheap labour becaus that's the most effective way for them to compete, and the best investment of their time/money.

Sure, you could make a high-tech plant in Bangladesh, but it would cost you much more (in time and money) than making one in Germany. Instead, you first invest into a low-cost low-skill plant, make the workers' lives a bit better, they can afford better education, and so on, and very soon you'll have high-tech companies there as well.

I think the main problem with free trade is completely different - that countries don't just compete on cheap labour, but also (mainly?) on lack of regulation - the West tries to pass laws protecting the workers, people's health, the environment... but companies simply product their products elsewhere where these protections don't apply, and then sell these products in the West with comparatively low tarrifs - destroying the local competition that actually abides by all the health/conservation/safety laws.
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In comparison, the risk of death climbing Mount Everest is in the 1.5% to 10% range (depending on how you count), and this is something people do for fun. Obviously safe space flight is a good thing, but I think it's reasonable to accept that going to Mars is considerably more dangerous than climbing Everest.
couldn't people without access to a good grocery store just buy their groceries online and have them delivered

Of course they could, but those who live in food deserts aren't those who would (at this time, at least).
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Medical doctors are like auto-mechanics or, to make a more HN-relatable comparison, software engineers trying to debug a program. Except there's a little more schooling, a lot more rigor with boards examinations, and you don't really have the full source-code available to debug. Just like in any profession, you're going to have crappy auto-mechanics who'll just pull up the ODB-II code and perform patch-work without rigorous root-cause analysis, or have engineers who'll also perform similar patch-work to get it "good enough", you'll have the same hacks who make it through medical school. I'm with you 100% in that they're consultants offering their opinion, but I'll take your analogy a step further and say that some consultants are 27 year old kids fresh out of Wharton who can put together a pretty PowerPoint deck, and some consultants genuinely know their field.
Humans on mars would inspire future generations with dreams of space travel, which will make them more likely to support higher levels of NASA funding?
A super-majority of economists also did not seem to notice that a housing bubble was driving the American economy for a decade - economists are usually morons.

In this case the argument goes back to Ricardo, who said that countries should pursue their comparative advantage (whatever they're best at) in order to maximize their gains from trade. This is true, mathematically, and has been orthodoxy ever since, perhaps because economists are more interested in nice mathematical models than actual real-world development.

However, this argument doesn't account for history and technological development, which is what the OP is arguing I think. I am fond of recommending this essay by Philip Pilkington on this subject: https://fixingtheeconomists.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/argumen...

and especially, this example of the fate of England and Portugal (quoting Joan Robinson):

>The most misleading feature of the classical case for free trade (and the arguments based upon it in modern textbooks) is that it is purely static. It is set out in terms of a comparison of productivity of given resources (fully employed) with or without trade. Ricardo took the example of trade between England and Portugal. He argued that England, by allowing imports of wine from Portugal, would expand the production and export of cloth to pay for it. Ricardo, of course, was thinking of the English side of the exchange but the analysis is perfectly symmetrical; it implies that Portugal will gain from specialising on wine and importing cloth. In reality, the imposition of free trade on Portugal killed off a promising textile industry and left her with a slow-growing export market for wine, while for England, exports of cotton cloth led to accumulation, mechanisation and the whole spiraling growth of the industrial revolution.
So, how are we supposed to know what to eat? Any correlation with what we think tastes better?

Anyway, isn't this pretty bad news for Soilent?
This makes me wonder if the supervised/unsupervised distinction is useful at all. Maybe you could say instead that all learning algorithms simply need some way to measure similarity between the training examples, and it doesn't make a fundamental difference if you cluster examples by their target label ("supervised") or by their input vectors ("unsupervised") or by the context in which they appear (word2vec).
Skip-grams only take focus word, context word pairs. So those pairs do not take order into account
There's no mention of them trying to sell it. I wonder if they tried? I'd imagine anything with 1000s of paying customers would have some interest.
I think this paper is interesting... The section on sarcasm is interesting. They got good results distinguishing apple the noun (which is similar to apples, pear, peach, blueberry) from Apple the proper noun (which is similar to Microsoft, iphone, ipad, samsung.)

While they got good results telling bank the noun from bank the verb... they didn't differentiate bank the noun (financial ) from bank the noun (the side of a river).

Or even more complicated... look at all the uses of bank on word net.

http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bank

I'm not sure I can grasp the implications of disambiguating some words, but not others. For some applications it might make sense but... trying to disambiguate words or leave them as single vectors is still, in my mind, an open research question.
This is why I believe that the democratic mindset is harmful, though not democracy in of itself. The democratic mindset is one convinced that the citizenry have absolute control because of the mere presence of some form of electoral system. The democratic mindset then proceeds to blame all failures on the agent and routinely excuses all wrongdoings of the principal. If a democratically elected leader is repressive, the blame is put on those who voted for them and on those who did not (for "failing" to vote for someone else who may have been just as repressive anyway).

Democracy encourages this kind of victim blaming through and through, and it reduces any political problem to Just A Simple Matter of Voting.

(It's even worse in FPTP systems because of the spoilt vote effect. There, if you actually do take the advice of the democratic mindset and vote for the candidate you see as just, you will again be blamed for depriving the more mainstream "lesser evil" candidate and therefore being responsible for the deeds of the ultimate winner. You voted for Ralph Nader, which means you stole Al Gore's victory, which means you started the Iraq War!)
>> Humans can do things on Mars that drones cannot

> Such as?

Growing potatoes?
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Yeah. This is what I meant by "better hardware utilization".
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I presume more complex experiments on site, that take time and gave a lot of steps and decisions to be taken. of course this also can be automated, and probably at lower cost overall minus potential casualties, but then there is irrational/emotional aspect to getting to a different planet, which is perceived as major milestone in mankind's aspirations.

mountaineers also go to potentially deadly situations voluntarily, just because the those peaks "are there". nobody gets satisfied enough from someone's else photos and says "nah, that's enough of an experience for me", albeit view doesn't offer much more. Neither they do send drones up there instead of them :) (btw that would be a nice use case for some remote high-adrenaline-vr gaming with androids!)
Language is probably the most important point of distinction between humans and all other animals: no animal has anything quite like it. Language is intimately connected with symbolic reasoning, and enabled the social coordination and shared learning that underlays our contemporary technology and success. But where does language come from?

Researching language is very difficult, however, due to the ethical issues of researching human cognition and the difficulty of studying socially learned behaviors of WEIRD college students in contrast to hunter-gatherer infants. So you have had people trying to reason from the examples of severely brain-damaged adults, horrifically abused children, or experiments conducted by temporarily paralyzing peoples' brains.

The amazing thing about NSL is that it is a well-documented example of linguogenesis: A non-linguistic human community essentially developed a new language and developed it to a high degree of sophistication within a scant few generations. This is not merely creolization, or something that was discovered after the fact. People have been able to document the increasing sophistication of the grammar with every class.
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I find your complaint rather baffling: statistics is how we figure out what is going on in large populations when many variables are in play. How else would we advance medical science?

Yes, as the recent "reproducibility crisis" has shown us (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2015/11/10/re...), there is severe danger in playing with statistics, even mildly. But that does not mean we should stop using statistics altogether: it means we should come up with better protocols and procedures to prevent the biases we discover.
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Gas taxes only cover about half of road construction and maintenance costs.

Each person riding the bus, is one less car on the road.
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And prior HN discussion about that reddit discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10614837
I'm willing to try this, and it would have been really nice to have during the Win8/7 days but...

What purpose does it serve in Windows 10? Every feature and voice recognition seems to be part of the basic Win10 search (although you need to tweak it a bit to get local content search mixed in with app launches; I usually turn that off on spotlight).

Part of the reason I really like Win10 is that it has something that has parity with these older tools. Indeed, Win10 is rightfully referred to as a search-driven OS. Most help articles refer to searching from the top level box into other apps, that can trivially publish search targets.
Related: I was recently in Malaysia for a holiday. I bought a SIM card that promised unlimited internet (protip: unlimited anything usually a red flag, I should have known better)

It turned out that I couldn't use 4G to surf the net. All I could do was read Twitter. I went back to the shop and complained about this breach of contract. It turns out I didn't understand that "unlimited internet" meant "unlimited Facebook, Twitter, whatsapp, and Line". It didn't mean unlimited data.

I then spent the next 30 mins arguing with the shop person in a language that I'm rusty in, that no, I don't care about Whatsapp or Facebook or Instagram. I care that I can browse the web with a bloody browser, and connect to my machines via SSH, and no, what the plan promised was in NO WAY unlimited internet.

Still kinda pissed off over it
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Authority and propaganda weigh very heavily on people's perspectives; it is an idea of mine that the American 21st century propaganda regime is the strongest in history thus far.

For the people who accept authority as the source of ideas, the anti-surveillance/pro-privacy movement is a non-starter because the dominant military figures say it's harmful, and their word is king because they are the top of the hierarchy. We have now lost about 40% (maybe more, or maybe less? I made up that number based off of how many people vote Republican because conservatives are traditionally associated with being more authority-compliant) of people with this exclusion. That leaves the remaining 60% of the population, for which there is pervasive propaganda. The mainstream media outlets mention the surveillance issue only in passing, and typically give undue weight and time to government accounts, leading to a skewed perspective. People like Greenwald/Snowden get very little airtime, and when they do, they're framed as eccentric outsiders (social undesirables) who have a stupid opinion that the news is obligated to share to appear "balanced".

EDIT: Clarified my Republicans comment a bit. The main thrust is that there is a large population of people who are going to be swayed by authority figures, and these people tend to be politically conservative.
That person was mistaken. Keep reading the thread. Several people have already created website certificates that validate in browsers using the private key provided.
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> The article uses "best" and "senior" as well, more often than "famous"

Yes, you're right, "famous" is too narrow, "senior" would be a better term.
> How many years ago was the Dell shopping cart bug (where a client could alter the price of an order)?

Sounds like every third-party shopping cart I've ever looked at except FoxyCart, and even then this behavior is the default.

(I've heard people refer to this as "that bug shopping carts have." It seems people overwhelmingly prefer catching this with "fraud detection".)
Who else thinks that Minecraft will become the next iteration of nested simulated universe.
I use the Das Model S Keyboard for Mac [1]. After switching to a mechanical keyboard, I find it much more enjoyable to type on.

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Armstrong has said he thought he and Aldrin had about a 50% chance of success for the moon landing. Failure could mean lots of things outside of situations resulting in death, but still, they were taking an awe full risk.

Also, looking at the manned Apollo missions, one out of 12 resulted in the death of the crew (Apollo 1), and one in 6 missions were failures (Apollo 1 and 13). Space flight was a hugely risky endeavor back then.
There was some GSOC work on porting part of HAMMER to OpenBSD https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/g...
Not a good answer, but it's a start; https://hackaday.io/project/5888-reverse-engineering-the-mil...
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> It was pretty obvious to me that when they used the term "good doctor" they meant better by some objective criteria that many people use as a proxy for "doctor whose actions benefit patients".

But those doctors aren't better by those objective criteria [1]; that's the whole point. Their patients do worse, on average, by objective criteria. So they aren't "good doctors" in the sense that patients care about. They are only "good doctors" if you equate "good doctors" with "senior doctors" or something like that (as gdulli pointed out upthread, "famous", the term I used in my OP in this thread, is too narrow)--something which does not include the objective criteria about actual patient outcomes.

[1] At least, that's what the article is claiming. As others in this subthread have pointed out, there is other data that should be looked at to see how valid the claim actually is.
> The way they pitch immunity in this case is to claim that a prosecution of an NSA official that broke the law would cause the remaining NSA employees to be on-guard for lawbreaking,

Good. Government officials should be on guard for lawbreaking.
Anyone have historical audits of NASA from 1960? I'll bet they were saying the same thing about moon missions back then.
Here's a test website from Kenn White:

https://bogus.lessonslearned.org/
> LP's testimony starkly contrasts with Kay and SJR.

No it doesn't. There is no reason that "conceptually, it was the wrong design" has to contradict with "they had different ideas to me, and couldn't contribute them because of the CLA" and "it could have quite easily evolved into what systemd looks like today, with an active community working on it." It is quite easy to read those statements as being in agreement -- Lennart decided that Upstart wasn't conceptually correct, SJR is amenable to discussing merging changes that would bring Upstart in line with Lennart's ideas, but the CLA is a roadblock so Lennart goes off to form his own project. Why not adopt the principle of charity and take everyone at their word?
> What they should have done is plot mortality by week so we can see if there is a sudden dip around the conference dates.

Agreed, this would be a better test of what they are claiming.
I agree. Especially FreeBSD as it kicks ass in terms of features and general stability. I think them pausing for a week out of every month or even a few days to audit plenty of critical code & do bugfixes wouldn't have set them behind much. Maybe incorporate more mitigation tech out of OpenBSD, grsecurity, etc while they're at it.

Matter of fact, I can prove it with an example [1] that predates OpenBSD's approach while succeeding in market at least while under good management (sighs). Used a combo of good design, OS features, and code quality to achieve reliability most still haven't beaten. Coding approach, which I'm focusing on here, was to alternate between developing features and fixing bugs with tests (esp regression) run on weekends while developers were off. One week build stuff, tests on weekend, one week fixing by priority, rinse, repeat. That simple. OpenBSD took it further with security focus and systematic audits but this basic method produced robust and marketable code. So, what's other commercial players' excuse? ;)

[1] http://www.itec.suny.edu/scsys/vms/ovmsdoc073/ovms_archived/...
In a lot of US cities, (particularly the mid-size and smaller cities that don't have Trains/Subways/Light Rail) busing isn't treated as transportation, it's treated like a welfare program, similar to Food Stamps / EBT or Section 8 / subsidized housing.

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/10/9118199/public-transportation-s...

This is compounded by the fact that in most of these types of cities, most of the jobs and/or the "best" jobs (highest paying, most stable, best health insurance benefits, etc) are located in the suburbs, where transit is least available. Often these places can "opt-out" of transit altogether.

http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/stephen-hender... (subheading: "Designed for failure")
I agree. Sometimes a nudge is all it takes to start things going it a positive direction. Employers have been stuck in a rut when it comes to the minimum wage. If the supply of labour becomes more expensive, maybe this will change their mindset.
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The dexterity of the human body really should not be underestimated. A human being can perform relatively complex analysis in a lab precisely because s/he can move the samples around and whack the equipment a bit if it gets stuck. If you want a robot to do that without getting stuck - ever, then that becomes extremely expensive or you figure out a way to do it in a single chamber like the viking lander did, which is still way more expensive and starts ruling out more complicated forms of analysis. If some element of this mission breaks down, then the human being can also do in-field repairs - something that even the most sophisticated robots of our time can't do.

Beyond picking up rocks, the human can traverse the terrain more easily and s/he can climb up and down really steep slopes - even ones at a nearly 90˚ angle. Whether you'd want the human to do that due to safety concerns on an alien world is another matter, but the amount of terrain accessible to this being is far larger than most billion dollar robots.

Oh and the human being does all of this while being powered on tuna sandwiches. They might be expensive to send to Mars, but once they're there humans can explore a larger area than all rover missions combined in a single mission.
This is the whole reason Sucuri [1] exists and blew up in popularity shortly after it launched. If you are running Wordpress, I'd definitely recommend Sucuri.

If you don't have a paid plan, at least run the free scan once a month or more to make sure you weren't hit by anything. I don't mind Wordpress as a CMS, but it is a constant target. Constant. And nothing looks worse than having "Cheap Canadian Viagra" at the bottom of your corporate website.

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That's the September bit. Frosh would come in, get shell accounts, discover USENET and drive the regulars nuts. Then after a few months they'd acclimate themselves or get bored and USENET would settle into normal, only to repeat the cycle next September.

When AOL flipped the switch enabling USENET newsgroups in the fall of 1993 it was an "eternal September" because AOL had an endless continual stream of chuckleheads getting online foe the first time and not acclimating to existing net culture because they think the network is there to serve THEM.
So instead they are pumping fossil water from the ground at unprecedented rates. Water can be taken from aquifers at a sustainable level, but if too much is taken they will either collapse or have salt water intrusion. Either way they will be rendered permanently useless.

And as for water rights, the western water system (i.e. "prior appropriation") is the problem -- along with the non-regulation of groundwater extraction -- not an excuse for it.
I am in no way, shape, or form advocating for more surveillance. But I can recall at least one event recently where a terrorist threat was thwarted: the 2010 Portland, Oregon Christmas car bomb: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Portland_car_bomb_plot
Not sure why that is surprising to a lot of people. I have done near 18-20 hour work days(Sometimes going without sleep 2 days at a time), during many parts in my life(A few years at a time). In college, while at work, while building my own start up.

The last time I worked like that was when I was working on bootstrapping a start up while having a day job. I did close to a 20 hour schedule for around 4 years. This was only a year back, when I decided to take a break for an year or so.

Hardwork doesn't always give you results, But not working hard almost certainly doesn't. Well unless you have rich parents, or in-laws, or spouse or you inherit money someway- Or you are plain lucky to have god fathers in the industry bailing you out time to time, taking care of your career and financial growth.

For every body else its the plain old brutal torture.