skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The following link is another review of the same book by Paul Mason http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue73/Gillies73.pdf but it focuses more on the economic idea, apparently discussed in his book, that the digital economy features a zero marginal cost of production. Now, if the purpose of the economy is to allocate scarce goods what happens when digital goods dominate the economy and have zero marginal cost (wikipedia, arxiv, github, free software, etc.)? The idea that scarcity might disappear would seem to undermine the very foundation driving economic transactions.
I’ll Never Be My Wife’s Equal
Someone should really compile a list of the shittiest research taht got funded. There is some real nonsense out there that gets funded.
I disagree 100%...

The board did not hire "other managers" they hired her, for the expressed purpose of turning Yahoo Around, and splitting out the Ablibaba Stock, now they have reverse that and will split out Yahoo Core but the fact remains when a Major restructuring like that is going on your damn right the CEO, the one hired by the board, should be at the helm, not the "other managers"

Ultimately people need to stop looking to other people as "examples" and determine for themselves what they need to do for their family. If Yahoo Provides X leave, and a person chooses to only take Y, that is their choice, that does not mean other employees can not take all of it.

Society seems to be developing a massive co-dependency problem and loosing individualism.
Let's figure out the human brain first.

Let's say you have these two options: (1) A technology that will make you feel the best you possibly can, without any negative consequences, or (2) a robot that will do stuff for you, like cleaning your house, driving you to work. Now which one would you choose?
I agree completely. Tuition free higher education with living stipends a la Denmark is a way to get there.
I too got this problem, though not at google. White-boarded it and came up with the n^2 solution.
The author comments on these thoughts later. The article is not fully formed thought.
Andrew Ng's course on Coursera?
Another "reality check": how many of these rich warming enthusiasts are buying property in Canada, or 6m (or whatever implausible sea level rise they claim to expect) above current ports? How many are selling their nice beach houses?
So many submissions, so little discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10719164

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10718986

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10716385

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10716331

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10711785

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10710660

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10710212

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10710192

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10709958

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10706534
If you want to learn about computer programming, I think you would find this FORTRAN manual from 1960s useful..
"The doctor and researcher John Ioannidis demonstrated that a large proportion of research findings published in scientific journals are false, in large part because of the reliance on the .05 threshold."

Very nice article. Made me interested in statistics. I've been reading a lot of articles lately about the microbiome. There are many research papers that tie a particular gut microbe to a certain disease. For instance:

V. Veillonella - Asthma

L. Lachnospira - Asthma

M. Rothia - Asthma

C. Faecalibacterium - Asthma

C. Faecalibacterium - Crohn's Disease

C. Faecalibacterium - Obesity

Oxalobacter formigenes - Kidney Stones

Erysipelotrichaceae [Eubacterium] halii	- schizophrenia

[class]Betaproteobacteria - Type 2 diabetes

B. Bifidobacterium - Autism

I wonder now how many of these conclusions are based on the "ill-founded strategy of claiming conclusive research findings solely on the basis of a single study assessed by formal statistical significance, typically for a p-value less than 0.05." [from Ioannidis article mentioned above http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...]
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How to Get Revenue While Visitors Leaving Your Site?
Translation of the Warning from Twitter to the French Crypto Activist
I've done a free translation of the warning sent to the French Crypto Activist - links in the comments here. I would welcome and appreciate any corrections by people more qualified than I.
° is shift+alt+8 on mac
I'm a fan of Thoughtbot's rcm[1], a dotfile manager. I just `git clone` my dotfiles down to a new machine, install rcm and run `rcup -d ~/.dotfiles` to symlink them into $HOME.

Used this to get a new laptop up and running immediately; the only step beyond that was a quick `brew list` to install packages that those dotfiles might lean on.

[1]: https://robots.thoughtbot.com/rcm-for-rc-files-in-dotfiles-r...
A Twitter bot which issues its own currency
Twitter message: https://twitter.com/chiffrofete/status/675613946078982144

HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10722402

Comment with translation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10722586

Also included here:

As a precautionary measure, we wish to inform you that your Twitter account is one of a small group of accounts that may be the target of an attack by state sponsored agents. We think that these agents (who may be associated with the government) are seeking to obtain emails, IP addresses, and/or telephone numbers.

At the moment, we don't have proof that they have access to your account details, but we are actively pursuing our enquiries. We hope to have more details to give you, but we are not at present able to provide more information.

It's possible that your account has not been specifically targeted by these suspicious activities but we hope to tell you more as soon as possible. We are conscious that this situation could have particular importance if you tweet using a pseudonym. If you would like advice concerning the protection of your identity on the internet, these pages ... will be of particular interest to you.
You could say that the above all demonstrates Keenan's point, that you can't identify a trend in a time series of this length.

You could, indeed.
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...but it's not a bubble. ;-)
What's with the UI here? Sure, it looks nice, but do you need all that fanciness for just a health dashboard?
That's new. Tar didn't use to behave that way, and plenty of people got used to specifying flags.
I see no 'mafia' there. It is typical democracy.
I said it'd keep your attention. I didn't say it was nice.
Can any Canadian lawyers shed some light on how this is legal?
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Of course. But nowadays, space complexity is more and more important, which makes every sorting algorithm that is > O(n) not sufficiently efficient.
All the Really Good Hackers are now heads-down writing ridiculously fast, OSS-but-completely-incomprehensible clients in Erlaskelleron that will be unbeatable for performance, ease of use, and phoning home trading strategies.
The payment aspect is what ensures that a big distributed network will actually store and serve your tweets.

Any single given application on Ethereum (except straight-up value transfer as seen in Bitcoin) isn't compelling enough to have its own network, but together they are.
This is not true. It is trivial for almost anyone to distinguish 320kbps mp3 from uncompressed audio, with built-in DACs and $5 headphones, with as little as 5 minutes of training.
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tar flags must be a prime example of cargo culting. Hands up everyone who's done or seen someone do

tar -xzvf file.tgz > /dev/null
I'm inclined to agree with you. If the board is questioning Mayer's leadership, i.e. her boss thinks she is not that great independent of her pregnancy, she's on thin ice. But what do I know -- if I were her, I'd gladly take the $100 million golden parachute and retire at 40.
I found that I don't really care about the commit history for my dotfiles so instead of using git to synchronize them, I use Unison, which is a bidirectional file synchronizer. Its like rsync but it has a graphical interface and its bidirectional so when I am synchronizing files I have the option to skip some files or to sync them in the opposite direction.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
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You forgot option 3: Ride a wave of pretend inclusivity. Which is exactly what's happening here. You'll note that the one thing you can't find here (and you'd be lucky to find it anywhere) is "I'm part of a marginalized group and the word "slave" is deeply offending to me, removing it is a great step towards being more inclusive".

But I'm quite tired of this; there's clearly no way to explain to you that this is a fabricated issue which is damaging to both the minority group and the community. So by all means, keep riding the pretend wave - don't be surprised when it just makes things worse.
Good! This shouldn't be banned and is helpful for legitimate uses not just malicious.
If a "fear of offence" culture exists, aren't you're part of it?

You've spent a lot of time here being offended by political correctness, "wasted money" and alleged political motivations.

Can you think of why one sentence in a successful Buildbot grant proposal would get you so upset that you'd write thousands of words, many of which slander Mozilla, Django and Buildbot community members?

It wasn't logic that got you there, it was an emotional overreaction to something that really doesn't concern you at all except that it offends your politics.
Mackup is a good tool for this -https://github.com/lra/mackup/blob/master/README.md
Yes, it can definitely hurt to prepare, if you're wasting resources.

Try proposing that we prepare for an alien invasion, and you'll be laughed out of the room.
You won't prejudge the national socialist beliefs I presume?
For those of us that sample from songs that we buy, WAVs are a bit easier to work with because the DAW doesn't have to spend time converting it. That said, since most of my tracks these days are using either the 48k or 96k sample rate, it still needs to be converted from 44.1 :)
That was really interesting, especially their audio->letters approach to speech recognition.

I also agree with him that phonemes aren't really a real thing - in the same way that species aren't. It definitely makes more sense to have the neural network learn its own representation of sounds, rather than prescribe a representation made up by linguists.

I mean, the phoneme model is obviously pretty close to reality - Google use it - but neural networks can clearly learn a closer representation.

Anyway, really impressive results!
Previous discussion from 7 months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558976

Whenever I see a trolley go by in SF with dozens of people simultaneously filming video (and that trolley runs dozens of times a day) I always wonder about how well we could reconstruct our worlds digitally with everything we've got now.
Typical. Zuck takes half his parental leave, yet Facebook employees say "Four months and very little pressure to come back to work. I've personally never seen anyone not take the full amount when they had a child."

When Mayer doesn't take her full leave, she is setting a bad example and pressuring her employees.

What is the difference, here? Oh wait, I see it now...
Realtime power grid status and generation mix for France
Just in case, coursera has a course where a bit more than a third is devoted to sml (sml/nj): proglang by Dan Grossman (UoWashington)
> Harnessing the energy of people across the planet by letting them trade with each other has so clearly been a disaster for everyone, has it?

Yes. Mining and drilling have obliterated the natural resources of hundreds of millions of people around the world. That's why oil spillage in Nigeria is called an environmental disaster.

> Essentially, isn't this capitalism with all its fault lines? One way or another it can be got to work for everyone's advantage.

Not when capital is turned into a commodity that has necessarily less value, which are then still traded on the market as securities with no regulation. Then you end up with scenarios in which political intervention is the only method for preventing the entire global economy from collapsing. That's already happened once, which is evidence that this article's fairly milque-toast thesis is correct.
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Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition
Actually it hasn't

The whole Paypal model is based on its reversal+ resolution process which usually favors buyer, requires an army of support personnel and has resulted in them being one of the most hated companies in world.
If you'd included the "zip" format in your analysis, gzip would not be the best at something anymore.
Just tried the Android app. The automatically generated xkcd-style passphrase is really cool, but the app insists on storing it in the operating system's credential storage with seemingly no other option.

As it happens, I don't have credential storage enabled on the spare device I tested it on, so this was a bit annoying.

I've dabbled with several messaging apps from Signal to Telegram and a bunch of others in between, and in fact this is the first time that an app tried to make actual use of Android credential storage. I wonder what the advantage is, and how other security-conscious apps like Signal are doing without it.
previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?query="unix.se"&dateRange=all

notably: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469824
Finally, You can auto-renew your free ssl certs even if you are using cPanel
This is the problem with rules, laws and organizations created during, or as a result of, a crisis. There really should be an expiry date, or review system for when circumstances change, but there never is. So we end up with the Maple Syrup Mafia in the case of a maple syrup crisis and we end up with an increasingly restricted internet and increasingly reduced privacy because of terrorism fears.
I been making steady improvements. It is feature complete but needs refactoring... Any suggestions?

https://bitbucket.org/webstandardcss/lets-encrypt-for-cpanel...
Probably because they are the only ones that see the hundreds of hours of work that go into making task-specific machine learning tools.

We still are very far from a system that can really learn in a general way, but I guess it might not look like that to people that only see the result.
We are in agreement on the facts (1 and 2). I was quibbling with pmichaud's implication there is any significant overlap between deep learning / traditional ML and the FAI/AGI community.

I'm not speaking about anyone's abilities, but from my perspective Eliezer's work is mostly abstract.
I can't read this article, or others like it, without feeling like something is wrong. What kind of society would force someone to travel from Paris to New York to Sioux Falls, where they have to take up residence for 90 days, so they can maintain their own love life?

Even today, divorce is usually fraught with emotional turmoil. Months and years can be dedicated to equitable financial separation, child custody, living arrangements, etc, etc, etc. The toll it takes on a family is often irrevocable.

Then of course there's all the discrimination throughout history, starting with women but then of course moving to polygamy, miscegenation and gay marriage.

All of it makes me think that marriage laws themselves are a huge mistake. Couples who want to make their relationship legally binding should have to draft a civil contract that defines their relationship - stating clearly what's expected of both parties and how the relationship is fairly dissolved.

Basically, what we tend to call a pre-nuptial agreement should simply lose the "pre".
You don't have trust some party (like scientists) to be able to determine the truth. Truth manifests in simple way - it is consistent.

People who are really interested in truth and people who are not (either because they delude themselves or want to con someone) have very different thought patterns, which are pretty well visible in the way they write (the skill to recognize these patterns is called critical thinking).

The consistency of the truth plays a big role - it usually means that people who are genuinely interested in truth try to build a consistent model, while con men are interested in criticism of the model on the fringes.

So one basic way to understand who is right, look if they have a consistent (and also refutable) model that explains the evidence.

Now for AGW theory in particular, there is no serious contender for a model that doesn't show warming due to greenhouse gases. People interested in truth would love to have an alternative model, that explains the evidence, but the fact is, no one successfully came up with one. So perhaps one should accept that we have is correct.

You can also look at critics of the theory and see how they are inconsistent. Some critics admit there is warming, but disagree humans cause it. Some critics think that warming is due to the Sun. Some critics think that it's too late to do anything about it. Some critics think that current warming is natural based on some cycles. And so on.. now all these opposing viewpoints are inconsistent with each other. Why they are inconsistent? Because again, the people raising the criticism don't have a good model, that properly accounts for the evidence.

I suggest you actually go and learn a bit more what AGW theory (current best model explaining the data) is saying. Good way to do that is also to look at history of the model, because it also gives insight whether or not it is a con (the truthful models have complicated history of getting some things wrong at times, while bad models have no or very cartoonish history). I really recommend this resource: https://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.htm
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I'd like to see a graph of the histogram with the three Gaussians superimposed. In this cases, sigma is bigger than the difference of mu, so the overlap of the Gaussians would be big and the series in the middle would be difficult to classify.

This is not as detailed as the analysis in the article, and it doesn´t provide an estimation of the difficulty of the challenge, but it's a nice visual representation of the problem.
Does that mean fusion reactors could generate "excess" water which could be used to treat drought-affected areas? Sounds like an eventual win/win!
never seen that in my life until now - what does it do? Just unzip the file to dev/null? What's the purpose? Does the verbose flag show you what's inside but the dev/null means it's not written to disk while unzipping?
The Zsh dotfiles are all giant frameworks... Allow me to shamelessly plug my zshrc. It's small, fast, single file and documented in the README - it's both a great standalone dotfile, or an excellent starting point for anyone interested in doing their own.

https://github.com/jleclanche/dotfiles
I signed up for this last night. Really looking forward to it.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
I don't understand why you'd do that. tar does not compress to stdout.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/global-temperature/
All linked back to sources.

E-mail messages obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that NASA concluded that its own climate findings were inferior to those maintained by both the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) — the scandalized source of the leaked Climate-gate e-mails — and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center.

The e-mails from 2007 reveal that when a USA Today reporter asked if NASA’s data “was more accurate” than other climate-change data sets, NASA’s Dr. Reto A. Ruedy replied with an unequivocal no. He said “the National Climatic Data Center’s procedure of only using the best stations is more accurate,” admitting that some of his own procedures led to less accurate readings.

“My recommendation to you is to continue using NCDC’s data for the U.S. means and [East Anglia] data for the global means,” Ruedy told the reporter.
Actually, the files are decompressed to the current directory, it's the just output of the verbose flag that goes to /dev/null. Which makes is even more senseless.
The article says:

>download a free and open source version of Visual Studio on your Mac

But the link for that takes you to Visual Studio Code. I thought that was just a text editor. That's not the full blown Visual Studio.

It's not possible to run full blown Visual Studio on Macs yet without a VM or Bootcamp right?
That's gnu tar. I don't think that works on BSD.
Seeing the whole US as homogeneously racially tolerant makes me... fascinated.
But can you tell the difference between a variable encoded 320 Kbps MP3 using a modern encoder and a wav file? I have some reasonable equipment and I most definantly can't.
Why would we not have mined and drilled without capitalism?

Indeed, there are present day countries serving as examples. Unless I've misunderstood your point?
Since they're talking about temperature differences, they could just use 2 K instead.
How can it not be true as I am describing my experience. Are you really telling me that I actually can tell when I say I can't?
I highlighted this in a Show HN a few weeks back but I figured I'd link it here:

"dit" is a dotfile tool that isn't concerned with being fancy. It uses git hooks so all that's required of you to update your dotfiles is "git commit." It's written in Ruby, and is entirely open source.

I created it as a much easier, much simpler alternative to rcm or homesick. It doesn't have nearly the same amount of features (it's around 200 lines of Ruby), and it is only concerned with syncing dotfiles to the home directory.

I'd love to get feedback on the program, my programming, etc.

https://github.com/vulpino/dit
How big will the blockchain become? I have not read much about Ethereum and not a deep understanding of every technical aspect regarding blockchains, however I understand that most applications just are not practical with endlessly growing blockchains. Does Ethereum a solution for that?
Redirecting stdout is to cancel the -v flag (verbose, lists every file extracted).
Proof that France is less stupid than America.
The difference is two months vs. two weeks (assuming Mayer's "limited time" will be the same as with her previous child, which is the best guess with nothing else reported). Two months is still reasonably generous by American standards, two weeks is not.
Lol. Snake oil...
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Exactly. I've seen people who always do `tar xzvf` and have no idea removing the `v` is the correct way to make it not print the name of every file in the archive.
Here's another one :-)

https://github.com/donovanhide/stockfighter

Based on the docs and only tested against the unauthenticated endpoints so far...
Beware. Self starting video and pop-up window when you stop it.
Why does this show that the modern democratic state is defunct?
Isn't using the right projection for a certain geography a solved problem in cartography? This article seems like it's saying: "Here's a common problem for mapmakers that you didn't know!"