skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you've gotten anti-plagiarism and copyright mixed up. They are related but very distinct concepts. Anti-plagiarism has nothing at all to say against creative remixing and reworking.
The venture-backed technology industry is nothing more than an extension of the financial industry, and anyone who says otherwise is lying or deluding themselves. The guys on Sand Hill are getting their money from the same sources as the hedge fund managers on Wall Street.
Thank you; this is the comment I was looking for. Someone who uses and appreciates Snapchat and can explain to an outsider what the value is. Am I wrong in saying that you like that it feels more authentic?
The Future of Wi-Fi Is 10,000 Times More Energy Efficient
Heh. Here in Australia, not all of the salespeople are willing to breeze through required info, solely because some staff have been charged with fraud or held liable for fraud. I know of one person who had to pay back $500k worth of fraud from the dodgy cell-phone retail stores he ran. A crook through and through, and god am I glad he got busted.
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If his concern over this hypothetical were sincere, he would be ordering a full forensic analysis of all IT and electrical systems that may possibly have been accessed by the shooter.

If he's not doing that, the only conclusion that makes sense is that his concerns are disingenuous.
I once had a shorter commute, but you still have me beat in experience.

The office building I worked in had an abandoned caretaker's apartment on the roof. (For the Australians, it was in Sydney above the cinemas on George street.) I and a colleague nabbed it for basically nothing and commuted 30 seconds via elevator. It had some benefits, but honestly, it was weird to go entire days without leaving the building, and sometimes it felt like I was always at work.
You can only have equality before the law. The civil rights laws from the 60s were only justified due to the extraordinary nature of systemic and pervasive discrimination, which state governments encouraged and mandated since the end of slavery, in the South towards Black Americans. Unfortunately, what was then viewed as an extraordinary measure for an extraordinary situation, has now been expanded to every group imaginable and is now being used as a tool of social triumphalism.

There is no crisis where gay couples are unable to find wedding bakers and photographers willing to serve them. I personally have no problem with homosexuality and gay marriage. But someone with religious convictions against it, should not be compelled to be involved. It's totally wrong to force a devout Christian photographer to participate in a gay wedding if he is opposed. What entitles you to his labor?
> Free & Open Source software benefits everyone

Good software benefits everyone.

Whether it's open source or not is irrelevant.
Are you conserved with sugar per se, or the insulin response? Cocoa causes insulin spike even when sugar-free, iirc.
I'd argue that that is much worse to allow writing to any file, reading any file, reading raw memory, etc. These are also things you can do with root. Raw sockets (in comparison) are much less bad. Binding to low ports I think post people agree is a much more obvious wart.
What's wrong with micro transactions?
Many people think that abortion is a bad choice, but one that women should be allowed to make. Saying you shouldn't do something is not the same as saying you shouldn't be allowed to do it.
James Comey, the lawyer doing battle with Apple
This part of the claim doesn't hold up. The first thing that happens when you sign up is it will show you the username of everyone with a phone number in your contact list, including your embarrassed kids, and let you start following them right away.
Most states (29/50) actually allow underage drinking at home with parental consent:
http://drinkingage.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0...
It's getting worse every day and will continue to worsen until submitters start losing points for submitting dupes.
I would love to see a world where we don't define ourselves by our gender at all. I don't think 1 in 13 questions should be about gender, let alone 1 in 100. There is so much more to life. I greatly respect those that can rise above it.

My female friends see themselves as people, not genders. I don't talk to them as women and it's fantastic: the conversations are very transparent. I rarely get along with a woman who defines herself by her gender or a guy who defines himself by his gender. It saddens me that the overwhelming majority of people can not look past their gender. Even HN with extensive open mindedness has many people who are incapable of seeing themselves past their own gender.
To be clear, what I meant was that the binary privilege model of Unix is a wart when you consider that it groups vastly different operations together. Capabilities are a step in the right direction, but you still have CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
Not true at all. I'm not sure where people get this idea but if you read Satoshi's original paper you'll see that this is just false.
> Operating in so many places has never stopped chain restaurants or chain stores from getting into the specifics of local policy.

This. "cannot possibly" should be read as "can't be bothered"
I'm not sure what camp you're in, but for the people who want to use Bitcoin for regular transactions 12 minutes is absurd. It takes a few seconds to authorize and confirm a credit card payment.
It seems to me that the continued debate over whether or not the market is random (or whether it is not), is very similar to the debate of nature vs nurture.

My instincts, and my conclusion is that there is an element of both randomness and non-randomness in the market. I would expect then that there would be both successful and non-successful actors who succeed/fail due to random and non-random factors. My gut further leads me to believe that having insight or knowledge of the market coupled with a very large bankroll would allow you to ride the random events/waves with prudent mitigation strategies. A hedge, if you would. My expectation also would be then you could measure almost any fund on some arbitrary timeline and argue that the traders either knew or didn't know what they were doing, and that because of random event XYZ they either failed to correctly predict market movement ABC over period IJK. Let's not even get into the MNO or DEF parts!
They certainly could have.
Considering that car accidents are at least close to the #1 cause of preventable death in the western world...hell, maybe we should. There are lots of ways to handle reasonably high-speed, long-distance transit without giving every individual human or small handful of humans their own high-speed rolling projectile.
There are plenty of classic text adventure games that blur the line with RPG. Beyond Zork, for instance.
That was rather the point of my first post? That those whom have these concerns are mostly not worried about the fantastical version of 'evil super-intelligence' (although they are worried that AI could be an existential-threat) - of course you can address the most extreme-position presented and call it silly, but I don't think that's adding much to my understanding of the problem.

For example I think a very serious concern is surrendering human decision making to machine-learning in the areas where big data-sets can be very widely applicable (crime, insurance, employment, immigration, finance) - loosing control of our own systems, to perhaps even provably better decision making is a totally not fantastic possibility. But if the response to this is a malicious super-intelligence won't send a robot with automatic weapons to your house in the next hundred years, I'm supposed to feel reassured?
We should consider all research skeptically, but why does it seem particularly implausible that cocoa flavanols can enhance cognitive ability?

Other research:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=cocoa+flavanols+cogniti...
Until some idiot looking at a phone runs into you. Be safe out there, I've noticed a marked dip in driver quality between the past 10 years and prior. Though I think in part it's because I moved from the northern US to the south and I'm fairly certain driver education and lower quality of people in general plays a role. It's bad enough that I gave up riding my motorcycle entirely, death wish.
> No thanks, I'll pass, and just keep peanuts out of the house.

Well duh!

If you have a serious allergy, you avoid peanuts like the plague. But if it's minor... say a slight rash being the only symptom... then perhaps it's worth giving the child peanuts, starting with a very tiny amount, and then increasing gradually. Keep an epi-pen around at all times just in case, and if there's a serious attack... drop the attempt altogether and surrender to the fact that your childs quality of life will be less-than-optimal forever more.
It doesn't matter if "scientifically invalid" is a vague because when the jury decides based on invalid hair sample analysis then justice is not served. Also some evidence collection might not yield DNA in the first place.
Work from home. Poop any time, eat any time, work from couch, take power naps - life has never been so good.
Shifting gears: teaching product teams to fish
This appears to be the wrong link or doesn't really support the claim at all.

It says "usage is down for 18-34 year olds" so 18-34 year olds are not kids, not like 14 year olds. And saying it is down is very different from saying "kids don't watch TV, they use snapchat, therefore brands like Coca Cola are irrelevant."

This is what I'm saying. There is this unthinking, uncritical, and unskeptical self-congratulatory sort of "ding dong the witch is dead" about anything related to "traditional media" and the reason for this is "because Internet" or something like that. But, I think it is a very naive view and is fun to say but it's not actually real.

I mean, this article is an example of just weak evidence. Again, it is not about kids but its about the 18-34 demographic. But let's see, it says:

"In 2011, 21.7 million young adults tuned in to their TV sets. By the end of last month, that figure had fallen to 17.8 million, according to Nielsen figures."

OK, whatever that means, let's just accept the numbers as they are presented. Just elementary math tells us 17/21 is hardly nothing or "no one is watching" anymore.

Now, the article cited, to support this claim, says:

"In the era of smartphones and Netflix, it’s no surprise that traditional TV is losing relevance for younger viewers."

Wait ... so instead of watching actual TV sets with bunny ears, they are watching things like Netflix (which I understand is much different than Snapchat) .... OK, let's peruse the content of Netflix .... OK, wait a minute, all this content on Netflix looks familiar ....

Do you mean to tell me all this stuff on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon are mostly .... from the TV? With the exception of a handful of originals, which honestly are produced in a similar way as the TV, most of this stuff coming from the evil "dead witch," the TV. I don't find a lot of "Vine Comps" on Netflix. Also, on some level it seems silly to me to point to Netflix and Amazon as evidence that these other things are dead; it's not like Amazon Originals are like "The-New-Internet-Meme.com" they are much more like "In addition HBO, Showtime, Starz and Cinemax there Amazon and Netflix" than some totally fundamental shift in the kind of content consumed ... whether it is over bunny ears or choppy wifi is sort of an implementation detail to some extent than a cultural revolution.

If one wants to say "People don't watch TV anymore" and then what they really mean is "They watch ABC shows on the ABC App on the iPad instead" .... Then claims like the "The Coca Cola brand is dead because Snapchat" seem to lose their luster.

I hate to "disrupt" the groupthink. :)
Another increasingly common trend is not having a proper escalation path, like an email address. Good luck trying to find an email address at Netflix to escalate a problem.
‘The guy is Hitler’: Louis C.K. begs fans not to vote for Donald Trump
<But, first, this is already a 3rd-order failure: the product was poorly-designed enough not to be clear, and failed to offer in-product guidance or help to guide the user to the right solution.>

Traditionally, lots of support calls amount to "pilot error" and led to the common acronym RTFM. Even the simplest, most basic things could warrant a call to support (especially if free) from somebody seeking a de facto handholding or tutorial.

The other end of the spectrum is when you (as support) get a call from a user who is a known quantity infamous for really knowing the product... better than most users. Seeing such a name on a support ticket induces a shudder, because you know he's revealed some hairball of a problem that will eat your day... or week, with the only mitigating factor being his/her detailed strategy of workarounds already attempted. (You out there anywhere, Bob Kaplan?)
I think that the blame lies on the FBI. How can non-science be pushed into court under a deceptive cover of legitimacy.
I'm not sure what idea of mine is being entertained, here.
You're missing what I'm saying. There's no reason to think that most people who signed that letter have any concerns. The letter is written such that signing it is basically an affirmation that we should use AI to help society.

You started by wondering why Ng didn't address the concerns. It's because experts don't tend to be concerned. The letter was your evidence to the contrary, and it is not convincing.
> They spent a ton of cash playing defense against Prop F in SF, but they won't be able to afford to put up the same fight in every city.

Good. Local legislation should be determined by local voters, not AirBnB.
Yes, that's fine, I was pointing out that correcting for multiple hypothesis testing does not deal with the issue cited (albeit rather abruptly) by yxitcti.
The Bitcoin protocol has always had a design that gave 10 minute average time between blocks being mined; which means 10 minutes before you have a single confirmation. It normally considers 6 block (6 confirmations, at an average of 10 minutes each) to be enough to avoid a double spend.

People can accept more risk by allowing transactions with fewer confirmations. But you are never going to get under 10 minutes on average (actually, since the difficulty only updates occasionally, when mining power is coming online fast enough it can go under 10 minutes average for a while; or a bit over if miners go offline).

Bitcoin is not, and never has been, designed for instant authorization. You cannot get global, cryptographic consensus in seconds. Credit card authorization can work by being much more centralized.

If you want fast confirmations of small transactions, you need to use something other than Bitcoin. What Bitcoin is good for is unstoppable bulk transfers of value across potentially unfriendly jurisdictions. It's better thought of as a better alternative to a wire transfer than an alternative to credit cards.
Unlikely--sounds like "juristic person" is basically a type of corporation(http://www.thailandlawonline.com/civil-and-commercial-code/6...), so it's probably the building manager's office.

They'd probably tell you to get off the premises ASAP and move to evict your host.
This should have been G+ without the creation of a whole social sub domain.
Minimum wage is a little more complicated in a welfare state. We outlaw people paying their workers too little money because otherwise the welfare system becomes a free grant towards what should be their payroll expenses. (It even this way under our current minimum wage system because minimum wages are far too low).

If the costs of keeping low-wage workers alive weren't socialized (people paid too little simply died), you might have a point. But wages would also be much higher, or Wal-Mart would quickly run out of warm bodies to hire.
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> You started by wondering why Ng didn't address the concerns. It's because experts don't tend to be concerned.

While not everyone who signed is necessarily concerned about 'existential dangers to humanity' or is an expert specifically in AI, for some signers both are definitely true - for an example you can cross reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici...
OK, but you know what they say about anecdotes, right? I'm sure there are many people on HN that have never watched a show in their entire life; there is an Onion article about "Area Man Constantly Telling People He doesn't Own a TV" [1]. Also, there is a group of people in America I understand called the Amish. That's fine but I'm not sure how to generalize from that .... My response is to this kind of often repeated idea that I think lacks a lot of merit or evidence in reality. For that view to be true, there better be a statistically insignificant number of kids that have ever seen any of these shows or any of their associated advertisments because they are too busy with Snapchat.

One thing I am aware of is that kids have a lot of free time and they do a lot of different things, is what I understand.

1. http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-constantly-mentioni...
Great tip thank you!
This must be a common saying. I've heard it from every lecturer I've ever had for machine learning and sampling techniques.
Ray Tomlinson, creator of e-mail, has passed away
You can't compare the two. A confirmed bitcoin transaction represents the final settlement of a non-reversible payment, and is spendable by the merchant immediately after those 10 minutes. Credit card payments are reversible for a period of a few months (so what you really get is a probabilistic payment, which requires fraud detection and risk management to properly handle) and can take 1-4 weeks to become spendable by the seller.

Also, note that zero-confirmation transactions could still be relatively safe for low-value transactions, you don't always need the strong guarantees provided by confirmed transactions. Dealing with zero-conf does require some risk management, though.

Finally, as I mentioned near the end of my previous comment - a write cache based on payment channels is currently being worked on, and will eventually provide us with real instant payments (which are also final and non-reversible, but with a deferred settlement).
The referred facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/vint.cerf.9/posts/10156702383400160
That definitely looks expensive to me. All those underground tunnels need huge amount of money and effort.
It's interesting how they can do assisted suicide, yet many states have trouble carrying out executions. Strange, is the stuff doctors use any better or are they're botched assisted suicides also? Do they get to use somthing better than the prisons have?
I guess unless what he says is true and the car was only available to high officials in the communist party.
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The very act of calling a suicide prevention hotline is solid evidence that the caller does not truly want to die.

The point isn't that people should die, it's that they should choose. Compelling someone else's continued consciousness is absurd and, depending on the subjective experiencing of being inside that person's head, can be among the cruelest forms of torture. Just as it would be to fail to help someone who wants to stay alive.
Two studies found that the main ingredient in
chocolate, cocoa, reduced all-cause
mortality[1,2].

I tested it's effect on my so called "biological"
age.

It seemed to make me a little younger.

There's a fun new 5 minute video about my
experiment called "The Younger Year"[3].

It has before and after clips of yours truly.

Thanks,
Kingsley

References

[1] Arch Intern Med. 2006 Feb 27;166(4):411-7.
Cocoa intake, blood pressure, and cardiovascular
mortality: the Zutphen Elderly Study. Buijsse B,
Feskens EJ, Kok FJ, Kromhout D.

[2] Bayard V, Chamorro F, Motta J, Hollenberg NK.
Does Flavanol Intake Influence Mortality from
Nitric Oxide-Dependent Processes? Ischemic Heart
Disease, Stroke, Diabetes Mellitus, and Cancer in
Panama. Int J Med Sci 2007; 4(1):53-58.
doi:10.7150/ijms.4.53. Available

[3] "The Younger Year" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7XcJ2VsLhI
"Or you just..." as opposed to what? I'm not sure how your comment is meant to relate to mine.

It's certainly true that threatening prosecutors with execution in the event of a wrongful execution would stop them from pursuing the death penalty in almost any case. The same is true of a threat of life in prison, and probably also true of substantially lesser sentences.
Well, as someone who went the direct opposite way, you fully have my endorsement. I'll be keeping an eye out for future posts.
Freedman's paradox refers to adaptive data analysis within one dataset. The reusable holdout is designed to permit adaptive analysis on the same dataset without inflating the false discovery rate. The problem doesn't apply if you are collecting new data and testing the hypothesis, that's the ideal scenario.
Indeed, o-rings are supposed to seal on compression, not expansion, and when it turned out in the field that these joins flexed enough to require sealing under the latter they should have been revised.

But, hey, the shuttles didn't blow up prior to Challenger, and certainly nothing short of a catastrophe would have motivated NASA to pay for such an expensive undertaking, there was no "allow a flawed SRB design to stay in service", that wasn't their decision, as show in the meetings before the fateful launch. As it was, the SRBs were hacks designed to decrease development costs vs. safety or cost in operation.
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A successful sports team should hire the best

No, this can't work at e.g. the NFL. There is a $155 million per year hard salary cap. There are 53 players which much be paid under this cap. Which means the average salary is just under $3 million.

One of "the best" quarterbacks gets paid $20 million."The best" at various other key positions such as left tackle and defensive end and at cornerback can easily get paid $10 million each.

Even if you forget about special teams, you can't afford to pay 11 offensive players $10 million each plus 11 defensive players $10 million each.

Which means that you pay a few superstars at $10 million or more, some more good players $5 million, a bunch of OK players $3 million, and a bunch of rookies and scrubs under $1 million each.

Nobody can afford to hire the best at everything. I'm sure that's just as true in business as it is in sports.
Ecomist Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge University) makes this point quite eloquently in several of his books, notably Bad Samatarians, which rather convincingly guts free-trade rhetoric.
That makes sense. He's me btw
Perhaps it would have been an error in my attempt at utilitarianism, if indeed it were an attempt at utilitarianism; to me however it does matter whether someone is guilty or innocent when executed, and I think it also matters to most people (attempting Rawlsianism?) objecting to my comment on the grounds of any execution of an innocent person being unacceptable. (Can I say that the error in their attempt at Rawlsianism is that they don't also oppose cars which regularly cause deaths of innocent people? I guess I can say it except for the part where I attribute opposition to cars to a philosophy that I never studied in depth.)
New Study Confirms: Private 'Trade' Courts Serve the Ultra-Wealthy
Yup, I am concerned about the insulin response / glycemic index. Hmm...
Because saying "an innocent person being murdered by someone who..." doesn't make sense. What are they innocent of?
I watched the video and cannot believe this is real. The future is here.
Source?

People convicted in part based on flawed science are not obviously innocent. At minimum, you'd need to assess how important that particular evidence was to determining guilt. It's possible they'd have been found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt even if that evidence was never found. I assume this is the prosecutors' position, unless you have evidence otherwise.