skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something like this recently disturbed me. Mitt Romney published a tweet storm a few days ago making his case against Donald Trump. They all showed up in my feed - I don't follow Romney, and the tweets weren't marked as sponsored, but somehow Twitter decided I should be seeing them anyway.

I'd hate to think Twitter decided it was for the public good that everyone read what Romney had to say about Trump.
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Planes are what 100x the price of trucks per pound? For just rebalancing send trucks. Or more realistically make a new order for the other coast.
That is an awesome post and gives hints into the depth the community has gone into the conway game
I don't think it is speculation, Google has always considered the infrastructure things they did as a competitive advantage, super top secret stuff that even other employees don't know about kind of silos.

And to your second point, it is interesting that OCP (some of it perhaps influenced by people who had worked at Google and then later worked at Facebook) appears to have minimized some of the advantages Google had, and now they find themselves possibly getting behind (one of the nice things, and bad things, about open projects like this are that you get a lot more resources applied to making things better than one company can muster).

For similar reasons I wonder if ARM will displace x86 if only because there are probably 15 to 20 independent teams of smart people with ARM architecture licenses making better ARM processors, and perhaps 4 such teams at Intel making improvements in the x86 architecture. At some point it seems "open" seems to eventually overwhelms "walled garden." Although I'm totally open to counter examples where that hasn't been the case.
Google could send people to places that are contrary to the user's interest, but that's essentially deliberately decreasing the quality of one of their products so I'm not that worried about it. If they do it's a (big) market opportunity for someone else.

I would go even farther: I'm not particularly worried about individual interests at all, on any subject. The Internet is very good at exposing them.

I am much more concerned with bad classes of actors than bad actors. We see many ways in which competition breaks down because entire classes of people benefit from working in synchrony. The classic example is politicians: crooked elections mean longer terms which benefits basically all of them.

The other classic example is the capital class. If everyone in the capital class plays by he rules of property then they can exploit the labor class. Once you're in the capital class there are few reasons to compete with private property. Social pressure mostly neuters whatever capital class activists might try to keep working.

It's these class barriers that we should be worried about. But new weapons (like search engines) and new villains (like Islam) make much better news stories.
Hmm, and yet:

var elem = {foo:"bar"}
var set = [elem]
set.indexOf(elem) // 0
set.indexOf({foo:"bar"}) // -1

So I guess the strict equality comparison is using some kind of internal objectId rather than the property name and values of the objects? I guess depend on how you want to define "uniqueness" for your set...
Hardly.

What happens if someone is irresponsible and they drive recklessly, ending up in a rolled over car in a ditch somewhere, trapped. Should society just say "well, they brought that on themselves, fuck 'em"? As a society we've decided that the appropriate thing to do in such situations is to expend collective resources to help them, providing rescue and hospitalization as necessary. Just as when someone recklessly mishandles flammable materials in their home and burns their own house down. Just as when someone decides to commit suicide.

There is a social responsibility to help one another, and we've consistently bought into that responsibility along many fronts, even when individuals get themselves into trouble through their own errors or choices. In the long run it turns out to be a net benefit to society for a lot of reasons, because often times it can put people on the path to turning their behavior around, and often times people make mistakes and learn the error of their ways. Also, addressing social responsibilities earlier (in this case, at the addiction stage) can save money down the road by avoiding the costs of other social responsibilities later (e.g. emergency medical care). But if society doesn't reach out then those people may not get that opportunity to become productive members of society, and they may end up seeing a society that doesn't value them and is adversarial to them, which is an encouragement to reciprocate.
What Will You Make Your Life About?
The only problem is a short-term fix.

The government legalizing drugs and taxes them heavily. AT some point the cost of the "good stuff" is going to go up and eventually cost more than the street stuff. It's already happening in California and Washington. Street dealers have seen little if any dent in their customer base.

Legalizing drugs is not the answer, it just makes them more readily available. The same people who wonder why pot is illegal and alcohol is illegal because alcohol kills more people every year - are arguing the same thing for legalizing drugs. At some point, there is no long term benefit unless you count the millions in tax money collected.

So then you have to ask yourself, do the tax revenues outweigh the benefits of legalizing all drugs? Surely more people will die if their legalized, just as people argue is the case with alcohol today.
So a rogue corporate exec ordered an unauthorized op against a ronin hacker who Robin Hood'ed the underhood of his electric car.

We are living in cyberpunk times.

I remember when cyberpunk was fresh and new, before it was a codified collection of cliches. Mind you, this was also a time when an author could write, "His buyer for the three megabytes of hot RAM in the Hitachi wasn't taking calls," and think this sounded futuristic and criminally lucrative.
Agreed. I tried to find a quote in the article that was more descriptive than the title, but ran out of time and went with the HN standard of using the actual title. Your idea would have been better.
US Regional/Charter airline pilots used to be horribly underpaid until the new ATP experience requirements in 2015.

Go Airlines just signed a new pilot contract for $60k/year for pilots and $35k for co-pilots.
You're mixing up where the negation goes.

The lemma says that in any configuration which starts finite and never dies out, there DOES exist at least one lifeline which DOESN'T go in a forbidden direction. (There are almost certainly lots of other lifelines which do go in forbidden directions, that's fine.)

An example of a lifeline in a southeastward spaceship that never goes S or SE: http://www.xamuel.com/images/lifeline.gif

The proof I outlined above was published in the Elect. J. of Combinatorics (last section): http://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/view...
Not a very good argument considering they're coming out with cheaper models. Not to mention, just because someone bought something doesn't mean they can afford it by a wide margin, it's sad but true. I think the poster you respond to has some points on why it isn't optimal for the end user, but they certainly could have phrased it a bit better.
Depends on the person. For some, incredibly so.
These are low-end devices, the system-on-chip uses at most 20W. Add in memory, etc and you don't get that far. I'm sure they've run their numbers.
Hi there, I am the author of the blog post. I will be happy to answer any question.
Money always buys speech; whether it is by allowing a columnist to write full time, affording the puchase of a computer to post on the internet, or giving someone the ability to travel to a public square.

Using money to purchase a magazine, newspaper, television, radio, or online advertisement is just another way that money helps people express their views.

In any case, I wouldn't be too worried about money changing people's minds, as it rarely does that.[1] Advertisements and the like usually serve to give voice to the views people already hold, and inform them of things they were not aware of. An advertisement will never convince people to buy things they don't want and don't need; if you disagree, please go and try to sell a bad product, and we will see how well your 'mind control' works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Righteous_Mind
How do you think the media mughals made their billions. They made them doing exactly this.
> sense of gravity

and inertia. Any idea how they could do that?
Google tries to show what the web and web users think is relevant to a search term. Not what is true, neutral, peer-reviewed, curated, balanced, etc.

It'd be interesting to see if Google could come up with a way to use machine learning to do fact finding and remove the web's biases. I strongly suspect such an effort would be seen as more dangerous than just reporting on the web.
The thing is though we could already be 10+ years along the path to that next revolution, it wont start being talked about until its basically here
The Bombing Encyclopedia of the World
>Maybe the feeling that I want to feel secure since I am in Watson group.

Interesting, didn't realize! Very cool But that might not be a good reason to believe Watson is immune; reality doesn't work like that :-p
It wasn't an image, just the text.

If you put 5fc38436ec295b0049f186651ebba5fd55e8d7b81eb61cbd00d3f1bf18dd9c81 into the google, the second link (because first is article about it) will tell you what it is[1].

[1] https://md5hashing.net/hash/sha256/5fc38436ec295b0049f186651...
MC tree search isn't specific to Go, no. It's been used for other games including imperfect information ones like poker. I believe that the main reasons for using MC search is that it does not require an evaluation function, and it acts as an anytime algorithm so you can get a "good enough" answer within arbitrary time constraints.
Full disclosure, I work for Scrapinghub and the web UI you speak of is Portia - our open source visual web scraper. It's for those who range from non-technical to technical but want a quick way to scrape data. I think it's extremely important to develop tools to democratize the acquisition of data regardless of technical background and skill. Glad you find the article and tool interesting!
There are only so many options in this world. Yes it sucks that unicorns dont exist.
Worked in all 3, Austria, Germany, US. Germany is indeed the best, but only if you can work remote for a US company.
I used that extension for the same reason you did and like you I removed it because it was annoying. What I started doing instead when on a new computer is I'll include mdn in the query when it's web related so i'd search js history mdn and such and after a while Google learns that I value results from mdn highly so when I search even without saying mdn, those results come up high in the results. For example when I now search for just js history, the first result for me is "Manipulating the browser history - Web APIs | MDN".

The Google search bubble is powerful and can be harmful in some ways but once you learn of its existence and are careful about what results you click, it will work for you in a great way.

I am still uncomfortable with the amount of stuff Google knows about me. I sometimes try ddg or even yahoo or bing but they're not as good.
Unfortunately that train has already left the station, and to thunderous applause from the media. Twitter already carefully curates hashtags; it's not hard to imagine they'd take the liberty of promoting a series of tweets that they feel are important.
This article is speaking about something that has existed as long as mass media has. Whether it's google or newspapers or TV, the companies running the sources we turn to have control over what information we are exposed to, and can influence our views. Our grandfathers read the newspaper, our parents watched TV. What, google is a monopoly? Ok, so that's the big issue.

On the other hand, our susceptibility to having our political system be disproportionately affected by a company or two with a top-down chain of command is a reflection that our system of representative democracy has weak links and can be easily subverted.

I wrote about the solution to this a while back: replace voting with polling! Have people cast their voice for POLICIES not REPRESENTATIVES. It is much more costly to fool all the people all the time, than to fool them at election time, and then go on to lobby the representatives they chose.

Voting depends on turnout, which skews the results and is susceptible to sybil attacks (remember facebook's vote about the newsfeed that got 3% turnout?)

Polling doesn't. It can be refined using better and better statisical techniques. We can gradually replace costly and stupid elections where candidates talk about their penis, with polling of the population on issues like gun control etc. Replace the bickering lawmakers and filibusters with polling and threshholds.

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=212
> Go Airlines just signed a new pilot contract for $60k/year for pilots and $35k for co-pilots.

That's still insanely low given how much pilot training costs. I've heard figures over $35,000 to go from unqualified to a commercial pilot, and that is if you shop around and look for some free flight hours. It could easily exceed $40K is you're in a rush.
That reminds me, I was as a public service going to make an auto-updating epub of Neuromancer which simply incremented the units as needed to sound duly impressive.

"His buyer for the three petabytes of hot RAM..." etc...
Missing the point. Not an issue of illegal drugs, instead an issue of government job programs built up around making drugs illegal.
Yes, absolutely there should at least be the possibility of the owner being criminally liable. It's like if you drive with shit poorly strapped into the back of antruck and it falls off on the highway and kills someone. If it can be shown that the tampering caused the harm, it's really hard to argue there is no criminal liability.
Not power brokers. It's an emergent phenomenon predicted by public choice theory.

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=212
Examples of using Blocks in Ansible 2
https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/49phpv/rfc_null_coales...
It doesn't defeat the fact at all. The number of users who can now use it for free is much greater than before (zero).
Read the original PageRank paper. Page and Brin themselves acknowledge that (while they were still academics):

[L]ess blatant bias are likely to be tolerated by the market. For example, a search engine could add a small factor to search results from "friendly" companies, and subtract a factor from results from competitors. This type of bias is very difficult to detect but could still have a significant effect on the market. Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results. For example, we noticed a major search engine would not return a large airline’s homepage when the airline’s name was given as a query. It so happened that the airline had placed an expensive ad, linked to the query that was its name. A better search engine would not have required this ad, and possibly resulted in the loss of the revenue from the airline to the search engine. In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want. This of course erodes the advertising supported business model of the existing search engines. However, there will always be money from advertisers who want a customer to switch products, or have something that is genuinely new. But we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm.
That's an amazingly nice forum feature.
> Why should people with more money have more of a presence online? Money shouldn't be able to buy speech.

How is this not implicitly the case with "only organic" search results? PageRank was built off of the idea that a website's value was based off of inbound links. Back in the day, high school kids could get $50/hour (in 1990s dollars) to build and upload a simple webpage for a local business. Money has always been a factor in influence, before and after search engines.

> It's not about the information itself being pure, it's about purity of ranking

Again, this purity is an illusion -- the things that can be objectively ranked are things in which the metric is simple, i.e. alphabetical order. Stray from that and rankings are no longer "pure" by any stretch of the imagination. Not even early PageRank -- the many easy ways to game it, and the many ways that PageRank has evolved to avoid such gaming, should make that assertion self-evident.
Ask HN: I'm confused
I am confused. Let me explain.

I have been a software developer for around 20 years. I started writing software commercially after high school.

I am in my forties and since last 3 years I've been heavily involved with AngularJS. Even though I have been working with AngularJS for some time, I feel that soon time will come when companies will move away from Angular. This is already happening. React seems to be where everyone is heading.

At time I feel that I should just give up chasing new fads and maybe get myself into something more long term. What should that be? I'm not able to figure out. Should I get myself into Python or perhaps a data technolgy. Or should I continue going after the latest JS framework which most likely be taken over by the next latest and greatest?

I enjoy my work and I feel that software development is my true calling. Out of frustration at times I decided to change my occupation but one look at code or reading about some latest technology has pulled me straight back in.
Can you explain me a little, I am not sure I understand all the points. I can't say I follow everything that is happening in crypto world, I just know I could use free ssl cert for small sites and I have one personal one that I was able to 'secure' with Let's Encrypt cert.

As someone said, if it could work, just by saying SSL yes, it would help a lot.
Absolutely it could be considered reckless. You think some guy messing with his car's firmware understands it well enough to be as safe as the manufacturer? If an accident caused by manufacturer firmware can make the manufacturer liable for an accident, then someone tampering with it obviously can make them liable.

It has never happened? Who cares, what does that matter?
It's troubling the way this article presents the issue. Treating chronic pain is an enormously complex problem that clinicians have to deal with, especially as it gets bound up with collateral pitfalls of drug dependence, politics of health care delivery systems and conflicting pressures from patients, government regulators and others.

While unethical prescribers (not all are physicians) contribute significantly to rising misuse of opioids, the vast majority of practitioners want to do what's best for patients. As the article notes, there are few options for managing chronic pain, leaving opioids the only realistic choice in many instances.

None of the providers I know think opioids are preferable, but more like a necessary evil. They prescribe opioids sparingly, reluctantly, diligently. Patients have told me it's become increasingly difficult to get prescriptions for quite modest doses of opioid agents they've used for years without dose escalation. The tendency to throw babies out with the bathwater is not unique to this situation, but no less problematic.

Blaming pharmaceutical companies doesn't seem a constructive approach. Probably there's a lot of R&D going on in this domain without much success, meaning it's a very hard problem to solve. I'm certain that a major breakthrough would be eagerly marketed, highly likely the profit margins would be huge. Meanwhile, we're left with the status quo, and manufacturers are meeting market demands. Isn't that how our economy works? Pharma sales are already more highly regulated than nearly all other industries, what more should be done?

Few legal drugs are as controlled in the US as schedule II opioids. If there were no such controls it's likely that the number of overdose-related deaths would be higher than it is. No one knows what solution will work, the need to be being careful about changing "rules" should be obvious.

The article's advocacy of "medical marijuana" as an alternative is IMO inappropriate. Simply enough, research on the uses of cannabis components for pain treatment is in very early stages. Specific indications and side-effect risks are inadequately understood. Recommending use of these components as treatments for pain is premature.
If Chattanooga is on the radar, I'd consider Huntsville. With Redstone Arsenal and the long association with the US Space Program, it has a very strong technical and engineering culture. It's not a small town, but not trying to be a big city, and it's very welcoming to new comers and diversity [for a southern city] owing to the flux of space industry.
Hello this is Marcus, the guy who did the resolution independent illustrations. I just uploaded the current version of the site, so it will no longer freeze, when the image gets to small. I also updated the Tantalos image.

I am currently a bit blown away by the reaction to this. I finished this over a year ago but didn’t manage to make it public till now. I presented this at a meetup in Berlin yesterday and someone asked for an online version, which I postet to Twitter — then things escalated quickly.

So because a lot of people are asking: I am currently redoing my completely outdated homepage. The new one will include an in-depth explanation of what is actually happening there, what’s the idea behind it and how I want to apply this to actual web design to make resolution-independent work more easy and less restrictive for both designers and developers.

Until then I will try to answer some questions here …

Scalable Greetings
Marcus
well, isn't it nice when a blog uncovers so much from its author right from the first post?
if InChI doesn't do it for you, i suppose SMILES[1] isn't sufficient either? By-the-bye, you're not ever going to be able to "concisely" encode 3d (or even 2d coordinate) structures, because there isn't just one such. They're a thermally sampled average of structures.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_molecular-input_lin...
Reading this makes one realize how easy it was for Groovy's Tiobe ranking to jump from #82 to #17 in just 12 months, as shown at http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=Groovy , and the other spikes in its history.
Thanks. The company I consult for has no inventory tracking at all.
Why your startup won't grow
That's just one option. It also supports native 90 and 120 Hz.
Telegram Messenger Growth Teardown
Thanks; it's invaluable to hear from someone who has experience with the data.

Do you know what they are required to report? For example, if they have a 'social' dinner with a lobbyist, must that be reported? Are the requirements the same across the Executive Branch? All three branches?
Build a Cross-Platform Mobile App with HTML5 and Framework7
Just updated to include dividends / dividend-reinvestment on by default. Thanks!