skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Disclaimer: I voted for Bernie Sanders in the Massachusetts primary).

I agree; the Hillary portion of it seemed like a bit of a silly conspiracy theory to me. They'd still need to provide evidence rather than innuendo, but it'd be more believable (albeit attract fewer HN upvotes) if the article had claimed Google has a pro-Bernie bias, since he's the candidate who likely has the most support amongst Google employees and especially engineers.

I don't think the (potential) issue is so much Google actively putting its thumb on the scale for one candidate, as the influence outside activists can have on how they create their algorithm.

Suppose that the (Hillary-endorsing) New York Times runs a front-page story saying that a study found Google search results systematically are more negative towards female candidates than they are to male candidates. The subtext of such a story would be that the NYT is pressuring Google to alter its algorithm to be more favorable to Hillary. I think there'd be a pretty decent chance Google would in fact alter its algorithm in response to such a story. I doubt they would alter their algorithm in response to a similar criticism from a conservative source.

Similarly, if one of the top results for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders were a scatological reference, as with Rick Santorum, I think that Google would very quickly remove that page from its results.

Now, there's nothing wrong with getting rid of bias in search results directed at left-of-center politicians. But if Google (hypothetically, of course) is much more aggressive with eliminating bias towards left-of-center politicians than it is with eliminating bias towards right-of-center politicians, the net effect will be a general left-of-center bias in Google search results.

None of this is any kind of pre-planned conspiracy, just brain chemistry. We're wired to easily perceive bias, incivility and lying when directed at those we agree with, but justify, rationalize or ignore it when directed at those we disagree with.
Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Moodle and it's enterprise derivative Totaro are free and open source tools that are quite popular if you want to design your own study course complete with quizzes and other widgets.
Seized Turkish opposition newspaper now toes government line
You mean the same Heroku that has the uptime of a server under the dev's desk? No thank you.
Google's Deepmind AI beats Go world champion in first match
I started an Editor Rosetta Stone of sorts.

https://github.com/melling/EditorNotes

Emacs and vim have been battling it out for 40 years. There's probably room to improve the typing efficiency of both.

Emacs has ergoemacs and god-mode, for example.

https://github.com/chrisdone/god-mode

http://ergoemacs.github.io

Plus you can use vim key bindings.

Is a modal editor better? Should key bindings be built around a more efficient keyboard layout, like Programmer Dvorak, for example?

http://www.kaufmann.no/roland/dvorak/
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Currently working on a minimal, composable todolist app to beef up my React/Redux/ES6 chops. https://github.com/wkentdag/todo.website
Trump as Harry Potter (Undesirable No. 1)
You can't upload just one email address (they changed the minimum number a long time ago for privacy reasons). There is a minimum number to create a custom audience of email addresses and then you create a lookalike audience that is 1MM+ people. I don't see how that's a violation of privacy.

It's probably the most effective thing Facebook has done for targeting as I use almost exclusively custom audience and lookalike targeting.
As someone with a degree in public relations, this simply not true. Edward Bernays is the first person covered in Introduction to Public Relations classes.

Do journalists, corporate communication professionals or others who end up in PR know him? That is up for debate.

EDIT: Clarity
Square’s Loss Widens in Its First Report as a Public Company
Ubuntu server VM in vbox with shared folders works better than anything I've tried to get things working well I native Windows. Sure it's not impossible, but the tax isn't worth it IMO.
I don't understand this separation of individualised vices. What's the difference when society allows you to eat 10 large pizzas a night, become diabetic and obese, and the State will treat the diabetes? What's the difference when society allows you to smoke 5 packs of cigs a day, get lung cancer, and the State will treat that cancer? What's the difference when society allows you to drink 5 bottles of bourbon a night, kill your liver, and the State will attempt to find you another liver?

And please remember: alcohol is a drug. A very very bad drug.
I'd like to see a comparison with Nomad, which supports more than just Docker, can host 1000 nodes (and has been able to do so for a while) and is very simple. Hashicorp has some really cool technology.
Microsoft is getting better and better, this is the rise of a new company.
You can also combine lookalikes with interest targeting -- once some audience gets saturated, mix a bunch of your past performing segments like a lookalike + interests.
Your highlighting of "for-profit enterprise" takes me back to old Catholic anti-usury biases. They are rather juvenile. I'm also unsure of how you managed to reduce "capitalism" to the mere monetary exchange economy, which completely evaporates all substance out of the already butchered term. I also hope your idea of "ethical alternatives" doesn't involve what amounts to state corporatism, which all the progressives and Galbraith types are enamored with for some reason. The modern left knows nothing of Proudhon, Bakunin or Kropotkin. It's all top-down planning for them.
I definitely prefer R to pandas, dyplr and tools were soo much easier to use for subsetting dataframes and dealing with them, initially I thought python might be better because it was supposed to be easier, but boy was I wrong.
Oh, of course, simulations without perfect replays would be an abomination! Not even worth mentioning! -- What are we, heathens who can't even manage the basics of reproducible builds?

(cough)
Would you be so kind as to cite the source of this quote? Nothing is coming up on Google or Bing.
I don't think it's that simple. When starting a project, of the available options, which one gives you the most leverage toward building what you're trying to build? What is the cost of using that (training people plus machine resources)? Pick the best cost/benefit tradeoff and start to work.

For an existing project, the bias is to not change unless the new language gives you a massive improvement. Re-writing is always harder than you expect, because the existing code base has more bug fixes and handled corner cases than you think it does, and your re-write has to preserve all of that (or suffer the consequences of failing to do so).
I'm confused about what I'm looking at... is this a pattern that emerges in conways game of life?
there is if he is told the downgrade is for a critical safety bug that needs to be rolled back. Then he has shown criminal negligence for not allowing his car to be fixed
This is a great news, the earlier released model had some limitations such as it could not be used with a batch. With this and multi GPU training, TensorFlow is now a good alternative to Caffe.

Here is my project with TensorFlow inception model.
https://github.com/AKSHAYUBHAT/VisualSearchServer
>Phantom Hand

New Metal Gear game?
That's an interesting idea. I would have assumed that Amazon would be planning to use its own assets for "baseload" demand (to use power generation analogy) and rely on third parties to deal with spikes in demand. Doing so would result in a higher variance in 3rd-party utilization compared to its mean.

That is, if Amazon currently needs 50 planes' worth of capacity on average from third parties with a standard deviation of 10 planes' worth, and they decide to acquire 30 planes of their own, then it would mean residual demand for third parties would be 20 planes on average but still a standard deviation of 10 planes' worth.
You might be interested in this, it uses same model to create a very simple bare bones implementation of Approximate Visual Search.
https://github.com/AKSHAYUBHAT/VisualSearchServer
The Pentagon's $660M FOIA fee
Facebook have recently launched Lead Ads [0] which could make them work for an entreprise product campaign if you can find the correct targeting. Worth trying it out.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/business/news/lead-ads-launch
It's all in framing. "person in control of software pushed an update to said software" would be just as accurate without sensationalization.
Like Kickstarter with a low "max donation" amount?
Hold on, so we call it "Mind Control" when Google shifts our preferences toward one of two pre-selected choices? What do we call the state of the world that leaves us with only 2 pre-selected choices who happen to agree on 90%+ of all policies?
> Now if only we had descriptions of chemistry that were this terse.

Chemistry is dealing with a lot, lot more of concepts than the study of the Game of Life. Brevity only works when you have few enough information that you can map it to only concise words.

(Entropy strikes again, even if it's information entropy for a change.)
The kinkiest states in America will surprise you
In my mind, the PSVR will undoubtedly be the first VR experience that achieves critical mass this generation.

Working in their favour:

- A massive hardware share in living rooms already with the PS4

- The ability to sell VR hardware as a loss leader and make money back on software, undercutting the competition

- The already announced games look great and have large fanbases, for example Gran Turismo Sport, Tekken 6, Ace Combat 7, Until Dawn, and Psychonauts. If the rumoured No Man's Sky VR comes true, that is a massive boost to the PSVR library.
You are wrong. Apple cracked the other phones by installing software that brute-forced the password. They didn't have someone sit there and punch in 10,000 codes like a monkey.

Moreover, Apple won't comply with valid warrants for phones running iOS7, so it doesn't really have anything to do with the security of the OS. This started only because a federal judge made an issue of the legal justification for the first time ever:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/feds-since-apple-...
Inevitable. Do you really think the power brokers let you have a real choice?
Very interesting, how tools like these can be so much helpful for journalists and generally transparency in government functions.

Probably world changing, when considering that even semi-technical folks can cook up tools to dig into things like this.

I know this tool was by a developer, but scrapinghub has web UI to make scrapers.
The corresponding blog article: http://blog.edankwan.com/post/fake-and-cheap-3d-metaball
Netflix is down
For the last 4 months, Groovy has been known as "Apache Groovy".
Go has many more sacrifices in a typical game than chess, too.
Personally I've found Google to be frustratingly difficult to search in recent years. I can't find articles & essays that I remember fondly because the namespace is so polluted with Great SEO.
It's way more about algorithmic improvements than hardware improvements though.
Deep Blue evaluated 200 million positions per second. I don't think top programs of today could get to 2 million positions per second on a smartphone (I get about 10 million pos/second on my i7 3770 quad). It's all about improvements in search algorithms as well as position evaluation.
The number of legal boardstates in Go is higher than the number of atoms in the universe.
So on this note, I just want to point out that everytime the horrors of the new technologies is talked about, something else isn't talked about.

I've seen a number of newer HN account flooding the site with articles... presumably for eyeballs + ad revenue but hey, maybe they just want another link to lose attention..
Would like to see shadows, they are a great depth cue.
Senators close to finishing encryption penalties legislation: sources
Keep in mind we live in a country where a sizable population still believes Planned Parenthood harvests fetuses from abortions.
> Because tfs is dying. Why port over tooling for a source management system that is on it's deathbed?

[citation needed]

Visual Studio Online (which is pretty much TFS in the cloud) is alive and well. And improvements made to VSO have been shipping regularly as updates to accompanying TFS on-prem.

Are you confusing TFS with Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC)? TFVC is also pretty popular as a Visual SourceSafe replacement and has been very stable for us, though the recent support of Git in Visual Studio and TFS has us considering it as an alternate workflow for some smaller projects. I think the support of Git is great, but knowing MS (and what they've said through their usual surrogates) I don't think TFVC is going anywhere anytime soon.
This essay by Paul Graham seems relevant: http://paulgraham.com/good.html

He states that some things that are charities in intent may need to be businesses.
By this logic killing someone while driving drunk is also not criminal since there is no mens rea.
We are sure that Game of Life physics is simpler than Real Life _chemistry_. There, fixed that for you.
The terseness vanishes when considering the complexities of interactions and possible classifications. In fact, I'd say that the above terseness is only possible because it's about half of ALL the interesting effects possible in the game of life.
IUPAC names are needlessly verbose and insufficiently descriptive.
Guess what, those flyover people whose jobs have been rendered redundant by outsourcing to China and automation using cheap imported technology vote.

Bernie Sanders has a different variation on a similar message. Voters love it.
Love the honesty and detailed answers. Looking forward to see the future of the product.
Even the shoes are similar!!!
Highest Paying Jobs in the U.S. for 2016
The last victory was significant, but this victory was far more significant. The professional dan scale isn't exactly linear and the ranks can't simply be compared numerically even when they are granted by the same organization - and Korea, China and Japan all have at least one organization of professional go players that each maintain their own rankings. Sedol is a current top player who has won many, _many_ titles and Fan Hui is 10 years out of regular professional play and doesn't have a title to his name. What people were saying before is still true today. All of the reporting has suffered from the usual problems of describing something specialized to the general public, and all the typical inaccuracies of such journalism (compounded by Google's PR department being the source of some of it).

Congratulations to the team at Deepmind, and I'm wishing good luck for Sedol in the remaining matches - if he wins we would certainly get to see a second series rematch some months down the line, and that would be very exciting for go fans everywhere.
I use Google Now for calling, setting alarms and reminders. I cannot use Siri because it does not recognize my accent.
I wrote this a few weeks ago on HN but your argument is missing consideration for Google's "Page Quality Score" (PQS) algorithm - which is designed to provide at least some layer of quality / $$$-bias-arbitration.(1)

In short they believe that the most reliable way to drive search relevancy / quality EVEN in paid categories is to make sure the guy on the other end of the table is willing to pay for that user's attention.

QPS is designed to penalize the advertiser if they don't hit "relevancy" metrics which makes it more expensive for that advertiser to reach you - as a percentage it can make clicks literally 600% more expensive (worst case).

The relevancy metrics they'll use include page speed (good for user), time user spends on site (relevancy), actions taken - tracked by Google Analytics (relevancy), and content quality / uniqueness (relevancy).

If you've got a guy willing to pay with high relevancy it's a compelling reason to show nothing but ads.

Now is that REALLY good for the user across the board? No way.

But there's at least a superficial effort to arbitrage the $$$ bias.

(1) Google's PQS documentation https://storage.googleapis.com/support-kms-prod/8E4C3B33697E...

(2) http://searchengineland.com/minimum-quality-score-can-save-m...

(3) Google's PQS update broken down https://www.convirza.com/resources/the-impact-of-googles-rec...
They are nothing more than con-artists. They prey on the desperate and the uneducated.
> What if all economic output comes from machines doing all the work?

If that were the case, then you're saying we abolish property ownership? Because i don't see how else can everyone benefit in such a system.
I really think Vive has a really interesting niche market at hand by focusing on tracking the player in a fixed box in a room and two sticks to manipulate hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWproPHhHd0

Rift is falling behind new upcoming players and the space is definitely heating up...but I just don't think Facebook players are going to be playing Animal Farm or whatever it is they play now on Rift...more likely that Steam and console gamers stands to gain from this competition.

I think that Oculus Rift was the first to start but Sony, HTC, Valve, all these companies with direct access to gamer markets will be poised to grab the torchlight from Rift.

I just have a hard time visualizing Luckey getting lucky twice when VR hardware is vastly improving at speeds that are now starting to outpace the Rift.

I wonder how long until we begin to see haptic devices for all of our senses not just visual but olfactory, tactile, sense of gravity.

Then it's only a matter of time before all these human experiences are digitized and serialized into separate haptic channels and replayed in synchronous format.

Imagine a future where you can experience anything anywhere anytime as if you did these things yourself. Will it be augumented reality with holograms being beamed into a room with ultrasound wave generators simulating tactile sensation?

The race for virtual reality sex is on.
From a followup post "Progress checking Zarankiewicz’s conjecture on the brick factory problem" [http://mappingignorance.org/2013/10/01/progress-checking-zar...]

"This means that N_0(5) \approx 6\cdot 10^{1228} , a really big number. The fastest computers today perform in the order of petaFLOPS (10^{15} operations per second), so even if they could check each case in a single operation, it would take in the order of 10^{1204} years to check if the conjecture holds for K_{5,n} with all n\leq N_0 ."
Just added dividends / dividend reinvestment. This makes a huge difference if you go back in the 70s and earlier.
I can recommend Cal Newport's blog Study Hacks [0] and book Deep Work [1].

[0] http://calnewport.com/blog/

[1] http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/
This is now a universal feature offered by Google, Bing, Yahoo Gemini, Twitter, Linkedin and I'm sure others. It is no different than cookies for retargeting. leveraging first party data is by far the biggest opportunity in advertising and this trend is here to stay.
No one is using that data except the advertiser who uploads it.
He fails to explain why "Amazon" is the future. He starts off by insinuating it's because traditional vendors are more expensive... I guess I'd ask to see the raw data he's using.

I've run the numbers, AWS isn't cheaper AT ALL unless you're talking bursting workloads that run for less than a month, or a company that only needs one or two servers but still needs the reliability of a larger environment. Anything outside of that is cheaper to do on-prem 9 times out of 10.

Either he's got his head in the sand, has bought into the "cloud is cheaper hype", or he has other justifications he fails to list.
This is a great post.
Evaluating Analytics SaaS's Raw Data Access Capabilities
After downloading this and installing I filled out a survey. One of the questions was about seeing this in VS Code. Yes, please. So there is hope.
"It sucks that the idea of funding Google via taxes is anathema to so many because people fear government influence"

That wouldn't fix the problem. Ultimately, somebody has to decide & implement what goes into the ranking algorithm that determines the search results that people see. That person has significant power, and will be both decried by intellectuals who feel like they're on the losing edge of the power dynamic, and courted by donors/lobbyists/etc. who wish to gain some of that power. If it were funded by taxation, you would see the same distrust that the FBI and NSA face today (both of which are funded by taxation). If it were crowdfunding, it'd be exactly the same problem that Google faces today - Google's AdWords auction essentially is crowdfunding, and if you give Google money, you get to influence the ads shown on some subset of queries. (Try it - you can get started in 10 minutes for a few bucks.)

What would fix the problem is if people didn't blindly trust Google, and instead researched in-depth on a number of competing search engines. The article alludes to this - Google's power comes from monopoly, and competition is the way to negate that power. But this only fixes the specific case of Google - if you broke up Google into many competing search engines, then Facebook would simply become the 800 lb. gorilla of how people get their information. Break up Facebook, and it becomes Reddit. Last century, it was ABC/NBC/CBS, and before then, Pulitzer and Hearst (who were a lot more unethical than Google was...Hearst started a war so he could sell more papers).

You can't avoid power, you can only understand it, and perhaps manipulate it so it serves yourself better.
Politics isn't economics. Economists want efficient markets, and government exiats to protect the general welfare of the people.
Paywalled? I tried to reach the page, but got a page not found notice using either of two different Web browsers.
Microsoft Announces Windows 12 based upon Ubuntu 21.04 LTS code base
As someone who worked in retail distribution in a past life, I wonder if this is simply an easier way to move product between their distributions centers. If goods land on the east coast they can fly them straight to the west coast and vice versa. It also gives them ability to rebalance their DC inventory as the planes would just be going point to point. The details they didn't release which have me wondering, who is going to handle the loading / unloading? Are they planning on building their own sites at airfields or are they going to contract that out?
Is heroin a very high value product?
Learn SQL injection by hacking a website
Facebook buys MSQRD, popular face swapping app
The domain is old.ycombinator.com so I'm guessing it's no longer maintained.
How George Hotz Plans to Beat Tesla and Google