skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But will women and non-Asian minorities be given more tries or more error tolerance as a way of affirmative action/lowering the standards?
That is against the rules

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You can totally use ES6 modules, you just have to split the web component JavaScript and HTML into separate files. That's what we did for Home Assistant, which we documented here: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant-polymer#bui...
In the future, maybe we'll figure out telling each other what to do isn't the thing we should do. Maybe everyone will do whatever they want to do, and whatever it is they do will be interesting to someone else just because it was unique.

That's the science fiction future I want to live in!
We could do that. On other hand, we could just pay them the expected market value of the drug when they first invent it then give it to public for almost nothing.

"You can cure cancer with those three drugs? Was going to make tens of billions? Here you go: guarantee of tens of billions of subsidies over next 20 years in exchange for the patent and license for anyone to produce it generically."

Boom! Tens of thousands of lives saved a year. Way better than investing into the TSA. :)
...ok ... How much?
Is this any more than a way for Twitter to claim the moral high ground while having no actual impact on what these agencies do or if/how they use Twitter's data?

At the very least they'll use a company like Palantir. Is a third party's use similarly regulated, so that Palantir couldn't simply relay that data themselves?

If not, then this was clearly not thought out (unlikely) or it's been thought out but a choice was made to still allow for that use case (more likely).
Is blockchain doing anything other than keeping hacky fintech "journalists" employed?
I am confident that my profile is employable. However, in terms of current status in the PhD program, I am about to finish my first year in the PhD program. I think as compared to other PhD students, I am a bit hesitant to put myself in the top bracket. On the other hand, I would put myself at par with other professional/graduate Masters student.
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This is a great question!

Facebook on the other hand built a Washington DC office and hires ex-secret service people as a matter of course.

This should be the number one reason people should drop using FB.... But everyone is already fucked. You have no privacy, again, ever.
You've gradually outed yourself, I guess.
They mention the difficulty of determining when the water is frozen, since water at zero degrees C can be either liquid or solid. It seems easy to solve by checking for an increase in volume or pressure, since we know that ice expands into more volume than liquid water.
The best example of equipment-induced hubris that I grew up with was people buying a 4-wheel drive pickup to drive during Massachusetts winters.

Yes, it raises your performance. It doesn't magically turn icy, snowy Massachusetts roads into Arizona highway.

The result is that lots and lots of high-performance trucks end up in ditches and smashed into trees.
> Actual cash subsidies for roads are minimal relative to the economic benefit.

Sure, but that's true of every mode of transportation, that's why we use taxes to also build sidewalks, light rail, bike lanes, etc. On an absolute level, subsidies for roads are still very large. And while some level of available roads is obviously necessary, we really overbuild to support our sprawly development style.

> This is another way to say that you could eliminate all subsidies on road construction/maintenance, make everyone pay a sufficient per-mile tax, and the system would continue successfully more-or-less as it exists today

Well, except that poor and working class people would probably not be able to use it much anymore. Paying for infrastructure via most taxes is inherently redestributive (exception for gas tax, obviously).

I'm actually generally for some more market-oriented policies around cars though. Congestion charges and parking fees are a great idea.

> The same is not true of most public transit systems.

I mean, the poor make up a larger % of transit riders, particularly in the US, so looking at it that way yes the impact would be larger.

> Now you can start arguing about implicit and explicit subsidies for suburbanization over the decades, but in the here-and-now, public transit is directly subsidized in a way that roads are not.

No, you're simply wrong. Road construction and maintenance is heavily subsidized by taxes other than the gas tax (which of course works more like a user fee).
This seems like a natural extension on the existing landline phone extortion that currently takes place, which the FCC tooks steps to curb recently (https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-takes-next-big-steps-reduci...), which unfortunately courts then turned around and held up (http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/03/07/appeals-court-puts-on-ho...). Hopefully the FCC will step in again and restore some sanity here.
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What is the rate of employers whose practices cause a large group of their employees to jump off their building all at once? I can't remember ever seeing that headline in U.S. papers except referring to China and such. Must be rare here.

I wonder what the rate of mass suicide is in general for "all 50 states of the United States" vs Chinese companies like Foxconn.
What you describe is "using common sense" - unfortunately a sense a lot of us have lost because we live in place where road signs are reliable and digital maps are up-to-date.

It took me quite a few months to relearn what you are practicing every day but now I'd say that this is a must on every curriculum. After I moved to a third world country (and did my re-learning) I understood that in case of a zombie-apocalypse (used as a place-holder for your "no tech works anymore"-scenario) people from less developed countries are so much more likely to cope than 99% of the 1st world population.
>We pledge that no patient needing DARAPRIM will be denied access

>If you are uninsured and meet eligibility critera, you can get DARAPRIM for no cost

http://www.daraprimdirect.com/patients
Or Gilead is exploiting dying people desperate to save their lives and have enough money to do so, while letting the rest die. And then I'm sure they are lobbying the government to make sure it won't do anything about it.

Meanwhile, Apple is selling luxury products that people can buy if they would like to. And those that can't, survive just fine without one.
> Proposal: If you’re sitting courtside or behind home plate and get caught looking at your phone during game action, you must relinquish your seat to a kid.

Sentences like this make me wish every site had a highlight feature like medium.com --- great proposal!
I have been using Polymer since 0.5 and it used to be like this but since the first major version (1.0) it has not required me to rewrite anything.
I don't know what cohesive point this article is trying to make. The writing is all over the place, jumping from one pop-finance idea to the next without exploring any of them in the depth they deserve. I've seen plenty of great pieces on both blockchain and basic income, but this isn't one of them.

The direction of the article deteriorates over time. The last section is an incoherent, unfocused mass of linkspam to Buzzfeed-quality stories. While I'm sure there are some great SEO reasons for Bloomberg View to do it this way, I think we're worse off as readers for it.

No upvote. Levine's work is arguably off-topic, and certainly not the quality I expect on HN.
It's really easy. You download a zip file and extract it somewhere. Then you launch "runemacs.exe".
If you don't care to refute facts, that's fine. But you don't have to rage-quit in such a childish fashion. Save that for reddit.
> America subsidizes the health care of the entire world.

Howso?
I don't think you're necessarily contradicting maxlybbert, if the Federal Circuit only reversed the lower court on the question of the Java API in particular.
> You put a counter out there and you find "clunk," and nothing happens for a while, "clunk," and nothing happens for a while. It's riot discretized at all, you never can measure such a tiny field, you don't find a tiny field, you don't have to imitate such a tiny field, because the world that you're trying to imitate, the physical world, is not the classical world, and it behaves differently. So the particular example of discretizing the electric field, is a problem which I would not see, as a physicist, as fundamentally difficult, because it will just mean that your field has gotten so small that I had better be using quantum mechanics anyway, and so you've got the wrong equations, and so you did the wrong problem!

Things that far away are tiny, in a way. :)
If you really wanted to quantify the impact in a completely market-oriented way, you'd have factor in not just the road construction and maintenance and environmental impact, but also the negative value of the road noise, high danger to others (much higher per mile traveled per person than other modes), worsening of each other mode (car-dominant street design makes other modes slower and less safe), and value of the land (car infrastructure takes up far more space per traveler than other modes).

By the time you're done factoring those in, driving would be expensive indeed, probably similar to the gas prices in Europe.
Security isn't a feature, it's a part of everything
I highly doubt the kinds of companies that buy Oracle really care about Oracle's legal tactics.
Note that cryogenics just refers to the study of very low temperatures, and cryogenic liquids are used in a vast number of scientific and industrial devices. The topic of the book is more specifically cryonics, the (speculative) preservation of people using low temperature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics
To be clear, what is at stake is not using the API, it is to copy the API.

In the case of a website, let's assume that you created ws.com, and that you developed an API that answered 'A' when you call ws.com/A, and 'B' when you call ws.com/B. Then you could sue anyone who'd develop a different website that behaves the same way even though the implementation itself may be completely different.
There was an increase in boats hitting buoys when GPS became common, out on the water there really is very little traffic so setting an autopilot is often practical, but if you set a waypoint exactly on the coordinates of a buoy and forget to keep a close watch or proximity alarm, it tracks right into a big iron marker.
After a paper like this comes out, usually someone adds it to their library or makes a public implementation of it. Usually there are more than one. Maybe the authors aren't the best at implementing a clean version of it.
Full article was behind a paywall, but:

The subheadline here is actually: "Social media firm cuts access to Dataminr, a service used to identify unfolding terror attacks, political unrest"

So, Dataminr is a startup that had the firehose to do that kind of analysis.

All this could be is them putting a company that is built on top of Twitter out of business. They have done this plenty of times. Seems pretty heavily spun to make it sound like they are taking some sort of moral high ground.
He's sharing his opinion. Do you really not ever say something like "X sucks" when it's just an opinion? I'm sure the author is well aware that it's not an objective fact.
I'm not assuming that. If anything, I assumed that most people defending them are American, and that Americans are wrongly interpreting "American suburbs suck" as "suburbs suck" because American suburbs are the only ones they know.

Some people like them, sure. I suspect that much of it is just cultural momentum at this point, though, where people are unaware of the possibility of a different format, or don't have the option available, and that given a choice to live in a Euro-style or American-style suburb that were otherwise in a similar situation, many Americans would choose the European-style one. Might even split 50/50.
Something to keep in mind is the population that typically has chronic Hep C requiring this drug. It's IV drug users who share needles. Think they have $84K? Nope. Think they have insurance? Nope. Guess who pays for it. Oh that's right, it's Medicaid! It's you, the taxpayers. Where is there a large concentration of people that have Hep C? Prisons. Guess who pays for it then? Still you! The prison systems are obligated to provide health care and treatments in accordance with community standards of care, which they do. They have treated many people already who meet the criteria of disease progression to qualify for it. Still think Gilead should be charging this much for it here and not elsewhere?
As a middle aged computer scientist and emacs evangelist, I had to laugh pretty hard at this one. I hadn't actually heard that one before.
There are many faces of corruption.
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Universal jobs implies that the job in itself is why we work while the reality is that we work mostly for the benefits of that job.

If technology could be used to automate the whole chain of touch points and thus remove the need for human incentives to get things produced why insist on an old paradigm with what would mostly be the most shitty jobs you could find.

That seems like using technology for the opposite of what it's good for and for insisting on an very undesirable part of being alive.
> I mean, why is that obscene? We have seen crazier returns in [insert latest "stupid" app that made billions].

Some would call those app returns obscene too.

I think most people would call those app returns obscene if the customers were being coerced into the purchase and the unit price was enormous.
Most of the ML approaches boil down to some well-defined algorithms that are at least 10 years and often 30 years old. Understanding it isn't really the issue, it's testing it for usage and tweaking it for better performance. What exactly is to "understand" about reinforcement learning (application, not theory)? You could say it's developing/emergent, but not that it's "not well understood."

The rest of my comment is centered on what the real problem is: a lack of data. That will hurt any and every algorithm. If I have to make a decision/prediction and you give me a single or two pieces of input data, whatever process I employ is likely to return something poor.
If all the poor people got naturally selected out then there won't be poor people anymore.
It's not only blindly following GPS that can lead you to problems. Sometimes road signs can be inaccurate or misleading too.

I was driving on a reasonably remote highway in Victoria Australia. My car was running low on petrol. As I approached an exit there was a sign that said last service for 90km or something like this. I did some mental maths and decided I could make it another 90km so pushed on. The fuel warning light came on about half way through the 90km. When I reached the exit the pump was out of order and station closed (tiny rural station). Now I was forced either to turn back or push on to next station. I decided to push on and ended up running out of petrol I had to call roadside assistance. If I hadn't seen the sign saying the next service was 90 km away I would have pulled in then and there.
Yeah, I'd LOVE to live in a Dutch-style suburb that was great for biking and walking. Alas, my employer has no dev offices in the Netherlands. :(
As long as it's not hot/warm water from the faucet. Many water heaters can leach metals into the water and while safe for showering you shouldn't drink it. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/health/29real.html?refe...
I would personally love for one of these groups to succeed. I'd love to pitch in any way I can.
Actually, I ran into a situation you all might like on this topic. I was visiting a friend staying with someone in a shady area somewhat between OK areas and The Hood. Easy route to get there on a major highway that keeps you away from harm. Now, I have to see another friend in Middle America (aka "the burbs") which can be reached same way with one exit leading to Interstate. Just use the GPS to find last, odd roads on the route. Results surprised me.

Route 1: Turn left here, right here, right here, left here, highway here, odd roads here. 30 minutes.

Route 2: Get back on highway, drive a while, Interstate, drive a while, odd roads. 33 minutes.

Thing is, I recognized each street in route 1: The Hood(s) with about 300 cops a shift who can't keep up with the amount of stuff that goes down. The other was a straight, safe shot. I thought, "Is Google really trying to send me through all the worst areas of my city... areas where you have to stop right next to potential carjackers and killers... just to save three minutes?"

Now I know why people coming through think my city is just a shithole. It's a mix of great, good, OK, bad, and ugly but Google keeps sending people through The Hood. No wonder they think it's nothing but poverty and crime. So, then I got the idea for a movie or TV show where there's a serial killer that, SAW-style, makes people kill themselves. By Google Maps instructions they follow blindly into the worst areas. You might see it on TV but you heard it here first.

Yeah, don't trust the GPS's until they know the difference between an armed robbery and an Interstate. At the least, they need to realize we won't take that kind of risk unless we're talking about saving 30min to hours, the interview is too important for Interstate traffic, or she was one bad-ass lady. Not over three minutes, though. ;)
I'm confused... I remember this story appearing a few days ago. Now it's back on the front page. That's cool, but it also says I commented on it 5 hours ago, which is just not true... this is from multiple days ago

In my comment history, it says my comment was from 2 days ago

wtf?
>In 20 or 40 years, emacs will still exist, as will the hooks and tools you've integrated and built up to support it.

> VS, Eclipse, and IntellijIDEA very likely won't.

Why do you think so ?

Intellij and Eclipse are both open source. I suspect they will be around as well. The companies supporting them may go out of business, but there are enough users for it at the moment that someone will be able to keep maintaining it or build new businesses around it.
Which is not a good substitute for Basic Income, add part of the motivation for Basic Income is to make it easier for people to reach their potential in an evolving market by allowing them to spend time retraining for jobs with emerging demand rather than stuck in dead-end jobs. Universal make-work jobs don't replace Basic Income, they are just an unproductive form of slavery by economic duress.
why would they hire journalists to do this? It doesn't seem like it takes much skill at all to pick a story and write a short summary of it.
I read a paper [1] about visualizing the Deep Q-Network used for playing Atari games. They map to 2D the game state and then colorize it by the Q scores. As a result they could visualize the strategy and observe how it is hierarchically organized in clusters containing sub-clusters. They could show regions associated with initial and termination rules. This method can be used to map out a game strategy and to focus on specific regions.

[1] Graying the black box: Understanding DQNs - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.02658.pdf
>large group of their employees to jump off their building all at once?

Didn't happen at Foxconn. They were all on separate days over a few years. Not sure where you got "mass suicide" from. It's not mentioned in the comment you refer to.
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It's just odd that MS would use a Windows system to host files (or anything else) with all of the restrictions and limitations associated with Windows. Maybe that is the reason they over promised and under delivered. It should be common knowledge by now that unix based systems (Linux, BSD) are more efficient. There is a reason why 90+% of internet services are non-windows. Administrators don't just pick those systems out of a hat. I thought they figured that out and used unix based systems for under the hood for Azure.
Again. If you believe there is a right way to interpret the world. A true way, then you are saying that someone created it to be interpreted in a specific way.

But models that allow us to make predictions does not mean that they match reality it just means that it matches the predictions we can interpret.

Thats a very different thing than reality.
Professional pride, along with "this is unusual and I am being graded on it", can be a significant motivator. I'd actually be more worried about the surgeons being tested being under too much stress, not too little stress.
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There are some reports of side effects of varying degree, but in general Harvoni's side effects are extremely mild.

When I did the trial, my physician indicated that in previous trials, patients couldn't reliably distinguish Harvoni from a placebo. My experience aligns with this statement.

While I was on a 24 week trial (longer than most people today) with ribavirin (which is only used with a minority of patients today), I experienced nothing I could directly attribute to the medication. My viral load dropped to undetectable in six weeks, and has remained so since.
Because profit is disproportionately earned in America. Europe, Canada, and the whole world enjoy lower prices because we pay higher prices.
The system could switch to manual or more cautious autonomous driving when a confidence score is not met. The confidence score could be a score based on how many other cars have driven the road, number of accidents, satellite footage, etc.
Just one of a long list of arguments against the privatization of the prison system. There are very few things that should be in the exclusive purview of the government, and the prison system is one of them.

Prison, in most cases, should be a way of reducing recidivism. Private prisons have little or no incentive to do that.
I have to continually remind myself not to read comments, but, ugh, it's a bad habit. The ones on Politico are really terrible. They're essentially indistinguishable in content from YouTube comments. Everyone thinks of themselves as funny, clever, or insightful, but they're just not. Jesus.

If these archival tweets were around for several hundred years, perhaps they might be interesting to historians in the same way ancient Roman graffiti is. But it seems far more likely to me that this project, even if it does get off the ground, would shut down well before that. I'm not sure Politico comments are that far removed from a lot of tweets... and based on the Politico comments, maybe shutting down that project wouldn't be a bad thing.
And so your argument against what I am saying is that you don't like it to be that way.

Thats not an argument against what I am saying, that's just an opinion about the consequences of my argument.
Very odd that this is branded as cutting off intelligence agencies then - this seems more like they are cutting off another company from the firehose like they did to DataSift when they acquired Ginp.

Dataminr didn't provide access to the firehose, iirc, but had a really good event detection product. I had actually heard of them because I heard CNN was a very happy user of the product.

EDIT:
>The move doesn’t affect Dataminr’s service to financial industry, news media or other clients outside the intelligence community. The Wall Street Journal is involved in a trial of Dataminr’s news product.

Read the article, and it seems media companies still have access. I guess Twitter is telling another company who their customers can and can't be.
Thanks, I learned something today. :)