skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Facebook has a massive incentive to stop fake accounts

As an advertiser, I am pretty certain this is not the quite case in (current) reality. A large part of FB's proposition for more money from us includes:

A) Pay more for increased reach and engagement.

B) Our traffic isn't decreasing (despite outside reports/indications to the contrary) and you would be missing a massive and engaged audience if you didn't spend with FB.

This combined with the fact that a _lot_ of ad-spend isn't directly attributable to conversions (often by design), means that more "activity" whether its fake or not, drives up ad-revenue for FB.

You see the same issue occur with other publishers by the way. -It is not uncommon for a publisher (or other related party) to purchase a swarm of fake bot traffic to boost impression and engagement numbers of an ad buy they've sold. -Advertisers un-aware of how much of the traffic to their ads are bots vs legitimate humans (read: "publishers stealing money from advertisers") is a major problem for advertisers, but the bigger the publisher, the harder it is to 'not' be on their platform too. (and FB is _very_ big)
> To be honest, unless I'm leaving cash, I have my doubts about whether the tip actually makes it to the server.

I would be shocked to hear of any restaurants that do that. A warning sign would be the owner running the register.

And for one data point: the restaurant I worked at would convert all tips on credit cards to cash that the servers could take home that day at end of business.
I understand why Northern Europeans would have wanted copper, but why did Mediterraneans want amber? Was it just a luxury good?
I think you'll find that conservatives want to abolish tips because conservatives think people shouldn't rely on charity.

This political nonsense can be twisted any way anyone likes.
"A large percentage of that time is then spent marking up grammar and spelling."

As an aside, I don't think this is the optimal way to teach people how to write. What were the ideas in those papers? How were they organized? Do the student's arguments make sense? I think that's what most students spend most of their time thinking about when writing an essay, and it can be a bit demoralizing to see the teacher care just as much about whether the grammar was right. Most students can fix grammar mistakes relatively easily once they notice them anyway.
Not a faux pas, it is rarely expected though.
Verisign owns both .com and .net, so that's not a new thing with gTDLs.
That's not the point, most people have the impression that the trending news is automated and generated by some sort of algorithm. It's highly misleading. The trends should really be called "Facebook's Top Picks" instead.
In PDEs, we typically use something called a Krylov subspace iterative solver.

These solvers construct a solution by adding up terms of the form c_n * A^n * y and truncating the series when the residuals are small enough. This is especially efficient in PDEs, where problem matrices are sparse so matrix-vector products are efficient (i.e. O(n)), and in practice only a few terms of the series are necessary.
> Part of the problem is that we don't have fast, perfect representations of real or complex numbers.

We'll probably never have perfect representation of real numbers, but Gustafson's unums seem to be the next best thing that can actually make a difference. His examples of how unums can solve the trickiest numerical challenges are impressive.

http://insidehpc.com/2015/03/slidecast-john-gustafson-explai...

http://radiofreehpc.com/tmp/TheEndofErrorSampleChapter.pdf
Reminded me of this quiz: http://www.nicholaswhyte.info/34l/default.htm
I hate how there are all sorts of random situations where I'm expected to tip. I've been told I'm supposed to tip at the car wash, when getting a tattoo, or using a food runner (do I tip the UPS driver?) - it's all senseless.and strikes me as a money grab against good natured folks.
I would guess Google News uses fewer and more trusted sources, such as the homepage of well-known news websites.

I doubt Facebook marketers have the same kind of standards.
"Fair and balanced" isn't either.

We can argue about whether there's an ethical problem, but the assertion that there's any sort of legal problem seems completely arbitrary and partisan IMO.
>Why do things have to be in any state, even a "non-specific intermediate" one?

Because being in a state is just another name of being a thing (or plain "being"). If you "are", by definition you are in some state (at any given point in time).

>Can't we just assert that language doesn't assign or derive from a formal state? Rather, the use of language is highly correlated with outcomes/observations, but not intrinsically meaningful.

Well, even without using language, we experience things as being in particular states -- we see them having color, making a noise, being there and not here, etc.
And yet my refrigerator keeps my food cold.
...and that logic would be right.

Unless what you're saying is, "It won't work here because we'd prefer underpaying food staff because we can get away with it."

But that's not what you're saying, right? Surely it can't be.
Modern hardware is actually really good at DCVS. You don't trade latency for battery life, just doing less work gets you better battery efficiency.

There's a really gnarly V*I curve which is not linear(as clock speed increases, voltage also needs to come up) which makes good performance even more key.
A flat tax is socially regressive, even if it is mathematically proportional. The marginal utility of 100€ is totally different at 370€/month compared to 10000€/month.
I can't believe this group of incredibly smart people have produced this not-so-impressive paper. Sure, the size of source codes is a big problem. but is LOC the most cost-effective issue to investigate into? Why none of the existing module approaches work? Is this really a language problem can be magically solved by FPR? Can this 20k app handle Chinese characters? How many corner cases does it handle?

Abstraction leaks, and I don't believe in any silver bullet.
Why does everyone has such high hopes for ICANN go be correct and ethical? Their track record reads like the equivalent of a digital mafia.

ICANN raises prices abrtrary regularly. You tell me why a .COM costs suddenly $0.22 cents more this year. It sure shouldn't be for bandwidth or storage space regarding the administration of the domain name. In fact, you would think it would become cheaper.
> Can you provide a citation?

Have you ever eaten out in your life? How many times have you left a 20 percent tip for a waiter who forgot to put in your order, brought the wrong food, was mean to you, etc.
Yes! The fact that the kitchen staff often don't get tipped is outrageous.
DNS admins who use the standard root.hints -> owners of those IP blocks -> administrators of those servers.

It's essentially the same attention-consensus-economy game that web startups do, but earlier, more primitive, and deeper.

They're now arbitraging the trust which got them to this point.
>It wouldn't. Not for end users anyways.

That's true. The issue here isn't that Facebook tried and failed to implement an automatically generated news feed. The issue is they were called out for bias in the news feed, and then tried to deflect by blaming it on a computer.
Several linuxes have packages in their repositories today, and we're working on fixing the issues for the ones that haven't yet.

Firefox now has Rust code in it, so any distro that compiles from source and has Firefox is gonna end up packaging rustc too.
> "Silicon Valley’s as successful as it is because we’re constantly blowing up whatever came before us, ripping it all down and building it back from scratch.”

s/"Silicon Valley"/"Wall Street"/
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I meant when right clicking the archive am choosing "Extract to..." or something using Explorer's context menu.
> How many times have you left a 20 percent tip

Always. If I have an issue with the service, I take it up with management.

I don't short change someone's wages because of a perceived or actual deficiency. What am I? Some sort of monster? Just because the rest of society is cheap and short changes service workers because they can get away with it (until labor law gets fixed), that does not make it right.

And if you say, "I can't afford to tip 20 percent all the time", well then my friend, you can't afford to be eating out.
Why do you think its more costly to eat out in Europe than the US? Because staff are paid a living wage there.
Taiwan hasn't followed the simplification. Could you be looking at dual printed classical/simplified Chinese?
Simple analogy: would it be possible to design a digital hardware/software robot (and set of tools), such that the robot could:

1) build/maintain the tools it needs

2) use tools/knowledge/skill to repair/rebuild/replace its parts, good-as-new

3) transfer it's software from the old parts to the new parts when necessary

4) achieve immortality

If so, one needs to argue why this analogy could not hold for biological life, why any underlying hardware or software cannot in principle be replaced/repaired/migrated to maintain the immortal being.

Obviously this avoids arguments over the self/persistence of identity (ship of theseus), but it's not directly relevant to the article.
I think they do have that right, however, the issue is they SAY the stories are 'trending' when in fact they are simply curated by facebook. That needs to be made clear. Passing off curated content as 'trending' is like simply making up polling data and passing it off as public opinion when in fact it's not.
> "Company research had found that 60 percent of the restaurants’ customers disliked the change in tipping, Mr. Merritt said. They wanted to inspire good service with their tips and they didn’t trust management to pass on the money to its employees, he said."

Ugh, people are idiots! Paying an employee an actual wage will guarantee them income in a way that tipping does not. If an employee is hired at a particular hourly wage, we have labor laws to ensure they are receiving their pay. In contrast, tipping provides no guarantees and actually enables the abuses these same people fear. For example, legally a restaurant has to make a waiter whole if their tips+ low hourly wage does not get to actual minimum wage. Despite this requirement, many restaurants violate it BC tipping as the default puts the burden on the waiter to bother their boss when they didn't make enough.

Imagine instead if when you checked out at Target, you paid the cashier directly because you didn't trust target to pay them?! The idea seems ludicrous but apply it to tipping industries and it somehow is normal.

The real culprit is people feel comfortable with what they know and fear change.
> But if web sites were easier to make, more people would make them.

Websites are as easy to make now as they ever were. HTML from the 1990s still works fine. The barriers to entry haven't actually moved at all.
Well, there are HCI researchers who do design/UX/UI; more straight up design research in CS would be nice though.
Do you need to buyout all the investors or just enough to give you > 50% (Which Zuck already controls doesn't he?)
No. It's exactly what the documents say. You see an algorithmic ranking of a set of curated topics.

I know. I worked on the ranking.
I came here, to basically say the same thing. It seems folks do not realize the assumptions they are making. Fundamentals people fundamentals.
It still matters for email addresses.
Well, reality has a well known liberal bias.
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No. I simply gave a counter-example to a claim--thus the claim is refuted.

His claim is: all beings that are alive also age. The counter-example makes so that his argument is false (hydras are alive, but do not age).

I didn't claim that being alive means you outlive the universe. Because that would be false. Everything alive is subject to the laws of thermodynamics (need energy to keep up the entropy-fighting machinery)--no food, no hydra.
What makes you think it's not?
Yep. It's worth keeping the w3c in mind, but they're not the source of the pressure, just subject to it at overwhelming levels.
Care to elaborate? When they say college graduates earn more, at least for anything I've ever read, it is based on mean income. Due to the way mean is calculated, and incomes tending to follow the power law, the top 1% are going to be the ones who have the largest representation of that higher average income.

As such, degree holders may simply earn more because they are overly represented in supply managed industries with artificial incomes, like the aforementioned doctor.
>Facebook is Mark Zuckerburg's business and enterprise. He can do with it what he wants, just as any business or enterprise has the right to conduct their own business.

It may be a little nit-picky to point it out, but in the general sense this isn't true. As soon as the company went public it stopped being Mark Zuckerburg's business and enterprise, becoming instead the property of the shareholders who employ Zuckerburg to look after their company. Zuckerburg owns less than 30%.
Both of those things can't happen at the same time. That's how we ended up with servers wages getting cut and forced to depend on tips.

If tipping is acceptable at all, it won't stay reserved for only truly excellent service. It'll become expected for good service, then adequate service, then any service at all.
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来 and 学, from the original example, are both simplified characters (the traditionals being 來 and 學). I was a little bemused to see them in an example of Japanese text, but it turns out they are the common Japanese characters as well. Japanese has its own set of simplifications ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjitai ), often overlapping with the Maoist simplifications.

In a different pattern, mainland China simplified 龍 to 龙 while Japan simplified it to 竜. Despite being a "simplified" form, 竜 is actually the oldest of those three characters.

>> For those who don't know Japanese, only following my rule, can you identify the Japanese characters in the sentence above?

I would technically meet that requirement, but knowledge of Chinese makes the question pretty easy regardless of knowing Japanese. ;)
The US can be really crazy. Part of the issue is that you have to understand compensation models--for example, my understanding is that like waiters, delivery drivers largely work for tips (usually). But, especially when traveling, there are a gazillion situations where a dollar here or a dollar there seems to be routinely expected sometimes. I suspect that I don't leave tips in some situations where many people do. (No, I don't routinely leave a few dollars a night for my hotel room servicing.)

No to UPS driver. Tattoo? No idea but probably given that I tip my barber.
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> Most students can fix grammar mistakes relatively easily once they notice them anyway.

You would be surprised! Especially with people whose first languages aren't English. Having something to provide feedback on grammar problems early on would be really useful. Of course, once they get grammar down, the next step is rhythm and flow, as well as reducing redundancy, and the biggest problem, as you say, is always the story, but you have to peel through lots of grammar problems before you get to that point. I edit a lot of research papers for my Chinese peers (most have PhDs, I work in a China-based research lab, so that isn't weird), so I'm pretty clear on the problems.
Is this solving the O of OKR? Task management for Goals?

This may just be me & my past experience but there is a possibility this could suffer from the one more tool syndrome. You start off enthusiastically but over time usage decreases unless you have someone championing this heavily within the company. You'd have to watch out for that.
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I don't think I remember actually being taught how to write in primary school. I think they should reteach grammar in high school from the beginning. Most people's brains just can't pick up a systematic treatment of some of the finer points when younger. I went and did all the grammar quizzes over at http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm a couple of years ago. It improved my writing a lot, and only took a weekend.
Tips that servers get are generally shared with the staff that don't interact directly with customers, but are part of providing the service that's being tipped.
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I'm pretty sure the number of servers who say "Oh, the previous table tipped low. I must have done something wrong" is many orders of magnitude lower than the number of servers who say "Oh, the previous table tipped low. Cheap bastards".

As you say, I don't understand why people think that tipping actually helps w/ service. OTOH the masses still drag out that incorrect tale of To Insure Prompt Service
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How are these different than the Chinese electrical scooters?
That's not necessarily true. I won't tip the concierge at a hotel for telling me how to get to a nearby restaurant (OK, that's an anachronistic example :-)) but I probably would tip for scoring me some difficult ticket or reservation.
Im not answering for the OP, but given leftwing idiology presents a history founded on struggle among oppositional groups, the power of any given group should be controlled (as in mediated) by said struggle. For example, Facebook's power to disseminate reporting and propaganda should be mediated by an opposition from the sources and seekers of firsthand accounts.
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Maybe getting into the canopy is not practical, but if the whole premise was that it was spotted via a satellite photo, surely someone in a helicopter can at least fly over and say confirm whether or not it is worth a closer look.
How would you feed a sentence to a neural net? As I understand, the inputs are usually just floating point numbers in a small range, so how is the mapping performed? And what if the sentence is longer than the number of input neurons? Can that even happen, and pose a problem?
I tip pretty much the same unless the service is out of this world extraordinary. If I truly have a problem that I think would deserve a lower tip, I'd be speaking to the management.
I honestly didn't learn how to write until I got to graduate school. My very patient adviser had to beat it into my skull. Writing is a very practical art...you need to practice at it a lot vs. studying and memorizing rules, and my pre-grad school education didn't really force that.
The paper you mention is the world's best results and is macparseface with broader beam search and more hidden layers.

This is an opensourcing of the March 2016 method (syntaxnet, note that in the paper there are results from several trained models) as well as a trained model that is comparable in performance but faster (macparseface).

It is very hard to separate those two things from the way they write.
> Forgot to put in your order, brought the wrong food, was mean to you

These are all descriptions of under adequate service and this server should be reprimanded, potentially fired if this keeps up.

Examples of under adequacy removed; You and the parent seem to have similar outlooks. As soon as a server meets the bar for adequate service, the customer is obliged to tip 10-20% based entirely on what they can sustainibly afford.

Rarely does one go higher than 20%, for the truly grand experience.
As someone who has published work in the NLP area, I always take claimed results with a grain of salt. With that said, I still will have to read the paper to know the implementation details, although my problem with generic linguistic approaches such as this one seems to be is that it is usually hard to "port" to other languages.

For instance, the way they parse sequences of words may or may not be too specific to the English language. It is somewhat similar to what we call "overfitting" in the data-mining area, and it may invalidate this technique for other languages.

When I worked on this area (up to 2014), I worked mainly in language-independent statistical approaches. As with everything, it has its cons as you can extract information from more languages, but, in general, with less certainties.

But in general, it is good to see that the NLP area is still alive somewhere, as I can't seem to find any NLP jobs where I live! :)

Edit: I've read it in the diagonal, and it is based on a Neural Network, so in theory, if it was trained in other languages, it could return good enough results as well. It is normal for English/American authors to include only english datasets, but I would like to see an application to another language.. This is a very specialized domain of knowledge, so I'm quite limited on my analysis..
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One of the key issues was that they started STEPS with the premise that they needed NSF funding for running the FONC project on super computers. This strategy is to "time travel" 10 years into the future, like Alan Kay did at Parc to develop the Alto.

In this last phase of the STEPS project, sub-systems like the graphics system were close to running fast enough on commodity hardware, that they changed course during this last phase, abandoning time sloted for design iterations and exploration, to focus on optimization instead.
A previous employer of mine was a hotel. All banquets had a builtin gratuity, and they took 50% off the top before it was even split up among the servers and porters.
> Anyway, they don't provide stats grouped by people, so that assertion is based on what?

The certainly do. You can see that Trump is telling the truth 2% of the time and is mostly true only 6%. Most of his claims are not true. http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/

For comparison, Hillary Clinton rates true (23%) or mostly true (27%) http://www.politifact.com/personalities/hillary-clinton/

> There is no clear-cut right or wrong.

Trump's claim was analyzed. Independent experts were consulted. It's obvious why the ruling went against him.

I don't think distinguishing between hyperbole and lies is Politifact's problem. It's simply calling a lie a lie.

I appreciate that Trump tells lies for political advantage, and that most politicians do the same. However, Trump is in a different league from Clinton, just as the NYT is in a different league from Fox News.
It is true. The Von Neumann Universal Constructor is one.
Quite possibly. It's no stranger than using gold as a medium of exchange. Some things are valued just for being decorative.

Historically amber has also been used in perfume and folk remedies. I have no idea if the Mediterraneans were into that specificially.
> hydras are alive, but do not age

The point is that a hydra that does not age is clearly violating the laws of thermodynamics; hence, eventually, they will age (as you pointed out).
I never imagined there would be any regulation for cable networks content, but apparently the FCC has come up with a host[1]. The equal opportunities rule [47 CFR 76.205] and what is left of the fairness doctrine seem to would have been violated, were Facebook regulated as cable.

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/media/program-content-regulations
[47 CFR 76.205] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/76.205
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I don't understand. I've used Uber and Lyft many times throughout the US and they have great service and lower prices. I live in NYC and it is so wonderful having these services is great.

What is this guy talking about?