skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could relate to a part of it - it's like being on Mars: just you, your mates, and the planet, equally unexplored and unforgiving.
If you click the "web" link underneath the main link at the top, you can find a workaround to read the full article. Some people here would also be subscribers though.
It is pretty simple. If I am forced to attend unnecessary meetings I either bring my laptop and it is a valid assumption that I am not 100% following the meeting or I bring something else if laptops are banned (printouts, etc.). Worst case I will just space out.
If meetings are relevant, well planned, interesting I will listen and contribute. I still might bring and use the laptop for notes.
FWIW, I'm an Indian living in India, and I share your prejudices of Indian prisons. I have no direct or indirect accounts of Indian prisons.

In fact, I googled just now, and found out that a large fraction of the prisoners are sufferers of diseases that are otherwise easily treatable.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3868089/

> A total of 252 (84%) prisoners had anemia.

Clearly, some of those who belong in prisons are on the wrong side of the bars.

Oh, and also, I will never trust Indian government reports or government info websites when they are reporting about their state of affairs.
So if you have two market segments, and one is larger and has existed longer than the other, then the large one is subsidising the small one?

That seems like an odd definition of subsidy.
Banning these sites altogether would be too much. Assign a pre-defined downvote so that the hurdle for ad-driven sources is higher to overcome.
Only the 98% of web traffic that goes through the US.

Although really the other 2% wouldn't be hard to get considering the power they have.
I remember trying this one and thinking that the language was fine(it is literally an update from the makers of the Atari 8-bit BASIC) but the UI is unsuitable as it uses generic Android text input, the same flaw shared by most every other on-device IDE I've tried. That doesn't just mean that it's crude, it's also buggy - the view desynchronizes when editing large bodies of text using that text control.

What touchscreen programming needs is a really polished touchscreen UI, and that challenges the whole assumption of a text editor being ergonomically optimal.
Avoiding Partial Functions in Swift
As an earlier poster said, it is nothing to do with "trust". Software has bugs, surgeons make mistakes. What matters is the relative degree of statistical risk.

If the risk of falling victim to a bug/mistake by a software surgeon is lower than that of a human surgeon, then simple desire for self-preservation you should choose the software. To choose the human over the software, even when it's provably more dangerous is allowing a baseless prejudice to put you at higher risk. It's equivalent to being given the choice between two human surgeons of differing skill levels, and choosing the lesser skilled surgeon on the basis of their ethnicity.
The pharmaceutical industry is disgusting me.
Their goal is no more to cure people but to generate that maximum amount of cash for shareholders.
To chose a price point, they don't look at what research has cost, but what people, government aid and insurance are willing to pay for it and choose chose a price that max out the benefit. In developed country it becomes ridiculous.

As a note, when they have to make risky research they put the risk into a spin-off company with investors that share the risk, and this is how you end up with Gilead buying this probably co-founded research company.
In response to ads, people install ad blockers.

In response to ad blockers, sites install ad blocker blockers.

In response to ad blocker blockers, Reddit adds ad blocker blocker blocker.
They don't have that option as moderators of a subreddit
It has something to do with stories being given a second chance at attention on the front page. I'm guessing a mod decided that it was good content but that it didn't receive enough attention. A side effect of this that I've seen is comments having their timestamp altered as though we've gone back in time to when the article was submitted.
I find the sentimentality towards dead bodies difficult to relate to. I would be fine with my body being left and would not want someone else to die attempting to retrieve it. I suppose my friends and family might not feel the same.
Is a third party's use similarly regulated, so that Palantir couldn't simply relay that data themselves?

Yes, third part use is regulated by Twitter too.

I realize Palantir has demoed similar functionality, but they require you to source your own data subscription.
> Private prisons have little or no incentive to do that.

Understatement of the month. Corporations that happen to be in the business of incarceration have less incentive for reducing recidivism than smartphone makers have incentive for creating hardware that is still working well after two years and one day of use.
As an engineer and son of a doctor, I trust the human surgeon more.
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Doing the Dirty Work
A marketing plan template for newbies or anyone who likes their plans made easy
Software security suffers as startups lose access to Google’s virus data
The Registry for .CLUB domains turns 2 years old
You need to supply your own Gnip subscription to use this though.
Posed human vs computers, like other topics, but I'm starting to see reputation as more important. A quality company is better than a dumb one, regardless of internal mechanism. Some ai-based orgs will be ome the fast food of their industry. And your choice won't be ai vs human but you will shop reputation/quality vs price. And like our diets accomodated automation, so will all our choices.
I gather that you're Dutch, so here's a Dutch link:

http://rechtennieuws.nl/8573/

The Netherlands is far from the nice image it has in the international media. It's the leading country in phone taps and has program that gives the police unlimited rights to harass individuals if the mayor of a city says so.

Perhaps the prisons are empty, but the direction the country takes is pretty much Orwellian.
"
Version 1.90 can access:
Location
approximate location (network-based)
precise location (GPS and network-based)
access extra location provider commands
SMS
send SMS messages
read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
receive text messages (SMS)
Phone
read phone status and identity
directly call phone numbers
Photos/Media/Files
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
read the contents of your USB storage
Storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
read the contents of your USB storage
Camera
take pictures and videos
Microphone
record audio
Wi-Fi connection information
view Wi-Fi connections
Device ID & call information
read phone status and identity
Other
full network access
mock location sources for testing
control vibration
prevent device from sleeping
pair with Bluetooth devices
access Bluetooth settings
install shortcuts
uninstall shortcuts
"
Volkswagen wasn't the only company rigging emission levels
Until the Estonian e-resident can open a bank account remotely (likely later this year when the new law goes into effect), the residency is mostly an interesting curiosity, not much more.
It's worth noting that the author here seems to be a teacher.

One design feature of AP classes is to indeed remove some discretion from teachers. This is a drawback when you have amazing teachers, and a godsend if you have bad or just plain lazy teachers. This is the same pattern as checks-and-balances vs dictators.

Since APs are a control mechanism for teachers then, I would take the article's opinion of APs with a grain of salt. A much more neutral party would be that of a student: a bad test causes pain similar to a bad teacher.

The good news about the student point of view is that most people here can draw from personal experience -- real data.

He cites an AP Calc teacher who was really stellar but got punished by not covering enough material by the time of the AP test.

In your experience, what fraction reflects that AP Calc example above (where discretion is used well at the detriment of the test), and what fraction reflect teachers using discretion badly (and getting caught by the test)? For me the ratio is like 1:3 if not 1:5.

I am open to the idea that there may be good ways to give teachers more discretion in positive ways, but I think it really needs to be acknowledged that APs exist in the first place to solve a problem, a problem that can't just be waved away without convincing data that show an alternative system performs better.
I understand that people take pleasure in doing this sport because it's physically challenging and they find the challenge exciting.

> more than 11 hours after setting off on a dive that was supposed to take five hours.

I mean this is just insane. I can't even imagine trying to do something in which any mistake could instantly cause my death for 11 hours straight.

> "There are lots of questions - the original questions - about where the cave goes, and where the water comes from, and they are still there," he says. "And I am not afraid of the cave."

I appreciate this attitude, but I'm wondering if it would diminish the sport at all to have autonomous vehicles explore the cave before a dive.

It doesn't remove the physical challenge of the sport itself, but it could help divers prepare for tough portions of the dive.

e.g. at 110m depth, narrow passage. Single file proceeding with X minutes budgeted for issues.
I like to be able to tweet someone after I have consumed some of their content - If I read a good guide/technical article or an interesting post it's nice to be able to instantly send something telling the author that it was useful or enjoyable.
There's also the very good "Snap Judgement" podcast about that here: http://snapjudgment.org/where-no-one-should-go
The primary dataset used for testing is "USGS archived earthquake data". Does anyone have a link to the actual dataset?
I'm not techie, so i'd like to ask if my interpretation is ok. The switch from scheme to python is in the tidal change of conceptual thinking? Previously, giants & pioneers approach AI systematically, w consistent logic and clean structure (like maths language).

However, for now, the narrative shifts to "poking around, hoping to poke the right thing"?

I use Racket & its thinking for research. I think that structured thinking is still intellectually important. So it'd still survive, as there'd still be people sticking w it.
I've used Termux (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux) with a Bluetooth keyboard on my Nexus 6P to write a few nodeJS apps. I'd say it's about as good as writing code over SSH. All the important stuff works - serving on localhost, npm, git, etc. Actually, the most annoying thing about it is switching between windows.

As a bit of a bonus there's an extension app for Termux that gives you access to some phone features like SMS receiving and sending, the accelerometer and GPS. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux.api
Also looks nice on Emacs' built-in web wowser (M-x eww)
I think HN should automatically penalize the scores of paywalled sites. Although I'm not sure HN's pro-corporate politics would ever allow it.
Kotlin, the "better Java" language by JetBrains, can also compile to JavaScript.

http://try.kotlinlang.org
That prompts me to say the same thing when people complain about their kids are always in their phones: have you tried being interesting than a phone or a laptop?

If you will actually give people information that is important to their job, they will put a laptop or phone aside and listen to you very closely. But if they're always distracted by something else, could you be wasting their time with this meeting?
He's not wrong. But after 25 years of nobody liking PGP, there's still no alternative that addresses all of its shortcomings.
There are many tasks that machines do today that humans will never outcompete again, and they do it at a superior intersection of benefits and costs. Using a heuristic like that is too lazy and brittle here.
Ok, thanks. Please post the GPU results as well.
Sometimes people coerce me into using services, eg development team found a cool service to manage the project issues or designers want to check out the tool to manage the assets.

There's no way around it.
I found password manager tools to be invaluable in maintaining the accounts, "fire and forget".

They usually opt you in for the marketing emails, but unsubscribing is just one click away in 99% of the cases.

You are spot on about the mobile devices enabling addictive behavior.

I used to have an old Nokia phone, with physical buttons during the smartphones craze and wasn't able to consume entertainment media while away from my computer. I though I'd upgrade to be able to interact better with friends through WhatsApp and whatnot and realized how much more time I fill my brain with junk media, because the phone is always there hence everything is at the tip of the finger.

Although, I found playing chess on my phone to be very convenient, it's been ages since I wanted to try to learn playing chess.

Technology is a double-edged sword and it definitely requires to exert more self control. It's easy not to be bored, to be somewhere in between of being satisfied and not achieving or progressing much.

I love this bit Louis CK did about smartphones, even though a bit jokish but rings true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c
India wants everyone who shares location data to get a license
I disagree with this strongly, mostly because I hate conversations or meeting where people debate something which has a factual answer which someone with a laptop/internet/shell/calculator/IM client/Google can answer definitively in 10 seconds. Instead, people waste minutes (or, worse, say something will be tabled until later, perhaps calling an entirely different meeting!) to deal with it.

If you look at the most productive meetings at places like Google, people have data and processing capability to hand, and end up referring to it. If that is "IM the guy in another state who isn't needed for the meeting but has the a answer to this specific question", easy choice.
Easy code generation with NPM
Don't get the hype. Still a Delaware Inc (C Corp) is better:

- Physical post address can be outside the US

- With Stripe Atlas you can get the bank account for the Delaware without visiting the US (possible with Estonia since few weeks)

- No need to wait months to get the e-residency and to get started (biggest bummer)

- Way larger ecosystem of tax guys and lawyers in the US => more competition => cheaper

- native language is English, so contracts are always and only in English; in Estonia there is one piece which must stay Estonian (don't remember which one)

- Larger ecosystem and English as main language makes it very easier to google answers to any tax or law related questions => huge knowledge base online, with Estonia there's just the documentation from the state

- Default to get VC money, the Estonian entity (OÜ) is not learned and investors are reluctant to put money in

- Estonia follows EU law which is compared to US law extremely consumer friendly, has strong consumer protection rights and super friendly to labor as well => EU law is over-regulating in general

- Cross-country relationships, like Delaware Inc is the holding and local entities are operational are more learned with local tax consultants than with Estonian entities => cheaper

- Delaware Inc.: no need to disclose MDs at the beginning, Estonian entity has full disclosure from day 1

Delaware is doing this business for decades, of course they must be better but I expected more from Estonia's e-residency.
Ads have been fine for years until they started tracking you around, flashing annoying animations, auto playing sound or video or taking up the whole page.

I'm perfectly content with banner and text ads, as long as they're not animated.
Adding random citations to straw man arguments proves nothing. It only make it look "sciency". Is his "work" cited anywhere in relevant science journals?

So far I only find a lot echo-chamber forums and questionable publishers (Kopp-Verlag, esoteric/far right stuff)
Particularly this part is ridiculous:

"As per the current draft, every end user of these apps who does things like shares their location with a friend, posts a status update, or uploads a photo with meta-data, is effectively creating mapping information and will have to get one too."

I mean you got to be kidding me! $150,000 fine, if I tweet where I am having a lunch, yeah this should improve the economy.
Americans brought the end of antibiotics onto themselves.
Even if the world found new antibiotics, their culture is just not amenable to use them responsibly.

How to prevent them from spreading their new diseases to the rest of the world?

Let's follow the advise from their next president and put a wall around their country.
Now I partly agree with this, but there is a bit of activation energy to conquer.

If the audience starts by looking at the phone/laptop, you have to basically buzzfeed people into paying attention ("Oh, here's a cat picture haha, now back to our MRR discussion") for enough time to get the 30 seconds of attention to get them. Because if not, people's attention is already captured by the device

If the policy is like "don't use your laptops for the first couple of minutes", then at least you timebox the important stuff and give the talker a chance.
It is rather obvious from the description that is required so that you can write BASIC programs that use GPS features, etc.

I know that it's quite common at HN to complain about android permissions but this is probably a wrong context to do so.
Project Mis-Management – Even Your Grandmother Needs to Know This
There is plenty of room for a better OpenPGP tool - a more opinionated one with a stronger focus on user-friendliness. But that's a big task, and I guess less exciting than proposing a new crypto standard? (I'm especially baffled by Mailpile's position that they don't have the time or resources to produce a good OpenPGP library, but somehow could afford to produce a new from-scratch standard).

In the meantime, GPG is the best option. For me - without a public email address - an encrypted message is a good thing; it will be either an email from one of my technically oriented friends, or a notification from Facebook.
Why Google Is Giving Me Hope
Since there are no citations which kind of sucks (or did I miss them somehow?)...the 2006 base study mentioned in the article is called: "Computer-assisted navigation and the acquisition of route and survey knowledge" by Münzer, Zimmer, Schwalm, Baus and Aslan
Thank you for suggestion!
Twitter is infamous for censorship and shadowbanning non-politically correct views. Lately they have been suppressing Bernie Sanders supporters[1] and anti-Hillary activists[2].

Twitter is a truly two-faced Orwellian enterprise that is completely in the back pocket of Big Brother.

[1] https://www.change.org/p/petition-request-twitter-not-to-sup...

[2] http://www.vocativ.com/290811/twitter-accused-of-censoring-a...
>that many people in jail are there without having been convicted

Does this scheme apply to jails as well? I was under the impression that this was applicable to state prisons.
This story also aired on ThisAmericanLife
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/551/g...
OK, let me be a devil's advocate for a minute, before we get the pitchforks once again. Let's remember this:

> Gilead Science was first out the gate, bringing the new hep C drugs Harvoni and Sovaldi to market in 2014 and 2015, respectively. And they worked great: More than 90 percent of patients taking the new drugs saw the hep C virus wiped out in three months, and without the side effects that made interferon treatments so intolerable.

So, Gilead is exactly the company that created these drugs from the very beginning. I'm looking at it this way: in 2013 (situation A), there was no cure ("cure" is a simplification, of course, but for this kind of analysis it's not an important detail.). In 2016 (situation B), there is a cure, but it costs $86k.

Now, the moral question here is very simple: when you change the world (as Gilead did) from situation A to situation B, is it net good or net evil deed? In which world of these two would you prefer to live?
Today I accept that Rails is yesterday’s software
Lyft to release self driving taxi fleet by 2017
A woman takes on the rotating corn challenge leaving her with a huge bald patch
It's quite a stretch to say that the FSF supported Oracle before the Supreme
Court. Also you seem to think that the FSF supports API copyrightability as a
means of making free software more attractive to developers. This is not at
all their position. Here is what they said at the time of the Jury verdict in
the first trial[1]:

Were it grounded in reality, Oracle's claim that copyright law gives them
proprietary control over any software that uses a particular functional API
would be terrible for free software and programmers everywhere. It is an
unethical and greedy interpretation created with the express purpose of
subjugating as many computer users as possible, and is particularly bad in
this context because it comes at a time when the sun has barely set on the
free software community's celebration of Java as a language newly suitable for
use in the free world. Fortunately, the claim is not yet reality, and we hope
Judge Alsup will keep it that way.

As for their brief against Google's petition to the Supreme Court[2]:

SFLC and FSF take the position that the decision below is wrong, but that
certiorari should not be granted for three reasons: (1) the decision of the
Federal Circuit merely mispredicts what the Ninth Circuit would do if it had
been the Court resolving Oracle's appeal from the District Court's finding
that the application program interface declarations at issue are
non-copyrightable; (2) the decision rests on narrow factual grounds; and (3)
there is no public interest in continuing to adjudicate this dispute because
Google can now and could have used all material at issue under the terms of
the GNU GPL v2.

What to make of this? It's a bit convoluted. On the general issue of
proprietary APIs, the FSF supports Google's position. But they think the
judgement against Google from the Federal Circuit court carries virtually no
value as precedent, as they say in
their brief[3]:

Despite the manifestly erroneous character of the decision below, the petition
for writ of certiorari should not be granted. The precedential weight of a
decision so evidently mispredicting the law of another Circuit is essentially
nil.

Now independently of the Oracle v. Google dispute, they would prefer if Google
were using the GPL license for Android. Wouldn't it be nice if the bad Federal
Circuit judgment could incentivize Google to use the GPL, without affecting
other cases? I think that is the tactical advantage the FSF saw in opposing
Google's petition to the Supreme Court. And it might have been a good call, as
Google is indeed switching to the GPL Java implementation[4].

[1] https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-statement-on-jurys-partial-verd...

[2] https://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2014/dec/08/sflc-files-...

[3] https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2014/google_v_orac...

[4] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/android-n-switche...
I cannot agree more.

The amount of lunacy and idiocy going on during these "quick" meetings has been driving me nuts. Imagine a room full of VPs, each making no less than $200K a year, discussing the need to spend $1K on hardware.

And the punch line - we just spent more salary $ during this meeting, than it would take to rent these for a year from OVH or AWS.
If it expanded to the rest of Reddit then it might be the impetuous for the news industry to clean up their act.

And no, that's not a mistake. It's not advertisers I direct my ire but those who should know better and who apparently are meant to exist for the greater public good: The Press.