skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they are malicious. They're serving the high-profit ads, which obviously includes malware, where they could be serving low-profit, safe (but boring) ads.

That's equivalent to pharmacists selling illegal drugs (heroin, cocaine) simply because they obviously make them more profits.
Pacheco Pass or Altamont Pass?
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People aren't interested in my meetings hence we must remove the distractions.

Another more constructive approach might be to make your meetings more useful/engaging.
I think that in practice this happens through the normal voting process.
I didn't think of calling TXR from within vim, thanks I'll try that.

Watch could get me closer to the workflow I'm used to from web development where the browser auto-reloads whenever a change is made. Your mentioning vim (of which I'm not exactly a power user) actually prompted me to check if it had the ability to run a command on writing a buffer or to automatically reload a file when it changes. Turns out it does indeed have ways to do both these things, so that might be another way to achieve what I'm after.
Cool! Congrats guys!
> No new drugs. Pretty simple.

I doubt that. There's no reason why the same research couldn't be academic research.

Global spending on drugs research is only $77 billion a year. Take the 20 richest countries in the world and that's less than $4 billion a year each. That's less than half the UK's EU rebate.

(EDIT: not enough coffee to add correctly)
I wonder what is the control group here? I mean I'm sure that giving away free money helps, but shouldn't the question be 'Is this the most effective way to help'?
Please correct me if I am wrong, but as I understand it in GPG's case perfect forward secrecy simply cannot be used. PFS can be used in frameworks where the two parties interact and can use DH or similar protocols to establish an ephemeral session key. In GPG models the two parties do not interact: the first one produces a ciphertext and the second one decrypts it possibly a lot of time later. In this model the plain text is by definition a function of the ciphertext and the secret key. The only way to circumvent it would be to change how maths work.

So, I do not think that GPG can be declared broken because it does not have PFS. It simply is targeted at use cases where this does not make sense (and there are valid examples of such use cases). If it is used in wrong ways or in context where other encryption schemes would be more suitable, then this is a user's fault. I cannot really understand what the article's author is proposing about fixing GPG problems.
Can you elaborate on why a broader array of input fonts would help?

Wouldn't best accuracy come from obtaining the single font that is actually used for the licence plates (or finding the closest match), since in this scenario there isn't any variation as all plates are made according to a single standard?
vaguely related: the largest successful rescue mission of a scientist who was injured in a cave in Germany http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27914426
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It's surprising to see such an article #1 in HN ... right after a long weekend of cave diving training!

It's a sport that requires a lot of preparation, planning, risk estimation and counter-measures. My hobby cave dives are nothing like such explorations, but the principles are the same.

In the end, when you go diving, the level of risk is close to 0: one regulator may fail (risk around 1/100 if well checked), two won't fail during the same dive (risk of two failures 1/100 x 1/100 = 1/10000 which is negligible--if I got the figure right, I didn't double check! EDIT: it's rather 1/1000 x 1/1000 = 1/1.000.000). And we use two independent air tanks, and with air reserves managed with one regulator fault in mind, as well as the 'little' panic induce by the regulator fault. That's called the 1/4 rule, we use it in France in FFESSM diving organisation.
Yes, but why has Hacker News chosen to force this upon Tor users? Given the audience, I think they should whitelist as per these instructions:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-D...
> Personally I do not want any machine learning consensus algorithm with control over a surgical procedure in my body

Isn't the surgeon's brain a machine learning algorithm in physical form? Humans are more versatile today and can adapt do different situations, but I don't see this as a argument against machine learning necessarily.
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Which to me appears to be the better way around, since it generates static JS instead of having to compile Java every time, as well as having to set up a JVM and whatnot.
No-one has a responsibility to keep Wired or Forbes in business. Either they'll figure out a business model that works, or they won't; either way it's not the redditors' problem.
Better example: it's going from "our illegally obtained telephone intercept told us that your red 2013 Kenworth T800 headed north on I95 from Atlanta to New York this morning, with 2MT of cocaine in the fuel tanks". To telling the driver that "it looks like one of your tires is low", and working up to a search.
BTW, by GPG I actually meant OpenPGP. The tool itself may have shortcomings, but everyone is welcome to write another one that uses the same standard and works better.
>Twitter (The BEST tool in my mind, and I don’t follow the stream so no clouded mental space.)

So... the article title a lie, understandable because he needs mad pageviews yo, but this is what I really don't understand.

Is he saying he only posts to twitter, never reading it - essentially, he seems to think someone else's words will cloud "mental space" but not his own? What's even the point. Just write it down in a notebook instead.

How can people be so brainwashed that they fail to see the irony in disparaging social media but acting like somehow twitter isn't exactly the same if not worse.
I'm an avid explorer, regularly setting off to do things that are not entirely "safe". (though nothing on this scale).

The story of Chris McCandless[1] (Into The Wild) spoke to me so strongly, I made the trek[2] into the wilderness where he passed away, an old bus on the side of a trail in Alaska.

Chris' is a very controversial story, with many people believing he was an idiot for wandering in there "unprepared" and many thinking he is inspirational. I wound up spending 4 years living in the North, exploring the far corners of Yukon and Alaska.

I feel strongly there are some personality types that just need to get "off the map" and I love the part of Jon Krakauer's book Into The Wild where he suggests having a piece of wilderness on the earth that literally has no map. People can choose to go in there to explore. They'll (likely) find mountains, rivers, lakes, caves, etc. but nothing will be mapped, everything is to be discovered. When they return, they can't talk specifics, or show photos.

Some of us want to go places that have been unexplored, and we accept that risk.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless

[2] http://theroadchoseme.com/the-magic-bus
I wish it could be suppported by terminfo, but as long as its developer reject to do any work to extent terminfo to support truecolor, I'll promote this standard without dependency from terminfo. Also, speaking about 'modern' mechanism he means to use 'ncurses', but as you can see, a lot of console programs prefer not to use this library.
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If people are bringing laptops and cell phones and are on them in your meeting, you are not really having a meeting with them. They are there, but they are not there.
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> It's the leading country in phone taps

That is worrying, but unfortunately not distinctive compared to other countries.

> and has program that gives the police unlimited rights to harass individuals if the mayor of a city says so.

That is from 2006. Is that still an issue?
I was a kid in post-communist Poland in 90s, and the concept of nerd was absent as well. Being good at math etc was not a problem to your social life (in fact it was sth you could brag about, just not too openly because that's uncool too).

Also there was almost no "jocks" (there were some sport competitions but no cheerleaders, and nothing as important culturally as it is in USA, also teams weren't persistent between classes and there were almost none inter-school sport events).

Grades were public as well (or at least - nobody tried to hide them so teachers would just pin a list with results from an exam on the board). Competition was seen as sth natural (at the time unemployment was 20% and kids were told that you have to be good or you will essentially be a hobo).

On the other hand you were supposed to pretend you didn't had to study a lot, because kids that study instead of playing were "kujon"s = boring, lame bookworms. It was cool to be smart without working for it.

Also cheating had no stigma attached, but telling any authority about any misbehaving was the ultimate social suicide. This obviously included telling teachers that other kids were cheating.

This was probably because 50 years of paid spying of citizens on each other by abusive government. Even now whistleblowing in general is hard because of that social stigma.

Nerd and geek concept was introduced later through movies and internet and in mid 00s it was already established, but still not a negative stereotype (but that may be because I changed environment to CS-related in the meantime and ~ everybody was a nerd/geek/whatever).
The dividend to stockholders are less than 10x what they give back to the Federal Government.
This link claims it may be possible to open an account without UK management (e.g. with HSBC), but I'm no expert here:
https://www.rapidformations.co.uk/blog/business-bank-account...
> However, until AGI is a solved problem I do not want an automated algorithm making decisions with a knife to my organs.

AGI isn't yet discovered yet we allow planes to fly themselves, markets allow automated agents to spend billions and so on. What if the algorithm was proved to be 10x safer than a human expert? Even without AGI they could be better than humans.
It's unclear for now. But from outside it looks like stalled, yes.
Thanks for sharing that link. Heres a similar article from Wired: http://www.wired.com/1995/11/divers-2/
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>Quality health care for all would probably blossom thanks to more access to affordable drugs than ever. Drug development would probably slow down significantly without compensating measures. But would that be so bad? Medical research is increasingly a game of diminishing returns...

If that's true then this problem will resolve itself in a decade or so when these drugs go off patent.
I feel similarly. However the article notes:

> Having the bodies would help the families grieve, and would also help to prevent lengthy delays to insurance and inheritance settlements.

Risking lives to recover dead bodies does not sound logical and yet it's the norm on underwater accidents. One of the multiple examples of a recovery gone wrong is the case of David Shaw [1], particularly famous because there's footage of the recovery accident.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shaw_(diver)#Last_dive
Human surgeons will supervise the semi-automatic robot surgeon, but instead of having maybe 2% great surgeons and 98% mediocre ones, we will have 100% great surgeons. The role of the human will be to integrate information from other AI tools, like, for example, ones that analyze the DNA, blood work, or propose diagnosis and direct the robotic arms to the selected procedures. It will be very high tech to be a doctor, for sure. And people's expectations will immediately inflate and take it for granted in 20 years.
We are passing the Turing test right on schedule
As an MD and a software developer, I vote the machines.
I guess that depends on how you think about risk - if it's about some probability of an unfortunate event, or maximum unavoidable damage in case of that event. A 1/10000 chance of certain death doesn't sound like something I'd like to take.
It depends what you're doing with it.

I find that if I sit doing nothing in a somewhat boring meeting, my mind will wander and I'll often zone out completely.

Whereas if I use my phone to play simple visual games which don't require any language processing (e.g. freecell), I'm much more able to concentrate on what the speaker is saying.

It's not quite as good as listening properly, but overall I think listening to everything with half an ear (or more) is better than missing parts of the meeting entirely. And if anything directly relevant comes up I can stop and focus.
Ads have never been safe. I got adware from an ad ~15 years ago.
What do you mean by "modern C++"? C++11, C++14 or C++17?
There are older book that a word "modern" on a cover, but they cover old-style C++ with template meta-programming.
At what point does the blood wash off? Are the Britons entitled to reparations for the viking raids? Should Mongolia make right Khan's conquests? Should Germany get back the land that was taken from them through the Treaty of Versailles? Or does this eternal sin only apply when whites did something to non-whites?
Facebook is a large company that needs to lobby the federal government on a variety of issues, which necessitates a presence in DC.

What a ridiculous statement. I wish I had enough karma to downvote you.
Not sure about "global citizen" but I certainly don't feel particularly tied to any country.
The good: Scifi demonstrates how outsider perspective is often valuable.

The bad: Faster horse problem. You don't leard what people actually want or need. You learn what people might think they might want.

For "new" ideas I like to read failed concepts from the dawn of the technology in question. You will find stuff that was conceived by masters of their field, but which failed for some relatively minor reason. Those minor reasons might not be true anymore.
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There is one benefit of incorporating in Estonia: 0% corporate tax on undistributed earnings.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9104188

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872410
Lisping is a very good example on iOS of coding with touch.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lisping/id512138518?mt=8

I am yet to find something similar on Android.
Seriously, when a corporation creates a VM and enforces a standard, and provides APIs for use in their framework/software ecosystem - just don't adopt it.

If it is done via a Foundation with an API/ABI that is freely available to use - then use this.

But never adopt a framework created by a corporation if you can avoid it. And that includes .NET. While the current corporation may be benign, some other rapacious and unethical corporation might buy them out - then you are screwed.
But you don't need 10 laptops for that. I agree with the article strongly. At Google, the team with the best meeting culture I've been in had a no laptop culture (not rule, but new team member would adjust pretty quickly when everyone else had no laptop except for the presenter / note taker). Our meetings were shorter than in my other teams, and more productive.

But I also agree, if a meeting is not productive for you, there is no need to attend them (and meeting notes should be sufficient to catch up).
I have tried two approaches to address these problems: "Pure" graphical programming (http://flowgrid.org) and collapsed function declarations, avoiding large text bodies (although for JS, not BASIC: https://tidejnet.appspot.com/v3/). Both are still prototype-ish, but if you take a look, let me know what you think should be improved..
I don't think the assessment that they were part of a future algorithm is too far off. Given enough expert input picking a fitting image/video or headline should be doable. Worst case you reduce the number of humans needed to one quality assurance person. Algorithm says "this headline, this image"...yes/no;fix.
Please don't rewrite titles unless they are misleading or linkbait. The submitted title ('People see themselves as global citizens rather than citizens of their country') says something quite different than the original.
so why cant a defense "Oracle Java sucked on ARM... we built something better to help developers" work ? Does this mean that you can port.. but not improve ?

My point is that the defense is very nuanced ....
This blog post is not constructive. The points are redundant summaries of what everyone already knows, ad-hominem attacks users of gpg based on a straw-man presumption, and does not educate the reader about how to construct better alternatives.

Attacking GPG is "an easy target", and is really cliché - you get to sound profound without actually doing anything constructive. All of the arguments against GPG have analogous counterparts against using X509, yet there is no out-of-the-blue chiding of people who "would voluntarily use" X509.
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The best meeting policy I saw was this one:

1) All meetings are capped to be maximum 15 minutes long. No exceptions. (This means everyone have to be prepared, and there are pre-designed meeting plans to follow).

2) There are two slots each day that can be used anytime: one "briefing" in the morning, and one "debriefing" in the evening. If something urgent happens, there is also one possible slot mid-day for emergency meetings, to be used sparingly.
I was finding it difficult to work out which 3rd party libraries and frameworks supported .NET Core so I've created a simple list with the details [0]. Feel free to send a pull request to add ServiceStack [1]. I left out libraries that I couldn't find an official commitment for, such as an open issue.

[0] ASP.NET Core Library and Framework Support - https://anclafs.com

[1] https://github.com/jpsingleton/ANCLAFS/compare
So, I got interested in this article's description of horrid working conditions and decided to read about it carefully. But I noticed that it gives emotional descriptions of it long before the actual facts. I wouldn't go as far as calling this a manipulation, but it's certainly a disturbing writing style.

3rd paragraph:

> grueling work conditions, humiliating treatment, and a secretive, imperious culture in which they were treated as disposable outsiders.

6th paragraph:

> “It was degrading as a human being,” said another. “We weren’t treated as individuals. We were treated in this robot way.”

And then, finally, on 10th paragraphs, we get a glimpse on the facts:

> they received benefits including limited medical insurance, paid time off after 6 months and transit reimbursement

(BTW, is it usual for contractors to receive such perks?)

> A company happy hour would happen at 8 p.m., and we’d be working

Horrible, inhumane treatment indeed.

> Over time, the work became increasingly demanding, and Facebook’s trending news team started to look more and more like the worst stereotypes of a digital media content farm. Managers gave curators aggressive quotas for how many summaries and headlines to write, and timed how long it took curators to write a post. The general standard was 20 posts a day.

20 posts during 8 hour work day is almost half an hour on one post. It is considered too little? Seriously?

So — apart from all the pretty words, I didn't really see any especially bad treatment. Hell, I'm pretty sure that your average newspaper employees have more nightmare stories.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11657665 and marked it off-topic.
An article from a Norwegian newspaper about the original incident, with visualisation of their diving profile, timelines, etc:
http://www.vg.no/spesial/2014/dodsdykket/index_eng.php
The net output is overconfident, but this can be (partially) corrected with probability calibration. It's also used for SVM, which is usually underconfident.
Surely an ROV could be tasked to this effort (at least for the identification part for insurance).
> A 1/10000 chance of certain death doesn't sound like something I'd like to take.

(maybe I was a little bit off, it's more likely that the risk of failure is 1/1000, so sum is 1/1.000.000)

but the point is, it's more risky to drive back home after the weekend than to recreational cave dive, especially with dive fatigue!
Also, I would write by humans, not by ants.

One could also have a deep philosophical discussion whether ants actually can discover anything (how much consciousness/ability to abstract/... is needed for that, and do ants posses it? Or maybe, do ants lack it, but ant colonies have it? Or is it DNA that discovered it using a genetic search algorithm?)
I certainly agree that if your laptop is open, you're not really listening. (If you're looking up something for the meeting, then the fact that you're not listening may well be a contribution, of course.)

What I think is not so clear is whether or not it's okay to have people at a meeting who are mostly-not-present, but just background-listening. They might know that the meeting is mostly not for/about them, but that it might touch on their stuff, and they want to stay loosely informed. Of course, if someone takes good notes and sends them around, those might be just as good, but maybe no such notes exist.
The only 'censoring' was done by user flags.
I'm sure that America had no problem with it, they having the De-facto world currency and all...
Generally a positive trend.

I wonder what is keeping Germans from feeling global?
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I actually tried running TXR from a Python web service so that I could work with it via a web interface, but running it with subprocess felt all wrong. It didn't occur to me to do it as CGI as it would have seemed far too ambitious for a beginner, but that looks surprisingly straightforward.
That's a really valuable lesson learned from The Lean Startup :-)
Both npm and bower seem to work OK in .NET Core. My only issue is the amount of data they dump into your project. The packages take up a lot of space so they take a while to restore and you need to be careful not to add them to source control. For example, by default the node_modules folder takes 18MB of a 20MB project and has over 3000 files in.
> buzzfeed people

That's a great idea and reminded me of an SAP SME we used to have who would insert meme photos at arbitrary points of a slide-deck. Worked well for breaking the zombie-trance of attendees.

Another rule I saw was to allow people to bring laptops but leave them on a table at the back of the room. Still available for reference and emergencies but the attendees had to make a conscious and obvious to go to the laptop.
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Sounds fairly high with a regulator failure rate of 1%, especially if it is well checked, isnt it?
I think that's an unfair dig at Spider Jerusalem. He's a decent (fictional) journalist in my opinion. Trying to uncover truth and stuff, old school.

More on topic though, the comments section of the article is also full of "booohoo they have it sooo tough" comments but I think work conditions are relative. It's the typical job agency treatment only a couple of levels higher. If everyone around you is living the Facebook life and you're curating news in a basement/conference room...sure that's not horrible but it's still fairly indecent treatment.

Disclaimer: Huge Transmetropolitan fan, programmer not journalist :)