skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if everyone in this thread and this study is using the same vocabulary. When I hear or use the term "global citizen" I think of someone who doesn't pledge loyalty to any government but instead recognizes the existence of a global human community that they are already a part of.

Judging by some responses, however, it seems as if using the term "global citizen" is seen as implicit support for some kind of central world government.
HTTPS link: https://dl.bintray.com/rfo-basic/android/v01.78/Basic.apk

(I have done no verification of the contents here, merely added an 's' and checked that the download still works).
Try making it with Electron http://electron.atom.io/

Then if you decide later you want it to be a web app its not that big of a job to convert it.

I have worked on a surprising number of desktop apps over the years, including Visual Studio and Internet Explorer. But even before that, a lot of businesses rely on desktop applications for a lot of their internal applications.
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> It's a private company's prerogative to display whatever content they wish

True, but it could be argued that users are reasonable in assuming that Facebook is a neutral or automatic platform, not manually manipulating content to achieve political goals. If that is true the ethics of misleading millions of people is at best questionable.
It is perfectly possible to affirm that a company has the legal right to do whatever they wish, while at the same time arguing that you find it disgraceful.

Specifically with regards to Facebook, they position themselves as a platform and not as a publisher, so it's not that strange that they're being held to the standards that we expect from a platform, of which neutrality is a big one.
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I have just have one 'why':

Why is Japan's GDP growth looking like this: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp

Not that I don't like posts about management techniques but from Toyota (their best years are also some time ago) from Japan... I don't know.
I think you are right. My troll detector was triggered by the request for downvotes.
For the last 20 years people have been saying "web pages today are too big." And for the last 20 years they've continued to get bigger.

The right size for a web page depends less on the opinion of random developers, and more on the website's owners and users.
I'm not aware of any legal action taken over malware served up from add on a website.

But if it were to happen, the website is who is sue, because it is within their responsibility to ensure that ads and/or content should not cause harm to a visitor.
The idea of lone geniuses single-handedly bringing upon revolutions in science and tech doesn't help, and it's perpetuated by our culture. Nobody thinks of the leagues of engineers or doctoral students or fellow "no-name" professionals who also do a lot of the work. It's really sort of fascinating how we idolatrize singular people who themselves will admit they were standing on the shoulders of giants.
Looking to see if there's anyone interested in working together on building smarter marketing automation software: http://orchestrahq.com

I'm looking for someone with good machine learning skills to build basically a marketing/customer interaction assistant for small businesses.

My background is both technical and business - did customer development, built the MVP and validating idea.
Lots of services, easy to try (just one command: https://github.com/tsuru/tsuru-bootstrap), support docker clusters(pools), auto scale, metrics, in production using docker since the beginning (about 2 years).
I've seen the opposite effect. Parents with too much money placing their mediocre kids on mediocre traveling teams, to drive 800 miles to play other teams, when you know there is local talent that would give them all they could handle.
Yea, it's horrible that high-quality journalists won't just work for free.
If you're going to parrot Marcia Angell, at least get the substance right: They spend more on marketing and administration than they do on R&D. Where "administration" is stuff like IT, HR, etc.
> This is the internet we are talking about. Let them suppress, and let them see what happens.

As long as it gets out you mean?
Yes, with ucraft.me you don't need any developer or coding knowledge. Everything is "drag and drop", and it makes website building fun and easy experience.
Some newspapers have well known left or right leanings. But its declared and out in the open. Most people thought Facebook news was organically trending. That's the difference here.
They absolutely have a right to display what they want. However, just as Fox News gets slammed for claiming to be "fair and balanced", Facebook should be shown the same contempt for claiming their news is in any way an actual representation of what is trending on Facebook. They have a right to do it, but that doesn't mean users have to be ok with it. Furthermore, I would much rather have a biased editorial process that is run by people that have at least been exposed to so form of media ethics, than a bunch of tech managers telling recent Ivy-league graduates what to curate.
I'm talking about professional registration (exams, licenses to practice, supervisory body, jail sentences for impersonation, forefeiture of registration for ethics infractions), not bog-standard trade law.
Given Facebook's influence and the sheer size of their userbase, the potential long-term implications of this particular kind of manipulation are... unsettling.
That's a problem with your phone company not websites, 500MB really isn't enough for using the modern web.

Also since when exactly did websites have a mandate to economise to the scale of mobile data? It's always been edge case unless you are specifically targeting that.
Watch out, this sets random keys to ultimate trust.
There's a guy called Andy Brice[1] who has been developing and selling desktop software for table seating plans[2] since 2005. He blogs[3] a bit about his experiences and thoughts.

[1] https://twitter.com/successfulsw

[2] http://www.perfecttableplan.com/

[3] https://successfulsoftware.net/
This is the internet we are talking about.
Most languages use some sort of interface whereby if you implement certain methods for a type then that type can be iterated over using a for loop.
I wonder how would the result image look after this kind of processing https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601258/artificial-intelli...
Hmm, this is a bit confusing as the book is also quite terse for being a book teaching about a new language, and also heavily example based.
I don't know if dumb is the right word. Ignorant is probably most apt.

I want you to think about all of the food that's in your house. Eliminate anything that you would consider intentionally sugary like candy, confection, soda, etc. Now how much of a time consuming task would it be to scrutinize every label for needlessly added sugar? Consider how many people would be willing to do that to check for some extra sugar?

And that's why, I believe, companies can throw extra sugar in their products without most of the public being none the wiser. Not only would you have to check your current inventory, you'd have to stay abreast of the issue every time you went shopping. If you went shopping for the entire month like me, you'd spend an extra hour in the store reading labels to check for newly added sugar.
Of course it's not an answer - just asking "why" gets you turtles all the way down, and "stop after five steps" may halt you with a stack that's too shallow; as you say, it's a rule of thumb.

And now we're finally getting somewhere :) Cynicism can be a tool, a catalyst - "these are all the things that are unfixable, because Eeeeverything Sucks" is a good set for asking "are they all, really? Are there those that are only hard to fix, and which of them are worth fixing?" As you say, it's rare that there's a single, clear-cut answer for an issue, especially when it's not purely technical one.

I didn't intend my reply as a rant, and surely didn't intend it to mean "everything is broken, get out of here" as a solution.
not as close as you think it is. perhaps C is still 2x, 3x faster.
Genuine question: do you think all journalism should be done for free?

I can somewhat an understand an opposition to advertising or paywalls. Opposing both is unconscionable.
Not just intelligence but also endurance when traveling long distances.

Basically intelligence + long distance running = ability to track prey.
I have read Ohno's book. http://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Production-System-Beyond-Large-...

One thing that stuck out to me was how long everything took to figure out on the Toyota Production System. Ohno spent decades streamlining processes. The timeline is in the inside cover of my copy of the book.

Fascinating read, and easier to read than some other "Toyota Production" books written by academics. Recommend.
The expensive, risky part of drug development is not the portion that is publically funded. Yay! You've found a compound that appears to shrink tumors when directly applied to them on glass slides.

Now, figure out what the correct dose is, how to get it into a mammal so that it's not metabolized into uselessness, how much you can safely give the mammal.

Now, start again with humans and hope you don't get to the final stage only to find out that it's not as effective as existing treatments or has side effects that will open you up to lawsuits.

Finally, once you've done all that, scale out the production of your compound such that you can prove that every dose meets FDA quality requirements.
If you're getting a blood transfusion it's usually because you need it. I'd take hepatitis C over death any day.
Nestle also sells water, which if consumed in large quantities, will absolutely result in you being dead.

They also advertise it like crazy.

How are these two things meaningfully different?
Really? You're surprised that people in general don't make the most healthy dietary choices? Given the almost epidemic rise of obesity and related issues in the West and particularly in the US?

Your conclusion is arrogant, unfair, unhelpful, and unactionable. To be fair, the "corporations are evil" conclusion is similarly unhelpful.

This is actually a prime example of a coordination problem [1]. We're going to have to do better than just pushing the blame around if we're going to do something about it. For instance, obesity is a bigger problem among the poor than the well-to-do. Why? One of the most trivial reasons is the fact that unhealthy food is also inexpensive!

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
>valueless common good, mostly in the western world

I have to pay for tap water though.

>But sure, if you need to confirm the BigCo CEO as incarnation of Satan, go ahead...

You don't need Satan when you've got a BigCo CEO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestle_boycott
What was "given back" was mostly proceeds from maturing Federal bonds. Commercial banks are just first in line to get a special cut, by law.
From an extremely pure free-market conservative/capitalist approach, sure, there is nothing wrong with this, they can do what they want.

From a basic governmental regulation (Hayek) monopoly approach, FB is the incumbent and it will be extremely difficult for anyone else to gain a foothold here. Regulation ought to make it easier for others to approach the space. They are the single biggest voice in the news at this point, and whatever stances they support has an inestimable advantage in ways that far outstrip campaign finance contributions or lobbying. They may have to be governmentally disrupted to keep their power from becoming too great.

From a consumer labeling perspective, Facebook is profiting off improperly calling articles "trending" that are just their preferred way to view the world.

I just wonder if these articles go far enough to collapse any trust.
I work with EHRs. Patient context bugs (patient number, visit number, chart number, encounter number, or any combination thereof) don't come up THAT often but it seems like everyone has them. It's actually surprising the occurrence is low since most of them are giant piles of WinForms spaghetti by now.
This is a good step towards knowing more.

Even though it seems microbiome is a science buzzword, it might be our entry to understanding, quantifying, the individual biologic differences between humans.

I long for the day I can take a pill that analyzes your gut and tells you what are the effects of your diet, and what you could do to improve ______ (concentration, tiredness, excrements, muscle buildup).

Gutyltics anyone?
Unlike the Red Queen problem of arms race, "fighting the previous war" could help with one class of support problems (not always, not all problems). "Hmm, we've been here before, we know how to fix this; plus we should make it harder to get here again by accident."
Certainly a type of juicy irony that the article author writing about a "crisis" should include his own post in that crisis.

Not to mention that their sentiment is unoriginal by a factor of possibly a decade.
I like the regular "Werewolf" :)

Nice to read of one that doesn't need too much people.

If we are below 5 people, we usually play "Nosferatu", which ends on the first try to kill the Vampire. It's also much faster.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/137290/nosferatu
Rocket landings are different than plane landings, but that doesn't mean powered landings are less worthwhile. In either case a powered landing means a more precise, more reliable, more repeatable situation. And if you want to maximize the operational lifetime of the equipment, that's what you want.
Exploring the Elizabeth line, one of the world’s largest construction projects
Also of note: https://github.com/nikhilk/node-tensorflow
I worked for a company that developed some PA criteria for these drugs, I can assure you a lot of debate went into this criteria.. these two specific drugs are probably the most hotly contested drugs. If we sold them at the 84k price tag to anyone that COULD use it, the entire insurance industry would go bankrupt, literally. Not even an exaggeration. While your logic is sound, the drug is cheaper than a liver transplat... not everyone who has Hep C ends up getting a liver transplant. There's a huge gap between the number of people who COULD use the drug (and have a MUCH better quality of life), and the people who are most qualified for it. The drug companies are not doing the government a favor here... sorry.

Another side conversation that's interesting, is who takes the $84k hit. There's sound logic that it's cheaper to give the drug NOW vs paying for surgery LATER... but what if i'm not your insurer when you need it. With obamacare, you can't be denied because of pre-existing conditions... so it's interesting math.
As I sell mainly on Steam, Steam handles the updating, it works out the diff and updates the files that have changed.
>The former curators, all of whom worked as contractors, also said they were directed not to include news about Facebook itself in the trending module.

Heh, not really a big surprise to me. Rule probably doesn't apply to whenever MZ makes a big announcement though. Betting those got stuck high in the rankings from day 1. Anyway, sounds about right for any image-protective service, or, you know, typical state-run-media censorship.
I wonder if their viewpoint has changed since the more than decade and a half since that article was published. Is it that hard to find something current if it's so fundamental to your argument?
> In the modern world, it's not ideal to create a drug to cure something. Once people are cured they no longer need your drug. That's why we have so many drugs like Lipitor and Viagra that treat symptoms but do not cure.

I don't think that's a reasonable conclusion at all. One of the main reasons we have so many drugs that treat symptoms is because cures are absurdly difficult to find while treatments can be found accidentally (Viagra was originally intended to treat hypertension).

Funding research into cures is funding your own bankruptcy. Pfizer execs would jump a the opportunity for "Pfizer" to be the name of the company that cured cancer. But the reality is, hunting for cures is expensive with little chance of payoff. That's not how you stay in business.
Although most people know Yamaha as a manufacturer of motor bikes and possibly electronics its origins are in manufacturing music instruments.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_Corporation

"Yamaha was established in 1887 as a piano and reed organ
manufacturer by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Company,
Limited (日本楽器製造株式会社 Nippon Gakki Seizō Kabushiki
Kaisha?) (literally Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing
Corporation) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture and was
incorporated on October 12, 1897. The company's origins as
a musical instrument manufacturer are still reflected
today in the group's logo—a trio of interlocking tuning
forks"

Today it's the world's largest manufacturer of music instruments. The range covers just about anything on which you can play a tune.

Branching into motorcycles and electronics happened only after WWII.

So, yeah, they probably know a thing or two about acoustics.

Edit : Better legibility
There are many other explanations.
I suspect this is more a result of the media's heavy pro-Clinton bias rather than any overt attempt by Facebook. Remember that the mainstream media is ultimately the primary driver of these algorithms.
https://gitlab.com/jnxx/check-trustpaths/issues/1
That's why I said it was a good try. I don't think it's a bad idea, but if you ever wanted to push the needle close to zero, you would have to add some other layer of checking.
15 page terms of service document versus an easy to read table that lists sugar, salt and fat content of a product?

It is my view that companies have the obligation to make information available about their products and do so in an easy-to-read manner, everything else is consumer's choice. Your comparison lacks relevance in my opinion.

(and in cases where someone asks stupid questions, which can be easily answered by looking in the manual page, yes... please read it...)
Not looking for a co-founder for a business idea, but a partner for a hobby project this summer. Someone who knows hardware. I can do the software/firmware. I want to build a simple internet enabled on/off toggle.

Preferably looking for someone in Southern California.
> Most people thought Facebook news was organically trending.

“They trust me. Dumb fucks.”
Actual figures on the 'crisis'

http://www.httparchive.org/interesting.php?a=All&l=Apr%201%2...

Average of 2.3MB with 60% of that being images. 50% of that content can be cached for a least a day.
If that were the case we should expect health problems from horses that go too long between pregnancies, yes? Otherwise the nutrients are not "vital."
> Diabetes is not always a byproduct of over consuming sugar

Refined carbs in general are the big issue, but sugar in particular is a very large part of the problem. It's difficult to buy any processed food that doesn't contain sugar these days.

> or even encourage over consumption of sugar

They market sugar-laden foods to children, such as sickly-sweet breakfast cereals - IMO they do encourage over consumption of sugar.

> I don't see what the actual problem is

I think the problem with Nestle doing both of these things is that it creates a pretty clear conflict of interest - to maximise revenue, they need to sell as many sugar laden products as they can, so they can sell more much diabetes medication.
It's a function of their money supply growth - which is now extremely low. Back in the 70's and 80's during the Japanese Bubble, it was relatively much higher.

Prices are a rather fuzzy function of the money supply, total production, and the supply of credit (for things customarily bought with debt). GDP is calculated by adding up prices of goods and services sold. Even though it is typically corrected for inflation growth, this doesn't adequately compensate for monetary growth, because production growth acts to reduce prices, and the two mask each other to some extent.

tldr: GDP is a terrible way to measure a countries output/growth.
lol, where do you think drug companies do research? That's right in India.
FB is the incumbent and it will be extremely difficult for anyone else to gain a foothold here

"Will MySpace Ever Lose Its Monopoly?" (2007): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/08/business....
Do you mind recommending which forex api you use? I've been interested in experimenting but it's hard to make the jump.
Unlike most management methodology nonsense, it works and makes sense.
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"Diminishing returns."
Why don't they have a public, encrypted database where anyone can use their private key to sign certificates authorizing providers to post information about them, and the providers sign it with their certificates also? So you can share (some of) your health history with anyone you want to, but otherwise it would be anonymous and private??
Educator, create your own Shark Tank
Same, and in a few cases I didn't realize they were ads because they were so non-intrusive.
Do you think you're disagreeing with me somehow? My post was about history. Giving me an example of someone concretely stating some modern opinion doesn't change history. Even if you are totally correct, which I do not stipulate, you're opinions are still recent.

Having made sure to stay focused on my core point, I'm going to point out that you're basically begging the question. The model of diabetes as unrelated to the form of incoming calories is the standard model, and that is specifically what is being questioned. Basically just reiterating the standard model isn't really an argument. And it's not that hard to imagine that sugar really is related when we are discussing the mechanism the body uses to regulate sugar. Specifically sugar, the pancreas is not responsible for regulating some sort of ontological "generic obesity particles".
Also, are the type of people who attend city hall meetings the type of people who are most benefited by public transportation?
I just read through that.
Asking questions and planning up front? Documentation before code?
Thats so waterfall. (And it works quite well for some projects). Certainly having a problem that isn't clearly defined is a good way build something that doesn't solve the problem well.
For anyone curious the idea that we make slow, discrete progress and that the idea that a few brilliant souls are responsible for most of the advances in human hostory is a bunch of hogwash, Matt Ridley has written an excellent book on the subject, The Evolution Of Everything (amazon.com/Evolution-Everything-How-Ideas-Emerge/dp/0062296000). Coincidentally he's also written a fabulous book on the human genome, either way it's great stuff and absolutely critical to understanding how to we can (as a species) progress most effectively.
I'm curious why the author says Linux is "insecure, anti-secure, and anti-privacy software"
Can anyone explain this?

Also, why OpenBSD specifically, and not FreeBSD for example?
Interesting, just last week my friend and I were debating how much Google and Facebook can influence an election.

We agreed it would be catastrophic if either decided to lean one way or the other...

Facebook is essentially suppressing free speech. Although, it has somewhat a right to do what it wants, it is skewing what other people share with one another (which is a big deal)
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They are not looking for a co-founder, just helping others to find each other. Or they could be looking for karma.
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