skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This paper would be much improved by cutting the material on linear models, which AFAIK is not new. Then by properly explaining the assumptions (Axa...) they are trying to do away with for nonlinear models rather than referring the reader to previous work.
I really don't see Ethereum killing Uber or AirBnB, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

The reason people use Uber or AirBnB is because of

1) trust

2) network effects (you need a LOT of users for these things to be useful)

3) great, fast, simple UX

None of which Ethereum or Ethereum companies have yet, and even if Ethereum becomes popular, Uber clones on ETH face the same uphill battle as any other company trying to take on Uber.

It doesn't really matter for the average user what the underlying tech is, if it's powered by a decentralised cryptocurrency or not.
I've heard with 60fps refresh, the power efficiency goes away.
How does Facebook distinguish (and prevent recording of) phone conversations from music, TV, and movies?

Facebook would need to be collecting all ambient noise, just to identify (listen to) specific sources, no?
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Yeah, it's just a videogame hack not, you know, BRAIN SURGERY, am I right.
I don't think so. Nokia got $7.2 billion from Microsoft for a loss-making device business. Nokia still exists today and swallowed Alcatel-Lucent last year.

It's hard to imagine a better outcome for Nokia than Microsoft buying the phone albatross in 2013. I honestly believe that it was part of a contingency plan that had made Nokia's board approve the Windows Phone plan -- that Ballmer basically promised a buyout in case WP doesn't fly. (I don't have evidence of this, but clearly Ballmer really, really wanted Nokia's phones and Nadella really, really doesn't.)

In the alternate universe where Nokia's board decided to go with Android instead of Windows, I think they would have ended up as a kind of European HTC or Sony in the Android market. And in that scenario the Nokia phone unit wouldn't have been worth $7.2 billion either.
It may not be a discussion board but of course almost every question has some degree of discussion. For example, even a specific question about how to initialize a list of lists in Python has more than 1 answer and there will be discussion about the "best" method.

There is almost never only 1 correct answer, in which case a discussion is needed and the answer may require your personal opinion as there may not be a single "best" answer. It would depend on circumstances - more discussion required...
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Surely there's no way anyone would employ anybody who replies like that.
Don't hesitate to come to our IRC or Slack channel, we'll happily talk about our experience :)
Be a stretch to call this an urban legend, unless you're saying the people referenced in the story don't exist.

That said, this is lazy & irresponsible reporting on what is at best a singlural event.

If it was reproduced, this is clearly a violation of Facebooks terms of service, regardless of if the user has opted to let Facebook listen to the music and TV that's playing in the background.
If your definition of "theft" is "taking something by (threat of) force",

That is not my definition of theft. Theft by force (or threat of force) is a subset of theft in the more general sense.

For point (1), there is clearly a historical baseline in which no land was owned by anybody, and all land was equally accessible to all. Then people started to make claims that some part of land was theirs, and that they had the right to exclude others from it - if necessary by force. They took something from others by (threat of) force - hence committing theft according to your definition, and this theft is enshrined by modern property law.

If no land was owned by anyone, then taking a chunk of land is not taking it from "others". Its taking something which was previously unowned.

The origin and nature of property rights IS an interesting discussion, but it's really a red herring here. Consider this: You live in the proto-world with no land ownership. You select a piece of land that is unoccupied and unowned, and you build a home on it and start a garden. Later, somebody else comes along and says "I want your home and your garden for myself". Would you argue that you have no right to say "bugger off" to that person? Are you saying you have no right to defend that home and garden, that you worked on, toiled, and cultivated?

If not, how do you propose mitigating this conflict?
And every time they say "Whoopsie, it was just a bug - we'll fix it!". And then they don't. Or they come back 3 years later and say "Hey everyone, remember that 'bug' you caught earlier? We're going to make it into a beautiful feature now!".
I paste this in every time there's talk about cheap data SIMs for IoT stuff:

https://www.truphone.com/us/consumer/sim/

I'd love to hear other people's experiences, but basically: $0 a month per SIM, $0.09 per MB. Since there's no monthly fee, you're supposed to use a certain amount of credit per month or they'll charge you a small fee to keep your number active, but mine has been unused for maybe six months with zero charges still. The SIM costs $30, but half of that is service credit.
Well two main reasons.

One is because a lot of data is redundant, more on that later.

And two because storage becomes abundant. i.e. in 1995 1mb of daily storage would be a big deal, it'd cost a few thousand dollars to store a year's worth of data. Today 365mb of storage hardware costs about 1 penny. Today the blockchain adds at most 50gb of annual data, which costs about $1.5 of retail harddrive hardware per year, in a few years that'll drop down dramatically, too. So abundance of storage, if it outpaces blockchain growth, isn't that big of a problem.

The exact numbers are a bit hand-wavey, I agree, because a lot of this is new stuff and dependent on a lot of uncertainties. e.g. the growth of storage abundance is relatively known (although far from certain), but it must be compared to the rate of adoption and the rate of block size increases, both of which are relatively unknown, to know whether storage tech outpaces storage needs.

But data redundancy is the main argument, not abundance of storage.

i.e. if I have a list of transactions, where I send you $1 and you send me back $1 a trillion times, we could either store a trillion transactions in a trillion days, one per day, which would be a massive file... or we could store the last 10 years of transactions (just 3650 transactions) and have a for all intents and purposes 100% safe and accurate idea about our balances. Most of that data just isn't necessary to store.

At some point you can say, 1 year ago there was a certain balance on the blockchain, this balance is correct, hasn't been contested, and would need billions of dollars spent on energy to 'correct' by double spending the transaction and then mining 1 year of blocks while keeping up with new blocks, i.e. a virtual impossibility, so we can trust that 'snapshot' of the blockchain. Then we can throw away all the data before that, use that snapshot as a sort of 'balance', and then build a new chain from there. This means that for practical purposes, you can keep the blockchain limited to say a year's worth of data, or say X transactions back in time, if you wanted to.

So what'd happen is that a few parties, e.g. large businesses and universities, would store all data for posterity, research etc... while most participants would only store a small chunk of data.

It's more complex that that but that's the basic gist of the story.
Great article, very well written and actually understandable without hunting down mathematical definitions.

I think it is quite cool that people are still hunting down the various different incarnations of infinity and are able to prove deep results like this.

On the other hand, I don't think that these questions are as essential as they are made out to be. How do we know that everything finite is on unshakable foundations? Doesn't even thinking about what that statement means involve reasoning about infinities? Let's just accept that nothing ever is really unshakable and let's use the tools that will get the job at hand done.
I agree with all of the above, but I don't see any of that as a problem. I would not hold "too similar to new hope" as an issue with this film. If anything, it was a good thing in my opinion.
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You're mostly right, but for the sake of clarity, Slock.it is not a DAO, but a physical corporation in Germany. The actual chain looks something like

"The DAO" <-> "Proposal" <-> Slock.it

The idea is that the DAO 'hires' a contractor, which is Slock.it in this case, which can have all sorts of legal rights/protections/etc. and is a corporation in the physical sense. It gets hired by this nebulous entity, so instead of working for another corporation or individual, it gets hired by the DAO.
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>It actually is a mechanism to reduce impact of theft.

Sure, but that's different from anti-stealing (and I mean stealing the machine of course, not the data).
Or nearly 100% of the second income being hoovered up by the childcare racket, if they have children.
Weird that the official E Ink Corporation website has no mention of this.
That explains it, I guess. They still managed to provide ridiculous battery life and an always-on display (unlike OLED smart watches like the Apple Watch.

I wonder if e-ink wouldn't be possible for a future Pebble and whether it would give it any noticeable advantage compared to the current LCD display.
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Swiss here. I doubt it will come trough, seems that the dominant media outlets are spreading fear about this topic which will almost always results in a no.

Personally i would love it, but it opens some strange questions i thought i would never had to ask myself.

If they give me that amount whatever what, and my current job would reduce my income for that sum it would simply not be worth it for me to go working anymore.

I earn some cash on the side and could easily grow that income when i had the time. That plus the amount they would give me is more than enough to live plus i have 100% free time. How would i not do that?

I am glad 2500 chf is far from enough for most people else this idea could not work out at all.
> Perhaps the Achilles heel of mass democracy is that it is easily manipulated in a capitalist economy where our interactions with the world can be exclusively private.

That's not a problem with democracy and capitalism. That's how people learn. We learn something and form an opinion about it.

The opposite is censorship, and we know that doesn't make people happy

In a democracy, society chooses where they're comfortable making sacrifices. We have free speech and also decided that libel and impersonation are punishable.

Even corporations have checks and balances that aren't codified. Every year, corporations find that the public cares about some new transgression that wasn't a problem the previous year. Bad press isn't good for oil companies, Apple, Goldman Sachs, etc, and the populace seeks to elect people who will be tougher on these businesses going forward. Failing that, the companies themselves realize they aren't all powerful.

The system is not perfect and was never supposed to be. Things are always changing. The trick is to give everyone their due attention despite their racial or economic background. I think the US does a good job of it compared to other nations. We can do better, and we may learn during this election cycle that we haven't paid enough attention to a widening wealth gap.
My 5-year old daughter saw it 20+ times. She also has a bow and arrow and Merida's dress.
I think she liked it.

So I guess it's subjective then :)
The OS pre-extension doesn't know which files are stored locally and which are placeholders for remote files. You can't just selectively use FUSE for the remote ones. Using FUSE makes every file operation slower.
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Same reason as carrying your other personal possessions--to get them from point A to point B.
What a title.

>"But it is hard to see how completely destroying the company would be good for journalism."

Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad. To hell with Gawker and its "Journalism".

Edit: Probably worth mentioning that what Thiel did (can be seen as litigation finance) is not illegal. Gawker forcing him to come out before he's ready should be.
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> Not only has this been studied, it's been studied enough that we can do pretty solid meta-studies to find bias is the studies.

The cited blog is by the CEPR, a leftist/progressive think-tank, this doesn't make their conclusion wrong, however, my reading of the graph present on the blog looks more like there is a negative elasticity, with respect to the demand for labor at higher wages, indicated by the meta-study. The graph looks like it might be as large as -0.1, suggesting that doubling of the minimum wage could have a noticeable negative impact on employment. Not all studies show that happening, but a greater number do.
> This is actually poor advice. The right way on Ubuntu is to use the packages provided by PostgreSQL Development Group (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt), and in that setup you use pg_createcluster instead of initdb.

initdb is part of standard PostgreSQL utilities/tools[1] for initializing your PostgreSQL server that's why I suggested using it. On the other hand, I don't see any reference to pg_createcluster command in the official PostgreSQL documentation. So I don't know why you think using a non-standard PostgreSQL tool (in place of a standard one i.e. initdb) is the right way of initializing a PostgreSQL database cluster.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/reference-server....
Even if they implemented correctly, it doesn't mean that they didn't add a backdoor for the government.
Their motorcycle products have gotten much worse over time (specifically, Zumo 550 to 350).

They've lost physical buttons (it's much, much safer to get back to map view via tactile sensation) and added horrible drag-based panning to the overhead map view. The device can't reliably distinguish between a tap to initiate a drag and a tap to select a point. Selecting a point recenters the map. The two fight one another, usually going in the wrong direction.

It no longer supports an ad-hoc routing workflow. Before, you could select start and end points to your journey, then randomly select waypoints to visit from the map view, and they'd be added in the most sensible order. Now, if you manage to force the map view to point at where you want to go, then it forces you to select the insertion point of the new waypoint in a list, where you can't tell whether you'll be doubling back on yourself. I have to do all my routing in Google Maps now and then add villages to the route using the city finder. Ad-hoc routing by the roadside looking for curvy roads used to be a 60 second activity. Now I need to take off my gloves, pull out my phone, try and find relevant waypoints by name, type them in - it takes 10x as long.

The hardware is woefully underpowered. It feels just as slow as the Zumo 550 first released ten years ago. It can't route distances longer than about 400 miles if it doesn't involve motorways. Recalculation takes up to several minutes. Redrawing the screen in the middle of London after a zoom change can take nearly a minute.
Do the OEMs suddenly not have a responsibility to keep their drivers working on the OS they picked?

>it should check that drivers are available for the hardware before trying to go through with the upgrade

From what I've gathered the issue tends to be with drivers not working, rather than not existing. This is again entirely the OEMs fault, there isn't any feasible way for MSFT to verify that the drivers aren't broken.

These OEMs knew very well that microsoft was going to do this but still neglected to fix their drivers.
Watch it again. He says it at least 3 times in the first several seconds of the video.
It may is relevant to add that we need some kind of solution.

Switzerland is not a industry country, we dont have a lot of valueable resources, we are a service based country and this is breaking down more and more.

There is simply no demand anymore for a lot of professions and really skilled people have a hard time to find jobs. I think we as society realized that this may is actually a good thing and now try to find solutions.
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Imo it is not very surprising, classical hype machine thing to the t. Even if we don't need to be told what to like, it is easier to play along and pretend we enjoyed it, even convince ourselves it was good, than admitting we were lead on and it is pretty bland. Of course, Occam is screaming every time a big budget IP blockbuster is coming, we just prefer not to pay attention. Without hindsight I might add.

The next films will play out the same I have no doubts about them. Emperor's new clothes and all that. Not disrespecting anyone who will genuinely like them of course.
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I think it was about 2 years ago that the Facebook android app requested permission to your microphone? As soon as I saw that I warned everyone I knew that they could be listened in on, and uninstalled the app on my phone, using FB through a browser if need be.

I find it interesting how people accept such things without a question. But I guess articles like these are good even if they're late to the party.
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I thought it was very impressive regardless. I'm sure it also took a lot of research, planning, and a lot of failed attempts.
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Lots of those 7mln live in homes that they bought many years ago, before the boom. If they sold them and moved to Decatur, they would be very rich.
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Bandwidth and machine time is not the biggest hindrance for running a tor relay or exit node. The muddy legality in most countries is.
The talk will be in the side room from 14:00-15:30 CEST (~45 mins from posting this)

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It is clear that at this point that in 2013 Nokia was in such a bad situation, getting $7,2 billion for the handset business was a very good deal for Nokia. Nokia Chairman of Board Risto Siilasmaa has been hailed as a saviour and a magician for orchestrating it.

The interesting question is, what would have happened if Nokia had gone the Android route in 2011 instead of Windows Phone.
> Maybe Group A was full of statements that almost threw a flag but not quite, while Group B contained mostly innocuous wording but (only) one phrase that actually got flagged.

Couple of months since I saw this, so can't say for sure but I think a major point of the experiment was that the two "hate groups" were equal except which ethnic group they were directed at.
but its my understanding that rec. 709 isn't the same as sRGB which is what most non-TV things are attempting to emulate/implement
The android app asks for microphone privilege as of a few years back when they introduced the listen-in feature. The problem here to me, is that when they add the voluntary feature they force everyone to give the app all the permissions needed as well. By doing this your phone has no way of stopping the app from misbehaving as it has given permission for it to do so.

At least that was the case when the feature came out. I think I read something about android now letting you filter permissions and not blindly accept all that an app asks for?
> If you're operating a business which cannot afford to pay a worker what they need to survive, you're not operating a business, you're operating a charity supported by your workforce (or social welfare systems).

Likewise, if you are a working-age individual who is only capable of creating value at a rate less the minimum wage, you aren't looking for a job, you're looking for charity dressed up like a job. (That's fine as a social policy, but when that charity is expected to come private sources, it's a very unstable employer/employee relationship. The minute affordable automation comes along or the business revenues take a dip, such charity cases will be the first to be let go or have their hours cut, because they're fundamentally unprofitable in the normal condition.)
As a noob, I'm having a hard time grasping why the Ramsey pairing is interesting: If you pair up every member of an infinite set with every member of that same infinite set, of course you'll get an infinite subset for almost every predicate about a pairing, just by virtue of starting from an infinite superset.

It seems like the theorem would be interesting if it said something about the "magnitude" of the subset, not just that it's infinite.
To quote him:

"I was very closely involved for the integration, had full access to the source code, did plenty of review, and have a lot of confidence in the engineers that are maintaining it.

There are plenty of engineers in the world who are capable of inspecting the binaries they're distributing, so it would be incredibly risky of them to inject surveillance code client side."
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> This is one of the reasons I'm a very strong proponent of LibreSSL.

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libssl/src/...

Looks like LibreSSL has the exact same perl-generating-assembler code.
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> What can we do? There is no stopping the train of automation.

Spend a year or two teaching people to program. It'll give your brain a nice rest

It won't solve the world's problems but that's something you can do as an individual.

Or you can read about your local politicians and start a Facebook page to support the ones whose views you share.

Job functions have been changing since the cracking of coconuts with rocks. There is no need to stop this train. Teaching helps society advance. If we spend some time teaching programming, whether formally or informally, I think that counts for a lot.
Sure, they do have all those neighborhoods. The price differential reflects what people are willing to pay for one vs the other. The point about Decatur, Illinois is simply that Decatur Illinois lacks a lot of what SF has, which is why it's cheaper. It's a factual statement, not a value judgement
Yup, overall, it has been doing fine. It is not doing fine at the moment, which is the usual implication of the word "is".

However, I note that my accurate and true comment has been downvoted anyway ;-)
Indeed. Their web based activity tracking thing isn't fantastic, but it works so seamlessly with Strava it doesn't matter.
A much better writeup here: http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-cuts-another-1850-job...