skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. I do not identify with New Yorkers (or north east coast), Florida, Texas, California, Oregon, the rust belt, or the southwest. You probably guessed by now I'm from the Midwest. I also don't identify with the blacks, Hispanics, Cubans, Irish or Italians. All of these have rich and interesting cultures. I respect them, but they are not mine. When I meet one of them, we often have difficulty finding commonality. My point is that you would be hard pressed to find one specific example of something that relates to all American backgrounds. I think this is a good thing.
> Facebook doesn't make any money from social media, they make money from side businesses that are tacked onto their social media platform.

Newspapers never made money, they just made money from side businesses that were tacked onto their social media platform.

TV shows don't make money, they just make money from side businesses that are tacked onto their shows.

Just because you don't like a business model doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Advertising has been a successful business model for literally centuries.
Do you have a source on that? Other than a few staples (broth, grains, sauces, eggs, milk, etc) my local Trader Joes stores are definitely not cheaper than their local competitors, especially not the ethnic markets a few miles away. Their website marketing copy says so in a roundabout way but I shop at several Trader Joes flagship stores (including the original in Pasadena and the massive ones in south Florida) and that hasn't been true for at least a decade for produce. Their frozen foods like pizza and whatnot seem equivalent but definitely not their produce (20 cents a bannana!?)
I completely agree.

90% of the queries in my app are no more complex than selecting from a table with a simple condition. I definitely find

users = User.where(has_foo: true).limit(10)

to be a lot more readable than

rows = connection.exec_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE has_foo=true LIMIT 10")
users = rows.map { |row| User.build(row) }

(And that's an example with no user-provided input)

Likewise, any app of sufficient size seems to end up with a handful of queries that really are a pain (or impossible) to cram into an ORM. Trying to do so would result in an unreadable mess, and using raw sql improves the situation immensely.
This article falls in the same fallacy as a lot of more postmodern social science articles.

The whole point of AI and machine learning is to find things that are not immediately obvious but backed up by the data.

The author of this article is suggesting that if the conclusions of this research are politically unfavorable, then there has to be bias/racism/sexism somewhere. race/gender/socioeconomic agnostic.

Which runs immediately counter to both machine learning and research in general. "Dang it, run the numbers until it supports the conclusion I support."

It's like the author doesn't understand the basic premise of machine learning or research. If the datasets are restricted in some way unfairly, that's something to be looked at. Algorithms are generally fair and unbiased.
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One can, but its not a glamorous existence.

$2k before tax is about 1500 after.
$1200 to share a bedroom with someone. $100-200 to eat, $53 muni pass. The rest to cover a litany of other things like cell phone, medical costs, "entertainment", etc.
Foreigners bring their own culture along with them; robots can't do that.

http://www.unz.com/gnxp/norway-offers-migrants-a-lesson-no-r...

> Migrants themselves can often be quite frank and astute observers of cross-cultural differences:

> “Men have weaknesses and when they see someone smiling it is difficult to control,” Mr. Kelifa said, explaining that in his own country, Eritrea, “if someone wants a lady he can just take her and he will not be punished,” at least not by the police.

Outsourcing would be a much closer parallel.
Keep calm, there's no queue at the EU-exit
A home stereo has to take maybe 2 channels through a hilariously blunt EQ stage (bass/treble knobs) and then up to suitable wattage for a pair of small speakers, which only need to sound right in an area of a couple square feet.

I won't get into it all unless you want me to, but a system for live performance or broadcast has orders of magnitude more work to do, functionality which is demanded by a tiny market relative to consumer electronics, with far higher expectations on reliability, flexibility, etc.

There are certainly people (Pyle, Behringer, etc) who claim to sell cheap solutions, but they are substantially more likely to bite you in the ass in concrete, embarrassing ways if you try to use them in performance environments.
Thank you. I want to say stuff like this all the time, but I'm a white guy so its a non-starter.
What would a 21st century credit rating agency look like?
I though that too at first, but they are correct. It looks like this because these are circles on a globe. The outline of a very big circle around a location is the same as the outline of a small circle around the point on the opposite side of the globe.

Look at the color-tint to find out what is inside and what is outside a circle.
It makes the world worse to try to "include" everyone. There's a reason we have grades and exclusivity.

Equality is about opportunity, not results.
Can we design sociotechnical systems…
too late now but in future ones maybe they could do 3 groups and pay 2 groups in various amounts. One group gets the "full amount", another a "half amount" , the third nothing. Tell the first two groups they're getting the Full amount. see if there is a difference in responses.
I've been to specialists, trust me if it was a direct answer to a cure-- I wouldn't have had one for over a year. Interesting the bacteria H. pylori is present in over half of the UK's citizens (not sure if it's in the linked material but the NHS has an article about it somewhere).
You made two key points. One is that the NPR voices sound like they are next to me in the car. There is good, thoughtful discussion and presentation. And as an NPR supporter I really appreciate that. They know they have my (some) of my attention in the car, they are not trying to wrest my focus from the Honda about to cut me off. The low key nature works.

I listen to NPR to get the slightly stale event that someone has taken the time to gather more than one fact and is trying to make a 1 min segment out of it. I can't recall a time where an NPR story got walked back (looking at you FOX) for shoddy reporting.

Posts above have whined about how much NPR talent make. You should find out about your local morning zoo team and the Ken and Barbie team on your Action news. Those guys don't even get out of bed for 300K a year. Plus the people listed above also write and edit their material, vs Ken & Barbie.

At a variety of levels, NPR and their shows are worth every penny. In a few weeks listen to them talk about the RNC / DNC conventions vs the others.
If the OP doesn't intend to defend Facebook against RMS's claims, his criticism of RMS's rhetorical style is wholly irrelevant to his core point and, in turn, this discussion.
I think it is - anything that measures and responds is 'robotic'.

http://www.refrigeratedfrozenfood.com/articles/83570-pizza-p...
You're right about the API gateway being a good pattern for sending external traffic to internal microservices, and it is something you'd want regardless of what session system you used.

I'd let microservices talk directly to each other, however, rather than going through the API gateway. This means you reserve the API gateway for external traffic, and trust the internal traffic. You still need to standardize on/configure a set of "context headers" to pass from one services to another so that the identity of the original caller is preserved; but since this won't rely on a session, it can be trusted and treated opaquely by each application.

My earlier point stands, though: Once you deploy something like this, you now have an explicit dependency on the API gateway, because services can never be directly exposed to the world. It impacts local development, too, because now you either talk using session via the API gateway (which you have to run locally) or directly to the service (using whatever identifying information it trusts), and the fact that they are different is a potential point of confusion, especially for someone not familiar with the architecture. ("It isn't working" — "Oh, you need to go through the API gateway.")

Interesting conversation indeed. I wish there were a better forum for such discussions. There's a lot about microservices where I'd love to exchange ideas and good patterns.
It says that there's a problem and it lays it at the feet of white men. If that's not an attack, I don't know what is.

EDIT: Since I can't reply anymore, I'll just add my comment here. I (and most people) are in no way responsible for the lack of women in AI. If you personally feel responsible because you know you've been sexist/racist, great, make amends and don't do it anymore. Tossing blame at people you don't know and saying they're responsible for your actions is not the correct course. Blaming white men is racist and sexist so you can take this opportunity to learn and hopefully stop making generalizations about people regardless of their gender or race.
If you change the label of the datapoints, say black to apple and white to oranges, you'll change racism to fruitism. It's unlikely that a racist system would do that.

I do agree with the article that feeding biased data will result in a biased system and we need to be aware of that. But calling it racist and sexist is sensationalism.
GoFile.io is not for anonymous file sharing
If you attempt to use https://gofile.io, you're greeted with an "anonymous and free" filesharing service. The reality is, you'll be able to upload files, but these will be marked with an IP address.

Consider any file and upload it.

You'll be directed to a link with an id=[string].

Opening that, you can see the full download link for the file is actually:

https://srv-file1.gofile.io/download/[string]/{IP_Address}/file.ext

For the sake of anonymity, it isn't advisable to use this service.

Deleting access to the file seems to only mark the filepath as forbidden and doesn't result in a 404 from the server.
"In the United States, this could result in more surveillance in traditionally poorer, nonwhite neighborhoods, while wealthy, whiter neighborhoods are scrutinized even less."

More policing reduces crime. The author seems to think that people living in these poor, nonwhite neighborhoods would rather see the police resources go to wealthy, white neighborhoods. But the studies show that minorities and people living in high-crime neighborhoods mostly do approve of police. There is a lot of cognitive dissonance here: is crime reduction through more policing in poor nonwhite neighborhoods a right goal despite sometimes justified skepticism of the police or not?

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/02/more-pol...

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/197925.pdf
I know this is not a hard economics article, but why is it HN worthy?

For one thing, I see the article is fails to mention the effects that the multiple rounds of QE have had on the economy. From the spending that Bush signed into law that Obama dolled out, to the M3 table no longer being published (under Bush). How can the claims be made without at least considering these items.

so if it isn't a economics piece, what is it other than political?
Baking pizza in a moving vehicle doesn't seem feasible to me. The sauce, cheese, etc. in a 600 degree oven are like soup. Turn the corner or need to make any kind of a rapid stop and it will all slosh to one side and ruin the pie.
> Has anyone ever been double-called by a spammer? Honest question. I never have.

I have. Most of my spam calls have been of the "Rachel from Cardholder Services" variety - and while they usually dial from different numbers to give me the same damn spiel, a few times I have been double-dialed from the same number.
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I don't think thats right because browsers have always prevented password fields from being copied.
Agree! A few citations to complement your post.

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2005/pr05...

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/in-the-end-people-may-re...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3336375...

http://conf.som.yale.edu/obsummer07/PaperBen-NerKramer.pdf
Wow, thanks, I am glad that you found this useful. I wanted to edit some stuff and make it a bit more readable but the update form is a little crummy.

If there are any points I can clarify further let me know, thi s is a really off-the-cuff sketch and I had fun doing it and wouldn't mind digging a little deeper on some ares.

I am currently a developer in charge of growth at photoeditorsdk.com and about to crank on our inbound marketing.
Although a very different market from your's we've had success with cold-emailing as detailed in [Predictable Revenue](https://www.amazon.com/Predictable-Revenue-Business-Practice...). The biggest boost came from preparing industry specific sales pitches & demos.

Cheers
I guess I've just always been a little surprised that studios didn't open source more of their internal software. For example, Nuke was originally internal software at Digital Domain before they sold it to The Foundry, I believe. Rhythm & Hues also has a lot of its own internal compositing and 3D applications. And Pixar's Renderman software is also not open source (I know some aspects of Renderman are open source, but the actual Pixar Renderman software is not open source). It just surprises me that more of these internal applications didn't get open sourced. Blender is a good example of one that did. While I'm sure these studios were getting an edge by having their own software in the early days of cg, now I would think the studios would actually benefit more by open sourcing their apps so that other developers can contribute to the project. And the studios that make this software might be able to cut back on their dev teams. Just something I've always wondered about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...

In the D language community, we have many strong contributors who we actually have no idea who they are, other than their online persona that they create themselves.

We don't know their age, race, gender, religion, nationality, politics, nothing.

It's as close to a pure meritocracy as is probably humanly achievable.
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That's not an inclusive circle, it means anything within the circle is _not_ reachable within the RTT reach of ie. Bangalore or Singapore.
DynaMix – A new take on polymorphism in C++
If your thesis is that Democrats are bad people, Democrap is an accurate term.
I want my country back
Otherworldly landscape of a marble quarry in the Apuan Alps [video]
The FDA recommends running water (http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/Basics/ucm194327.ht...) - it won't get rid of 100%, but it definitely reduces bacterial load (https://extension.umaine.edu/publications/4336e/).

Teeth are different - they spend 24/7 in a great environment for bacterial growth (warm, wet, and with frequent bursts of sugar/nutrients).
http://modernfarmer.com/2015/01/7-myths-washing-produce/

> Fruit and vegetable washes claim to kill more bacteria, but studies from the University of Maine have shown that tap water does as good a job or better. When produce is rinsed thoroughly, water can remove 98 percent of bacteria.
Math Tests, Birthdays, O.J. Simpson, and Texas Sharpshooters
I partly feel embarrassed to have been wrong after all, and partly feel relieved that everyone hasn't just been losing their minds in recent years.

There's another one that everyone's been sticking an extra syllable in that I would check...if I could think of it.
Courage, which is a quality lacking in the world.

I am quite honestly not a fan of democracy despite this referendum suiting me. Despite that I think that the Greek vote should have been honoured for sensible fiscal reasons. They should have left the EU and adopted a new currency. My own country Ireland should have done the same thing. We famously voted No to the Lisbon Treaty and it was ignored. That was a mistake. We've been paying off a mountain of debt that does not rightfully belong to us. I think the Irish will gradually realize, along with it dawning on the others, that the European Union is unable to function without giving up sovereignty altogether.

Politically I much prefer a diversity of loosely tied independent trading nation states. That hedges against a lot of the worse outcomes. Milton Friedman predicted the common currency could not ultimately work and I have not seen a good argument against his points.

Suppose that a European Hegemony is a good idea but we just don't have the governmental apparatus to make it work in the present. That still leaves the question of the utility of the thing. What is it for?

Governments should exist for a purpose. They should solve problems people can't solve on their own. I see little evidence really fundamental issues like European reproduction rates, zero percent interest rates not to mention waves of foreigners who have decided to make Europe their home can be solved at present by the European Union.

It is annoying to have politicians and intellectuals pretend this is a solved problem we figured out decades ago. It is nothing of the sort. If interests are not aligned we cannot pull together with full strength.
See the event sourcing pattern for an example of immutability at the backend.

http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn589792.aspx
You still haven't explained why this is bad. See, I don't have to imagine it: my neighbourhood is being gentrified, rent is going up all around, and I'll have to move soon. Not the beat thing ever, but since I'm being honestly outbid on an open market, I fail to see why would someone want to intervene and regulate this.

Also, residents are more "important" than tourists, that's what you're trying to say? Why the hell? What does "important" even mean?
Apple has always invited some form of tourism or another to One Infinite Loop - hence the Apple retail store right there in the building. I remember going down to see the icon garden before Steve Jobs came back and had it removed. Rumor was that was one of the first things that he did.

It's kind of fun to see the campuses. It feeds some of the geek bucket that many of us have.
I loved that magazine. The first years of it had a charming quality to them I've never seen anywhere else. The early issues are treasures.

The later ones got more conventional.
And Boris Johnson isn't in any position of power currently. It's not up to him yet.
I agree — my part about the GE doesn't give enough detail on how that might happen. I was thinking along the lines of the methods in your final paragraph, although appreciate it's a long shot. Great point on becoming a member of a political party to take part in the internal election.
Please let this meme die. There are very few people left in the world that truly believe that hypervisors are leaking your pii all the time.
Freedom?
The reason why this is garbage, is that there is not a single naturally occurring domain in society in which groups can be found to be represented equally. I'm pretty sure this is true in nature as well. So one can literally at their sole discretion, analyze any area of life and make statements like "systemically oppressed this", "unequally represented that". It's like staring at an ink blot and being asked what you see.

I have the nagging sensation that if were up to todays hyper-sensitized media on how society should look and function, we would all be grey globs in a grey world, devoid of any differences.

The more depressing truth? Striking these chords are an absolute goldmine for ratings and clicks. Everyone is naturally curious about how they might be currently oppressed or disadvantaged, it plays to our instinctual tribalism.

So please, realize you can do anything you want in this world, and don't be seduced by hate and bitterness from some writer sitting in Soho that has a click-quota to meet this month.
Copy. Paste. Code?
Or why not use a shotgun microphone? That's what we (well, audio guys) generally tend to use on film and TV sets.
> I wonder if even highly computer literate users can grasp the scale of overt and covert information leakage that takes place when we connect a machine to an always on internet connection.

Nah, not a chance. I mean, maybe if you're running a lightweight Linux distro and don't ever open a browser, then you might be able to grasp it, but what your average consumer device and your average webpages send out, should be well beyond what can be understood by any single human.

That is not least also caused by the fact that at this point, data does not have an expiration date. For all we know, someone might be able to get data about your sleeping schedule in 500 years, still, or I don't know, jail your great-grandson when Hitler then finally does make a return, because you once talked to a Jewish girl.
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Ok, GPLv2 is a problem, that's understandable. An alternative could be some sort of mandatory dual-licensing scheme but that would be a bit ugly and confusing and perhaps worse than CLAs in practice.
Are you seriously holding up the EU as some bastion of stability? How stable is Greece? Seriously - you should research it a little more. The EU is perilously unstable.
The focus on simple language is important for comprehension, and politicians have been trending their level of complexity simpler over the years:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/10/20/donald-...
Lord, the comments here are as bad as I feared.

This article makes a perfectly valid point- AI is only as good as the data you use to train it. If you feed it bad, biased data, then the AI will behave in bad, biased ways.

These biases can be major (no Amazon delivery to black neighborhoods) or minor. I'm reminded of a gaming podcast I heard (can't remember which one) where a guy recounted watching a female journalist try VR goggles that couldn't detect her eyes because she had mascara. Apparently no one making the headset had tested the effects of that kind of makeup.

The article is right. If we are serious about creating products that revolutionize everyone's lives, we need to involve more kinds of people. Our perspectives are limited. We can't understand everything. That's the point of having a diverse team. Like Ben Thompson says, there's a very strong business case for diversity because "You don't know what you don't know."
That kind of sounds like a microservices anti-pattern in disguise. Its thought by many to be bad practice for microservices to share a common database. But that's pretty much what you're doing, but just with an API instead of jdbc for the access.
One issue is that most Americans aren't used to that sort of pizza, like a proper neapolitan fresh out of a hot oven - rather we're mainly already used to the delivery style pizza which generally has been made to be more forgiving of the rigors of the delivery process.

There are dozens of pizza spots within a couple of miles of me. The ones that are my gotos for delivery are not the ones I'd go to in person and vice versa. The best pizzas are in the latter category, but getting those delivery quickly moves them very far down the rankings.
Yes, and not only MITM, but IRL impersonation attacks; Wired published an article about it today: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/hey-stop-using-texts-two-facto...

Attackers convinced (either with their official badges or by conning) the targets' cell service providers to change the SIM info associated with the accounts, and thereby intercepted SMS authentication codes.