skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> get rewarded for using them

I understand why you want the rewards, and when I'm forced to use a credit card, I also want the reward. But we need to call out the bullshittedness of the system.

Everything in the world is 2-3% more expensive just so that credit cards can "give" you 1% back as a "reward". (Similar situation: People who are thrilled with a tax refund. The government takes money away from their paycheck, then later gives part of it back. If they don't think about it, they think they're getting free money.)

People get caught up in it as if credit card rewards are a good idea. It's not. It's a drag on the economy for the credit card companies to bake their costs into every transaction.
Watch a Crime Series like Forensic Files (even if the cases might be cherry-picked) and your attitude might change.

Sure regarding technology they are not always up to industry standards, they might have to deal with too much workload, they might be under-funded, and someone working for the police will most likely not be smart enough to work for Google and earn 200000$ a year. But they can take fingerprints, they do have databases where they collect such information, they certainly can analyse video material, and it's stupid to think that in a country like Austria this won't be investigated (it's also Vienna we are talking about).

Even if they just take some fingerprints, analyse the video material, maybe notify the bank and send out a memo, how is this not worth reporting it immediately?! The bank being notified can warn customers, change pins for customers they think might be victims, are paying more attention, ...

I won't name other countries as I don't want to insult anyone, so let's just say in a "tourist-heavy corruption-ridden non-1st world country" I could sympathize a little bit more with your sentiment, but in this case I think you are just wrong and should re-think your attitude.
The font on the site is the same size as the font on hacker news (on my computer, Windows 10, chrome 51).
I think GP would say that those people are privileged westerners–by worldwide standards.
>Now, the UK has clearly stated they don't like some things like free movement of people.

Non-european people coming in as economic inmigrants, to be more precise.
The biggest hit is not in goods trade but in financial flows. With the UK part of the EU, major financial institutions could base in London to serve the entire EU. Once the UK exits the EU, they can't, at least not without a lot of extra costs and paperwork.

London, one of the 3 financial capitals of the globe, will lose its status in favor (probably) of a more diverse mix of European cities.

This will have downstream effects on other trade flows in and out of the UK.
Re: austerity, my point was more to do with what it was blamed on, not so much the actual root cause. Either way, I'm personally against austerity in down markets, but personal proclivities aside, I can see recent austerity being associated with EU membership - especially while watching Greece suffer, despite the enormous differences in economics.

When you're looking to blame someone for recent suffering, it doesn't so much matter the actual cause, so much as the perceived...
Declining? What good or service did those people have in the past that they don't have today?
So you want to reinvent APL?
This! I previously worked for a small software company that frequently got itself lost in the upgrade treadmill (its going to take N man months to upgrade underlying technology X/Y/Z to the latest versions). Yet in the end, I kept asking, what does technology X/Y/Z provide to the product that benefits the customer. Those questions frequently didn't have satisfying answers.

So, your not the cool, forward looking engineer when you favor using a 5 year old toolchain to build your product. OTOH, your also the engineer that doesn't have to come in on weekends to debug the death march bug that ends up being a result of doing the upgrade.
America did this before it was mainstream.
To address the immigration point. The UK has fewer migrants than Spain, Norway, Austria, Ireland, Switzerland, Belgium, Latvia and many others; [1].

Roughly the same percentage as Germany, France and Iceland.

Why are the other countries much less worried about (legal) migration?

I think it comes mostly down to housing. The UK build ~400 thousand houses in 1971, but last year built 'just' ~140 thousand [2]. There is a huge shortage of housing, and the migrants are blamed for this.

[1] - http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/7/7...

[2] - http://imgur.com/OEP7Sm2
Is this true? I know that as a US Citizen I'm required to pay taxes on worldwide income; but any lawful resident of the USA has the same burden? I'm a little skeptical that someone not on a permanent immigration path would be subject to this, but I'm neither an attorney nor an accountant so...
I don't think I have a better alternative to direct democracy, but it's not perfect either. I'd like to point out that the Swiss system is very far from perfect for the same reasons other systems are. Did everyone forget about the horrible minaret vote?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_minaret_referendum,_2009

And that was a constitutional amendment referendum!
EFF to Copyright Office: No New Barriers to DMCA Safe Harbors
I still remember one of my highschool English teacher's quoting Chaucer: "The mind is its own place, and in itself, Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven"

I've found this quote, and the generalization to personality traits in general, to be quite accurate. I've changed dramatically over the years.

It's important to note, though, that the biggest changes I've experienced occurred when I didn't have anyone around who knew the old me. Only then was I really free to explore who I could become. I think this is one of the beautiful things about anonymous online forums. They allow us to explore different mindsets in a way that wasn't possible prior to the internet.
This would all be conveniently solved if Canada didn't take so much of people's money to pay for so much other people's things.

> structure post-secondary education subsidies as a sort of debt

That's called a student loan.

The US government does exactly this in the form of "scholarships" where you're essentially indentured to the government for X years after graduating.
Super biased, layman thoughts incoming.

Re. countries vs corporations: countries in isolation make laws for themselves (consumer protection, long-term economic protection, etc.), whereas corporations must abide by the laws of their host countries (hence tax evasion via incorporation in accommodating countries). If two countries start to compete, there isn't really anything that stops them from annihilating one another in disturbing fashions (e.g. erecting walls, slinging propaganda, blockading, etc.) other than treaties. Get enough treaties together and you get the EU.
I think what throwawaysocks is saying is that your refutation doesn't really add value to the discussion. I agree with you, that my clone's consciousness is not my own consciousness, but what are the deeper implications?

Particularly when we start to consider AI, and its not your own human consciousness but rather an artificial one, does our notion of "murder" change? Then they question, is true "cloning" even possible? (Aaronson uses quantum uncertainty to say 'no', but Hanson claims 'yes' given total understanding of the brain.)

Thanks for your article, I'm personally on your side but this whole debate has really made me think.
And the other employees and Kim probably didn't come voluntarily to US. The US government would be happy to have Kim thrown to prison as well, but they haven't been able to catch him.

"Like Dotcom, Nõmm next spent a significant amount of time fighting extradition. But eventually in 2015, he voluntarily traveled to the US and was arrested in Virginia."
A relatively small island nation that is an extremely attractive destination to acquire work. Especially from the poorer countries in the EU.

Being paid in pounds, would net you even more than average (for the EU) for low skill requirement jobs.
I agree. To pick a low-hanging fruit, the EU's internet legislation can only have come from bureaucrats completely detached from reality.
Care to contribute one you do find appealing?
All of which was hardly unpredictable: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v14/n19/wynne-godley/maastricht-and-all...
Why We Should Design Some Things to Be Difficult to Use
You don't need to share a currency in order to devalue it.

Germany could have done it with the deutschmark.

But I do agree with the overall point that the monetary policy is made for the whole, without fitting anyone particularly well.
Chip cards use challenge-and-response with an embedded secret key and can't be cloned. (well, unless your bank so helpfully puts the card number+name in plaintext on the chip, as some do)
Michael I. Jordan on Big Data and Machine Learning
What? That's not what it says at all!

Edit: I guess this is the slightly better answer than simply yes or no:

"If you lost your firmware password you can now reset it yourself as long the SPI flash chip is not the new BGA type (newer Macs are using them but there is a sneaky debug port that can be used for this same purpose!). You just need a device to dump the flash chip, remove the variable and reflash the modified version, or directly remove the variable (I always prefer to full dump and reflash).
Of course this information can be used by thieves selling stolen Macs, but given
that there are already defeat devices being sold all over the web, this post does not reveal any previously-unknown secrets."
There was a time not so long ago (maybe 12 months?) in which I might have nodded my head at a comment like this.

After a solid year of being told that not voting for Bernie makes me a pro-globalization racist, and being told that questioning the EU makes me an anti-globalization racist, I'm kinda burned out. I've just accepted that people on the Internet are going to call me racist no matter what.

Sadly, I just don't care anymore. I mean... on a substantive level I still do, and I still hold the same left-leaning principles that I held a year ago. But I no longer feel the same wince of recoil at hearing the word "racist" anymore. The current climate is pure histrionics, and people have cried wolf enough times to leave me numb.

Obviously, the commenter was referring to the "people" who live in the UK and voted yesterday. I mean... duh. Regardless of one's position on Brexit one way or the other, this retort was absurd.
Did you even read my post? The UK does not have all that many migrants. Switzerland has almost the double (in %).

And what matters what currency you are paid in? If you want to compare salaries you use exchange rates.
This wasn't really a yes-or-no question...
Maybe commercial software is dead.

We all want it, except for some youngins.. how long can the corporate marketplace defy the will of the people who fuel the market?

Free software is the future. The benefits to mankind are too great.
Maybe this is getting blown up by the media, but I've seen a lot of tech people in the UK on HN and elsewhere looking (sometimes desperately) for other opportunities. Even if future agreements don't make it harder for them to remain and work in the UK on paper, it may still cause a lot of skilled labor to leave the UK purely due to perception.

That's assuming that it remains just as easy to do so, which seems unlikely given immigration was part of what was driving the leave vote. Even if it is still easier in absolute terms for someone in the EU to work in the UK than the US, the lowered differential could have pretty negative effects on the market for high-demand jobs.
"... a misplaced footfall made him stray from the path prepared for him ..."
That's why Europe moved to Chip-and-PIN years ago. Sadly the magstripe has to remain for backwards compatibility with countries that haven't adopted it yet (the USA).

I still don't get why ATMs in the EU don't let you just dip the chip in instead of sucking in the whole card.
The comments on the article seemed surprisingly good.

Anyway, if you build a global system, it will only be sustainable if it actually serves the interest of the general public. A global capitalist system that serves moneyed interests and screws over the middle class and working class is one that will be volatile and upended at times, and some of that will be in entirely misguided directions.
>I'm not from USA (or UK) but would love to hear how US and UK people feel about it?

I think it sounds like populist grandstanding. We've been hearing that sort of thing for a year now. We (the US) seem to have a lot of people buying into it though. We get to see first hand how stepping back from globalization looks like before we vote for it ourselves come November.
How did someone like this become CEO? Or is it just his response to breaking under the pressure for the first time?
Britain was a basket case before joining the EU.

The 40 years of EU membership have, for the most part, been good [1]. The austerity stuff is a post 2008 thing.

[1] - http://www.economicshelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/real...
Except that deterministic destruction is actually a feature that enables cleanup when leaving a scope. Manually peppering your code with defer statements is often doing work a computer can do better than you can.
It's fair to argue about the European economy being a mess and all the crazy fiscal policy issues (personally, I think the only sane choice for Greece last year would have been to leave the EU), but I think the UK has misjudged what a great deal it had (since they already had control of their own currency/fiscal policy while still getting all the other benefits from the EU).

I do think it's worth pointing out that while GBPUSD is down almost 14% over the 1yr https://goo.gl/TuqgEJ EURUSD is down only 2% https://goo.gl/xge4LR

The UK has a 46B USD trade deficit w/ Germany (9/10 of UK's trade deficits are w/ EU nations, only 1 of its surpluses is with an EU nation) [1] so I'm not sure if the UK is going to come out so well economically (not to mention that considering that Scotland and Northern Ireland were both strongly for remaining in the EU, it's not clear that the UK will come out at all).

[1] http://www.worldstopexports.com/united-kingdoms-top-import-p...
Special: Science in China
Failure never happens instantly. You know exactly when you are going to run out of investment or personal savings, and can plan accordingly.
London (and Vancouver) real estate is being driven by rich overseas buyers, though--it's disconnected from the strength of the local economy, except insofar as those places are believed to represent a safe store of value.

How can a regional economy be stable if the median worker can't afford housing?
Ask HN: What would Parse for Deep Learning look like?
I saw Ilya Sukhar's tweet about this (https://twitter.com/ilyasu/status/725357333111398405) and was wondering what that service would look like.

A few services are mentioned in the replies (e.g. https://wit.ai, https://scaledinference.com, http://algorithmia.com) but Ilya notes that he "don't see any apis". Additionally, I don't think that any of the mentioned services are as simple and easy to get started with as Parse was for someone who has little domain knowledge in ML.

For a quick prototype I focused on iOS and made a simple Cocoapod library for "plug and play machine learning" that calls my server requesting item recommendations based on the user's "like" history. The backend implements a very basic KNN.

Any thoughts are welcome on how to approach this and if anyone is interested in trying out the prototype please send me an email at zkirill ... gmail.com or reach out on Twitter https://twitter.com/zkirill

Thank you kindly for your comments!

EDIT: Fix spelling.
It might be. It might not be. Hardly a compelling argument.
Just because personality doesn't frequently change doesn't mean it is impossible, it is just really hard. If it happens with one in a few hundred individuals, most researchers are going to view it as an anomalous outlier and discard or ignore it. I can assure you with complete confidence that your personality is incredibly malleable.

I could go on at length about my personal experience (which is quite dramatic) but since I enjoy my privacy I'll just pass along a funny story about massive personality change induced by brain injury: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2130900/Chris-Birc...
Well, to start, immigrants are not counted from within EU countries in most polls for EU countries. A lot of the immigrants England received and had no choice in the matter were from Czech, Poland etc.

(BTW Switzerland also had a referendum where they decided to no longer take migrants in 2014)

If you get paid €10 an hour and your neighbor makes £10 an hour. Who makes more money (and always has for the past 40 years)?
I am definitely more outgoing, sociable and assertive in English but not so much so in Turkish.
That's kind of a simplistic explanation, though, because it does not account for WHY there is this sudden rise in xenophobia in the UK.

The fact is that economic inequality in the UK has been rising for a long time. I would argue that is the root cause. People don't generally gravitate to demagoguery and scapegoating unless they are already having a bad time economically.
> Science fiction turns out to be true when physical reality agrees that it can be true

This is a ridiculous argument. Furthermore, even if it were true, it tells us nothing about the timeline. It could take 10,000 years for all we know.
Please stop posting uncivil and unsubstantive comments to Hacker News, and no more political rants, please, either.
Sorry, but what did Merkel expect what would happen after she invited everyone from Africa and the Middle East to immigrate to the EU?

She didn't ask her population if they support this, let alone the other countries within the EU.

What kind of democracy is this where one person can decide on her own how the future of a continent will look like?

The funny thing is that she actually still wants to force mass migration to the EU down our throats, even after this disastrous result in the UK. Seems like our elite is absolutely incapable of learning.

This is why the EU will fail.
Oh boy.

I used to use a similar thing in high school, the Z80 uProfessor, which is based on the Zilog Z80.

(edit: yep, I have used the same "Multitech MPF-1 Kit" board!!)

So many memories!!
GitHub Campus Experts – Technology leadership at your school
Not that I think it should be decided any other way, but I'm curious what the error bars would look like for the vote. 51.9 to 48.1 is pretty damn close. I would find it kind of funny if the p-value for data backing such an important decision was too low for a scientific paper on just the possibility.

Though with over 70% participation it's probably still sufficient even for those standards.
Europeans didn't screw over China? Come on - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

Europeans screwed over every single country they could.
Let me guess, you probably also believe that IQ is static, and people's ability is chiefly dictated by their natural talent?

How are those beliefs working out for you?
> If two countries start to compete, there isn't really anything that stops them from annihilating one another in disturbing fashions (e.g. erecting walls, slinging propaganda, blockading, etc.) other than treaties.

Or literally annihilating each other, with bombs, for that matter. Thankfully not likely to happen anytime soon in Europe, but in general, conflicts between countries have no limit to how far they can escalate, unlike between corporations...
Have you actually implemented something following this spec? My experience is that it's somewhat okay-defined for consuming data, but the spec itself is wildly incomplete in the other direction. Looking at the repo and discussion forum, the maintainers are inactive, with tons of open questions unanswered.
The social safety net is not he opportunity that I want immigrants to be looking for and I say that as a immigrant myself. If I had come to the US and ended up unemployed soon after my arrival, the US shouldn't have had to pay for me. If I don't like that, I can always go back where I came from. Of course it's easy for me to say since I would be going back to a wealthy European country with comfortable safety net and to middle class parents.
Obama and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Speak at GES 2016
I'd suggest that it is not treaties that lead to good trans-national relations. TTIP, CETA, and the WTO treaty are examples of modern controversial treaties and treaties historically have been viewed as a very negative outcome for one of the nations.

What leads to good trans-national relations? Open borders. Because when the people of the two nations can visit, live, work, stay, build a house, settle down with a spouse and enjoy life in either country, the countries have a very hard time becoming hostile to one another.

That then leads to a completely separate question about the loss of cultural diversity, but I will not go there.

I only suggest that strong nations with open borders become friends.
Sift Science (YC S11) is looking for engineers to make the Internet safer
Regarding Switzerland, something like ~25% of the population is foreign born. While in the UK is ~13%.

Regarding the pound thing. Money does not work like that.

For example 1 ¥ (Japanese Yen) is worth £ 0.0071. Is the Yen worthless?
> voting for Bernie makes me a pro-globalization racist

I "get" the racist part (as in I get the causal structure in other people's brains that makes them come up with this, not that I agree with it), but not the pro-globalization part. Bernie Sanders was pretty vocal about his voting record on free trade (NAFTA, etc.), which he was consistently against.