skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not having "work" in the sense we have today isn't going to lead to plows and bandages ceasing to exist.

To that point, there are many people who would, if freed from the need to "work for a living", happily be farmers. The happiest people I know are the farm family that provides our CSA food. And they take more pride in their farm than someone riding a tractor to spray Monsanto chemicals all day. They love their work. If someone gave them a million dollars and they would never need money again, they'd still run the farm just as they do now (although they might give the food away).

Likewise, doctors! People become doctors to heal the sick, not to get rich. Virtually every doctor I've ever met is completely passionate about their job, frustrated mostly by the money-driven bureaucracy, not the patients. And they were taught by professors who couldn't be any happier than they are, teaching a new generation of doctors how to save lives.

Most jobs worth doing would gladly be done for free. If you look at a job and realize that no one would do it if they weren't paid a lot of money (or were desperately trying to stay off the street), you have to wonder if that job should be done at all.
Would love to integrate the ML and context aspects of Clara into our existing assistant team. Curious if that's something that's doable, or if it's just a package deal of their trained operators + AI.

But yeah, basically awesome and everything we'd need. Being able to go even more in-house and specialize our personal assistant and equip them with augmented capabilities here would be even more awesome.
Sadly another example of the power of the profit motive?
See your sibling post for why the GP is not, itself, a terribly insightful comment.

As for yours (which raises a very legitimate question), Vice has an article that mentions that element:

http://www.vice.com/read/why-clinton-isnt-being-charged-by-t...

Basically, the key is that it must be deemed "intentional" or "gross" negligence, and nothing they found rose to that level (in their opinion).

Of course, when mens rea is part of the sentencing criteria, there's lots of room for interpretation, which will ensure there will be a limitless source of fodder for Clinton's opponents and proponents to argue about for years to come...
Thank you, exactly what I was hoping to see instead of the usual arguments that don't actually fulfill the request.
I'm interested. Please let me know if you publish it. Trying to get a better understanding about the industry, but the information is hard to find or scattered all over the Web.
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In many ways, they were correct.

>sulphurous vapours were asphyxiating passengers on the London Underground.

Early underground trains were powered by steam engines. My understanding is that ventilation was horrific for many years as well.

> The philosopher and essayist Thomas Carlyle, for example, lamented the new lack of direct contact with society and nature caused by the intervention of machinery in every aspect of life. Print publications were fast becoming the principal medium of public debate and influence, and they were shaping and, in Carlyle’s view, distorting human learning and communications.

Very true -- 20th century politics in the US shifted away from the pub local political folks acting as tastemakers to national and regional movements. Modern periodical media shaped opinion.

> In his 2008 article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, journalist Nicolas Carr speculated that “we may well be in the midst of a sea change in the way we read and think”. Reading online, he posits, discourages long and thoughtful immersion in texts in favour of a form of skipping, scanning and digressing via hyperlinks that will ultimately diminish our capacity for concentration and contemplation.

Is there any question here that this has happened?

If you look at books like "Bowling Alone", it's also pretty clear that ready access to entertainment, cars, and other resources has had a pretty glaring impact on social structures. The clubs, leagues and church gatherings that were huge part of life in 20th century america have largely faded away.
Ah, makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.
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> Otherwise we are postulating or at least heavily implying that conservatism is always wrong.

This point isn't that all of conservatism is always wrong, but that that romantic nostalgia aspect of it mostly is. Of course, conservatives hardly have a monopoly on romantic nostalgia.
I love the new badges. They are very well designed and sleek. Good job.
I don't know, but even if you retain that right, it seems almost obvious that you don't have the right to publicly bid for counsel. Presumably the gag order would extend to any lawyer you contact.
Would love to know more details about what Netflix is actually doing behind the scenes, and why they:

> have to replace servers every 24-48 hours with lots of downtime

Which part causes lots of downtime?
Simple: The FBI didn't find Clinton guilty of gross negligence. Just regular ol' run-of-the-mill negligence (the word "gross" is in there for a reason... it's not just flowery language).

Unfortunately, at this point whether or not you believe in the ruling becomes a matter of faith.
Ah, someone else answered the call instead of trying to insult my intelligence. Thank you.
I certainly have. Who has experienced a loss due to HRC's email policy? I'm just curious. I mean, Benghazi had clear losses, but no firm cause that pointed to her negligence. Then we have emails with clear negligence but no obvious adverse consequence. Guess we luck out either way.
So I didn't try it in Chrome, and it doesn't work in Firefox, yet. But I can see where this is going and it would be awesome if it actually worked.
I jumped to the extended support channel, knowing it would come. Ironically this means that Firefox on Windows have better backwards compatibility (XP) than Firefox on Linux.

If push comes to shove i am pondering moving to Seamonkey.
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There is a partial solution to this problem- API schemas. Define a schema for your API and make it public, then have API methods auto-generated directly from that. For example, for web APIs, there's jsonschema- http://json-schema.org/ from which you can auto-gen functions in a given language. That way, the parameters around the API such as the URI of an endpoint can be changed from version to version without completely destroying the logic on top of it. It doesn't always solve the problem completely, but it can make it much more tractable.
I trial:ed them. It actually worked.

However, the monthly cost was so low that I got paranoid about their business model. They could do all kinds of MITM things with people who used their DNS rewrite+proxy service, in addition to enabling Netflix...
And to think we used to give China a hard time about The Rule of Law.
Since two others have completed the task with literally "3 lines of Javascript" then I'm not being disingenuous at all. I requested the 3 lines was given roughly the same example by two different people.

And I know the trends around jQuery, that was not the issue at all.
How do we pick the people who have to keep working? The lower class, perhaps, conscripted as farmers so the other 90% of us can live luxuriously off their largess?
You're not wrong, but then again, the typical American doesn't live in a typical city (where typical = median).

The average American city/town has a population of 20,000, yet 80% of the population lives in a metropolitan area.

(http://www.newgeography.com/content/00242-america-more-small...)

If that's counterintuive, imagine the extreme case of a country with 100 cities of 10,000 residents, and one city of 10 million residents. The median city has 10,000 residents, yet 10 out of 11 millions live in the big city.

If you are interested in the experiences of people as opposed to statistics about cities, the sort of city a typical American lives in is more interesting than a typical city.
Fair enough. To be honest I was lost in terms of titling it and kept bouncing back and forth between different titles :)
> I'm not sure warrant canaries are particularly useful anymore
> However, any company that stores user information is going to receive such an order or request at some point, it's practically inevitable.

I assume you are talking about the U.S. only ?

There are many other countries in the world, where gag-orders are not legally possible, or not as common as in the U.S. I would say warrant canaries are still useful there.
We already do quantum simulations at tiny levels and at a fraction the pace of real time—so, yes, assuming we can quantify the rules of the simulated system.
In the investment banking industry you can't be a lifetime associate, it is up or out. If you make it to managing director you are doing very very well for yourself, but you still don't have any job security. That big pay packet is a ripe target when fortunes turn and the bank needs to cut costs. And if you get let go as an MD it is unlikely you will find another bank to take you in (the usual thing where it is harder to find a job without a job is even more so in the financial world.)

There's also a technical meaning to tournament theory that helps explain why firms in some industries are so structured. You can read more about that here: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~pjkuhn/Ec250A/Slides/Tournaments&T...
Honestly it appeared like an assessment of Obama administration.

> He made a lot of new jobs, and give them to loafers that nobody knowed nothing about, and the poor people had to pay the bill, whether they could or not.

> Making us pay taxes without asking us whether we thought the things we had to pay taxes for was something that was worth paying taxes for or not.
I don't agree with everything he says, but he makes a compelling point that the rich will simply leave if taxes are raised too much.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but travel is one aspect of globalization that seems to benefit the rich more than the poor.
What's curious about this view, is that it ignores how researchers create AMR bugs in the lab. Namely low doses of Antibiotics to allow time for the bacteria to mutate and develop resistance. If you're interested you can look up MIC Minimal Inhibitory Concentration, I think you would find it illuminating. Also the assertion that the resistant phenotype is "otherwise less-fit" is not accurate.
Appreciated :)
No, it's people becoming not being able to know the difference between jQuery and Javascript. Calling either of them the other is a disservice to both.
UEFI vs BIOS itself isn't the issue. UEFI, the specificaiton, is really a nice interface to the hardware. The issue is with specific implementations of UEFI, and the fact that UEFI firmware vendors (much like traditional BIOS firmware vendors) can churn out hacky code and nobody is the wiser.
Good point. The religion was a magnet for people's moral compass, and once it became too inconvenient society showed it the door. The elites replaced it with a notion of dog-eat-dog world, and the proles happily ate it up and made it into reality.
The 99% means little when it suffers from a similar sort of problem that the immune system has with cancer. Adversary's lack of stationarity vs a fixed model.
Presumably they have to change servers so often because that's how quickly Netflix detects them.

It's extremely unlikely Netflix will publish how they perform the detection, because that would make it easier for people to get around. My guess is that they know where your account should be located based on payment information or previous detection of region-switching services, and they use these flagged accounts to uncover new region switchers.
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Not necessarily. Maybe this is less than optimal for loanwords, but why have consonants in your alphabet that you never use? Might also have grammatical meaning (e.g. t staying t in every form of a word)

For example, in Russian pronunciation, you might definitely confuse 'ti' for 'si'.
If Russian wouldn't have the real 's' consonant (or 'ц'), it would make sense to transliterate 's' as 'ti'.
Drinking bottled water, where I live, is kind of the only sane choice.

I was made fun of all last semester by dorm-mates about not drinking anything but bottled. Low and behold, there was a crap ton of lead found in the water after testing (along with many other particles).

How did I know this would be the case?

Any city or town built more then 70 years ago has this problem. This isn't as resistant in rich hipster places but in most of the US it is a problem.

Filtered and or bottle water is really the only way to go. Drinking the tap is not a good idea at all, no matter how many people tell you to.

I'm also the kind of person who uses many of the bottles I drink from for other purposes. (Starting flowers, cutting in half to make pen holders, etc)
This is AWESOME. Human+Machine is always going to be better and stronger than machine alone. Keep it up! I wonder how this can impact the amount of people that can participate in crowdsourced projects.
"We did not, at 2:43pm on the 17th of July, receive a request for any information related to the account identified as jakobdabo." (Request actually received at 2:44pm.) That'll trick 'em for sure!
It appears to be off by default.
That section struck me like a brick when I heard them reciting the Declaration on NPR yesterday morning. Later I saw this NYT opinion piece: "Did a Fear of Slave Revolts Drive American Independence" [1]. The article doesn't quite support the sensationalist headline, but it's interesting nonetheless.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/opinion/did-a-fear-of-slav...
Researchers are not totally clear on this. One particularly dangers spread is counterfeit medications that don't reach the MIC required to kill the Bacteria, and instead create in people exactly the same situation that biologist use to grown AMR bacteria in the lab.
As pointed out, yes it is indeed Javascript. If you make use of it then you cannot claim your code is shorter in lines by choosing to not include the jQuery code.

I've written a couple of small jQuery plugins and I don't claim I wrote this awesome Javascript code that does this cool thing. I say I made a jQuery plugin that does this cool thing.
Errr, the theory I'm relating is that continuing the pressure of the antibiotic will make it easier for the body, and perhaps non-susceptible benign bacteria, to finish them off (perhaps not all, but to a de minimus number where they won't pose a problem).

Remove that pressure, and the resistant population has a chance to rebound. More likely than having an ecology of other bacteria to fight with is that the field is somewhat or all but completely cleared. The body may not also have had a chance to clear up whatever condition allowed it to get a grip in the first place. Etc.

Again, as I understand it TB is a great example to look at, and depending on where you live it might even be a real danger to your and yours, so maybe read up on it?
Not to mention, if we stop development today and focus on automating what we have, we:

1) Fall victim to the problems of our own creation- e.g. climate change

2) Never attain the further advancements around the corner

Suppose, for example, we decided we had come "far enough" and halted technological advancement just before obtaining the vaccine, or the antibiotic, and never developed that technology.

We might be able to automate construction, agriculture, manufacturing- but we are still a fair ways from automating science, research, and development.
Spinning up servers these days is relatively quick, do you think it's ip addresses that are the issue?
I would guess they have to get 'clean' IPs too. Simply moving the IP to a different server likely is not sufficient. Netflix also filters the common ASes, so you need to shuffle between exotic/new blocks

Even the TTL on a.dns.whatever is set to 1min, a lot of clients ignore the TTL and use the cached value for minutes to days after TTL expiration.
>I think with the claims you are making the onus is on you that one could get away with this.

Fine. Here is the onus on me to show this:

“Warrant canaries have never been tested in court, but no case law suggests that they are in any way illegal,” says Nate Cardozo of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “In fact, existing law suggests that if a court were to examine a prohibition on warrant canaries, it would likely conclude that any such prohibition would run afoul of the First Amendment, even in the case of NSL and FISA requests.”

Source: https://gigaom.com/2014/10/10/are-warrant-canaries-legal-twi...

Now the onus is on anyone who disagrees with my referenced link, to show otherwise. Personally, I am fine with following the legal reading and guidance of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and you should be too.

The Warrant Canary article Wikipedia says, summarizing its three references: "Warrant canaries have been found to be legal by the United States Justice Department, so long as they are passive in their notifications."

Please link to any court cases to the contrary.
Fuck 'em for sure. What can be done, will be done; taking out knobs like that wont prevent the people who would be changing that setting anyway in the long run.
I think the fact that these "good 'ole days" style arguments seem to be timeless suggest an underlying fallacy of some sort driving them [0].

Having said that, I don't think that invalidates all conservatism since the value of the casualties of progress is subjective.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition
Between this and GTK3 i really wish someone would take GTK2 and run far far away from the Gnome gang.
And faster identification of AMR strains in order to choose first line AB's appropriately.
Yeah but the local display time will be wrong for Egyptions.
Crap, can't edit.

Two others completed the accordion in 3 lines task without jQuery.
I've tried many recipes from that site and they have all been spectacular. The best part is how in-depth they go into why the recipes work.
In my experience, this is not the case.
No, because a classification accuracy is not a p-value. By construction, a random guesser would achieve 50% accuracy in guessing whether A~>B or A<~B for each pair of cause-and-effects in their dataset. So getting >50% accuracy is the goal here.
The I/O on the diagram blows your mind, I wish the projects I worked on had outputs like Decent Engine

My career choices really suck, should have joined NASA or SpaceX :-)
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Private schools tend to increase the "cheap" part quite a bit.
Well...in history nobody has ever needed a document to start an uprising. And we aren't going to see one (atleast in the US) today cause most people have better things to do with their lives.
I suppose if you have a network of organizations that are vetted but not trusted 100%
> The difference is clear.

That's either some fine quality sarcasm, or I'm going to need some help understanding the difference between the two.

Didn't you just describe the same job from two different points of view (opressor vs opressed)?
Really great app. I was alway in search for open-source tool as this. Didn't get time to check yet. But have to soon.
Reminds me of the writeup a few days ago about Google's machine emotional intelligence for email suggested replys - except Clara is doing it (and more) with a team the fraction of the size.

The business solution here is very clever. As an engineer, my instinct is to fully automate any system. Clara is a great example where the most effective answer is getting the 90% solution, then going the last mile with humans to bring it up to 99% (making that up) accuracy, with most of the same savings. Imagine similar solutions for customer support (especially over website chat bars. Some systems like this already exist.)
Well, if the counsel of your choice was predefined as the one that bid the lowest in an open auction, then why would you lose that right? Could the court further restrict that right down to the specific lawyer they want representing you?

I do agree that the gag order would extend to any lawyer you contacted after the public bidding process concluded.
If we're being honest, then no.
If X, says nothing about if not X. Dual income no kids @ 200+k can be a great way to save a lot of money. But, you have far less control over your spouses spending and willingness to relocate.

Also, even if you don't move having 500+k / person in the bank is life changing. The median bay area house is 635,000$ which becomes affordable while saving money. Dual income with a 1+ Million down payment and you can actually buy a nice place.
Faster economic growth? Both may be desirable, but efforts to clean up the environment may conflict with faster economic growth.

It doesn't have to be that way. https://www3.epa.gov/airtrends/images/y70_14.png

But yeah there are tradeoffs
I think in era of state being the public enemy names like this has a political purpose. :)
> It's just so far from reality as it stands today that it's not even worth talking about as anything other than science fiction

We need to discuss this today, because we need to determine the path we will take forward.

1) Do we impede the adoption of automation to make sure there is work for everyone?

2) Do we have to keep the increasingly large numbers of unemployed mired in poverty to incentivize people to do the remaining necessary work?

3) Do we allow people the economic freedom to choose whether to work or not and then trust that the necessary work will get done because enough people want power and status?

I personally think 1) is a bad idea and will retard our progression. However, if you believe work is necessary for happiness and we have a duty to provide happiness for everyone, then 1) seems to be the only choice. (The article's point is to make an argument agains this option)

I do think we need a balance between 2) and 3). To me the unknown is how much economic freedom can we provide before we start losing economic output. I don't think we need to have a clear answer for this right now, but we can find the balance gradually by introducing a slowly increasing basic income.
I don't know how it suddenly became "your argument" the "first it's prison" isn't a straw man I introduced - I literally replied to someone who wrote:

>That's a great way to end up in prison

And I asked them to have a bit of perspective and not go off the deep end. You replied saying "However, a federal court case starts at 1.5 million to defend. Not many people have that in the bank. They can make you miserable for years. This has played a role in at least one person's suicide." I disagree that that is an outcome that will happen from ceasing to publish a warrant canary.

Nobody is going to do that over someone publishing 'Apr 2016 -'. Period.

And no, it's not impossible to provide evidence of this happening. Snowden leaked the secret program of surveilling hundreds of millions of Americans. You think someone couldn't leak a blog post about getting sued in secret court for publishing a 'Apr 2016 -' warrant canary? Really?

Let's have some perspective here.
I guess we would have to read the emails to know if she had the authority to reclassify them. Otherwise “This authority(...) did not extend to information generated by other agencies, such as CIA.”
Here is the rub, if you take a look at the Linux kernel you will see that they have managed, for the most part, to maintain backwards compatibility for a decade or more.

You can probably still run ELF binaries today that you compiled back when they move to the format. Heck, you can even compile the kernel to support a.out of you are so inclined.