skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The algorithms themselves may not 'choose' to discriminate, but they certainly can be used in a way that causes discrimination due to an oversight on the part of the algorithm's designer, even if not intended.

See e.g.:

Fairness as a Program Property, Aws Albarghouthi, et al, FATML 16
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~aws/ (Note: I can't find the paper link, maybe the conference hasn't occurred yet, but Aws gave a pre-talk on this topic already.)

Part of the problem with algorithms is that they allows us to be sloppy in our assignment of responsibility. We think "the computer can't be biased", which is of course true, but ignore the fact that the human designer of an algorithm could have made a mistake. And because of the nature of computer programs, these mistakes can be arbitrarily subtle. The above paper (I'm recalling from the talk now) applies certain probabilistic reasoning to prove that certain kinds of programs are "fair" for a certain population distribution and for a very limited set of language features (e.g. no loops). But static analysis is a very hard problem and it is unlikely we'll ever see a solution that generalizes well to anything we'd recognize as a useful programming language.

Edit (finishing my line of thought): So certainly bias exists in either case. I'm not trying to claim that using algorithms increases bias. However, algorithms can cause the decision process to be opaque, and in that sense 'hide' the bias. Unfortunately, it seems that if we want to use algorithms in these settings, we'll need either rigorous models like the above that are amenable to static analysis, or else give up and return to where we were before.
You're confused again. Trump had record breaking PRIMARY turnout. All polls taken so far have him only getting about 40% of Republicans. And there is no evidence what so ever that he is drawing in independents or Bernie supporters at any significant rate.

He is down by on average 7 points nationally for a reason.
Pro-Torture
Anti-Encryption
Snowden is a criminal
Would give nuclear weapons to Saudi Arabia
Pro-Putin

Then there are the multiple sex abuse accusations.

Seems like an all-around anti-tech candidate to me.
Well, the Europeans refuse to consider using RTGs (scary radiation!), which pretty much cripples any attempts to make a non-trivial rover.
Saying the Chinese invented Global Warming is batty, but it is certainly true that they have become more competitive in manufacturing by game theoretically "defecting" on it -- going crazy with cheap coal power to undercut all the other nations who have taken at least some steps to reduce CO2 emission.

Of course Trump's point was not that nuanced. He said the batty thing as near as I have heard, and I have not heard any substantial proposals on how he might correct the trade imbalance without wrecking the economy by starting a trade war in a fragile economy.
China to launch manned space mission Shenzhou 11 on Monday
MITM attack using ARP poisoning and MITMProxy
Clinton's plan for Syria is scary. Ironically it displays the kind of toughness that Trump claims to represent. Personally I think it is a bad move, and Russia has already been reasonable, e.g. backing the Iran deal.

You don't even need to be a libertarian or an isolationist to believe that the neoconservative approach is wrong.
It's weird because it's also wrong, which makes me think this person hasn't really thought hard about this:

- There's a couple decent paella places, and some fine Spanish bars that serve some food.

- "best patisseries in the world" is a stretch. There's good stuff, but most major cities in France have one or two places that would beat all of Tokyo's places.

- The egg-salad sandwiches at most convenience stores are not super tasty. I mean it will beat any convenience store food outside of Japan, but I would still only eat convenience store food for time/money reasons. Best food of its kind, but a restaurant will usually be better.

- there's a lot of South-asian restaurants? Notably thai, though I can't vouch for the quality, not knowing what the "real deal" is.

My experience mostly aligns with the author, though. Tokyo has such variety and such a high baseline for food compared to what I've experienced elsewhere that I'm afraid to leave because I've gotten so used to not worrying about bad food.

There's a lot of non-authentic stuff (Chinese places, notably, are all "Japanified"), but usually two or three places that are the real deal for a kind of food.

Except for breakfast food, have not been able to figure out where to get a "Waffle House experience" before 11 AM
It does not answer your question straight but here are some things that stared at me in the first week though perhaps there is a way I don't know about:

1. No tag based billing ala aws. The only way to separate bills seems to be using projects. Which means separate networks. Which means more vpn needed to tie it all together to corp network?

2. Need more granular IAM scopes. I.e. I want a user that gets readonly for compute, disks and snapshots and create/delete for snapshots.

3. Tags are labels are tags? For me that was a bit of wtf moment. It might have its reasons but I want to add labels without possibility to trigger firewall rules.
For that matter why labels are alpha feature? It's not like it's a new service.
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Best in what sense? Food is a matter of taste.
Now Niantic's decision to disallow root devices, imo, is pretty regretful, as serious botters will likely be able to get around that restriction regardless. This only serves to punish users who are stuck between having a root-enabled custom ROM or a stock ROM where critical root exploits may exist.

One thing that I observed is that no one seems to be interested in producing a ROM that is both stable, has a variety of features, do not rely on root, and supports the device for a long time.

This is a shame really, because root itself breaks the security mechanism for android and users probably are not fully aware what it means when they grant applications root.

I personally got around this problem by compiling a build of CyanogenMod without root enabled, but with things like FDroid (with PrivilegeExtension) and adblock built-in to the ROM itself (albeit the update mechanism is to update the ROM it self). This is not a solution for the mass majority of users.

This problem is pretty difficult to solve and it is pretty deep, much deeper than what I'm willing to type in a single comment, so I'll stop here.
He might very well have set up a "heads I win, tails I win more" gambit. If he wins the election, he's president. If he loses, he has 30 million or so passionate customers for his next business venture.
A comparison between Trump and Hitler is ridiculous. There is simply no comparison, and the idea of is an insult to the millions slaughtered by Nazi Germany.

9 years before Hitler became president of Germany, he wrote in Mein Kampf: "the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew." and "Aryans were, and are, alone “the carrier of the development of human culture."

He foreshadowed the Holocaust by saying "that the ‘sacrifice of millions at the front’ would have been prevented if ‘twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the people had been held under poison gas."

12 years later, he killed (among others) over 15 million Jews, gays, Russian civilians, and Roma people.

Trump on the other hand, has said "“total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.” He also said "And by the way, many, many, most Muslims are wonderful people."

I challenge you to find a quote of Hitler saying something this nice about Jews.
I have been looking forward for this since I asked how to improve the language, especially English [1]. Thanks to the OP for asking this. I am also glad there a lot of people share theirs story or method when learning a second language.

I know it's not only book as the main resource to improve the language. By the way, any recommendation of book or other resource to improve English language?

Thank you.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12690479
It might not be great, but I trust it more than these dishonest polls
That wouldn't use "the cloud"?
No, I mean that platforms with browsers are a domain that Rust _must_ support for the use case Mozilla is developing it for. That doesn't preclude desiring support for other platforms, but is a minimum bar.
Taking it down in a first place was a major disappointment in gitlab (and github).
Every time I've dealt with Ruby and/or Rails on Windows I've been annoyed--typically at events like Rails Girls where we have to try it out but still have problems.

The basic install is not terrible, but the very second you start needing thinks like Image Magick or any gem that might expect a Linux build environment or POSIX tools everything breaks into shambles.

If you want to run Rails on Windows, install Virtualbox on Windows, and then load a Linux VM into it.
We do use a self-hosted version of GitLab for some of our projects at work (CE I think), and GitHub for others - which one depends on which team you're on. I only didn't mention that we use GL at work since I have no input into the matter - for the longest time we were using Gitolite hosted on a toaster oven and GL on a proper server is a big improvement, even though we use very few of its features (we have alternative CI and code review solutions).

Because I know it will be asked, the reason we're not using GL's features is mostly organizational inertia since we had to use those tools back when we were using Gitolite - having used GL's CI and code review solutions on personal projects, I don't think they're any worse than what we're using now.
In the specific context of Rust, being able to build a browser is a large part of the point. That means supporting platforms where people use browsers.
Is there a plugin that compares sites I visit to this list automatically?
I think your last point holds a lotof the key. I'm technically coastal, but where I come from is more Rust Belt in character. Things used to be good, maybe not great, but a lot of people made a living doing honest work and supported strong communities a generation ago. People in those areas today look around and see a gutted, graying, opiod-dependent third-world wasteland where they used to thrive. Things are not better for them.
This used to be the DVD form of Netflix! The community function especially. I still miss it :(

It's so sad what they've become, I plan on cancelling in a bit, as amazon prime is free 2 day shipping + a batch of binge watching crap as well.
Best Food city ? I'm writing from Tokyo right now (I go there several times a month) and while you certainly have a very good palette of choice, within Japan it's one of the most expensive places to eat, and the big problem that I have is that it's constantly crowded, especially where the food is a bit better than average. And the lack of space in general does not match with a super enjoyable experience. I'd prefer eating in Kansai any day, where you can actually relax and enjoy the food (cheaper and of very good quality too) instead of caring about the noise and the crowd.
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This is exactly what is happening.

You have the personalities in Trump and Giuliani etc. You have the news content courtesy of Brietbart. You have lifestyle content courtesy of his real estate assets e.g. golf/travel shows etc. And he already owns a TV production company that made the Apprentice.

And don't forget that Lachlan Murdoch is now firmly in charge of Fox News and has always talked about it being less alt-right and more centre-right. This will leave a massive opening for Trump in the alt-right space. The real question is whether Fox will allow it on their global cable platforms.
I don't know about his reputation elsewhere, but at least in New York, it is a consensus that he has overextended in favour of scale over quality. ("Momofuku" is a reference to be inventor of instant ramen.)
Technology has always been political, even moreso today. to ignore that in search for purism around codebase discussions is at the peril of this forum.
I bet that going to Kansai region (Osaka/Kyoto/Kobe/Nara) could beat Tokyo as far as food goes.
The K implementation isn't done in one long line and has indentation and spacing:

https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/blob/gh-pages/oK.js

I'm confused.
Short answer: globalization hurts the developed world in the absence of real technological breakthroughs (energy too cheap to meter, something we use a lot gets can now be made for half the price, etc.). A richer world just means more competition for scarce things. The rational policy for a self-interested superpower might be to ease up on globalization.
I don't know. Do you have an overweight orange self-styled billionaire standing on your shoulders?
I just want a netflix of the Turner Classic Movies catalog.

I was so pissed when Comcast dropped TCM and left me with 100 other garbage channels I don't watch.
> So it's a little rich to see him go on about Tokyo when after going to his favorite Ramen joints there a few years ago,

Having travelled all over Japan, in my experience the Ramen in tokyo is OK but certainly not the best anyway. The Ramen culture varies a lot depending on the region and I find other regions more to my taste (Sapporo is an excellent place for Ramen joints).

And the "Tokyo is the best" for everything gets really really old. Maybe it's the best for some people, but let's avoid making blanket statements all the time.
Surprised people are still playing Pokemon Go. Niantic made all the wrong moves.
It's almost certainly too late to elect Trump, but it isn't too late to be a first investor in Trump Media, with Roger Ailes and Stephen Bannon.
The favors you can get from politicians are never in short supply. Buy shares of them whenever you can.
For Japanese cuisine, certainly. I agree with you. For western/fusion/foreign cuisine, I believe it's true that Tokyo has probably more choice and a higher level in general.
Yep, i think so too. Kansai is less posh though on the average. Having the upscale experience might be important for some folks...
Lol just like everyone knows Italians only eat Pasta and Pizza!
I'm still upset that they changed from The Auteurs to Mubi...
This would save lots people time
Osaka, certainly, but Kobe is definitely more on the same posh level as Tokyo, especially for more expensive restaurants.
$50/month for an org? - definitely.
The frustrating thing is that Always On Top is implemented in Windows, just not exposed to the user in any useful way.

For years I used a simple ~30 LOC program that mapped Alt+F5 to maximize/restore and Alt+F6 to toggle Always On Top. Sadly, I seem to have lost it.

It really did wonders for my workflow, especially in the days before Dash or Aero Snap. Being able to have a little documentation window up was fantastic!
I know 5 languages. Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, English and Arabic. Fluent in 4/5.
Most Indians know 3+ languages.
Only to the extent that your consumption involves cheap labor.
I just saw personal opinions, misogynist remarks (reference to a "dumb blonde who's just beautiful", because "dumb blondes" are not human, you see), condescending remarks, very limited world view, more personal opinions. Yes, Tokyo is the world's best food city…for the author.

I don't feel like looking up who the author is or what the author's prior reputation and accomplishments are (beyond what's mentioned in plain text in the comments here). Those cannot excuse the writing. The words in the article tell a lot.
1.25M, not 12.5M.
Profiting off the chaos seems much more likely than relying on Trump to keep his word or re-pay favors. I'm not sure which is more reprehensible, actually supporting Trump's general platform, or 'merely' hoping his election destabilizes the country enough for Thiel to advance his personal goals.
What is Spain's main food? When I was there, I tried to eat tapas whenever possible.
That would mean that countries with larger populations would have higher unemployment rates, but that is not the case.
Yes, his campaign staff has a policy list. But does the man consistently stand by them and defend them each time? Nope[1]. Take the recent contradiction with Pence on Syria, for example. The traditional republicans are hoping he will implement their party's platform. But with a man so erratic and impulsive, and with mostly unchecked power of executive, how can anyone be sure?

[1] - http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/full-list-dona...
Perhaps a better supported Trump will continue to widen the gulf between the candidate and the GOP, and that in turn will create a vacuum of opportunity for change after the election.
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> I'm genuinely curious what the rational for Thiel is in doing this.

Maybe he's just a racist who holds women in contempt and hates muslims. It's hardly unheard of.
Everything has to be such a spectacle, so black-and-white and binary in the US.

The forum discussions, here and elsewhere, give outside observers this impression:

|=============================X=| Candidate X: some minor flaws, but overall a great option
|=X=============================| Candidate Y: the new Hitler, world falls apart if elected

For reference, here is how many people in (not only) Europe view this "great American match":

|============================X==| amazing candidate
|================X==============| acceptable candidate
|=======X=======================| Clinton & Trump: dishonest, obviously manipulative untrustworthy crooks
within rounding error of each other

Is the election system so broken that these two are the best USA can offer?
Get a good dictionary of the language in the language and read it a lot.
Get some basic grammar and asap use it on unsuspecting natives.
For the phonemes that you did not get the chance to assimilate as a child, you're going to have to learn the mouth/throat movements and feelings like a gymnast learns jumps. Hope this helps.
Am I meant to infer "do for Trump what IBM did for Hitler" from that?
It would mean that any poor country could simply become wealthy by allowing unlimited immigration...Most poor countries are nicer relative to some worse-off country, so certainly there would not be a shortage of immigrants wanting to migrate.
I switched to Linux about 2 months ago specifically to take advantage of powerful WMs. My WM of choice handles the "always on top, small video window in the corner" beautifully. It also works with any app, and any video service, where Firefox's has to be custom tailored to different scenarios.

It all makes me wonder why both Windows and OSX are so unwilling to either explore more powerful window management, or at least provide APIs to enable power users to build their own.
and instead you decided to betray me and my race, dear european, by not being strong enough.
With Brexit the reporting of what was going on was dodgy, even the leader of UKIP thought he'd failed. The bookies had Remain at something like .90 probability.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-23/bookies-pl...
I'm native Romanian, fluent English and medium German. I've learned both on my own. School was terrible for learning anything.

Read, read a lot. But not hard-copy books. Read short articles. Read something you're interested in and already have some knowledge of. Technical stuff is easier than literature. No metaphors, no hidden meaning. You might not understand much in the beginning, but that's ok. If you at least get the gist of the article, you're good to go. It keeps you interested. Install the "Wiktionary and Google Translate" addon (if on Firefox, or similar for other browsers). Double-click a word to pop up it's definition. Or select whole sentences to instant-translate them. Every word definition is a click away. The more you see, the better you become.

Watch your favourite tv show with subtitles. If the tv show is in English and you already know English, that's all you need. Put on the subtitles in the language you want to learn and see the magic happen. You'll pick up words and expressions in no time. Dramas/thrillers work better than comedy. Comedy is usually fast-paced and has complicated expressions. Recommended: Dexter, Breaking Bad, SOA, etc. Not recommended: Friends, Big Bang Theory, etc. You get the idea.

It takes time, but it's better than learning all the grammar before you even have the chance to use the language. It's like learning the geometry of the hammer without ever using it. A little grammar right at the beginning might help, of course. But don't stay too long in that corner.
The fact that it's an outlier means, statistically, that it is more likely to be wrong.
ASK HN: Best computer science blogs to follow?
what are the few best computer science blogs to follow ? any specific blogs you follow, like one for security one for virtualization and cloud computing or one for software engineering, etc. or one blog which has everything ? I want to read more and I think reading blogs is a good way to know and understand tech better. can you suggest a few ?
> I'm genuinely curious what the rational for Thiel is in doing this. He's a smart guy, but I just don't see the ROI.

I personally see him more of a cunning guy than just smart because I find his actions disturbing.
Bernie is a good counter-example. Huge rallies, way behind in votes.
I've written a toy TeX interpreter/macro-expander as my first "large" Haskell program. It really made me think hard about both Haskell and TeX. I think this is a great way to learn two languages at the same time if you already have experience.
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Explain more please.
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A quick, easy and fun way is to view tv series and films in the other language. You could add subtitles in your own language at first. If it's a difficult language watch something you already saw. The context will help, you already know what it's about.
I read this article with a pinch of salt. The author is biased towards Japanese, French and Italian cuisines. He clearly notes the lack of South Asian and Spanish cuisine restaurants (what about Mexican? Filipino?) in Tokyo. How can a city have the best food in the world, if it's not even a fair representation of the world? That's like saying Japanese, Italian and French cuisines are the best in the world.
I don't think the parent is saying that Trump is literally Hitler, but rather that his rhetoric targeting specific minorities is alarmingly similar to that of Hitler's and his National-Socialist party during their rise to power.

No doubt the Holocaust was one of the most horrific crimes ever committed -- should we not then be all the more vigilant in preventing such similar hate speech from entering the mainstream?
He has been consistent on almost all issues. He only modified the "muslim ban".
Ask HN: I'm an old programmer, do I qualify for diversity consideration?
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what's makes this game fun is the quality of the simulation environment and the instant feedback with verification. I wish I had tools like this back in computer engineering lab.
"...what did you do?"

:/
IMHO - the one place where you get the best food in a 24 hour area from around the world, including affordable Michelin star food is Singapore.

Between the kopitiams (24 hr coffee shops), 4$ michelin star food [1] and the Timbre gastropark... you really can eat amazing food all in a day.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/aug/04/micheli...