skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It can tie users deeper into the Facebook identity layer, making it harder for them to ditch the social network

It's all about ecosystem lock-in for these tech giants. Their agenda-driven ways are not compatible with what gamers expect from a good platform.

It's why so much hate is directed towards services such as Origin and even worse, Uplay - which needs to run in addition to the Steam client. Or any service requiring its own "launcher". To its credit, Planet Coaster recently ditched its own launcher (Frontier Launchpad) and took the game to Steam. Frontier Launcher can now be uninstalled. Awesome. Planet Coaster is awesome btw.

Unless this "Gameroom" service allows sign-up via email address and avatar/handle/nickname identity, I'll be giving it a miss. And even if does offer third party authentication, I'll still likely give it a miss.
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I am pretty sure there was nothing really pointing to china so far. Any links?
The newspaper / print media industry generally is doing abysmally poorly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/business/media/buyouts-wal...

Submitted yesterday, didn't go anywhere: https://news.ycombinator.co/item?id=12834583

I've been picking up newspapers and magazines and been quietly horrified at how thin they are. I'm no fan of advertising, but I know it's how they pay the bills, and there are no ads there.

The Chicago Tribune is trying to keep their "news hole" at no more than 50%, and AFAICT, are failing. Even with the Cubs at the World Series (and the Trib pimping that for all its worth), the sports section has virtually no advertising. Most noticeable is the lack of classic retail: beer, wine, alcohol, automobiles, consumer electronics (a periodic Fry's ad excepted), clothing (with a few exceptions), etc. Some home services (windows, siding, etc.), and occasional furniture. But overall, terrifically thin.

Time Magazine as of September was similarly famished-looking.

Reminds me of running into a friend you'd not seen for a while, with a fatal disease. It's a visual shock.
We need to see someone follow sci-hub.cc lead and put the server and public face in Russia.
Nothing you wrote supports the ridiculous notion that expropriating less of a corporation's income is a form of government intervention.
I had Downside's Deathwatch, a simple automated cash flow analysis.[1] It's still up, frozen in time. All those "Chart is not available for this symbol" entries are dead.

In the first dot-com boom, many companies went public before profitability. So anyone could see how much cash they had and how fast they were burning through it. I just calculated how much time they had left until cash went to zero. That's the "death date" listed. It was embarrassingly accurate.

[1] http://www.downside.com/deathwatch.html
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Perhaps you didn't have access to an ADA compiler 25 years ago, but GNAT has been free and open source for about 20 years and part of GCC for more than 15. Of course, 20 years ago, ADA was already 15 years old, so no surprise that when it became accessible it was already branded fusty.
It depends on the data generally, but algorithms like lz4 can decompress faster than most storage mediums can keep up. Including nvme drives. Compare 1.8GiB/s reads of raw data, versus compressed almost 3 or more. This is on a skylake i7 and 2 nvmex4 drives. More cpu use but honestly, it would be stalled waiting on i/o otherwise.

The key is the data sent to the cpu and decompressed, makes up for the stall from hitting memory or i/o. Comparing ram vs ssd is the wrong comparison to make, with both you're hitting stalls due to memory. You want to compare reads of uncompressed versus compressed with the note that (and i'm just making numbers up with this analogy as i'm about to sleep), 900KiB of compressed data in, 2MiB of data out. 1.1MiB bonus and yes I'm assuming huge compression but for times your cpu is idle it makes perfect sense.

And yes, lz4 compression on things like movies still helps. I shaved off over 200GiB on my home nas with zfs.
Not just at the center; everywhere inside it.
But how?

hunger = 100;

while (hunger > 0) {
seekFood();
}

// Is this what hunger is to a machine, at its basest level? An int and a while loop? Is that really what it means to understand hunger? This and a text description?
Strictly from an insurance business perspective, there are two major problems with this:

* Netsec events are black swans: it's very, very hard to model how often a security breach will occur. One could checklist all the ways by which we know currently sites are getting hacked, and would still have to pay out, _because hacking exploits things we don't already know_.

* When a hack occurs, it can happen at scale. Unlike eg life insurance, where you have a single payout for hard-to-predict events, the better the hack, the higher the potential for damage, and so the higher the total payout.

These two together means an IT-security-insurance company might do well for a few years, then file for bankruptcy at the first event that hits it, due to inability to pay.
It doesn't mean will it happen or not, Thunderbolt 3 is great thing for now.
Netflix's change from their own review system to FaceBook killed it for me and angered their user base (which didn't effect them of course).

Facebook definately doesn't get the idea of different social landscapes for different aspects of life.

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/get-to-know-netflix-and-its-new-...
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rimshot I can't tell if that's an electric car joke or a condemnation of Tesla or both.
This explains why they blocked hyperlinking outbound URLs except for the 'bio', which I always thought was weird but in retrospect makes sense. Instagram has a lot of activity but it's mostly confined to Instagram as opposed to the dispersing effects of reading e.g. Twitter. Snapchat has a similar internal lock-in principle.
> Of much greater surprise to me was the claim that an isolated quantum mechanical system neither gains nor loses entropy.

Why is this surprising? It's a simple consequence of unitarity.
The Chicago Tribune renamed its holding company "Tronc" a few months back. It didn't help. Gannett just declined to buy them a few hours ago. Tribune Tower is being converted to condos.
Thanks for all you wrote! I suspect I'm in a similar place to where you were prior to getting treatment. I've resisted pursuing a diagnosis because it's hard to see what an alternative "normal" would be like. Whether creativity would suffer.

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I mean hunger is really just a gut reaction created to tell us we need to eat or we'll die eventually.

edit: s/created/developed over time/
I always had the impression that webgl games run way smoother than unity games on chrome/ubuntu.
It's so weird that you say that, because my DE is exactly why I use linux. I install debian, sync down my config settings from home, and (aside from wifi/sound) I'm done. I have a very minimal DE/WM setup that gets out of my way, and lets me work. I very rarely have to fiddle with anything
The one time they had an interesting show (Playmakers), the NFL twisted their arm to cancel it.
To put it another way, a human learns by experience. When you think of "an apple", you think of various sensory experiences in which an apple has played a role; eating the apple, throwing the apple, etc. At some level, these experiences are finite; an apple corresponds to a physical object, and there are only a few thousand ways that humans and objects interact.

A better consideration is whether computers should be limited to understanding things the way humans understand them. Sensors can characterize apples in uncommon ways; X-rays, microwaves, nanoscale structures, etc. Similarly machinery can interact with apples in ways that humans cannot, such as vaporizing them, disassembling them, or launching them to Mars. Perhaps some combinations of action verbs and nouns are impractical or impossible; that's a physical, experimental property, rather than a property tied to human experience. At the end of the day a computer only needs to know about humans in order to interact with them; its representation of the world is distinct.
The problem is that Oculus is not hugely popular and faces stiff competition from other VR hardware. It would be silly to "need Oculus" for a Facebook game. Wouldn't that be a turning point in gaming.. requiring Facebook hardware before you can enter a building in a VR world. I guess that's where it's headed, and would be very sad to have that fragmentation in VR.
Who owns your data when you're dead? (2013)
Google Security Engineer Claims Android Is Now as Secure as the iPhone
It got Kaby Lake and some other updates just recently.
Capitalism is a process that respects individual rights and in particular, contract law. It is a process that is responsible for more poverty reduction than any other in history, and for which there is a trove of evidence indicating that it boosts economic growth rates.
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You have to register your site and your details with a government that has shown a heavy hand when it comes to censorship.

Definitely no different than the west. Definitely more transparent.

People host all sorts of stuff that decries their governments in the West, talks about how awful their actions are, etc etc etc, all without being taken down. You're REALLY sipping the kool-aid if you think that what you're describing is remotely similar to the west.
What you're looking for is called the symbolic grounding problem:

| But as an approach to general intelligence, classical symbolic AI has been disappointing. A major obstacle here is the symbol grounding problem [18, 19]. The symbolic elements of a representation in classical AI – the constants, functions, and predicates – are typically hand-crafted, rather than grounded in data from the real world. Philosophically speaking, this means their semantics are parasitic on meanings in the heads of their designers rather than deriving from a direct connection with the world. Pragmatically, hand-crafted representations cannot capture the rich statistics of realworld perceptual data, cannot support ongoing adaptation to an unknown environment, and are an obvious barrier to full autonomy. By contrast, none of these problems afflict machine learning. Deep neural networks in particular have proven to be remarkably effective for supervised learning from large datasets using backpropagation. [..] The hybrid neuralsymbolic reinforcement learning architecture we propose relies on a deep learning solution to the symbol grounding problem.

Source: Marta Garnelo et al: Towards Deep Symbolic Reinforcement Learning https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.05518.pdf
Similar Ask HN asked in the past.

Refer the links here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=best%20linux%20laptop&sort=byP...
> Can we offload rationality to our subconscious without allowing ourselves to succumb to heuristics?

An almost textbook definition of cognitive bias right there.

> How can we avoid perceptual errors which influence our judgement?

You have to work incredibly hard to achieve that. Perceptual and bias errors are the most common and difficult to find in ourselves.

My personal take is to become really good at two things: understanding when and how it is appropriate to trust in someone else's domain authority/expertise, and whatever it is you'd like to be an expert on.

Don't expect this behavior out of your fellow citizens, or even yourself, most of the time. It requires battling with some pretty strong evolutionary drives.

Frankly, cultivating humility is probably easier (which is saying something, as that's pretty difficult for most humans as well).
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I have no skin in this game, but it seems to me that you're being unfair.

There's a story that goes around the nonprofit sector about activists stopping sweatshops in developing nations. The wages there are terrible, the working conditions inhumane. So it's good that they stopped the sweat shops from existing. Right?

Well, they went and checked some time later, to measure the effects of the change. It turned out that the children who had been working at those inhumane sweatshops had turned to the next best alternative:

Child prostitution.

(Here's a link with sources to back this up: http://lesswrong.com/lw/hcp/seeking_reliable_evidence_claim_...)

It seems like your argument has the same structure. I don't know anything about People Delight, but if it's the case that this is the business model that makes it economically feasible to provide jobs to people for whom those jobs are the best option, then I think it would be a mistake to force those jobs out of existence because the jobs couldn't provide even more benefit to the workers than they currently do.

I want everyone, everywhere to have all they need and want, and to live happy lives on their own terms. It just seems like you're being unfair to fapi1974 by asking him to do it singlehandedly.
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Anecdotal but I did reputation cleanup for a company. I never recalled any 'we'll remove low star reviews' offers from the Yelp sales team. My guess is some sales guys get desperate and the Yelp ad package was not cheap/scaleable like Google ads so they definitely had to dig.

Incidentally removing low star reviews from some sites is easy(prove review violates TOS) .... I remember Yelp being strict on not doing so.

If you want to see some real grade A con games....look up Groupon. Great idea, greedy as hell execution.
I worked at marchFirst back in the day. Even had the chance to meet Bob Bernard. That experience shaped how I run the company I co-founded 3 years ago. M1's number one problem was a culture of spending money without any thought of a return. Which was probably really odd for folks on the Whitman Hart side of the merger. It really was a merger of two opposite cultures.
There's a good writeup here of ways in which people "should" wrap cron-jobs:

https://www.ctl.io/developers/blog/post/cron-in-production
I'm completely aware of that. My wife is actually a school teacher so her salary is freely available online. I'm only arguing that being called out like this by name in a news article, is pretty...bogus. That's all.
Reminds me of Cyc.
Funny you should mention that - my friend just submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12852302 for feedback on his stab at a thesaurus!
I imagine that will be the RNC as well. Kind of a tradition in an election year ^_^
Trump or Clinton: Who will be better for the market?
I think text is too high of a concept for this kind of thing, all your examples of senses are really just input memory. Text to a computer is simply input and can mean different things in different contexts. Is the binary string coming out of some temperature sensor really any different than a digital audio stream, or string of text? It's simply a case of mapping those inputs to a concept of feeling, hearing or reading.

I think the real challenge to this kind of approach is always going to be raw processing power and size of data sets. Our brains may not be incredibly efficient, but they have so much more stuff to work with over even our largest data centers and the amount of data that comes to us every living moment is basically infinite compared to curated sets we feed our current learning machines.

So imitating the way people learn like this is probably the key to getting something to properly "think", I just wonder when the resources available to our computers will catch up to the resources available to our brains.
I believe the main usage of thoughts is to justify oneself, not to reason. Therefore we should aim at decreasing the need for self justification?
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To the best of my understanding, market socialism is just worker coops operating within a traditional market economy. That would mean it's not an actual political ideology.
England initially had what was effectively three independent monetary systems, with three independent uses, though interchangeable and with exchange rates periodically re-fixed.

Copper (pennies) for retail purchases. Silver (shillings and pounds) for wholesale. And gold (guineas) for finance (and government) transactions. Kind of.

That's partially based on my reading of Adam Smith (who spends a tremendous amount of time on coinages) and partially my own speculation, though it seems to have at least some merits.

Keep in mind that pennies went down to the farthing (a quarter penny).

For labourers (ag, day, general, messengers, miners), annual wages were ~17 - 31 pounds/yr, roughly, as of 1700.

For some historical wages and costs:

http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/wages.htm
Not technically "firing" I suppose but all of the dev org in Atlanta and SF, including myself, were laid off at athenahealth last week. Something like 120 people. Sucks.
How are the downloads fast? Mine seems stuck on 3-5Mb/s...
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Adobe doesn't make ReCap 360, Autodesk does.
Great. A furthering of the attempted fragmentation of my gaming license management software.

For the same reason that I don't buy things on UPlay and Origin, I won't be buying things on Gameroom.
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At what level?
Education and experiences.

Education: We should educate for core thinking process as in the old days like logic and rhetoric topics. E.g. Logic can be taught and is undervalued as a trait these days. I'd prefer to work with someone that had great logic than rote learnt job requirements.

Experience: By balancing society and encouraging broad experience and social mixing you will get a more rational society. In my experience 90% of society is trying to be good citizens, but often they have a blinked view on the world. Mixing widly for greater experiences will reduce the tribal tendency people have e.g wealthy people to assume unemployed are lazy or the poor to think the wealthy have it all roses. This would cross to other areas like religion, guns, race if people can see the perspective where people are coming from. And those with opposing views more likely dont feel they have to push to the extreme to be understood. And simply seeing things in action opens your eyes. Like people that claim single payer healthcare will never work. Go spend some time in Canada, UK and Australia and you will see it works fairly well. Likewise you'll see bad things that reinforce what you need to protect.
Sorry to dump on your aside, but the media arm isn't affected. The Finance/Risk news (for financial clients) division is the one being downsized, and they were profitable.

The parent mentions it, but here's the brief from their outlet: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-thomsonreuters-results-idU...
Its entirely unknown who succeeded or not since both sides have agreed not to disclose the deal.

I think its likely that Youtube just got it their way but the non-disclosure is part of the deal so GEMA can still present it as a victory, and does not have to answer questions about their relevancy.
An increase in honesty (both to themselves and others) causes people to search for the reasons why they do what they do. Greater political and legal scrutiny.
> Microsoft

> largest OS vendor

> "We may not be able to find any reasonable object other than Microsoft."

This seems a bit contrived, considering that Android has the larger install base.
I don't envy him:

"When work crews pulled open a broken BART escalator at San Francisco's Civic Center Station last month, they found so much human excrement in its works they had to call a hazardous-materials team.
While the sheer volume of human waste was surprising, its presence was not. Once the stations close, the bottom of BART station stairwells in downtown San Francisco are often a prime location for homeless people to camp for the night or find a private place to relieve themselves..."
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Human-waste-shuts-down...
The short version:

"To address these types of sophisticated attacks, Microsoft recommends that all customers upgrade to Windows 10, the most secure operating system we’ve ever built, complete with advanced protection for consumers and enterprises at every layer of the security stack."
I'm curious to hear your thoughts on Crystal...

It seems like it takes the hits of Ruby and marries them with the LLVM, to make a really awesome, performant language without sacrificing developer happiness. (which is also a tagline of Elixir)

Not asking you to start a flamewar, just genuinely curious about your thoughts on Crystal and if you've played with it.
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Hmmmm... I remember about an Excel macro-virus that would multiply numbers (and adjust the format to hide it) in data cells by small random number, between 0.99 and 1.01 slowly over time. By the time you realized what was going on, your data was completely gone. Can't remember the name though.
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Exact numbers don't matter. It depends on your physical status. I find that 20-30' of exercise totally changes my mood and stress levels without exhausting me, allowing me to do actual work afterwards.