skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure you got it right?

If I understood correctly, Akashi is the "standard" (as in, fixed from Greenwich) reference in Japan, some 270 miles west of Tokyo, that means that the Sun is at the highest point just some minutes before 12 in Tokyo, which is not significantly different from what happens in London when the DST is not active? England sees the highest Sun at around 1 pm when the DST is active, but that's only one hour, give or take the minutes of seasonal variations from the real solar time, and that really only when DST is active, and Japan, as you say, doesn't do DST, and has the similar seasonal variations.

Therefore I don't understand your "11-7" equivalence.
We've asked you before to stop posting ideological rants to Hacker News. It isn't just that they're not what this site is for—they're actively poisonous to what it's for. If you keep doing it, we will ban your account.

What we want here is thoughtful discussion driven by curiosity, not plangent rhetoric driven by certainty.
AMD has their AMDGPU-PRO [1] drivers that are available on 16.04

[1] https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Radeon-G...
Is there a phone or tablet you can buy which comes fully unlocked and rooted by default?

Something I can install KDE Neon to?
I love Unsplash. They also have a Chrome extension to show a random image in your new tab page. Would recommend.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unsplash-instant/p...
Emails Warrant No New Action Against Hillary Clinton, F.B.I. Director Says
From what I can tell, the Tesla is better by every metric aside from potentially not being available as soon. Cheaper, faster, better tech, nicer interior, better range, faster charging, better charging network, the list goes on. And let's not forget the huge bonus of not having to go through dealership bullshit.
If polling stations are numerous and accessible enough, an entire day isn't necessary.

https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90e06#BK18

edit: Canada also has advance voting. Polling stations open 5 days before the election day and people can voting during business hours on those days.
Doesn't help that MacBooks are so slippery. It's the single reason that I bought a Dell instead. Too easy to drop or slide off my lap, and it's not really feasible to put it in a rubber case like I do with my phone.
>But that's still a huge step forward from having people, even smart people, make gut decisions just based on what's in their head, even if that's still a decision driven by human values and biases.

I don't see how that follows. The biases of an algorithm or beurocracy aren't inherently superior, they are just inherently repeatable.
Bill Gates.
really good stuff you have there
> and which are evil and duplicitous. For some reason I strongly suspect that the set of stories they want deemed good are those that align with Vox's editorial philosophy.

Not "evil and duplicitous", but false and sensationalistic. I expect that Vox's opinion of what counts as both is biased, and you might think that Vox's own articles tend to fall into those categories. Certainly it is not always possible to assess truth in politics in a completely objective manner; I frequently read PolitiFact, and while I think they're decent, their fact checks often boil down to judging how accurately a short and necessarily imprecise statement describes a complex reality, leading to subjective rulings I sometimes disagree with. But some stories are just complete nonsense, like the "oversampling" example from the Vox article, and any reasonable observer really ought to agree on that...
You might want to add a text shadow, because the error message isn't visible on quite a few images. I just loaded the page 5 times, and couldn't see it twice.

http://i.imgur.com/YNBEUzc.jpg

Also, it gives some strange behavior in Firefox. If I load the below in a tab, it shows a random image as expected. Then if I open it again in a new tab it shows the previous image that loaded from the first tab, and then it switches images to a new random one a second later.

http://www.hrpartner.io/nopage

Lastly, you could solve the above issues, and decrease the load time from 1s to 200ms if you just self hosted a few random images, and you wouldn't have to worry about your 404 page depending on Unsplash.

Edit: It's actually taking 6-8 seconds to load the image now, and the 404 page is white text on a white background during that time.
Apple products on a distressed wooden table, laid out perfectly yet supposedly naturally positioned, with an open paper notebook: check
Though, a thought: it's possible in principle for Facebook to design an algorithm that is able to predict whether Vox editors will like or promote a particular story with high accuracy. What if FB did that, instead of using an engagement-driven metric of story quality? Would that be better or worse in their minds?

I'd be happier with it than human editors promoting Vox-approved stories, because 1) at least it'd be transparent what FB was going for and 2) it would be more fault-tolerant to an individual editor going off the reservation, by hook or by crook.
I Don’t Want a Government Job
Doesn't having that card in your library nearly guarantee an infinite descend into madness?
I hope I live long enough for the true story of the screws that have been applied to come out.
MongoDB 3.4: Your Database Evolved
Yes they can while not copyright outright it should fall under the image and likeness classification.
Unfortunately it's REALLY hard to create a completely non-porous composite.
I agree with Vox but they are being too narrow by just asking Facebook's founder to fix it. I would say that Social Media is a threat to Democratic system as we know it. It's about to be tested like no time before. With the ability for everyone to have a voice via social media single minded groups are easier than ever to create. As we have seen many of these groups are unwilling to compromise their ideas which makes it likely for chaos to erupt over any hot issues. We saw an example with the Arab spring and Occupy Wall Street. They erupted but yet have had no real results. Primarily because there was no real leadership behind it to move it forward. In many ways you can say that the revolution made matters worse.

When everyone is upset and there are many points of view there is no common way to move forward but there are many hot heads that are willing to shoot first and ask questions later. Imagine a million hot heads without a common goal but the willingness to fight and we can see chaos without results.

People get upset at the "do nothing congress" because they can't get X done but people aren't willing to admit that the reason is that voters have sent individuals with very diverse ideas to try to get things done. Voters are the ones that are pushing them to not compromise any idea or be punished by being voted out. I can see a future where one person that can use social media very well can push people to vote in ways that we consider distasteful now. What will happen then? Groups will erupt with opposing view and many will be ready to fight.

We've heard allegations that the voting system is rigged but that's very unlikely. We have laws and watch dogs that prevent that in any significant way. We don't have the same for social media but we know that it's possible to manipulate it, even by foreign powers, and that's not illegal worse yet it's hard to impossible to prevent. Yet, any thing published whether true or not becomes true by effect if enough people repeat it. It's hard to even contemplate how that effects a democratic system.

The founding father created a representative government because they knew that rule by majority can be as distasteful as government by a monarchy or emperor-ship. They thought a functioning government needs representatives that can sort out what's needed for a better nation. With everyone having a voice that's going to get extremely difficult. Social media is about to let the US test out its governmental system, lets hope it can pass the trouble ahead. Can the US stay together as a nation when there is no common ground among the citizenship?
Only one of these website features a prominent page attacking a stupid internet frog meme.
When newspapers and television news held influence, most countries had media ownership laws.

Humans and algorithms will have bias, but a diversity of bias is good.

If industry cannot implement some self regulation, it risks finding itself with external policy and regulatory controls.
Send an email to info@nvidia.com to let them know that you'd like them to change their policies regarding opt-in vs opt-out default settings.

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Here is my email:

Dear Nvidia,

I have been a life-long supporter since I was in college (14 years). I have recommended your products to many friends and purchased more than 15 of your graphics cards for my own computers. I build servers and run a cloud storage business. My friends and family look to me for advice on their own purchases. I am your target market - a technology leader that makes recommendations to others.

I have been extremely satisfied with your product for a long time and would like to be able to recommend your "issue-free" products to my friends, family, and associates. I'm a big fan of Nvidia.

--

Unfortunately, you have recently enabled telemetry reports (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12884762), and I will be less willing to recommend your product, opting for an AMD solution, or on-board solutions.

--

To resolve this issue, please:

1: Please use opt-in defaults instead of opt-out defaults for privacy-sensitive reports

2: Make a blog post publishing your public policy on prioritizing user privacy over other priorities.

--

On a more general note, privacy issues will be an increasingly important consideration for technology leaders before making recommendations. Microsoft made a mistake integrating privacy-invasive telemetry into Windows 10. Please don't make the same mistake. Nvidia needs leaders that will prioritize user privacy over other market concerns.

Thank you,

David
Whatever happened to Japanese laptops?
If we know anything, it is that these guys (energy industry) are pretty terrible about predicting much of anything. Ironically, it was an engineer at Shell that started "Peak Oil" in the 50's... one, M. King Hubbert.

Maybe monster trucks will take over as the prophecy of the film Idiocracy come true and oil stages a massive come back... you heard it here first!
Exactly! A lot of people in developed and developing countries are depressed because they thought that wealth and materialistic possessions would bring them happiness, when all it got was more things to worry about.
I have not used this Project but my experience with angular 1 left me wishing for something simpler.
Governments these days compete with each other to pander to corporations. The promise of a few jobs and a few political donations is enough to get a government to do just about anything you want.
It's been reproduced across many experiments that humans will add bias that harms accuracy when making decisions. I.e., if x[6] represents race, humans will systematically wrongly weight x[6].

Machines simply don't do this.

As you say, there is already bias baked into the data collection and the algorithmic choices.

That's not what I said.

What I said is that you can't have collective equality (e.g. same rate of false positives, lack of disparate impact) and also accuracy (getting the right answer) except in trivial/unrealistic cases.

Human editors are fundamentally less interpretable and transparent than machines. You can easily interrogate machines and test for bias; how do you do that to humans?

Or, to take a historical example, why did colleges switch from algorithms to humans when the supreme court said that transparent racial bias is forbidden?
The article I think you are talking about is this one https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet... by Nadia Eghbal.

She never ended up finding a solution to the problem and instead ended up joining GitHub as a opensource developer advocate (or something similar to that).
I'm looking for help. I suspect my google account has been attacked thru some un-published vulnerability.

An unknown computer is still showing up as gaining access to my google account AFTER I have done all the typical sanitation events to my google account: changed password, disconnected all apps and services, and using 2-Step authentication (even only using the Authentication, not SMS).

When my account was compromised ~10 days ago, the first event in the attack was some service/app being connected to my gmail account. I regretfully did not screen shot the event (google only shows the last 10 login-events on the account).

I suspect some devious 3rd party app was installed/connected to my google account and is still by by-passing all of the 2-step authentication, and "disconnect all account" actions I have taken.

UPDATE: Here is URL/info where unknown computer is showing up: https://security.google.com/settings/u/0/security/activity

Any ideas? How the hell does one contact google on this?
No devices come rooted
Switchers – Irony and Operating Systems
not OP but I believe that was the point he was making
> the 9-5 concept has never applied to the vast majority of working humans on the planet (agriculture, health, factories, sales, even most offices don't keep those hours)

Also, reproductive work (nursing children, taking care of the sick and elderly, cleaning the house).
FB already has too much power and its moderators affects 'politically undesirable' content too much. And they want them to employ human editors to evaluate stories in addition to that?

One week ago, FB blocked an event page of Independence March, which traditionally takes place on November 11th (Polish Independence Day) in Warsaw. This is the biggest mass event of Independence Day, having more than 100k participants each year.

FB also blocked or removed pages of NGOs and political parties, which are organizing or support the march (some of them had 80k or 170k followers) and personal accounts of people involved in these organizations.

Then FB went full rage and started to block personal accounts of everyone who invited or even positively mentioned the Independence March, including for example the personal account of editor-in-chief of the second largest daily newspaper in Poland (https://twitter.com/sjastrzebowski/status/793001362070052864).

The most extreme case was the personal account of a MP, who wrote on his timeline: "I will be [on the Independence March] along with my family, whether FB likes that or not." (https://twitter.com/jakubiak_marek/status/793497135954202625...) His profile was blocked for 24 hours after that.

Another case was a personal profile of a retired Intelligence Agency officer, who revealed in a FB post, that a local coordinator of an anti-government liberal-left protest movement during the communist period was a colonel of Soviet-dependent military intelligence agency.

All of this happened just within the last month. FB actions generated a huge pushback and hit the headlines. Deputy Minister of Justice qualified FB actions as "censorship". Minister of Digitization tweeted that she "asked FB management for a talk". Many people started deleting their FB accounts in protest.

FB got frightened and reactivated the event page of Independence March, but many nationalist/conservative organizations profiles still remain blocked.
Great points. It's true that whatever algorithm they end up with will definitely use ML. And it's also true that "interpretability" is one of the great challenges for ML in the coming years. But interpretability of a model isn't a binary attribute. Some techniques offer at least some intuition about why they chose their results.

But a human editor, on the other hand, is much less transparent -- basically, the best justification they can offer is "trust me, I know what I'm doing".
Gaddr Feeds: One hub for all of your social media feeds
Jesus. I had no idea.
Exactly. JOin NT perms with sharing perms plus GPO's and you'll get a clusterfuck.
The average price of a movie ticket is $8. The average price of the popcorn is also $8.

(Lots of citations with a Google search.)
Welcome to the weird politics of the diversity discussion
> For a developer, the API is a no-brainer to use when targeting Steam as a distribution platform.

I wouldn't exactly blame Steam unless they were forcing you to use their API. I couldn't get to that page. Are they?
I used to be in your camp before I discovered git add -p. Allows you to interactively pick which hunks to stage. SourceTree essentially replicated the same workflow in a nice GUI.
DMARC utilizes DKIM/SPF to validate the From: account. In short, if I send from foo@bar.com, then my message must also pass their SPF/DKIM policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMARC
How does the Unsplash license [1] differ from the Creative Commons Zero license?

[1] https://unsplash.com/license
This example fails in my experience. You know not to call international in the middle of the night only after jumping through the mental gymnastics of timezone differences anyway. You'd have to do the same with a single time base.
Because convention dictates that they have to be in the office between 9-5, or because those are the only times that they can actually do the work they are paid to do?

I appreciate that factory assembly line workers, shopkeepers and many others have to have set hours, but even so, does that have to conform to the 9-5 standard?

An example using Banks, an ancient entity that exemplified the 9-5 ethos: Here in Australia, most banks don't open their doors until 9am, then close promptly at 4pm. Their reasoning - they have to prepare floats and cash drawers in the morning and cash up at the end of the day, thus the restrictive times.

Problem is - everyone else in town has to work between their designated 8am and 5pm, thus are otherwise occupied during the bank's opening times too, which makes visiting the branch office an impracticality.

Except during lunch hour. And when do the banks send most of their staff on lunch? That's right, between 12pm and 1pm, which is when everyone else can actually get there and experience short staffing at its absolute worst.

Why on earth don't they do a 'double shift', whereby one smaller team comes in at, say 6am to start the preparation and open the doors at, say 7am and work until 1pm. Another team can come in at 11am and work through to 7pm, doing the cashing up and closing the doors at 6pm. That way the bank will be open before and after other people's work times for convenience, and the dreaded lunch hour rush will actually be double staffed for better service.

That 1920's inefficient mindset really has to give way these days.
In that case have you read "Managing the Design Factory" by Reinertsen? Excellent book on managing projects and teams.
You must have paid 4 digits or more for his services then? Otherwise I think you can't demand any attention at all and be happy if you receive it.
Your impression is pretty much spot on. We have "military-time" and "24-hour time" available to us in all of our application configurations, but no-one seems to use it. I do because it helps me do time-zone translating transforms to/from UTC in my head more easily, but also because I keep failing to see that little "PM dot" or set the "PM Flag" whenever dealing with times in various applications or alarms. Verbally, speaking with USians, 15.00 is always pronounced "3pm".
Very few people know what it is, even fewer understand why it's a problem, and fewer yet care about it. I've never seen someone run for an office I was voting for with "reduce or eliminate gerrymandering" as a position so there's no real opportunity to exercise your vote that way.
> The conclusion that numerate people are coming to regarding algorithms for court sentencing is quite different from what you describe.

Okay, that may have not been the best example to reference.

> Human processes just add additional bias, e.g. the editorial slant that Vox wants Facebook to add, or the (alleged) bias that Facebook's human editors added before Facebook went all algorithmic.

But how you can craft an algorithm that takes human processes (clickbait, investigative journalism, breaking news, photos of cats) and provides an output free of biases? Given the fluid nature of the input biases, is it even possible to craft an algorithm that accounts for those biases without adding in (or substituting) other biases? What is the "objective standard" by which you measure and correct the input biases? Just because there's an algorithm doesn't mean the output is bias-free.
I'm guessing you don't have kids. I used to work whenever I wanted, but now my kids have childcare from 8-5:30, and that is when I work.
There goes my evening. Seriously, Thank You for this. This is the best free photo collection I've seen so far and I scout a lot of photo collection sites.

1) I LOVE how you group photos by subject/topic instead of just randomly posting photos and asking the user to search for what they want. Most of the time users don't know what they want and would rather just browse and look around. Browsing lists and collections is more entertaining, engaging, and useful than what other photo sites do: drop off the user in front of a search box and ask "what do you want?". That's like asking someone "tell me everything about you". It forces the user to engage in some serious mental gymnastics and fatigues them. Collections like yours are easier on the brain. Just pick a pretty picture and browse all the pretty photos in that collection. Love it.

2) The photography is beautiful and looks authentic, rare, and avoids that "generic stock photo" feel. These photos look like they're out of somebody's "rare find" folder. They are gorgeous and ready to be used with minimal photoshopping.

3) Most of these already have color correcting and filters applied. Did your site do this? Or did the photographers?

Unique. Useful. Going in my bookmarks. Thanks for this.
I think you have to distinguish between Peak Oil (point in time where there is the maximum rate of extraction) and "Peak Demand", which is what the article is about.

Furthermore, Shell is actually well-known for its effective foresight activities (particularly in the 70s). Maybe because they switched from forecast to foresight...
First of all, there's a difference between "Vox-approved" and what this article envisions Facebook's editorial standards would be. The article suggests "ensuring that conservatives are well represented among the people making editorial decisions" at Facebook; this is certainly not true at Vox itself.

But regarding your main point, about using algorithms rather than humans: it might work to some extent against clickbait or low-quality articles, which is part of what the Vox article is complaining about, but another part is false information, which isn't always possible for a human to distinguish at first glance, let alone a computer. It often requires a bit of research or context. 'Real' news organizations often rely on asking experts in the subject at hand, who can contextualize the information much better than any computer; Facebook's hypothetical editors might not be expected to do that, but they could at least do some cursory Googling, which it's still pretty unlikely a computer could do effectively.
I think his error is in assuming that the zenith should correspond to the midway point of your workday. Which is entirely not true: Our society is organized around getting to work first thing in the morning, and having some sunlight left after work hours for social activities.
Being repeatable is valuable in itself: it makes the procedure testable and inherently more transparent. Yes, someone could come up with a hiring decision procedure that has as its first step "first, immediately reject all women and nonwhites." But that'd be subject to auditing and discovery in a way that a single grumpy old man finding arbitrary reasons to reject all women and nonwhites is not. You can iterate and improve on designed systems; you can't iterate and improve on human fallibility.