skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Automation has done a lot of good for digital things, it's still crazy to me that services like Google Search, Gmail, YouTube or GitHub are free to use for the most part. Probably a long shot, but I wonder if the freemium or ad-supported models will eventually be adopted for physical things. Imagine fast food chains giving away free meals but with more delicious/healthy paid options on the menu (hmm, I admit that particular example sounds a bit dystopian but I couldn't come with something better). Not sure that's ever going to happen within a capitalistic system but it's fun to wonder about.
To name something well you have to understand it, and maybe that is the hard part of naming.
Just published a barebone Node schema package
I think you are missing another potential implication: as less wealth is generated by productive citizens, and more from automation, there is less incentive for the ruler to maintain or improve quality of life.
So what exactly do you think this anti-fake-news thing is ? You agreed that it's at least partially a matter of perspective.
>"The company used automated tools to disable accounts that were found to breach their ToS, likely the majority of which were bots."

In the US, there's a concept called right of first sale that protects people's ability to resell what they buy to others. Sales contracts preventing resale have lost many times in courts. From my perspective Google trying to prevent "scalping", as you put it, is already overreach, regardless of what verbiage they might have shoved in their TOS or the massive legal resources they can deploy to get their way.

Furthermore deactivating someone's gmail without even letting them export their data is profoundly destructive on the victim's lives.
No don't have but i worked for one company who were selling leads to IT companies. They were charging $50/Lead.
Fine by me. I got that phone on release day, and the negativity about the jack removal has caused me much more annoyance than the removal itself.
> But you probably won't have 4000 square foot house to store your 4 cars in.

Or more generally, you'll just have a whole heck of a lot less money, which was the point. I wonder if djsumdog was exaggerating, though, by failing to compare like against like. The numbers he quoted for US engineers represent the pretty high end. Are there really engineers in Berlin making a lot less than 50k Euros/year?
I think of conservatism (political meaning) to be Conservation (save the whales), but for humans and their institutions.

I think it is part of an algorithm which (when it works) prevents deadlock.

Whenever the (left/right) stakeholders have a balance of power at a stable equilibrium, upsetting the system just leads to a waste of energy, what I called 'trashing'. It's similar to feature creep or faux innovation.

The cost of shooting down net negative moves over and over could sap the strength of the whole system because there is an opportunity cost to ignoring the few possible net positive moves.

So without conservatism, paradoxically, there is no progress.

It does have failure modes though. Peter Thiel points out one of them, which is that in order to produce net positive moves the economy must be healthy (you cannot horsetrade in a zero sum game).

The other failure is that you can get caught in a local minimum.

I believe one or both of these modes are taking over at present.
CNN is definitely biased - but they are not lying, and they are not an org that just makes up all their news out of thin air - which is the issue here.

CNN: 'Trump is in New York today talking to potential candidates for Supreme Court, rumoured to be Ted Cruz'.

Fake News Site: "Trump's income taxes leaked, indicates he's worth over $1 Trillion dollars, and won a US Olympic Gold Medal while competing under fake name to avoid spotlight"
I am planning to start the same business.
Ancient plant and animals fossilized in opal look amazing.

Opal is made of tiny spheres of silicon I have no idea why I didn't know that all these years I guess to me opal never looked like dull grey silicon.
Why would computers need to communicate through printouts, tho?
really nice article -- easy to follow, sensible steps, clean code. I haven't done too much text ML and this was a nice piece to follow - thanks!
Would have liked to have seen some figures or graphs visualising the React performance boost.

Also I thought one of the advantages of using a js framework is that rendering can be done on the client? It sounds from this article that server rendering is more advantageous?

Also SEO was mentioned, but I thought javascript was taken into consideration by web crawlers?
But remember that Tcl was specifically designed for embedded scripting:

> In the fall of 1987, while on sabbatical at DEC's Western Research Laboratory, I got the idea of building an embeddable command language. The idea was to spend extra effort to create a good interpreted language, and furthermore to build it as a library package that could be reused in many different applications.

http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/tclHistory.php
I am clearly very excited that you seem to be making this a 'real' thing rather than just a talking point. You realize there is a 'usb over ethernet' spec right? And using that and a windows service on a local socket on the windows side you could arbitrate exclusive access to plugged in USB devices to the Bash shell user right?
Tbh. it's hard for me to imagine how the government can fail so hard as to have racist resource allocation for education. How hard can it be? You have state level funds for public schools right? Divide by nunber of pupils, have some budget controlling, done. How can resources even be redirected, if not for everyone in the state? Who's deciding this? Are they relying on sponsorship? If that's the case then get rid of that and raise taxes and public funds accordingly. I firmly believe that schools need to be egalitarian, everyone deserves the same resources and care at the start of his/her life, with the only exception being special care students.
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Not many people have 2 or 3 hours of real content. Filling just an hour is pretty hard.
"A source making a statement does not mean the statement is true."

I didn't mean to imply that it was - I meant to imply that the journos will credibly pass on what the anon sources say, and credibly pass in their status.

So - if NYT says 'a source within the white house said ABC' - then you can be almost assure that 'a source within the white house said that'.

I agree - it doesn't mean that the statement itself is factual - but it is only presented as 'what someone said' - not as a fact.

The 'bias' in reporting is not from the statements themselves - but the topics they chose to engage, the people they speak to, the selection of the quotes, the context etc..

Credible news outlets don't just lie and make stuff up. They do other things, but not that.
I just tried 3 random contacts using a premium account, no dice on the email or phone number.
If powerful entity A is guilty of X on a massive scale and then punishes weaker entity B for engaging in X on a small scale it makes A even more contemptible.

For your reference:

A = Google

X = Arbitrage

B = Users who bought and resold Pixels.

Y = X / 10^9
Bad journalism might rely on a single source or make things up altogether, good journalism tries to corroborate what one source says --it minimizes the effects of deception, but of course it's not perfect as you might find two people disseminating misinformation.
Social science is complete bullshit.
Wait, you're saying AMEX gets an itemized receipt from every place I use my it? I'm going to be pretty pissed off if I find out my finance department makes me take pictures of receipts for no reason.
The mainstream media will blame everyone but their failed candidate and failed agenda for Trump's rise. I've completely checked out from mainstream news, probably until the inauguration. It's been getting worse and worse.
Perhaps the starting point is to realize that it's not a binary black and white question ("fake" vs "real" news), that it wont be solved by an algorithm alone in the short term, and that it's probably not a binary "block/allow" question.

I dont know the solution but it might involve links along with news items that are contentious or opinionated, based on input from people, and I can't even begin to imagine how to make it fair.

It's a hornets nest of opposing opinions, so whatever they do will likely be in gradual steps forward.
The panic when the plan unravels.

Trump Tech Meltdown Hits Fourth Day With Amazon Cut by $35 Billion

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-14/trump-tech...

/r/politics is calling for Amazon boycott because it sells Ivanka products

/r/the_donald calling for Boycott because of WaPo attacks

Bezos, meanwhile, bends the knee

http://uk.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-congratu...

The WaPo is running at a loss so he didn't buy it for the money. He's a shrewd man and bought it for influence.

> According to sources, the Post’s digital revenue is around $60 million, far below what the newsroom needs to function. The last time total operating revenue for the paper was published, in 2012, it was $580 million; one former executive estimates today it’s probably closer to $350 million. Another Post veteran told me that Bezos said in a meeting that the company’s annual budget, currently around $500 million, will have to be cut by 50 percent over the next three years. The newspaper denies this, and so does Prakash, who does, however, confirm that Bezos told him, “We can’t be an organization that loses gobs and gobs of money.”
IME not all but many.
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> The piece was written yesterday in response to meetings in Berlin between Obama, Merkel and others.

The meetings were mentioned twice. Most of the article has nothing to do with them.

> That an article is lumped together with other articles covering the same topic (same tags) is of surprise

Yeah, I'm sure it's pretty normal for NYT to publish articles bashing social media on bi-daily basis. I just happened to miss all of those before the election.
Exactly, the cat is out of the bag. It's time we stopped treating an SSN as a magic key that grants any kind of significant access.
This feels like one of those comments that we laugh at now, but we'll look at in a decade or three and think, "holy shit, that was prescient".
The Enterprise.
Oh, I guess I mixed up some posts with one lamenting that Zcash wasn't incorporated into Bitcoin.

Stealth addresses seem like they give much weaker anonymity guarantees than Zcash, unless you only ever send and receive funds through stealth addresses with others who follow the same precautions.
One desperate Hail Mary after another and each time they look stupider and studpider.

"Trump eats dinner without press corps", I mean ffs
In democratic states, the people themselves are sovereign. They simply won't stand for the level of unemployment that mass automation will bring.
I find just as many fake stories on the Left. I don't think this problem affects one party more than the other.
I think what we need is a new economic paradigm whereby humans work in symbiosis with AI and ever encroaching automation. There's a model I'm working on where the base economic protocols are coded into a decentralized blockchain platform like Ethereum.

Usually the knee-jerk easy response to automation is universal basic income. And while I wish/want us to all have a UBI; those in the developing world will definitely be the last groups on the planet to receive one.

The future vision of the blockchain is the complete dismantling of all hierarchies and total autonomy at the individual level. So governments, organizations, VC, companies, jobs etc are replaced with DAOs and blockchain-based co-ops capable of the same or greater complexity and value-add without the hierarchy.

The big issue I'm facing, and I think the whole ecosystem is facing, is how do you transition the global economy to that future? It needs to be incremental but rapid, familiar but new, to exploit existing human incentives and status quo's while hiding all the unfamiliar crypto jargon behind the scenes such that anyone can immediately and intuitively adopt the new economic protocol.
This is an entirely reasonable and meritorious criticism. I appreciate it.

Having been on the receiving end of that kind of contempt for rather a long time, it is sometimes difficult to resist the temptation to give vent to the resulting resentment, especially at a time when those from whom such contempt has so often come are already reeling from a generally similar sort of backlash. One feels a certain urge to get one's own back while the getting is good.

But temptation is sent to be overcome, and there is no excuse for actually indulging in such unworthy behavior. I'm sorry for having done so. I'll try to do better next time.
The made up stuff already exists. The explanations a person gives for doing a particular thing perhaps has less to do with the logic of why and more to do with some fundamental instinct to keep busy.
What about those silly ads on so many website pretending to be news too? This is a menace all over the place, I don't even use Facebook and it's hard to get away from this nonsense.
This just looks like the same address-scraping that spammers have been using since the 90s, plus some half-assed attempt to link them to real names. People who want to be contacted will make it easy to do so; those who don't, won't.

Are you actually proud of having created this thing?
Current post title: "Is Cursing Bad Or Good For You?"
Opal is made of small spheres of silica, SiO2, the same material as quartz.
Artists are basically the support class of society. They don't producr anything directly, but the producers all benefit from, and kind of need them.
In my line of work, the recent increases in health and safety legislation and resulting costs of compliance with having personnel on site in situations where they might get harmed in any way means that the return for automating processes is HUGE even compared to five years ago.

My prediction is that we will be forced into a situation where we have millions unemployed and needing universal basic income because they were educated to be employed in a system that suddenly lost its ability to accept any risk to people....which coincided with the technological ability to automate their jobs away.

The fact that people get hurt will eliminate their ability to be a viable means of production in many industries.
I think his presidential term will lead us to a couple interesting conclusions: 1) it doesn't matter what the truth is because people are so fed up with mainstream media that none of it is relevant anymore, 2) it doesn't matter who is in charge because somehow people will still get work done.

The former is interesting because frankly I think it's a long-time coming -- the coordinated manipulation of a populace through media outlets has been shown to be subject to malice, more specifically the bald-faced and naked bias towards Clinton winning the election with 100% certainty when it clearly was just hot air (if anything it fueled Trump's popularity to the point where he was elected).

The latter is interesting because it shatters the veneer that a qualified US president is required to get any work done -- any schlub that isn't a genocidal maniac could be in charge and we'd be fine.

We do live in interesting times.
ZTE's Axon 7 comes with their Passport 2.0 warranty which covers accidental damage with a $80 deeucitble, I believe. It's not a full coverage of accidental damage due to the deductible, but it's still much better than its competitors (in many other aspects as well).

If I may say so, a family member has one, and the phone itself is excellent. Much better speakers and included accessories compared to the Pixel line at around half the price.
Interesting , thanks.
A lot of people draw informal sketches while thinking things through, and there have been waves of enthusiasm for formalizing such things, but except in a few specialized cases (e.g. state transition diagrams) nothing so far seems to have proved useful enough to really take off.

I do wonder sometimes if we are too focused on computer languages, to the detriment of tools (see also Animat's comment.)
> Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

> Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
For a more pessimistic view see "Obsolete".
I certainly learned enough math to understand this when doing my CS degree. The better question is "Why do people who don't use something every day forget the details of how it works?"

When phrased that way the answer is more obviously. I've learned plenty of things I have let myself forget.
It seems like most of the work is in backend/imageverify.py and the standard of truth there is whether an address has a high enough MyWOT score.
Sorry, It looks like I took you too literally when you said

> This could then be used as the ultimate continuous delivery appliance.

I interpreted this enthusiasm as meaning it was the sort of setup you would recommend to your clients. Now it sounds more like you meant it as a joke.
The keystone of democracy is distributed production of value. Basic income is redistribution. Certain Arabian countries have basic income: they redisitribute a part of the oil rent to all citizens.

These places are utterly undemocratic, though, being monarchies with few limitations. This is because it takes a rather small clique to control the oil wells and pipes that produce, say, 80% of the national budget. Once they are in power, other citizens have little to do to limit their power. The next guy to depose them is tempted (and usually yields to the temptation) to build the next version of the same regime. The countries that buy the oil (or gold, or whatever the single key product is) don't care about democracy in these countries; they care about stability of their supplies, and thus stability of the regime in the country.

Now replace oil wells with robotic factories plus a few key power stations. If all of this requires a small amount of people to operate, and is as easy to physically control as oil wells, you might have the same situation. 90% of population are suddenly irrelevant, living on a whim of the small group of rulers who control 80-90% of GDP.
Possibly. However, the reverse is much more true. "If you don't work hard, you will not be rewarded."

If you want any chance at all then you have to put in the work.

For every Lindsey Sterling there's thousands of people playing violin, badly, in their sweatpants with a Mt. Dew in the background.
Pink slips gotta be printed.
Art, music, creativity. Spending time with friends and family. Getting back to basics. Going fishing, hang out at the beach. Stargazing. Plant a garden. No commute or cubicles, work for the sake of doing interesting work. Traveling to Mars for fun.

If all of our basic material needs are fulfilled, and we only take what we need, it would be an interesting and rewarding ride.

That's the optimist side of me speaking. It could go the other way too if we humans want to keep fighting and arguing over resources and power. I hope that we could learn to get past that if everyone has what they need.

I think about the change my 94 year old grandmother has seen in her lifetime. The technologies and types of jobs we have now compared to her early days are mind blowing. The rate of change today seems orders of magnitude faster and keeps accelerating.

Bring on the robots.
Real world experience with clientside rendering for SEO has tons of downsides. Inconsistency in indexing, delayed indexing (yes Google), some (many) bots not doing it... etc.
I like to think about the locomotive train. It must have been a very difficult time to be in the horse business. Yet here we are.
Make ruby behave like a bhakt (Context: Indian politics)
"Baking for friends is a fun way to pass the time. Baking for money is a quick road to a second burn out"

8+ hours a day, 5-7 days a week, nearly every week for years on end is liable to turn any hobby in to a slog eventually. Except for some people and some hobbies it doesn't. Somehow some people make it work, and enjoy it in the long run, without burning out.

Don't ask me how. I haven't found that magic job myself, and always tend to burn out on anything eventually. I need variety. I can't do any one thing for the long run without getting sick of it. Unfortunately, making career changes is difficult and stressful. So I'm not sure what the solution is. Maybe someone who's made it work for themselves can chime in.
Yeah no that didn't happen.
Absolutely, and let's hope we find ourselves in a democratic state at such a time.
There's plenty of room to be civil without 'sugarcoating'.
You're confused. Celibacy for the priesthood is a rule made by the Church, not an immutable law. The fact that Baptism requires water is an immutable law.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12991010
Some of the things are legitimate rules, like the fact that priests need to be celibate. Other things are immutable principles that cannot be changed, like the fact that a Baptism requires the use of water (and not e.g. soda or orange juice) for it to be valid. The rules can be (and have been) changed, because the people in charge of them were given authority to institute and dissolve their own rules. The laws (in the sense of "laws of nature" rather than "laws of government") cannot be changed.
Oh, really, so there is no way to tell if the pope endorsed Donald Trump? That is just an undecidable proposition?

I hope you don't do some kind of science or engineering. I'd hate to buy a product from people like that. Maybe it's 24K gold, maybe it's gold-plated, maybe it's just yellow paint? In this topsy-turvy world, who can really know anything?

I thought it was liberals who were supposed to be all squishy and morally relative.

Certain things are falsifiable, and at some level are true or false. Either Hillary sold arms to ISIS or she didn't. If people can't agree on what it means for something to be true, I don't really see how democracy or even basic communication can work if people don't try to share the same reality.

We've reached a level where, the only truth that matters is, if Facebook were to stop presenting nonsense under the rubric of news, it would hurt one party more than another. Truth is what serves the party line and the Great Leader.

Decent people should realize that a society where any lie can be the truth, isn't a society that can lead the world, or one worth having.
Does posting fake results of fake polls constitute a fake news? If yes, what kind of AI is needed to distinguish it from the real one?
I am a programmer and not a mathematician. I studied more math than typical (almost minored in it) but all of it undergrad and it's been more than a decade since I've done anything formally academic. I read some of the comments here before reading the article, and I was expecting something significantly more complicated and esoteric. Set builder notation, element-of, and quantification - it's practically Python. I find myself genuinely shocked that people here are finding it inscrutable, much less those in the audience at the talk. I can't help but wonder whether most of those with their hands down weren't able to understand but lacking confidence that their read was correct?
PlantUML: Easily create UML Diagrams from simple textual description
This is literally the definition of an onto function; if computer scientists don't get this, they should be ashamed.

How do you do any computer science without knowing the symbols for "for all" and "there exists"?