skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now their running around as a chicken without a head.

And a massive stampede of advertisers and small businesses blowing their whole marketing spend on said chicken

No worries
I was about to write - I'm ok, I don't have a Facebook login and my twitter is just for show...

And then I realize that HN is social media, after all.
To people who believe this kind of project is "paternalistic" or that filtering out noise is somehow weak or irresponsible, I disagree.

Time is finite. It is impossible to consume all of the information that is published in the world. It's not just a little impossible: the fraction of information that an individual can consume is very near zero. Most people who have worked in an academic or scientific field know that it is impossible to consume even a fraction of the domain-specific publications in their field, much less "all the news that's fit to print."

It makes sense, therefore, to have a strategy for selecting a subset of information that one trusts as "worth considering," which might include a spam filter (just as email has, for good reason).

I personally very seldom read news articles shared online, because my experience has been that they are consistently of very low quality. Speaking for myself, I get big world event news from the Economist, which has earned some trust, and the rare nytimes/wsj article that is about something it can't possibly fuck up (anything outside the borders of the United States is generally beyond NYT/WSJ).

Would I be wrong for filtering all of the shared news articles from my feed? The only reason I keep them there is that I skim Facebook to get a feel for what people are thinking about and feeling on a given day (to stay slightly "in touch" with people, even if I think they wallow in a world of self-serving garbage information and would be better served by finding something more interesting to occupy their minds).

A better criticism of this kind of filtering might that it is intrinsically arrogant, but I don't think it is any more paternalistic or irresponsible than a spam filter for email.
Nice, This could be useful also if you could have "secret" variables as well, similar to [1].

[1] https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/build/define/variabl...
BBC: How Chinese Democracy Looks Like
Employment data considered "linked" information, and not core PII.

Core PII is: "any information about an individual maintained by an agency, including (1) any information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity, such as name, social security number, date and place of birth, mother's maiden name, or biometric records"
Not realistic. I've seen multiple companies build their success on social media (don't forget Pinterest) after stagnating through SEO and traditional advertising, so to say "quit it" is not only killing millions of dollars of opportunity but completely unnecessary if your point is that you as a worker waste too much of your work day on it.

Do like I do and turn your phone or tablet notifications for these apps off and check them later in your free time. If you really can't handle being personally responsible in your job, then sure, quit social media, but otherwise grow up and keep your brain on.
Awesome idea! does it support Google Slide?
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I gleefully deleted my music collection after being back in the USA and able to use Spotify. Having access to a astounding quantity of music without having to maintain a library is so, so freeing.
sure, why bother with CS since "computing tasks can be done by machines or workers in low-wage countries" /s
What Does Putin Want from Trump? Edward Snowden to GCHQ’s Secrets
That's a great point. Google should want the blogosphere to exist as a matter of competitive advantage. The higher ups in Google need to listen to this. They can still bring the blog back, and make the internet great again!
Former Walmart employee here. Before there was any such thing as smart phones, they still used to instruct us not to speak to union people, and to report being approached.
I question both the premise that picking on nerds was "mythical" and also that the "alt-right" is actually a significant political force.
Scraped without credit
I submitted an article here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12998899

Idly I did a search for some of the text, and this popped up:

http://www.itdadao.com/articles/c22a774394p0.html

Yes, someone has scrapped the text, copied the images, and put the entire text up, wholesale, without credit.

Should I be surprised?

(I've not added clickable links in the comments because I don't want to give them the traffic.)
Probably here soon

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~tvg/code.php

You might also say that it's not science until it's been peer reviewed and this is a preprint from 2 weeks ago…
Do you use / know of any services like AWS Lambda that supports Ruby out of the box?

I've been playing with AWS Lambda using travelling Ruby and Mruby, but have hit issues (with native gems etc).

I have used Iron Worker previously, but they seem to be going up market and don't even display pricing on their site.

Thanks in advance for your input!
Stepping in to alter what the 'free market' desires is not de-facto unethical.
YEAH NAH SKETCH COMEDY SHOW
NHTSA levels: [1] Level 3: "Vehicles at this level of automation enable the driver to cede full control of all safety-critical functions under certain traffic or environmental conditions and in those conditions to rely heavily on the vehicle to monitor for changes in those conditions requiring transition back to driver control. The driver is expected to be available for occasional control, but with sufficiently comfortable transition time. The Google car is an example of limited self-driving automation."

Tesla's old system was Level 2. Google and Volvo have level 3 in test. Tesla's new system is supposed to be Level 3. There's a bright line between level 2 and 3 - NHTSA says that at Level 3 and above, the manufacturer is responsible for accidents and cannot blame the driver.

[1] http://www.nhtsa.gov/About-NHTSA/Press-Releases/U.S.-Departm...
Things learnt that early simply dont have value later on, that's how I would see it from the body's perspective.
Didn't get to prod. Looked at it around Juneish 2016. High error rates, no SLA, slow boot times, no tooling, deeply inadequate logging.

My technical recommendation is as follows: "No".
I think the parent comment was pointing out that the foxbusiness article was pretty blatant plagiarism -- in fact, if you go through the two articles side-by-side, you can see that the foxbusiness article is pretty much taken verbatim, albeit some slight restructuring (that IMO harms the overall flow of the piece).

One point, though, although I'm not sure how to interpret this, is that the original author (Nassauer) is linked at the bottom of the foxbusiness piece.
>And a massive stampede of advertisers and small businesses blowing their whole marketing spend on said chicken

That's what newspaper execs said in the 90s
Yes, you can copy text of link if you select all link text but why not just by right clicking link.
Is this one of those articles that call pepe memes fascist? If yes, you can ignore it.
I feel there needs to necessarily be a separation of the doing of mathematics and the teaching of mathematics in these kinds of matters. In the teaching of mathematics, especially in the more 'abstract' areas, there is not nearly enough driving of intuition, and the 'problems' students are given often are unrelated to the 'problems' the theory they are learning about was created to solve. Pushing things in the concrete direction is probably the right direction for pedagogy.

But in the doing of mathematics is where I think Arnold is looking back at the past too romantically. Prior to programs like Bourbaki, the lack of unity in mathematical notation, definitions, ideas in methods was very present. Often if you were not a student of one of the masters of the time, you would have an incredibly difficult time understanding their work. The tradition that has lead to an 'over-abstraction' of things, as Arnold would have seen it, also lead to a much more widespread accessibility of contemporary mathematics. when you can count Kolmogorov among your teachers, this is less relevant to you. But for the 'unwashed masses' of mathematics this has made a world of difference.
no, i loath the "experts" rolled out by the bbc as experts.

that memory is something we learn is not a new thing (technicallly the skill of forgetting, which is where autism comes from), the second post even pointed out synaptic pruning.

its not just known to be a learnt skill, we know the exact biologic process by which it manifests itself.

the "experts" are the ones building the ai that will take all your jobs. and you wont find them giving interviews on the beeg.
I'm actually offering direct dialogue. A few folks emailed me already, and I encourage you to as well. This is my idea of a peaceful Sunday:)
The most dangerous thing about this app is the certainty that, if it takes off, it'll be filled with union-busting labor "consultants" who'll focus on identifying rebellious workers so Walmart can retaliate against them for some other pretext. Note that Walmart already spends millions of dollars on these particular types of specialized attorneys who do pretty much exactly that except over other channels, so this isn't at all far fetched, despite how evil it sounds.
But if we recognize that it is yet another chat app, like every other chat app, why are people even downloading it in the first place to prompt Wal-mart to feel the need to issue a statement?
>As written, I'm running into issues in <1MLOC codebases

Sure, but for most things, even that is somewhat ridiculous, and I mean both: having ~1MLOC code-bases and those being problematic. Elsewhere, I posted some number comparing tcc and Xcode's default cc (clang+llvm).

Tcc was able to compile+run a (synthetic, non-representative) 300KLOC program in 0.168 seconds. I didn't get a memory reading. cc took 9.3 seconds, so a factor 60. Would a 60x faster compiler work for you? The reason we don't have faster compilers is not that it's not possible, but that it's not a priority. And it hasn't been a priority because in the past performance sins were always covered up by hardware getting faster (by itself, without any extra work). This is no longer the case, increases in single core performance are over.

> It's fine and all to pine for the good old days when computers

> were simpler than the computer within even your lowly modern hard drive

I apologise if that was your take-away, because I obviously didn't make my point very well. However...

>all in the name of the ever increasing performance we today take for granted.

...that is not correct. In fact, in the spirit of Hans Bethe: "Ach, that isn't even wrong". Performance has also deteriorated in line with code bulk, and usually for no good reason whatsoever. There are a few good reasons, but they tend to be a small fraction of the whole problem.

To quote Wirth for the n-th time: "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster".

And nowadays, hardware really isn't getting much faster. Meaning we can no longer count on the hardware boys and gals to bail us out for our egregious sins. Software needs to get its act together.
I am all into finding stock Androids, and the replacement for my stock-Android Chinese eBay special phone will probably be chosen through your site. :) But I think you might want to put some effort into making this site smaller. It's currently 3.3 megabytes for a list of 60 phones with small thumbnails and a list of tech specs.
"personal brand vehicle"

It's hard to find this done well. I tried this myself on Twitter for a few months and realized that, even though I wasn't saying so explicitly, it was bland pathetic performative "I'm an entrepreneur, thinker, innovator, creator, TEDx Speaker" nonsense.
I hear you, this is all good feedback.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, under noprocrast
The myth of the bullied white outcast loner is helping fuel a fascist resurgence

Oh come. the. hell. on with this.

Also, what about us black nerds? Is this tripe worth reading? Anyone? Bueller?
What exactly is a "template" ? Is it about setting up configurations in Docker etc ?
I gotta tell you, that has to be one of the least convincing reasons I have heard.
I own some land in rural TN, with a winterized trailer and access to spring water. that is backup water and shelter for minimal cost. A person/year of shelf-stable food (not fun, but indefinitely survivable) is about $1000. So if I am smart about it, and fall back gracefully, every $3k-$4k in savings is a year of "backup survival". I still need to make sure I have at least a year's worth of currency in a liquid form in case of infrastructure or banking collapse and ideally at least 6-months food dry-packed on site in case purchasing food while falling back is not viable.

just a reminder, there is a lot more to back up than your hard-drive.
Sure, quit social media if you're a robot who's sole purpose in life is to maximize your career - though I'd still argue that social media is valuable in that it enables you to expand your network and maintain/strengthen your personal connections. But even if it were the case that social media is worse for your career, a lot of us live for more than our careers.

If you find yourself constantly wasting time on Facebook during work, you just lack discipline. I don't know about you guys, but my news feed is generally pretty boring, thus I don't have the urge to keep checking it. I'm not trying to claim moral superiority here, just saying that if you have an addiction problem, you need to take responsibility and hold yourself accountable rather than blaming the tool.
I'm happy to share.

- "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II"

- "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books III-IV"

- "The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books V-VII"

Even though these are genuinely the best books I've read this year and genuinely world-view altering that might be not what you're after. Here are 3 good books I'm happy to recommend instead:

- "Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945"
by Tony Judt

- "A History of Future Cities"
by Daniel Brook

- "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space"
by Carl Sagan

(if you already read Pale Blue Dot which I appear to be late to the party on try "Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective" by Thomas Sowell)

And if you're after fiction instead:

- "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
by Milan Kundera

- "The Cunning Man"
by Robertson Davies

- "East of Eden"
by John Steinbeck

That's a nice round 10 recommendations so let me have a bonus one for year 2015:

- "The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics"

You will never read the news the same way.
I don't know. The next administration might actually be tougher re: pro-worker laws against multi-national importers of Chinese made stuff. This might not apply to unions necessarily though.
Same in Australia (Melbourne at least). It was really weird going to other cities (especially San Francisco) and having difficulty finding a toilet.

Melbourne even has toilets in train stations!
It works, too. In the popular media, unions have been so thoroughly demonized for several decades.

Lots of middle-aged folks now will have grown up with their only idea of the union as being the lazy teamster who does nothing all day except file grievances, or the fabled electrician who won't plug in your power cord at a trade show because it's someone else's job.

And the kinds of people who're going in for these jobs at Walmart probably aren't the most educated to begin with, so watching a video that confirms the biases they've picked up from popular media, well, that's probably a pretty effective tactic on Walmart's part.

This is all not to say that unions in the US are blameless. They could surely learn a lot from the way unions operate throughout Europe.

There's been corruption, greed, and mismanagement in the big unions, just like every big organization (especially big American organizations; something in our cultural DNA seems to make us prone to graft), but us workers still absolutely need them or something like them to keep up the good fight.
I really hate it when people talk/write like you. Saying absolutely nothing, but using fancy words and phrasing to seem smart.
So you need to pre-approve posts? It seems like this would only increase the "echo chamber" factor for the audience, since they'll only see whatever opinions the author chooses to present in the comments section. I also don't see how this reduces abusive posts or work for the author. The author still has to read each post to review it, meaning they'll still see the abusive posts even if they don't approve them. And the most viewed authors will receive far too many responses to sift through. If you get 2000 comments, then chances are you won't view them all.

So when the problem right now seems to be that people aren't being exposed to diverse viewpoints, I don't think something like this would necessarily help.

I also don't necessarily think that giving Twitter our public history is bad. I suppose you need an alternative if you want the things you type to be forgettable, but I'm not sure that represents very many Twitter users. If you are using Twitter, surely you intend to let people know how you stand now and how you stood in the past? There isn't really a pretense of privacy with Twitter, and I don't think there ever has been. It serves a completely different purpose from something like Facebook, where there is a greater expectation that access to your data will be limited.

The idea of a blog-based social media network already exists; it's called Tumblr. I think Tumblr is much closer to meeting the needs of the Author, so maybe that is a better model to start from. Users have more control of their content there, from length of messages and mixing content to basic formatting.
> re: pro-worker laws against multi-national importers of Chinese made stuff.

The pro-worker stuff was just to attract that demographic, I'm pretty sure.
If you can, you should switch to elliptic curve keys – they are less than 256 bytes.
Those 500s may mean you aren't deleting your ENIs. Make sure you have privileges to delete on your role.
They absolutely do though. I only see my nieces and nephews a few times a year, and they always remind me of things we did the last time I visited.
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>1. Participating in the program will cause you additional costs

I can't believe you would claim that point # 1 would be false.

You're talking about letting the world into your establishment to use the restroom. You should know the state most public toilets are in.

The city has now moved that into your restaurant or bar. Your employees will have to clean it, or you will have to pay for the cleaning services.

So I must say, 150euros seems extremely low for this service.

My second thought was that this could be easily exploited. I assume controllers verify that signs are not ripped down or obscured for all those receiving the grant but for 150 euro a month I see no large incentive to cheat in this program anyways.
Sounds like a good business model. Email employers "One of your workers is attempting to unionize, pay us $300 and we will tell you who!"
All machines in my household get backed up to a home-built NAS. It runs low power inexpensive hardware that's plenty fast, along w/Linux Mint + Samba to manage the file shares. I preferred this since I've used Linux most of my life - I prefer avoiding learning new systems when possible, which is why I'm not running something like FreeNas, Synology, etc.
You can use FB messenger even after deactivating your FB account. But there are still things that can cause you to reactivate your account e.g. accessing two factor settings.
You speak as if you know quite a bit about this subject. I'm curious, what makes you an expert rather than an "expert"?
Fear of missing out, or FoMO: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out
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No, it's not one of those.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12989278
It may seem trivial, but during the US primary season I had to modify my /etc/hosts file to block several political sites for my own sanity.

Yes, I can very easily `sudo vi /etc/hosts` to undo, but I never did.

Helps that I could really pull it up on my iPhone if I needed, but this way I could focus when I needed to, and if I was on my mobile I was clearly doing other stuff.

HN is problematic because signal/noise ratio is relatively high.
Thanks for the info.

Good shop pictures.
I think people are accustomed to it and therefore overlook it, but note that government, using taxpayer dollars, delivers the most high-tech systems in the world - not only for meteorology, but also science, medicine and space exploration (as well as military and intelligence). There is a benefit to countries and to the world when the people pool their money for something big.
In most EU countries the alternatives are so much better that you wouldn't want to.
Change the incentive structure. Punishment doesn't happen to those who are deserving, it happens to those who can't prevent it.
Not sure on how secure but this article says the app is "secure". This also goes into more detail on what they use the information for. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-14/group-enli...
Asynchronous multitasking PHP
We're obviously talking about a medium term scenario here. Did you think any of the above conversation took place in the world today?
Why is a moral lesson in a story any less of a moral lesson?
This is fantastic! Both in terms of information provided AND in the way it is displayed and presented. Simple yet extremely functional and easy to use. Very nice
> I assumed that the GP meant a permissions system for users

This seems far beyond the capabilities of most users to understand. Perhaps someone can make an add-on for power users who are interested.
It only has the privacy profile of a chat app. The "OUR Walmart" app offers other functionality, like legal advice and concerns specific to employees, that I would imagine I would love were I an employee myself.

That said, I don't think it's out of order for... whatever OUR walmart is (a union?) to release a privacy statement. But painting them as identity thiefs, phishers, or ad resellers is absurd. In my view, Walmart is pandering to fears without actually identifying real concerns.
Thanks for sharing that link. The test seems to be setting the bar pretty darn low, however. It's enough that you think you should be doing less of something, and others have criticized you about it to the point of annoying you. That includes things I would put in the category of bad habits rather than clinically actionable disorders.
16MB may be enough for today for 95% of the users, but in 3 years when Apple is still selling this model it is going to be an issue, especially when you consider that those laptops sold 3 years from now will be expected to run for another 5 years or so.
This is just typical case of responsibility erosion in hierarchical structures. Upper management devices a scheme, their underlings execute the scheme. One claim "we didn't really do that", other claim "we were just following orders and we don't know whole picture". Nothing new.