skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get the impression that most people are afraid of irrelevant correlations, but rather relevant ones that nevertheless disproportionately affect certain populations.

To use your Armenian example, it could be that while being Armenian doesn't actually affect your driving, a "true" model could still end up being bad for Armenians if being Armenian is correlated with the things that actually do affect crash risk.

But what about this: we don't need to solve all social ills every single time. What if we let the algorithm correctly decide crash risk, and if we notice that it unduly impacts Armenians and that's not an outcome we want, we via a separate channel compensate the Armenians? That is, acknowledge the fact that Armenians may crash more, but give them a government subsidy to offset the higher premiums, and work to bring the premiums down (i.e.: fix the underlying issues that being Armenian is correlated with).

It's related to something I've been thinking about lately with regard to minimum wage. I like the idea that everyone should have a livable income, but tying the implementation to businesses that have low wage jobs seems like mixing concerns. For example, my company doesn't have any minimum wage jobs, but shouldn't my company chip into this social ideal same as any other?

What if we let the businesses pay whatever the market will bear, and if we decide that as a social concern people should get more than that, we subsidize them from the government, which is wear this concern is coming from in the first place.
The competitive advantage is that it already works and requires barely any setup or input from me. It's been chugging along backing up all the macs in my home for years without issue. I do not want to be bothered setting up a new solution.
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It's really tempting to say that the IRS won't be able to do anything - you can't prove I spent/received this for <x> type of activity.... but that's not how the IRS works. Once the IRS decides to audit, you are guilty until proven innocent. They will be elbow-deep into your figurative financial rectum, and you will (almost always) lose.
Uhh:

* Personal computers

* Cell phones

* GPS

* Video phone calls

* Carrying around your entire music collection in your pocket

* Self-driving cars

* Google

* Speech recognition

* Computers playing world-class chess and go
And their "research" is used by right-wing conservatives to justify fracking, and other environmentally damaging agendas.

http://www.nofrackingway.us/2012/11/01/shale-boom-nber-conse...
Unfortunately, stopping support for Flash won't stop Flash. A lot of websites (from your church's streaming Sunday services to local government town hall will continue using Flash for a long time). Of course, the top techy site and middle-adopter won't anymore and that is good. But remember how long it took web developers to stop needing to support Internet Explorer 6. Don't underestimate the longevity of legacy technology.
Use blue, the most common types of color blindness are red-green issues(there's a really tiny percentage that doesn't perceive colors at all but really really tiny. And other than those, nobody has trouble with blue)

Source: I'm colorblind(protanope) and red would definitely be an issue. Android studio, for example, is really annoying for me because the particular red they use for errors is very hard to distinguish from black
That's because it is. Placing meeting at 9 AM is manipulative way of putting social pressure on people to get in at 9am without making it policy.
Bye, Dyn. It was nice while it lasted, but I think it's time for both of us to move on.
If someone can just get on Basic Income, why even bother with attending college and putting in all that hard work?

This is a serious question. Most people are not intrinsically motivated; the hacker news echo-chamber is an anomaly.
Previous discussion on the podcast episode: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12642432
How this guy earn 1 BTC per day
They are trying to do that with personal identity politics. I dont see that going well either
Yeah I'm aware it's a joke, which you might have noticed with the three different instances of the word "joke" in my comment. And harmless to you maybe? It's as harmless as a joke about male rapes in prison. It normalizes the dehumanization of people and turns sexual exploitation into a punchline. Maybe you wouldn't find it so funny if someone was threatening to spread your (hypothetical) daughter's nude pictures and ruin her life. Downvoting doesn't do much when other people will agree with and upvote the cheap joke, you're just basically telling me to "tsk tsk" under my breath and walk away; that's surely gonna have an effect on the commenter or anyone reading. (just like the -4 on my comment made me think twice about moralizing; it didn't) Btw in response to your other comment about "PC drivel", if it's PC to tell someone not to make light of other people's sexuality being used against them as collateral in debt, then I don't want to live in whatever your ideal non-PC world is like.
Deepstream 2.0 more than a thousand times faster than socket.io
> Has anyone favourable experience with Route53?

Yes, using it commercially(for work) and for personal domains. The pricing is incredibly low, and I haven't had an outage/hiccup since it launched.
> boom you never think or worry about it again.

Experience tells me this is not actually the case. Provider-provided routers are a major PITA if you want them secure and stable.
CloudFlare. It's free and bulletproof, even if you don't use their protective reverse proxy you can use their DNS service for free and it has a dynamic updating API.

Unlike other providers (looking at you Amazon with your handling of Wikileaks) they've also proven themselves willing to stand up for their customers, even free ones legally.
I have a few friends who are very enthusiastic about the tiny house movement. They are building a tiny house community, getting the zoning changed, etc.

At first I didn't get what problem they were solving. After enough discussions with them, I understand: The problem that tiny houses are solving is having the financial advantages of living in a trailer without the social stigma that comes with living in a trailer.

It's a class perception thing. In America, if you want to avoid living around the poor or being perceived as poor, you have to buy an expensive house. This is why people buy more house than they need - so they can live in the right kind of neighborhood.

Tiny house communities are a way for astrophysicists and programmers to live in trailers without having to live around the kind of people who live in trailers. It's a social hack to get around the signaling cost of expensive housing.

I told them that I didn't think it would work long term, that eventually tiny house communities would be perceived as just another kind of trailer park. They said sure, eventually that might happen, but by then their kids would have grown up and the next generation could figure out their own arrangements.
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I can barely hide the truth now, let me elucidate: I am from the department of PR, the United Nations where Bill Gates and I have been trying hard to keep it secret that some people who work for UNICEF have been seen killing babies for a while now with use of laughter which they cause by injecting hyperpepsinic and hypoacoustic polynuclear bazookas into their own asses.

https://youtu.be/PZuErXLfQlM
More to the point, those previous 5 generations were generally disappoting. Slow chips with decent but not mindblowing graphics, and extremely short support windows that left early adopters flapping in the breeze. Nvidia had quite a bit of ground to make up, but from what I've seen of their latest chips they made it. I think they're the fastest mobile chips you can buy this side of Apple's monsters.
It's called porn industry.
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I agree that this should be a possibility, while I think the odds that millions of law enforcement officers and criminal justice faculty would spontaneously conspire against a particular race, I also think it's more likely than some genetic predisposition toward crime (i.e., the first option).
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This is studiable and has been studied. A study regarding police killings, for example:

Do White Police Officers Unfairly Target Black Suspects?

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2870189&...

Using a unique data set we link the race of police officers who kill suspects with the race of those who are killed across the United States. We have data on a total of 2,699 fatal police killings for the years 2013 to 2015. This is 1,333 more killings by police than is provided by the FBI data on justifiable police homicides. When either the violent crime rate or the demographics of a city are accounted for, we find that white police officers are not significantly more likely to kill a black suspect. For the estimates where we know the race of the officer who killed the suspect, the ratio of the rate that blacks are killed by black versus white officers is large — ranging from 3 to 5 times larger. However, because the media may under report the officer’s race when black offic-ers are involved, other results that account for the fact that a disproportionate number of the un-known race officers may be more reliable. They indicate no statistically significant difference be-tween killings of black suspects by black and white officers. Our panel data analysis that looks at killings at the police department level confirms this. These findings are inconsistent with taste-based racial discrimination against blacks by white police officers. Our estimates examining the killings of white and Hispanic suspects found no differences with respect to the races of police officers. If the police are engaged in discrimination, such discriminatory behavior should also be more difficult when body or other cameras are recording their actions. We find no evidence that body cameras affect either the number of police killings or the racial composition of those killings.
That is funny, Excession and Consider Phlebas are only two books I could finish.
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Probably because it is rotated 360°.
Who knew lifelock would be worth billions. It always seemed like a scam
For everyone currently rushing to move their DNS records away from Dyn to alternative providers; don't panic.

Moving your DNS isn't hard, but is basically a hit-or-miss: it either works or it doesn't. I'm working on a tool to help monitor DNS changes that can help in migration scenario's by letting you know if any unwanted DNS records have changed.

I'm looking for any feedback you may have, you can sign up for the beta here: https://dnsspy.io/

(Ps; it seems shameless to plug a new service in a thread where a company just got bought, but I truly believe it can help ease the migration pain some may be feeling. Feel free to downvote if it makes no sense here or if it's just too blunt. Apologies, in that case.)
This restriction of their efforts on only the most profitable offerings like this seems like a continued step backwards for a company which used to do so much innovating. If all you work on is the iteration and merging of existing devices, you're going to be left in the cold as you're out-innovated by your competitors.

This is what happened to Microsoft, and it took many years and a major internal upset to get them back on a positive track. And now look at Microsoft since they've started diversifying and innovating again: they are providing an OS (and hardware) which is genuinely interesting to professionals in a variety of fields. They are going to steal Apple's thunder here soon, unless Apple really makes an effort.
I can't tell if this is satirical or not. Is knowing how to shop and prepare a basic meal really such a problem today?
So, no responses so far. It is very interesting for me, how different the world would be without such precautions, and is it possible at all – which metrics would serve as "suspicion" instead of color of your passport?

I think it is possible actually, but the world would be much less "sharing", and social care would be developed much less (like in USA some time ago, where you basically had to survive all by yourself).

As a russian, I've encountered this few times, that countries are not very happy to invite me – I have to apply for UK visa ~6 months in advance with full itinerary, and same for few other countries with strict rules. Other are easier, but still, for the "developed" world, I am at the level of some refugee. Yeah, I know, I can have 5 previous successfull visas, have few millions saved in my homeland, but as a young person, it is pretty hard – and is true discrimanation; but I understand it's roots completely and don't complain about it, it just makes me laugh how different one's possibilities could be based on random things.
How could I apply for startup credits if I am bootstrapping?

"To Apply, contact your VC, Accelerator, or Incubator and ask about GCP for Startups application details." [0]

[0] https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/
Thanks, I might give this a go with a 'spare' domain to investigate it more.
The Culture themselves aren't terribly interesting. What really makes the books shine (for me) are their interactions with lower-tech societies.
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Dyn is much more a dynamic DNS provider, though that is probably what "most" people know about.
> That probably only makes sense for people with low budget.

Deciding whether you should spend 900€ or 100€ to get precisely the same performance is not a decision dictated by budget. Only a moron spends 9 times the cash to get the same performance.

> If you really need performance, not only "in some benchmarks" then there is no alternative to Intel.

The fact that AMD's 100€ offering gets you precisely the same performance as a 900€ cash-waster is the kind of stuff that makes or breaks the performance of your workstation.

After all, for the same cash some idiots waste on a i7 processor, anyone can purchase an AMD FX processir with 6 or 8 CPU cores and then spend the remaining cash on high-end GPUs.

Again, Intel fanboys usually take jabs at AMD but they seldom back them up with evidence.
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So if we end up building these into killbots that go out of control we will have a Jurassic Park situation.

"Stand perfectly still! Its vision is movement based!"
iPhones, watch bands, $300 books and iPhones. Oh, and also iPhones.
Quck google search:
https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&es...
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Nobody is talking about a conspiracy - racism is about bias.
Fake News as a Business
> I wouldn't say I was a 303/808 connoisseur

I would, I own a real TB-303 (as well as a TR-808 and a TR-909), and this suffers from the same problems that all emulations suffer (even Roland's own TR-3 and TR-03): the sound is really 'static'; real 303s have an instability in the sound that gives them a nice natural vibrato, which at the extremes (resonance full, and sweeping the cut-off), causes mini-ripples of sound that give the 303 that sound.

Have a listen to this to see what I mean (try to avoid the Roland shills with their "it's just as good" opinion) [1]

It's pretty much the same with all emulations of analogue gear. I am yet to hear any plugin or emulation come close to the sound of analogue. The closest I've experienced to-date Uhe Diva, but even that doesn't have the liveliness of the real deal.

[1] https://youtu.be/4lhXeTGMo2c?t=796
Milk from plants is latex, that is universally poisonous in all families of plants that create it.
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In your example there could be deeper reasons for Armenians having higher crash rates. Let's say it is a combination of zip code, the food they are eating from a local Armenian Bell, and the phase of the moon.

However with a lot of ML classes we are told to look for the simpler explanation which would be nationality in this case, in the absence of collection of the real reasons.

Not sure how that can be gotten around. I'll read the paper.
I also setup a Dynamic DNS service, on top of Amazon's Route53, over at https://dhcp.io/

Unfortunately I had to suspend new registrations due to abuse, but the code is open and available on github:

https://github.com/skx/dhcp.io/
I agree that it would make a lot of sense to pull ads that meet this set of criteria into a separate blocklist, and that ad-blockers should not enable that list by default.
While I can see that some set of people don't agree, I really love cooking. Love eating out at all sorts of restaurants too.

Cooking gives you a unique opportunity to be experimental, algorithmic, and potentially experience a small part of a variety of cultures. The programming mindset maps very well to it. It's also great SO/family time when done jointly.

For people who hate cooking, I recommend trying to find a recipe that seems out of your league. That's what really got me going originally. Nowadays I'm pretty confident trying to whip up nearly anything (though I'm not making fancy, artistic-looking dishes certainly).

Home cooking has it's own challenges. Less space, still have a lot of cleaning, and can't magically divine all sorts of cooking oils and what have you because the scale makes it impractical.

That said, cooking for 1 is a lot less exciting for me than cooking for 2+. If I were living alone I'd probably still eating packet Ramen a bunch.
I put together a side project some time ago that allows you to retrieve and display arbitrary API endpoints, to create a dashboard of realtime data.

One of the bigger challenges was finding appropriate APIs to use. The idea being that it had to make sense as a realtime datapoint. Current temperature in California is one example.

Part of the solution I tried for the end user was to add a searchable database of APIs, but I never found many that had that kind of realtime datapoint. The majority of use cases for APIs seems to be CRUD apps, authentication, unchanging datasets, or really specific once off data transforms.

I feel like that's a bummer, as I really love the idea of being able to build up a dashboard of random data points about the world that interest me. The number of astronauts currently in space, the temperature somewhere I like to visit, the traffic density on specific roads. All retrievable individually from various apps, but not in one scifi intelligence center style place.

For anyone interested, the site was https://apiblocks.com
> There are still people in the US without access to clean water.

[citation needed]
Except you haven't told me what synergy means. Also the cpus mentioned have fused FP units, meaning their cores are more comparable to Intel's hyperthreads. They often failed to perform at i5 levels, and any small performance increase was offset by higher energy consumption.
But if you were a man who was an excellent driver, would you like it that you get to pay more just because you were born into a gender that was "more reckless"?

Plus, women want equal rights, so why not be equal in this, too?

I think for things like insurance, or healthcare taxes (the model adopted by most countries) it's fair to normalize the price for everyone. Otherwise, the system doesn't really work.
This is definitely a point worth raising.

I'll defend the parent comment by observing that we can reproduce this effect with non-judicial metrics, like "murder rate in majority foo-race communities". Assuming the reporting rate for murders is very high across the board, this escapes bias in both policing and conviction rates, and sends us back to other explanations.

Even so, the policing/judicial question is really important.

There are some sociology results (I haven't seen a replication failure?) suggesting that not only race but stereotypical appearance within race influences sentence duration. There are all kinds of low-level-illegal practices whose effective criminality is shaped entirely by policing - think of any "side hustle", where selling loose cigarettes leads to lots of charges, but selling moonshine (the closest analogy I can think of) leads to relatively few.

More obviously, incidental discovery and stop-and-frisk policing produce wildly imbalanced charge rates. Walking down a city street with a pocketknife and pot is always illegal, but the odds of it being a crime depend heavily on who you are.

I'm not saying anything new, but it's a soapbox worth getting up on. It's a big deal in race, but it's also worth remembering the power of selective policing whenever we talk about criminalizing something widespread.
We're in the process of migrating away from Namecheap. They've been having DNS issues lately, as recently as last week (16 November) their entire DNS infrastructure was unexpectedly down for several hours. [0] Took all our sites offline.

> $ host mydomain.com dns1.name-services.com

> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

They're cheap, but have been experiencing some real reliability issues as of late. Other registrars offer pretty similar pricing and don't suffer from as frequent outages.

We were hardly the only people affected. Check their Twitter[1] for other people complaining of DNS outages.

Also, their new admin portal redesign sucks. Tons of white space and managing domains now requires many more clicks than it did before. Their zone management interface also frequently fails to update the zone.

Gandi's zone management interface is a million times better.

[0] http://status.namecheap.com/archives/28960

[1] https://twitter.com/namecheap
When people give up national identity, they replace it with other kinds of group identities. Those replacements aren't necessarily better.

Query what the dissolution of national identity does to the modern welfare state. Can we maintain that when people feel more allegiance to their social class or profession than to their countrymen?

My family emigrated away from the sub-continent, which has a deep-seated culture of elevating class bonds above national ones. And in places like India you see wealthy people living in enclaves treating the working class around them like a different species. I'm frightened that a decline of nationalism and populism in the US could see a move in the same direction.
There are a few guides out there, for example:

https://willwarren.com/2014/07/03/roll-dynamic-dns-service-u...

https://www.flynsarmy.com/2015/12/setting-up-dynamic-dns-to-...

I setup a simple service to do the same thing, but unfortunately I had to close new registrations due to abuse. The code is open and available at github though:

https://github.com/skx/dhcp.io/
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Ahhh yes I'm familiar with Tinribs stuff. Met the guy several times too. Genuinely nice guy.
Exactly that was my first reaction, too.

Also, this makes a great analogy for software development and a very good point about Free Software (hands-on), proprietary software (you control at least the information flow into and out of that blackbox) and services (you have lost any control over where your personal and business data is routed through and sent to).
I have many informational websites like http://www.krister.ee and sometimes I register domains on a whim when I get a really good idea for a website. I decided to create a simple tool to help manage these microsites and in addition to buying a domain I can immediately fill it with demo-content using markdown.

Before I get into feature creep (hero image, forms, analytics) I'd like to work on reaching an audience. Problem is, I'm not sure who would appreciate it. I know it's a useful tool so any tips on how to spread the word is greatly appreciated.