skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh boy, I couldn't agree more... I, too, feel rage at this state of things. What makes it particularly awful is I just don't see any way out of it.

People are pathetically easy to manipulate for the most part. The poor are the demographic that most frequently votes against their interests. The fascinating part is, it would be easy to conclude that perhaps these people are simply not very clever.
Well, that's certainly true for some fraction of them, to some extent... but I really don't think that this is the main factor (or even in the top 3), no - rather, I just think that it's a combination of their being credulous, and not particularly predisposed toward a special type of socially-strategic thinking. Like, the sort of thinking that manipulating psychopaths use to bend people to their will. Like you said, the poor are often plenty clever and useful, they often just get manipulated and used.

What I don't know is whether this is just a matter of education (and so long-term improvement is viable) or whether it's more of a societal-cultural values thing... or even, I guess, a biological thing (there is probably at least _some_ component of this but probably very minor relative to the others).

I'd want education to include a kind of mental self-defence component, so people can protect themselves against mental infiltration by virulent memes (eg, religions and other ideas which abhor and resist attempts of inspection and eradication) and demagoguery... as well as a heavy focus on critical thinking in general. Learning _how_ to think - not_what_ to think.
I don't think this is correct. I've never heard of any evidence for pro-aging genes, but I have read molecular biology rebuttals against this theory (Stephen Jay Gould or perhaps textbook sources, though unfortunately I can't recall well enough to cite them).

You don't need extra genes or information to prefer organisms that age out of reproductive fitness. If advanced age during reproduction confers lower fitness, then the offspring are automatically less fit. While you could argue that there would be a competition for resources amongst the young offspring, this isn't much different than other scenarios that produce less fit or disabled offspring.
No, not fully dissolved. The sugar grain size is what determines smooth vs gritty mouth feel. There are micrographs on the harvard wiki, and in my video, linked from another comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13087023

There are porous aggregate sugar grains already in use. It's not that they're full of air, just smaller than usual particles (so they dissolve faster) roughly clumped into normal sized agglomerations.
The largest diamond in the world still is natural, isn't it? Will it ever be synthetic and if so when?
Indeeed. In the UK, no party has an environmental platform worth mentioning. There isn't even an environment position in the cabinet any more - just industry.

Conservatives promise to dig up the country.

Lib dead promise to dig up the country, slowly.

Labour promise to dig up the country, for the people.

And the greens promise not to dig up the country, but will make us all live in grass huts.
Nothing spells "hubris" like a little success with a swollen ego.
I always feel like an oddball for calling my driver to make it more convenient for him (and faster for me) to pick me up. I usually Lyft line it though, so it's just a time boost (price is the same either way).
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Yup. Silence gives consent. Don't be a quiet slave.
Wow, that's ridiculous

Companies in developing countries give better bonuses
And also in the USA the IRS is very lenient when it comes to taxing benefits in kind.

Back when I worked for British telecom in new buildings they wanted to offer free tea and coffee - HMRC said no you have to pay tax and that was the end of that.

Of course then one senior manger worked out that there was tax allowance that allowed a tax free profit related bonus and the company gave every one a $300 tax free bonus as a F&^k you to the tax man
Discussed extensively yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13078124
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"As part of its free software offer, Zenefits provided certain features with a paid commission. To access these premium features, the company required the client to designate Zenefits as its broker of record, then collected the commissions associated with the insurance product sold."[1]

Free software is fine with Washington state. Attaching an illegal revenue stream to "free" isn't.

[1] https://www.insurance.wa.gov/about-oic/newsroom/news/2016/12...
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Geofencing notifies your app when its device enters or leaves geographical regions you set up. If the App is terminated iOS will relaunch it IF the user gave it "Always" authorization for sharing location.
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I lived in China for 3 years and speak pretty decent Mandarin. I'm really grateful people are doing analyses like this, but, and I am very sad to say this, I think it may not matter because very few people want to discuss anything subversive anyway.

Recently I tried to engage with my oldest Chinese friend about the Sesame Credit system that I think will gradually be adapted to compel more and more obedience. It was like water off a duck's back. As far as she was concerned, the government's description was the end of the story.

Anecdote, of course, but I can't do a real survey. My feeling is that I could try all day (speaking very frankly on WeChat) to get Chinese friends to at least understand my concerns and I'd just get blown off 20 different ways. I hope I'm wrong, that it's just my limited experience that makes the situation seem gloomier than it really is.
Germany doesn't have speed limits on most motorways. They have the 20+ minute stau instead. Otherwise the speed limit on most of Europe's motorways is 130 km/h.
We don't delete comments without an explicit request from the author, but this seems like an obvious place to make an exception, so I deleted that one.
I'm don't know why you were downvoted, background refresh has nothing to do with the location setting.
geh, I was there as well :)

I concur, it was specifically stated that 100% sampling is an option (and is by default?)
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Because its a dog whistle its like saying oh its just a childs toy when referring to a Goliwog.
Gitlab has a lead UI person but no UI. Interesting. What he/she's doing then?
Violation of privacy laws is one thing and bad enough in itself. But let's not forget that Uber violates various taxi laws as well. In Denmark, just now, the state prosecutor has formally prosecuted Uber for colluding to violate the taxi laws. So far, different Uber drivers have received fines and those fines have now been tried in appellate courts that upheld the fines. Now it's Uber's turn for its part in the violations.

I am not a big fan of those taxi laws, but I am not a fan of billion dollar corporations just doing as they are pleased either. They seem to have no regard for laws.
Yup - it's hard to imagine a more out of touch viewpoint. Straight out of "talking heads present one type of franchise blockbuster reality fiction that manipulates you into betraying your fellow humans and yourself" land.
[Harsh words ahead]

Hindsight is 20/20, and based on that I personally would say WhatsApp was not ethical even when it was a standalone company. If it had been so, it wouldn't have allowed Facebook to acquire it in the first place! I realize this sounds harsh and probably implies bad motives on the owners, but whatever WhatsApp wrote in its blogs pre-acquisition were all principles that could be sold at the right price. That's exactly what it has come to now that we know how it's being used.

I would also consider it insulting to human intelligence if the WhatsApp founders had truly believed that they would be able to continue with their stated privacy stance after being bought by Facebook, of all companies (what they wrote on the blog at that time can be seen as public posturing).
I think refactoring to create a new class is a good solution to the state problem. That is, if you have code like this:

func drive(Engine e, Destination d)
func park(Engine e)
func start(Engine e)

You can create a new class

class Car {
constructor Car(Engine engine)
func drive(Destination d)
func park()
func start()
}

Which accepts the shared argument in the constructor. That way within the Car, you should have minimal state, and defining new functions can reuse the shared argument that the Car was constructed with: no more long argument lists.

A Car was sort of an obvious example but applying that pattern allows me to see less obvious examples, where a class is some abstract entity that I wasn't aware of before.

I think there's still fear of undisciplined state management in large classes, but that can be addressed with good SOLID class organization.
Yeah, and I think they were way wrong.
Am I the only one who fears that these maps would be useful to terrorists?
> Uber as a company is very ethical

There are fairly substantial quantities of legal documentation that are evidence against this remarkable claim. They get covered here frequently.
It's just the ever expanding march toward bubbles and safe spaces. It's funny we're here after decades of US prudishness on TV and media in general.

The internet seemed to open things up a bit, but now we have a new wave of outrage and moralism that seems to think they can tell everyone else what to think and feel, and what information they're allowed to see.

Kind of ironic that the internet is being used as a tool for censorship now, given what it used to be.
> User data is sold to target Google users with advertising.

this is false, please, provide a link where it is confirmed

> In order for you to be correct, Google would not sell the user data in any way to any advertiser or third party.

No, in order to be correct YOU, you have to prove just a single proof that data is sold and you have not provided any single proof

> You'd know that if you read the articles I cited. I had hoped you would be honest and read them and tell me, but instead you turned into an Internet Troll and didn't read the articles, which I am now proving by citing the articles, which I am not supposed to cite if you actually read them.

If you were honest and you read and COMPREHEND the articles you linked you should have seen that no fricking data is sold. What is sold is ad space

The one being an internet troll is you, you own links prove you wrong and you don't want to acknowledge it
Well, at least he set one. Imagine this poor guy would have needed to oay over $1000 :)
And so freedom of expression slowly gets chopped away piece by piece with “the best intentions”. If freedom of expression weren't “offensive”, at least to some people, it wouldn't need to be protected in the first place. And, whoever decides what can or can't be said at FB doesn't make that decision based on a democratic process.
I was going to say that you can choose to only allow access to your location while using the app, but then I checked in iOS. Some apps only have the choice between always and never. Is it up to the developer to remove/put in the option "While Using the App"?
> what they actually mean "X isn't a good fit for me."

No, incomplete documentation, errors in documentation and other issues he mentions are objectibly horrible, not merely "bad for me".
So you think that everyone dressing like an IBM'r in the 70's is better its the eccentrics, hackers and od balls that often can produce the ground breaking work
> One more thing Google open sourced their AI routine but didn't release the data.

Now you must be joking or it is just that you don/'t know anything about what you talk about.

> They don't give data away for free. How do you think Google earns money on free web services if they don't sell user data and advertising based on user data?

I know how they make money, the one that clearly doesn't know is you.
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Oh, yes, because Tim cook said anything it is the Bible.

Time to stop reading your poor trollish attempts, have a nice day and when you really start to comprehend how advertisement work perhaps you won't be such wrong.
"The United States and Russia maintain roughly 1,800 of their nuclear weapons on high-alert status – ready to be launched within minutes of a warning.""

Yes, we're doing much better now.

Source: http://www.icanw.org/the-facts/nuclear-arsenals/
Looks good, interested.
I don't understand this game of linking to one reply in the middle of a thread and claiming "this is what HN thinks." The actual top comment on that article says "damn that's evil." Doesn't that count?

Hnwatch, which should be a good thing (why not keep a sanity check on things?), does the same. What point are you trying to make? "Someone said something!" ???
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In spirit I completely agree with you, but I disagree about your notion that your version can exist. Maybe you, me and a bunch of other people could do it this way, but it only takes a few to break that system, which is how it is now.
The TechCrunch photo is cool. Unfortunately I missed out on a photo, when our company was part of Microsoft Accelerator, where I would have been wearing a Mayhem or Darkthrone t-shirt.
Yes, exactly. If we're going to talk proportions, then both "sides" need surfacing. If you're on lower income, otherwise "minor" fines, fees, surcharges etc can become life threatening or at least highly disruptive. The cost of failure is so high that it becomes very difficult to take the sort of risks that are sometimes needed to get ahead.
Could you explain what is bloated about OOP PHP?
F-Droid shows a list of antifeatures[0] along with the description of each application. Here is one example with the "tracking antifeature":
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=at.tomtasche.rea...

[0] https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Antifeatures
FTR you can just build your own very easily out of any of the open source DL frameworks out there and their derivatives. E.g. digits and deepdetect will give you an API along with the pre-trained models.
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I don't recall the article insinuating that classes/lambdas/etc don't exist, only that you can break up long functions into smaller functions. Also these functions are already presumably within a class, since Martin Fowler writes a lot about Java.
Facebook is rapidly turning into a censorship tool.
Because sites like Facebook and Twitter make money on dividing people and highlighting differences between groups.
>There's also a trait that your account can be tagged with which makes content that you share less likely to get to the front page (all votes on your content count as some percentage of a "real" vote). That attribute is usually added to non-insiders whose content often makes it to the front page.

I've noticed for a while now that I'll only receive a fraction of total points for a submission, perhaps 50-60% of the submission's displayed upvotes.
>? And a giant backdoor with purposefully vague language in their privacy policy to let them sell data. https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ "We provide personal information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures."

I suppose that English is not your first language, because what you have quoted has nothing to do with your claim

And now you put PRISM? Do you know what the heck is PRISM?

> f you forgot because you have some sort of mental illness, I understand, if not and you have a perfect memory, you might just be trying to troll or put up a test for others like college professors do.

so, not only you don't know what you talk about, you insult people when you're wrong and has shown to you?
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That last paragraph comes full circle. When Santa Clara County opted out of BART, money that would have gone to BART was instead partly used for the expressways.

Southwest Expressway is the most puzzling, running just from Stokes (by Bascom) to 280. Dunno if it was originally planned for more.

Tons of money goes into VTA rail to serve very few passengers. Its routes were chosen for political reasons rather than actual demand. (Note that the MV line runs right by where Lockheed Martin is/was, and its primary Congressional advocate as head of the Transportation Committee, Norm Mineta, was a Lockheed executive after he quit Congress mid-term after losing his chairmanship.)

Now, I often get to wait at the VTA crossing of Central Expressway for empty trains to cross. Yay.
Well at least they got busted for it overseas. I won't be buying a VW anytime soon.
From the description in the walkthrough, it doesn't. The final output looks to be based on 5 of these slices, with each providing a probability distribution that ultimately influences the final classification.
We may have started turning corner on this one. A friend, senior in the diamond industry, recently commented on how she, too, has caught herself judging younger couples who opt for natural-diamond wedding tokens. At best, she assumes they're ignorant of the worthlessness of ground-dug diamonds.
The people that would do nothing already do not contribute and won't contribute at all in the future anyway when their jobs are gone. The few that can contribute and do nothing probably already found ways of doing nothing anyway. In the Netherlands, I can do nothing and get money; you have to be a bit smart about it but it is definitely not hard to just get money. Do more people do nothing? Nah. More people take risk and start their own small company as you have fallback anyway.

But still, what is the answer; there are no jobs soon (<100 yrs) for most people, what does 'doing nothing' mean then?
I'm surprised that there aren't more comments on this, because it seems like it could be enormously useful. My first thoughts are that it could simplify synchronizing data between environments, or coordinating backups where a system has data in both S3 and RDS or RedShift.
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For those who don't have the time / capacity to develop this internally, and who feel they need to moderate visual content, we have a SaaS offering.
We flag offensive images and videos (including live-streams in private beta) using Deep Learning.

We are Sightengine (https://sightengine.com)
They are public. When you create an AWS account, you will have a default VPC (this wasn't the case with the classic EC2), and when launching an instance, if you don't specify anything else, the instance you launch will be in the default VPC.
My roommate works at Uber as an engineer. He has a pretty high moral bar and I'd bet there are enough like him at Uber that doing shady things systematically would get exposed to the outside world fairly quickly. Notice I said systematically because any company at scale with thousands of employees may have lonewolves doing shady stuff. But that is different than a company culture that endorses or encourages that. I haven't gotten any vibe that Uber does either and if it did, I'm pretty certain my friend and engineers like him would jump in a heartbeat.
Companies will look forward to using this, since it means that products (eg: toothpaste) will run out faster (probably due to people using more when it slips out easier), producing more demand.
ADB?
I know nothing about deep learning but I'm curious. Why can't tweaking parameters be automated? Why is human intuition necessary here?
Yeah I agree, that's why idealism fails a lot more often than rationalism and that rationalists have been much more successful than idealists in running the world and getting to actually produce.
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I watched my great grandfather lose everything to Parkinson's. I really hope this leads to a treatment that stops the progression of symptoms and fast.
It is good that they are being proactive about it, but a UK option is one of my requirements, I'm currently looking for an alternative provider that will still route via the UK, is priced competitively and has a Linux client.
Thanks and good luck on your future endeavors!!
Billing alerts are Cloudwatch alarms, capable of queueing SNS events. You can use those to scale down.
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Why is it hard to concentrate in heat? Maybe you have issues concentrating in general?

Depending on your idea of cold Netherlands or Scandinavia?
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I don't think it will lead to particularly insightful discussion either. But my point is that on the assumption the OP is acting in good faith, it's better to try to persuade them than to silence them. You don't convert people by taking away their voice.
We live in a society where, because ad dollars drive so much of online commerce, attention _is_ currency. And right now influencer marketing is outperforming many other channels, so naturally a lot of money is headed this direction, allowing many 'ordinary' people to monetize.

I don't think this is a problem - I believe in the power of the internet democratizing revenue opportunities and disrupting outdated media channels.

(Bias disclaimer: I run a startup that helps brands find Instagram influencers to work with - won't plug it here but it's in my profile).
I think you're conflating two different issues here, the plant is in an area which is pretty much barren land, far from any major city, and has only a small town near it. The troubles governments face when acquiring land for infrastructure is usually for things like metro rail through congested cities, or building airports on the suburbs of major cities and the like.

The issue of it being densely populated land would have been valid if this was near some major city and plant actively hampered development. There probably is no such issue now, the plant provides cleaner energy than the alternative (coal), and is a huge step forward towards reducing the country's need for non-renewable sources.
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You're used to the climate you grew up in and changing from that can be a waste of time. There's plenty of interesting places all over the world north of any line you choose, say 48 degrees north (adjusting for Gulf Stream, etc).
I get where this comes from with regards to Amway, but I'm really puzzled as to why geeks pattern match all teaching to scummy "make money online" infomarketing.

Nobody ever says "I kinda get the vibe that, in addition to your virtuous OSS contributions, you might be angling to sell software / programming time. Not that there is anything wrong with that." Well, yes. I was employed as an engineer; I then ran a succession of software businesses. Taking money for software is indeed what one does in these jobs / businesses. HN seems to be pretty well-acquainted with selling software for money.

I wish HN were similarly well acquainted with training, consulting, or infoproducts, to pick three examples of business models which "sell knowledge" if you squint a bit. They are no less real, value-producing businesses than software is. They happen to be easier to build and grow to mid six figures than SaaS businesses, in a way which is of material interest to the stated goals of many HNers, and I say that as someone whose financial situation is historically dominated by SaaS businesses.
Don't do anything rash, like others are suggesting. If your boss has told you that he's pleased he hired you, that you're making good contributions and you like the company, then there is no reason you shouldn't be compensated accordingly.

Pull your boss aside for a serious conversation and discuss it; even though you haven't been on the books long, $100 is indeed pathetic.