skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically, the people who believe false information and aren't critical are the problem, but I guess there's not a whole lot we can do about that, other than prevent the incentives that currently exist for fake news (ad profit)?
Using Microsoft Cognitive Services to create baby bump timelapses (2016)
It's Time for Faster Languages and Optimized Applications
Looking forward to future research on doctors' race, age, and nationality, so we can fully optimize the system.
I suppose this is worrisome as a precedent, but I honestly could care less what happens to companies that are nothing but an social media presence. I can't think of anything we gain from their existence, and I pity the people who rely on them for any sort of information. And I'm still not convinced they really exist.
As Alan Kay mentions in one of his videos, da Vinci had no access to an engine. All his designs were on paper. If he had an engine available, he might have made a lot of narrow progress, instead of being so broad.

In fact, in that video Kay compares da Vinci to Henry Ford. Ford was hardly a scientific or design genius, but he had access to the right equipment and had a much greater impact on the world than Leonardo.
There's a vast difference between a story that doesn't do the subject justice and a story that is completely false. Trying to put an unfairly negative spin on things is bad, for sure, but simply lying is worse. I don't think you've seen a lot of the fake news that has people concerned lately if you think they're equal.
s/Turkey/Czechoslovakia
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That was more in reference to "but it is simultaneously highly disrespectful" as if it were a universal truism. It isn't.
I've wanted to test something similar - holding up a giant "Speed Limit: 75MPH" sign when a google car drives by on these little 30mph Mountain View roads and see what happens.

Probably nothing but I can't shake the comical thought of one of those little bugs rocketing to turbo mode while the dude inside is frantically slapping the big red "stop" button.
Indigenous people usually subsist off their environments, which are disrupted and potentially destroyed by extractive industries.

It takes a certain sort of person to screw the indigenous out of not only their traditions and culture by destroying their source of food and other supplies, and then turn around and say they don't deserve to profit off that destruction because they're simple and provincial.
The advanced functionality is left out because it's very difficult, and quite a waste of valuable developer time, to reimplement essentially the same widget set over and over and over again for each framework.

That's just one reason why it saddens me to see so many proprietary frameworks out there with more all the time, especially ones that are so close to being compatible with Web Components. If Vue just used and produced Web Components, it could use a common Material Design component set. The investment in fewer component sets by more people would result in much higher quality and free up developers to work on higher-level things.
>consistent with the Standard Model

Is generally one of the most disappointing phrases one can read in science news. Hooray for progress and all, but everybody is hoping for exactly the opposite result.
I think you make a pretty good case for the regulation of the temperature at which coffee is served. And if we had such then yes, McD would be at fault for violating the law. It would make sense to me that if coffee injuries are seriously injurious that we should have such regulation. As it was though, there didn't seem to be such regulation and as such I would imagine that common sense on the side of the producer and consumer would have been expected and in such case we'd have split the fault more 50:50 rather than the 90:10 it was.
I'm still willing to lay money that Uber returns to Austin by SXSW. They can cry regulatory malfeasance all they want but there's too much brand recognition opportunity lost if they skip SXSW.
> only five percent of American households have an Alexa-powered device right now

And how many people have a Google-powered phone with them every day? Siri on their iDevice? Cortana on their auto-upgraded Windows 10 PC and in their living room Xbox? All of them have Alexa's penetration beat.
I like that he's made the time for doing stuff like this, I'd imagine his life is pretty busy.
Loved this one:

> 10/it's like the year after the Blairwitch project in Silicon Valley, a legion of dopes running around pretending to make important films.
>I would say that Amazon itself is also a "become monopoly - then jack up prices" play

I think this is an important misconception. Amazon, Uber, Lyft, Grubhub, and pretty much the entire on-demand economy doesn't intend to raise prices.

They expect technology to reduce costs while they keep prices fixed. The details aren't even important, but there's a consensus out there that transportation is going to _somehow_ get a lot cheaper. The two main driving forces seem to be self driving vehicles (duh) and electric vehicles. EVs are expensive luxuries/green tech now, but as the battery costs keep dropping you'll soon have extraordinarily low maintenance, cheap to run vehicles that are way more efficient than internal combustion in the low speed, stop and go regime of delivery driving.

That's how I've always seen these markets anyway. It just doesn't make sense for the plan to be "monopolize then exploit" - short of hardcore regulatory capture or something that seems too transparently flawed to attract so much effort and investment.
This is really close to the saying that "you should never argue with an idiot because to an outsider no one will know which is which"
Moving memory management into the OS often makes sense, because the OS has the big cross-application picture, knows the system-wide memory pressure, and most importantly, already manages the memory of applications, by swapping between RAM and disk.

For the same reason, OS X and Android Linux both have systems for OS managed caches, and AFAIK Firefox already uses these: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748598

The status on mainline Linux is a bit more nebulous (seems Android's ashmem has been upstreamed, but it's not directly usable on GNU/Linux systems?), and other efforts have stranded: https://lwn.net/Articles/602650/

For some more thoughts about memory management on OS level vs. application level, I can recommend this "random outburst" from the designer of the Varnish HTTP cache: https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/notes.html
What's the alternative, sell your software in a box at Best Buy?
China often claims their censorship of news is about reducing the spread of "false" information. Who decides what is "false"? If we have to have someone doing that, I'd argue the one group that must be immediately disqualified from that position is the government, given that they have a known and totally on-purpose information imbalance with the public about tons of subjects they consider sensitive or "classified", and that a large amount of media reporting is about the government and wants to touch on these subjects.
We should also have a concern that "investment grade" filtering selects for relatively short windows to yield return.
> The question is, how easy is it to make syntax-driven tools?

You can actually require the lexer and parser portions of the compiler in crystal code, and get an AST from a file relatively easily. The crystal compiler then has tools for easily walking the AST.
Maybe this same person wrote a "BlackBerry owns the next platform" column.
Zeveb, the US customary units, "based on English measure passed by parliament under the reign of Queen Anne in 1706" [1] are inferior to the international SI units.

- prefixes based on powers of 10 are better aligned with how we calculate today, namely with base 10 numerals, and decimal fractions (unless we switch to base 12 or base 8 numerals).

- a single unit per physical quantity, together with prefixes, is better than the proliferation of units in those customary systems (often with different units of the same physical quantity in different contexts, for example length vs area vs liquid volume vs non-liquid volume, or mechanical energy vs heat energy).

- the system is coherent and somewhat minimal.

- the units are derived from the world, not from the length of some king's feet or arms or what have you. Of course, that's a somewhat subjective benefit.

At any rate: the original metre was 1/10,000,000 the distance from equator to pole (that's why 90*60=5400 nautical miles = 10,000 km, approximately). The original kilogram ("grave") was the mass of 1 dm^3 of water.

Of course, one can fly an aeroplane or get a man to the moon without SI units. One can also do it without GPS and without computers and without internet and without antibiotics and without all the other achievements of civilisation. But why would one?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units#...
Sure, these salaries are not available at every company. I just wanted to outline a path for a competent (but not amazing) programmer to make >$200k outside the Valley without moving to a management role.
IMO: A voice controlled internet radio with really good sound, backed up by a respectable music library for individual songs. I'd have bought it for that alone even if it didn't do another thing.

Snark aside, once you get it paired with reasonable smarthome products, there's an element of magic there. "Alexa, turn on the kitchen lights" feels downright futuristic.
>A small tangent, but what's the most compelling use case for an Alexa?

Somewhat predictably, the best working use cases are ones that drive additional revenue for Amazon. Playing music from your Amazon Prime Music subscription, ordering laundry detergent and dog food from Prime Now, etc.
Mr Linus need to be careful, he can be censured, he's online accounts could be deleted, He's site could endup blacklisted and ofcause he could be fined or jailed of "hate speech"?

My opinion "Management by Perkele" is part of everyone's freedom of speech. Mr Linus, I hope you continue to be you and talk exactly like you want.
Indigenous people have pretty shitty representation in government, and this applies pretty much wherever you go. It's completely possible for them to get screwed even if the government were totally happy with the mining contracts... actually, I'd be astonished if that weren't the case.
I'm not even halfway through it, but Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell by Simon Marlow. Great read so far.
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At least there are very few reports to the contrary.
Hey all. This is the second time I'm submitting Beaker. First time was back in august.[1]

Since then, we've done a lot to improve the browser and build on the ideas. I've written about the P2P Web here[2], and there's a talk at the Web 1.0 conference[3] that goes into more depth if you're still curious.

Happy to answer any questions. Architecture/scaling, privacy, FOSS on the Web, etc.

1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12270762

2 http://pfrazee.github.io/blog/what-is-the-p2p-web

3 https://youtu.be/pi-kreA52oI
I'm not really sure why you think it's Amazon only or a walled garden. I have limited experience with it but from the research I've done thus far it seems to have a fairly robust development platform.

I'm under the impression that if it feels Amazon-only it's because of a failure of companies and devs to take advantage of the platform, not a failure of the platform itself. For example the Google services you're asking about, is that Amazon's fault or has Google not taken the time to develop that app because they're focusing on their own product?

I've used my echo dot most often with 3rd party services so far (daily briefing integrations, capital one, yahoo fantasy football).
Actually, the vast majority of cases where people sued over hot coffee that was as hot or even hotter than the liebeck case are dismissed as "frivolous". The liebeck verdict was more of the exception, rather than the rule.
Source (wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau.... (in "aftermath" section)
A lot of research ends up supporting or augmenting existing technologies and industries -- so-called "applied" research. This research shouldn't be expected to yield major game-changing innovations.

A lot of the GDP growth over that period was fueled by technological capabilities. Which means a lot of the new research funding ended up going toward applied research supporting industries build around those new capabilities.

Given these trends, measuring against GDP is a far more reasonable metric than absolute dollar values.

Basically, research in the past made new industries possible while providing a bit of subsidy to existing industries, whereas research today is mostly government subsidy for product improvements in existing industries with a little bit of basic research on the side...
Why do we expect uniform outcomes from diverse people?

Say two groups are different enough that, when you put them together, you call that "diversity". Why do you expect them to be statistically identical when you divide the groups apart again?

Prejudice in career advancement and other important decisions is bad, of course. People should be judged on their own merits, not group statistics. But that doesn't mean that group statistical differences are necessarily due to prejudice.
Of course when a country needs dollars to pay off crushing external debts selling it's natural resources to foreign companies is a very important thing.

They do this everywhere in the country. Most parts of Argentina are dry because the Andes block most of the humidity. Large mines use a lot of water. Indigenous people and farmers (lots of wines grow in deserts, but also olives etc.) no longer get the water they need.

This is why we have the IMF. To make financial crack junkies out of countries that are controlling the resources. Thank god there's a republican government now and the ban on lending money has been lifted now they've paid off the vulture funds.

What could go wrong?
More likely an incomplete start on a bird. Is it next to a white-faced stick figure with a lampshade on its head that just threw a pie? Probably not.
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There is a large difference in power and knowledge between these two sides, which is the heart of the ethics argument.

The people living on top of the resources may have legally relinquished their rights to it and the intact land it's buried beneath, but the drafters of those contracts have a lot of room and leverage to act in bad faith in order to exploit them. This can prevent these people from escaping a cycle of subjugation because they are given mere subsistence instead of wealth in return for their resources.

Legality of things like this are often just procedural facades to release mineral extraction companies from accusations that they are doing something wrong, harming someone or, sadly, indirectly enslaving vulnerable people.
Ah yes, the "security is quite easy" argument.

As long as people like you think security is easy, people like me will continue to have a job, unfortunately.
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My (unbiased) 2 cents..

“Qualitatively, Amazon’s position is more secure than the numbers would indicate.”

I beg to differ. I believe Apple has a much more secured position than Amazon in the long run, given how Siri is already integrated in iOs mobile devices and macOS based desktops. So far, has Apple capitalized on this advantage? Nope. Are they gonna? Most likely, given the fact that they always wait for everyone to show their projects in high school science fair and then they roll out their better comprehensive showcase.

If Apple does not launch a voice based home automation product in late 2017 or early 2018 then it might be too late.

Apple's true competitor in this domain can only be Google with its staggering command on Android ecosystem. Microsoft effort is limited to Windows based PCs and even they might have a better advantage than Amazon.

Amazon has mainstreamed a voice tech. They have done it well and made a point that this is the way of the future. Now the second part of the problem is to integrate already existing daily use computational devices with this "voice-tech". Amazon literally has none, no mobile and no desktops/laptops/tablets.
Right, this exactly.

Also, why is every response with a hint of negativity towards google getting down voted?

If Google was doing the right thing, they wouldn't have to be shielded from online criticism.
Much like the hideous legislation passed in the UK, at this point I just think bring it. The more governments overtly undertake efforts to wrestle control of the internet, sanitise and snoop every aspect of it, and slowly destroy it, the greater an incentive to "fork the internet" becomes.
What is the cover up they believe occurred? I had to stop reading out of frustration, some of these articles just will not yield up the important info.
I find it sad that some people don't believe 'Native People' are able to make their own decisions such as agreeing to having lithium mined on their territories. Extremely patronizing - stereotyping large swaths of people as incompetent, for what purpose? To push a political narrative.
So you think it's OK to get 3rd degree burns when somebody spills coffee?
I'd place a bet that relative to the Chinese, Indian, or Thai citizenry, whites are overrepresented in management positions.

And talk about comparing apples and oranges - India is less than 3% "non-brown" including SE/E Asian, black, and white. China, 7%. Thailand, 1-2%. The US is >35% non-white, which is why under-representation shows and matters so much. Chinese/Indian/Thai management and government look a lot like their populations, whereas American equivalents do not.
But are they really held accountable? If they were they would stop doing it. A slap on the wrist fine that is filed under "cost of doing business" in their P&L isn't really accountability...
This is a great recommendation, at least for middling programmers like myself. Every time I've been forced to dive into a third party library to understand how a certain case is handled or how a poorly documented feature works I've come out more knowledgable about the language, what I'm working on, and programming in general. The key of course is to really try to understand what's happening, not just peruse casually.
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You can always move the goalposts for "false". The major media outlets engage in misleading stuff like that all the time.

Did you see NBC's post-debate fact check?

Trump said Clinton “acid washed” her private email server. She didn’t. She used an app called Bleachbit, not a corrosive chemical.

...

http://heavy.com/news/2016/10/nbc-fact-check-trump-clinton-a...

(I don't know how good this site is, it was just the first Google result).

The end result (as well as this is meant), is that news and media organizations now effectively need a government stamp of approval.

You can see where that could go wrong. Funny it should happen in Germany of all places...

Even worse, citizens are incentivized to disregard critical thinking. Oh, this hasn't been banned...it must be true.
The results are relevant only if 1. the name of API contains the term or affordance you want to use 2. you are a human being (you cannot perform such discovery as a machine)
How many payments were there in the same hour as any given payment?

How many payments were there in the same hour before any given payment?

How many payments were there within one hour before any given payment?

I have two serious questions.

(1) In which realistic scenario would you ever need to ask such questions in the first place?

(2) Even if you did need to do so, for example for risk management, occasional reporting or some kind of adaptive scaling supposition, then surely you would be calculating once per time unit (eg. hour/day) or recomputing a sliding-total?

As I have actually personally written a number of relatively high profile, large scale, publicly deployed, major brand digital entertainment content rental and purchase systems (including complexities resulting from things like multi-device, multi-DRM cryptography) for brands like LG, Nokia, Samsung, etc. - these are not flippant questions.

Looking further... uh-oh... author uses Java.

Sakila example database was originally developed by Mike Hillyer of the MySQL AB documentation team. This project is designed to help database administrators to decide which database to use for development of new products. The user can run the same SQL against different kind of databases and compare the performance.

So the Sakila project referenced is not supposed to be a real project, it's a personal re-interpretation of a test project designed specifically by a database nerd with zero domain knowledge to show off database features...

jOOQ is an innovative solution for a better integration of Java applications with popular databases

... and this is what the author is working on, the world's billionth RDBMS ORM layer.

IMHO readability is far more important than efficiency. Programmers should generally avoid using these types of obscure, frequently partly platform-linked techniques and consider their drawbacks against other potential solutions.

Five minutes of life wasted.
No. Definitely no.

US GDP in 1970 was 1.0759T. 2% of that is 21.5B in 1970 dollars. This is $132.91B in 2014 dollars.

US GDP in 2014 was 17.348T. 0.78% of that is 135B in 2014 dollars.
I presume you mean heteronormative. And it is somewhat heteronormative, but: the paper has a section, "Limitations", that acknowledges this problem and why including more gender options wasn't needed for (and would have made more difficult) the analysis:

> Third, we used self-reported data to identify physician sex, which requires respondents to categorize themselves as either male or female; therefore, we could not capture respondents who were transgender. It is possible that transgender physicians chose to either leave this question blank or select 1 of the 2 available categories, which may lead to a low degree of misclassification. Any misclassification in self-reported sex would likely bias our estimates toward the null.

Although this last sentence is not totally true (if all transgenders labelled themselves as gender A, and they had non-random performance, it could bias the findings in favor/against gender A), it probably is true in the setting of the study, where you can assume transgender doctors label themselves as one or the other sex with a similar proportion, and have either male or female-level performance. Plus there aren't very many.
> A small tangent, but what's the most compelling use case for an Alexa?

An excellent question especially in the context of adding another always on audio device to a private space. I think for many people the value has to be more than just a novelty to justify it.