skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US congress recently funded a mild version of Ministry of Truth. So they aren't the only one.

> Introduced by Congressmen Adam Kinzinger and Ted Lieu, H.R. 5181 seeks a “whole-government approach without the bureaucratic restrictions” to counter “foreign disinformation and manipulation,” which they believe threaten the world’s “security and stability.”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-24/obama-signs-counter...

But instead of controlling the media they want to fund their own "fact-based" counter propaganda by building centralized media strategies with input from across the government, including the intelligence agencies, department of energy, state, etc. Additionally they want to partner and fund private firms, NGOs, and local journalists to help them.

> The first priority is developing a whole-of-government strategy for countering THE foreign propaganda and disinformation being wages against us and our allies by our enemies. The bill would increase the authority, resources, and mandate of the Global Engagement Center to include state actors like Russia and China as well as non-state actors. The Center will be led by the State Department, but with the active senior level participation of the Department of Defense, USAID, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the Intelligence Community, and other relevant agencies. The Center will develop, integrate, and synchronize whole-of-government initiatives to expose and counter foreign disinformation operations by our enemies and proactively advance fact-based narratives that support U.S. allies and interests.

> Second, the legislation seeks to leverage expertise from outside government to create more adaptive and responsive U.S. strategy options. The legislation establishes a fund to help train local journalists and provide grants and contracts to NGOs, civil society organizations, think tanks, private sector companies, media organizations, and other experts outside the U.S. government with experience in identifying and analyzing the latest trends in foreign government disinformation techniques. This fund will complement and support the Center’s role by integrating capabilities and expertise available outside the U.S. government into the strategy-making process. It will also empower a decentralized network of private sector experts and integrate their expertise into the strategy-making process.

It's not clear how explicit this will be. Hopefully it will be obvious, so the public doesn't have to then invest in identifying the US propaganda, which is countering Russian/China propaganda.
There was a story I saw a while back that the Rogue One director was saying Disney has (at least?) 4 restored.

Gonna be a while though. Fox has distribution rights to 4 for forever and 5/6 until (IIRC) 2020.
The large extermination camps were not in Germany, they were outside of Germany, built by Germans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp

There were no nearby German towns.

Knowledge about them was not that widespread, many jews were brought there not knowing what to expect.

Buchenwald was not an 'extermination camp' like Auschwitz-Birkenau.

There were many concentration camps in Germany with many people being killed there. Many people knew about the Holocaust and what happened. But the biggest industrialised killing happened outside Germany in these extermination camps (over 3 million victims), and that knowledge was much less widespread. Some of those extermination camps were closed and deconstructed before the end of the war, for example Treblinka and Belzec.
Advanced tools act as force multipliers for specialists, allowing them to focus on just their specialty and execute it even better & more efficiently e.g. instead of having to hand optimise large swathes of a program, -O3 does a good-enough job for most things, allowing the specialist to spend even more time on the small number of super-hot tight loops.
Cool Roman! :)
Wait, hold the phone. That's not really accurate according to the article nor the paper he linked. The trial was 6 hour work days, as the article claims.

After downloading the aforementioned paper and uploading the to google translate, since I don't speak Swedish:

> Summary 18 months with 6 hours

> 6 hours of trial

> City of Gothenburg decided in 2014 to conduct a trial with 6-hour day with follow-up research. The trial started 2015-02-01 and 2016-12-31 terminated after 23 months. The trial will answer the question about the effects of reduced working hours have for nurses, tenants and the economy / jobs.

> The trial has been shortened working hours to 6 hours per day and 14.9 full-time employees, 17 nurses have been hired to compensate for reduced working hours. Consequential changes have made of schedule at Svartedalen center for the elderly. To provide a high comparability has no other changes made by different senior housing from others. In follow research studies 100 % Of nurses participated.

...

> There are 29 sessions on a six-week period in the new schedule. Three of the six weekends included. Employees at Svartedalen work in the trial between five and seven hours on daily schedule. In practice, between 6 hours and 6.25 hours (6 hours and 15 minutes). That it not exactly six hours per day due to scheduling must answer received business needs.

> Night schedule is at least six and no more than eight hours. Before the experiment was working nine hours on overnight.

So yeah, the resulting full-time hours were 30, but the study was specifically interested in 6-hour work days, according to the report. The only reason it wasn't exactly 6 was for business/logistical reasons.
Slight tangent, but this is why I stopped reading The Verge. Their editorial product went from tech to tech + sci-fi + American pop music + cars. Which I guess is great for a large subset of their readers, but alienates those of us who read contemporary fiction, listen to classical music, and ride bikes.

(By contrast, the one print newspaper I still buy, the (UK) Observer, does all of the above and more.)
So many people don't realize that as social creatures, we see the world through the lens of our social brains. Computers don't care about "all powerful" or "savant" or "should". They don't qualitatively distinguish between killing one person and every person. Self-replication plus proliferation of cheap components plus proliferation of AI algorithms equals a time when a script kiddie or a bug can mean every last fragile sack of meat and water gets punctured or irradiated or whatever. If it can be done in a video game with good physics simulation, it can be done eventually in real life. It won't be like a movie where the ticking time bomb works on a human timescale and always has a humanlike weakness. Comparing this to nuclear weapons is silly. It's more like issuing every person in the world a "kill or help between 0 and 7 billion people" button that's glitchy and spinning up 1,000 4chan chains with advice on tinkering with it.
I'm still willing to give them the benefit of a doubt and would like to read more press releases by media outlets searching for alternatives to ads/tracking – preferably without the firing part.
Of course you can DISPUTE the claim. And in fact actual scammers will release the claim right away because they make all their scam-dollars off old videos where people don't check the ContentID status every week.

But there's no way to tell Google, "the guy making this claim doesn't own the content, he's a scammer". That's the feature I need.

I am 100% certain that the company claiming to have owned Morrowind's music:
1) Is not Bethesda (the developer of the game)
2) Is not affiliated with Bethesda in any way
3) Has no right to the music

But I have no way to communicate my research to Google. Because, guess what, those "ethical" Google employees make money off the scam, too! They take a percentage of all ad revenue, even if it's a ContentID scammer's ad revenue.
Nah, the "fake news" filters make it hard to post the content, make it hard to reshare the content, make it less likely to show up in feeds, and mark it so that it is less likely to be read.
Ha! I'm just trying to get a better feel for what is being said. Definitely the dumbest person in this particular conversation.

I am assuming you are pushing the same angle as the other poster. That is, most optimization problems are actually not "large constants" in the exponents. So, since most of what developers think of as "hard" are almost all classical NP problems, maybe it makes sense to look at other things we don't typically think of as computational.

Could just be nonsensical, though. I fully accept that.
Wow this looks cool and is really clever. I had not realized it was possible to interface with python on the jvm via jep so easily. The ScalaPy wrapper reminds me of some of the ScalaJS stuff, particularly the facades which seem to be quite similar (even using union types). Do you know if you will add a license type to the repos? Also you might want to post this in scala subreddit. Really cool!
Regardless of web tech, Tom is an awesome dude and Linkedin is lucky to have him. ^5
>Given that there are only 7.5 billion humans on the planet, and that rather significantly fewer than 1 in 20 people are PyPy-using developers, perhaps those numbers should be taken with a grain of salt?

Those are not downloads of PyPi, but of packages. It's not like "number of downloads == number of individual developers". Those are packages, including package updates. A single developer can download 50 deps across his codebase, and update them to later versions 2-3 times a year.
My I ask why you are a Christian?

Personally I think the question of a god has only one answer: we cannot know.

But the question of the christian god, with the bible and traits like loving, good. That is easily disproven. Killing 100,000 innocent Egyptian kids? Genocide and more promise of genocide? Stoning? Hating homosexuals? Sending good people to hell? None of these things are loving or good. Or just try Mark 16:17-18, a simple test, but I have never seen it demonstrated.

Those are my reasons to not belief, and see it as bronze/iron age people writing down their myths and beliefs.

Would you mind expanding on what convinces you? If not the cosmological argument?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-Trilogy-VHS-1992-3-Tape-Se...
It looks like all Python 2.8 is missing is a new name:

https://www.naftaliharris.com/blog/why-making-python-2.8/
What precisely makes Maoist China less legitimate than Nationalist China? I don't recall either of them winning any kind of fair and free elections.
Personally I don't think Maxfield Parrish rates Crissy field, but opinions differ. But a nice big lot next to Lake Merrit seems about right.
There is nothing wrong. The only thing that is wrong is the inflated sense of self-importance that people like you have.
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Probably not for the same reason this isn't concerning:

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=vue.js,react.js
> Joining LinkedIn

Great, I'm glad Ember is gaining more traction in enterprise... but what does this mean for things like Fastboot, Ember 3.0, glimmer 2.0, ember-cli 3.0, and the whole cast of in-room-elephants such as ember-redux, flexi, ember-data, vr, etc.?
Why not broaden the definition of "company" to include open source software projects? If we do that, I would suggest that the Linux kernel project probably has a very successful engineering culture. I'm basing that opinion on the quality of their work, their longevity, and the incredible success of Linux as a server OS.
> Income requirements could be set so eligible residents had to make less than 80 percent of the area’s median income, the paper reported. The median household income for Marin County is $90,839

> “We got letters saying, ‘You guys are going to get what you deserve. You’re going to bring drug dealers, all this crime and lowlife in here,’”

This, along with the labeling of people living in a household making [$90k*80% = $72k] as "low income," makes it incredibly difficult for me to read this with a straight face.
True, but I think you want to limit yourself to BTC/USD pairs, and to exchanges that were trading at the last ATH.
That's not true, bar soap gets stuck in hair and doesn't rinse well. Look at the ingredients in soap vs shampoo.
I've read your other replies here and you're apparently still missing the point several people are trying to make:

The "report card" being public isn't the big concern. The problem is that they don't know you and they certainly don't trust you. Perhaps they trust some other devs/orgs ("TravisCI, Auth0, and a lot of other GitHub third-party apps") but that has nothing whatsoever to do with you (and "but you trust them, so why not us?" is a laughable argument).

The "report card" requires write access to user's repositories -- and your statement that "we will never write to your repos" isn't worth the bits it was written on. While some folks are obviously okay with that, many aren't and likely never will be (regardless of how many times you repeat it) for any number of reasons (personal privacy, NDAs, etc.).
I generally like Dropbox, but they made a change which has really annoyed me and made me like them much less. You used to be able to have a folder of html files in your public folder, index them with another html file, and then generate a bit.ly URL pointing to the index file. Boom, instant website for sharing things with a handful of people. They deprecated that funcionality and now several sites I made like that don't work, which is incredibly annoying. Not sure what that got that besides alienating power users.
> Why are other publications (the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times are mentioned) doing to keep Chinese authorities happy?

It is an interesting question.

> The NY Times doesn't publish anything about China that they don't publish about many other countries. Certainly coverage of the U.S. and U.K. is much more challenging to those authorities.

I don't think that is true. Some of us marched against the Iraq war post 911 in quite substantial numbers. I still remember the demo in DC that went from the Mall to Navy Yard. It was huuuuge as the incoming President would have it.

Did New Times put a front page picture with screaming headline about our demonstrations? Nope. (I think Washinton Post mentioned it in the Metro section.)

Compare to when Egyptians took to the streets. It was certainly front page on The New York Times, our self designated "paper of record".
+1 for reopening it as a GA air field and solving at least my commute.
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Also, I just read the section about the sexist skeptic. I find it deeply flawed, many of the arguments are sound, and just because the author thinks they are inappropriate doesn't mean they are - that's just the authors subjective, emotive opinion.
Yes, and after all that investment and engineering you can't edit text on mobile? Wth?

They wasted a lot of dev time reinventing the wheel with not enough time left over for essentials.
> resolution management based on network speed

Not so much a feature of YouTube as it is a feature of HLS/Dash... but yes, it means you've gotta transcode the source video into multiple different bitrates.
>A huge confounding factor: newer Py3 codebases are more likely to be built with newer pipeline tooling like devpi (to cache PyPI downloads), wheel (to cache locally-built packages), and Docker (which caches all the things).

Maybe in your case, but from what I've seen, I seriously doubt use of Docker or Devpi makes any dent in newer Py3 codebase dependency downloads. Besides, tons of new codebases for greenfield projects are still done in 2.x Python.

Not sure how it is in scientific computing area, but for enterprise/web apps, any company that has legacy 2.x code and libs in production (which is most of them) will continue to write new parts (including new projects) in 2.7 for compatibility with their Python production setup.

3.x is either from companies that didn't already have significant 2.x Python code in production (generally newer companies that for some reason went with Python instead of Node or Go that the cool kids use) or new programmers that just get started and start with 3.x.
The 'despecialized editions' are reasonably faithful. These are certainly the ones I intend to bring my kids up on.
No, it's not a non-issue. And once again, if the behavior that would normally be contained within the subreddit leaks out into other subreddits, what happens then? Cause your advice of "don't go there" fails.
> The problem is I get Ubuntu working and then I still have to deal with fucking Unity.

I solve that by using neither Ubuntu nor Unity:-)

> OSX works out of the box with the hardware, and the OS is just a much more pleasant desktop experience while being a good enough OS to get work done (vs windows being more difficult).

But macOS is only pleasant if impeding your workflow doesn't affect your pleasure.

Yes, certainly, trying to use one of the major desktop environments as a replacement for macOS may be worse (although I'm personally unconvinced: GNOME & Unity don't cause me pain like using a Mac, but I'm sure I could get used to the latter). But try using a tiling WM, with a good terminal emulator, an editor & a browser.

After having spent, maybe, two weeks total effort customising my environment, I have something which is a much more pleasant computing experience that either macOS or Windows. My computer gets out of my way when I need it to; it's an extension of my brain; it's a tool, not a toy I'm constantly playing with.

Frankly, the desktop metaphor was probably a mistake in the long run, and choosing to ape the desktop metaphor was probably a mistake for free software. We should have focused on the next advance, not tried to reproduce an advance, but this time with fewer resources and more folks pulling in different directions.

GUIs are great, but draggable windows really aren't so much. GUI elements are great, but being forced to mouse around for any action really isn't so much. Curated software can provide a great ride, but it's not so great when you need to get off the rails and explore new territory.
> A big discrete GPU box that works over thunderbolt is just a gimmick.

A valid use case for this could be someone travels a lot who wants a thin, lite laptop but when they are home, they want to play AAA game titles.

How heavy are gaming laptops with enough GPU grunt to play the latest AAA titles on ultra settings?
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That would be a brilliant solution to have the fake news rebutted side by side. But I fear the gatekeepers will just block what they see as fake news.
False. Running is not bad for your knees.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acr.22939/abstrac...
Here's a free dinner! It consists of deep fried beef, topped with fresh crab, and nuts.

That is certainly quite unique, but can we have some substitutions? Quite a few people are vegetarian, and have nut or seafood allergies.

Ingrates!
Are you sure you aren't mistaking numpy for scipy?
Dwarf Fortress was discussed on HN a few times and even the author admitted that the code quality is bad and it's unoptimized.

I don't think it's a compelling argument for CPU being the bottleneck when your example is an unoptimized game with a sloppy codebase.
I've always filed them under "educational".

When I was applying for a home loan about a year and a half ago, plus a car loan about a year ago, I got to see my actual TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax scores. At least, the scores the bank saw. My scores were about 30 points higher than Credit Karma.

Now, my current credit card statement gives me a score about 50 points higher than Credit Karma.

I'm pretty sure Credit Karma has always been up front about their scores not being your actual FICO scores.
Bitcoin’s Bullish Uptrend Climbs to New Levels
Alexa runs on top of Amazon Echo, which runs on top of Amazon FireOS, which runs on top of Android, which runs on top of Linux, which runs directly on the hardware. Linux itself is a rewrite of Unix, which is a very pared-down variant of MULTICS, a system developed in the 1960s.

Something which doesn't run directly on the hardware, but instead communicates with it through several layers of intervening software, isn't an operating system by any stretch of the imagination, however impressive it might otherwise be.

I'm disappointed that large high-tech companies such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook don't develop their own operating systems from scratch like Microsoft did, but instead just take advantage of the hard (but not particularly innovative) work put in by Linus Torvalds and other open source developers. Building something better, using lessons learned in the intervening decades, should be well within their grasp.
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That's fair enough. On the other hand, I never really understood the objections in Chicago.

Yes, Lucas wants to create a monument. Building it in the middle of nowhere where no one will visit doesn't serve that purpose, but then it doesn't really serve the public interest either. I do hope that some reasonable accommodation can be arrived at in a location that will give many people access to the art.
>The PyPy statistics aren't worth much since they're counting all sorts of automated downloads/dependencies/etc.

Those would exist for both 2.x and 3.x so it's not a differentiating factor.
> I'm glad Ember is gaining more traction in enterprise

Isn't Ember mostly used in enterprise?
Ahh, the glorious FOX SET.
Trump Appears to Side with Assange Over Intelligence Agencies’ Conclusions
> and then go play banjo or whatever.

I'm taking this example. This is mine now. Thanks. :)
Actually that seems like a great idea. I can't think of many communities that need moderate-income housing more than Marin County does.
As Bitcoin price increases, there will most likely be attempts at achieving virtual heist of exchanges. Usually the Bitcoin price goes down right after a big one.

If exchanges are not maintaining good security practices, it will happen sooner than later.
It's very hard to tell people to use your software that has 1/100th of features of the incumbents but it's done better. Apple did it with iPhone for instance, but normally startups die trying.
Really? Give me one example where it doesn't fuck over the employees?

And don't say "they get to keep their jobs", cause if that's all that's needed for benefit, we might as well devalue the options to 1 cent, cause after all, they still got to keep their job.
SoftLayer, an IBM company, seems to be in that space, although I won't call them cheap.
... where you have this hugh lift running you through the planet building hall. Had immediately the same idea.
For one, your Twitter profile and other info is in your profile pic.

Second, parent didn't say "you are X" but that they'd "venture a guess" based on the specific context of what had been said. So they don't need anything else (personal backstory etc) to make it -- just to apply what they know/believe is the general case for people making similar statements (positive view on the police behavior etc).

Even if you specifically are not white, it doesn't mean what the parent said doesn't apply in the general case: that whites generally have smoother interactions with the police, so their appreciation of how policemen are is more positive.
>"Incorrect. Interest expense is a line item that is deducted from the company's tax burden."

We weren't discussing a company though, we were discussing one's personal income tax filing.