skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Implicit in this definition is avoiding the destruction of business value by misapplying ML/statistics

This is an incredibly important point.

I'm working as a fundraising and marketing analyst for a non-profit, but my background is in biology. The skill-set needed for analysis is pretty similar between marketing and population ecology. If you ask someone in either field what the biggest barrier to analysis is, getting data would almost certainly be the most common answer for both fields. However, data is treated very differently between the two fields.

On the scientific side, I find that most of the frustration occurs because there isn't enough data to make a conclusion. Peers will criticize conclusions made with insufficient information.

On the business side, I find that I'm often pressured to make claims that are much more confident that the data is capable of being. As a scientist, I am always very aware of the limitations of my data, but in business I feel like I'm pressured to make conclusions, and that people are waiting to make decisions based on any information they can get out of me.

I spend more time on my write-ups than I do planning my experiments, collecting data, and performing my analysis combined. In a business setting time "moves faster" and the stakeholders in a project expect results no matter what. In these cases, communicating what the limitations are in a concrete way is really important. Expressing risk in terms of money, or probability in terms of coin-flips makes a pretty substantial difference, and can really help people relate to the information you are presenting.
It wouldn't be the same thing. But that didn't happen, her sentence was reduced by 2-3 decades and she'll be out in a few months. It's clearly clemency.
Collusion with the media and a debate moderator should chill anyone. Add to that the fact that the DNC basically anointed her by not giving Sanders a fair shake... democrats were told who to vote for using the media to give them the illusion of free choice.

Put another way, the emails revealed that it's very possibly that Trump will be President because Clinton had corrupted the DNC.
> All of the above metalayers create transactions on the bitcoin network, and settle on that blockchain, so if that disqualifies them all because they use bitcoin underneath, then Dogecoin has a Counterparty layer as well :)

My point was precisely that you cannot, as far as I can see, separate blockchain technology from Bitcoin. My argument is that it's not blockchain technology that's useful, but rather a blockchain, in itself, that's useful. And it's useful because it's a distributed, proof-of-work timestamp server.

The value of Bitcoin comes not from the technology it uses, but from its incentive structure. An increase in the value of bitcoins feeds back into the system, resulting in an increase in security (hash rate) by way of an increase in the profitability of mining. Since Bitcoin's value comes from its time-stamping ability, and since this time-stamping is done using proof-of-work, it makes sense for an increase in the hash rate to also cause an increase in value, at least up to a certain point (provided no changes to the protocol are made to take advantage of the enormous hash rate of the current network).
Actually, no. Charging existing tenants more than the market rate in order to evict them and so avoid your obligations under the OMI regulations is not something that you are allowed to do. If you want to do an OMI, then do the OMI. File the paperwork, compensate the tenant, wait the required period, and do the owner move in properly.

Nothing forces you to be a landlord -- in this case the owner inherited a house with tenants. They can always sell the asset to someone who is familiar with the laws and is able to comply with them. Given the high prices in SF, this should be easy to do.

But owning property with an existing tenant makes you a landlord -- you are choosing to be in this highly regulated line of work. It used to be case that landlords could do whatever they wanted to tenants, but the law has since changed. Now being a landlord requires that you maintain the property, that you give proper notice for things like rent increases, that you file paperwork when you want to do the OMI, and that you compensate the tenant for evicting them due to no fault of their own (such as what happens with an OMI). So please do your homework instead of arguing that you should be able to do whatever you want to your tenants.
Snowden wasn't selective, the journalists he chose were.

As to where it got him-- he actually accomplished his goal, to start a conversation about privacy, government outreach, and secret courts.

Also he's living in Moscow with his girlfriend while Manning rotted in solitary for seven years and attempted suicide several times.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments like these. We're all here to have a civil conversation in which we can hope to learn something, and this kind of participation gets in the way of that.
That's overly simplistic, usage would naturally initially rise due to legalization so naturally so have busts, and prosecution has been more targeted to those who aren't following the state laws and took legalization to mean no rules. In a sense you can look at the DOJ actions as hammering those who thought they could just openly deal drugs without paying attention to the minutia of actually being legally allowed to and following all the necessary rules.
> Their digital products are clearly the product of old-school newspaper people trying to adapt their product to a web browser

I think by far their main concern is how to get people to pay for reading their digital product in the same way that people pay to read their paper product.

Given that every one else on the digital spectrum that extends down to 'random blog page' gets paid zero or near zero for their writing (interesting exceptions aside), making your web site look like something that people currently pay for seems like a good idea to me.
> She had no control over what Wikileaks would do

Then she should've released it to someone else. She is ultimately responsible for deciding to give it to Wikileaks.
Robinson R22 pilot?

Assigning "Cause" is an important part of accident analysis. There have been many cases of a pilot with proper aeronautical decision making processes, and due care and caution, still making a piloting error resulting in a mishap.

Classic example would be TACA 110 [0] Weather related factors, and a flaw in the engine design caused both engines to fail. Rushing the restart procedure resulting in a "hung start" of both engines and subsequent overheat. Thanks to the skillful flying of Capt. Carlos Dardano, and his crew, this 737 made one of the most successful dead-stick landings in history. Capt. Dardano was not to "blame" for the mishap, but he did make errors that were contributing factors.

The 737 needed an engine replaced, but was able to be flown out and fully repaired within weeks of the mishap. Southwest Airlines retired the aircraft in December 2016, with over 27 years of uneventful service.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110
That can be changed
Obama pardons Stuxnet leak source James Cartwright
Except without a better way to package a binary it will be compared as one.
I flagged this article for clickbait headlines. The article is basically speculation. FTA:

> A short while before the plane’s crash, an automatic alarm also signaled a fault with the plane’s electrical systems. So maybe the iPhone isn’t the culprit here. Maybe the cologne bottles in question caught fire after some sparking took place in the plane’s cockpit, but that’s only our take on the matter.

> Speaking to The Telegraph, air safety expert David Learmount also cast doubt on the theory, saying that the “pilots don’t leave objects on the dashboard because they know they will end up in their lap when they take off or on the floor and they’ll get airborne in turbulence and could jam the controls.” Learmount added that the fires in the toilet and under the cockpit appeared too quickly for them to be blamed on a battery that was in the cockpit.
Wow that texts.io looks really cool!

Doesn't look like it supports tagging/searching and organising notes though (correct me if I'm wrong)
She didn't blow any whistle, much less evoke the Whistleblower Act.
One in five of us may 'hear' flashes of light
Very nice. Now all I need is the same thing but for all my photos so my kids can dig through them in 30-50 years time, like I can do with my parents' photos...
Nobody's made micropayments work (yet?). For serious, sustainable and open [edit: and not ad-supported: some are trying to get that to work sustainably for serious news], there are two models out there:

The first is traditional public service broadcasting (such as the BBC, or the German ARD). As these are funded by a compulsory public levy, they don't need either advertising or subscriptions, and have no need to exclude using a paywall. This model adapts from television to Internet news very well.

The second is something donation-based. Some organisations are trying to fund reporting using either public donations (e.g. Krautreporter), foundation support (e.g. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism), or a mixture (e.g. Correctiv). It's difficult to scale, though.
From the NYT [0]:

"The disclosures set off a frantic scramble as Obama administration officials sought to minimize any potential harm, including getting to safety some foreigners in dangerous countries who were identified as having helped American troops or diplomats. Prosecutors, however, presented no evidence that anyone was killed because of the leaks."

So no one was killed, but it does seem to have put people at risk.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commute...
That really doesn't contradict what the person you're replying to said. Your comment manages to be both jerky and irrelevant. It ignores the principle dilemma, which is that taking care of children is easier with a broad family support network, and if you don't happen to have one of those near where your job is located it is harder to take care of children.
One of the largest takeaways that I had from most history classes that I took is that events rarely have a single cause--and complex events such as the Arab Spring and Syrian civil war typically have many, many layers of causes (even if they aren't all clear at the time). Insinuating that all of that happened because Pvt. Manning released secret documents does a disservice to any attempt to understand the complex events that we see in the world today.
It correlates with my theory of Endless September someday having an end. The problem of Endless September was growth - too much growth, too quickly. When that stops, and unless we experience an AI personhood event, it has to, because we only have so many people on the planet and so much data they can transmit - the network settles into a place where it can focus on quality instead of sheer scale. In the developed world we are likely already entering this phase, with online access surpassing 80%, and the rest of the world is not that far behind.

So then what happens? The business model changes. Social network technologies will re-commoditize and the value will return to communities. Privacy takes a bigger role, as you note. And the world, for better or worse(but probably better), becomes even weirder and harder to assess or manipulate top-down.
They've been busy!
> who saved Apollo 14

For reference, I presume you're referring to how the LM computer was monkey-patched to ignore an abort signal from a faulty switch? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_14#Lunar_descent
Obama Pardons James Cartwright, General Who Lied to F.B.I. In Leak Case
Theranos Appoints Advisory Board of Biotech Experts
Not the case for this incident. You don't have to speculate, you can just read the wikipedia page. For instance, a reporter for the Washington Post was able to reconstruct the incident and write a book about it without seeing the video. 'Collateral murder' is much more notable for the Wikileaks editorializing than for its actual news value.
Same. Ruby isn't my preference, but I avoid bash scripting whenever possible. I see very little need to use it when practically every machine requires Python, Ruby, and other high-level dynamic languages as pre-requisite for some basic software that's included by default. I respect bash, but it's from a bygone time. Why deal with the esoteric one-character test operators, the nitpicky spacing issues, etc? Use modern, readable, testable code. So much nicer and easier to read and work with that way.

I'd love to see someone deploy a Python or Ruby-based shell. I'm sure these are available, but they're not widely used.
The UBI Bait and Switch
The top NSA official who would have received Snowden's whistleblowing report was just fired for retaliating against a whistleblower.

Also, Snowden was a contractor not a NSA employee so he wasn't covered by such programs.

Your argument does not hold together.

http://www.pogo.org/blog/2016/12/intelligence-community-land...
There are some issues with human consumption of anerobic bacteria and their byproducts. If you thought the food poisoning from aerobic bacteria was rough, try some of the more exciting anaerobes.
> Manning did it wrong, Snowden did it right.

AFAIK, both Manning and Snowden released large quantities of information without reviewing all of it in detail for public interest vs. potential harm, and released it not to the public but to third parties that managed public release. The difference is that Manning released it to Assange and Snowden released it to more responsible journalists.
This is the exact loophole they're trying to close.

The law already requires the employer pay the prevailing wage. The arbitrage from outsourcing companies (Cognizant, Tata, Infosys) included head-quartering in cheap areas of Georgia and New Jersey, filing DoL paperwork with wages prevailing in that HQ area, and then sending their employees on "business trips" to the actual client place (CA, NY) while not adjusting the wages.
Ah, I forgot to mention that. Bitcoin is totally trustless, while bankchains require the participants to trust each other's identities but not their behavior. Whether this trust model is applicable in any real-world situation is debatable.

And yes, if you're using blockchain to track something like gold in a vault you might as well just have a database that is run by the same entity that runs the vault.
It's a basic markdown application with live Markdown editing. No tagging supported (or image uploads/embeds).

Sadly it's closed source and cost $19/user.
>You sound ridiculous. Let's get to the real question.

It's not ridiculous, its a reductio ad absurdum of the principle you seem to be employing, that a chance positive result of an action justifies the original action. Or are you just making things up as you go along to reach the conclusion you prefer?

>In short, yes.

OK, here's a more down to earth scenario. Say I'm a high level administration official and I have access to all classified information. Should I release literally all of it because surely somewhere in the dump will be some wrongdoing by somebody? Surely your answer to this must be no?
I recall seeing IEEE articles talking about the DC wired home. I confess I stopped paying attention, as it will be a long time before this is actionable for me. Can't claim surprise to know that I had things that were wrong.

Of course, the cynic (and, ironically optimist) in me still has this as evidence that "technical debt" is often used in BS circumstances by people that just don't fully understand the reasons for the things they are talking about. :)
I've had the plugin host crash a handful of times in the last 5 years, but never had the editor itself crash due to plugins. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's why the plugin host exists in the first place.
Current article title: Investigators Claim Exploding iPhone 6s Caused Egypt Airline Flight MS804 To Crash Killing 66

Arguably "claim" is a key word to the title.

Suggested alternative: "Investigators Claim Exploding iPhone 6s Caused Egypt Airline Flight To Crash Killing 66"
>> Greece is now an ex-country on life support giving the semblance of a European country.

Aw, thank you. That's the most offensive thing I've read all month on the internet.

As to the rest of your erudite analysis, no, it was not just the Greek state that prospered and thrived in the time before the crisis. The Greek people also did. Our living standards rose with alacrity, so much so that a British family friend who had been visiting the country for a long time once remarked that the cats get fatter every time she sees them (though, to be fair, they have nothing on the British ones, I should say).

Also, no, people are not automata, and they do make imperfectly rational decisions- as evidenced by the Brexit vote, for instance. Indeed, in politics sentiment rules, otherwise countries would (almost) never go to war, or make catastrophic economic and political decisions, such as adopting communism and so on.

The easiest thing for the EU would have been to kick us out and towards the end of the peak of the Grexit crisis there were indeed voices that suggested the time might have come for the EU or at least the Eurozone, to go on without us. It didn't happen. Why not? Everyone's rational self-interest was to kick us out. Oh, but- I forget. The whole of the Eurozone economy was so hung up on the few millions they got out of the bailout, that they thought they couldn't live without us. Gods! We dodged a bullet, innit!

Of course you might disagree with me. As a Greek I'm used to everyone knowing what went down with the crisis, and Grexit, except me and other Greeks.
President Obama inherited all of those "bad" things you mention.

The real problem with all of those things is that they are politically impossible to roll back, unless the perceived cost exceeds the perceived benefit. Until your best friend ends up on a kill list, that isn't going to happen.

Imagine the following scenario: President Obama ends NSA spying, kills the drone problem, gets rid of kill lists (and presumably also killing), and stops torture (the one and only useless thing on this list). Following that, any terrorism-related incident occurs. The right destroys him for weakening our country (as they are already doing regardless). The left destroys him for weakening our country. And the trick is, predator drones, kill lists, and presumably NSA spying (which will be even more useful with the newly announced inter-agency collaboration) all do help achieve our foreign policy goals (mostly dead terrorists). They also help achieve our domestic policy goals, which partially include not having lots of deployed soldiers dying.

We can't even roll back the TSA, which is widely known to be useless, despite long waits, missed flights, thefts, bizarre restrictions, and all the other things people love about post-9/11 air travel.

For better or worse (mostly for worse), "the American voter" does not care in the slightest about scary brown people being killed (usually deservedly) in a desert half a world away.

President Obama is doing what the American people want, and right now that means commuting sentences, spying, and killing people in the desert.
But when turnover is high the good ones are much more likely to be leaving.
I'd be interested in you two debating this more, since you both clearly know the topic better than I do. This post is reflecting what I thought I had heard. But, I am not in this field.
He deserves this more then the coward Snowden!
> Collusion with the media and a debate moderator should chill anyone.

That is really the only significant dirt that came from that leak. The Sanders stuff was overblown.
I think it is safe to say the emails have nothing to do with stealing code. He copied his email history so he could personally have it.

Lots of people do this when leaving a job, even when they are not supposed to. It is your correspondence for the last X number of years, you want a personal copy.

Carmack would have a greater incentive to copy the emails since he clearly was blurring the lines between personal work and private work while working for id which was inherited by zenimax when they bought id.
That's nonsense.

A mistake is made, and a material loss has been incurred. This sucks. Been there, done that, didn't get the t-shirt because we couldn't afford such a luxury. I watched my annual bonus evaporate because of somebody else's cock-up.

But there's no reason to believe that firing the mistake-maker is the best move. Maybe the right move is to find money somewhere else (cutting a bunch of discretionary, pushing some expenses into the future, reducing some investment), or maybe it's to ask a few people to take pay cuts in return for some deferred comp. Or maybe it's to lay-off somebody who didn't do anything wrong, but who provides less marginal value to the company.

But it'd be one hell of a coincidence if, after an honest to god mistake, the best next action was to fire the person who made the mistake. After all, if they were in a position to screw your company that hard, they almost certainly had a history of being talented, highly valued, and trustworthy. If they weren't good, you wouldn't have put them in a place where failure is so devastating.
Snowden also had hindsight of sorts, "don't release it to Assange" was probably pretty obvious.
With apologies to William Burroughs.

(To the whistleblowers,
in hope that they stay alive.)

Thanks for systemic corruption
and disregard for the rule of law.

Thanks for the transparent lies and
carefully framed talking points.

Thanks for the profitable arms sales
to be used against us in next year's war.

Thanks for manufactured consent.
"You all saw him. He had a gun."

Thanks for the American dream,
placing profit first until
the bare greed shines through.

Thanks for always shooting the messenger.

Thanks for hate peddling politicians,
that fear anything they don't understand.

Thanks for the surveillance state
and the war against privacy.

Thanks for another Crypto War,
while the real war criminals walk free.

Thanks for presidential pardons,
given only when politically convenient.

Thanks for defending title and flag,
betraying the oath to the Constitution.

Thanks for always taking special care
to make sure no good deed goes unpunished.

Thank you, Pres. Obama, for finally doing the bare minimum and
eventually freeing Chelsea Manning. As a long-time believer in
"better late than never", my thanks really is sincere.

There is still a lot of work left to do.
Years in solitary confinement isn't "total lack of punishment". And an intelligence contractor flunky isn't "higher echelons"
>Due to its decentralised nature it will always be more costly than centralised solutions.

That's a really sweeping claim and I'd argue that it's too soon to really claim one way or another.

The security of bitcoin is inherited from it's decentralization. The massive proof of work operations in Bitcoin (and the resulting costs) are part of bitcoin's security.

Centralized solutions will always be vulnerable as long as security bugs exist (have you ever heard of a completely secure database?) And fraud will always be part of the equation.

So what's better? Currently no one knows. But interestingly enough the direction of bitcoin right now is to build centralized networks on top of a decentralized network.
Feeling bad about the way my company treats offshore developers
Yes, that is completely correct.

Snowden released his information to journalists who carefully vetted each item for newsworthiness with the participation of the US government. Then that data was parceled out over many months, so it would remain in daily news cycles and continue to generate commentary over that time, staying in the public's mind.

Manning gave her data to Wikileaks, who posted it online in its entirety.
Yeah, that's fair!
"Fake news website" !== "Fake news" and Wikipedia is not the arbiter of all truth either.