skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your notion would also extend to saying "Superman is not ethnically required to not punch hole through that building killing everyone inside, it because the average person cannot punch that hard".

It's is as if the claim is someone shouldn't avoid doing harm that their above average abilities offer them?

The authors seems to be saying something dissimilar to that: people should't not be require to do more than average person, even if they have the capability to do so.

Programmers shouldn't be required to perform code for charity for their friends and family. Doctors shouldn't be required to save lifes.
I would be interested in a site like that too!
Hah yes, I have it in a box somewhere. Great detailed book, highly recommend.
and (3) A way to predict behavior of human participants. The last application can make your skin crawl!

A lot of machine learning is about predicting human participants. Thing like "winning" at ImageNet have devolved into predicting the exact labels humans will put on a subset of the ImageNet dataset (as the "easy" labels are solved and it now comes down to working out what the most humans labelled confusing images as).

If that makes the authors skin crawl, one would have to wonder what they think ML actually is?
I 100% agree, and used this method. :P
Can you name the company?
> 20-30 year-old textbooks

I assume you're talking about something like "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML"? That book is still a good starting point, and once you get a basic implementation going you'll be in a good position to start learning about and implementing more advanced features. You'll end up teaching yourself as you figure out how to add features to your own codebase.

edit: fix title
I'm not sure what you mean by regular maintenance. For 10 years I've been casually using an $800 Kona flat-bar bike, 24 speeds, and I didn't need to change anything on it. It was pretty much maintenance free. I did last year took it in for checks, just to be on the safe side, but they said that it is fine and nothing needs fixing.
Yes, but if Google advertises in the Keyword Tool that I can get 400 clicks at $0.50 per click, and then when I join I get 4-5 clicks per day at $1.20 per click -- for the same exact keywords. Ok, thats acceptable. Thats about 3X as expensive and 1/100 the scale, ok.

But if I then see that traffic behave about 90% like garbage relative than organic visitors -- that puts me at two orders of magnitude off, which is quite insane.
If nothing else, I think the idea was initially important because it provided the insight to pit two networks against each other in a competition as an optimization strategy.

Now, since the competing networks can be formally characterized as a minimax two-player game, other theorems relating to these games may provide further insight in how to proceed.
You should take into account that individuals with SNAP benefits:

1. Are less likely to have transportation to goto a grocery store and opt to going to small convenience stores that are in walking distance.

2. May not have the ability to prepare their meals, such as being homeless, not having a stove, or don't have utilities such as electricity/gas.
> Then why is Europe experiencing such a huge problem now and not then?

It seems less likely the problem is immigration and more likely at last part of the problem is fear of immigrants. Studies such as the following show that anti-immigrant sentiment is more extreme among residents of rural places than among residents of urban places, even though immigrants are more likely to reside in urban communities.

http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_cita...

Think about that: the people who are most affected by immigration are least worried about it, the ones least affected are most worried.

> That's an oversimplified chart that doesn't mean anything for this discussion.

If the claim is that migration alone is causing the problem, then it isn't oversimplified, it puts migration numbers into historical context. But if your claim is that it is not migration alone that is the issue, then possibly, yes, it is oversimplified. What other issues would you identity?
Well said, except for the second sentence :)
No problem with the variator ? too heavy ? lack of efficiency ? maintenance or frailty ?

Just curious, one guy on reddit said he didn't trust the thing much.
I guess I'm cheap then. I have no interest in paying any amount of money to read most of the things I read online. It seems to me that it's not so much that people are demanding this content for free as it is that people don't think it's worth paying for. It's not that I particularly wanted to see an article about the usefulness of advertising as it is that it's something to read on the bus. I would probably just look out the window instead if the alternative weren't free.

Most articles/videos on sites like HN fall into this category - I wouldn't have paid to read this article for example. To me, this comment thread is worth much more than the article itself and I don't see anybody here upset that they aren't getting paid to comment.

I guess that means that I would probably pay a subscription fee to a site like HN but that I wouldn't generally pay for the content itself, which does seem a little backwards. Still, that's what's valuable to me. Does anybody else feel this way or am I weird?
That's more or less how erlang work: by async message-passing, and it's used to build extremely (99.9999999%) reliable softwares. A "best-effort" semantic is more than enough: when you really care if the message has been received (that is to say most of the time), you make a "synchronous" call, which is really just two async calls (one in each direction), with a timeout. Even if the message back is just an acknowledgement that the message was received.

In Erlang/OTP it's wrapped in an actor behaviour called "gen_server", and the default timeout is 5000 milliseconds. If it timeouts an exception is raised, and a common strategy is to simply let the process crash, and restart to try again [0].

On the other hand it's not async call all the way down: it's only the calls between actors that are asynchronous: if you write a loop [1] within your actor then it's synchronous. To write asynchronous code you need to spawn new actors (which is trivial, and will always by default result in an exception being raised if something get lost or timeout after 5 seconds).

Note that when you write Erlang code the granularity of an actor is absolutely not the same as when you write OOP code: you don't wrap every data structure in a process, rather processes tend to be about processing data, or abstracting an IO point (a file, a socket, etc.) since the semantic is perfect.

[0] The implementation of all of this takes more or less 1 line of code, this is really the defaults.

[1] you need to write it recursively in Erlang.
Well, I have 100s of such visitors, I doubt they have 100s of auditors to review my page after 10 seconds each.
I'd argue the exact opposite is true: an absence of strong centralized authority will be its undoing. The competing powers in the world, China, Russia, and the United States, are all organized around subsuming diverse social, economic, and geographic groups beneath centrally organized power. This allows them to amass tremendous resources towards pursuing their narrowly focused geopolitical agendas, and outcompete independent states or smaller coalitions. Despite how comforting nationalism can seem, the reality is that no one member of the EU is capable of independently resisting threats to their sovereignty from one of these groups. Any reprieve from "oppressive bureaucracy" is going to be eventually undone by a loss of autonomy from an outside force. It's not starry eyed, but a cold, cynical choice about the bigger thing to which you're going to belong.
SBM conveniently neglects to mention that naturopathic medicine can prevent Parkinson's. I guess that doesn't fit their narrative.
So is [1], for example, misleading?

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661
Sure, but that 10x cost per useful amount of traffic probably tips the cost-benefit analysis against it.
People in minimum wage jobs are _already_ being subsidized by the government. Walmart holds training sessions for new employees to help them apply for food stamps, Medicaid, and public housing. The slack is either picked up by public debt or private debt and the lower the minimum wage is, the more business get to skate by on the largesse of the federal government.

So, no, minimum wage jobs wouldn't go down (they couldn't at any rate, without concomitant changes in law), and it's entirely possible the federal burden would be _lower_.
Any implementation for Ruby or Python?
> All the non euro countries are working to be admitted

Now you are just making things up.

Edit: then you should rethink using Wikipedia as your source because that is not accurate. EU cannot force countries to join new treaties this way. The EC may really really want to, but they have no legal right to.
Ethics is a slippery slippery subject. Why? Everybody has a personal ethical, or perhaps two stances.

Many possible stances are combinations of three basic sorts of ethics.

Deontological. Follow the laws handed to us. Don't kill, don't steal, don't force people to incriminate themselves.

Utilitarian. Choose a path that yields the greatest good.

"Responsible". Choose a path that yields the greatest good, but excluding one's own welfare. "Nobody has greater love than to lay down his own life for his friends'" We make heroes of people who act on this stance.

When an abstract situation presents itself, most people I know go for the utilitarian stance. How can I drive the bus with the failed brakes to kill the fewest people? Fine. Big whoop.

But, when presented with a real situation, people gravitate to their deeper stances. "Dad's not going to regain consciousness. Should we ask the hospital to shut off the respirator?"

The deontological stance often says, "NO WAY! DAD DESERVES THE BEST CHANCE." In Judeochristian terms, this is translated "choose life."

The utilitarian stance might say, "that respirator is expensive. Could those resources be spent curing someone with a long life ahead of them?" Health insurance companies are 100% utilitarian, and that often comes across as offensively callous. It's not, really. It's just an ethical stance among many.

The "responsible" stance recognizes Dad's agency. It might try to ask what course of action is kindest to Dad, even if it's frightening to his children.

Obviously there are lots of nuances in these real situations. No actual situation comes out like a case study. In the work of practical ethics, it's important to work with people to help them discover and express their own deep ethical stances.

I said people have two stances, because peoples' stated, intellectual, stance is often not quite the same as their deeply held, operational, practical, stance. Both levels count, because people use their intellectual stances to unpack and grapple with their deep stances. That unpacking is some of the hardest work each of us will do in our lifetimes.

Is this all postmodernist relativist claptrap? Is it all age-of-uncertainty hogwash that ignores core human values? To many who hold strong deontological stances, the answer is yes. Can it justify genocide? Certainly not, because genocide necessarily denies the agency -- the ability to act upon their own stances -- of an entire group of people.

The philosophers of ethics do well when they help us tell the stories of our own stances in ways that help us do the hard work of confronting our own deep ethical stances when circumstances force us to do so.
The US did it by virtue of it being a lot more homogeneous when it was first created. Last time I checked they didn't need any translators when they were debating the constitution, nor is the US constitution printed in 17 official translations like all EU documents and treaties are. Also, most people actually came to these shores having nothing but bad memories (if not outright contempt) for the countries they left behind and they were eager to embrace a new identity. The new land had a dominant cultural identity and they quickly aligned to it. Finally, the experience of the revolutionary war and a few more major wars down the road helped with "bonding" - to use a cute phrase. None of above conditions hold for Europe. The French are not eager to shun their national character and start speaking German and the last time they went to war they fought against the Germans and the Italians, not alongside them.

Additionally, crossing the Atlantic served as a filter to select only those people that were truly desirous of becoming Americans. Disgruntled EU voters have the nasty habit of lingering around.
Well, game theory can be used to create outcomes:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_design
Kensho Indices: Financial Indices for 21st Century Sectors
People being paid by large advertising companies like google an facebook should declare this in their responses.
Here you are using fixed passphrase and site name as the password, resulting in monosubstitution cypher, which is where the insecurity comes from.

If you use site name as the passphrase and fixed password ("password" below) instead, you end up with:

yahoo.com: dXgvRMjjHQvRQFvSa
patreon.com: UdKiiXVxrCRjYe
therapy.com: KFXUMnMnSrJLIjaB

That seems quite a bit better (though you do lose ability to print the chart for off-line use). If an attacker knows your 3 plain text passwords and suspects that you use passwordchart.com, you are still in trouble.
I never use my back brake, because it's inefficient, and sometimes the back starts sliding.

Using only one brake also avoids confusion between them, so you won't by accident slam the front one.
Why do you store the generated JSON file in git btw?
Not saying you're wrong but the goal of advertising is not necessarily a direct, short term effect of increase in sales. It could be brand recognition, which can be activated via subliminal messaging. E.g. "I heard of you before but I don't quite remember where". I'd also say that's good. If a customer found a product from a review site, that means the customer is an informed subject who is convinced they're buying the right product. Discussion fora is more of a toss up as quality and premises of discussion can be anything really.

Re: article. The screencast (that's how that's called, right?) shows 'this visitor scrolls different' and claims that is how a mobile user scrolls. But that is also how a trackpad (laptop) user who skims through the content scrolls. Basically, its how one 'scans'. Scanning is useful to determine if content is interesting.

Anyway. Its also possible we are talking bots here. Is this possibly the effect of Ad Nauseam [1]?

[1] https://adnauseam.io
> Its quite common in my
> language

I'd love to hear more details on why?
You're correct on most airliners, but not the 747 (on which the VC-25 is based).

A 747 has Kreuger flaps [1] between fuselage and inner engines and 'variable camber leading edge flaps' on the rest of the wing.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-lift_device
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krueger_flap
The testimonials you have up from the Google and P&G employees are from stock photo sites. (I didn't reverse image search the others.) I'd consider fixing this.
Hey there, can you tell us a little more about how you were targeting your users and with what kind of content? There could be some bots in there but it also looks like folks land, do a quick check of the content on the site and bounce because it's not what they are looking for. I do this sometimes, especially if I accidentally click on top level ad content on accident.
I know you said you did some super targeted ads - what does that mean? It kind of looks like the people converting on your ads are not the ones you're looking for. I'd look at the audience first and then ad content.

It's great to budget your spend where it makes the most sense and your communities and earned ads/content should do great for you. Just watch your spend there and lways budget some for experimentation and try NEW things. Just because you have written off a gold mine doesn't mean there isn't gold there. Maybe you were mining it incorrectly. However, If you feel there is gold all over the ground I'd pick it up before I started digging for it.
Lately I've been reading Network Algorithmics. Awesome book.

https://www.amazon.com/Network-Algorithmics-Interdisciplinar...
they may be defensible, but if you agree with them as stated, then you weren't ever on the fence about Snowden.

in other words, the article preaches to a choir and articulates a position for them. it doesn't aim to persuade an opposition.
Whether they're 'doing fine' wasn't the question at hand - it was whether the economies had harmonized with the rest of the EU.
> We shifted the burden of healthcare from lower class and sick to middle class.

Where are you getting this from? I thought we shifted the burden from.. sick people to non sick people

> But the fundamental problem is high cost of healthcare. Capitalism is usually a ruthlessly effective tool, but it doesn't seem to work with healthcare due to lack of choice.
Maybe it doesn't make sense to invest so much money into health?

I don't know if I agree on the ruthlessly effective part, but I'm also not sure what you mean by lack of choice. Lack of choice in what? Insurance? After all, there are plenty of hospitals you could go to.

I'm guessing treatments sometimes are expensive because.. well we don't have a good understanding of how to many things so we use the best thing we know how to use, which is often expensive no matter the industry. On the other hand, it seems like a bad choice to use something cheaper because.. well because we don't want people to die.

> It's a tough call to make, but this country is in decline and we need to make tough choices.

By what measure?

> I'm a 19-year old developer working my ass off last 4 years for silly startups. Currently I make $30/hour but paying around 30% of my income in taxes.

> Over the last year I've been getting burned out working 60 hour weeks trying to use latest languages and libraries, while my company is hiring $3/hour phillipino php/WordPress codemonkeys...While all I wish in life is to Haskell in peace for next 30 years and then die.

You certainly sound burned out. Why not try to find a better job? If they can hire that type of employee then perhaps you need to try to find a job where you aren't going to be replaceable? I don't really know that using the latest languages and libraries is a good thing..

> It's disilousining to see rich stealing the fruits of my labour while I have to pay government to keep the lower class alive.

Sorry you're going to have to elaborate. How exactly are the rich "stealing" your work?

> So you older folks got us into this mess, what the hell do we do now?

Sorry I'm completely lost now. If you have things you'd like to improve then you should vote on them and try to get the change you'd like to see enacted.
Immigration. Mainly workers from poorer countries taking working jobs.

Agriculture. Again, low cost producers undercutting domestic producers.

And there's legit questions to be had about monetary policy (or the lack thereof), as well as EU courts undermining local law.
I imagine it would be pretty hard to attack something that only persists for the time it takes to handle a single request.

I don't see why. If the request is the attack (as it usually is), then it'll persist for just long enough to accomplish it. What kind of attacks do you see it avoiding?
A interesting effort by Ubuntu that could have potentially enriched the ecosystem for users but hardware and drivers in the tightly closed Arm and Google ecosystem is a significant challenge. Or we would be able to install Linux on our devices ourselves.

Its curious these devices work flawlessly with Android but cannot even boot with Linux. Or if it boots none of the functionality works.

The drivers are there and they work on 'Linux' just fine but somehow they are never available on Linux. Folks here get worked up about insignificant chinese companies when this is totally in the control of Arm and Google.

Its now tiring to see open source developers struggle incessantly to get information from ARM for over 5 years and the ball is kicked from ARM to the OEM both claiming the other has denied permission and this goes on. There are always promises and excuses but never any results.
He probably meant half of the actual USA.
AFAIK there were large communities of Germans, French, Dutch and Danish.
Not counting African slaves.
Complaints Describe Border Agents Interrogating Muslim Americans
More about programming than computer science, but it does talk a lot about and show some custom algorithms (it's more about programming-in-the-small, though it does talk about some big picture too), also it is old and out of print (last I checked), but I thought it was really good when I bought and read it, so mentioning it:

Writing Efficient Programs

Also has a great bunch of "war stories" about performance tuning in real-life, including one in which people, IIRC, improve the performance of quicksort on a supercomputer by 1 million times or some such, by working on tuning as well as architecture and algorithms at several levels of the stack, from the hardware on upwards.

by:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bentley_(computer_scientis...

Edited to change Wikipedia URL to more specific one.
Do These Rare-Earth Elements Mean Anything?
I just wanted to say thank you to author for this incredibly high quality, well done piece.

Looking forward to reading the next parts!
The commit message explains that the terms are verbatim from Wikipedia [1].

Wikipedia [2] attributes it to a Yahoo email filter "which automatically replaced Javascript-related strings with alternate versions, to prevent the possibility of cross-site scripting in HTML email".

[1] https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/com...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
There are today legal border controls from Mediterranean all the way up to the Scandinavia.

Blaming EU for your own officials incompetency is soooo uk-2016
That was unexpectedly fun.

This caught my eye - "This, rather than the liberal-democratic setting of the U.S.S. Enterprise, is the political environment in which Thiel seems to feel most comfortable."

Is the author right?
Here's a chart from The Economist[1]:

http://imgur.com/a/5DfUi

Across all the other charts for other cities (outside Detroit) you can see variations of the pattern of things just skyrocketing in the late 90s. There was a dip when in '08 but things are getting back to the way they in the mid-aughts.

I don't think it's all tech thought that might have had a greater effect in certain areas (such as the changes in Venice). Median income for the city is still around 28k yet house and rental prices are insane. We're in the middle of a building boom but it hasn't really added "value" apartments - the rates are still top of the market.

Now we have anti-development measures hitting elections right and left.

I really don't get it. If was able to buy a home in 80s, and I still had had steady employment throughout, raised kids, etc. and saw the value of my house skyrocket, what does it matter if someone builds more apartments or condos and the value goes down a little? I don't get dividends from owning that house. And I'll most likely die in it.

The whole fight seems to not be about home values when the value really only matters if you plan on moving, which, as others have stated, can be pretty rare due to family and other ties to communities.

This might also beg another questions: When looking at places like the anti-gentrification efforts in Boyle Heights, is it about being priced out of the neighborhood (because of Prop 13, your tax rate is set right?) or something more than that?

I debate every day whether it's worth staying in this city and I have it much better than other folks that might not have a choice.

[1] http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/08/daily-c...