skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My read is that they did understand the risks and had thought things through, but they they underestimated the degree to which average people (not just poor) and businesses shunned the formal banking/finance system.

One story told on NPR was of a couple getting married that had been saving money - in cash - for a few years, and had to get it all converted to the new currency before the wedding. All the vendors expected to be paid in cash (I assume because they are all corrupt) and they probably also needed to pay off some corrupt officials. Anyway, they distributed bagloads of cash to enough trusted family members that they were able to convert enough to go through with the wedding and pay all the vendors.

My understanding is that some honest Indians support Modi. I also understand that being honest in India is a fool's errand.
Yes, because things like Electrolysis and Servo and Project Quantum are all imaginary...
Sundance uses virtual reality to explore the future of interactive films
There's certainly a debate about what constitutes "heavy use".

My thoughts on it are that once or twice a week, single doses that intoxicate probably aren't that bad.

The issue is that there are some people who ingest cannabis not only on a daily basis, but throughout each of those days they are consistently ingesting it. I can't imagine this not having a detrimental effect, at least while they are using it this way.
> riots and political violence... dissidents

I don't think those words mean what you think they mean.
Yes. Anyone who in primary school did their entire math book on one sitting for the fun of it and got admonished for it - "what on earth I'm going to do with you now in math, that was the entire material" probably agrees with me.

Or my wife, who knew her egyptian history inside out and got laughed at because "she could not name Cleopatra as a female pharaoh". (Cleopatra was greek aristocrat, not a pharaoh)

Needless to say my enthusiasm for math really wasn't the same after that. Or her eagerness for history.

To be totally disconnected from ones peers is a torture no child should be forced to suffer. To be taught by teachers who aren't actually comfortable with their discipline.

And this was 30 years ago in Finland, now touted as one of the best examples in primary education.
1950 1m as the gateway for millionaire ~= 10m today so having 6m is close, but not quite there yet.

Considering there are 1,810+ billionaires globally you have not heard of most of these people. But, if someone is defined as unusually rich not just 'comfortable' that seems to be the new movie millionaire.
> Doctors will still play an important role in treating their patients and will be more effective because they'll have powerful tools assisting them.

I get into this argument with people a lot.

I say something like, "Self driving cars will replace all the transport jobs" and the pedant says, "Well they won't replace ALL the transport jobs, so argument null and void." But no shit they won't replace ALL the transport jobs, if they replace even 30% of them, that's huge. Highest unemployment during "The Great Depression" was ~25%. I think in the case of transportation it will be more like 80% fewer transportation jobs in 10 years, something like that.

With doctors and hospitals, if there were better incentives in place promoting any level of efficiency, we would have less need for doctors (and hospital staff in general). I agree that we won't see 100% automation. But a hospital finding it can do more and better work with 50% less staff? I could see that being a possibility in our near future, with the caveat that it won't happen in the US due to the regulatory environment and incentives in healthcare.

Countries outside of the US might be more open to the idea of efficiency in healthcare.
I'm not sure I see that as a positive thing. In my opinion the people SHOULD be upset in both cases. Horrible decisions by the government caused ATMs to not work and you lose your job and it is just a mild topic for discussion???
Leave now; if stuff is broken before launch it will be a lot more so after launch, if you don't like the way it is now you will absolutely hate it later.
Let me also point out that conservative in this case does not mean US conservative. US conservatism is slowly creeping towards theological conservatism.
Nope. Clinton was impeached because he committed perjury.
you misunderstood me, I'd consider the Ptolemaic model "good science" (i.e. it makes appropriate predictions, and can be improved and falsified, which it was).

It's just that before the scientific method become common place a lot of theories weren't.
If you have to "picture a heavy user" that implies you are using your imagination. That implies you don't know any. I personally know many daily, heavy users that are very successful, research scientists, 3D developers, media production digital artists, producers, and even studio heads. The idea that cannabis makes people passive is simply wrong. The idea that it impacts creativity or drive also simply wrong. If you don't have examples of successful daily pot users, those around you either hide it from you, or your circles do not have any. I work in technology's creative industries, and I have examples all around me.
We're talking about civilization / the world, not your local community.
> I meant not having to manage different memory models and available access patterns

The only way I can make this make sense, is having cross-platform abstraction around atomic orderings etc. (like the new C++11 std::atomics) that works on x86 and ARM and PowerPC etc.

Rust has such a cross-platform abstraction, almost identical to C++11: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/atomic/index.html

Please be more specific about what exactly you mean if I am wrong.
Half of all adults own < USD $2,200.
The bottom 20% (something like 1 billion adults today) own < USD $248.
Inequality is increasing - the top 1% own almost 51% of global assets.

These statistics show that most humans have very little accumulated wealth to control, and very few humans have a lot of the total global wealth.
I feel like Elon has done some vetting on this before just jumping into it.
Scientists might as well be practicing religion for all that it matters to non-scientists.

So, it comes down to trust. Unless you're going to do the science yourself, you have to trust somebody.

Also, despite mainstream scientific consensus being based on "testable hypothesis and reproducible results", it's still managed to get things terribly wrong. That's what they call a paradigm shift but most people would just call it being proven wrong.
Many older homes have not been retrofitted.
It certainly opens by pulling on the heartstrings. "This man lost his job and his marriage because of the cash shortage."
>"overall browser tech have languished"

Au contraire...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u0hYIRQRiws

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum
>The pharmaceutical industry in Switzerland directly and indirectly employs about 135,000 people. It contributes to 5.7% of the gross domestic product of Switzerland and contributes to 30% of the country's exports."

And those Swiss (or French, or Italian, or Japanese) pharma profits are also high, in large part, because some countries' citizens pay the "gouge" rates for those drugs. That's still consistent with the parent's point[1] that America is bearing the cost of these drugs, effectively subsidizing other countries that negotiate good deals.

[1] at least, a charitable generalization of it
I think we have the technology to challenge the smart kids in a mixed classroom. The dumber kids will act as a sort of social regularizer and the smart ones will be allowed to progress at a faster pace. I think classes should be "stationary" and individual students will move through them at their own pace, challenging for the good ones and slow for the slower ones. No kid should leave the class until they have mastered the subject. They could also move at different paces through different subjects.

I believe the current system's limitations stem from the teacher's capacity to attend to at most 30 students at a time, this may have been the case when everything was whiteboard. But now you have iPads and interactive websites and so on.
With respect, this seems very Bay Area short-sighted. Mozilla was open about targeting cheap, crappy phones, which my understanding makes up a very significant portion of the Android phone ecosystem. They were looking at those Spain, India, China markets, yes, and nailing those markets didn't really depend upon the opinions of comparatively extraordinarily rich Bay Area denizens or hackers. If you can afford a Galaxy s5 right now, even if you have to budget a bit, you are not the market that that OS was for (my understanding). Similar to that Facebook Internet thing - it wasn't for us, it was for people who can (and do) live two years off one of our paychecks.

EDIT: I just read that review you linked and it suffers the same problem - a total lack of perspective. The only critical error I can see is the lack of internal battery to keep time synced, which will be a major setback for browsing because of authentication and whatnot. Other than that, the sorts of people spending 35$ on a phone do not care about the three different materials, the thickness, the shitty camera, etc. I've seen the most horrifying, hackneyed together internet connectivity solutions in China that to mock a 35$ phone for being "too thick" is to be just... out of touch.
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>resource constrained environments

Like what? Even $40 dev boards these days have 8 core processors and 2GB+ of RAM.
This is a different memo than the one describing the revival of "black sites" discussed recently; the Huffington Post seems to be the first to have picked it up. Brief snippet of their discussion:

UPDATE 1/25/17: HuffPost obtained a draft of the executive order. Read it below.

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump is preparing to issue an executive order dramatically restricting refugee admissions to the U.S. and denying visas to individuals from countries his administration deems high-risk, according to congressional and advocacy organization sources briefed on a draft.

The executive order could still change before Trump signs it, which could happen this week. According to sources, administration officials are considering:

o Blocking refugees from war-torn Syria from entering the U.S. indefinitely.

o Suspending all refugee admissions for 120 days while the administration determines which countries pose the least risk.
Temporarily suspending visa issuances to people in countries where the administration considers security screening inadequate ― meaning people from those countries couldn’t enter the U.S. at all.

o Capping total refugee admissions for fiscal year 2017 at 50,000 ― less than half of the 110,000 proposed by the Obama administration.

Sources briefed on the draft executive order said the list of countries targeted is not yet finalized, but those under consideration ― Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen ― are all Muslim-majority nations. Trump vowed last year to suspend immigration from “terror-prone regions” as one of his first moves.

...

Former intelligence analysts have pointed out that a policy that specifically discriminates against Muslims perpetuates the narrative that the U.S. is at war with Islam, which serves as a powerful recruiting tool for jihadist groups like the so-called Islamic State and al Qaeda.

“I ask Allah to deliver America to Trump,” one ISIS spokesman wrote in August.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-muslim-ban-refugee...?
Game reviews are hard because people are playing and are usually annoyed, not as annoying as push notifications but both need to be use sparingly.

I find that when we place an ask for review button after there is a reward, bonus or after something fun, they perform better. As an example, after you play a level and possibly have a reward screen on the result, you do a random/progression based bonus per level or some sort of prize chest/box etc.

Popping review dialogs or buttons to ask for reviews after giving them something is a good way to make them not so angry it is there, you can't do after they rate as a reward as that is gaming the system but before you can butter up their perception. You can game it a bit, give them something then ask.

Timing the ask is key, you don't want to do that randomly as it may be after someone just had a bad level.
Long time Firefox user here. I use a metric shit-ton of addons, and customize everything drastically. "Refreshing" is a massive pain in the ass, as re-configuring everything while also maintaining the "clean settings" is just a difficult combination.

Despite this, I've completely wiped out both my settings and firefox install on several occasions in an attempt to keep things stable.

It doesn't help.

I'm aware that my addons are likely a big contributor to the memory-hogging and eventual crashes, but if I didn't want to use these addons, I'd just use fucking chrome. The ENTIRE point of Firefox is for the customizability. Dropping addons to improve stability just isn't an option for me.
The day I see Firefox shipping Servo I'll believe it.

Knowing Mozilla, the project could be dropped at any time.
Please give us feedback :)
Makes me think of something I read about cultural divides. Some cultures think that a speaker can say whatever they feel like, and it's the listener's obligation to figure out how to understand it. Others think that it's the speaker's obligation to structure and phrase things in a way that make it clear to the listener what they meant.

Not looking to make value judgements of whether one is generally better, but I think it's clear that when writing on the internet for general audiences, the second way is more effective in spreading your point.
I think one thing they could focus on is adding new security features (like FIDO U2F) or making TLS client certs usable by normal humans. This would be a great step forward and could drive adoption by security conscious users.
A bit more elaborate than this. They don't allow using iOS SDK for building applications which download and execute dynamic code. I was thinking about a legal workaround for it. What if someone has a non Apple SDK for iOS? Then building will become legal. Though they probabaly can put in a restriction, that they accept only usage of official SDK for their store. Either way, it's a very slimy anti-competitive restriction masked under pretense of security concerns.
Have you ever tried appending to a NumPy array in a loop? It's a total disaster! And dtype=object arrays are mostly useless; they gain almost none of the benefits of regular NumPy (you may as well run np functions on plain lists) and play poorly with other types. NumPy is great for numerics and structured data - lists are general purpose structures for data manipulation. They are different, have different goals and trade offs, and I don't think it's appropriate to claim that one size should fit all.
I agree 100%, but for as long as I can remember, presidents have received credit for the state of affairs on their watch, and used that as talking points while campaigning.
Money illusion is well a known theory, first proposed in 1928, and backed by empirical evidence from behavioral economics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_illusion
>>students who are gifted have specific learning needs that require:

>> tailored learning strategies

>> education supported by a challenging curriculum

>> teachers trained in gifted education

>> more exposure to students of similar ability

>> opportunities for acceleration

I find this interesting, coming from the "gifted" track in HS and being married to a special education teacher at a public school. The same list applies to both groups, and i don't see why it wouldn't apply just to all students.

How could any of these be more important for some students and not others? They can't be. Its just that public schools don't have the ability to deal with a class of students 25 large and deal with 25 different ways of teaching. Technology and public school funding hasn't caught up here... huge gap. So, we've dreamed up schools where we group kids to deal with the shortcoming. We're not helping students here, we're helping ourselves ignore real solutions.
Sometimes you build your own X not because you can build a better X in general, but because you can build a better X for you specifically. Whether you should build your own X is largely a function of how core X is to your business. If X isn't that important, use off the shelf. If X is important, build it.
The Roger Water's album titled 'Amused to Death' is also a perfect predication of where we've ended up, particularly the title track on the album.
There's an app used by over a million doctors called "Figure 1" that allows them to share medical images for crowdsourced diagnosis and treatment of rare cases.

I wonder when we will get to a point where machine learning can help there?

[1]https://figure1.com/medical-cases
> Quite to the point, lambdas (anonymous closures) in Python are gimped. They are single-expression functions, which means no statements, even global/nonlocal qualifiers.

I remember once on rosettacode I wanted to write a Runge-Kutta function in Python with a lambda. I was stopped by the lack of variable assignment, until I remembered that they can be emulated by nesting function calls:

def RK4(f):
return lambda t, y, dt: (
lambda dy1: (
lambda dy2: (
lambda dy3: (
lambda dy4: (dy1 + 2*dy2 + 2*dy3 + dy4)/6
)( dt * f( t + dt , y + dy3 ) )
)( dt * f( t + dt/2, y + dy2/2 ) )
)( dt * f( t + dt/2, y + dy1/2 ) )
)( dt * f( t , y ) )

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Runge-Kutta_method#using_lambda
This is cool. When I am aware of the nutrition in my food (especially trends over time) I eat better, but I always get sick of the tracking tool.

Putting it out there: I would pay a lot of money for a consumer tech wearable or even implant that would track calorie consumption in the background.
Well, with DL powered algorithm/device, people can pretty much practice self-diagnosis, and only under circumstances, where the model is predicting a higher risk, they can go to clinic to get the human treatment.

Overall AI will ease the demand for human doctors, maybe not overnight, but gradually yet quickly. Cheaper healthcare for all, thinner salary for doctors, I will say not a bad deal overall.
for reference the city is New York City taxi rides from 2009-2015 and there's about 500GB of metadata

http://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-redshift.h...
The Supreme Court does not try impeachment cases. That would be the Senate, and it requires a 2/3 vote, after Congress first adopts articles of impeachment with a majority vote. It is unlikely that either would happen.
Butternut is also on its way out too thanks to canker fungus, but some have been identified that are resistant so those are getting bred.
Ideas and values don't matter if you don't have enough power to make a difference in the world.

What has Mozilla actually done in the past few years to push the web forward in security or ensure that a web specification protects user freedom?

Things that Microsoft or Google or Apple were also trying to do don't count -- what good things did Mozilla succeed in doing that the other browser companies opposed?
Kaby Lake E3-1200 v6 Xeon Specifications Leaked
> Most current wealth is not in the form of natural resources.. Buildings, machinery, intellectual property (including trademarks) are not natural resources.

Incorrect. Buildings stand on land (natural resources) and require significant amounts of energy to be erected (natural resource). So does machinery.

IP is the only thing you have going for here. How useful is IP without infrastructure and capital to support it? Is it useful, for example, to know how to make a solar panel if you have no means of producing it or extracting the metals and materials needed to make it, because that area is controlled by someone else?

> One person's "fanatical libertarian" is another person's human rights advocate.

No. Fanatical libertarians are a fringe group, as is evidenced by elections and the amount of ridicule they rightly garner in any factual discussion. There's no human right to "not be taxes while enjoying the benefits of infrastructure". Perhaps some libertarians' positions are more nuanced, but you wouldn't know it from their comments.

> Worthless ad hominem.

Worthless libertarian drivel. Calling someone illiterate or incompetent in a subject is not an ad hominem when it is based in fact. It's clearly not your area of expertise, so it's not shameful to admit so.
> (Remember the hue and cry when Apple initially said they wouldn't provide a market for third-party apps?)

No, I don't. But all my friends wanted an iPhone and they're not programmers.

I think most people didn't know or even consider one could develop apps for phones at the time. Or why would someone want apps on a phone. Or even what an "app" is. They only knew "programs" on Windows.

People bought what was available. There were starting to appear some apps for Nokia phones but it wasn't widely popular. It was also a hassle to download / update.
The people quoted in the article lost their jobs as the contractor did not have the cash to pay them. The 'contractor' probably falls in the huge middleman category of 'businessmen' who operate only on cash for multiple reasons -
1. No need to pay tax
2. The people being paid may often not have bank accounts, or just find it easier to deal in cash.

I came across many such contractors in my last trip to India, as I had to deal with people involved in a preparing for a family wedding.

The onus here (probably) does not fall on Hero Corp, but on the contractor. The sad part is that, even when the contractor has money and needs to hire people, he will probably try to squeeze the employees on salary citing 'cash crunch'. :@
Agreed. And this has been Trump's strategy the whole time -- just keep bludgeoning and bludgeoning until whatever bullshit he says is accepted as real, or until the associations are tied where he wants them to be, e.g., whatever your political affiliation, "Crooked Hillary" is resonant now.

This has been a tried and true strategy of con men and salesmen and marketers throughout history. (It was also a tried and true strategy of various NBA teams -- foul so much that that level of fouling seems normal and the refs stop calling it. Highly, highly successful strategy; you basically force the game to unfold the way you want.)
I would recommend those interested in an international perspective on this to watch the below debate at the Oxford Union, which deals with class at Oxford.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IM6PGwjBSc&t=312s
> I'm definitely doubtful that only people with technology degrees should run the country.

Where has that been suggested?
Before neural networks got deep, there was a lot of very impressive work applying neural networks to medicine. Example:

http://suzukilab.uchicago.edu/research.htm

IIRC they were outperforming the average radiologist on some tasks 10 years ago.
Interesting take. 'Too clever' for me is: 'using underlying concepts which have semantics that have a poor mental overhead versus applicability within the domain'.
Are There Genes for Intelligence–And Is It Racist to Ask? 2015
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> increase the corporate tax rate,

A number of economists disagree with you.

* Opaque

* Consumer paid

* Subject to Perversion through Deductions / Inversions

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/opinion/abolish-the-corpo...