skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but there are chief data scientists. data scientists have the ear of top management

Have you worked in or near a c-suite before? Because both of those statements don't align with the reality that I've observed.
So it's not really minorities at all, but entire countries that someone feels are underrepresented?
> data science seemed like more interesting work

That is the only good answer to why one would want to be a DS, if you don't find the work interesting you'll never succeed.
Wow. That has not been my experience at all. People on most sides of me are afraid of being rounded up, or are afraid someone they know will be rounded up.

(They are not worried about it happening this year, but are extrapolating 5 years.)

This is amongst mid-westerners and west coast types. East coast liberals I talked to years ago were part of the DC or military machine, and think 100% surveillance is just a natural tool for vetting politicians: "You have to live inside DC norms since birth or will be blacklisted, even if it is just a joint in high school... Otherwise, how will the ruling class keep running things?"

This was pre-Snowden, but after the at&t leaks, and they didn't believe NSA universal surveillance was possible inside the US. Maybe their tunes have changed. Anyway, maybe that demographic is the type of 'mainstream democrats' you are talking about. Is it some other group?

(I'm talking about my social circles, not trying to stereotype entire states, regions, though the above reads that way no matter how I word it)

edit: I see you live in DC. Called it, I guess. :-(
For those interested in AI in medicine, the most recent NIPS held a workshop on exactly that topic: https://nipsml4hc.ws

There's quite a bit of active research applying LSTMs, CNNs, and the like to medical data sets. I'd say about two thirds of the work I saw was from academia, but there are active efforts from industry: Google Brain, Empatica, Cardiogram (us), and Evidation were all in attendance or presenting work in progress.
If you're willing to deal with being outside the range of officially supported boards (or strongly community supported), there seems to be an endless supply of options. Just for AllWinner-based devices, there's a long list at https://linux-sunxi.org/Category:Devices (which includes some from your list like BananaPi and OrangePi). Since many routers are around the sub-$100 mark, you can also check out any of the dd-wrt / openwrt / tomato / etc. devices too. And then you can also go out of scope even further and check out FPGA-based boards (such as http://store.gadgetfactory.net/papilio-pro-spartan-6-fpga-de..., or any of the many boards like it) or go up in price and get something like the NVIDIA Jetson.

(I'm not affiliated with any of those companies, I just tinker with some of their devices. There's just so many cool toys now; why couldn't they be around when I was a kid!)
Do they use the same equipment and plants that make Ferrari's to make Fiats? If not, then that wouldn't be true as they'd have to use more expensive equipment for Fiats than what they need.
Sending data to a server isn't that "comically clumsy", light speed is very fast. https://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-fa...

Unless you're talking about privacy, there I agree, I would much rather my phone do voice recognition locally than send it to google servers (where it'll be stored [0] so they can train better models later). That's a bit of a catch-22 though, if people don't need to send you their data to use your model then you won't get data for training your model.

[0] https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?restrict=vaa
To Obama with Love, and Hate, and Desperation
For people with multiple monitors if you get too much distracted you should try just using 1 monitor it works for me to get my attention to work related things.
I was careful not to call the attacks random. Rather, for any individual, it is unlikely that they will be involved in a terrorist attack.

The Charlie Hebdo attacks are much more targeted (like an assassination), and seem qualitatively different from what people typically think of when terrorism comes to mind.
Depends... there are at least two things to think about.

One is: do you really think that it's feasible to build such wall, staff it with people, 24/7 monitoring, uninterrupted power, etc. etc. (seriously, think about the geography of the region and how insanely huge that project would have to be and how much would it cost) or is the wall just a name for general direction which will affect everybody? Border rules are usually there just to stop people you don't want, but they do affect many others as well because of process issues.

Second: If either an actual wall, or some kind of extra restrictions come into play, even if aimed at just the illegal immigration - what effect would it have on the legal movement? What effect would it have on ratios of criminals -vs- others? For example, even crappy treatment from TSA discourages people from flying. Extra restrictions may discourage a family going on (legal) holidays. But will it really discourage drug trade, where people already risk their lives as it is?
I've no doubt that you have spoken to people who are involved with GCHQ - you have said so yourself and I'll take that as trustworthy - why would you fib about that, it seems innocent enough? However how many of those people have actually sat down and _really_ evaluated the threat that you posit?

GCHQ employees are not submariners. Your mates in Ascension might be kitchen staff for all I know and given how you spell Ascension and the use of "folks", you are not from around here are you?

Its all very well denigrating something, perhaps you are doing this for someone's operational reasons, but it's not very convincing. sigh

Cheers
Jon
when the Framers were writing the fourth amendment, they were really thinking in terms of property rights, not information

When they specifically enumerated privacy rights encompassing one's "papers and effects", I expect that they meant the information on said papers, not the raw value of paper stock itself.
It might not be because they're republicans. It might be because their constituents are the beneficiaries of the local coal industry. The politicians are just doing what their voters want. They're puppets of the people who live there and want to keep their jobs at the expense of everyone else.
Irrelevant due to intelligence laundry.
See: Maserati

They use the same design chops, technology and factory to make the similar looking cars with less performance than Ferrari.

Also owned by Fiat.
The medium was no longer the message, it was just an asshole.

I want my attention back.

I loled thanks
Why I’m Starting a Vlog for My Startup
The counterpoint to this is the "Aston Martin" Ford [1a and 1b] which I think most people would agree looks much better than the Ford design it replaced [2]. It literally steals the design cues from a $100k+ sports car and adapts them to an economy car and it seems to work quite well as a design (admittedly a bit of design plagiarism).

[1a] http://autoguide.com.vsassets.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/20...

[1b] http://www.autotribute.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Aston-...

[2] http://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/2012-ford-...
NRVO is an optimization above a move, at least in C++. Most compilers simply toss a pointer to the returned to 'object' on the call stack for direct manipulation (correct me if I'm mistaken compiler peeps!), avoiding the extra potential internal surgery involved in a move operation.
I wholeheartedly agree it's easier to write clearer OO code after spending time writing in Clojure.

But I think another drawback of cljs is readability. It's super cool that everything is data and data structures, but it makes it harder to eyeball code, just takes longer to parse and understand how these data transformations actually map to side effects on the page.

IMHO well written OO code is easier to understand and reason about.
I remember that I love what I do, and stay positive. The Marines call it "Positive Mental Attitude". The left my last employer(a start up) after they hadn't paid for a month in May, and fell pretty hard into drug addiction(meth + benzos). Since I cleaned up, I've only done a little consulting and writing, so getting another job without fulltime work has meant jobs I would have turned down a year ago aren't even getting back to me. Do I care? Yea, I do. But I can't go back, I can only move forward. Life is long, and what ever mess I'm moving out of, time is on my side. What's really helped me is making a stupidly simple plan. When situations are stressful, its hard to really make decisions, so rely on a plan to get where you need to go. This way, you can focus on doing small things everyday, and worry less when taking "big picture" risks. For me, I do a few things everyday: go to an AA meeting/write or program for my book/apply to a job or two/read hacker news/talk to friends and family.
Interesting article, love the emphasis on continual learning.

But I actually think we (software devs) need to focus more on mastering languages as opposed to learning many languages at a surface level.

Books like "Effective C++" (https://www.amazon.ca/Effective-Specific-Improve-Programs-De...) really showed me the huge divide between knowing a language and mastering a language.
Hormonal effects has a long history of being overstated and overused when looking for cause in human behavior. It has been used to argue that women aren't fit to vote, then later that they are not fit to hold professions where a stable emotional state is required, to later conclude that estrogen effect on emotional states is complex and what people at the time attributed to estrogen was primarily cultural expectations rather than actually brain chemistry (concluded with some really interesting studies). One conclusion that a profession said that always made good sense to me is that sex hormones are intended to regulate effective reproductive success, not to regulate emotions in women or violence in men.

For example, there was a study done on violent men in prisons and testosterone. The theory that was tested was if testosterone levels were indicator of more violence, for which the data revealed was not the case. Further studies showed that so long testosterone is within natural occurring levels, aggression was not effect by testosterone.
> One of the ideas I’ve also been tossing around is using Github’s public key API to provide a way to sign PGP keys using Github SSH keys. I have much of the groundwork laid out, but I need to actually code everything up.

If you didn't know: you can use a gpg key as an ssh key. You configure gpg-agent to act as an ssh-agent. This is quite popular for those that use yubikeys.
We'd only need a large amount of energy if we want to turn it back into a high-energy compound like oil or coal. The method described in the article has CO2 turning into calcium carbonate, which does not need an energy input (in fact, it releases energy in the form of heat)
Typically one law gets passed for one reason, by administration A.

Administration F has no recollection of why Administration A passed the law, and simply sees it as a convenient "thing on the books" to use when someone is technically violating it. The person challenges it in court, and the court establishes the limitations or lack thereof of that. The people in the court and appeals court were most likely appointed during administrations B, C, D, and E.

Administration Z simply reacts to these tools available.
That's pretty cool. I would definitely buy this.

> We had to launch it as a web app because Apple said that "any app that encourages you to use your phone less is not appropriate for the app store" when we submitted the native version.

That sucks. And doesn't sound consistent. What about Forest, which Apple has featured? You pre-commit to some duration where you won't use the device (won't leave the Forest app or lock screen, anyway), while a digital tree grows, or dies if you violate the rule and joins your forest if you don't.
That moves the goalposts. Sure, I can't think of a human being that can be categorized as completely useless, that doesn't mean that an UBI program is sustainable for society just because "no one is absolutely, completely useless".

In fact there is no shortage of individuals who, despite being outside of the category of "useless" by technicalities, dedicate their state-funded free time in making society worse.

A couple examples just from my last 2-day visit to a relative in a neighborhood with a high number of welfare recipients: People with houses crumbling down, but with huge sound systems running at full volume at any time of day or night; or those in the same conditions getting stolen motorcycles (buying with taxpayer money from thieves or stealing themselves) and racing in the streets or parading around with their silencers removed.

Doesn't stop there either, when our welfare system was first established, there were plenty of cases of people quitting a productive job to slob around. What for many in first world countries sound like "conservative scaremongering" is reality for us.

Mind you, despite all this I'm not against having a social safety net (albeit the one we have I believe to be an absolute disaster), but UBI is a terrible option that cannot work outside of carefully selected groups of people.
Uruguay.
Ya! That is one of our lines of reasoning almost verbatim; specifically those two apps.
Wow this is great! I'm planning on taking a vacation in March, and I'm definitely using this to help plan. Thank you!
In 2017 you may be right.

In 2020? There will certainly be a business case once you get hit with an RCE in 2.7 because there will be no new security patches.
You can't fathom that I don't care about the present administration?

Is it so impossible that my opinion was formed sometime else throughout my life and would be accelerated and equally constitutional if I happened to get in power some day?
Your shared hosting service doesn't need to support Let's Encrypt, it just needs to allow you to upload a certificate. You can use https://gethttpsforfree.com/ to generate it.
Ferraris are reflections of their owners. If you're actually driving one to work every day, the point of that exercise is to let the world know that you're the alpha ape.

BMW 5 series is the Accord for rich people. An M5 is your "I like cars" model.
I wasn't assuming you were talking about "eradicating racism from planet earth" - that's a bit of a strawman. "Stopping blatant racism" is moving the goalposts, because "blatant" wasn't part of the original context.

As you say, you can stop someone overtly declaring their racism, but that doesn't mean they won't still covertly (or even unconsciously) continue with racist behaviors. Which is why it isn't so "clear", because even a simple situation with coworkers, you can be facing an uphill battle.

Anyway, I would wager we both broadly agree and this is now just a semantic argument.
Read this: http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/1/9436735/megaupload-prosecu...

And this: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/us-unveils-the-ca...

And if you're feeling feisty: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao-edva/legacy...

What Kim Dotcom and MegaUpload purposefully and willfully schemed to accomplish is in no way comparable to to ISPs. And saying as such is anything but childish.

Users were paid for having files that were frequently downloaded. Some of those users were hit with repeated DMCA takedowns. What do you think happens to a repeat offender on DMCA? Do they get their account shutdown? Nope! They get rewarded with a bigger stash to upload more files.

MegaUpload had many identical files uploaded by many different users. These files were stored as a single file on the server. With each uploader having a unique link to that file. DMCA takedown requests would come in for many of those links. Which MegaUpload would do. However they would leave the file online and in tact with hundreds of other links to the same known to be infringing file. Which makes it effectively impossible to have anything removed.

Read the e-mails. They're beyond damning.
This reminds me of earthquakes that in retrospect might be caused by oil drilling, just to name one example.
"The few who do look into self-improvement are the same ones that have done it regardless of the economic condition of the lower class of their time..."

Citation needed. Otherwise, it's not even anecdata. If your perspective from "...a small third world welfare state..." is to be informative, please expand and explain.
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>People on most sides of me are afraid of being rounded up

Rounded up for what? No one I know has that fear.
> The code inside, the header which EVERY EMULATOR USES, is the unique thing, and can be protected.

In my interpretation the bytes in the file are just a description of facts, and it is highly unlikely that the act of writing down facts about the cartridge in a specific way is enough to create a work on its own that could be protected. Calling them "code" IMHO would be quite misleading, since that would lead to confusion with a program or the executable code in the image. (Larger data sets/ROM collections might be protectable under database copyright laws in jurisdictions where those exist)

Just to be sure: If you mean a software implementation reading/writing said header, that of course could have copyright protection.

> By the way, every ROM ripping tool explicitly states "Non-commercial purposes"

There are open-source (BSD licensed) tools that have no such limitations.
CBP is cancer.
I think you mean in the next 20-30 years rather than for the next 20-30 years. At a federal level it is mainly baby boomers in charge. In state legislatures, gen X vs baby boom, varies a lot by state.
Coal miners have to change their way of life just as it happens everywhere else. If someone is not in position to alter his career, it does not mean others have to protect his obsolete and dangerous job with significant negative impact on environment. All these "myopia" talks about poor people who have families are just myopic regarding possible government policy options: there do exist approaches that can satisfy both conservatives and progressives. You have a lot of people with experience and strong motivation to work: give them money to spend 1 year of their lives to learn something else, help to relocate and provide some guidance on the job market and you'll return twice the money in future tax returns.
The average citizen doesnt know or care, and in this day and age many would trade "freedom" for what they think will give them "security". This story is already over.
The rates effectively differ per race. You could say that this is just about legal votes - but then, why not make sure everybody has similar access? Make the change years ahead, announce it, simplify the process to get the ID, (specifically for poor groups) etc. - everybody wins.

But if a group that is preferred by white people pushes just for the introduction/enforcement of that rule, knowing that it gives them an advantage? You could play semantics and talk about groups affected by income, etc. That's an interesting discussion and could give higher confidence numbers. But the practical effect is that with the ID enforcement, at most 5% of likely supporters and at most 13% of likely opposition group lose the right to vote.
How is this different to a student loan, in any meaningful sense.
Another smooth upgrade minus one bug with people on chrome trying to approve and accept merge requests (I've logged ee bug #1575 for this).
Awesome, thanks! Nice to hear, did you set a reminder via the site? :)
Same here. I don't miss Facebook at all. I also cut the cord around the same time and now watching TV feels so weird because of the commercials.
Runtime call tracing is the missing methodology. I haven't found anything better over the years and always implement them if I have to learn things quickly. Made one for nginx even.
The resulting carbonate minerals can't be burned because they are already completely oxidized, the same way you can't burn water (with oxygen).

Carbonate minerals are a lower energy compound than their reactants, which is good, because it means the reaction will happen spontaneously without an energy input from us (which would probably be too large to make it economical)
> "I'm Canadian, you don't have an option to let me in or not"

Be careful with that - while they have to let you in, your stuff is another matter.
Lots of people who go skiing and snowboarding are lower and middle class, too.
Currently sitting on a plane at O'Hare, can't get to gate because they won't let any planes leave to clear a spot for my plane. What a nightmare.
For those confused as to what the article is on about https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/politics/richard-spenc...
This.

This is the biggest challenge to UBI becoming a serious mainstream topic in the United States IMHO. It takes me hours of conversation explaining UBI to any of my southern/conservative family members to get to a point where they at least acknowledge that it isn't just a fancy word for socialism... and even then they still don't like it.

Granted, I'm their left coast liberal silicon valley nephew so they aren't really interested in anything I have to say anyway.. but maybe thats the point. To a lot of Americans it just sounds like free liberal hand outs, no matter how much data/math/science/economics go into it.

Hopefully smarter people than I can figure out how to message UBI to that part of America.
And what about screaming at "nazis"? (https://twitter.com/MisterMetokur/status/823261320669757440)
Did you read what I wrote?

I do my job but there's only so much I can do if the owners of the servers who are serving my software tell me "before we can change this server's configuration we need approval from another office, it will be a few months until they can get back to us."

(This is a hypothetical situation, for me, because I eventually got all my customers on HTTPS back around 2012 or so. There was some push back and it did take a long time and we had to be very persistent with some customers... But it was well worth it!)

We are talking about the world of corporate IT and pointy haired bosses. I don't implement a social network, or email, I don't accept payments - I make intraweb sites that non-technical corporate paperpushers use to do their job. They are only interested in getting their work done; they are happy when they can get their work done without scary warnings they don't understand. If my software is giving them errors they are going to believe that it's my software that's the problem, and that doesn't look good for us. And we have to field support calls and explain ourselves.

...Or we could put a quick and dirty stopgate in to avoid something that makes us look bad and we can't do anything about.
We'll they could if they used different materials: http://gtspirit.com/83504/gallery/9412/132107/

Seriously though, advances in composite materials science/
manufacturing techniques shouldn't put this too far off.
The lesson that you can't fight the tide. You can force your own utilities to use only coal, and that'll only make them less competitive. Later you'll have to force them not to buy more affordable power from utilities outside the state, which use renewables. As a result, the cost of living and the cost of doing business increases for everyone in your state, comparatively. You might as well have increased taxes. When the time comes when you're forced to face reality, you regret not having instead used all that extra imposed cost to retrain your workforce and incentivize your industry to move to more promising businesses.