skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a man who authorized the murder of Yemeni civilians with drones, whose DOJ went after journalists who spoke out against him, whose DOJ went after conservative-leaning people via the IRS, whose DOJ sold weapons to Mexico that were involved in murder of Americans, whose state department stored emails on an insecure server that ended up being hacked, and who flip-flopped on marriage equality until it was politically expedient to support it.

This isn't really all that new for a politician. I don't hate him any more than I hate any other asshole who becomes president. What I hate about Obama is the useful idiots who give him a pass on all this and say things like he is a great man with integrity. He's not. He's a politician who knows how to use his celebrity to influence people, probably the best president to do that since FDR.

So while it's extremely difficult to know that you can not, and will not agree with me, I think I'll be able to deal with it.

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/11/obama_is_killing_yem...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Department_of_Justice_inv...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
I agree. Goals are too laden in the rejection/acceptance/guilt mindset. Better to have a system that works.
Meditation is one good way to break this. Rubbing your nose endlessly in your own thoughtless patterns can be bloody embarrassing. Certainly life-changing.
I agree that many people, particularly on the right, hold Obama to an unrealistic standard while willingly overlooking much more serious flaws among candidates they support. However, I'm not sure I agree that you can't attack the man, can you really separate the policy from the man at this level?

I for one find nothing offensive about attacking his integrity due to his massive expansion of state surveillance. To me that seems like a case of poor policy and poor integrity.

On a personal level, I find him much more genuine and likable than Trump, I'm sure Obama would be great to grab a beer or coffee with. On the other hand, I much rather the President be terrible to grab coffee with but in return not think it acceptable to order drone strikes on American citizens.
This is mostly the same information collected by American and other apps as well. It is not exclusive to Meitu.
There's no way the IRS still uses an S/370 system. Please give me a link so I can have a laugh.
Deep RL in scikit-learn under 50 lines of code
Are you seriously claiming Apple products aren't significantly higher priced than similar alternatives?

I don't even know why I'm replying here if you really don't know your parents could have bought an Android device that also works and is also a "serious phone" for half the price.
I was referring to Massachusetts voters and urban voters being "second-class": we can support X at essentially arbitrarily high levels of support, but the more rural states and regions of the country get more voice than us in the federal government. So when certain rural people want economic policy rewritten to "save their jobs", a whole party shifts its dominant ideology to accommodate them, even if it's not actually a good idea for everyone. However, when we (urban, coastal) want our lifestyles or preferences accommodated by policy, we're not only out of luck, we get insulted for our efforts.
Sure. I made talking to strangers like a game -- see how long you can get someone to talk. It's easiest to get started by joining a group which looks like it's having fun and talking in a large, but loose circle. It's nerve-wracking initially, so remind yourself that you'll probably never see these people again. After a while, I built a repertoire of things to say and I enjoy when I see people enjoying my stories. It's like being a stand-up comic. Practice practice practice. Eventually you'll be able to improvise.

About being happy, to me it's a matter of considering what plausible futures might be. I get stressed a lot about little things. To relax I think past the immediate imagined disaster and what its consequences might be. Usually the consequences aren't that bad. You can always make more money and you can always meet new people. Health/safety is the only thing that's not worth risking.

A psychiatrist prescribed Zoloft to me a while back, but I found diet, exercise, and meditation (in the sense I described above, not traditional counting breaths, etc.) to be more effective.

I dislike modern psychology's labels as if there's some threshold that separates normal people from abnormal. We're all on a spectrum of various personality characteristics, with no boundaries on that spectrum.

The funny thing is, my wife now says I'm one of the least stressed people she knows. It makes me think of when the Hulk says, "the secret is I'm always angry." I appear relaxed because I'm always stressed and keeping a lid on it.
> UBI is intended to increase people's autonomy

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/autonomy

1. the quality or state of being self-governing;
2. self-directing freedom and especially moral independence

exactly. The point is that they can do what they want.
Honestly, I do not disagree. In some ways I imagine that mass surveillance may even be necessary for the protection of the country, considering the potential for destruction that even a few people with the right technology and planning possess. Following your logic, it seems that the mass surveillance maybe has more potential to help than to hurt (since the govt already possesses plenty of resources for destruction).

Given how many people on here are adamant about anti-surveillance I feel like I must be missing something... like I get the overall premise but it seems to exclude a lot of important considerations...
Hi, I'm the author of the blogpost (didn't expect to see it here!) and I largely agree with you.

I think I would say that the use of private datasets isn't actually a problem though, the problem is that the methods and analysis in many of the papers is horribly flawed. I could reasonably trust a paper with good methodology - all of medical research is on private data essentially. But the majority is, as you say, pure hype.

I actually wrote another blog post a bit back that was popular on some simple rules to separate hype from reality in medical AI work - https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/do-compute...
As future improvement, it will also make sense to consider visa money/time costs (maintain matrix of visa-free destinations/visa costs/issue times) or at least add a note in UI that valid visa may be required to some destinations.
It is a test of the citizenry whether such assaults on those institutions is tolerated. Korematsu v. United States is an example of how those institutions alone aren't necessarily strong enough when citizens don't really give a hoot. Korematsu is widely regarded as bad law, not case law. But until there's another test, it's speculation. And even contemplating it being tested is scary, but I think less scary than ambiguity.
Maybe Shen would work for you? [1]
A Lisp with optional static type checking, optional lazy evaluation, pattern matching, a built-in Prolog, and more.

[1] http://www.shenlanguage.org/
As an anecdotal counterpoint, I'd love to see more people hiring for positions like that. Most C++ jobs are between "we know you're clueless, but hopefully you'll learn" (rare) and "you know this stuff, how are you not in a senior/architect position?". Hacking away on moderately complex performance-conscious code without necessarily spending too much time on architect-level concerns sounds lovely.
Kinda but:

trait Copy: Clone {}

Copy is nearly always done by memcpy/memmove. When Copy is invoked it won't use the `Clone::clone` method: https://is.gd/2hMyNP.
i.e. Clone is always explicit.

Added: Essentially Copy is the same as a move, but the original value is still valid.
An old supervisor of mine was a Jaguar fan, and due to the large amount of time they spend having repairs done: "There's two days when you love your Jag: the day you buy it, and the day you sell it"
Those are some absolutely stunning photos! I love the design and layout.
I wonder if it is possible to achieve super-human play purely using reinforcement learning to train deep neural networks.
A lot of the systems the airlines use are typically hosted by large telco's. Some use SaaS, so those are hosted for them. Very few Airlines I know of actually have their own data centers anymore and typically it's a misconfiguration or an upgrade that causes these outages. Although it can also be a comm problem.
As someone who lives in a constitutional monarchy (Australia). The Royal family is largely seen as a bit of an odd quirk the Queen's head is stamped on the back of our coins but other than that it means very little to most people. I honestly don't know the name of our current Governor General.

One thing that stands out to me is American's seem to have more respect towards elected officials then we do here. For example the sample letters in the article all address Obama as "Sir" or "Mr President". I cannot imagine people addressing our Prime Minister that Formally/politely.

I think it is a cultural issue most people here tend to be very cynical about government and distrustful of politicians.
I consider the continued expansion of mass surveillance to fit my definition of despicable. Drone strikes, particularly those directed at US citizens without trial, are also troubling for me. Obviously, Obama is neither the first nor last President who I would label as such.
Which is greatly eased by dropping citations or a link, refining or contradicting what others have said - if you would care to do so. Education happens one page and one book at a time, and one can and should start anywhere. That at least some others don't understand as much as you do is inevitable; but don't disdain them for that, help them along.
I'm not sure that really fit what is changing here... If the forum is submitted it's going over https even if the iframe is on an http page. If an attacker has the ability to add code (iframe or other) to your site you've already lost.
Theresa May’s industrial plan signals shift to more state intervention
It's tech journalism, what did you expect?
Motivations matter.

I also never said I agree with pulling out of the TPP. I didn't like the TPP for tech, security, and intellectual property reasons. Though there is no denying that the TPP would economically benefit the US.

I also liked aspects of it quite a bit.

So, the real question is what was Trump's motivation for getting out of the TPP? If it was for economic reasons, then he's missed the mark.
> I think one reason he got elected is that people projected attributes onto him that just don't exist in the man.

People projected onto Obama even harder. Remember the hope and change? I do. What has Obama done for the Black community who voted pretty much as a block for him? Have the inner cities improved significantly in 8 years?

> made a few policy missteps here and there

Syria, Arab Spring mess, meddling in and then having Ukraine loose Crimea. A constant drone war (after preemptively receiving a Nobel Peace prize), increased surveillance, persecution of whistleblowers. That's more than a few missteps.

That refugee crisis in Europe wasn't an act of God, and wasn't created in the vacuum, Western intervention in the ME is a big factor there.

Let's criticize Trump like we should, but that's doesn't get Obama off the hook so to speak.
Thanks a lot Jonny!

Thanks for your suggestions! Since it is always questionable how much someone would spend (and very depending on the person itself) we didn't take into account cost of living. My brother and I had a few discussions about this since I wanted to show 'the whole package', but he convinced me to keep just keep it simple and add additional 'cost of living' info later on, at the destination page. For now I still agree with, he has some good points. Although it differs from person to person what is preferred.

Loading in results on page scroll should be really neat. I think it will speed up loading time tremendously, definately going to look into that!
Except the part where if you're using shared hosting and don't have the ability to run this software on your server, it's useless as I said.
It's worth noting that the decay process takes about as long as the growth process for some trees. For example, a Douglas Fir might spend 600 years alive, and then be a Nurse Log for another 600 --- see http://www2.kuow.org/program.php?id=26100
Corporate clients aren't the ones purchasing black market exploits, the marketplaces aren't obvious. Just confirmed with a friend who does not have ties (disclaimer) that this one would be worth ~100k.
The UBI the article suggests is $12K per year. Do you think that would be sufficient to pursue your alternative? Couldn't you save up the equivalent amount and do that on your own?
You would be surprised how much has already been migrated away from the old IBM systems (TPF). The big players these days are Lufthansa, Jeppesen, Navitaire, Appolo, Sabre, etc.
The two main things that have kept me motivated through large side projects, even when burnout has set in:

- Building something that I really want. For example, the project I've been working on for the past few months is something that's been brewing in my head for several years.

- Sharing the fruits of my labor. At the end of my last large project, I got the satisfaction of knowing the product would get regular public use. In my current project, I've been open sourcing components as I've progressed, so even though it will be months before the project's complete, I have had some milestones of satisfaction. If the end result is something you can sell or profit from, that is a huge motivator as well, although I think my first point about building something you're really passionate about is more important.
Foxconn is building it, not Apple. If Trump wants to encourage it, he's going to have to back all his anti-trade policy with China.
It's over 15 years old.
How about this? https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Light-Works-Amazon-Alexa/dp/B...
I think a basic income is a dangerous and bad idea.

If we expect the wealthy class to give their money to the masses to fund their survival, the masses would become functionally dependent on that transfer continuing. At which point the wealthy class would have incredible power over the masses.

Asking for a basic income is like asking to go to prison for the free food. It is not a good idea to become dependent on others with such different interests.

Instead, I advocate the development of open source automation solutions that provide everything necessary for human survival. Open source machines can be manufactured by any corporation and purchased by groups who would then own the means of their own survival.

A basic income becomes a source of leverage for moneyed interests to get their way. But if we all own the machines that support our survival, we can choose for ourselves when we work and when we study to better ourselves.

I've written about this recently, here:
http://tlalexander.com/machine/
You can decline the search in which case they can decline to let you in the country. The EFF FAQ has more details.
The next crisis?
I wonder if they are still interconnected with 56Kb leased lines?
But that's exactly my point. Perhaps we needed this to push us?
Internet Quantitative Social Science: Insights from a Trillion Observations
The bill was (according to it's creators) designed to make the utilities reserve the cheapest power for Wyoming residents rather than exporting it all to states where they could get higher retail prices and bigger profits, leaving Wyomings the less reliable and more expensive renewables.

In case you missed it the bill only affects energy sold to Wyoming residents, that's only 584,153 people (!). The utilities can sell renewable energy outside the state with no penalty.

'When asked about the motivation for the bill and concerns about it driving away future wind generation, bill sponsor Republican Rep. David Miller from Fremont County said, "Wyoming is a great wind state and we produce a lot of wind energy. We also produce a lot of conventional energy, many times our needs. The electricity generated by coal is amongst the least expensive in the country. We want Wyoming residences to benefit from this inexpensive electrical generation."'
Or... Just buy a banana from the fruit shop on the other side of the border, and don't risk a fine or ruining a country's entire fruit industry?
Four Questions For: Geoff Hinton
> Making all this computerized seems to take the spirit of poker away. It is like playing online poker which is an entirely different ball game vs. real poker.

Maybe, but it seems like impressive performance nonetheless.
Some vaccines are given at birth at many others by two months and still others at 4 months (in the US). I am not aware of any test that can work that early.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...
> Seems like Obama was put on a spot more than other presidents.

Another element there is the benchmark against which he set himself up for -- Hope and Change. I remember having a lot of hope and now after 8 years, it feels kid of "meh". There were some good things, but also a lot of blunders. I guess I shouldn't expect much from that political office.

Not sure about Trump. Having lived in the Rust Belt I can see how people there understand and follow him. And I heard he just withdrew from TPP, not bad so far.
This kind of pearl clutching nonsense is getting really old. It's really feeling like people think they have to signal that they're good and kind and not at all racist every opportunity they get.
One of my favourite reads on politics in a long while. "These were people writing, and you’re a person reading, and the president is a person."

But of course the president isn't just a person. The tone in his voice moves the stock market, and the stroke of his pen can kill or save millions. And a person is a person, but the people? They're a mass of voices so loud and chaotic that you would go instantly mad if you could ever truly hear them all.

So the aloofness, the distance, the abstraction of governance is a symptom, not a cause, of inhumanity. It's telling that to break through it in the smallest way, just 10 letters to simulate a sense of personal connection between the president and the people, takes "50 staff members, 36 interns and a rotating roster of 300 volunteers".

Any time we talk about having a beer with the president, it's important to remember that this isn't your buddy, this is the avatar of the world's most powerful and dangerous political machinery. It's like a surgeon taking the time to joke around with you before he describes how he's going to bisect your ribcage. It's a nice gesture, but we still get our surgeons from medical school, not clown college.
Inside Rolex's Manufacturing Facilities (2015)
Ah thanks for mentioning! That's a bug indeed, think we duplicated Myrtle Beach. Will fix it :)
Would it bother you if someone was disparaging a person with African decency because that person straightened their hair?
How long before those jobs are done by robots?

https://www.engadget.com/2016/05/25/foxconn-replaces-60000-h...
New IBM z-series mainframes will still run most System 370 assembly language programs. So it's possible.
Netflix Earnings Are Driven by Investment in Original Content
It means that compared to Verizon crooked execs, Carlyle crooked execs were like children, who were new to the game of being crooked executives. (Traditionally it was children who wore short pants.)
China tightens Great Firewall by declaring unauthorised VPN services illegal
The whole reason we had the second stage of the Industrial Revolution is that if you use trees instead of mining then you're limited in energy by the acreage you can devote to trees and that goes down with extra farming as the population increases. To simplify horribly that's why the Ming iron industry with it's chain suspension bridges and so forth collapsed.

If you're removing carbon from the air by burying trees then you'll only be able to sustain the energy intensity of civilization in the Britain of 1800, plus what we can get with renewables. What this new form of capture gives us is the ability to get rid of excess carbon without using huge amounts of arable land to do it.
I see, kinda ;) I musn't grumble about my condition, just thought it relevant that its quite possible to try working in a dark background to see if it affects sleep cycle.
Well then, of course you're right. To solve the problems you cite, supply would have to increase drastically. The current situation, however, solves the problems that actually interest TPTB.
I run RasPBX (Asterisk + FreePBX) on my Raspberry Pi and it works quite well. The distro itself is also pretty easy to manage and update. I mainly use it to record my phone calls and works well for that purpose.

See http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/
Amazing customer care tools for initial days of your startup
I'm not well versed on the details of U.S. government surveillance, but is it not the case that collection of phone logs, for instance, does not entail the government directly infringing on or even caring about 99.999999% of the public's private activity? My understanding is that these types of surveillance programs technically exist so that logs can be pulled up retroactively or algorithmically in rare but important cases.

I am asking because I am intellectually curious. It seems to me that _on average_ people could stand to gain from surveillance and possibly predictive algorithms for crime. I would like to better grasp the other side of the argument.
>>I work in renewables, and I encourage this community to not to ridicule people in Wyoming for their very clear majority choice. In their point of view, they are making the best choice for their interests, so calling them stupid only deepens their resolve.<<

Your comment explains why they are making the current choice and I guess it makes sense. They are giving themselves a lifeline. What they should do now is have a plan to decrease their dependence on coal in case the price of coal collapses, which currently seems to be heading in that direction.

Otherwise it looks like they are setting themselves up for something similar to what happened in [1]. The whole thing will collapse and they will not be prepared for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_north...
i'm very into poker. you're right about the tells but what is important is knowing the other players. you can tell what type of players and how aggressive or "soft" they tend to be. you know if they would tend to call or raise a weak hand in certain situations.. etc. it definitely matters
Thanks for mentioning! That's already on our list and we will implement soon, in addition we are planning to add a safety score or safety index - which is quite relevant at the moment..
How about all the embedded engineers who go on to become RoR engineers because it pays much better?

Google is probably willing to train people too, which might be a difference for you. C++ isn't that fun of a language compared to others too.
Thank you!! Much appreciated :)
Regarding that the data is for advertizing, that is stated in the article...by both experts they contacted.
Due to a Basic Income you're already admiting that you would want to drop out of the higher income bracket, and fall to where the BI it would benefit you more.

A few things about that:

1. You never said anything about BI handling out of work situations.

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I think what would incentivize you to accomplish this would be:

1. Setup financial goals that would support you during this time. (Think FIRE) To me it sounds like your finances aren't in order to do this.

2. Step away from that over-ambitious goal of PhD. Go for a masters. It's only 2 years. PhDs aren't as great as the school sells them. (They're in the market to convince you to do that)

3. Try to elevate yourself by practicing for grad school by doing online classes in the evening.