skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is no bottom half. there is only a group of people that don't perform well on IQ tests. what should they do? whatever they want. humans are free, inherently. maybe a lot of them would fuck up or become idle. or maybe not. they might find much better ways to use their time and talents (which are substantial, if not well represented by what is tested for on an IQ test) if they didn't have to pick books off of shelves to make rent money.
Yup, and it's not a preponderance of evidence. As has been shown, it's quite possible the things they state are quite innocent.
> Or do you mean "Upon being sued, most peoples immediate reaction would be to search the web about how to destroy evidence"?

That one, but not exactly. It's not just about destroying evidence, but about destroying unrelated stuff such as the porn collection or downloaded movies. Or that "non-commercial" shareware you installed but did not bother to pay just yet. I bet everyone here have a couple such skeletons in their hard drives.

> In which direction?

Frankly, I don't know. I haven't consider how a guilty person would have covered their tracks before hand. I just figured most people would just panic and search for various way of covering their asses, regardless of their guilt.

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My point was more, while most people would see guilty-looking behaviour as strong evidence of guilt, it is not necessarily so. And in this particular case, I don't think it is.
Of course you don't strictly need Google. You can live without it.

But will the quality of your internet life be the same? Good luck with alternative search engines result quality.

And the price? Just the email provider you suggest will cost you $48 a year - vs $0 for Google.

Would you like to pay? Fine. The whole point is that Google, in order to provide all those services without paying, actually asks something from you - your data. Just like Facebook and Twitter. Consider G Suite as well, since its privacy guarantees are different from free gmail accounts.
He isn't advocating against formatting. He's advocating against that formatting. His comment isn't very constructive though.
I have my home automation stuff hooked up to Alexa also, and no, it's not always easier to do it with my hands. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. I am often baffled by this "I'll just use the light switch" response to home automation. It's not that you can't "just use the light switch," but there are situations where it makes life measurably better to not have to. First world problems, for sure, but they exist.

For example, if I'm sitting comfortably in my recliner and I decide I want to watch a movie, it's pretty great to be able to tap a few buttons on my phone to dim the lights without getting up. It's even better to now be able to say "alexa, turn on movie lights" to do it without digging out and unlocking my phone.

Or if I'm making dinner, feeling hot, and my hands are covered in tomato juice, it's awfully nice to be able to adjust the air conditioner by voice.

These aren't life changing things, but they are pretty nice luxuries that have increased my family's quality of life.
That's the exact point I'm making, fundamentally a large portion of these formats(PSD, JPG, PNG, MA, 3DS) can't be resolved.

If two people touch the same file at the same time someone is going to drop their work on the floor and that's a bad thing(tm). You need to synchronize their work with a locking mechanism that informs the user at the edit(not sync) point in the workflow.
"as probably most of HN knows well, keeping a codebase portable can be quite helpful in terms of plain and simple quality. Obscure bugs or bad patterns that are hard to find on one architecture can be a lot easier to identify on another."

Right. Even if they had no intent of making ARM laptops (although I suspect they probably do have that intent), the exercise of keeping the code portable between Intel and ARM would serve them in good stead even if they later went to yet a third CPU architecture.
I'm curious. What do you hate about them and how would you solve it?
I was stationed shard ship for a time. Returning to the mainland, I just couldn't sleep.

While aboard, with the general him and rocking, I slept very well. It never happened again after subsequent returns from ship.
I don't think it's fair to call the Pauls more central examples of libertarianism than Johnson. They're more moderate on most things but also have a strong strain of cultural conservative that cuts against the libertarian strain.
Yes, but click data and search history is all integrated for Amazon and the combination of search, purchase and click is the true value. Not to mention every purchase and visit is linked to an account.

[EDIT]not to mention that as an online store Amazon can do all kinds of automated A/B testing in real-time.

At best with Walmart, in stores can capture some of this with a loyalty card and credit card.
One of my favourite intros to sales is Tyler Bosmeny's (CEO of Clever) talk at Startup School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHAh6WKBgiE
The only proper response to such a hare brained and destructive "policy" like the immigration ban is not to "offer suggestions for changes". But to demand its immediate reversal -- along with a profuse apology and an offer of compensation to those adversely affected by this profound betrayal of trust.
I'm almost certain the GP meant brute force metaphorically, meaning aggressive political opposition with no attempt at finesse. Think of 'brute force' attacks on crypto - no actual brutality or force is used.
A summary of what the pros and cons are of each OS (based on the current versions available).
Personally, I think that the part of this deal that stinks is that the Valar/NZVIF partnership only invested in TWO companies; the majority of funds were just used to buy Xero shares on the public market (yes, they were already listed on the NZX sharemarket by this point).

That's kind of like how Chinese investors could game the system and get permanent residency in Canada by "investing" the minimum amount of $1,000,000 into the Vancouver property market (a.k.a. buying a house). And as an added bonus, they'd leave the house empty, messing up the rental market and making it harder for Canadians to find somewhere to live.

I have absolutely nothing against residency in return for bona fide business investments, but there's gotta be some element of risk involved for the investor. Getting a sweetheart deal from the government and then investing in the public sharemarket is in no way a benefit to the country.

It'd be a very different story had Thiel actually continued to make investments in the local startup community after getting his citizenship. But it sure looks to me like he made a few "investments" for show, got his citizenship (without even setting foot in the country!) and then promptly put his NZ passport into his bug-out bag and moved on to other things.
> Worse, they would find the article too boring and technical.

> The fact that they put links to wikipedia for what Logistic regression is should give a good idea of the intended audience of this blog post.

The Wikipedia page on logistic regression is an order of magnitude more technical than this blog post.
There are, already.

The problem is: how do you make an open source version of YouTube, or even replace it with Vimeo? People publish their stuff to YouTube, you can't force them to use Vimeo...
52 comments and nobody mentions the NSA.

Are you people aware that this is essentially a glorified bug?
Only ascorbic acid, or ascorbate in general?
Sandro Mancuso about Teal Organizations
Ugh - come on, you seriously suggest only a feminist would have listened to a fellow human being and have been able to come up with a solution? She (Valeria) framed it that way because she is a feminist. That is just an anecdote, not science. There have been thousands, perhaps even millions of bugs fixed in Unix over time. What makes this one so special that only a feminist could have fixed it?

Likewise, you can not prove things with movie references. I haven't seen "Hidden Figures", but it was obviously made to make a certain point, so they would insert stories "proving" their point.
The Kroger grocery chain by my house just started offering this and it is super popular.

Folks can come by after picking up their kids and get their groceries dropped in their car off the side of the building without leaving the car. All for a flat 4.95$
That's Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef)
Cool looking product and great job on the site! I see the docs are akin to Stripe which is awesome. What technology did you build the backend in?
I asked politely to not be tracked by using the opt-in switch in my browsers. Advertisers literally laughed at that and said they wouldn't honor it.

So now ads are blocked on my browser. All of them. The advertising industry and the people who use it to monetize are at fault. They did nothing to prevent the awful privacy mess that was made of the web without ad-blocking.
Let's be honest here. Silicon Valley only wants 'openness to immigration' because they can get cheap labor and the H1B Visa makes it very difficult for a person to move to another job when they get here.

It's all about money. Don't let any of these feel-good articles make you think differently.

I also find it ironic that the same people that complain that there needs to be an increase in the minimum wage also want to flood the market with cheap labor from overseas, which will reduce American's wages.
Also if anyone has a ton of experience with task management/scheduling/multiprocessing I'd love to buy you a coffee and pick your brain -- reach out! :)
check the French non-profit Framasoft with "degooglisons internet": https://degooglisons-internet.org/
> How is this an "explanation" or "cracking" the problem? They showed that an emotional response was correlated with neural behavior... what else could it have been?

There are Facebook support groups, and a subreddit, for people suffering form this disorder, and it's not uncommon that family members, spouses and friends think they are just being obnoxious, and advise them to "just shrug it off".

If it's a measurable neurophysiological condition, this gives some support that those people just cannot shrug it off, whatever they try. It can also help the sufferers to know that they are not being just crazy, but something really is different in the way their brain is wired.
I didn't bother with adblockers until they started auto-playing videos with audio. Now I must block them. There are many circumstances when it is not appropriate for my computer to start blaring audio and I have to search where it is coming from. So if anyone broke the imaginary pact, it was publishers with auto-play.
Song for Dell (tech support)
Ex-Google founders have created over 8000 jobs. Here are the top 50 companies
I started using DuckDuckGo a few years ago. Initially, I would find myself using Google at least a few times a day if DDG didn't turn up what I was looking for.

As time went on this was less and less the case, and now I hardly ever use Google for web search. DDG results are a lot better than they used to be and almost always as good as Google in my experience.
Concur!

BTW, why Migadu and not ProtonMail?
If you have a fast machine it is better to click on the "computer level slowest". AI searches a deeper tree of moves.
Sorry for the late reply here. I fully agree that not all those who acquiesce with the travel ban are racist, and their position is further complicated by the fact that the vast majority of people in the USA know very little of immigration. I've sat in legal education classes where criminal lawyers expressed shock and amazement at their prior ignorance of the immigration system and how differently it functions from the criminal justice system. Immigration law is crazy complex and that makes it a terrible subject for trying to resolve in the format of a TV debate or something where you can otherwise assume a basic level of audience familiarity with the issue - the same reason astrophysicists argue out their disagreements via peer review rather than on Bill Nye's weekly science podcast.

It's fair to think the due diligence done in admitting foreign nationals has been lacking.

It really isn't. It takes a huge amount of vetting for a refugee to given permission to enter the USA. It's fairly easy to enter the country if you're a citizen of the EU or Japan or Canada or Australia (all of which have a good deal of socioeconomic common ground with the USA) but overall it's difficult. Visas are simply not handed out like cookies.

Some immigrants have subsequently committed crimes or even acts of terrorism within the US. but the incidence is significantly lower than that of natural-born American citizens. None of the available evidence supports the claim that there is some sort of security crisis requiring the imposition of drastic measures.

the right response is to, empathetically, discuss facts (statistics, counterfactuals) with them. The goal is to appeal to their better nature, not to make them lose so we win

I wholly agree and practice this diligently, but at some point the responsibility falls upon the listener to evaluate the information that has been provided to them and make a decision. If they just can't make up their mind for whatever reason, then chances are they'll never be politically active and investing more effort in persuading them is not an effective use of my time. If they endlessly pose counterarguments and excuses, then after a while I start to they're either arguing in bad faith or they have an position that they can't defend but don't want to give up, and it's likewise a waste of my time.

Lest this seem dismissive I'd like to point that I've been discussing politics civilly as an adult for maybe 25 years now, so if I give up on trying to persuade someone it's not from an inability to articulate an argument or an unwillingness to entertain opposing points of view.

Me too. I think the misconceptions about Trump-voting America is the another instance of the same phenomenon. And it's no less harmful, in my mind.

Get back to me when people being shot for supporting Trump without really believing in much of anything is a regular (or even an occasional) occurrence. By contrast I can point to a significant and growing death toll for acts of terrorism carried out by members of the far-right.
I was aware of heat-sensitive vitamins/vitamers but not minerals, TIL!
I honestly don't think there're many people who is "willing to tolerate a degree of advertising" even though a lot of people say so.

Enable ad blocker is sooooooooo easy compare to watching even "good" ads. A well made, non-distubing, interesting ad will become boring after you see it couple more times. In addition, non of the "ad or subscription" websites ever worked to my knowledge since install ad blocker is easy and take the benefits from both side. One of my friend made an ios game that asked only $0.99 to remove all ads. Yet according to him, only 1/10000 user actually paid.
Superintelligence: Science or Fiction? – Elon Musk and Other Great Minds
I was just retaking CS261 on Coursera alongside a friend (we're in week 3) and they were asking, "What good is this anyways?"

Related techniques and how to implement them are covered in the first 2 weeks. While a lot more is going on in this system, one could call the core of the system that does this estimation "simple" for the field.
I find Firefox's Reader View to be an acceptable compromise.

The site gets a chance to impress me with its "engaging marketing experiences" but when I want to read a longer piece I switch to Reader View and all the CPU hogging madness stops.

Obviously, that doesn't protect me against malware, but I have never suffered a successful malware attack so far in spite of using the web basically 16 hours a day.
stackoverflow.com is whitelisted - I lilke the ads
The state of the art in open source 3D mapping right now is CesiumJS[0]. From browsing their docs, it looks like it's in a similar place, capabilities-wise. Unfortunately, the limiting factor for most projects isn't the JS library, but it's the availability of high-resolution DEMs (digital elevation models). These won't become widely available until we do something about the price of lidar.

Fortunately, there's a lot of interest in reducing the cost of lidar right now for self driving cars, so maybe the situation will improve soon. I've seen really high resolution scans of small areas (Boulder, Colorado had the entire town scanned a couple years ago), and it truly blows you away. Every detail down the the shape of trees is available.

[0] https://cesiumjs.org/
What a change of cash-cow placement can do ...
In short, you practice orthomolecular medicine.

Linus Pauling coined the term because the adverse effects are almost next to non existent even in very huge doses compared to almost all of allopathic medicines (except nootropics). I am taking bunch of nutrients in megadozes for last 7 years, some in what others consider extrimes like A (10-100K IU),D(5-50k IU),C(5-100g),B(50-500mg) etc, some occasiionaly and some every day like C. I never had any side effect worth mentioning. Its VERY hard to poison yourself with vitamins and minerals, you really have to take ludicrous amounts. Iron is probably the only one that man do not have to supplement because it accumulates without blood donations.

I typically scan medical journals for adverse effects before experimenting and devise the dose based on what was used in studies and depending on what I try to achieve.

The only thing that got me was 1+ mg of iodine as Lugols solution, but it seems that I am somewhat alergic to it or it starts up some strange metabolic process in me. That does is very safe even in toddlers.

Talking about copper, I wonder why would anyone supplement it - its certain that copper water pipes continually leak copper in the tap water. Unless you drink water from the bottle, chances are probably low that you have copper deficiency. There are many other more probable things that affect lypolisys like Vitamin C, D, Chromium, Choline, Carnitnine, Iodine, Mg, Retynol, K2, CoQ10. I would bet on any of them prior to copper. For each there is known biochemical pathway that influences lipolysis and all people are typically deficient in almost all of them.
If it makes you feel better, in MBA speak you're a "direct contributor" (unlike everyone else who has to justify the value they supposedly provide) and all those suits are stuck in the "overhead" bucket (i.e. "a burden, not contributing to revenue in any way").
Is this really seen as a problem for a consulting business or a tech business without significant capex?

Most jurisdictions have similar laws, and as long as you put money in through loans when you need it, you're fine, since you will be able to service your liabilities.
You can also guess on easier, un-balanced positions from random piece games at http://ba.net/juegos/crazychess-guessengine/
Thiel put the vast majority of this money towards buying Xero shares on the public sharemarket. Hard to call that a bold investment strategy. As if that wasn't low-risk enough, he then managed to buy these shares on 50% margin (that's the NZVIF portion) and double his potential profit AT NO ADDITIONAL RISK.
My main point was that Kalanick seems to be targeted substantially because many people dislike him anyway. But if many people dislike him anyway, he's less of a problem than the others on the committee. A part of it may well just be a low-hanging fruit thing.
And the phrasing, and intent, does not recognize Shia as a minority religion, though they are very often just as persecuted as Christians.
No thanks, but I'd rather have sensible voices advising the president than not.
Key quote: "I understand the perspective of those who object to my attending this meeting, but I believe at this time that engaging on critical issues will on balance serve the greater good."

Engagement: amazing how this has suddenly become controversial. What's the productive alternative? A temper-tantrum?
Google used to really innovate. Google Fusion Tables was terrific early on, for example. Gmail, where to even start in showing it with praise.

Google Data Studio overlaps Fusion Tables, Sheets, Chart Tools and dozens of products like Amazon Quicksight, BIME, Tabeau, Rodeo, etc.

I'd have liked to see Google apply its UI to an accessible machine learning studio, democratize the tech, and really break some ground.
No one uses Jet except to take advantage of their ridiculous coupons. Those coupons are just a way to move VC money to the people, so I'm cool with that but otherwise Jet is just rubbish.
> Let's be honest here. Silicon Valley only wants 'openness to immigration' because they can get cheap labor and the H1B Visa makes it very difficult for a person to move to another job when they get here.

Silicon Valley would probably be quite happy with a policy which allowed less overhead for visas without any visa-related job mobility restrictions. They fight for more H-1Bs not because they particularly like the H-1B, but because it's what they have, and it's a lot easier to win (or at least avoid a big loss) over quotas than over the fundamental structure of the immigration system.
I'm a Microsoft employee on the Git team. We do have a distributed, caching, incremental build system and a distributed test system. Right now, they're completely internal - like Google. They're called CloudBuild and CloudTest. They're very fast and no one thinks twice about kicking off a build.
For direct copyright infringement, only Oculus was found guilty (ZeniMax claims post-trial at http://uploadvr.com/zenimax-responds-john-carmacks-facebook-.... some employee admitted he copy-pasted some code to an Oculus SDK.) Carmack was innocent.

For vicarious copyright infringement (ie management should have known/prevented it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious_liability), Oculus/Facebook/Carmack were innocent but Palmer Lucky and Brenden Iribe (before they founded Oculus?) were guilty.

For contributory copyright infringement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributory_liability, a "party materially contributes to, facilitates, induces, or is otherwise responsible for directly infringing acts carried out by another party." ), Oculus/Facebook were innocent but Iribe, Palmer, and this time Carmack were guilty.

BUT, the ruling then goes on to say that "the defenses of license or de minimis use bars Zenimax's claim for copyright infringement" for Palmer, Iribe and Carmack (but not for Oculus). So whatever Palmer/Iribe/Carmack did wasn't that bad, but the actual copying of code to the SDK by Oculus somehow merited $50m damages (I can't see why that won't get reduced substantially on appeal, no copy-pasted-code-to-an-SDK really caused Zenimax $50m damages.)

For violating the NDA Palmer Lucky signed before Oculus was even formed (but which was ruled to still be in effect after Oculus), Zenimax gets $200 million.

And for "false designation of origin", (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_designation_of_origin), where the manufacturer/seller lies about the origin of their products, Oculus was guilty for $50m, Palmer Lucky (the visionary founder) for $50m and Brendan Iribe (the CEO) for $150m. I'm not sure I understand the factual basis of what happened here, but having been in startups that deliberately obscured the origins/key parts of underlying technologies to angel investors, I can see the origins of product misrepresentations as being worthy of substantial damages as it really does affect Oculus's value and Zenimax's ability to be compensated for "their part". Probably will get knocked down too, but this is the most defensible part of the $ amount.
Are you going to implement anti-bot measures on those servers?
While I think this is necessary, I don't think it's sufficient. Sure, when your smart home device is just hooked up to some lights and maybe your thermostat, it's fine. But pretty soon (and/or possibly now, I haven't kept up with the news), your smart home device will be connected to things that warrant a little more security, e.g. door locks. It's not that hard for someone to get a recording of your voice.