skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ADL doesn't say he's antisemitic and explicitly say he isn't.

They merely say he isn't left wing and allow the reader to draw the vague inference that he may be somehow associated with others (second or thirdhand) who are. I can understand why you might have been mislead by this, however.
As others have mentioned there is a large amount of expert knowledge to collecting and organizing extremely disparate data sets. There are also longstanding business relationships, lots across a lot of markets, and a reputation for great data security, that has many pricing sources and exchanges offering data almost exclusively through the terminal, and some folks putting their own data into the system. The risk with mishandling(making unavailable or available at unreliable/inconsistent times, for example) some of that data is just so high that 30+ years of reputation in some spaces is worth a (maybe perceived) premium.
Good thing it's open source, so you can attempt to improve it if you'd like. :)
The freedom of journalism likely makes AI informed press just as protected. But that press can be used to control what people know and trigger them into acting to undo democracy defenses.

Its happening all over the world already, people are already crying for democracy to be reduced in their countries after AI based analytics companies have spread fake news and targeted advertising. Its already extremely effective even though people are fully aware of its existance.
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Wanted to write such a thing for AsciiDoc once. Cool idea :)
>you should judge what I say, not how I say it.

That seems obviously inaccurate in any moderated forum. Or we'd all be published New Yorker writers.
Secured on wasting assets, the promise of future earnings, or nothing at all. What could possibly go wrong?

(On the bright side this is far from the majority of debt.)
Didn't stop MariaDB did it?
... and it's gone
Appreciate the critical evaluation of ANDI, as no 1 metric is perfect.

I find it a useful guide for plants since it ranks leafy greens and vegetables above fruits (most people who go plant-based are prone to over-eat fruits, under-eat veges, because sweet is preferred to bitter).

You point out there are many other options -- like organ meats -- which have robust nutrient profiles but do not score high on ANDI.
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Node has a similar thing with these "async" commands and such. You don't have to use them.

Python 3 is where the world is moving to, doesn't mean we're all turning async.
What would a fork that didn't add anything to the language look like? Wouldn't that just be Python 2.7?
What you described is called "second preimage attack", that's != "first preimage attack".
Really? Because this story is about the real world implications of technologies that many on HN are personally responsible for. I think it's very appropriate.
The keychain thing reminds me of this: https://medium.com/the-mission/a-visit-to-the-dead-tiger-war...

“…humans are monsters.”

“Yeah…” she replies. “We really are.”
It's an extrapolation of current trends. It appears that the lifespan of Fortune 500 companies is falling, and we've lost most of the ones from the past century or so.
In terms of how this is done, the Big 5 personality theory is like a squirrel in the movie, Up. The powerful tool is testing how individual level data predicts the incremental impact on behavior of actions (ads etc.) that the campaign promoters can take. The behavior you care about ultimately is voting, and you can't train models on voting, but you can train models on campaign donations, Facebook liking, sharing, and copying-and-pasting. These are behaviors that are likely to correlate with voting later. The role of a theory like Big 5 is to help guide the selection of what to test, and is ideally balanced with what is easy to test.
The problem is, there are loads of democracies. And they are democratic. Their people get to vote. But when the vast majority of the population of these democracies don't understand basic politics, economy and philosophy how can they vote for a fair and moral society. To quote Churchill:

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
> Somewhere around the late 90s or early 00s we made the decision to jump ship from desktop apps and start writing the lion’s share of new software for the web.

I would argue that this started much earlier and was because of the problems with distributing, installing, and updating desktop apps. We even had names like "fat client" (it was meant to be pejorative) to refer to traditional desktop apps and "client-less" (it was meant to sound magical) to refer to web apps. There wasn't a problem with desktop development frameworks. There was only one, Windows, and those people who used it enjoyed it.

> HTML and CSS gave developers total visual control over what their interfaces looked like, allowing them to brand them and build experiences that were pixel-perfect according to their own ends. This seemed like a big improvement over more limiting desktop development,

This isn't how I remember it. Developers didn't want total control, but publishers did. Browsers let you select background colors, font colors, sizes, and types. A website was never meant to render exactly the same. But then the publishers entered the picture and they expected a website to behave like a magazine. That's why we had whole websites that were made up of images only. CSS was invented to put a stop to this madness. However, it institutionalized the publishers mindset that websites should render the same everywhere.

Overall a lot of this article can be summed up as "just because you can, doesn't mean you should." As an industry, we do self-restraint very poorly.
Disagreeing with Israel or being against unquestioning US government support of Israel's policies is not anywhere close to the same thing as being anti-Semitic. Likewise, support for Israel's policies doesn't mean you aren't anti-Semitic, or that your other actions don't support anti-Semitism.

You cite the ADL's statement about Ellison (which doesn't accuse him of anti-Semitism, but instead retracts ADL support based on his statements about US support for Israel government policy), but you seem to have ignored their statements about Bannon, eg:

http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/miscellaneous...

http://cleveland.adl.org/news/trump-appointee-bannon-accused...
also "subprime financial products bundled together and resold as low-risk investments to massive institutions" combined with "moral hazard" of said institutions knowing they will be bailed out again by the taxpayers when the speculative bubble bursts.

also Student Debt cannot be forgiven in bankruptcy so you essentially have an entire generation of indentured servants who will never actually own property outright.
The tech workers of today are building the future that we will all live in. None of this stuff is appearing out of thin air. Someone, an individual human with morals and values needs to sit down and say 'today I will program something that will benefit a corporation/government at the expense of a person' and then carry on.

How many people here work for companies that threaten democracy in this way? How many people have a google or facebook tracker on their personal site? This kind of change is the sum of small individual responsibilities.

The early dream of the internet was one of free expression, but people -not corporations or governments- have worked very hard to undermine that.
They also track disengages as a metric for progress right? So it could be that these drivers will if at all possible avoid taking over.
Retailers don't have much of an incentive to accurately portray color in online catalogs. It's one thing to shill out lots of money for high-color-accuracy monitors, automatic color/light calibrators, and high-color-accuracy printers - for print materials, since the color printed is what the customer will actually see (excepting people with color blindness...).

But for online catalogs, the retailer doesn't control the color accuracy of the customer's computer or phone screen, so most of the time, the customer won't see the accurate colors anyway. So why bother?
Like I outlined in the README. The aim would be to keep it static while calling out to an API.

https://github.com/simonfl3tcher/react-progressive-web-app#h...

To be honest, you could hook this up to server-side rendering one way or another. However, I haven't looked at server-side rending too much, and I am not sure what the affect of doing this would be on the TTI. As a result, I cannot say one way or another whether this would be a good idea or not.
> The garbage fire that is asyncio dramatically increases the complexity of the language. Despite asyncio being just one module among others, one might as well consider it built-in, because it is integrated so deeply in the object model and syntax.

I don't quite understand. You can easily use Python without knowing asyncio exists. The last time I ever thought about asyncio while programming Python was when I was using asyncio.
which is the taxpayers "troubled asset" which has to go into a "Relief program" which somehow translates into Socialism for the hyper-rich and indentured servitude for everyone else.
> MSM chose not to report the Anti-Defamation League statement about Ellison

Do you seriously think you can make stuff up here and nobody is going to bother checking it? You literally just have to type Keith Ellison ADL into Google to demonstrate your claim is false.
> Personally I'm not using Python much these days, but when I do use it, I still prefer 2.7

Why? It mystifies me utterly that people think that having the option to do something is a burden. What is it about asyncio just sitting there in the stdlib that you find heinous? I don't use the shelve package either, but I never thought "I need to find a language where I can't easily import this monstrosity".
massive endemic fraud is not vital to the economy... although it is vital to destroying an economy.
Same experience for me on a recent car purchase. Dealer didn't particularly want a down payment, which made me suspect that they are being comped on loan volume when financed through manufacturer, a choice I opted for because the % was 2 points lower than my bank.
That's a broken paywall, then. I'm on mobile, so not using any ad blocker, but there was no hint of explanation.
ASIC/FPGA or even GPU's aren't the future of neural computing. The future is analog(orders of magnitude perf/watt and perf/$). That require older fabs, optimized for analog, and having good embedded flash, which TSMC has and Intel mostly hasn't got.

And that same future applies not only for neural computing, but for a field called approximate-computing, i.e. computing where results aren't accurate.Some/many signal and image processing work well with that. I've also seen some research about doing scientific computing on approximate hardware and correcting errors.
That's a tedious argument at best. Most countries with free elections and effective rule of law can reasonably be called "democracies".
I'm honestly not sure why you write "hostile media". Anecdotally, and empirically, Trump got huge mentions and proportion of news time from all the media entities. Sure, some was unfavorable, but on balance, he came out way ahead.
Chances are the NSA already employs such a system based on "increased danger", where danger would be defined as absolutely anything that would "change" the status quo.

That's why they spy on activists (civil liberties, climate change, animal abuse, it doesn't matter), journalists, libertarians, OWS, BLM, Linux users, etc.
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Americans Hold Over $4.1 Trillion in Consumer Debt and Roughly $90.0 Trillion in Asset Wealth doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
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We need trusted, asynchronous, peer to peer, encrypted streaming applications, and we need them to become normal! These centralized data repositories need to rot in the ground!

Why couldn't something like Twitter or instagram be built out of p2p protocols? Where users actively curate their connections predominately in person with people they actually know? I think there's actually a demand for this. People I know are tired of the polluted mainstream social media channels, but know no other options.
If you're asking how one would do that at a technical level, I imagine they would use HTTP Referer info [1]. Essentially they decided if someone was being referred to WSJ.com by a search engine, then show the whole article, else show the paywall.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Churchill

Like, the vast majority of the population confusing a Constitutional Representative Republic; where voters vote for their representative who then vote on behalf of their constituents, with a Democracy where citizens vote directly.
What happens is people realized that python is not reliable enough for serious business applications and they to fix that.

After experiencing static typing with TypeScript I don't really want to go back to dynamic typing.
So maybe the secret is in the marketing
This. Running a script which takes hours to execute, only to find you have a TypeError on the last line just before you get the results you need is really frustrating. Static typing is a must-have imo.
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None of this is as clear-cut an improvement as you're suggesting. For example, take the rather dubious story about Trump's supposed secret communications channel with Russia - a dozen or so outlets refused to touch it, but the moment Salon decided to ignore the obvious issues with it and run it anyway it spread like wildfire on social media even to people who wouldn't normally read them. Social media effectively reduces the standards of the media as a whole to whatever the most clickbaity outlet is willing to initially run. Random members of the public and journalists who don't consider journalistic practices to apply to their social media also start dubious claims which spread wildly. Any corrections, retractions or debunkings never reach the same level of virality and go unseen.
This is what we call a multi-polar trap.

It's a coordination problem. You're right, in a sense; at the end of the day it's people doing this, and if they all stopped then it wouldn't happen. Unfortunately, that's what it would take: They'd all need to stop, simultaneously.

In the meantime our world is such that any company or person who refuses on ethical grounds will be outcompeted, and go out of business.

It isn't something anyone decided to do. It's just implicit in the system, which itself wasn't really deliberately built. We'll break our backs lifting Moloch to heaven, and then...

Well, there is no "and then". Humanity will have achieved its final purpose. Maybe it won't go that far, but I'm skeptical.
Maybe put some more RAM in your computer. It's pennies per megabyte these days.
I think you're overlooking the subtle jab of that sentence. He's denigrating Python 3 by comparing it to Node.js.
We keep creating more vimpires every day. We will outlive GUI editor users by centuries.
Landmark. All kinds of sophisticated nanostructured catalysts are going to do some amazing things. It's the most interesting branch of chemistry -- affecting fundamental kinetics like reaction rates, using really fundamental physical characteristics like shape, surface and mixing it with EM radiation. But it's still chemistry. It's like machine code for chemistry. Whereas organic reactions with their convenient diagrams and nomenclature are like "higher level langauges." People might think progress in chem is over. But it's just the beginning.
I don't generally flag articles, but this one is so pointless and inflammatory that I had to flag it as flamebait.
>With this attitude, you might as well just give all your money to the bankers now and just be done with it.

With what attitude? Having knowledge of accounting, and that the balance sheet has two sides?

If anything, ignorance of finance is how you give your money to the bankers.
Isn't losing an election by running it wrong worse than Win running it right? People are pointing Clinton and DNC incompetence as merit. California alone is responsible for this "magnitude", and it only proves how good was Trump' strategy.
Some of it is fed in directly by the providers. For example Barclays and JPMorgan interest rate swap rates.

There is a network effect: all the customers the dealers want to reach are on Bloomberg, so they have to publish on Bloomberg. If someone else comes along and says "publish on my channel too", that's extra work, so probably won't get done.
An old soviet joke..

- What's up friend?

- Saving for a bicycle!

- But don't you work in bicycles factory?

- Yeah... I tried to bring home the parts. But I ended up with a machine gun :(
> Credit Score, for example, is already reality

Credit scores are at least regulated, viewable, and disputable. The newer pseudo-credit-scores derived from social media are completely opaque.

> It must be very tempting for the current administration.

I'm much less concerned about government than about corporations. If GOOG/FB can make money by selling a "Citizen Score" to banks, employers, etc., they will do so.
The key to success with Facebook advertising is making ads which get more attention than all of the other potential ads that could be shown to the user at that time. Because it is an auction system that requires only a very tiny advantage over the competition.

Politics, in my opinion, is creating a product capable of fitting more people inside than the other candidate can. Certainly it is vastly easier to make out-performing political ads based on data points like pro-gun, hunter verse making ads for Coca-Cola based on data points like breast feeding, yoga.

Perhaps this is more about category discovery and targeting (vastly more difficult without Facebook) than any cutting machine learning.
Maybe he/she bought when the stock was under 2 dollar last year? I know some people who invested their vacation money back then into AMD stock and are happy now.
Yup, you just show up at your childhood friend's wedding drunk and make a speech about freedom!
good point.

okay. i put it here https://github.com/dosaygo-corp/diyemail
They work better than chance but not much better

When you're dealing with razor thin margins in individual electoral districts, and 300M people, even slightly better than chance can be pretty powerful.
fuck all y'all, im still using python 1
ok I will try on other projects
Yeah, there was a whole wave of breathless reporting about the wonders of the Obama campaign's use of big data, microtargeting, social media, etc after the 2008 and 2012 elections and how the Republicans' failure to do this proved they were behind the times. It takes about five seconds with Google to discover this. Compare, for example, this article with http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/victory_lab/... or http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/harper-reed-obam...
This is always the case. Even Sequoia has made blunders before - turning down Salesforce and investing in Webvan, to name a few.
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> Cambridge Analytica makes the astonishing boast that it has psychological profiles based on 5,000 separate pieces of data on 220 million American voters – its USP is to use this data to understand people’s deepest emotions and then target them accordingly.

This is nothing new. This is the Obama data machine/Civis/270/etc etc (who didn't Eric Schmidt fund after 2012?), AFL-CIO/Catalist, the party databases... This is the basic strategy today regardless of side. Whatever business layer Cambridge Analytica has on top of that data is not novel.

The "conspiracy" to manipulate is truly bipartisan now.
tl;dr If you use Python 3 in ugly ways, it will be much uglier than if you use Python 2 in pretty ways.
If I understanding this correct - Groupon is now a monopoly?
I think the point is not that you can't write the first example in python3, it's that you don't see it. When you opened the prototypical python file in your text editor, you would see the first example. Now when you open a modern python file, you see the second. (one can still argue this is an improvement, but it's worth recognizing the point being made.)
Not a downvoter; what do you mean people who vote with their money?
Its only a matter of time before this craziness begins to have negative effects on economy of the united states.
>What could possibly go wrong?

Americans are the wealthiest people in the history of mankind. Fortunes ebb and flow, but there isn't much to worry about.
This is pretty exaggerated. I've been in coding in Python for more than 10 years and I only rarely encounter code that suffers from the issues this article complains about, including Python 2 and 3. And the reason, of course, is that this article focuses on complex cases like chained asynchronous functions and optional type decoration but criticizes them as though they were representative of typical Python code.

Yes, if you want to write a system of asynchronous functions with type decorations, then yes it can get a little messy. But this isn't Python becoming less "austere and easy to read" over time, this is just identifying a case where Python is less readable than one might like.

I'm not sure what to tell you if you were looking to write asynchronous code without some amount of syntactic cruft. There are languages that can do this with a prettier syntax and less boilerplate (Go, maybe). But I don't think has ever included any version of Python.
I see you've just read the article on Robert Mercer :)
PCIe is all kinds of forgiving. It works all in possible combos.
The most dangerous problem with the housing crisis in 2008 was not the amount of debt. It was the feedback loop that was created by defaulting on that debt. Foreclosed homes naturally have a lower value than non-foreclosed homes. Homes are priced by looking at recent comparable home sales. If your neighbors to both your right and left have had their houses foreclosed on, the value of your home will go down. If the value of your home goes down too much, it becomes nearly impossible to refinance your mortgage (which was important due to all the crazy adjustable rate mortgages that were handed out in the preceding years). This leads to more and more foreclosures and worse and worse home values.

That feedback loop does not exist with unsecured debt. If your neighbors to both your right and left can't pay their student loan, the value of your education will not go down.
I think that is the author talking about how (in their opinion) Python has gone from an elegant language that a beginner could easily learn, and understand, to a confusing stringy one that is difficult to follow.

The beauty of Python is that you can learn it quickly, and then it can take you anywhere you want to go. That is quite the accomplishment, and that is why it is the perfect language for beginners.

I think the authors statement is meant to contrast those properties with node.js, which imho has neither of the, and is also asynchronous by default; something I think makes it unnecessarily difficult for first-language learners to approach.
Two different variants of democracy. Direct democracy, representative democracy. Both have inherit advantages and disadvantages. So, what's your point?
Behaviors contrary to Hacker News's culture are common to many national cultures and most sites on the internet. That does not make them appropriate here.
This needs a (2014) in the title.
Maybe to play around with genome data?

http://i.imgur.com/UYqaVoD.jpg
If you can find someone to look up to and try to get to their level, that may be one motivation. Also think of somethings you want to change in this world and work towards it.
Yep, we very clear and make a lot of sense. Would tend to agree with everything that you have said.