skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Moreover there is no limit to the work that can be done, there is always something else that can or should be done should the labor become available. I can assure you, people will not run out of valuable, substantive work to do.

Maybe. The existence of so many businesses with vast stores of cash in the bank makes me wonder, though. This is capacity to pay for valuable, substantive work, but it sits.

Even if people look back on this era in 100 years and note that everyone had something else to do by 2060, the sudden change seems likely to cause more traumatic social upheaval, so a peaceful transition to a post-whatever-this-is economy seems unlikely without trying something very different.

I'm quite libertarian, and I think a basic income is not fundamentally incompatible with that, if implemented correctly. It seems to me that GiveDirectly's voluntary approach is a step in the right direction.
They should. I have currently AMD + NVIDIA GPU in my PC, the lanes are split on the motherboard (it can be 1 x16 or 2 x8).

There is a bit of fiddling with drivers but it is possible to have one manufacturer working in compute only mode and other as graphics and compute.
The OpenGL threading model is completely screwed up. You essentially have a global lock per GL context, which means you're restricted to 1 thread for issuing rendering. And in GL a context is for everything, including shaders, texture states, you can't even reasonable do uploads of new scene data in a separate thread.

Vulkan fixes this big time, by allowing apps to construct GPU workloads for a single GPU in parallel. Only the final submission step (which is supposed to be very low overhead if the driver design is decent) is single-threaded per GPU context. And even for that Vulkan is better: It allows you to allocate different contexts for separate engines (e.g. rendering vs. compute vs. copy engine for data up/download to/from the GPU vram).

The lower CPU overhead is just the icing on the cake, the real deal is that Vulkan fixed the threading/locking model.
What is distortion of democratic process, specifically?

Most political processes are distortion. Political ads are never basic presentations of fact. At best, they're just exercises in cherry picking, but typically they're spin and outright lies.

Major media outlets all have their political slants and their subsets of slants presented by their various journalists. More distortion.

Is it political distortion when you bus in voters of a particular party to the polling places who would otherwise not have bothered to vote?
can we pleas downvote this garbage. people didn't need videogames not to care about others. if not video games greatly contributed , as a form of art, to help people live better lives
QT used to fill this space, but developers flock to electron because it's a much nicer development experience.
The tool would be a database, the use is a registry. Also, have you never heard of a census?
Sad that political sides is what rises to the top in this conversation. I would hope the "big data" and how its used could be looked at by both sides with the same thought "is this a good idea?"

I hope whatever side of politics you fall on that you can see its not a single party or even just the government,its the propagation and use from every day citizens and their ignorance of what and how information will be used.
So it's OK to have fake title that exposes people that did not read the article to false news, especially when most of the people will not click on the story and the untrue title will be everything they will ever see?

EDIT: I do not mean to start a war here, I've read facetube's comment above as "our side is always provably right and other side spreads misinformation" and it seemed as naive and untrue view to me. Here in Poland none of 2 major powers represents my views and both manipulate news, and I assume situation is similar in US. I may have read it wrong, but situations where HN-trusted media spreads propaganda definitely do happen.
How does this assess the utility of video games?
Yeah. I mean, there were literal pro-Clinton astroturfing efforts that tried to pressure the media into covering the news in ways that favoured her, crafting a narrative that any negative media coverage of her or perceived sluggishness in running anti-Trump stories was proof of shameful Trump support: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/us/politics/hillary-clint... From what I saw, it worked; this became the dominant narrative on at least the parts of Twitter I saw. Yet there were no breathless headlines about Democrat "propaganda networks" that were "waging war on mainstream media", even though that's clearly exactly what they were doing.
But QT isn't cool enough for the JS crowd
Do you know anyone who uses calibre, the e-book reader? You want to give it a try? Just cut and paste this:

sudo -v && wget -nv -O- https://download.calibre-ebook.com/linux-installer.py | sudo python -c "import sys; main=lambda:sys.stderr.write('Download failed\n'); exec(sys.stdin.read()); main()"

Or you can trust my docker image, where I've done this for you:

https://hub.docker.com/r/tytso/calibre/

(Hint: blindly using my docker image is only slightly better from a security perspective. What you _should_ do is download the dockerfile, audit it carefully, and then create your own docker image. And then you're _still_ trusting the Calibre folks to have access to your X server....)
This has a lot of merit, especially code that won't be need refactoring, be used or touched very often, but need to exist.
Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately, it's also an Electron app, which is something I would like to avoid. If footprint is also a concern to you check out http://keypirinha.com! It's really great, with the only concern being not very elegant aesthetically...
"And there you've slung just enough mud to implicate Obama in the same kind of antics without offering any tangible proof. "

Are you kidding? Obama invented the use of social tools to get elected. [1]

Google, who, as an org make up probably 95% Obama voters, have a deep relationship with government [2]. And Sheryl Sandberg worked for the Democratic apparatus.

There's nothing entirely wrong with either things (possibly), but the point is that it's 'nefarious' when conservatives have money and access but not when massive and institutional entities like Google do for the Democrats? Google and Facebook are two organizations that, if they chose to, could control the outcome of the election - that's a pretty scary conflict of interest. Exxon certainly couldn't. Where is the uproar?

Surely, it's worth pointing out where 'big money/business and politics collide', but it's very hypocritical to scream about the plight of one side, and not the other.

If anything - this somewhat hypocritical posturing, generally supported by the MSM, gives credence to those who argue the MSM is at least softly biased in one direction. Though I tend to generally trust most of the big news orgs, I believe there is a degree of 'sidedness' on this issue.

[1] http://mprcenter.org/blog/2013/01/how-obama-won-the-social-m...

[2] https://googletransparencyproject.org/articles/googles-revol...
Average engineering also allows more engineers to participate in creating and contributing value.

Clever architecture will often beat clever coding.

Sales, as boring as they are, often pay salaries, and the bills to keep the lights on to keep. As a guy who has to pay those salaries and bills, and a developer, teaching junior and "think they're not junior" devs how to find the balance between how much abstraction, architecture and coding cleverness is enough remains the most key part of what I do.

The best devs I find, especially the super experienced polyglots, still maintain a healthy distrust of their code, think about future devs touching their work, and often write enough love letters to their future selves explaining why they did what they did.
Because I don't want my car stopping when a panhandler/hitchhiker/etc is trying to wave me down, this is actually a much more complicated problem than simply recognizing gestures.
"by seeing enemies where you could have allies." Ironically that's what we are seeing from the left, they see anyone that doesn't share their narrative as the enemy, in need of reeducating, and use the most abhorrent language to describe them, even going as far as comparing people to Hitler.

And these "experts" you talk of, they're just as politically motivated as you are, think about that.
This is a task on Rosetta:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Native_shebang

Also:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Multiline_shebang

I contributed the C one here.
“Cerebro.app” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. I'm really curious why developers release software without signing it. The Mac developer account and code signing certificate seem like a small cost if you're releasing software you actually expect people to use. Personally, I see that warning and assume the developers aren't serious and/or don't care about their users and delete the software.
That's not sold, so not comparable to BB.
> purpose,big money, and satisfaction.

Clearly, this is the heart of the matter. My recommendation is not to accomplish them all with the same thing. Big money is easiest to accomplish with a job, without worrying about purpose or satisfaction. But make sure it is one that leaves you enough hours outside of work to pursue your own interests, and that is where you fulfill your purpose. Get both of those done, and satisfaction should follow.

At the same time, keep your eye out for the dream job that does have everything. And if it ever does appear, chase it.
Is used to be. Yahoo altered the logging functionality such that it would not meet compliance standards.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-traders-yahoo-idUSKCN1...
How long have you been living in a country where everything is basic? Your job, your income, your home, your education, your healthcare? What do you know about how humans living under sutch conditions act and how sutch systems end up? You call it ideology, I call it experience.

[Edit:] I appreciate your intent to build up a working socialism and not to fvck it up this time. But some systems simply does not work with humans, only with ants and robots.
> Also, have you never heard of a census?

In a proper census you do not collect proven-sensitive information together with identifiable information, that's the difference.

A database with a direct link between identity and religion can only be used for nefarious purposes.
...or, you know, come up with a key verification system system that isn't completely idiotic. :-)
Mercer does have a point about the bias of MSM: I read NY Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, WSJ while NY Times, WaPo came out against Steve Bannon for being anti-semitic when he decidedly is very pro-Israel and very against anti-Semitism and yet, didn't say a word about Keith Ellison who was running for DNC chair. MSM criticized Trump for not being strong enough on anti-Semitism but where silent about Ellison. Among other things, Ellison was one of only 8 members of Congress to vote against funding Israel's Iron Dome missile system -- a system which protected Israeli civilians from Hamas rockets [1].

The Anti-Defimation League whose reason d'être is to combat anti-Semitism came out with a statement against Ellison on Dec 1, 2016,[2] but you won't see MSM mention the ADL condemnation of Ellison.

[1] http://jpupdates.com/2014/08/03/rep-ellison-explains-anti-ir...

[2] http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/israel-middle...

[3] http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/17/democrats-must-scrutinize-...

Of course choosing Ellison as a candidate to lead them was truly a lack of judgment on the part of the DNC but for some reason, NY Times, Washington Post, etc. failed to report Ellison's views and the ADL statement.

EDIT: The Wall Street Journal, unlike NYTimes and Washington Post does bring up Ellison's anti-Semitism, but only after the fact, not before the election:

"Mr. Ellison, who is an African-American Muslim, also faced complaints about his past associations with the Nation of Islam and statements he has made that were perceived as criticizing Israel. Haim Saban, an Israeli-American donor who funded the construction of the DNC’s Washington headquarters, in December publicly called Mr. Ellison “clearly an anti-Semite.”" [4]

[4] https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-elect-tom-perez-party...
Social media optimisation could very well be the cancer that kills democracy. Still I find it hard to imagine the likes of Trump or Farage to be these evil masterminds orchestrating media manipulation and shifting popular sentiment with advanced AI. Perhaps they are mere pawns of technocratic billionaires fulfilling a grand plan like Asimov's Foundation series.
How many uncomfortable side effects need to arise from the CA system before we decide to do key verification in a different way?
People who enjoy actually building and shipping something instead of creating abstractions should go into management?

You do realize that this includes all the hackers with the original sense of the term, which are not about finely tuned abstractions and design patterns, but about creating things and hacking/kludging it out to get there faster?
You could argue that "premium" universal healthcare can't be a basic need because it isn't sustainable, but the alternative, deciding who deserves it based on who can afford it, seems even worse.
This growing sense of entitlement that many people complain about is mostly just normal people wanting all the same perks that modernity brought the wealthy, and I don't think thats unreasonable.

(As a thought experiment, imagine that premium health care was extremely cheap. It would be completely intuitive that everyone deserved it, since we are basically talking about ensuring that people stay alive/in good health.)
Geometry of Redistricting: Summer School
When was this written?

I personally hate non-dated preprints or technical reports. Only way to guess is to use max(date(ppaper) for paper in references), which may or may not be close the the actual date of writing.
Personally, I support developers not signing apps out of principle.

Gatekeeper on Mac OS, while ostensibly a "security" restriction, is nothing more than a blatant money-grab by Apple.
Or maybe the app works great and nobody cares what technology you wish had been used.
I may have missed something, but why this is Uber's, not Volvo's fault? Is uber developing a proprietary driving system on Volvo's hardware?
Wasn't the Obama campaign tech effort more about coordinating organisers/canvassers/etc in a "data-driven" way, rather than the Cambridge Analytica "propaganda network" type?

Clinton did indeed have a programme similar to Obama's, which has since (perhaps uselessly overdue?) been panned heavily in the MSM[1].

This isn't to say that Obama/Clinton wouldn't have relied on a Cambridge Analytica type service for moral reasons (in fact IIRC Clinton's campaign did do something similar, but at a much smaller scale), though, but more that they underestimated its potency...

[1]:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11...
Don't you wish politicians would be voted into the office based on the strength of their arguments and their track record, instead of the insights of their data science team? That's how democracy is supposed to work; knowing who to pay for their data science expertise isn't a suitable performance metric.
This is hyperbole, I've worked on dev side in finance a while now and bloomberg data is often unreliable, everywhere I've worked people have built layers on top of it, checking vs other sources and fat fingers. Also I'm actually currently working for some oil guys and they use bloomberg for some things but use specialist providers for oil macro, shipping and refinery events. I'd say their main advantages are familiarity and some information oligopolies
OP talks about malign influence of Big Data and propaganda inside Trump machine.

The commenter said 'This has been happening for ages, Obama did it too'

I asked for examples of where the Obama campaign had done similar - particularly around the propaganda part.

The accusation of 'bad journalism' becomes a lot stronger if you can point to specific things which have been omitted from the account in the OP.

What you appear to be asking for is 'balance' - I'm asking of you, what's missing from the account in the OP?
> For a lot of things such as common stocks, Yahoo and Google are not going to have any less information.

This makes me wonder how much should I trust everything else you said...
Thanks for the feedback! I've made it darker now so it should be easier to read.
Why is "defining a problem called 'not working'" not called "massively manipulating the economy"? From the point of view of the people who work hard to make Kenya's economy work, this can't possibly be helpful. It sounds like an evil, abusive psychological experiment.

Forget about "fake news", the New York Times is literally evil news. It is literally promoting views that proliferate evil. Injecting this level of disorder into an economy and lying about it is a level of deception that goes into moral perversion.

Let me make this clear: I am directly accusing Annie Lowrey of promoting excessively morally corrupt views. She is responsible for promoting evil. This is a person who wakes up in the morning and works hard to promote evil.

Think about that.

Edit: I was down-voted without explanation or rebuttal. If you disagree with what I have written, don't attack my anonymously. I want my karma to be a healthy score, and I don't appreciate people (or bots) decreasing my karma score, and I consider it a personal attack against my reputation.
As far as I can tell, it is the Webpack offline-plugin doing the heavy-lifting - is this correct?
Use exec. Save an exit.
Yes, now that you mention it, probably ("where that idea comes from"). Nevertheless, strikes me as a totally absurd comparison - I'd never associate a bog standard Bloomberg Terminal (used in NY, HK, London, Frankfurt, ...) with some fictitious device from US movies.
"web apps" vs. "websites" isn't a black and white thing. SPA advocates like to say they are building "web apps" as an excuse for providing a shitty user experience. Clearly some things are more app-like (Slack) and some things are more site-like (NYT), but there's a giant gray-area in the middle. People in that gray-area call their things apps so they could avoid responsibility.
It was not that 'some greeks were buddhist" (an insignificant number might have been), but in that some buddhists in those areas were influenced by the ancient greeks / greek culture which arrived there with Alexander the Great.

So it's the other way around mostly. E.g. you can find statues of Buddha after that interaction that are clearly influenced by hellenic sculptures (in their look and aesthetics), but not the inverse (greek e.g. Apollo statues influenced by Buddhist statues).
It seems like most men in general are less masculine and more defensive, considerate, and anxious. Very few men have close guy friends anymore, and most men in the media and news nowadays are androgenous. I think men and boys nowadays are really chastised in school for being masculine, and it carries over into their adult lives. With the loss of masculinity, male competitiveness goes with it.
This app took at least many months of work of the developer, who, by the way, is giving it for free. No need to be harsh or disqualify him. IF you dont like it, move on.
Which could (and will) be said for any autonomous accident in the past and future.

The NTSB takes a similar view: autopilot failures that result in aircraft crashes are still human error, since the human should have corrected. Still not very encouraging, since the driver in this case would have had seconds at most to identify and fix the error with a panic stop.
Personally I think the causation mostly runs the other way on that one: that is, being perceived as winning causes money to be given to your campaign, rather than the other way around.

This explains most of the rare exceptions to the "winner spent the most" rule.
> If words have nothing to do with it then I am not sure how your link shows that Markov Chains are better at memorizing, because a Markov Chain over characters would do a much worse job at generating coherent text.

Over n-grams, it would not, as some of the responses to Karpathy's post noted, by posting Markov chain text which is of high quality. The char-RNN shows its greatest ability in matching syntax and recusive structures and in modeling the subtler aspects of English grammar, syntax, and semantics... which are all useless in password guessing. (For example, I could only tell the difference between the Markov chain and char-RNN C source, because the char-RNN understood the nesting of syntax, but not between the Shakespeare.)

> However, they are good at memorizing sequences and log-likelihood is not an irrelevant measure of performance on passwords. It measures ability of the model to generalize to unseen data.

No, it measures a particular loss function proportional to the mean log probability. In password guessing, the loss function is zero-one: you care only about guessing a single exactly right password. You get zero points for generating a realistic password which is one character off. Being able to model the distribution of 'e's slightly better is irrelevant compared to being able to memorize common birthday suffixes and guess a few more passwords per second. Having a better log likelihood on a natural English language corpus is measuring the wrong thing on the wrong data.

> you might as well just use a dictionary attack.

Exactly. This is how the best password crackers work: mix-and-match memorized literals, prefixes, and suffixes extracted from dumps of billions of passwords. A Markov chain is a souped-up dictionary attack demonstrating 'The unreasonable effectiveness of big data'.
What if the developer was 16 and this was the first thing they had ever made and they were super proud of being able to get something out the door? Read HN and then never made anything again. That happened to me with music when I was young, so discouraging and missed out on an awesome hobby in my 20s and am thankful I had the courage to pick it back up. The tone some folks take in this community often make me want to leave and never come back. I always hedge towards empathy when I don't know the developer personally.
I think there are a few reasons that keeps them at the top of the heap vs. their nearest competitors (S&P CapIQ, Factset, Thompson/Reuters).

One if Mike Bloomberg himself. He is a rarity. He is a founder who is still very active in the company. He certainly doesn't need to go to work every day for the money. He is worth billions and is 75. I think he genuinely loves the work and he demands the same work ethic from those around him. I would imagine that when he is in the building, you can "feel" it in the air. That gravitas that was frequently on display when he was mayor of NYC is probably there every day whenever he holds court on a topic.

Second, I believe Bloomberg has grown organically. I think it's much easier to present a complete and consistent system when you've built most of it yourself. A company like TR has been built up through acquisitions and it at times shows in the product. Factset has adopted a similar strategy as of late.

Third, while the product at times has a distinctive UI/UX experience, it has always seemed super fast at least to my eyes. Less is true of their competitors.
When Awe Turns Frightening
Would you elaborate? It seems the pile of money you have after paying expenses is tangible in the same way as the pile of money you receive.