skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is one of false positives and prior probabilities. (also, it's westboro and wbc).

There's like 40 people in the wbc. Even if you have a 100% false positive rate and just include everybody, that's 40 people. Plus, if we know they're bombing things we know who they are. We don't know who potential attackers on the US are, besides the counterfactual media narrative that they may be Brown.

Relatedly.

As a white dude, I often assert my rights to avoid the pornoscanner and opt out. Once in a while get sent to secondary screening, because my shaving soap seems to have a similar gas chromatography spectrum to an explosive. They swipe me down, swipe down the soap container, and then the machine turns red and beeps. Further investigation ensues, and I am released.

They never treat me as a potential terrorist. That's probably because they know these machines are pretty terrible, and that the false positive rate is huuuge. But if I were? If this was indeed a dangerous substance and I a dangerous human? Well, the first time, they left me unsupervised in the same cubicle where they were storing their walkietalkies on a charging rack. Unsupervised, beyond just "stay there". Seriously.

They know it's a false positive and it's treated very lightly - again, I'm a White dude with no obvious marginalizing markers. So yeah.

If by "tell", you're talking about pulling aside everyone who "seems Muslim" (obligatory discussion of how Sikhs are often the target of hate crime from people who think they are Muslim because of their headwear here), you're pulling aside just under 1/3rd of the worlds' population. You can't use that information because it's literally useless.

The further complication here is that white nationalist terrorists are just as dangerous as non-white ones, but this administration is focusing on non-white terrorism to the exclusion of everything else.
My experience with Python is that 90+% of your code base can be in the "nice" subset, but it requires some discipline. The key is to always, always, always encapsulate the complex parts in helper functions or libraries, and accepting that maybe it isn't worth making your code twice as complicated to save a single line.
If only local roads existed: Trains would have continued to serve most locations cheaply. The federal highway system did great damage to the far more efferent but far less subsidized train network. Trans take less land, less capital, fewer workers, less fuel, and cause fewer deaths.
Yeah, I'm not arguing with that, I actually made that same exact point in a different thread :) I'm just pointing out how it compares to more expensive 8/10-core CPUs.
Earthquakes have no known cause so doesn't support your point well
We most definitely WILL respect SemVer where it matters: the API versions.

Docker is a collection of many different components, exposing many different interfaces. Semver in Docker version doesn't make sense for the same reason it doesn't make sense in Ubuntu or Windows.
In tech, CEOs are usually from engineering culture. Not every company is headed by a Trump-like buffoon.

Lisa is a MIT alumn as well. I suspect she doesn't need much help answering questions here.
Neat idea. The fulltext is paywalled but one thing I'm curious about is where exactly the "strength of connectivity" would be stored within the chromosome?
Do high-end Ryzen chips need liquid cooling?
A LICENSE file, please? (Though package.json does declare MIT; a LICENSE file should also allow GitHub to pick it up.)
Then maybe it should be: "Don't rely on Google products unless they're utterly dominant and necessities." Maps, email, search, are all needed in modern life. RSS readers lost out to Twitter & Facebook years ago.
$1.4 billion pop on Snap publicly traded shares.

$30 million lawsuit settlement awarded to Facebook.
I run a fairly high scale pipeline on lambda. The post touched briefly on logging but wanted to chime in with a few helpful points:

- Format all logs in json. This allows you to use the json path filtering option on CW.

- Add function version & tag to the log lines. CW doesn't allow you to filter based on version.

- Don't expect CW log querying to work all the time.

- Output runtime stats to CW metrics.

edit: formatting
The most aggravating thing that I saw about the #1 was it was on a nominally ~10 minute schedule at peak times. Pretty regularly, I'd wait 20+ minutes only to see three #1 buses, nose-to-tail, arriving.
> It takes 2 hours to get from Bronx to Coney Island on subway

That's a bizarre example. Of course it takes a long time to go from one corner of the city to the other. No reasonable person would be making that commute regularly.
The term "craft brewery" is defined by the industry group "the Brewers Association." It's not legally binding.

That group changed the definition of "craft brewery" from a brewery that produces less than 2 million bbl/year to one that produces less than 6 million bbl/year.

They made this change in 2011, as Sam Adams began to produce more than 2 million bbl/year.
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I guess I just have weird taste, Skyward sword is my favorite Zelda game. Apparently Zelda games are just divisive in general
This $27.8 billion dollar valuation tells me that somewhere along the line, my job and lifestyle have caused me to detach from a significant chunk of society. I've never used Snap or their platform. I don't even really know what the benefit of their service. I am curious if I'm in the minority or if there's lots of developers like me who aren't able to comprehend these valuations.
From what I remember, those ads make up a small % of their revenue. Most of it is sponsored content, discovery channels, etc.
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Of course those aids are part of the system. We would not have evolved to use tools if it was not advantageous. Hopefully it stays advantageous!
Groupon was a totally different business. Network effect didn't really add anything or give them lock in. Customers and businesses would go wherever prices were lowest. It was always doomed, really.
True. Healthcare quality is "probably" great, if one can afford it. And that indirectly means if the employer can afford to subsidize your health insurance premiums so that you can afford that amazing healthcare.

"How do you access limited resources?"
Why are the resources limited? How about making medical education free (paid by US taxpayer), so that only those who want to serve in the field of medicine will become doctors, and go on to earn a good living if they are good doctors?

Why not generate 100x medicine graduates than current number?

Problem is with crony capitalism. Doctors dont want over supply of doctors. Insurers are happy with constrained supply of healthcare. Richer people are happy with what they can afford.

Not rich and aging population gets screwed!
That's the sane way to do it, definitely.
I think this was a great post, and it touches on a lot of things that I think about daily.

I live in a rural area, with farms all around. Every day a new field goes up for sale, and a new subdivision of mcmansions is built where crops were once harvested. It's insane to me...where does it end? How much farmland can we give up?

As to unsustainable, automated mega-farming practices, I'm very much against this style of agriculture, but it's all about money. There's huge money in doing it that way, regardless of the cost in terms of soil destruction and health costs from producing food that is not nutritious (corn products are in every processed food these days - a lot of this stuff is like industrial waste).

I don't have many answers, the system is too large and complex for me to understand without devoting my life the the effort. I do worry about it every day though.
spectacles are record-only at the moment without any viewing for the wearer. adding user-viewing is at least one order of magnitude more difficult than the current device. is there any evidence that spectacles will be transitioned into AR?
I don't understand how the existence of Snap adds over $30B of utility to the economy.
GP's point was that bicycles are fairly often operated on sidewalks. Percentage-wise, way more frequently than cars/trucks are operated on sidewalks.
The mandatory part of it is the problem.
I do find the name – "containers" – a bit confusing. "Contextual identities" would seem like a better fit, because that's what it will be used for.

I am reading this name also on other places, surprised Mozilla sticked with "containers":

* https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06/16/contextual-identit...

* https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...

* https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Projec...
Horses are a bad analogy if you want to prove that AI wont take over most jobs.

They are however a great analogy if you want to see how technology once it reaches a certain point renders biological beings sub-par useless as part wealth creation.
> What do you do with a conscript who never wanted to be there and possibly fundamentally isn't suited to military life anyway gives up? Threaten them with legal action?

In some countries, you will get punished - get assigned bathroom cleaning for a week, get assigned lots of manual labor, or your whole squad gets punished which means they will have reason to 'motivate' you themselves. You can also go to military jail and get dishonorable discharged.

Basically, there is the carrot motivation method, and then there is the stick method.
> ethical problem with conscription

None whatsoever.

Individual rights has real meaning only when others protect them.

Individual rights are never free.

You can have freedom of speech, movement, assembly and property rights only when the group you live in agrees that you have those things and protects them when you can't. When the existence of that groups existence or freedom to organize is threatened, it's time to pay retroactively for the rights you had and pay so that you can have them in the future.

In practice you can always serve unarmed or be in civil defense organization, but when whole nation prepares for self defense, everyone must make an effort.

I think professional armies are ethically more problematic. You create profession that
fights and kills for your nation and government and it can be used to fight wars that are not that important or well thought. If war is not big national emergency, it's probably not a just war.

I think 'War Is a Racket' by Major General Smedley D Butler provides ethical solution. When there is a war, you conscript everything, people and profits. If one is not going to war, one works with the same pay as a conscript until the war is over. Business can't keep the profits until the war is over. This would take the ethical problems out from professional armies.

https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket
> One good argument for it is that a conscript army is unlikely to stage a military coup in a democracy.

Turkey has mandatory military service and suffered an attempted coup less than a year ago. Napoleon came to power in France after the levée en masse, really the first major mass conscription act in history. Egypt, last coup being ~4 years ago, again has mass conscription. As does Thailand. And Eritrea, Sudan, Chad, and Equatorial Guinea, although I don't know if mandatory military service dates back before the time of those coups.

Coups are often instigated by the officer class, whereas mass conscription is primarily used to fill out enlisted ranks. There's definitely room for the upper echelons of a military to support a coup while the lower echelons remain largely apathetic.
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My Samsung S7 just released a thing called secure folder which creates a second version of your phone user that can have it's own apps and photos. I wonder if people are aware of it.

https://news.samsung.com/global/for-your-eyes-only-secure-fo...
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You are definitely not alone. The Snap product has been geared toward younger people as Facebook once positioned itself. Investors are betting that once the product and audience mature there will be huge payouts like they saw with Facebook.

There is a big risk here though. Twitter has crashed and burned when compared to Facebook.
Parent comment said nothing about pay. It's about conscription.
The stock is now showing up online:

http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SNAP

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/snap

Not on Google Finance yet:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:SNAP
What I found most compelling about the story wasn't the hype for Heady Topper, but the attitudes of the owners John and Jen Kimmich. They took a disaster and made the most out of it, and are now able to provide for 48 full time employees.

While the beer is great, their story of perseverance over adversity is what really matters here.
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There are always stories that feel that way.
Nothing in that article—as awful as the experience is—suggests being denied entry because of refusing to comply with a request for one's FB password.
A similar idea comes from Daniel Dennett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZefk4gzQt4

If we consider cultural (memetic) evolution as a type of evolution, then the answer is YES!
Russia is also considers itself (for a quite some hundreds of years) a successor to Byzantine Empire. That does not mean that they want, would or should take any land in that direction.

Ukraine is special not because Kiev has to be in Russia, but because a lot of the current Ukrainian land was for, again, some hundreds years Russian and have almost no sovereign history. That makes it easy to play by all sorts of powers and Government is really not the main one there. Just look at Alaska it never gets same attention. Or North Kazakhstan. Same would be with Ukraine in coming 50-100 years if they would be able to hold the country together.
There is some similarity in the work by Leslie Valiant where he uses an “ecorithm” approach uses computational concepts to explore fundamental mysteries of evolution and the mind. Incidentally, he is the man behind PAC ;)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160128-ecorithm-computers-a...
They're allowed to ask a US Citizen their religion? Isn't that a protected class?
Hey sorry, not sure if i tunnel visioned your sentence or you edited, but i agree with your general point in the context of "mentality and philosophy of a PL community in my opinion can be heavily influenced by the programming language itself" in fact i think the main point of language is to shape our thoughts, and specializing language to a domain is hugely important

"Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it" - Bertrand Russell
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She mentioned that it started with 911 and Bush. Increased under Obama and under Trump it is even worse. So to her it is getting progressively worse.
Imagine what you can do with heads-up displays on any daily situation.

Easy to imagine how people would use one meeting other people in a party (must be some fashionable glasses), buying groceries, or merely receiving notifications doing whatever.

Hard to imagine how it would be useful within known people, or in leisure activities (except for AR games).

At work one would need to look at it case by case. I doubt there's any general tool.
As an user in their target age (18-24) I have to say that since Instagram started introducing features like stories and stickers the activity in my Snapchat has diminished enormously. I would say 50-70% less activity.

I don't know if it's something specific to my social circle or more widespread but anyway it's been impressive
Does your corporation hire many under-18s?
I was also in the US Army, and thought the same thing. There is a delicate balance between MWR and focusing on the mission. I don't have a great feeling on where that should be.
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One reason may be that the tech industry exists mainly in metro areas and is city-focused. These people live in the city and deal with city problems on a daily basis.

Also, farming is just not sexy.
Someone paid $15,000 for a chunk of mold and honestly what a steal
Google seems to have embarked on a mission to find vulnerabilities in everything that touches the Internet. Good for them (free marketing), good for us.

Forming an opinion about Microsoft vs. Google software quality would require knowing how many similar problems Microsoft found and subsequently patched in their software. Without that data, we can't tell whether Microsoft isn't putting effort into finding vulnerabilities in its software, or whether Google simply got lucky and found something Microsoft missed.
cotton gin didn't replace dr's, lawyers, teachers, truck drivers, surgeons, taxi drivers, delivery drivers, writers (many news agencies already use AI to write articles) customer service / tech support, and even coders (there's a project to teach AI to code). The end goal of ai/automation is a society where nobody has to work at all but can live like kings because the robots take care of everyone..
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AI and singularity are these high level goals a part of the technological community is striving at.

Global warming on the other hand is a practical problem we are facing with plausibly catastrophic results.

Non existing poorly defined high level goals cannot solve an existing problem.
> According to Web performance chart, it looses to 7700T, which has 1/2 TDP and 5% lower price.

It also has 1/2 cores, which doesn't show up on the single threaded benchmarks but explains the price and TDP differences.
Maybe a better way to frame it is that Google happened to find it.
the fact that you havent used snap doesnt really speak to their valuation. here are some large cap (+$200B) U.S. companies that i have never used: jpmorgan chase, wells fargo, at&t, bank of america, pfizer, verizon.
Why not have a laundry course then? Why force people who don't need it to waste time there?
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There's a reviews megathread on Reddit here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/5x2lph/the_legend_of...

Many, many perfect scores. Even acounting for hype, it's doing surprisingly well. Having watched about 6 hours of gameplay so far, I'm on the fence about how deserved that is. It seems like such a huge game that it won't be possible to judge it fairly without playing at least 40 hours, probably more. It's clearly an exceptionally good game, but whether it is truly a masterpiece remains to be seen.
spectacles aren't AR... do you think they will move that way?

If snaps taken with spectacles ever make up more than a % or two of snaps, I will be surprised.
Correct me if I am wrong but you are pointing out that their website is on a CDN. Are you saying they need to host their website on Wordpress/Ghost? AFAIK, Ghost & Wordpress do not easily scale compared to a CDN if your site has heavy traffic (which landing pages must be engineered for as opposed to small blogs).
"Facts" are only part of any story and, more importantly, you can NEVER have all of the facts and there's no guarantee that the most important facts are even known.

If you really want facts, consider what would happen if the journalist had tried to get them from a lizard-brain CBP officer as she's being asked weird intrusive questions and who could, on a whim, detain her at the airport with no rights to communicate with anyone-- for no one actually knows how long.

The story was an insightful thought piece that might help others understand the situation better or perhaps provide a bit of illumination on why some people may be terrified of travel in the current environment.
You could basically say the same thing about any post WW2 engagement, but it means nothing. To wipe out all humans/buildings is an empty threat. Theoretically, the US could get rid of any country it didn't want by nuking them.
can be hard to find though...I mean Nintendo effectively discontinued it so it isn't on any retailer shelves now.
I wonder if there will be some kernel/compiler optimizations coming down the pipeline that will increase the performance even more. With the big open source push that AMD's graphics division has been doing over the past few years I wouldn't be supposed if AMD made some contributions to the kernel themselves At the very least I'm glad to see that it performs well in Linux out of the box when compared to Intel. :D
Many reviewers have had the game for over a week at this point so they may well be 40 hours into the game.
Well, Russian economy is still in recession. And Russian forces tecchnically never fired a gun in Ukraine or Crimea.
That's what Juno is trying to do, by giving 50% of equity to drivers: http://observer.com/2016/08/we-tried-juno-the-company-trying...

My wife uses Juno exclusively, several times a week, for this reason. She says the drivers are always eager to explain their choice of driving for Juno.
Why our package versions are (almost) never bumped up?
I recently met a Scottish man at a tech conference in the US. He was born in KSA and it seemed like he has lived most of his adult life in the UK.

I asked him if he was worried: he had arrived in the US just after/during the Executive Order 13769 debacle. He was crystal clear that he felt very strongly that since he had done nothing wrong that he should have nothing to fear from authorities. He claimed that his entry into the US this time was uneventful, but one time in the past (~2004-2010?) he was detained for several hours because of something that sounded like mistaken identity (some horrible Soundex match for someone on a list, probably).

I don't know whether/which religion he might prefer. He wore no religious ornaments or other items that would signify that he might be muslim. If it's relevant, he looked similar to how many Middle-Eastern/Medditeranean men I've met.

Anyways, it's a [second-hand] data point for an Arab-state-born individual who seemed to have different feelings.

For my part, I apologize for poor treatment you've gotten at the border and I hope you're able to visit again in the future.
I personally was convinced Lyft was more moral when Uber employees did things like booking Lyft rides for the purposes of recruiting away the drivers or making fake Lyft accounts to book and cancel thousands of rides. As far as I can tell, Lyft employed no similar tactics.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/11/technology/uber-fake-ride-re...

http://www.businessinsider.com/ubers-operation-slog-against-...
This is going to open the floodgates for so many smaller startups that have been waiting to IPO. 2017 is going to be an exciting year for anyone with equity.
those 3 were practically beat into me

This is called indoctrination. Who was behind this indoctrination, and what were their motivations? Did they have your interests in mind, or their own?
Okay cool? But why change the subject? That's certainly not defined by US policies as the author points to.