skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course I do not have inside information, but if I had to guess...

Trump basically stumbled on this untapped political bounty more or less by chance, but he has smart enough to recognize its value and design a political persona that would speak directly and effectively to that group[1] The fact that there was otherwise no obvious leader around whom the Republican party could gather gave us Trump-the-candidate.

Trump-the-president was a slightly more complex matter. There was another candidate that was able and willing to tap into this new constitutency of the politically ignored: Bernie Sanders. Unlike the Republicans, there was also one obvious Democratic leader around whom the preexisting constitutencies of that party could gather. The problem with Hillary Clinton is that she is the very incarnation of political status quo; instead of picking Bernie as her vicepresident she doubled down on keep ignoring the chronically ignored. She went as far as to antagonize them, mistaking the whole of the group for a very vocal minority of them, - the racist misogynist know-nothings.

I do not need to tell you that was a huge mistake. The way the American politics work, you win by winning most battles, not by winning the biggest battles. Even if the majority of individual votes went to her, she still lost; and she lost because she decided to abandon a number of critical camps. Or rather, because by failing to notice this new political constitutency, she lost electoral votes that historically should have been Republican. She did not notice the balance of power shifting under her feet. Again, having Bernie on her team would have helped her to put a fight in most of the battlefields that Trump winned just by being the only one to show up there.

[1] I am using the term "group" loosely here. The way I see it, it is more a coallision of different disempowered groups that had little in common beyond feeling cheated by the status quo. By example, I've heard a number of women that voted for Trump were mothers and wives of the millitary, who saw Clinton's warmongering as an existential threat to their families and voted accordingly. Trump's friendly overtures towards Putin make much more sense if you frame them as subtle signaling to that particular subgroup.
How about legalizing fraud in these narrow contexts, e.g., passing off fake ivory for the real thing is no longer illegal?
Fully agree that Google could present cues related to from whom a snippet was received (for example, by putting the snippet in a speech bubble), along with "what others say" complementary/discourse links.

In fact, they should change their entire search result layout so as to add an "epistemological" (ie. related to how the presented result was obtained) knowledge dimension in the visual presentation, and enrich the search result with eg. links to employees, parent companies, and other known affiliations.

That would be a strong move and help fight fake reviews, astroturfing, and fake news campaigning. And it would be much easier to implement compared to strong AI, if the latter is possible at all. In any case, it would be much more useful than the "searched 3.123e8 pages in 0.3 ms" non-information we get now.

Not sure whether posts by verified/accredited people (real names) should be ranked higher in search results. Traditionally, hackers have preferred pseudonyms, and there are very good reasons to stay anonymous in oppressive regimes. OTOH, using pseudonyms/fake accounts at scale got us into the kind of political and other mass manipulation we have now.
This one is a better article.
I feel that if stated differently there is real potential for an argument here. Starting with an example of why copyright is bad, such as the preposterous 100+ year time for works to enter the public domain or that it was originally as a tool of censorship by European royalty would both be reasonable starting points.

The way you put ityou are likely to get even anti-IP people, like myself, on the other side because we don't want to be associated with you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13802559 is a better article, now marked as a dupe.
Well, they're requesting the case be dismissed without prejudice. The judge doesn't have to grant the request. Whether it will be dismissed with or without prejudice remains to be seen
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You can also "vendor", there's support in Go for it.
This is my thinking as well. Hamfisted attempts to make LCD's look like CRT's by artificially curving the screen and messing with colors is just nostalgia. It doesn't add anything to game and 1980s designers were most likely pissed they had to deal with these limitations like color distortion, curvatures, ghosting, burn-in, etc. Pac-man isn't better on a shittier screen. Pac-man succeeds because it had novel game mechanics for 1982.

Outside of lightguns not working this seems like a non-issue to me. I'm sure the emulation community can find a work-around for this for the few people actually using lightguns under emulation.

>Have you guys seen Musee Mecanique

I live in Chicago and have access to all sorts of barcades as well as one of the largest, if not largest, arcades in a nearby suburb, so I'm pretty well versed in the arcade experience today as well as from my childhood. I went to Musee a few years ago and was expecting an experience like that, but instead the game floor was mostly these near turn of the century mechanical games. I was fairly disappointed, from a gameplay or mechanical perspective they were kinda terrible and largely uninteresting. They had historic value but that's about it and probably better off in a proper museum and lovingly maintained than beaten up for quarters. I think in 20-30 years this is exactly how CRT's will be seen. Kids will marvel at how terrible their low resolutions, framerate, color accuracy, and ghosting are.
The sad truth is if you don't have presence or aren't perceived as "likable" it's impossibly hard to get people to work with you.

The video is a way of testing for presence.

Personally, I've never care at all if people knew me or my name. Still don't. I didn't work on building a following for a blog, comment in places like HN, speak at conferences, or practice being on mic/in front of a camera. It's hobbled me.

I've watched people who with a "following" attract a good sized group of volunteers to build their projects for them while I've struggled to ship code by myself. In terms of effort we're talking about having to work 4-6 hours/day vs having to wokr 12-16 hours/day.

People don't scale but their "public personas" can.

If you have presence people will see you in a video or hear you on a podcast and come running to you. Crowdfunders, investors, partners, potential employees. Your life gets easier. Potential investors aren't your friends or a charity, they're trying to protect themselves from bad investments. If things are easier for you because you've practiced and can demonstrate presence, you're an easier sell to an investor.

I'm an introvert who grew up poor, so I get where you're coming from.

You options are:

1) Find people to handle messaging for you.. Which is dangerous because if you're unable to project an image of yourself or your company you may lose control over the way it and you are perceived.

2) Practice. You can do a lot with the camera/mic on an iPhone 5+ given the right lighting.
Of course not. The justice system actually working shouldn't be remarkable enough to warrant a news cycle.
> In my experience, algos are the really easy part of programming.

His point is that when you design an algorithm you need to be able to reason about why it works.

Based on the rest of your comments in this thread, it sounds to me like you have something against the mathematical background of CS? Writing code is not the same thing as doing computer science. Plenty of people are perfectly happy doing the former, but CS as an academic discipline is rooted in discrete math so any school that teaches it should also teach the background.
The term to use is 'dotless domains' and they're prohibited in new gTLDs. For more information on why you might want to read these.

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-053-en.pdf

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-083-en.pdf
I'd agree with you if a book was $50 and not $250 each. I really cannot justify $250 x 4 (4 classes per quarter /semester) every semester just for the sake of collecting books that I will, to be honest, never look at again. If I have a certain problem I need to revisit, I can find everything online.

There are a few exceptions, of course, which is why I said that buying books that one wants to keep for the future (and also reference it in the future) is fine.

But should I really buy books for general education that I have to take and has nothing to do with my major?
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Go++ should at least be an April 1st thing, since it is coming up.
What are the options for someone who wants a fully trusted supply chain? Is there a modern smartphone made with provably secure hardware (and which I can verify is actually running that hardware and not some behave-alike SOC)?

From my somewhat-naive perspective, it seems like the alternative is an Android phone made in China by a Chinese company, which seems not obviously superior.
I like the multi-colour bars in particular— very information dense. The fact that it's all HTML and not an embedded image is so much the better.
I may be missing some context, but I think OP's point was if you have a task that requires 100% human intervention, and you automate 30% of that, its potentially a very big positive. What % is a good number depends completely on the context -- 10% may be best-in-class and drive you to profitability, or it may be 100% or bust. Personally, I was unable to discern the context from the article.
so 84% don't want generics, right? :) I switched to Go from Python several years ago, I admit that I missed generics for the first several weeks but then just moved forward. Nowadays I don't really think I actually need them anymore.
Eh ?

They've been researching ways to add generics to Go for a long time, here is some background:

https://research.swtch.com/go2017#generics
It doesn't support logic programming. They weren't even trying.
I think a big problem now is that the sites are capable of tricking people. That is, if you have a "turing test" for reliable content website, blogspam.forums.net with 2000 backlinks and such obviously doesn't pass. On the other hand, Reuters.com does. But so does theonion, and Breitbart and random_russian_conservative_propoganda_site.us, and so it becomes a lot harder to differentiate the good from the bad without explicity curating by experts, because the sites can trick non-domain-expert humans, so what hope does a bot that hasn't tried to learn domain expertise of the topic have?
Not really. CP possession convictions happen routinely. They're treated as a serious crime but usually not as serious as, say, premeditated murder.

Producing it is of course another matter.
Yeah, when you need an access code you are out of luck. Thankfully many professors don't do that.

In a science major, if you take 4 classes every semester and then you assume that each book costs $250, then that's $1000 right there every semester. That money can be spent for rent and other more high priority stuff.
Thanks for pointing it out. What operating system are you using? Firefox works OK for me on Windows 10.
For me a huge change the past years was the coming of Bitwig Studio audio workstation to Linux. Commercial software, but rock solid and high quality.
35mm film is considered to be roughly equivalent to 20 megapixels. A modern digital camera has 42, more than double that.

35mm film is considered to have a dynamic range around 13 stops. A modern digital camera will do about 13.9

Film has a few advantages and pleasant quirks over digital, but sensitivity and resolution aren't amongst them.
What you're talking about making is how Yahoo! started out. As a directory of the web. Curated by humans. If you start one please share a link.
Since the outcome metrics (pain) are self-reported, this study was essentially unblinded, right? That may simply be an inherent limitation that can't be avoided in this sort of study, but worth noting it opens up the door for a placebo effect.
That's great, and iOS now has a similar feature.

It has zero effectiveness if someone decides to send a hundred thousand spoofed VoIP calls at you because you lost them their spammer/malware job by stringing them along.
> It is much harder to try and prosecute this across international lines, especially in India where corruption is much more rampant

Wrong. In fact it is the opposite. India is taking steps to crackdown on these scammers as and when it receives requests from foreign governments:

1. TalkTalk call center workers arrested in India: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35425275

2. IRS scam drop off after India arrests: http://www.app.com/story/money/business/consumer/press-on-yo...

3. India arrests 70 in alleged tax scam targeting Americans: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/india-tax-scam-against-americans...

> (India has a much higher corruption index than Western nations like US, Canada, UK, France and Germany.)
Your argument that it could happen is basically saying that in India the chance of this happening is > 0% and in the UK the chance is > 0%, but that doesn't mean that the chance of it happening in India is the same as it happening in the UK.

What you are talking about is corruption "perception" index with "perception" being the key word. Just because India has a higher "perceived" corruption index does not make it actually more corrupt that the Western countries. This "perception" arises from economic disparity/divide rather than any quantitative analysis of actual prevalent corruption.

Here is an interesting food for thought: All corrupt politicians, businessmen etc who, when caught by the investigative agencies in India, flee the country. You know their favorite destination? The United Kingdom. Surely if the UK had a much lower corruption index, it wouldn't tolerate and harbor corrupt officials and businessmen fleeing India right? If you don't believe me, here are few examples:

1. Lalit Modi: http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/lalit-modi-soon-to-be-uk-citi...

2. Vijay Mallya: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/vijay-mallya-secret-house...

3. India hands over list of 57 fugitives to UK: http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2016/nov/07/india-han...

How about Switzerland? It possibly ranks the lowest in corruption index. Yet, you find that all black money hoarders stash their ill-gotten wealth in Banks in Switzerland. No tax, highest secrecy and excellent protection of wealth is nothing but legalized corruption in my opinion.
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FWIW, generics were added to Java in 2004, about 9 years after initial release.

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generics_in_Java
Barcades and enthusiasts' YouTube videos can help convince skeptics (i.e. yours truly) that emulation is no substitute for the actual cabinet-including original hardware and CRT monitor, which in turn serves to help keep some of the value in those classic games. Have you seen price graphs for classic arcade games over the past decade? A properly restored and fully functional I, Robot can go for over $2k in some markets, and that price is only rising (well, for now).
Reddit AMA by Columbia CS prof on 3/6 at 10.30a PST on DNA computers. The link shows you who else has done work in the topic (needs better UI!). What do you think?
> not without strong AI.

You might be right if Google wants to answer all questions ever, but they can just limit this feature to situations where they do know what the answer is (you already see this when you type in math, conversions between different units, etc).

> and in fact is how we do it in a social context ("I'm totally not making this shit up, I've read it in a scientific article / this morning newspaper / a tweet message").

That's not how I converse with people around me at all, I only talk about the source if there is some disbelieve about whether it is true.

----

When someone asks me for some information, I will answer and that is the context the person places me in. I won't tell that person "I heard this from Craig, he heard if from Judy and she was told by Bob, etc..". Google wants to become this person / context.

The whole idea is that you don't have to click / verify / think about the potential webpage, because Google has already ranked all webpages that mention your query, and it will only snippet the top one (which is the result Google thinks will most likely answer your question).

Adding the source is:

- extra noise (the user now needs to look at the text & look at who said it and determine whether it might be true or not).
- easily spoofable: you either rely on some meta tag for an Author, which websites can spoof. Or on a URL, which will lead to people doing stuff like "nytimes.com.quotefromgoogle.com".

> The system should provide an escape hatch, and allow the user to be in control.

Below the snippet are the 10 links that you can still click, functionality available since the mid 90s.

> The user of an automated system should always be able to inspect how the system came to the provided result

Just click the top link?
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I don't know which languages you and your CS educated juniors ("juniors") use.

While "juniors" = employees subordinate to you & "so many "juniors"" = high turnover & you = positive senior employee & college educated graduates = smart:
"posit that most CS students don't truly understand recusion" = False
'''Smart, being distinct from intelligent, indicates a propensity to make decisions that maximize benefit for the person described as smart. A smart CS student would work for a company that valued intellectual capital instead of a company with high turnover.'''

While "juniors" = employees subordinate to you & "so many "juniors"" = hyperbole & you = positive senior employee:
"posit that most CS students don't truly understand recusion" = False
'''It is dubious that more than 171.5k CS graduates worked subordinate to you from 2004-2010, or that an unbiased sample of CS graduates from 2004-2010 worked subordinate to you (see previous While "loop") [1] .'''

The proof that the previous comment's posit is not provable follows by induction.

Note_0: While loops can use "&" or "and" operators in some languages without nested loops (unless the programmer chooses to implement a break line) to achieve much of the effect of recursive functions. While statements, as implemented in the example above, offer nearly as much access to the input stack as recursive functions; about equal risk of an infinite loop; and don't risk stack overflow.

Note_1: I have a bachelors in Math. So, I was likely taught a more substantial "theoretical basis," and less "practical skill" than the curriculum most CS graduates were taught.

[1]: http://www.geekwire.com/2014/analysis-examining-computer-sci...
Since they were tacked on they also have all sorts of issues like type erasure and the like that make them a pain to use in certain cases.
One thats been around since 1980 (updated regularly since) that is REALLY good is Graphic Idea Notebook by Jan V. White, does not just dump a bunch of finished layouts, mainly various sketches and design layouts for communicating ideas and concepts.

https://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Idea-Notebook-Treasury-Soluti...
> minor offenses such as trespassing and copyright violations

Not a terrible comparison, there. Trespassing is the use of someone else's property without permission, in a way that doesn't deprive them of it, typically isn't even noticed unless someone is watching out for it, and becomes frequent only where the approved route is disproportionately difficult.
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Ng may be right, and the article suggests a massive upsurge in papers in the last 3-4 years, but I'm dubious about quality, if the AI field is anything like neuroscience was. When I was back in grad school, I worked with a prominent Dutch researcher who routinely saw his papers translated into Chinese and re-published by Chinese authors as their own.

At first, it drove him crazy, and he tried to get them to stop, issue retractions, etc. But he eventually learned to roll with it. The people involved may have had excellent careers at home, but were contributing no new knowledge, and just taking up resources.
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Because everyone of us that cares about generics uses languages that support them, and most likely a Go++ effort would be in vain, after all there are already a few Go preprocessors, which don't seem to be widely adopted.
I turn that setting off on my Firefox.
This is not true. No one says generics aren't required, and it's more about finding the implementation that makes sense for go. For at least a year several people on the Go team have acknowledged the demand for generics. Ian Lance-Taylor even added a doc to the go repo which summarised the entire discussion on the various possible implementations and their pros and cons. For instance, most of what's required could come from a nice implementation of macros.

As usual you, coldtea, have posted an uninformed, polarising comment with the intent to provoke. Not surprised.
And in India as well:

1. TalkTalk call center workers arrested in India: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35425275

2. IRS scam drop off after India arrests: http://www.app.com/story/money/business/consumer/press-on-yo...

3. India arrests 70 in alleged tax scam targeting Americans: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/india-tax-scam-against-americans...
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Kontakt is pretty cool, not just for drum machines but any samples. For example, the NI orchestra samples are absolutely amazing. For drums it's just another sampler, you're probably better off sticking with Drum Rack unless you want the specific samples offer d by Kontakt.
It's great on the pi3 runs well in arm. It's nice this isn't abandonware a lot of the open source projects for Linux audio became abandonware.
I smell false equivalence,"we're all rude sometimes, so let's be friends!"

The word "troll" has no meaning, and all meanings any more.
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Thanks—we changed the URL from http://getliner.com/AaD03?hacker=true.

It's ok for people to post their own stuff to HN (though not exclusively, and not overdoing it). But it's not ok to post URLs that hijack or wrap other URLs. That breaks the HN guideline asking for original sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
To some extent, isn't the placebo effect good enough?

If my goal is to feel more focused, that's an inherently subjective thing. If I feel like I'm more focused, I am more focused. So the placebo effect and a more objectively observed result are essentially the same here.