skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do a search almost every day for "US", "Trump", "Obama", etc. because I am curious about what Hacker News thinks about the US political situation, yet I know that these discussions will be flagged instantly before I see them on the front page. It's really unfortunate because Hacker News is probably the most intelligent moderately-large online community I've ever found, and I'd like to both learn from others and share my own knowledge on these topics. I appreciate the mods, but I don't like the throw-their-hands-up response that these threads always become uncivil. Some topics are so important that they need to be discussed regardless, and the denizens of Hacker News are not just bystanders to these issues but instead are the highly intelligent and influential builders of these apparatuses that underlie modern society and facilitate the abuses of governments.
Works perfectly in macOS Sierra
It definitely works http://ai.

The period needs to be part of the URL at least for Chrome but HN isn't rendering it as part of the link.
> My job is just to convince you to sign

The more I deal with sales&marketing people the more I think there are two different mindsets people have. One says that if you do the "convincing" part by saying anything but honest truth, you're scamming people. The other seems not to attach any moral significance to the situation.
Suppose it costs $18,000/year to live here...

It doesn't. There are billions living on $365/year, after adjusting for the cost of living.

It isn't that the value is zero, it's that the value is less than what you're paying them. Because otherwise it would just be a regular job. And it is not likely that the government is going to find highly productive work for everyone rather than ending up with a lot of people digging holes and filling them back in. The whole "central planning doesn't work" thing.

It's good to know that there is no possible use the government can come up with for labor, and that every program that liberals are currently proposing (child care for working women, pre-K, infrastructure spending) is wasteful. I didn't know that.

I'm still waiting for your back of the envelope calculation. Be sure to include the labor disincentive effects of the BI, which was 9% in the Mincome experiment.

https://thecorrespondent.com/541/why-we-should-give-free-mon...
Just between you and me, off the record, no questions ask, no purchase required whatsoever...

Were you really using a mac?
Nobody "deserves" attention - it is either good content or it isn't.

I'm not surprised at all that on one hand scientists will complain about public misconceptions in science but then bitch about and nitpick any genuine effort to bring science to the masses with popular media.

I've read all all of those articles and discussions twice over and reduced it to Richard Dawkins being unhappy about Freeman Dyson being a Christian and accepting a Templeton grant, while even the most ardent critic of the Templeton foundation would still concede they fund good science.
There is a wide gulf between the experience backgrounds of senior leadership at the largest tech startups [1] and those of largest companies worldwide [2]. I think this is obvious, but worth noting the differences.

While there may be similar undergraduate or even graduate pedigree, there is a massive difference in experience at the CEO level.

For the top 5 startups worldwide: AirBnB, Uber, Hootsuite, Medium, and 500px, NONE of the CEOs had much experience in leading large or critical organizations before they came into the job.

For the top 5 companies worldwide: Walmart, State-Grid, China Petro, Sinopec and Shell, ALL of the CEOs had decades of leadership experience managing larger and more diverse workforces in more critical capacities.

It could be argued that you can't start a successful startup with traditional leadership background, perhaps that is true. However over a certain size, it's a whole different ballgame in terms of how you run and manage a company. "What got you here, won't get you there."

MSFT, GOOG, APPL all seem to be outliers in many respects, including the fact that at a certain size they brought in someone with a more traditional background to "run" the company (Ballmer from P&G, Schmidt from Sun/Novell, Sculley from Pepsi).

[1] http://www.startupranking.com/top

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/07/20/revealed-the-...
It wasn't strictly about income as measured in numbers, it was about social class. We have a really hard time talking about and grappling with social class in this country, but it's a fundamental force, as it is in nearly all cultures throughout history.

There are many divisions and shorthand ways of trying to describe the divide, and none are fully satisfying, but one of them is that some people are economically threatened by rapidly accelerating technology, and some are economically empowered. Another is that some people are threatened by trade, and some profit from it. And so on. The global economy is changing rapidly, the distribution of wealth is becoming more unequal, and not everybody is thriving in that context.

Talking about it in raw dollar terms in the aggregate has value, but it's one of many data points. Class resentment is a powerful force that has underpinned nearly every major political realignment in history, I'm not sure why everyone has such a hard time seeing it.
My wife used to be a Talk Talk customer in the days of dial ins. Anyway 5 or so years back they suddenly started billing her credit card again monthly for the service she had cancelled years before. We couldn't stop this online as their system claimed no knowledge of her so I had to call the support numbers listed on the Talk Talk website. These went through to the usual Indian call centre but what went on there was very unusual. The first operator wanted my wife to post him her VISA statements to his home address (as they would get lost in the post if we sent them to Talk Talk). Another call brought an operator who said he could only trace what had happened if my wife gave him her VISA number and CVV over the phone !! I tried to call their Fraud Prevention office but got another Indian who wanted a VISA number before we could proceed.

After multiple calls one day a call was answered by an Irish voice who was very apologetic and arranged a refund which arrived a few days later. Attempts to tell Talk Talks UK office about this went no where as all calls seemed to go to the same Indian call centre.

Since I have read that Talk Talk had closed their Irish call centre for reasons of cost and now all support is from their Indian call centres. Avoid this company at all costs.
I have a canned response saying tell me the company name and I'll agree should I apply to let them represent me. If they can't tell me the company name I ask that they remove me. All very polite and gets rid of the time wasters...
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I've been working on an existing Apple II emulator, OpenEmulator, which takes an interesting (and as far as I know, unique in the Apple II emulator world) approach: it renders a fairly raw NTSC-like signal, and then uses GPU shaders to convert to colors, while adding fairly realistic CRT effects, like persistence, curvature, dot masks, etc.

The result is an emulation that is incredibly close to what I see when I walk downstairs and run my test code on the real Apple IIe in my basement. I guess that's what happens when a DSP person writes an emulator :-) (The original author has disappeared themselves from the internet, unfortunately.)
Only half? Any South American over 18 has probably paid a bribe at some point (mostly traffic tickets or such here in Uruguay, and most elsewhere in Latin America).

If you travel for any length of time in Latin America, chances are the police will attempt to extract a bribe.

http://www.drivetheamericas.com/wiki/dealing-corrupt-police

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/opinion/south-americas-cu...
The latency on LCDs is much much higher, often as much as several frames. This could be removed but only at the cost of disabling all manufacturer's image post-processing including upscaling.

I have a "100Hz" CRT television that won't support light guns because the manufacturers decided they'd put this kind of image-"improving" technology in.

There are actually two techniques for light gun operation, one of which is "racing the beam" (unreliable in the presence of high retention phosphor) and the other of which is to draw a single frame of white squares for targets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Zapper#Technical_details
Oh, one more note: I do not believe it would work with a light gun.
do you still not provide private networking? aka intra server connectivity w/o bandwidth costs.
If anyone can fix and maintain classic arcade machines, it would be these people:

Museum of Play - International Center for the History of Electronic Games
http://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg

If you are in the area, you should stop by. They have every cool toy possible from many many years back. Brought back many memories.

Plus you can play many old arcade or pinball games!
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Because it is fun?

I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really - I was alive. - Walter White
Also, I find the firefox awesome bar much more powerful than Chrome's it does (fuzzy?) word search on every url and title in the history, and here always seem to give me more pertinent results than Chrome's (which seems to forget I visited a website in just a few days).
the period has to be there because it breaks spec btw
This is not the solution to our problems with scientific publishing. Academics need to stop complaining about Elsevier et al. and submitting to their journals at the same time. Institutions need to stop awarding funding and giving jobs to the people who publish in the most glamorous journals. We all need to stop obsessing about silly publication metrics.
Maybe more like ready to burn the damn thing down.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13785564
> BSD Unix was available for the DEC VAX

Which only happened thanks to the AT&T tapes that were taken to Berkely, and the work of Bob Fabry.

If it wasn't for that, BSD Unix might never have happened.

> Anyone manufacturing new hardware had the choice of developing a proprietary operating system, which was a lot of effort and would die with the machine, or porting Unix to it.

Because UNIX's source code was available under a "cheap" license.

If it was an AT&T product like those mainframe OSes, that would never been a path they would take.
The biggest drug dealers are in banking, shipping and in governmental office. So they are breaking treaties instead of municipal criminal statutes.

If you're smart enough, you get someone else to break the laws with the highest chance of arrest.
They also are running at https://sci-hub.io/
Google isn't just an algorithm. It's a corporate entity with user-facing software, and while the algorithm has no notion of "trust", I would argue the company is demonstrating trust in any source that it presents as an answer in one of these bubbles. We're all agreeing that they shouldn't in many cases, but I do think they're doing so today.

I don't care what your internal reasoning is. If I ask you a question and you present your answer as a fact, you're either trusting your information is correct or you're willfully lying to me.

I think Google's defense here would be that they intend these answers to be interpreted by an intelligent adult. If it tells me that mermaids are real, I'll have a laugh about it and move on with my day. If it tells huge groups of apparently functioning adults that President Obama is instituting Sharia law, and those people believe it unquestioningly, well, I'm not sure Google is equipped to operate in that world.
Guess you disagree with the Bank of England.

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/06/30/banks-are-not-inter...

Or Werner, the guy who coined the ideas behind the (since basterdized) QE:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057521914...

Banks are not intermediaries. Just where do you think all the new money is coming from?? $100K used to be worth something, it's worth sweet FA now for land. Banks issue money against land. There are two tiers of pricing as a result:

1. land - insane increase

2. everything else - mostly falling in price

Banks are the new churches, vast open receptions with hundreds of square feet to be in awe of in city centers.
Good riddance to magsafe. I've had two laptops become unusable because the magsafe connection became flaky and wouldn't charge unless I fiddled with it until it rested just so (even contact cleaner wouldn't help). There was no hope of it lasting more than a few hours without constant tending by me to get the connection just right again. I've never in my life had any other computer that failed in that way.

Moving to USB-C was the right choice. Charge cable goes bad? Buy another one for $15.

Everything else is spot on. Apple quality is fast going downhill.
I find it funny that illegal drugs can be a 12-figure business globally and yet people seem to think it's just street level gang bangers doing this. Now who would have a vested interest in people thinking that? :)

I'm sure there are organizations that would easily make it to the Fortune 100 if they could be listed as such. They're also smart enough to let disposable thugs break the street level laws. Real drug kingpins never physically handle product.
One very bad idea meets another.

Now, let's make every program more user friendly by obscuring the meaning of our input fields and creating very complex rules for how they'll act... Oh, wait, our programmers aren't able to understand our rules anymore? Nah, we are an AI company, we can live with that.
While an interesting idea in theory... and I mean that!... in practice that's saying they just shouldn't provide answers. Even saying for the sake of argument that Google could assemble a meaningful and correct probability distribution, itself a rather bold statement, the average Google user won't know how to correctly interpret such a thing.
I've recently finished Ready Player One by Ernest Cline which is an enjoyably nostalgic novel based on computer games and 80s trivia.
Out of curiosity, what threshold of evidence would you accept that I provide to verify that I was indeed asked to write code at the US border?

I'm almost certainly not going to provide it, but I'm still curious if you're willing to elaborate.
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It's a great idea but...
No sweat.

> I see what you're saying now. Choose a VPS provider who does not store your information or is not cooperative with legal requests.

Not storing information (eg, accepting Bitcoin) is mildly rare, I think, and the ones that Google easily turns up are categorically going to be expensive (since they're the ones fielding inquiries from who-knows-who with who knows what agendas). Places that aren't interested in info and are cheap on top of that are edging into the hens' teeth sector; they exist, but they take a truckload of digging (usually asking around) to find. UrDN aren't everything but they're an entry-level example of such a host. FWIW I learned about them from someone I was talking to on IRC (for other reasons, the conversation got to VPSes and they mentioned them).

> In terms of privacy, what's the difference between trusting a VPN service (i.e. iVPN) versus trusting a VPS service? Or are we talking the benefit is solely in the decreased cost of runing a VPN on a VPS?

Looking at the tables on http://vpngate.net/ (headsup: practically 30KB/s :P) you can see "Logging Policy: 2 weeks" ad infinitum. That's one example of nice transparency that I can recall. The only time I setup a VPN it was on top of a VPS so I don't actually have any sort of idea about the VPN market per se, in particular where to find concrete logging info. That said, speaking from a security standpoint, let's say someone wanted to exchange pictures/videos in the "exceptionally unsavory" category, they hop on Google, find a VPN that says "Logging: None!!", say "great!" and use that VPN for whatever cuz it won't be tracked. ....Nope. Not realistic. So, IMHO, from a good infosec standpoint, any VPN provider that says "no logging" is doing so solely to be a honeypot, or at least I would hope they are actually still logging! If they actually aren't that's heinous laziness. Of course, these providers are used as tunnels for torrent traffic on a daily basis, logging policies notwithstanding.

If you've ever used Wireshark (or have a quick look at what it does), you can get an idea of packet capturing. It's trivial to do this on a central gateway or router for any network (or Internet)-connected server/service, and you can log all throughput to a machine without making any changes to that machine. The main two questions are storage and processing.

If you have say a dozen 100Mbps machines you want to log, that's (assuming continuous 100Mbps throughput the whole time; unlikely but possible) (((1024^2)12)(246060)*12)/(1024^4)
=13.04TB of data after 24 hours. If those 12 nodes get 1Gbps connectivity that becomes 135.89TB of data, and if you have 1000 1Gbps nodes you have 11.32PB of data to store.

But once the data is stored, assuming a 24 hour window it must be completely processed within that window because it will be completely discarded afterward (literally overwritten).

Need to go to sleep, can elaborate further in a few hours
Statute of limitations. The period of time during which charges can be brought.
It may not be the solution to _your_ problems, but it sure works for me!
You were forced to bid more than others who were willing to bid as much as they can. That is where the price tops out. If you have more money than them you still had to pledge more of your labour because bankers extended loose credit.

Life does go on. And we have to work for longer for the exact same pile of bricks than our parents because of the changes in banking, gold std and the tech enabling tracking vast quantities of digital fiat credit.
What would be the main differences trying to implement something other than cryptocurrency?
It seems to me that the memes (in the wider sense, not image macros) that won it for him were primarly spread by Fox News, with talk radio, infowars, various think tanks etc. thrown in.

If we did focus only on the internet I'd suggest "forwards from grandma" on Facebook are another contributor, usually with the content coming indirectly from the above sources. But I don't really see the evidence to give any credit to these youngsters with their new-fangled pepes.

I started twigging that Trump would win by watching video journalists who visited the heartlands of america and did vox pops with random people. Their opinions about politics seemed to have no basis in any reality I recognized. A very nice chairwoman of a Republican committee said "There was no racism before Obama" for example. This wasn't some spittle-flecked ideologue, just an average old lady happily offering her opinion on politics.
That part of the party was never going to vote for Clinton though. The question was do they vote (for Trump), or stay home.

Sanders would have had a much better chance with moderates, independents, the anti-establishment groups, etc.
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The easiest way to waste these guys time is to just tell them "OK, just hang on one second, be right with you", then put the phone down and leave them there waiting.
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The article states "One unsubstantiated opinion I have about rules is that zebra striping is bad. Really, really bad. Take it or leave it." - can someone elaborate?

For me, when reading something with data tables, a common use case is to look up a particular value in the table, and in the case of large tables (such as the baseball statistics example given right above that quote, https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*71B5i6rZMMsryN0pD...) it's very hard to reliably do so, and zebra striping or some other solution is necessary to ensure that you're reading the right value for this team, not the one above or below that.

I would consider a guideline that makes tables more beautiful but less readable (as measured by purely functional metrics such as speed and mistake rate when reading them) as deeply flawed, putting the cart before the horse, so to speak.
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Valid point
I've found this exact same thing as well - the FF awesome bar always seems to give me the results I want, whereas I have to do a lot more specific and manual typing to find what I want in the Chrome bar. This could be an interesting blog post I'd think: comparing the implementations of the matching algorithms of Chrome vs. FF vs. possible others.
From a statistics point of view, mean is a very dubious and untelling metric.

Adding a mode, median, and interquartile ranges will help tremendously in finding where the "bulk" of Trump voters lay.

If nothing else, I'm sure you know that one big outlier can skew the entire data sheet, for instance, like Peter Thiel?
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There were a couple of examples of leaked data. Session stuff, API keys, cookies, oauth tokens, and so forth.

Uber: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

Fitbit: http://cdn.iphoneincanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/clou...

OkCupid: https://trtpost-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/files/2017/02/cloudb...

Oauth data: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5ZCRtMVMAEs0ca.png

Or were you asking about some consolidated treasure trove?

The real risk, to me, is that someone noticed this before Tavis did. They could have created a site with the right parameters and then scraped it for weeks. Cloudflare only had logs for 10 days of the multi-month exposure window, so they have no idea if someone did this or not.
Mass Surveillance Has Plenty of Limits, and Risks as Well
Free distribution of existing research is part of the solution.

You're right that academia is full of perverse incentives that need to change, but it's not clear how we get from where we are now to the end of "publish-or-perish". There's a need for large-scale coordination and construction of alternatives with the support of funding agencies. Suggestions beyond "individuals will sacrifice their own career standing for the greater good" are what we need to gain the strength of those individuals who are not in the most idealistic portion of the research community.
So true!

When those sounding like brown people do it, for some 'reason' the news bubbles up as "Indian" .....

Sadly, such racist simplification only lets the offending company (TalkTalk in this case) off the hook, and diverts attention towards hating Indians.

Only way to fix this is make such breaches so expensive to companies that they'd think twice before outsourcing either within the country or to a company in an another country (which will lead to stronger procedures at outsourced location).
Donald Knuth's "Concrete mathematics" is also a really good one, and can be found used on Amazon for roughly 30 dollars.
This is awesome, thanks.

Obligatory 'zoomout' recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Content-Methods-Meaning-V..., which I learned about from HN (http://hackernewsbooks.com/book/mathematics-its-content-meth...). Wish I had read/pondered this before grad math classes.