skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with that approach is that it assumes that liking is normally distributed.

I'm reminded of Jerry Garcia's famous quote about the Grateful Dead: "We're like licorice. A lot of people don't like licorice - but the people who like licorice REALLY like licorice".

A 3.5 could either mean 50% of users give it a 3, and 50% give it a 4, or it could mean that, say, 30% of users give it a 5 and 70% give it a 3 or less. How do you know you aren't part of the 30%? Great art is often polarizing.
Actually I think I just gave the Big Crunch hypothesis. The universe can be expanding so long as it eventually collapses. Even in a normal black hole forming out of a star, some particles will happen to be heading out as the star collapses and then be dragged back in after the black hole forms.
I know plenty of Indian and Chinese people who moved to Canada despite becoming relatively poorer in goods and services.

There is a lot of value in law and order, education, clean air, and political stability.
The problem with the current incarnation of capitalism is the assumption that goods and services will make people happy, and that their wants are intrinsic rather than indoctrinated. In truth both of these are false more often than not. Thus, while capitalism is very efficient, at this point that efficiency is mostly allowing us to crank up the speed setting on the hedonic treadmill, while we rack up debt, work soul crushing jobs and destroy our environment. This is sad, because in theory capitalism is awesome - we just need to stop letting the people with all the money write the rules of the game.
There is a response here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896328

> We do not adjust salaries when employees move. We try to pay similarly regardless of location.
I don't think U.S. costs are bloated when it comes to these types of applications, where perfection is pretty much a requirement.

On the other hand, if you just want to make a million doodads and sell them to consumers, U.S. costs are outrageous. I was trying to get 500 of a machined part made recently and the quotes from U.S. manufacturers were 40-100x higher than the quotes from China.
Completely. Bernie had plenty of clear, inspiring, resonant policy positions that anyone who heard them can recall. The only thing most people remember from Hillary's campaign was "I'm with her". Trump's response was "I'm with you" or "I'm your voice" or whatever. I mean, how incredibly incompetent is your campaign if you sound more narcissistic than a reality TV troll?
Disclaimer: I do not know how much did IBM know about the events in the 1930s Germany, and more importantly: how much could have they predicted about future developments of their deals, or how much and what king of support did they give later on.

You should also understand that where there is demand, supply will appear sooner or later. If you want to make business, you may want to grab some potentially problematic deals, as if you don't do, others will. After all, it is not you, doing anything bad, and you have to make profits after all. This may make deals potentially problematic in the future still desirable, sometimes simply to retain market share.

Can a miner or an ironworker be held responsible for coal used to make gunpowder and iron used to make guns?
If you take responsibility and blame too far from the actors and more importantly the commanders of disgraceful deeds, you may even find yourself guilty in things you would never agree with.

I believe that unless very deeply entangled in those crimes, IBM should not be blamed for anything, if they abided the national and international laws, and acted in good will. (I have not examined this topic in detail, cannot express a more specific opinion about this.)
Also I believe this topic is also a bit of storm in a teacup. Palantir did a job that others would have done if they didn't grab the opportunity, and it doesn't seem so hellish to me, just a reasonable tool for use by government agencies, to match the evolving threats a country faces in the 21st century. It seems to me that the anti-immigration spin is only attached to this tool because of recent policy changes and pretty divided opinions about them in the USA.
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Why is it ridiculous to call half of U.S. voters (or roughly 20-something percent of the U.S. population) "monsters"? Because it's a lot of people? Who cares? They voted to literally send armed paramilitary troops into my neighborhood to kidnap and detain people who have committed no crime other than being present on this side of an imaginary line. What else do you call that? Does that become not monstrous just because a lot of people think it's a good idea?
This is my dream, and this is why I switched industries to become a programmer. One day, I will achieve the apex - beach cafe in Vietnam, tethered net connection, happily tapping away code for my full time job.

Someday....
>The opinions of those that choose not to vote in a country with free elections are completely irrelevant.

Please.. you have to register to vote, you have to stand in a line for hours before you can vote. How many people don't vote because it's too much of a hassle? Their opinions are irrelevant?
The truly cool application of technology to traffic enforcement is the speed camera lottery in Stockholm. I have very mixed feelings on automatic license plate readers: rules for what can and can't be done with the data they produce don't really exist, and that's a real problem.
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Peter Thiel’s Palantir Faces an Escalating Court Battle with an Early Investor
I had the opportunity a few years ago to see Buzz Aldrin speak at Facebook for the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11. Someone asked him about the speech that was prepared for President Nixon in the event that Neil and Buzz had been stranded on the Moon; Buzz's answer was basically that he wasn't worried since the engineers had told them they had a ~95% chance of making it back to Earth safely, which I thought was interesting, since I have no idea how idea how they could be that confident about doing something so risky for the first time (although I guess the different pieces of hardware involved had been tested on prior missions).
I don't need to cite evidence for common sense. clearly you have none.
Anybody with the requisite smarts able to generously share their insights with the rest of us? :)
War does have ethics. For example, the US military has rules of engagement. A great example of this is that the US at one point (70% sure) knew where the head of ISIS was. He was alegedly in an appartment building in a city in Syria. The US rules of engagement prevent the airforce from simply bombing an appartment building full of civilians, so they did nothing. That means a lot. It means that they don't simply bomb large numbers of civilians, which is a good thing. It is what makes it easy for the US military to point to ISIS and say "those fighers are uncivilized they kill civilians". It is a significant advantage on the ground, because civilians are less hatefull towards the US as a result. It is also the right thing to do.

Edit: Abu Ghraib was horrible and the solders should have been sent to prison for the rest of their lives and not just a few years.

Also, I do not support the US military and think that they cause more harm than good in their foreign engagements.
That should be ExportString[expr,"PDF"], sorry! Or Export["file.pdf", expr].
The study also says that 35% reported an increase so this could just be random noise. So the headline isn't directly wrong but it isn't sending an honest message.
Valve is providing parts of the game that as far as i know are 100% and unequivocally optional and provide the user no benefit whatsoever.

How does this hurt people? How does it compare to the hurt caused by F2P strategies i described?
The modern biotech sector as a whole (excluding pure pharmaceutical therapeutics) is a pretty small compared with the tech sector. It's really challenging to build a company in a new ecosystem like that. Getting resources into the system in order to get the flywheel running is tough. Good ideas on jumpstarting what will inevitably a valuable technology would be great to hear. But like all research, it's an investment - obvious returns might not come in the short-term.
In that case the amount of energy in the universe is infinite.
Euclid proved any and all support for some political figure is equivalent? That seems implausible.
> It is ridiculous to call half of all US voters "monsters".

Peter Think is not situated equally to all Trump voters. Even if we accept that it is a priori unreasonable that nearly half of the voting population on the recent election could be described as "monsters" (I don't, as popularity of an act does not contradict depravity of the act), it's quite possible to believe that voting for Trump reveals that one is either a monster or decieved by a monster, and believes that there are things about Think that make it particularly unlikely that he is a dupe, and thus that he is a monster but not all those voting for Trump are.
> If Palantir refused the contract ICE would walk down the street and offer it to IBM/SAP/Northrop/Raytheon etc.

What what we debating here? ICE's conduct or Palantir being an enabler? Because if we're talking about Palantir, "someone else would have done it" is not a good excuse.
I have yet to see any sensible answers to these questions which I, too, have asked a few people. Judging by the tone in which the original statements were posed, I do not expect today to be any different.
Even with well distributed knowledge, you'll still likely end up with 1% of the population controlling 80% of the resources, which would mean they'd have plenty enough to quell any insurrection from the common people. It doesn't matter if a million people have the skills to cobble together a few war bots each, when a few oligarchs each have a factory and supply chain capable of churning out a million each in the same time-frame.

If it comes to that. I'm still somewhat hopeful that democratic processes and altruistic members of the elite will sort things out in the next century.
That's a different issue. The parent comment was, "It was blatantly obvious the dem on the street wanted Bernie". Clinton won millions more votes from the "dems on the street" than Bernie.
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First of all, I'd like to applaud this initiative. I worked remotely for 4 years (just switched to a local startup) and it was great for work-life balance (among other things). I wholeheartedly wish that it would be very successful.

This may not be something new for you guys, as you've been running remote agile teams, but how are you planning to deal with time differences? Are you reserving the right to ask remote employees to start their day at a particular time? Are you going to take time zones into consideration when building your teams?
Why are independent voters entitled to select the nominee of a party they aren't a part of?

And after all, progressive candidates like Feingold and Teachout lost by an even bigger margin than Clinton in WI and Faso's district, respectively.
Y Combinator-backed Xix.ai wants to predict what you’ll do next on your phone
If anyone is creating pianos I've made some audios you can use https://github.com/mcapodici/pianosounds
your arrogance is amusing. did you really expect me to read all that?

Try summarizing your ego in one sentence or less and maybe if I give a shit on Monday when this comment is buried.
If it will spare us a long and unproductive debate can we just stipulate that I'm speaking positively and not normatively? Whatever your philosophical leanings might be, intent is basically the fulcrum for most of US criminal law as it exists in the real world.

As a result, we don't have to reach far to see how inducing a seizure over the Internet could result in criminal liability. It isn't a stretch. The laws we had 40 years ago adequately capture the event.
Very curious as to what OP thinks a working class message is.
The way they phrase it is suspect though. It's not "the system deployed in a test environment", it's "a simulated system built ... to resemble fleet systems""
...and it wasn't actually that difficult to pick up on either.
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> The US believes the activity could signal preparations for some type of ballistic missile test in the first days or weeks of the Trump administration, they said.

Didn't this already happen? Not much of a test though, but it sure did put S. Korea on notice.
>The US does not have a monopoly on high quality health care, and what use are the best experts if they're too expensive? It's not like you can have your pick of the US top experts as long as you're insured in the US.

Go do a google search for something like "best children's hospitals in the world." I challenge you to find a list that isn't at last 75% US hospitals. Most are over 90% US. If you have something that warrants it in the US, you're going to get into one of those hospitals and you're not going to pay anything.

>Our population is healthier, which probably helps keep costs down.

This not only keeps costs down, but also keeps health stats up. Your life expectancy is probably a lot better than ours, but you also have much lower obesity rates. People often cite our health outcomes with any context at all. Context matters. The fact that over a third of our population is obese matters. And not having to pay a copay isn't going to change that.
> I guess I could never justify calling someone a "monster" based solely upon their political leanings.

Read: "My safety has never been at risk because of the consequences of someone's political leanings and have either never met or do not consider sufficiently valuable anyone whose safety is"
For now. Your next blog post will be "Due to popular demand, GitLab Team Member 1 Shirts For Sale".
There's plenty of cheap land and labor 100 miles east of San Francisco. Why don't we build homelessville there?
3 died on the ground during a test exercise. No American astronaut died _in space_ until the Challenger explosion.
No. I will not censor my opinions. Wrong is wrong. Planatir and Peter Thiel routinely disregards the very pillars of democracy. Shame on you for internalizing and projecting the same shameless values to censor opinions against a gay demi-god such as Peter Thiel.

Censoring would mean supporting Palantir and Peter Thiel which I despise. Seems like a lot of Trump supporters on HN which is quite shocking to be honest.

You could, not read my comments and just move on. Yet something within you chose to so you have only yourself to blame.
That's a more difficult question to answer. Slaves are only good for the lowest menial labor, such as picking cotton. Up until the introduction of the cotton gin, slavery was dying out in the US because it was unprofitable. The cotton gin made slavery profitable again, but it was again dying out by the time of the Civil War. One of the causes of the Civil War was the southern states trying to erect trade barriers to protect the economics of the slave plantations.

Businesses run on slave labor just could not compete with those run with free labor.

(For example, it was illegal in the slave states to teach slaves to read, and any slave who could read would do well to conceal the skill. The southerners were fearful of an educated slave, because that made them more dangerous. But an illiterate slave was also less useful as a worker.)
As far as we can tell, it's not.
States decide whether to have open or closed primaries, not parties within the state or national parties.
So basically increase the cost of goods for everyone so more people can be employed at a higher wage?

The Immigration you speak of is likely doing more good than bad, what American wants to work a low paying, back breaking job in the fields or in some factory where the second they complain, they are fired?
Since I didn't in fact say that voting for Trump made one a monster, the expectation that I rebut that argument is indeed a form of projection.
Better yet, 100 miles west of San Francisco
AFAICT, This looks more like attacks on the implementations of ZRTP than on attempts to find weaknesses in the underlying protocol.
The better way to make people wear their seatbelts would be to standardize a really annoying seatbelt alarm in every car. I have a Subaru Forrester, and if I unbuckle my belt for 10s in my driveway, it goes crazy.

Fun fact: At the police department, we actually had the seatbelt alarms for all of our cruisers disconnected. Being able to get quickly in and out without the seatbelts snagging on our gear was the priority at low speed. Most officers are trained to unbuckle and be ready to exit the vehicle before coming to a full stop (technically illegal.)
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i was a bit of a hiki for awhile as a teen. i didnt goto HS or anything, i just stayed in my room and sat on 4chan for years.
for me i think it was that the combination of some unmedicated mental issues i didnt know i had yet, and a bad family situation, had left me barely able to cope with being alive.

on the bright side i got my start with tech/programming/etc with all that free time. thanks /g/ haha
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We do really want to build a viable workflow around this stack, and get to a point where setting up a project like this is completely click-and-go - without giving up the fundamental basis of being open-source, based on open-standards and based on an open concept of the web!

Wordpress and the whole ecosystem around the LAMP stack did a great job around this and was a big player in building an open web, but the underlying tech stack is way outdated now, and the developer experience is so far off what modern front-end tooling is evolving into, so we aim to build something for a modern stack, that doesn't give up on the fundamental openness of an open-source ecosystem.
The overlords are parasites who require a functioning host to survive. If people check out of the system, the whole house of cards collapses. Mass exodus coupled with nonviolent resistance could reshape the system quite quickly.
> most wealth is lost by the third generation because of lack of responsibility and entitlement.

Can you cite any of these claims? I'd like to understand this a little better.
I'm saying worry about ICE's conduct, worrying about Palantir is unproductive. ICE's ability to build a database is not the limiting factor.
Maybe, I'm going off of facebook, reddit, and news site discussion. That's definitely not a representative sample set though.

Either way, canceling the 3ds and focusing all their efforts on the switch seems like the best way to ensure this system is a success.
I googled. What I got was something like "These 11 rich guys grew up poor". Out of 300M population, correct?
No, the claim was "in order to be present they had to enter unlawfully"; that claim is what is under discussion and it is factually untrue.

What you present is the converse of the claim under discussion. And, for that matter, is also false. A lawful permanent resident alien who enters (say, after a vacation abroad) other than at a designated border crossing is not unlawfully present, but has committed the offense of illegal entry.
Not without any specific evidence. Otherwise I'd have to believe an almost infinite number of things that seem possible and fit my worldview.
I just saw https://youtu.be/Jyfnl8K8fJM which covers this topic quite well
This is almost the exact response I expected. You had a chance to inform someone on your position and instead you chose to personally attack their intelligence as though they were beneath you. This is the route an angry child would likely have chosen, is it not?

Everyone that reads your response will likely assume that you didn't have anything to back up your ill-informed position on the matter. Having seen this frequently on the internet, I wonder if this is the reason your account is new.
You don't email your lawyer. You ask Alphabet to do it for you (gmail).

Want to send a mail from home, as should be the norm? First, you need to get through your ISP's firewall. Many block the outgoing SMTP port, and there is nothing you can do about it. Others forbid you to use that port by contract. Some offer an SMTP relay to compensate, but then you're no longer sending your own email. Plus, they often limit you to 40 emails per day or so, and can spy on you, TLS or no.

Once your mail is sent, it has to pass through spam filters, and they all blacklist residential IP addresses.
Perfectly happy with Github, but seriously, can I hire you guys as a PR agency? :)
A very long, unproductive, and off-topic subthread starts here; virtually nothing underneath this comment engages with the concept of tech company responsibility/culpability for misuse, which is the kernel of my comment.

This would be a good place to use the thread collapse [-] button, and also a good place for the monitors to snip off a political subthread.
Meh. I'm a legal immigrant, it took me and my family many years. I have many friends waiting for years to go through the Green Card process. I don't understand this recent glorification/romanticization of people who chose to just come here and skirt the law, imaginary line or not.
Ahhh, absolutely adore alliteration.
Take a look at the map in that article. CNN says North Korea's latest ICBM can reach California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and western Canada with a nuclear weapon. The midwest and eastern US are out of range. Of those areas, only California has targets worth a nuclear weapon.

If North Korea's is attacked by the US, we can expect a nuclear strike at California. Today, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced that "(the) Trump administration might be forced to take pre-emptive action if they elevate the threat of their weapons program” to an unacceptable level."[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/world/asia/rex-tillerson-...
Since I never said anything about doctors being monsters, I don't accept the premise of the question.
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You could have mentioned, that the traffic light doesn't exist anymore: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/ewiges-rot-an-dresdn...
Aha!

I knew someone probably tried this already.
I mean, I think you're both right. It was "excellent" in the way that Requiem for a Dream was excellent; i.e., it was excellent and I never want to watch it again.
For those that don't understand the concern: a lot of us have an interest in the government being inefficient at tasks. You may think to yourself "So what, keep the terrorists away?"

But when I hear stories about border agents asking to inspect peoples' phones, and taking notes if somebody has an app for hookups and asking them about it next time they cross that border it concerns me.

Sometimes making an irresponsible system more efficient is a bad thing. Hitler was only able to exterminate 2/3rds of the Jewish race because there was registry of Jews.
Apparently, the methane sensor was defective and the data it sent was unusable: http://www.space.com/34943-india-mars-orbiter-mission-methan...
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In general, because that is the ballot process many states use.

Personally I'd prefer the ballot process to be completely based on petitions, with parties having no direct role (they would of course endorse candidates; that endorsement shouldn't change the names that appear on ballots).
Something something if you had invented Facebook, you would have invented Facebook something.

As anyone with the pleasure of having contracted with IBM or Lockheed can tell you, there is a significant difference between working with giant government contractors versus the best funded Silicon Valley firms.