skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you expand your criteria to unaffiliated evil clickbait authors, you'll surely find that, and worse. The bullcrap I've seen shared on transhumanist/AI Facebook groups is just mind-boggling.
> In either case, obviously innocent bystanders will be quickly eliminated from the list of possible suspects.

This is a big assumption that may or may not hold in practice. I'd argue that it's more productive to work towards it becoming universal than fighting this kind of request... Or maybe both, because, why does Google has all this information anyway?

I partially agree with you here. I see two big problems, none of them being spying or judicial overreach.
If you enjoyed this article, there's a rather deep rabbit-hole documenting the search for a German family that went missing in Death Valley about 20 years ago.

http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun...
Not really. It's simply a general observation I made after reading your post.
I've been joking with friends that my next job will be AWS efficiency guru. I've somewhat optimized our own use, but I think I could use similar, simple rules to get 20% out of a 500k / month budget.

Give me what I save you in 2 months and I'll have a good business :)
Programs that have saved me 100+ hours
It's specifically talking about ethical consequentalism, which is related to utilitarianism -- the idea that you should act in a way to maximize happiness and minimize suffering.

Some vegetarians are not consequentialists, and so they can reject this argument for the reason you describe, but I know many who are.
"Some consequentialists may be vegetarian because of environmental concerns, and others for non-consequentialist reasons, but these are not my main focus here."
The Music School Bubble (2015)
The most alarming thing is that they are explicitly cutting anything to do with climate change (there's a more comprehensive overview here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-presi...). That's also a large part of what the NASA budget cut is aimed at...
for unstructured data applying NLP

the other alternative is parsing schema.org schemas or other markup
America isn't solidly ahead in any given department, but despite the prevailing political climate in some states, they're still doing a better job on the whole than many if not most countries.

It's like America gets a B/B+ at least in most categories where some countries are more like A/A/D.
We use HTMLUnit. Works pretty well. Not super fast, but you want to scrape individual sites at a moderate rate anyway
Same deal in Sacramento; it'd be more cost-effective (even factoring in time and cost of transportation) to just commute to the Bay Area, which quite a few people already do.
Absolutely that's what they're doing. The old Control Panel is very byzantine and cannot be completely done away with primarily because it's a modular system that vendors hook into when they add proprietary configurations for their hardware or software (e.g. Synaptics, Lenovo, Intel, Adobe). For backwards compatibility purposes they cannot just scrap it.

The aspects of the Control Panel that they do control have portions that date all the way back to Windows 3.1 and it's no small feat for them to refactor them into Modern UI apps. Instead of halting all OS progress until that herculean effort can be completed, they've chosen to gradually migrate or deprecate Control Panel features. This has been an on going project since Windows 8 and they've made a lot of progress. Many of the ancient UI elements like the "Windows Color and Appearance" panel are gone in Windows 10.

Personally I'd rather have it happen this way than the Apple approach (i.e. removing the UI and forcing you to edit plist files).
Did you read it? Literally the second sentence points this out.
Is nobody else disturbed by the fact that nowhere is anyone specifying what kind of onions to use? Vidalia, Texas, Walla Walla? Bermuda? Cévennes??
Repeat after me:

"I can't wait to be judged by a panel with a single, global understanding of correctness, morality, and justice which can account for everyone's beliefs and completely understand what is right and wrong. There is right, and there is wrong. And we must seek to eradicate wrong, for we know what is right. And if you disagree with us, you are wrong."

Resist. Do not let the shills tell you what to believe in.
His comparison of very low estimates of livestock population (a 2004 estimate of 17B chicken compared to the 2009 estimate of 50B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poultry_farming#World_chicken_... ) to the entire wild animal population is a particularly negligent simplification, and the cherry-picked stats and inexplicable use of scientific notation for 60B and common notation for 17B show his motive for it.

The fact is, chickens would not exist if not for human captivity/breeding, so it is irrelevant to compare 17 or 50 Billion to 60 billion wild "land bird" populations. The comparison should be to zero chickens. These chickens would not spontaneously be wild fowl of another species under any circumstances.
It is, nonetheless, a blanket search on the entire residents of the city, though? Which seems like it should be way unconstitutional.
As far as renaming droplets to servers or instances- i don't think that will ever happen. Calling them droplets is basically (whats the word im looking for here) their brand/marketing term.
Some context:

Cheating at exams and plagiarism is rampant in Romania. Multiple gov't officials, MPs and even a former prime minister nicknamed copy/paste were accused of plagiarism in the last few years. They tried to subordinate comitees that analyze PhD thesis just to get away with it and even succeeded in doing so.

National exams use cameras to twart cheaters.

Dexonline.ro is a volunteer effort and assumes no responsability for the correctness of its content.
I've had some drivers straight-up tell me that they enjoy driving for fun, and they drive for Uber/Lyft just because it gives them an excuse to do it. And I'm sure that even if they don't make a profit, driving for Uber/Lyft is less expensive than just driving around and not getting paid at all.
If my rider rating goes down I will just create a new account. Never cared about it.
Opens which door? Minix3 is microkernel based and userland compatible with NetBSD. XNU is originally based on the Mach microkernel and has part of FreeBSD bolted on. Both are open source, as are Mach proper and L4.

Perhaps someone could start with Minix3 or Darwin rather than Linux or BSD or from scratch. Replace one component at a time in Rust, or D, or Ada...
It is, especially if they are avoiding violence out of moral responsibility...
>I had a colleague of mine (who works on rockets/spaceflight, has done so for decades) say the barge landing was impossible.

Surely they might have mentioned a couple of reasons. Care to share?
Taking a step makes it worse than doing nothing? How would you go about it?

iOS defaults to rendering sRGB (and Apple's devices do it pretty accurately [1][2]) so nothing changes for legacy images, unless your content or code specifically asks for P3.

Xcode and the App Store also handles thinning/slicing so that wide color content is only delivered to and stored on devices that can display it. [3]

Pretty much all of the leading content creation apps support the matching and embedding of color profiles.

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> Changing image encoding from sRGB is change for the sake of change - the vast majority of real world image content fits in sRGB.

That's a terrible argument. Holding technology back for the sake of, what?

There were times when the vast majority of "real world" content and applications fit perfectly fine in 640 Kilobytes, 640×480, 256 colors, 2 audio channels and so on.

1920×1080 is still "good enough" and covers the vast majority of content so why bother with 4K?

Many people are happy with consoles yet why do PC owners resent it when a game's graphics are dumbed down?

In any case, wide color can make a considerable difference [4][5][6][7] (to be viewed on capable devices of course, but you can still see comparisons) and the cameras on the new iPads, iPhones and other devices take photos in wide color and do embed that information in the images.

[1] http://www.displaymate.com/iPad_Pro9_ShootOut_1.htm

[2] http://www.displaymate.com/iPhone7_ShootOut_1.htm

[3] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/712/

[4] https://webkit.org/blog-files/color-gamut/comparison.html

[5] http://austinmann.com/trek/iphone-7-camera-review-rwanda

[6] http://www.astramael.com

[7] http://furbo.org/color/WideGamut/
The abstract is necessarily shorter than the paper. If you read as far as the second sentence of the paper you will see your point addressed.
You make it sound like this is a two way street when in fact there is little to no accountability on the part of our handlers.
What if the police asked for the names of everyone who discussed using cannabis in their email exchanges? Would you really argue that in states where cannabis use was illegal that it would be perfectly okay to do this, collect just the names of people who had used mentioned cannabis in email and then visit their homes to question them further about this?

I'm pretty surprised how many people on HN seem to find this acceptable when this is clearly a form of dragnet surveillance.
Thank you, I've just realized how... different (to not say "awful"...) it is in US after reading more comments here.

To be honest sometimes I'm anxious when my bill ends up some number that's hard to tip from; but if I don't tip, nothing will happen.
> The police are looking for a list of persons of interest to start with.

Then maybe they should ask Google "of this list of people, did any of them search for this person?". Not "give us the list of the entire town's search history, we'll narrow it down to a few people and then totally just throw the rest of this very fascinating data out, pinky-swear".
What you said is true of many websites, but this threat isn't relevant to the threat discussed in this thread: finding IP addresses in server logs.
I did read it. The author makes an arbitrary distinction between "consequentialist" and "ethical consequentialist" vegetarians and implies the second category is comprised entirely of those concerned with animal welfare.
This is the same problem encountered with genetic databases, government run or run by businesses like 23&Me[0].

> “Your relative’s DNA could turn you into a suspect,” warns Wired, writing about a case from earlier this year, in which New Orleans filmmaker Michael Usry became a suspect in an unsolved murder case after cops did a familial genetic search using semen collected in 1996. The cops searched an Ancestry.com database and got a familial match to a saliva sample Usry’s father had given years earlier. Usry was ultimately determined to be innocent and the Electronic Frontier Foundation called it a “wild goose chase” that demonstrated “the very real threats to privacy and civil liberties posed by law enforcement access to private genetic databases.”

[0] http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are-...
We should have a new Technology court, where qualified hybrid legal/whatevertech folks preside.
E.g. "IROQUOIS CONSTITUTION: A FORERUNNER TO COLONISTS' DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES" (1987) http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/28/us/iroquois-constitution-a...
Show HN: Elixir service to stack multiple images
I think "ethical vegetarian" in academic philosophy has specifically been used to refer to people motivated by animal rights or welfare, and that's still what academic philosophers themselves talk about most in connection with vegetarianism.
I wish I could invest in Segment. Lot of smart people over there.
Interestingly, it gives the wrong times for the "caramelise" spelling, but the correct time for "caramelize."
This is exactly why I enjoy Lyft's option for tipping. Tipping is awkward if I have to fumble for cash and stuff it in the driver's hands. It's not awkward if I can just press a button and charge it to my credit card.
Todai has a strong traditional science profile and traditionally science deals mainly with calculus and statistics. This leads to less of an emphasis on algebra for these exams since they are based on the undergraduate curriculum. It is regrettable, especially for those like myself that came from a school that emphasised algebra and theoretical computer science and only taught advanced calculus at a graduate level.
I'm fine with a driver having an (unobtrusive, tasteful) tip jar in their car, but if a driver ever actively asked me for a tip, I'd give them a lower rating (commensurate with how hard they pushed for the tip) and report them to Uber for making me feel uncomfortable while captive in their car.

I use payment-in-app services in part because I don't like carrying much or any cash around, and when I do, it's usually just a few $20 bills, which aren't very useful for tipping in this scenario.

And yes, I do tip in-app when I use Lyft, in part because their social contract includes tipping, and I can do it without the on-the-spot pressure of needing to do so in the car. Uber explicitly states that tips are not expected or required, and does not provide an in-app way of tipping, so I wouldn't tolerate tip solicitation from a driver. (Hell, I wouldn't tolerate tip solicitation from a Lyft driver, either. Asking me for a tip when the app does it for you counts as "worse service" to me.)
If I have to give that to you it's not "savings"... :D
Congrats on the launch!

> We’ve found that some of the most cost-effective charities can buy one year of perfect health (a QALY) for as little as $80

Which was that? IIRC GiveWell only claim $100/QALY for the AMF - have you found a charity you believe is 20% more efficient than that, or is this just a difference in how you measure cost per qaly?

[Edit] another question -- there's recently been criticism[0] of the poor quality of data and effectiveness research in animal welfare EA, compared with human welfare EA. Would the animal welfare fund be doing things like actively commissioning new research into intervention effectiveness? Or would it be more hands-off, just limited to picking charities based on the data that's out there at the moment?

[0] https://medium.com/@harrisonnathan/the-actual-number-is-almo...
Wow. So cool. I love offering a solution that could ultimate inform a change in their product in the form of a Chrome Extension.

In principle, however, I am not comfortable giving over control of a site that has financial information, and thus potential financial ramifications, to a chrome extension.

To echo other comments. If you made this for AWS though, id have no choice but to adopt. That site is too fucked not to accept any solution to clean it up
Why bower? Didn't bower fall by the wayside when npm v3 came out a couple years ago?[1]

[1]: https://www.quora.com/Why-use-Bower-when-there-is-npm
Isn't that effectively a straw man fallacy, then?
I agree. The bootcamps have a probably done a great job of flooding the market at the low level. It's pretty clear that bootcamps are the new ITT tech. I think a lot these bootcamps are selling false promises and preying on people trying to better themselves.
A fourth:

People are literally losing money working for Uber but enjoy driving as a hobby, and Uber helps them recoup at least some of the costs of driving around all the time.

(yes, I've had drivers tell me they do Uber/Lyft for fun because they love driving)
It seems it's more nuanced. Try the following searches:

how long does it take to caramelize onions
how long does it take to caramelise onions (note the typo)
how long to caramelize an onion (not a typo but still wrong)
how long to caramelize onions
> text method is via android's google voice - forced to offline mode. The offline mode is surprisingly good.

I actually tried this at one point with a wall-mounted tablet before trying Sphinx. It is surprisingly good for offline, probably the best offline I've tried yet outside of dedicated software like Dragon. But it doesn't meet my open criteria, so I'm hoping to find something better.

I'll most likely give up on the requirements of it needing to be local and open, and use Sphinx for hotword detection to send the audio out to AWS for processing.

> Re mis triggers... I also have opencv running on the same android. It only activates the voice recognition when I am actually looking directly at the android device (an old phone).

That's an awesome idea :) I haven't gotten around to playing with anything vision based yet. But I've thought of 'simple' projects like that, which would add a lot to the perceived intelligence. Figuring out the number of people in a room would be another useful idea I think. The AI could enter a guest mode when there is more than 1 person in the room, or when it detects faces that aren't mine, or something similar.
urschrei, can you please expand on your claim about the appropriateness of citing Ed Glaeser on this topic? I am a layman on the topics of economics and urban planning. Glaeser's Wikipedia page suggests he is an active researcher in this field; what is which you believe makes him unsuitable?
Fast Smart Contracts Execution in a Private Blockchain Development Environment
If you don't mind de-cloaking, do you mind sending me an email?
> Twenty years ago, if you had asked people: "If you had a service that data mined the information you gave it for advertising purposes, where potentially dozens of engineers and operators have access to that information--would you consider that a trusted and private system?" They would have said "no."

With the upside that every product is free and said service have never used such information malevolently? That's a resounding 'yes'.
That is how it begins.
He's saying it is in a poor state and development is slow. My supposition is that this means there are missing features and a lack of performance optimization. Presumably the DFlyBSD network stack is now different enough that they can't just pull in the FreeBSD IPv6 stack and drop it in.
The DoD will give you a few thousand USD if you write a good enough proposal for the military benefits of sharks with freaking lasers on their heads for the defense of navy vessels [1].

Throwing a few million at a prototype computer on the off chance it works is well within the budget.

[1] Austin Power reference not a real research project.
Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder
I propose further bending the analogy to make it more correct:

>a particular and rare style
should be "a particular style", since we don't know how prevalent the image is in places that aren't major image search engines, or for other search terms within those engines.

>from a particular designer store
should be "from a specific location of a particular global discount store"

>on the day someone was seen committing a crime while wearing an obviously brand new one.
on the Tuesday before someone was seen committing a crime while wearing one. (images, once acquired, last forever; there's nothing saying the image was acquired in the time window of the subpoena)
This is actually pretty impressive... How much money have you guys raised so far?
Privacy and Anonymity on the Internet, Berkman Center
I wrote about that five year ago.

https://jacquesmattheij.com/your-genetic-information-is-not-...

This problem will get larger and larger.
theoretical question: what if google will say that they do not know how to get this specific information out of their data? how can anyone prove if its true without full access to google infrastructure? will the police confiscate all their servers?
Ok. Well I read

> Some consequentialists may be vegetarian because of environmental concerns, and others for non-consequentialist reasons, but these are not my main focus here.

as acknowledging that there are other kinds of consequentialists, those that have other ethical reasons for not eating meat, but that he's not talking about them.
but you do save money every month after that!
For you, no. Sad truth is a lot of companies are biased against interviewing bootcamp graduates because it's a total crapshoot. Anything you can do to make your resume or application prove your not brain-dead is really going to help.
Most residential solar is third-party financed, either leased from the manufacturer or operated under a power purchase agreement, where the solar supplier owns the gear, acts like a utility, and sells power to the consumer. There are various incentive programs which make this viable.[1] Solar City pulled out of Nevada when one of those incentive programs went away.[2]

[1] https://financere.nrel.gov/finance/content/don%E2%80%99t-be-...
[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2016/01/sol...
This article explicitly states that it only applies to a subset of Vegetarianism, namely Ethical Consequentialist Vegetarianism. Ipso facto, it does not apply to the entirety of Vegetarianism, hence the explicit disclaimer in the introduction.
I disagree. The person who owns the server should get to decide who has access and under what circumstances. Joe Scraper, having invested nothing, has no claim or rights to it whatsoever.

Furthermore, the fact that the server gives 200 responses is not sufficient implied permission IF a no-scraping policy has been communicated in some other way such as robots.txt or (clearly communicated) TOS.

The techno-nihilist argument of "i'm just throwing bits on the wire, they're choosing to respond" is pretty unconvincing in a world where intent and context matters.
I also had this feeling of only learning about my own national/cultural identity by being the foreigner in another country. Suddenly you even realize there are things you're proud of, although you've never thought of yourself as being proud about your country before.

And I'm jealous that you know about the reverse culture shock. Gives you some time to prep for it. I'd be really curious if it helps. For me and probably many others the reverse shock was actually much worse. Took me about a year to get any kind of life back. And it was really disappointing that all the new things you've learned you couldn't just not really share with old friends and family, they don't really care. Otherwise they would've taken the trip with you, right? So for them you are not the smart, cool guy who managed to do something extraordinary, you're the idiot who did lots of crazy things and now pesters them with all of the experience they could have told him before would be troublesome and weird.

What helped a little was having contact with expats in the other direction who I could communicate with after returning face to face, and keeping all my friends from the foreign country at least digitally close by.

Good luck with returning! Hope it works better for you.
How to get the most value out of remote user research- without breaking the bank
Yes, exactly, which makes the claim even more baffling.

Sure, they can just reimplement all their Java dependencies, but if they have to implement e.g. collections anyway, they could just have designed a better API in the first place, instead of being stuck with Java collections on platforms that don't even run Java.
That's fine as a discussion starter, but thinking a law is wrong isn't a reason to break it – if that's what you're suggesting.

That argument often turns into "But I probably won't get caught" which is a similarly weak defence.
My thoughts are similar to the author's. With books, the upside seems so high that even if a book is more expensive than usual I can always rationalize the purchase by postulating whether it will be a "game changer", in which case even $100 is a relatively small price to pay.
Surely you can adapt it to compute an approximation of a mixed Nash equilibria. My game theory isnt at a high level, but there are similar computations you can perform, and when I used to play poker, you'd have common calculations based on it for more than 2 players when you are playing with a limited stack. I dont see how that wouldnt be adaptable (abeit more computationally expensive) for more players, but I might be missing something.