skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that a field misses one prediction doesn't invalidate the entire field. Would you declare climate science invalid because it didn't predict the hiatus?
I believe Ubuntu was the only Linux distribution doing such thing (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.en.html). You may want to try some other distribution like Fedora, openSUSE or Debian.
It's worth noting that JFK and Henry Kissinger were big fans of the game Diplomacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)
If it's a comment written in a second or two, is it worth posting? It was definitely a call-out as indicated by the finality of "Curious"; it could have been asked very matter-of-factly if he was actually curious.
I'm a policy maker. What do I do with a non-predictive result? Please give a concrete example.
It sounds like you're frustrated that deep learning is rediscovering stuff that your field discovered years ago. I've come to the conclusion that the only solution to that is to try to communicate more effectively; the reason they are not talking to us is that they can't understand what we're saying.
This is very disheartening.

As a direct result, I am spending some time tonight researching running Linux on my Suface Book.

I have been impressed with what seems like a new Microsoft. I even made the switch from OSX to a Surface Book as my primary laptop. I used OSX for a decade and ran Linux as my primary OS before that.
This kind of shit is exactly why I retired my PC. Done with all Microsoft products.
It was really cutting edge when it was released around 4 years ago. Mobile first, statically generated content (regenerated every hour or so).

The design standards for the state were drawn up in collaboration between the CTO's office and my employers at the time (at no expense to the state). First and foremost: Mobile first, responsive.

That EMRS website appears to be the same old same old. It has been that way for at least 7-8 years now at the very least, as it looked like that already when I joined the company (2010, I think). I guess they haven't agreed to a redesign yet (most of the agencies jumped on the redesign opportunity, especially given there was no financial impact on them.)
Where can I read these things that have been written about chess's relation to daily life?
Well, okay.

The tools I use will work on all these operating systems, but I wouldn't consider windows or OSX 'good enough' for me.

I suspect most developers could get their stacks to work on everything from freebsd to windows (well, unless you're a .net dev) -- so that's not really the reason to pick one or the other?

I don't run linux becuase 'vim' works better than it does on opensolaris... right?
It was indeed 12.04 and only affecting Unity (Canonical's Desktop Environment), not other DE's like GNOME or KDE.

You should check out https://fixubuntu.com nonetheless, which surfaced at that time, is still up and relevant.
Is your number crunching program geared towards a mass market; or a 'once in a while' report run by a single company?

I would expect the two markets to have very different requirements.
As one of the comments on the site point out, this is really rooted in radiophobia.

By the most conservative estimates we should have fusion that can reliably yield more energy than put in within around 500 years. With fusion (and the energy abundance it will bring) we can transmute that waste into less dangerous elements [1], and perhaps even into useful rare metals.

The most interesting thing about this article to me is how they fail to mention the amount of radiation involved. If you are interested in just how big of a scale you need to talk about radiation, I would look at xkcd's brilliant chart [2].

1: http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/could-fusion-clean-u...

2: https://xkcd.com/radiation/
Wow yeah I bet those kids were not born back when web.mit.edu and www.mit.edu were still different things (plus see e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/19990208005346/http://mit.edu/ ).
While the CIA games may not be readily available, Volko Ruhnke , the CIA game designer mentioned in the article is well known for designing commercially available games, many of which have the flavor of the CIA game mentioned in the article, such as Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001 – ? and Andean Abyss. See his full list of games in [1].

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/772/volko-ruhnke
Definitely all about expressing opinions in exactly that manner, it's just quotes that grind my gears. The way you described it, I pictured you grabbing your phone, quoting Snowden and dropping the mic :) Quotes always seem like an appeal to authority, are usually taken out of context and rarely say anything truly useful.
I've experienced quite the opposite. Quit my last job due to internal conflicts w/o a backup and rode saving's for a month. Was confident the entire time.

This is obviously super personal in regards to tech/location.

It's not all doom and gloom.
I'm not sure I understand this. The point of the reverse engineering is to simulate (exactly) requests from the app, using your script, thus making it impossible for them to detect. And the data collected in the app has no bearing on your scripted calls to the API outside the app.

I suppose I can envisage a scenario where the app sends a counter as a request id, and my script will then send the next value of the counter as its id, causing the next request from the app to re-use a counter value and thus fail, but the server API and the app have no way of knowing this is due to my script and not, say, network issues, and therefore it should still not affect my reverse engineering abilities...

Maybe, taking this further, the app could have baked in a certain number of unique, opaque 'request tokens' that are valid for one API call only, and when my script has used all of them it will cease to work, and in doing so cause my copy of the app to become useless, but again, not an insurmountable barrier.
Of course this assumed you didn't enrich the uranium.
At this point all the available desktop OS choices suck. They suck in different ways for different reasons, and they suck by different amounts. But they do - all - suck.

It's truly tragic. As a species, we're hoping to build a self-enhancing mega-AI, but we can't even keep relatively basic OS technology stable without breaking it.

I absolutely understand that some of the reasons for breakage are economic and political. But even so.
I guess have to stay with Mac and make it a Linux machine. Glad I saw this, I had a ZenBook in my Amazon 'save for later' cart.
The better critique is that math requires homogenous data points.

This critique is similarly wrong. There's a field called "machine learning" - you might have heard of it - which often uses inhomogeneous data points.

So doing statistical studies on a question like "do charter schools work" that treats all these implementations as identical, is often not very useful for actually learning something about policy.

So instead build a model that understands the important factors which make charter schools work/fail. Then use it.

If you can't do this, don't pretend you have anything to say about whether I should implement charter schools.
While we're on the subject of really great federal websites take a look at the Federal Register. I think you'll come away with a wider and more empathetic perspective on the issue of regulation.

Agencies have the power to create rules, and they create a lot of them. The Federal Register was 81,611 pages in 2015. Granted not all of that was new rules.

https://www.federalregister.gov

I seriously love this website, and I love the Federal Register. The typography of the PDF's, the searchability of the website, the open API's. It's really fantastic.
I'm not sure IT is their core competence.
This is based on an older product called Truviso which was acquired by Cisco in 2012.

Shameless plug, but if you want to try a similar product that you can download and play around with today (continuous queries on streams), you can try Striim:

http://www.striim.com

Instead of using Postgres for recovery, the streams are backed by Kafka. You can plug it into your existing streaming infrastructure if you use Kafka today or just deploy Striim standalone.
(Note that two people can be wrong at the same time. When I agree that the B responders may indeed be motivated by confirmation bias that doesn't rule out the possibility that the A responder was also motivated by (an opposite) confirmation bias based on quite different previous observations. So, the parent may be interested in a genuine possibility due to a bias and pointing to a real but not the most likely possibility (it's hard to judge how committed he - the parent concerned about delayed reactions - is, so we are bound to interpret his comments in the way that makes the most sense and assume he is making only the rational point that is there to be made); and yet at the same time those who assume he's speaking due to confirmation do so because they don't recognize how common such delayed reactions are and assume he must be stretching a point or imagining such long delays because he's desperate to preserve a prior belief. Note this study was small and quick - 37 people and 9 days, apparently.)

As of now, I don't think you can get away from confirmation bias on the part of the B responders, at least, though. If the parent is true (and yes, those delayed reactions do exist), then those who accuse that poster of confirmation bias can only get there by assuming (consciously or unconsciously) that the reactions they are most familiar with (intolerance and IgE) are exhaustive, since they can't read his mind and know that he would reject future results from better experiments that are consistent with this experiment. He (the parent) raised a real possibility therefore the knock-down proof fails, as for now. We don't know that non-celiac gluten-specific reactions don't exist. That assumption that reactions to gluten or anything else have to be similar to IgE reactions or intolerance is confirmation bias (of the common "what I've seen so far is what there is" kind) - but of course our brains are associative, and we like to save thought and energy, so there's no massive shame in that; confirmation bias is a part of everybody's daily experience in at least small ways because that's how our brains work and must work. Overlooking even the possibility of disconfirming evidence (that in fact exists in similar contexts, such as oats) is quite a strong form of confirmation bias.

It's worth noting that the study doesn't show that there aren't reactions to gluten that aren't celiac reactions; in fact it shows that there are people who have such reactions, it's just that they also react to a lot of foods (this is actually common with MCAS - Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, for example - some people with MCAS end up restricted to a handful of foods.) Such patients turn out to have a helluva lot more problems than just gluten, so they benefit from avoiding a helluva lot more than gluten.

You may to have to disambiguate "concern" "situation" and "he" if this reply doesn't seem suitable to you. But if you meant the original scientist, he didn't allege confirmation bias, even by implication so far as I can tell.
There is considerable doubt whether a hiatus actually occurred, so that may not even be a miss.
Yeah, I'll admit I didn't read the article before commenting..

It's a popup slinging integrated cloud storage? Mef. I'm with ya. Who cares.
Thanks for posting, and for fixing the link too - I played it the first time and missed it, and thought that you were talking about the standard blues shuffle beat too.
>Because they are a computer company.

You saying this doesn't make it true. To a neutral observer, Apple looks like a technology company that makes consumer products, including sometimes computers.
when red light cameras came to my town, a person dressed as Santa Claus carried large wrapped boxes with holes in the bottom. The person put the packages over the cameras. AFAIK, no one was ever charged.

Maybe in the future it'll be impossible to get away with things like that in the future.
AI and its effect on per-seat SaaS pricing models
Which is so much better, at least to me, to see targeted ads instead of some generic crap subscription for $7.99/mo.
Everybody knows what you're saying. There are many people who only use Windows because they need software that only runs on Windows.

Switching to something else requires you to replace that software. That's a cost. But having an OS that you first pay money for and then have it show you ads is also a cost. Every time they do something like this, it increases the number of people for which the second cost now outweighs the first. It also provides an opportunity for people who don't use any Windows-locked software to consider that there is nothing standing between them and a viable alternative.

And even if you don't switch today, you can still contact your software vendors and ask them for a Linux version. The more people do that the more likely they are to produce it, and once they do then you don't have to weigh one cost against the other anymore.
That's the thing. I'm not a dev, I am a banker. And there are only so many hours I am willing or able to spend on a week end relearning the basics.

GUI are infinitely valuable in that case. Windows allows to do quite sophisticated stuff all the way with a UI. You can always observe the state of the system, know what can be done from there, etc. I know a few command lines for some basic things I do all the time, but for things I do occasionally, it is just not worth me investing time doing it with a CLI, like creating a VM.

But then I am hostile to this new Microsoft...
Someone's death is often a moment to consider them, and HN has had discussions like this for years. I'm sure no two readers share the same list of which such discussions belong on HN, but as long as it's not excessive or predictable I don't see why we shouldn't have them. Chuck Berry's a pretty important historical figure.
Could Google/Firebase commit to open sourcing the code, and making sure everyone (who wants to) can seamlessly transition off Firebase, if the product is to be euthanized? If there was a transition contingency for anyone who depends on Firebase, that'd make depending on Firebase less worrisome.
We talked a bit about the state of physics in 1940 in my 'Modern Physics' (aka Physics 401 aka nuclear/quantum). Looking backwards through time its easy to imagine they were planting disinformation or trying to throw off people from the potential there, but that view is mostly bolstered by knowing what is possible now. Had it come out in 1942 after 'pile 1' was demonstrating fission then yes, it would be subterfuge.

But perhaps most amazing are these results from physics experiments in 1940 and then the changes in the world by 1945. Such profound changes are also likely when someone figures out how to tap the energy from fusion as well.
The story at the end of the article about the trainees duping the IT guy is just gold.
You forgot Revolutionary. Break Through. Cool. Beautiful. Faster. Zippy. Precise. Awesome. Magic!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/BETSuT2RNLs?version=3&hl=en&fs...
Yes, one distro (of dozens people use) tried running ads once, it was a PR disaster, and they stopped doing it quite a while back.
> At the same time I'm don't understand how anyone with who works in tech and is thus capable of really understanding these things would voluntarily pick this stack as their daily driver.

Because it's way less work. Simple as that.

Windows, in my experience, just works. The things about it that don't work are the exceptions. Windows gets out of my way and lets me work with minimal setup and maintenance.

Linux, on the other hand, has been a pain in the butt every time I've tried to make it my primary desktop OS, and I have tried multiple times (granted, the last time was 6 years ago). Editing endless config files; building some obscure driver from source to make a device function correctly; and heaven help you if you want to do an OS version upgrade.
>It is a very funny and fascinating book, the kind you get stuck on it and can't let go.

I made the mistake of starting it late in the day on Saturday. Chewed up my entire weekend between reading it and not being able to put it down until way too late at night. I also found the portions when he talks about his dealing with the Japanese companies fascinating.
It is like a bipolar company.
Common sense would say that if you give someone money or vouchers, they would be immediately materially better off to the extent that you gave them money. I don't dispute that. Common sense also traditionally held that any public charity needed to be coupled with discipline and oversight to prevent a worsening of social ills.

The claim from mid-century academic sociology was that public housing (and later vouchers) in and of themselves would reduce crime and other social ills. You didn't need punitive work houses -- if you just gave the poor better housing they would start behaving better. I see no evidence that this was the case. And with regards to public housing especially, it seems to have contributed to worsening crime and social ills.
>As a direct result, I am spending some time tonight researching running Linux on my Suface Book.

Probably not the best hardware to run Linux on. There's an entire subreddit comprised of woes of people trying this https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/ . Try something very new like Fedora 25/upcoming 26 or the upcoming Ubuntu 17.04.
That would make sense if the benefits were more than the costs. Which, for the average people, aren't.

I'm not so sure any more. The average home user probably does most of their stuff online these days, and you can see your friends' photos on Facebook or write a message in Google Mail or access your online banking or watch a show on Netflix just as well on pretty much any platform today.

What desktop applications do most home users really run now? Gaming, sure, for part of the market. Maybe some basic spreadsheets or word processing documents or accounting for organising household stuff or writing the odd letter that still needs sending on paper.

Other than that, you're probably into niche territory. There are a lot of niches, and no doubt some of them still rely on Windows desktop software or Windows drivers for related hardware, but they're niches because most people aren't that interested in them. And even then, for significant fields such as programming or graphics/creative work, many of the interesting developments in recent years have been on non-Windows platforms and it's the Windows software that tends to lag behind.

Remember, one popular switch already is from Windows to Linux, when home users dump the traditional PC entirely and just do things on their Android phones/tablets instead.
And I don't blame you for reacting how you did from the headlines.

They are all worded like MS is putting banner ads for "hot singles in your area" in your OS... And this story has been covered by every single major tech news site the same way... It's odd.
I don't think that is true. You can temporarily avoid repaying the loan, but you can never be absolved of it via a bankruptcy declaration (whereas most other loans will effectively disappear). Student loans are repayable as long as you are alive, you can only get a temporary pause in repayment, at most. Hence, the lender is guaranteed repayment as long as the borrower or consigners are alive.
Ask HN: Can an employer sue for ownership of domains an employee owns?
Are domains considered Intellectual Property or a business and is an employer allowed to sue for them even if they are not related to their business?
a similiar idea is romanticized in the 2008 mexican sci-fi movie sleep dealer, only the concept was exploiting cheap labor in full immersion controlling remote robots.
Most of them aren't as insane.
In San Francisco, there is a non profit (Lava Mae) that turned buses into mobile showers.

http://www.businessinsider.com/lava-mae-turning-buses-into-b...

http://lavamae.org/

It looks like the laundromat van is in Santa Cruz. But would be cool if they teamed up.
https://gist.github.com/joielechong/d0042338fd3132013aec4ee5...
This applies equally well to people driven cars.
GNU APL 1.7 Released
The problem is that Microsoft doesn't really want you to turn them off, and is now on rolling releases, so there is no longer a one-time fix. You can turn it off now but next week they'll be back because they changed something and the old setting is no longer effective. The only permanent fix is to switch to a different OS.
Please don't have a death wish.
Depends on the device and the ROM creator. I'm using an OnePlus One with SultanXDA's excellent CyanongenMod-based ROM for over a year. Updated every month with security updates and works perfectly fine.

Similar good experience with Nexus 4 and NitrogenOS for my standby device. Android 7, works perfectly fine.
I don't understand what your comment has to do with what I wrote, but yeah, Apple uses a lot of adjectives to sell their products.
- Kids would be doing proofs in kindergarten

- Kids would hopefully be in a system where the question "why do we need to know this" arises less, as an effect of the system
Perhaps it is the history. Google search, for example, started with no ads. Then some ads, but on the side, leaving the organic results mostly as is. Then it all devolved over time to what we have today.

They know how to boil us slow so that it doesn't seem terrible at first.
Nice, thats awesome. This is really using his knowledge for the betterment of the society. Too cool !
So many testing terms, so little time
Devinhelton explicitly said that sociology made the wrong predictions about desegregation: "Many school reforms ideas (desegregation, ... But the theories were wrong, so the solutions did not work."

I'm in favor of desegregation on capitalist grounds. I think it's unjust to legally force me to discriminate if I don't want to. In much the same way, I think it's unjust to force me to use yellow cabs rather than Uber, or prevent me from purchasing services from an unlicensed barber.

If a theory predicts X, and X doesn't occur, that shows the theory to be wrong. The theory should be discarded even if it supports policies I otherwise favor. That's true even if the predictions are on something that's unimportant.

Similarly, if I build a stock market prediction model, and it makes me money but incorrectly predicts how I make money, I'm probably switching it off. The reason is that it is clearly wrong, and will likely lose me money next time.
Is your number crunching program geared towards a mass market; or a 'once in a while' report run by a single company?

Neither of the above, though this specific type of work might be unique to the project in question for all I know.

I also don't know how many other projects with unusual or unique long-running tasks are out there. However, given that there are hundreds of millions of people, if not billions now, with personal computers, I imagine the answer is well into "quite a lot, actually" territory.
Honestly, as a pro digital artist, the two habits I found most useful to teach myself were "regularly zoom out to 100% so I don't get lost in needless detail" and "save every time I feel like taking a break". Windows' behavior here is inexcusable but there are a ton of other things that can happen - art software crashes, power interruptions, drink spills, kids/cats poking, etc. Switching to Linux won't save her from these.

Seriously. I've been doing digital art for money since 2000. I've lost work. I've learnt to consider anything unsaved as potentially something I could lose any minute. The sooner your wife learns this, the happier she will be as a digital artist.

(And set her up with automatic backups while you're teaching her this. "Oops I deleted half my sketch by accident ten saves ago" is wonderful to recover from.)