skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook sneaked in Docs.com to all Facebook users due to a deal with Microsoft (they bought 2% of the shares around the same time). So back then, one had to search through the mess of Facebook settings only to deactivate Docs.com. Otherwise users uploaded Office documents got shared with Docs.com for friends and the internet. Facebook had some simple note taking and user pages feature that allows uploading Office docs back then. I wouldn't be surprised if these old files still somewhere online even after the repurposed and their service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docs.com
I believe information-filtering/overload to be the core challenge and driver of inspiration when it comes to how humans understand the world. The amount of information in the world (particularly, that we store and transmit) has increased exponentially, but our attention spans have not.

`More information != Better` is evident in contemporary web design, not just the seemingly retro-because-why-change aesthetic of HN (I say "seemingly" because I don't think HN's design motivation is out of curmudgeonly inertia). Look at the single-column experiences of Facebook and Medium versus what existed in the early 2000. Hell, look at the latest startup unicorn, Snap, in which information is mostly vertical photos and videos, and in which it is impossible to even review a history of past content.

The entire premise of data visualization is to simplify information. I'd argue that data, in general, is predicated of simplifying the world. Think of how many times you've read a survey or poll or study and thought that it was wrong because you, personally, aren't anything like those in your age group. Or, if you've ever applied to college or a job, how your GPA/SAT/ACT score, or previous salary, doesn't reflect the depth of your knowledge.

The benefits of reducing information seems to also be inherent in our current biological state. The vast majority of what the human eye can see, in terms of total area, is relatively low resolution (i.e peripheral vision). The psychological tendency to rely on first impressions has been posited to have positive implications for survival. The perceived spottiness in human memory is also thought to be not just a physical limitation, but actual feature: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/29/opinion/la-oe-bar-me...

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On a sidenote, I'll admit to paying attention when I'm downvoted. But that's a reflection of how rarely I get downvoted and how little I downvote other people. And I think that in itself is a reflection of HN's moderation and decorum (don't use downvotes just because you disagree). OTOH, I don't get angry. When I get downvoted on HN. I have a general faith that it was because I screwed up -- e.g. I'm not as funny/witty as I think I am, or I was unnecessarily rude to someone else. And generally, that's the case and I've felt that that feedback has made me a more considerate writer over time.
In the case of someone prescribed opioids with insufficient information, no, clearly that isn't informed consent (unless the recipient is sufficiently well educated to know better). They were essentially misled.

How do you think the other cases should be judged, though? Say the case of someone who starts using heroin as an adult, without first being prescribed opioids.

Would you not treat that as a moral failure on his or her part?
As a data point, the dimples aren't all the same size on the same golf ball. (I'm not a golfer but I looked at a lot of them for a machine vision project.)
Remember those AT&T commercials "You Will..."?

They won a bunch of awards for them but most of the technologies, if they came to be, were brought to you by people other than AT&T.

Same thing with the next steps in AI. They might happen, but they aren't going to come from the companies who currently have large marketing departments looking for something to hype.
> That could lead to overcrowding in the federal court in Delaware, he said, given the large numbers of corporations incorporated in the state.

Wouldn't that actually be fair? As it is now, it seems that Delaware can give all those tax breaks, and not bear any consequences.
Can confirm, golf has lead me to learning severe patience and attention to detail. Its multifaceted aspect has also taught me prioritization skills. Went from 11 to 6 handicap in 2016. Still am trying to get lower.
This makes me wonder at what stage we can actually start to draw parallels to Huxley's Brave new World... Or are we already past that threshold?
The argument is that Wansink is responding to criticism (like the XKCD) with an air of indifference. Wansink's response to the XKCD is simply one of the examples; the XKCD itself is not being used to support the author's argument that the act of publishing non-rigorous work is too widespread in quantitative science today.
Why should there be liberals who do not believe in global warming?
You've not heard of "worse is better" [1] then. Many times in the past the worse product has succeeded over the better product.

[1] https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
> Wow, you are unfamiliar with retail.

That was unnecessary.

> Booster bags will be a major issue for Amazon's stores

None of the products in Amazon's stores carry any kind of tag, so there's nothing for a booster bag to block.

They're using computer vision to identify when a customer takes a product off a shelf, or puts a product back on the shelf. That customer's virtual cart is updated in turn, and charged after the customer leaves the store. The people are what's being tracked going in and out, not the products.
It can't be that easy, or can it? :-)
$5 dollars in 1970 would be $31 in 2017. Pretty expensive for poor kids.
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> Old age deals out both: pain and death

Not all the time. If you die in your sleep, it's either painless or you have no time to realize what's occurring. Not everyone dies from a 2 years fight with cancer.
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You can still profit off of HFT, even if you can't compete directly. The key is to find the opportunity they create: HFT will typically exit HARD on a stock with weak earnings or bad news. They need to find a better short term growth option. I like to find those situations, buy low, and hang on for a year.
This is dead but I thought I might comment anyway..

Your comments convey a very narrow perspective of the job market that falls under "DevOps". That is to say, the sphere of roles looking to be filled by companies who believe they are filling a "DevOps" role is much larger than what you believe. It almost seems as if you are limiting yourself and projecting that onto the entire job market.

Now, I'm not sure you consider your current position as "limiting".. However, I can say that there are MANY roles being filled for "DevOps" candidates that extend beyond writing Ansible roles or Chef cookbooks. Speaking as someone 6 years into their engineering career and as the person who wrote the initial powershell(as a linux cloud engineer!) feature provider for Chef, I would not have taken a role such as you describe after year 1.

Now, you may be in a position where writing Ansible or Chef resources long term sounds swell. That's fare! But there are many, MANY roles that fall into the systems engineer/SRE bucket that are labeled at DevOps! Honestly, they are a matter of degree! The higher-end roles are senior, lead, unique, and require heavy development skills. If it's not the provisioning platform you are developing and supporting, it's the performance characteristics of the product itself.
Don't kid yourself. Germany is much less than optimal for startups. I know, I'm German, I had one here. The German mentality and refusal to advance technologically is another huge problem. I live in Bavaria currently, deep into beer county, where the hops for most of the worlds beer come from. People who can reinstall Windows call themselves "specialists" here, their success is largely dependent on social skills and honestly, narcissism. The more narcissistic you are, the more you think you're the shit, people will believe it immediately. Actual skill is not so much important, knowing each other from drinking together, what other people say about you and inflated self-image is much more highly regarded. It makes me wanna puke on a daily basis and I have absolutely no hope for this part of Germany. A few days ago, I found out how incredibly badly the Windows server at our secondary location had been set up by a contractor before my time. No security, no logical file structure, all the good stuff. This contractor was paid 200/hour and selected because he met my boss at the local watering hole and told him about how he is the best technician in a big radius. My boss believes it to this day. I have no hope. Northern Germany is a different topic all together, they have been making some nice advances but yet still the whole foundation around them is stuck in time.
I think adding more information of what is needed to make the app would be nice. I can run `create-dmg 'Lungo.app'` but how exactly will it work?
One way he profits is in the expectations of self driving cars. If people expect it in 3 years and it to be 10x better than humans [to quote musk] then there is huge value in any company that can provide it.

Tesla has a market cap larger than Ford. Tesla also has been on the edge of bankruptcy every couple years and recently raised $1 billion in capital.
The father of modern neuroscience was obsessed with literature
> Where would we be if Newton and Einstein were still alive?

Or you could also point on the other end of the spectrum ? What if Attila or Stalin were still alive? Would that be a good thing for humanity ?
Came here to write about it. Also "Abounding Grace". I'm going to read all his books.
99% of keynote isn't made up of paragraphs though. You've got 9 types of titles, eleventy hundred bullet poont types, and various other headings styles.

Setting that aside, it's the 'apply it everywhere' part that blows when you have slides dragged in to one preso from a dozen different authors, some of whom use fonts that you do t even have.
What is misinformative in the selfish gene?
I'm surprised that Amazon didn't go this route. With their warehouse logistics expertise they could operate everything pretty much the same except that instead of putting a bunch of stuff into a shipping van it goes in a customer's car.
On a large scale, I don't have any objection to seeking to end human mortality. However, I'm skeptical of our ability to maintain a functional society given the existence of immortal humans. I can't even imagine the levels of inequality when portions of the population can live forever.

Never mind the ethics of figuring out how to dole out immortality, and to whom.
I've pretty much learned to buy nothing of value from Amazon any more. Got burned too many times. Read the reviews! This problem is endemic! People are buying new items and either getting used or wrong items. The site has gone to shit since they moved to rely heavily on affiliates.

I now buy direct from manufacturer or brick and mortar.
Is anyone still developing multi-page architecture apps? Seems like you could still develop simple applications a multiple of times faster with Ruby on Rails or Django and sprinkle in Angular and/or AJAX Requests as needed. Surely that is still a thing. I know that a lot of you are all engineering for Netflix scale but developing two independent applications that speak to each other over an API spec sure has it's costs and is a drag on a small scrappy team wanting to iterate quickly.
The epidemic starts with calling it “AI”.
> I don't think the prospect of a fair amount of additional healthy years

Based on what data ? Read newspapers back in the 80s, we were going to solve every disease by the year 2010 or so. But for the most part medicine has not evolved by huge leaps. Sure, we have made some important drug discoveries, but by far and large we are notoriously bad at predicting what we can achieve in a set span of time.
Thank you so much for this. I never would have heard of it otherwise.

All my old friends are here already as well, this was honestly awesome to find when I got up this morning.
There are many such reasons to expect that research would produce good results, including past research that already has, and ongoing research that continues to.
>It means the steady downward trend it's been on for the last 7-8 years is about to accelerate.

I don't see this downward spiral trend you're talking about. Drupal 8 is one of the most dynamic and thought out CMS's available. Your statement would fit Wordpress better, and even that would still be wrong because its so widely used.
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Your link is good and people should read it, but your statement severely mischaracterizes it. There is certainly no link mentioned on that page regarding a connection between marijuana smoke and lung cancer (which is what the grandparent comment stipulated)
> Imagine a world where life is precious

We are in a world that has stretched overall life expectancy by dozens of years already in the past 100 years. Humans have not changed THAT much for it.
Closing laptop usually mean suspend to memory, not disk.
The country has been mostly rebuild by germans itself with a lot of financial aid of course. The 60s immigration wave was caused by the west german Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle), due to the eastern german wall it was not possible for east germans and other eastern europeans to migrate to western germany. Thus they invited turkish citizens as a lot of manufacturing jobs in the automobile industry and co. needed workers.

Stop making up alternative facts.
Yield is a function of energy to the foilage that feeds the flowering buds. The largest bud is usually at the top of the plant since light tends to be placed above a plant. During flowering, if you can distribute energy more evenly among the foiliage, you can increase yield by ~ 1/3 or more. Outdoor growers are reported to attach a string to the top of a plant when flowering begins, and bend the plant in an upside down `U` in order increase light distribution.
as an incredibly lazy person i found it to be helpful
My understanding was that this was enabled by default
Legalization has led to more non-smoked products on the market (e.g. chocolate bars). There are many people who don't smoke but do enjoy marijuana. Someone should do a study on this, but my bet would be that legalization would lead to more non-smoked consumption. Maybe the government could even incentivize those products by giving them a lower tax rate?
"In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity."

-Paul Farmer
It makes me wonder if we shouldn't be smelting a large cache of high-purity lead today and stashing it away deep underground, for the science experiments a few hundred years hence.
Perhaps. Another explanation might be that it doesn't produce enough evolutionary advantages in the context of a human society.

One could also argue that the medical advancements of the last 100 years or so have greatly reduced the evolutionary pressure created by "bodily weakness", and I'd imagine similar arguments could be made in the opposite direction when it comes to other factors (like the norms of a society and its influence on the advantage of mental capabilities of some kind).

It would be very interesting to see in what ways societies "skew" the evolutionary process. Does anyone know of good research/data in this direction?
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I can never find sympathy for people who complain about high alcohol tax in Canada. Is this something that really affects your quality of life? Or is it more of personal inconvenience? Alcohol taxes violate vertical equity. And they should. Lower income individuals should not be encouraged to purchase more alcohol, since they are more likely to be vulnerable to the negative social, mental and physical effects of alcohol consumption. Reducing alcohol tax leads to a greater burden on the healthcare system.
I don't think they will conduct clinical trials on ultra billionaires only. THere's not enough of them to know if it works...
But that was a long time ago, and he'd still be able to play in SF today with the same amount of money, inflation adjusted:

$3.50 in 1972 (when Fred Couples was 13) is equivalent to around $20 today. (and $1.50 is now around $8.75)

Lincoln Park in SF charges weekday rates of $13 for a resident junior (or $20 for a non-resident)

Harding Park charges $20 for a resident Junior.

The burger will cost a little more, Harding Park's grill charges $14 for a burger... though Nachos or a Quesadilla are available for $9.
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. I read it a couple of years after I hit my teens and was going to go to Junior College. It validated all my beliefs about meritocracy, atheism and recognition of self. To this day, I read it ( or parts of it, anyway) just to maintain my sanity
Couples' dad also worked for the city at the golf course and so provided his kid with many free opportunities to play golf.
Forgot to mention that Microsoft claims that I shouldn't be able to do that.
I have a computer playing DOOM on a shelf in this room, right now actually. I've poked and peeked around the code and I'm really starting to get a good understanding of the structures and methods used by the software. I've started designing better AI bots to play Doom, some of them fail to learn better than others, and others I make do learn better, and faster. Later I plan on implementing an AI inside a hex-bug creepy crawling robot toy.

Did I mention, I'm a high school drop out, if that doesn't strike fear into you, I don't know what will. In this "the golden age of information" there is no excuse to not learn something. 50-100 years? I don't imagine it taking more than a few years, but only if the money was in the right spot, so maybe, yeah, 50 years.
> About ~9min in your talk on a user namespace slide you talk about device creation restrictions implying it is linked to user namespaces [...]

No, mknod() is also gated by a capable(CAP_MKNOD) check if the node is a character or block device (see vfs_mknod). Which you can't have if you've created an unprivileged namespace. Devices cgroup is an additional restriction but you hit capable(CAP_MKNOD) long before that check.

> Similarly at 19:50 or so I believe the statements about things not working only apply to some container system

The entire talk is about rootless containers, so I'm specifically talking about the case where you have only mapped a single user and don't have the ability to modify cgroups. I'm well aware how to grant access to devices if you have root -- the whole point of rootless containers is that you don't have root. ;)

> Re: ~32:50 + crystal balling: [...]

Yeah, I wrote that slide about 10 minutes before my talk. My point was that I'm really hoping one day we see containers (or specifically the sandboxing capabilities of containers) be integrated into normal applications and extended to the point where every user uses this stuff. And as you said, the main benefit is that you can then apply a bunch of useful security profiles that knock out the low-hanging fruit.
Looks like we're going to have to work on the state level in the coming years. Not sure how much it is going to help...
Why do you feel it's painful? I've only written a tiny desktop menu bar app with it, but I liked the clean look of it and it didn't feel so cramped like Visual Studio.

Maybe I just don't have written with it enough.
Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E
> nam install

Jesus christ why?
I generally agree with this. I used machine learning almost exclusively in the article. Yet "AI misinformation" seems more appropriate in the title since the misinformation, generally, is in reference to "artificial intelligence".
Yup they are so much more comfortable. If you are running low and only wear them around 12 hours, you can even clean them and wear them another day (definitely not recommended by the manufacturer or eye doctor).
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Amazon does this all the time. I can't count on two hands the number of times I've seen them do this.
What Delaware tax breaks? To my knowledge incorporating in Delaware doesn't have any tax advantage.

You'll be taxed wherever you operate, not where you incorporate.
The tech and the jobs are in the next generation of energy production. Not just jobs; careers.

The Germans know this. The Chinese know this and are now demonstrating it, too.

This is selling our (the U.S.) future out to some vested interests.

Let's hope the momentum is past the point of their influence, executive orders and the like notwithstanding.
Thank you for confirming the accuracy of the AWS Lambda test model.
Homeostasis (of various kinds, but certainly risk homeostasis) is a huge problem for humanity, which becomes more dangerous with increased technological capability and synchronization. Systems theory doesn't solve it, true. I hope more than just you and I are worried about it.
"Where would we be if Newton and Einstein were still alive?"

Einstein and Newton contributed a lot but they were part of a historical trend, not genetic hail marys who ushered mankind from one epoch to the next.

"...it seems like insufficient reason to let brilliant people die."

This is - look, you can't argue that someone has the right to live based on their life achievements. This is like the ultimate perversion of the 'american drem' delusion - just achieve great thing and you can live forever.

Unfortunately Johnny never did crack the Navier-Stokes equation so instead of given the Immortality Treatment he became fertilizer in the end
Chase especially has been siding more and more with the merchant rather than the consumer.
If the bros in question assume I am competent, they are milion times easier to work with then dudes who assume my idead are bad without listening to them. Not that it would be exclusive. The things parent poster listed affect you career and ability to achieve more then sex jokes.
Usain Bolt's entire Olympic career clocked in at just under 4 minutes...
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Nice to see APL lives and people still try to teach it. For software historians, all the 1970s-era manuals are at bitsavers[1]. The language was quite a bit simpler then; several of the primitives this tutorial thought appropriate to introduce didn't exist then.

[1] http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm...
Alternatively, stick to monogastric (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogastric) animals which produce drastically less CO2e.

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That's quite a leap, to go from finite to infinite. Or, it's not even a leap but more of an engulfing. It is not so easy and I don't think death alone is sufficient for revealing the mystery. But perhaps we can be on a trajectory to that revelation, analogous to how the entire universe is on a trajectory to its eventual collapse. The method is at the heart of religion.
It'd be great if this was posted on Kaggle.
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> Why do you rule out the possibility
> of a supernatural entity?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

> How do you define supernatural

Unconstrained by laws of nature

> considering that what seems supernatural
> to humans has changed throughout history?

God -- as understood in the vast majority of cases -- is omnipotent. This requires no constraint by the laws of nature. That humans now understand how things work that they previously thought were supernatural doesn't help at all with any discussion of something that's by definition supernatural.

> what did you used to believe then

Christadelphian.
You logged out, signed up for a temp account and then logged back in - just to post this comment. That IS incredibly lazy ;)
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