skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two fundamentally different kinds of dialogue on the internet.

1. Dialogue in communities directed towards a purpose.
2. Dialogue in public forums.

In my mind, the only place where filtering should take place is in #1. If you want to see information about specific kinds of basket-weaving, then the communities directed towards basket-weaving should give you the tools you need to see that information, and should police their communities such that there isn't too much non-basket-weaving content. But in public forums, I think that people should actively resist filters. I see filters as a case of trying to make something straight out of the crooked timber of humanity. Not only is it a goal that may be fundamentally impossible, it has negative impacts on the people who use the filters. To the well-filtered person, the general public may look more civilized and reasonable than they actually are. This can manifest itself, for example, as the well filtered people being baffled by the success of populists candidates because "everyone I talked to online could see right through them!"

I think online communities would be better off ahead of time if they made an explicit choice about which type of dialogue they were hosting, and communicated that choice to all visitors.

I think the apparent "rise" of trolls is mostly borne from sites with a disconnect between their stated goals and their actual rules. News organizations are likely to say they want free-speech forum in their comment section, but people mostly expect conversation directed towards the topics being reported on. Reddit was formerly a free-speech platform, but subreddits started behaving more like directed-communities, and the admins encouraged this site-wide. Hacker News is clearly a directed community, and so has fewer trolls, while 4chan is clearly a free-speech community and therefore ALSO has fewer trolls (i.e. most people on 4chan conform to 4chan norms, even if that would be considered trolling elsewhere.)
Shot in the dark: their infrastructure isn't set up for it yet, so they may as well take the high road for now.
Sure, but we've also been in a perpetual "state of emergency" since 1979: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/22/presi...
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Easier transition from macOS

- DESCRIPTION: A number of things really annoyed me when I used Ubuntu the first time and I found them difficult to fix. I would love a "migration assistant" that did stuff like:

- reverse inverted trackpad

- configure keyboard shortcuts to be more familiar

- offer to import my dot files from the Mac partition (shell settings, gitconfig, etc)

- offer to mount my Mac partition

- migrate my macOS Keychain

- etc

All this stuff took me way too long to set up and I feel most of it could be automated.
Tech workers are as disparate and varied as non-tech workers...

There is a hierarchy and I think it is unlikely we will see common ground emerge. Survival of the fittest and the best will still win the day. Just like the labor unions of the industrial era, efforts like this are doomed to be spikes of ideology rife with the same contradictions of those it proposes to keep in check.

Some tech workers run multimillion dollar businesses and some push bits around for them in the wee hours of the morning for much less.

Some have PhDs in category theory and write Haskell on a multiple 6 figure salary in finance and some maintain dated ruby on rails systems they didn't write for much less.

Some roll around on scooters in data centers putting out real fires in environments that need high availability. Others spend their days upgrading old versions of windows in small town school districts.

The same divides that existed before the internet will follow us. Nothing new here. Work hard, strive to get to the top, and hang on. Unions are not the answer. Darwin always wins the day.
This was a great read. My favorite part was the section about rarely used language features, as I have had a similar experience. It makes you wonder if you're inexperienced or doing something wrong, when in fact those features may just not be needed most of the time.
I am working on building a generic card game environment/runner which could plugin into different AI systems, and this is very helpful.

I've been looking for a reinforcement-learning version of this. How do you build an AI that plays Tic-Tac-Toe against itself to figure out the best strategy?
I'd live in other countries for a little bit at a time. Maybe a couple weeks, maybe a couple months.
Real-life iron man suit
> The Russian state is anti-globalist

lol they are anti-globalist in that they can't play a significant role globally anymore, so they want to bring down everyone that does / can.
The author briefly touches on schemas. Anyone have experience or recommendations working with clojure.spec? If I were using Clojure with a schema less database, would I stand to gain anything significant?
And how do they propose reducing polarization of strongly held beliefs? Forcing one side, or the other, or both.. to abandon those beliefs? Forced non-diversity of thought?
I couldn't be happier with vim-fireplace, vim-sexp, and vim-sexp-mappings-for-regular-people. What about vim-fireplace is frustrating for you?
I'm not referring to other aspects of the program, either.

> "you'll get better ... coaching from professors, peers, and alumni access than self-teaching."

Not all of the academic knowledge is in the textbook.

If I want to learn anything, I know the best way to learn is to get great coaching and a great curriculum. The unbundled (self-teaching) route is harder to navigate successfully, though, everyone thinks they're the exception!
Do they deanonymize aggregate data? Are they basically just saying "we won't sell to small fries", or is there an actual privacy concern here?
Amazon introduces Petlexa – Echo communication with pets
> It is an irrational belief that trolls have infinite time and energy.

Unless they are well paid state-sponsored trolls. They still don't have infinite time or energy, but neither we do.

> The only way to prevent this is to educate people on the concept of double bind statements, their use in removing choice for others, and the possibility that these concepts may spread virally, on their own accord, in a population which may or may not be conscious.

Education is the solution. And I hope that we chose it.
wonder when wikileaks will publish fsb hacking tools

LOL
You can create a union to reflect whatever values (e.g. negotiating compensation) you see fit. Don't believe the narratives proffered by anti-union forces for their own benefit. Actors are all in unions and employ an entire sub-class of workers (agents) to negotiate compensation for them.
Shutting down CodePlex
Sometimes professional graphic designers end up selling one of their concept pieces to a customer with a request of "no changes". Sometimes it's even the one the designer least liked and produced as number six of the minimum four concepts just to show the customer more options.
> employees lose the right to negotiate their own compensation.

I have never heard of that. Why would that be?
Where does it say that?

Maybe those in control of ISPs realize that they have no individual protection from this practice, unlike other shady practices like inaccurate billing and poor customer service, and genuinely have no interest in doing so.

Update: I'm not asking sarcastically and my hope is obviously full of optimism.
Its a joke about how Tim Ferris followers can be very protective and dogmatic about his teachings, which parallel the way followers react to a certain prophet of a certain religion we all know.
Hah.

They'll sell it one way or another -- it's too good of a revenue stream to pass up, provided you're legally allowed to pursue it.
Well: A Smart Home Water Conservation System
yes exactly. as an "executive" he never even had to answer to a board, he ran things like a dictator (and was as corrupt as one)
*successful not stressful...
I don't see what that would really accomplish, though. All companies already publicly advertise the 'moral' beliefs you mentioned, yet continue hiring white male whiteboard challenge mavericks.
It's a coincidence.
I'm surprised this was written back in 1992, at a time when I personally hadn't noticed the rising tide of military adoration that the country experienced post 9/11.
In certain environments with um, less sophisticated administrators, this MOTD is taken as an imperative command to deploy an update to the operating system of a production service.

Just one example of a broken box:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/876510/booting-into-read-onl...

The result of these in-place upgrades usually end up with the admin crying the rest of the night because they shot themselves in the foot.
One thing we're rapidly learning in recent weeks is that the Constitution and the laws don't matter unless there are people able and willing to enforce them. Nothing is automatic, and if nobody with power will stand up to Brutus, then it can work even if it's supposedly not allowed.

I think that "deeply ingrained establishment of civilian control" you mention is the real problem with this scenario.
'Having purged half the population, we've measured a marked downturn in polarization in Q3 of this year.'
"Rule of law" as a tech worker's value? Uber... Air BnB... ... illegal immigration.... does not compute.
Really impressive stuff. Could this same technique be used on human photos to transfer traits like gender, age, ethnicity?

Could be really useful for those age-progressed photos used in missing persons listings, for instance.
In Germany you can negotiate your pay within the union payscale. You can ask the employer to move you up a level. There is nothing stopping them from doing that. Once you have reached the top you are "Ausser Tarif" and can negotiate your salary .

The union mainly defines a bottom level salary and also gives a defined path upwards. For most people this is a nice system for a long career.
>Isn't that a bit of a tautology? "If I expand the definition of the word 'troll' to include 'authors decrying trolling' then authors who decry trolling become 'trolls' themselves."

No, it's not tautological.

The parent doesn't propose to "expand the definition of the word 'troll' to include 'authors decrying trolling'". He proposes defining trolls as "as anyone who posts inflammatory, bad faith, needlessly aggressive, insulting, false, or otherwise unproductive content".

Which is as (or close) to how it has always been defined, and how the authors of TFA use it.

So what the parent suggests is not some "expansion of the definition of trolling", much less one to include "those who complain about trolling", and in no sense a tautology.
You should see the horrible lag in latest Excel on OS X
Integration doesn't happen like a "bolt of lightning". There are different ways it can happen. For some people it takes a while and for others, it does not. There is an excellent discussion about that in Christopher Wallis's book, Tantra Illuminated.

It does not require preparation. The idea that you can "prepare" for this is part of the ego-belief of being in control of the process. You are not awakening Kundalini. Kundalini Shakti is awakening you. "Ready" or not, here it is. You are not the musician playing the music; you are the music being played. Whether you are shaman or yogi, monk or priest... There are many variants of this story. Some people "prepare", and others resist that call. Some people prepare and never get the call. For others, it spontaneously happen. None of that is within your control.

At the end, the best kind of "preparation" is letting go.

As for the "few people" remark, I didn't say there are only "a few people". I said it is a normative belief.

> The sign of a 'realized' mystic is not but 'silence'

No, it is not.

Now, as far as this:

>> As far as it is "news", there is a normative belief that homosexuality is something only certain people possess.

> That was clearly in reference to your Kundalini remark. I addressed the specific repression elsewhere. Nor did I confuse a carnal act with spiritual love.

No, it is not clear. It might seem clear to you. It is not clear to me. The confusion I was referring to was not confusing the carnal act with spiritual love. I don't how or why you are linking those, but very well.

It seems to me, you think a lot of things are clear to you, and you have some firm opinions about things. The first stage of awakening will seem like that. It's brilliant, and seems to touch truth from the absolute. It feels great, like one can see everything from above, like one can remain untouched and unstained by the material world. In alchemy, that would be the second of three stages. The stage after that is much more painful if one continues to cling to the belief that one can remain untouched and uninvolved. It often takes a few years to process through that, but more in some, less in others. Touch the Sky God when you ascend, but all flying birds come back to the Earth Goddess's embrace. Kundalini comes back down after first ascending up past the crown.
That's actually really beautifully simple.

Thanks for this explanation, it really helped the idea "click"
> said Gerard Lewis, Comcast's chief privacy officer.

I didn't know Chief Privacy Officers were a thing. When did this start?
That's true, but it's not unreasonable to foresee the creators making OSX/Linux versions too if these Windows ones "go ok" from their point of view. :(

What's worrying to me is the wording of the emails themselves. It's much better, and more likely appearing "legit" than the vast multitude of scam/trojan/similar .pdf/.xls/.doc/.lnk/etc emails I've seen. (several a day generally)
After many years of frustration and disgust, Ive been pretty happy with comcast in the last couple years. Reputation matters. Hopefully they keep it up.
Aviation as a field is littered with dozens (hundreds?) of startups that have blown through millions and decades trying to build certified aircraft and going bankrupt in the process.

Not the first to say this, but there is zero chance that this startup designs and builds a certified electric airliner in the next decade. I highly doubt we'll have these in 20 years. In ten years, we might have battery technology where it starts to make sense, but the most experienced builders of large aircraft in the world generally spend at least a decade and billions of dollars developing new planes. And this will be with completely untested technologies, new safety procedures, engines, etc. Boeing spent $32 billion bringing the 787 to market. On the smaller end, Bombardier spent ~$5 billion on the C series, which looks comparable to this, and I'd expect costs on this to be MUCH higher since it's a lot of new and untested tech, instead of iterating on decades of prior experience.

This is either appallingly naive on the part of this team and / or their investors, or this is an acquisition play. I doubt the latter makes sense, and I wonder if this is just VCs not having any knowledge of the field or how unrealistic this is.
The worst aspect isn't just the right to negotiate your own compensation but doing better work has no reward. Get any decent size shop and your going to have that one person if not two that everyone just carries.

then there is that asshole who becomes shop steward and well, you best hope you agree with them.

Yeah i am a bit jaded but no thanks. Let alone like it will matter because outsourcing will just become the standard means by which many companies will operate in a 24x7 world where talent to do IT can be anywhere. unlike your local plant our jobs can be done about from anywhere in the world. If you can work your job from home so can someone else
in 2017 this matters for absolutely nothing. Germany and France have been at war for decades, does that mean if both their leaders were paranoid and warmongering they'd be justified? No, it's a different world.
The internet can still be a great place to hang out. It's just a matter of finding a community, rather than on of the big sites. https://lobste.rs is one example that I've found (mostly, anyway), I'm sure there are various fora as well.
You pay for your business to continue operating, not for a lucrative exit strategy.
Floors for wages, combatting H1-B abuse, fighting against toxic cultures driven by an untouchable management class.

In terms of dues, unions are democratic, so you can debate, decide, and vote on what you think is appropriate.
- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Core]

- HEADLINE: MAAS available as snaps

- DESCRIPTION: as juju and lxc/lxd are already available as a snap package, it would be awesome to be able to deploy maas as multiple snaps using plugs and slots allowing enterprises to deploy it quickly through custom ubuntu core images.

This would be useful in a production environment but also in case of emergency plan as it would allow a quick datacenter restore right from an admin laptop and a SDCard.

- FLAVOR: [Ubuntu Core]

- HEADLINE: basement for all other flavors

- DESCRIPTION: Ubuntu Core is the most interesting idea (along with juju, maas, lxc/lxd and snaps) the canonical bring since ubuntu itself, please use this distribution design as a basement for any other ubuntu flavor.

I know it’s a loooot of work as you would have to snap package every single service/tool/other available on the ubuntu repository, but it’s absolutely needed.

CoreOS have started this philosophy of immutable, safely updatable and reliable distribution, but Ubuntu as the potential to push it way further with ubuntu core.

Ubuntu Core need this step to become a defacto solution for enterprise. Now a day, enterprises tend to use CoreOS because they’ve made a clear statement of how they will support this philosophy on a long term.

If you want to get enterprise customers back to you canonical, please strongly support ubuntu core! Using it as a basement for all other flavors would be a strong statement in that way ;-)

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: IaaS Specialist - Gaming industry.
"We’d also like to discuss how tech companies can heal the divide in our country. We believe that tech companies can create a better economic future for all Americans by spreading high-paying technology jobs around the country and other measures."

Isn't the elephant in the room extreme capitalism? Tech is just accelerating it.

Perhaps the alternative is workers managing their own workplaces:

https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-at-Work-Cure-Capitalism/dp/...
https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/factsheets/basicfact-alt.pdf

62 million receiving social security.

Using your numbers, that means 40 million aren't in poverty receiving it, while there are 7 million non-elderly receiving it who are kept out of poverty.

My claim, if I make it a bit more wordy is that the elderly receiving social security have more wealth on average than those paying into it. To be a bit more exact, I was referencing those young enough to not be receiving it anytime soon. I didn't exactly give an age range, but we can go to the following site and see some interesting findings.

https://dqydj.com/net-worth-by-age-calculator-for-the-united...

For example, $10k for a 25-29 year old was about the 50 percentile. For someone 65+, it is the 12 percentile. You can try a number of data points and see that the trend is that the older have more wealth.

>Because most of them are just kept out of poverty by social security.

Most? Even with the worst numbers, it is only around 2/5 of the elderly who receive it.

Social security is a large regressive tax. It is generally paid by younger people who have less wealth and goes to older people who have more wealth.
That's no different legally, only ethically. The FBI does not enforce ethics.
Sorry about that, the site was down for about 6 minutes around when you visited it.
Boot large Ruby apps faster
Galaxy S8 Facial recognition can be bypassed with a Photo [video]
They will not sell it now! but when the hubub blows over they will then change "rules" to sell it without saying a word.
If you use a VPN, you are just trading one ISP for another.
Yeah. When a visitor goes from Page-A to Page-B, only then, GA counts it.

If the visitor gets to Page-A and gets out, GA doesn't count it.
Leaving aside that the original article is probably meant as a joke (the definitions are really stupid), the point of low precision is to get good performance with highly parallel operations, implemented in hardware.
NixOS 17.03 released
I'm one of those inner-city professionals (although at 40 no longer so young) who supports high levels of immigration. Let me try to explain my reasoning:

1. It's true that immigration has increased property prices, but other factors have played a much bigger role. In particular the drop in interest rates since the early 1990s greatly boosted asset prices. To exclude the effect of interest rates it's better to look at rental prices - there we find the cost of housing to be much closer to the inflation rate [1]

2. I have lived in Sydney's Inner West my whole life but am still renting because house prices are simply too high. But that's fine - I have instead invested in US stocks which have achieved a pretty decent return in the last 10 years. If the Sydney property bubble bursts then I will sell some of those shares and buy a house here. But if not, I'll just keep renting - no big deal.

3. Skilled immigration is a fantastic deal. Normally to produce say, a new doctor, society would have to pay for maternity leave, childcare allowance, 6 years of primary education, 6 years of secondary education, 5 years of tertiary education and medical training and 22 years of healthcare costs. But with skilled migration someone else has already paid for all that - we get it for free. We get an educated, skilled, healthy, young doctor with no criminal history who will work and pay taxes for the next 40 years. It's a bargain.

4. I don't feel I'm 'copping' much from greater population density. Yes, there is now more traffic on the roads, but the busses run more frequently. When I was a kid the train to the city would run every half hour - now it's every 15 minutes. The local park has a better playground and a new BBQ area, the local pool has been refurbished - all because there are now more residents paying council rates.

5. To reduce property prices it's much better to increase the supply of homes rather than cut demand. We should be reducing restrictions on extending existing dwellings and building new, tall apartment blocks.

[1] House price and rent index graph on http://imgur.com/4VUGfPz
Questions to help decide between working at a startup and a tech giant
Does anyone know if this kid has a defense fund?
It will go down the Windows model of having a stable kernel ABI (I assume). And suffer/enjoy the same trade-offs as Microsoft.

That model is not perfect, but it worked for MS -- and Google is in a similar enough position.
Good questions.

I honestly can't come to a guess. On one hand, making the data anonymous would explain the interest in crazy fingerprinting methods and why companies that do that aren't very well known. On the other hand, I have no strong evidence to support the idea that an ISP would anonymize data given their history of activity in the name of profits and in spite of customer satisfaction.
Authentication with Passport and Angular using server side authentication
Snapchat stories search ads
- less resource intensive standard DE, though I default to using i3

- if the disk creator could also create non-ubuntu isos. For me it would only create Ubuntu disks. Also if I try unetbootin it usually doesn't work. I'd either save/have a Linux Mint just for this purpose or use Rufus/YUMI in Windows.

I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu. Mostly it's great at having drivers.

Recently though I haven't been able to install LAMP right. PHPMyAdmin wouldn't work right either. And PHP doesn't parse right away, have to mess around with loading modules. I'm not sure why that is because I have a Ubuntu desktop set up with LAMP. This was yesterday that I tried to set it up on a new machine. Maybe time to switch to Node finally.

My own problems I realize, got 99 problems Ubuntu ain't one.