skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True to some measure, but not completely - there are still degrees of click-baity-ness and not all media companies are like buzzfeed or gawker and publish exclusively in the style of "15 reasons why your biases are completely justified and anybody who disagrees with you are evil, #8 will shock you!". There are media companies that make conscious effort to do better - it's just they think that doing better means shaping the news to help the audience to arrive to "right" conclusions. They think this is their social responsibility, not to inform, but to form "good" opinions and to destroy "bad" ones. Combined with natural grouthink that arises in organizations having no focus on thought diversity (which are pretty much all news orgs) it produces a very distinctive mindset, which, as I noted in other place, is not just about money - it's about doing what they genuinely perceive as the right thing.

In essence, they think the masses are too stupid to be fed bare truth, and need to be put on a carefully selected diet of curated truths, half-truths and sometimes outright lies, in service of a noble goal. I'd like to have the informers back instead.
On the Perils of Batch Norm
> The chances of return are higher than 0%. They are just causally disconnected.

You're leaving off an important clause that I had:

> 0% chance of personal, direct, return on your investment.

Which is the most important part. I agree that essentially dumping money at the problem will help, but I disagree that it should be considered an investment in the traditional sense. I'm not sure what to call it other than charity.
Good point. I sure hope that they're required to hold 100% reserves on loans. I'd like to see an end to fractional reserve banking. That's not unique to Robinhood, but part of a much larger conversation—one that more people should be having.
Seems similar to Panopticlick which was released years ago: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
over quota error message appearing for me.
Thanks, opened https://github.com/adtac/commento/issues/21
I'm honestly surprised it took them that long to abuse OAuth.
I made a type in my previous response. I wrote "can be handled" instead of "can't be handled". The algorithm described can't handle that case.
You're lying to your employer who in turn sends your lies to the feds, you're liable. That's unexpected and unintuitive but it's not the same thing as you lying to someone who intentionally hides their status as a federal agent from you. There's no deception in the former case. What the posters here seem to be saying is that you can get in trouble for lying to some rando who happens to work for the man but never told you. That sounds unlikely, to me.
I'm not even sure which side is the back.
Very clear, thanks so much for the detailed explanation.

I'm still curious about how much it would cost for scenario where you have 1 billion user and 200 billion events for a year of data and keep adding 10 billion monthly (a very real DMP or Telco scenario) and you have to make a query like this one below on top of all this data (200 billion records). I'm wondering how many MapD servers/infrastructure I would need to have in order to get results under 100-ms.

Count UNIQUE Users that from "San Francisco" OR "New York" AND accessed the pages "/sports" OR "/news" more than 3 times in the past 12 months.
That said, I am no way in favor of scarring any more of
our deserts by covering "a fifth to a tenth" of them in
solar panels.

Tough luck. We live in a democracy. When we run out of oil, the number of people who want electricity are going to outnumber the number of people who want to look at dirt.
Oh, I definitely agree that 1) people don't actually think they're voting for someone who'll make the problem worse, and 2) voters are prioritizing particular values. Single-issue voters are real; I've met many. They all seem to be on the right, however: they have two issues, abortion and guns. There's no shortage of people I've heard say "I won't vote for X because s/he wants gun control", and all other issues be damned. So it's really easy for that party to just harp on those issues and get lots of votes from people who just refuse to think about anything else until they get their way on those. I really do think that, for those voters, candidates could tell them "I'm going to work to ban abortion and eliminate all gun restrictions, and I'm also going to increase your taxes 5-fold while eliminating all taxes for richer people, and I'm also going to help some companies pollute the land you're living on and prevent you from taking legal action against them", and these candidates would still get elected by these people.

However, this doesn't make my initial statement wrong: I said these people are voting against their best interests economically, and it's true. And it's my contention that these people are actually stupid because they do this, by prioritizing a couple of hot-button issues over things that really would affect them personally in a much more profound way than whether other people have abortions (RvW has been around for over 40 years now) or whether they can own machine guns (gun laws in this country are already very lax and no national candidate has proposed doing much to change that for some time now).

I have no idea how you get people to think critically when they've never done it before. The only way I've seen that actually works here is for someone to get a decent education. That just isn't going to happen for some middle-aged conservative living in West Virginia mining coal. Worse, it's not just uneducated blue-collar workers voting this way, there's plenty of seemingly-intelligent people who have bought into very far right-wing politics, for very different reasons than what I mentioned above. Much of it seems to be outright racism AFAICT, like the alt-right websites I've seen lately that rail against interracial dating, pushing racial purity, something straight out of Hitler's Germany.
It's very disturbing but it's a leftist thing, not a liberal thing. Based on what he writes, he's a leftist. How productive can any conversation be when you have such a backwards and unfair starting point that the other side is evil? Leftists also assume minorities can't do certain things and that only they can save them because they are the enlightened ones. Leftists are far removed from being progressive and tolerant.

I've noticed that my liberal friends have even gravitated toward this leftist propaganda that the other side is made up of bad people. It's part of their core and part of their strategy to divide and conquer. If the other side is made of bad people - then your side will never leave you. In fact they won't even engage in discussion with opposing viewpoints.
Why Instagram Is Becoming Facebook’s Next Facebook
You only need one person if your bar is merely to "do science," but if you want to do more science, you need more people. Do you really think that if we increased the number of people who could be scientists by 10X that scientific advancement wouldn't significantly increase in velocity? Just look at how primitive modern medicine still is.
>Your post (the one upthread that the immediate parent is discussing, not the immediate parent) currently is not net downvoted.

That's not true. It went up briefly, now it's back to -2.

>Please stop slandering the site with false explanations

I call them like I see them. I see no evidence that this is "reflexive downvoters", I see this behavior all the time both here and on other tech news sites. It's not isolated to this site by any means; it's endemic to modern tech culture, especially in SV.
>I thought it was telling that the only world leader who reacted to Fukushima by mandating the end of nuclear power wasn't a hippy but a physicist.

What was telling is she didn't want to do it but was forced by public opinion, the fact that she proceed to run to the front of the parade notwithstanding.
"The plan would also eliminate the deduction for state and local taxes, a step that could hurt taxpayers in places with high state taxes such as California and New York."

Relevant to the tech industry for that reason; salaried workers in those states would be the ones funding tax cuts for everyone else.
I'm flying solo. Wish I could say I get tired of these site closures, but its sort of fun archiving them up.

I'm in ur content, savin some culture.
How to set up automatic deployments
We haven't seen any issues. Most of our latency critical functions are called a lot. We do get significant spikes in traffic but our CDN does handle some of that load.
It sounds like we both agree it would improve the future in tangible and measurable ways, even for those paying the taxes. I would rather not argue the semantics of the word "investment", not all investments need to be financial.
Show HN: Stop WhatsApp Web converting text emoticons to emoji (bookmarklet)
Altitude also plays a factor in random memory corruption.

From the wikipedia article on ECC Ram, "Hence, the error rates increase rapidly with rising altitude; for example, compared to the sea level, the rate of neutron flux is 3.5 times higher at 1.5 km and 300 times higher at 10–12 km (the cruising altitude of commercial airplanes).[3] As a result, systems operating at high altitudes require special provision for reliability."
Note that web view oauth logins to Google are disabled since 20th of April:

> On April 20, 2017, we will start blocking OAuth requests using web-views for all OAuth clients on platforms where viable alternatives exist.

Source: https://developers.googleblog.com/2016/08/modernizing-oauth-...
While we're being anecdotal, I live in NYC and almost all of my purchases are done through Amazon -- the only exceptions are perishable goods and things I absolutely 100% need today.
Sure, but non-obvious things often manifest in culture nonetheless. For example the romans with their mighty aqueducts, cleanliness rules in religion, drinking tea (needs boiled water) or beer/wine (alcohol desinfects), or being obsessed that evil witches dont poison your wells etc.
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/03/space-based-solar-power/

>At this level, our 3.6 km diameter collecting area would generate about 40 GWh of energy in a day, at an assumed reception/conversion efficiency of 70%. By comparison, a flat array of 15%-efficient PV panels occupying the same area in the Mojave Desert would generate about a fourth as much energy averaged over the year. So these beaming hotspots are not terribly more concentrated than what the sunlight provides already. Again, I find myself scratching my head as to why we should go to so much trouble.
I'm confused. Are you saying promotion == spam?
I think making this comment is more likely to get you flagged tbh.
It's worse than that! It's a couple of billion years, and a planet's worth of organic molecules and water.

And, there's a least some evidence that it's even worse than that -- intelligence does not appear to be common in the universe. So it might well be a couple of billion years * a million planets worth of organic molecules and water (or a hundred million planets. Or a billion planets).
Joking aside, though, if you said this to an undercover police-officer, I presume they wouldn't reveal themselves at the time—but would it taint any evidence they collected by talking to you after that point, the same way it would if you said it in an interview?
BeOS doesn't have anything to do with UNIX.

No user isolation on a single-user machine, via type safe languages, was already done in Xerox PARC workstation written in Mesa/Cedar.

Actually had Apple adopted BeOS and succeeded in doing that, there wouldn't be any major UNIX desktop to talk about.
And a private kitchen!!

https://www.google.com/amp/porch.com/advice/brief-history-ki...
Good point. There is only so much you can say in one line on HN. Marketing is tough. Any suggestions would be welcome.
No, it would not give them reason to suspect you of the murder. You can learn more from a lawyer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Better than shitting in people's pots and then loading them up with food and soup.
It is tempting to be lazy and criticize this work because it contains a few instances of the phrase "quantum consciousness".

This paper has one purpose: To get people thinking of the brain and information-carrying systems from a physical perspective rather than solely a computer-science or information-theoretic perspective, or even worse -- a biological perspective. Physicists were largely responsible for computer science and information theory, and they will be largely responsible for breakthroughs in biology and machine-learning as interdisciplinary laboratories continue to grow.

Physics is the most sophisticated area of applied mathematics that currently exists. Whatever consciousness is, it will be understood through physics -- because, presumably, that's what it is.

That said, it is interesting to see a consolidated paper touching on common motifs. The brain exhibits many characteristics of any other state of matter; for example, it has phase transitions.

One thing I disliked about this paper is the conclusion is draws from its examples with the gold ring and the pond. They go on to say that information is not persistent in a pond; for example if you write your name on the surface, the energy will be propagated away and the surface will return to a higher entropy state fairly quickly. This is true, but one cannot say that the brain is different solely because of this. The brain is constantly under "external" influence. It is constantly being supplied with fresh nutrients; neurons are constantly being supplied with tugs from their neighbors. If you were to remove all incoming nutrients, the brain would surely collapse as an information processor, too (e.g. death of the organism).

I would go so far as to say that a conscious system requires constant input, and does not necessarily do anything in the absence of any input. This assertion is in direct contradiction to the heuristics ("principles") established in the paper. For example, computers, bacteria, and brains are all computing systems which require constant input.
According to your source he hasn't made any new laws, he's just setting up a police unit to enforce existing laws.

The existing laws do not say "anybody who posts stuff against muslims on social networks is guilty of a hate crime".

Here's an example of the kind of crime they're talking about: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/sentencing-remarks-of...

Here's the criminal prosecution guidance about online hate crime: http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/a_to_c/communications_sent_via_s...
So true, it's always "us" vs "them". When you take out political tribalism, most rational people can accept others positions/beliefs without hate emerging. In the end we're all just people on a rock floating through space trying to make it. Good for the people just trying to help each other out.
During careful A/B testing, this site-modification has proven to increase the 'subscribe'-click ratio from 0.002% to 80% Which self-conscious mid-manager would say no to that?
> It's meant to share meaningful content with other users. A track is like a project, and channels make it easy to share them.

I'm sorry. I just don't know what this means. Can you show some examples?

EDIT: I tried it. Tried adding a URL, but just got errors. Filenames worked though. Now how do I share it with my mom? Does she need a github account to look at it? I don't immediately see the use of this. You may need to explain it better.
> Why suggest a worse solution (encouraging all drivers to go faster) instead of punishing more people for driving irresponsibly?

The article addresses this. the posted speed limit doesn't affect how fast people drive (slow or fast). They drive as fast as is comfortable regardless.

Posting a higher speed limit doesn't make people drive faster. But it does give a clearer warning to pedestrians and parents as to what the probably speed of drivers is, so they can take the appropriate cautions.

> it argues we have no control over speeding. And then it suggests places that ticket aggressively are behaving irresponsibly, to the point of villafying a town in Missouri for enforcing its speeding laws.

He doesn't argue that we have no control. Only that posted speed limits aren't effective as a control measure. The point of discussing the towns that use traffic violations as a revenue source is that, if posted speed limits aren't effective at creating safer drivers, then the only reason to use super low speed limits is to generate revenue which is a conflict of interest and counter productive for the reasons stated above.
Fair enough. Didn't mean to come across as insisting. There was much debate about the term track. Project is closer, but has problems also. Cheers.
What is your metric for quality? Amazon sells almost everything I want at a good price and I have to spend minimal effort to get it -- sounds like a quality service to me.
Calling it that is accepting that newcomers are indeed negatively affecting the community.

I was thinking more about the hostility towards the new.
Only when one doesn't know someone's sex. In the case of Mr. Wisenberg, one does.

And you're completely ignoring my substantive point that the fact that someone is technically a criminal does not mean that he actually deserves the full force and power of the State to bear down on him.
You know something, Jon Snow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLpzHHbFrHY
They get submarined costs from both their ISP and any services that come over the network with no market visibility or competitiveness to allow customers to switch away from bad product mixes.
> Whether you speak, what you say and how and when you say it can have a profound effect on your future when you find yourself involved in a white-collar criminal investigation.

It is very disturbing that we live in a society with laws so obscure to the common person. Unless you know this "one weird trick to avoid indictment under Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001", your life is held potentially at the whim of some random prosecutor. Such detachment of one's legal fate from one's actions has no place in modern lawful society.

Information asymmetry is one of the primary sources of power disparity. Dividing those subject to whimsical prosecution into the "in-the-knows" and "know-nots" – whether through this law, civil forfeiture, the obscure tax code, or pay-to-play building codes – is a progenitor of the police state. Free society requires transparent law.
>How exactly do you propose to get that electricity from the desert to say Finland?

Microwaves

http://www.economist.com/node/18864324
Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done
The comparison between shipping services and Uber/Lyft with broadband connections is absolutely absurd.

Hangouts has the infrastructure cost of a server and UPS warehouses and vehicles. An ISP has the infrastructure and maintenance costs of a buried or hung line to every single home it serves. Unlike an App or shipping company, it takes literal years to take a hard wired ISP to any sort of fruition. Building an ISP also means serving a concentrated market, where the bigger ISP can lower their prices until your new ISP goes bankrupt.

If you really wanted to break up the regional monopolies, you would force competitive bidding for all last mile connections and let companies do their own backbone infrastructure. It would introduce actually competition to a market where most consumers literally have no choice.
How my fellow developer stole my Steam game from me
Crashing into Saturn: Cassini
Even finding many major breakthroughs like the blue LED is ultimately just probability. The more people who are able to find them, the more breakthroughs you will find.
IANAL. But Levandowski tried to "plead the Fifth" on testimony that he was not giving, on a case that he is not a party to. That should not fly, and did not. (Uber went along with it because it could help them in the case, and because they have some kind of obligation to try to defend Levandowski.)

Nobody seems to be contesting that Levandowski took a bunch of documents from Google (Waymo). If they want to, they can almost certainly make Uber choose between stopping working on self-driving cars, and firing or transferring Levandowski.

There's also the possibility that Levandowski goes to jail over this (I don't think his trying to plead the Fifth was just gamesmanship).

Bottom line: My best guess is that Uber is able to continue, but they have to throw Levandowski under the bus to do so. I don't know to what degree that will hurt them.
Demystifying Floating-Point Numbers
Not true with Ryzen, as long as you find unregistered ECC acceptable.

Somewhat not true with Intel, as some of the lower end Xeons now support it.
Fortunately the new AMD Ryzen processors support ECC in the memory controller, unfortunately none of the boards seem to be testing/certifying it yet and the UEFI on a lot of the boards is a mess right now.

Hopefully more consumer boards support/certify it since it is already there on the memory controller.
I don't think they should, especially since sending and receiving PGP encrypted emails is easy when you use a non-web mail client.

IMO, it's ultimately a problem with Gmail - which makes integration with PGP hard - and not a problem with PGP emails itself. If I use Thunderbird, or even Mail.app, integrating PGP is as easy as installing a plugin, after which sending or receiving a PGP encrypted email requires a minimum of additional effort (once you have a key in your keyring, it's encrypted by default).

If Gmail made PGP integration easy, there would be no extra time wasted when viewing PGP encrypted emails. The validity signaling would even remain the same, but without the "this is hard for me so don't do it, even though we invite you to do it" idiocy.
Assuming Apple would managed not to close doors and achieve a similar success with BeOS, the FOSS UNIX guys would have had to contend with GNU/Linux and *BSD as desktop alternatives to BeOS and Windows.

NeXTStep would have probably closed doors as they were already trying to survive by ditching hardware and selling OpenSTEP instead.

Which Sun played for a while, but decided to not adopt it in the end.
Don't let the new FCC kill net neutrality
Gett Acquires Juno for $200M
It sounds like understanding how people arrive at their values and politics is something that interests you. I found Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion[0] very interesting, one of the most important books I think I've read in the past five years or so. I highly recommend it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Righteous_Mind
Posting your product indiscriminately, as is the premise of the OP, is spam.

Promoting your product via Twitter or your friends is fine. (promoting a submission on Hacker News [i.e. highlighting the submission itself in an attempt to vote manipulate] is against the site rules, which is not spam but still bad)
Well, that's not the goal they're talking about: "There are two keys to achieving the targets of Clean India. One involves giving everyone access to a well-managed toilet, which means all the waste is treated (either on-site or in a treatment facility) to remove the pathogens that make people sick. It’s crucial to get the entire process right, from containing the waste in a toilet to collecting it, transporting it if necessary, and treating it. If one link in the chain fails, people still get sick."

Anyway, the original comment here, "this has nothing to do with toilets", still doesn't make sense. High literacy states aren't clean because of education, they are clean and educated because they aren't poor. And we all agree that education and toilets go hand in hand, the article addresses this. All I was responding to was the idea that toilets are irrelevant, which is ridiculous.
fixed! thanks for letting me know.