skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
QED: Change4Life describes itself as a "social marketing campaign," and as I pointed out deploys all of the techniques of regular marketing campaigns vis-a-vis audience segmentation etc. Change4Life isn't aimed at the whole population, but so-called "high-risk families."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change4Life

http://www.nhs.uk/Change4Life/supporter-resources/downloads/...
I too recommend the the "Programming Phoenix" book, really well written and informative book.

I totally love Phoenix and and Elixir, I wish I were able to work with it more! Good luck and enjoy :)
It is going to be easy to simply argue the details, but the broader question is more important -- For any specific use of technology, is it making our society a better place? Or a worse one?
> commit to basic concessions that would make British lives easier,

Britain has always had a large number of concessions with respect to their EU membership. They have a large rebate compared to other countries with a similar economy and effectively don't have many more obligations than Norway does, plus they sit in the European Parliament.
Supply side economics - against which the Luddites railed - is predicated upon the notion that it is better for the individual to adapt to hardship in an age of plenty than to create scarcity by imposing hardship on production.
Odroid is probably a better choice for a little extra oomph you would want on a desktop without costing that much more: http://www.hardkernel.com/main/main.php
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You're doing it completely wrong. Eating good food is a leisure activity.
Those sums aren't some arbitrarily thought up "exit fees", it's regular funding that has been decided on and committed to years ago

Oh but they are, because they ignore the things that the UK has already paid for! We could for example calculate exactly how many miles of Ireland's EU-funded road building projects are actually "owned" by the UK based on our contribution. Should we be entitled to charge Ireland tolls for those sections of roads too?
In Luddites' case the tech was clearly making our society a better place, it's (apparently) the transition that was not handled gracefully.
It seems to me that you could treat a sufficiently accurate model (be it a deep net or otherwise) as the solution to an unknown, governing physical law, and attempt to identify the law from the model, post-hoc.

I'm not sure if there's been work done in the domain of pattern recognition, but here's an overview where in an example, Navier-Stokes is identified from data:

https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/data-driven-discovery-o...
> we can't fairly determine the information that is being seeded to all parties

Why do you think anyone should be in the position of "determining" the information that is being seeded? Fight disagreeable speech with agreeable speech, amirite, but don't yearn for a boss to tell which is which.
Another way to hijack democracy is to purposely invite people into your country who you think will vote for your political party.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6418456...

http://www.businessinsider.com/tony-blair-brexit-immigration...
Installing ramps for disabled people instead of letting them crawl or die, is also against nature.

(Or rather, the question doesn't make much sense, as humans are part of nature too. We don't judge what's natural for us by what's natural for aardvarks and lions, because we have different build and faculties than aardvarks and lions do).
>the problem with the supermajority argument is that there
was no such vote to join the EU in the first place

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_European_Commun...

>The electorate expressed significant support for EC membership, with 67% in favour on a national turnout of 64%.

Am I missing something?
In the EU, with Euro 5+6 particulate limits for gasoline engines have been imposed as well. The previous rationale was "no limits are required because particulates are a diesel issue", which is bonkers because if it were so, one could simply apply the same limits to both and the gasoline engines would have passed with flying colours. My guess is heavy lobbying from automakers managed to keep these unregulated for so long, since indeed direct injection (which seems to be the new norm) makes fuel economy better but particulates worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_emission_standards#Em...
This is a trial I'd like to watch.
Maybe they thought they were invulnerable.
Brexit had half the prominent figures in the Conservative party, all the largest-circulation mainstream print press and guaranteed equal airtime in television media in the build up (including equal airtime for the very small fraction of left-wing politicians willing to make a case for Leave). Not to mention that figures on Remain side of the government had been making the basic thrust of Leave's arguments: numbers of immigrants are a massive problem we need to control since the turn of the century

It doesn't take shadowy foreign billionaires to figure out that promising the electorate lots of money is a vote winner

The demographics least likely to be reached by Cambridge Analytica's ad-buying campaigns were also those most likely to vote Leave.
bring back jobs (won't happen, because automation and simply too high cost of living in USA)

US/Mexico trade balance pre/post NAFTA? If you go by the numbers alone, it's pretty clear-cut. Unless you know better than the facts of course...
As you get closer to the right answer, the changes you need to make are smaller and harder to discover.
As a product page visitor using mobile your page is useless to me. No screenshots, no intro video. I'm not going to make a commitment to using something without either of those two.
People mentioned the siFive option, but that's a microcontroller. If you were looking for a 64 bit processor implementation, without having to use an FPGA...

It looks like the first dev board that would be capable of running linux will likely be the lowRISC project.

"We are expecting to crowdfund an initial instantiation of the lowRISC platform during the course of 2017"
http://www.lowrisc.org/
> Why do you think anyone should be in the position of "determining" the information that is being seeded? Fight disagreeable speech with agreeable speech, amirite, but don't yearn for a boss to tell which is which.

Maybe the more exact word for what I mean is "discern" rather than determine, though determine works fine too ("Officials are working to determine the cause of a bus crash").

Anyhoo, I don't yearn for such an arbiter.
What has happened is simple: the previous government was pro-Europe, couldn't get Europe to commit to basic concessions that would make British lives easier, and the imposed austerity made a lot of people's lives worse in a very concrete and visible way. So they were voted out.

This is factually incorrect. The EU had nothing to do with the crash of 2008 which prompted pro-cyclical austerity, the EU has given the UK opt-outs on many important policies, the concessions demanded (limits on freedom of movement) are not linked to economic benefits for the U.K., and the EU had nothing to do with conservative policies of austerity.

What has happened is not simple, and there is no one clear cause of the vote to leave.
It would just raise an OSError/IOError/TypeError/ValueError and exit (unless caught).
> outside the normal rules for fact checking or veracity

When those "normal rules" are (or are perceived as being) enforced by political partisans, no wonder people get rebellious against them.
Why is this an issue? It's not like he's trying to make a career out of it.
>An algorithm that explains ... isn't any more moral

Not sure what "moral" means, but two things:

1. If black boxes make unexplainable decisions, that gives too much power to the person who reads the box's answer,

2. If the child services algorithm explained its prediction involved e.g. alcoholism, then the parents could try to quit.
Taking the example of Hammersmith, at the previous election 50% of people didn't vote for the MP that won.

What can they do, when they disagree with a local decision? What about a national decision?

The EU government is at least more representative of its electorate. For the EU level (London constituency), the Hammersmith resident is represented by four Tory, two Labour, one UKIP and one Green MEP. With that range, it's more likely someone will find time for their opinion.

The solution is therefore to fix the electoral system in the UK, meanwhile I'm glad the EU government exists above it. We could also start electing the House of Lords.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammersmith_(UK_Parliament_con...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_(European_Parliament_co...
Does anyone prefer the large (contextless) images that consume majority of screen real estate to text-based HN UI?

IMO this approach has harmed the UX of twitter.com tremendously and is done mostly to facilitate ad integration. Dark patterns for the lose.
F-Secure is currently blocking it as a "Harmful web site", also.
Ask HN: Suggest some good and free Resume making sites
Good knowledge. Just glad I didn't offer a prize...
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Don't forget squash and tomato.
(And after dinner a a cigerrete of course).
"Documents seen by the Observer show that this was a proposal to capture citizens’ browsing history en masse, recording phone conversations and applying natural language processing to the recorded voice data to construct a national police database, complete with scores for each citizen on their propensity to commit crime.

The plan put to the minister was Minority Report. It was pre-crime. And the fact that Cambridge Analytica is now working inside the Pentagon is, I think, absolutely terrifying said David."

Steve Bannon was the former vice president of Cambridge Analytica. Terrifying is indeed the word. A little alarming too that Sophie Schmidt was swimming around these waters.
Without that equation, you cannot build the rocket that goes to the moon, however.
Lamb is not nearly as common as chicken, pork, beef or even turkey, but it is available--total production at the same order of magnitude as duck.

Mutton and goat are extremely rare.
Dozens of billions I agree with. But isn't £12 billion just the accepted EU membership cost after rebates that we continue to pay while we negotiate our leaving the EU? This 'Brexit divorce' bill of €100 billion (£84 billion) confuses me. As far as I understand this is to cover commitment costs to the year 2020. £84 billion over that period is £24 billion yes? How does this square with the £12 billion annual cost of EU membership after rebates? Does this then mean that the £24 billion a year Brexit divorce bill consists of the 'known' £12 billion membership commitments and then £12 billion 'hidden' costs or is it the £12 billion known membership fee plus hidden costs of a £24 billion divorce bill? If it is indeed a punitive financial slap for leaving, does this not make the inherent attitudes of the EU powers that be somewhat akin to a cult like Scientology?
I am aware that they exist but it's not like companies are going to actively invest in devices for the end consumer purely based on RISC-V.
You can do this for farts already with a Raspberry Pi and a gas sensor, maybe there's other types of sensors that can detect ammonia?

https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/fart-detector/worksheet...
> couldn't get Europe to commit to basic concessions that would make British lives easier, and the imposed austerity made a lot of people's lives worse in a very concrete and visible way.

How did the EU impose austerity on the UK?
Yes, things costs money. It costs on the order of several thousand per month (on the upper end), not millions of dollars -- moreover, this is commensurate with the cost of actually running such a data center (which the exchange sponsoring the colo typically does). I would also argue that, for anyone who actually receives any benefit from being colocated, several thousand dollars a month in operating costs is not prohibitively expensive.
This works for me too. I will regularly check a book out of the library, read three chapters, and then return it to get another. I realized that I wasn't finishing books because doing so was not a good use of my time.

Somewhat related is that I'll read chapters out of order. Many books follow an approach of "laying the foundation" before making the point. 40 pages of laying the foundation is a logical step but unfortunately is not done well in most cases.
Indeed.

Apparently the most powerful entity in the entire universe needs government protection from the opinion of Stephen Fry.

Doesn't seem like a fair fight to me.
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Can't those be "disabled" via the app manager? I'd flash a custom ROM if I had to deal with FB being a "system app"(!).
I'd like to see error-chain standardized into the standard library as well. It seems by far the most sensible approach to building Error types.
Not at all.
"Objective-See was created to provide simple, yet effective OS X security tools. Always free of charge - no strings attached!" [0]
At the moment you may support him @patron [1]

[0] - https://objective-see.com/about.html
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True, and it is likely the same now again. So the only real question is: Can we get there without the devastating side effects of the transition period, and how?!
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Rust is targeting an audience where silently degrading performance is problematic.
Copied & pasted from an old HN post:

There are three new fields in your profile, noprocrast, maxvisit, and minaway. (You can edit your profile by clicking on your username.) Noprocrast is turned off by default. If you turn it on by setting it to "yes," you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero.
Why do the thumbnails have a slight orange or green overlay until I hover over them? I hate that the overlay color is not consistent and I haven't found any connection between the site and the color.
Your son seems smart!
The inventors of the Pill decided women should still bleed every month
If only it was as easy as that.

The reason that there would be no garbage truck software is that most developers don't know or want to the understand the garbage business.

While it's important to pick an idea where their is money, it's equally important that you pick an idea where you have a clue of what to build, or have access to people that you can talk too about what they need, and can sign as customers.

A large number of software projects start as consulting projects, where someone sees a way to turn the project into something that might be wanted by more than just the initial client. If you don't have any consulting like this, you can always try browsing the job boards and see what people are hiring people to build, and see if those idea's might be something you can turn into a product.
How about this: http://www.pulp-platform.org/ ? It still in development, but the plan is to release the full CPU. You still need process/foundry specific data of course (things like flash-cells).
> I'd say not holding to the standards of robots.txt and 403-Forbidden is quite malicious, just not evil or bad. If you build a crawler, you should play nice.

https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea... :

> A few months ago we stopped referring to robots.txt files on U.S. government and military web sites for both crawling and displaying web pages (though we respond to removal requests sent to info@archive.org). As we have moved towards broader access it has not caused problems, which we take as a good sign. We are now looking to do this more broadly.
>“The lesson you get from the end of the Luddites is: Do the people that are profiting off automation today want to participate in distributing their profits more widely around the population, or are they going to fight just as hard as they did back then?”... [Luddites] just thought if you’re going to make more money because you’re more productive, you need to kick some of that money back down to the workers.

In actuality, what happens is as expenses decrease through automation, either capital is bid up or prices are reduced so that the profit margin (net income over revenue) is in line with the amount of risk, along with other things. So, true, a market economy does not "kick some of that money down to the workers", but rather spreads the benefits and lower costs to everyone through lower prices or higher quality.

Were all the benefits of automation going to the bottom line of the business owners, you would see a steady increase in corporate profit margin [0]. Right now they're near historic highs but that is only very recent and the trend is not in line with the trend of automation in the US. Furthermore, if you look at the top 1%, much of their income came from wages and self-employment business income:

> The richest 1% earn roughly half their income from wages and salaries, a quarter from self-employment and business income, and the remainder from interest, dividends, capital gains and rent. According to an analysis of tax returns by Jon Bakija of Williams College and two others, 16% of the top 1% were in medical professions and 8% were lawyers: shares that have changed little between 1979 and 2005, the latest year the authors examined (see chart). The most striking shift has been the growth of financial occupations, from just under 8% of the wealthy in 1979 to 13.9% in 2005. Their representation within the top 0.1% is even more pronounced: 18%, up from 11% in 1979. [1]

[0] https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/ON-BL063_StWise_G...

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/21543178
Afrikaans isn't the "main language" of South Africa. It is 1 of 11 official languages, 9 of which are Bantu languages.

Until 1994, it was one of two official languages (along with English). I've also never seen it referred to by the name "African". One of the main causes of the 16 June 1976 Soweto riots was an attempt by the apartheid government to change the medium of instruction in black schools from English to Afrikaans. Although it has never been the first language of the vast majority of black Africans, it is the first language of a large percentage of whites, and mixed-race people (the Coloureds), and especially in rural areas, was a popular second language, however it seems to have been displaced as a second language by English, and most Afrikaans universities and many Afrikaans-medium schools now also offer instruction in English.

That said, I learned it at school, and it was fairly straightforward to pick up as a native English speaker.
which is why the media barely paid attention to the OpenSociety leaks

Or maybe it was because there was nothing to "leak". Seriously, that Open Society was founded by Soros, that it gave a grant to the CCIF and that it funds political initiatives across Europe is not a "leak", it's on their damn website.

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/o...
Courses from FEE.org are excellent.

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I guess in this context, as referenced in the parent article, anyone who isn't anti-normalization/ doesn't support BDS.

Guess it's a point of view thing. They say "lift the evil Gaza blockade," Israelis/Many Jews hear, "We don't give a flying fuck if you and your families get killed by terrorists."
Personally I think Brexit was a bad idea but I don't understand the sentiment in the article. Back when Obama was using big data (and yes, big money) to win the election he was hailed as smart and tech-savvy. Now when it's the Brexit supporters doing it democracy is coming to an end. How about instead of weakening people's support for democracy leftists instead try to win elections?
I care.

My first car was a 1989 VW Golf GTI. Loved it. Second car was a Golf GL. Third car was a Jetta TDI. Ran all these cars close to 400K KM. Always loved the fact that VWs are built to last. Relatively cheap to maintain, and just the usual minor VW issues like leaky doors, seized door handles, rust spotting, but never any major drivetrain problems.

It was time for a new car this year, and I ended up purchasing a brand new Honda. I love it.

It will take some time for VW to earn back my trust, and I hope I'm not the only loyal customer that has expressed dissatisfaction by purchasing a competing brand.

There's no reason why I shouldn't have been a VW customer for life.
I am ashamed, that my government (the German one) has effectively helped to cover things up for decades now in the EU and they are still doing it.

They are still blocking realistic pollution regulations for cars in the EU and they help car manufacturers to come away with their manipulations in the EU without real sanctions.

In the US, buyers of such cars get a compensation. In Germany, they will never get a penny.

But what is worse, people get sick and die (+) because of air pollution in the EU and everybody knows it and they just ignore it or downplay the problem.

(+) the numbers of pollution related illnesses is on the rise and medical studies verify the fact that it is a problem.

In many cities now, we have regularly pollution values high above thresholds, but also here, the government and local authorities block effective countermeasures.

It is so bad, that (a newer study found out) cars which should be better in pollution because of EU regulations (so called EU5) are sometimes even worse than their predecessors (EU4), because the EU willingly puts a blind eye on real pollution values.

And it is all, because the German government wants to protect German car producers.

I hope, E-Mobility will kill German car manufacturers. And I know, that it will be bad for my Home-country, but they (the manufacturers) deserve it, since they did not care about real clean cars for so long.
> Consider installing an adblock plugin into the headless browser you're using for screenshots. Sometimes the ad banner takes half of the thumbnail image, e.g. NYT.

Lots of news sites don't allow ad blockers these days. This means that all you'll see in the screenshot is some popup.
Pre-crime is very much alive and kicking. For a publicly visible example, see the multitudinous "terror convictions" in the U.K. that have involved the arrest and lengthy incarceration of people who have allegedly plotted, or have thought about beginning to plot, terrorist acts.

Less publicly, there is a rather well hidden court circuit that has been about since 2008 which specialises in these cases, specifically the ones which can't be disclosed due to "national security". I know about this from a family friend who was a high flying barrister (QC) who was asked to preside. He refused. They destroyed him in the press ("paedophile sympathiser"), Cameron went on national TV to decry him, they suicided his wife. He is only just beginning to quietly practice law again.
Every time I think I'm maybe paranoid I recall this episode, and know that the truth is likely even darker than I know.

What a wonderful world we live in.
Fry should make a statement similar to what Colbert made recently for his remarks against Trump "I've got the jokes, he's got the launch codes so it's a fair fight"