skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I can't decide if this guy is more morally or intellectually bankrupt. Seriously, "sometimes data behaves unethically"?

Data doesn't do anything. Not even analysis or deep learning does anything. People (or programs written by people) execute decisions on the basis of data. It's still the people being unethical. Big data isn't some magic wand that absolves you of moral responsibility, but it's extremely interesting that at least one marketer at Facebook seems to believe it does.

And that's just one of the many things that manage to be simultaneously offensive and just plain incorrect in what is frankly, a pretty short article.
Don't worry, it's only the data that is unethical.
As a teenager I had a sweaty spotty face and armpits and stank, had a chronic hairdo, poor social skills etc. but I do not remember my hands being sweaty.

Were yours?

Thankfully I am past all that now, apart form the chronic hairdo, the spotty face, poor personal hygiene, awful social skills....... etc. etc....
There are different kinds of markets in India - small mom-and-pop stores (kirana stores), wholesale markets (mandis) - but individual consumers often buy there too, because prices are lower, and malls / supermarkets like in the West (from the last decade or two). India is also big and not homogeneous. So I can't give a general answer, only about what I know:

- first, fish, as has been said about the US in this thread, is not eaten much inland (though some fresh-water fish is), due to distances and heat and spoiling, and while India has a large coast, it has an even larger interior.

- second, I doubt there are even close to 100 varieties of fish available (in markets) at the coasts, maybe 20 to 40; those who know more, feel free to correct me, I don't live near the coast (though did long ago), and don't eat fish.

- third, I don't think that in any of the types of markets, I mentioned, all the same varieties would be available all year round (and kiranas don't sell fish or meat at all, except some may, but only tinned). It is a mix of some staples and some seasonal items.
I don't know why this pledge has to take a position on immigration policy.

A flood of low-skilled, poorly educated immigrants definitely helps the rich who don't mow their own lawns or make their own beds, and corporations who benefit from the wage-suppressing effects of a huge surplus low-skilled and poorly educated workers. But it hurts American citizens who are themselves low-skilled and poorly educated.

I know it's not a popular opinion here, but I happen to think that US immigration policy should be crafted solely on what is in the US's best interests. Allowing highly-skilled and highly educated people in helps the country, but I don't really see how allowing a flood of low-skilled immigrants in helps the country in the larger picture. I understand how it does from the Adam Smith/Milton Friedman perspective, but I don't think that benefit justifies the harm done to the most vulnerable workers (or would-be workers) who are citizens and taxpayers and in many cases veterans of our military.
Pretty sure IB pays significantly more, though they work a lot more hours
Reasons you might want to address page numbers: Jumping ahead helps with skimming. You might (roughly) remember where you left off last. Other threads and page numbers are referenced in other threads (yes, people could link, but they don't always do)

I also like page sizes as "breaks" to follow up on links etc.

Discourse's implementation of infinite scroll isn't all that bad (it keeps position properly and doesn't seem to have strange glitches, although I haven't tried it on a bad connection), and at least navigation elements are there. But they feel strange and trip me up every time: the secondary "scroll bar", or in thinner browser windows the "progress bar" at the bottom that overlays the post content and you have to click to get the scroll bar pop up. It feels like a mobile app, half-way designed for touch, not a forum.
That defeats his whole "so what" argument, Because if those 2 matter others do as well.
No, I'm not worried about targeted ads, per say.

I'm more worried about the future misuse of all the accumulated data from their access and version control logs for cloud-based documents, internet browsing behavior, multi-player gaming sessions, personal emails, and all of the other forms of trackable interactions that my kids (and the rest of us) generate with on a daily basis.

It doesn't keep me up at nights -- but the paranoid part of me thinks it should.
Exactly, like newspapers and TV channels. Oh, they are already in good hands...
While true, you are taxed at different rates for different holding periods. If you hold for < 1 year, that is a short term capital gain, and is taxed at your ordinary income rate (~35%, let's say). If you hold for > 1 year, your gain is taxed at 15%.
I have no reason to believe this is going to happen, but I wish Timex would buy Fitbit. FIT's market cap is right around a billion these days, which is affordable for a large, public company.

Fitbit = good software, good product DNA, garbage manufacturing, in need of better distribution.

Timex = great manufacturing, can't make software to save their lives, used to competing in a high-volume, low-margin retail environment
Is there a reasonably safe/reliable/cheap way to short Gnosis? I'm guessing not, because there's a pretty easy $10-20 million to be made here and some hedge fund probably would have done it already if possible.

I wonder if a smart contract could be created on Ethereum to securely borrow Gnosis. Perhaps with Eth as collateral. Anyone with experience building Ethereum contracts care to enlighten me?
That's odd, I was able to compile both bazel and tensorflow from source since early spring 2016 on RHEL 6.5 (not that it was straight forward ...), so it should work for centOS as well.
It's used outside of programming in, say, mathematics. :)
I was replying to his post in traditional bottom-posting order, not taking his words out of sequence.

It wasn't an argument about pronouns, just noting that Mr. Wisenberg's gender is known.

And my substantive point remains, I think, unaddressed.

My comment was on-topic. The responses to it (to include my own follow-ups) were off-topic, but my comment was on-topic.
Etsy: https://www.recode.net/2017/5/2/15522672/etsy-ceo-change-jos...
Yes, it is actually pretty normal to remember such things, if it's a thread that you have read before, or otherwise kept track of.
TOR is a source of lots of DDOSing and things like that, which happen to be the exact thing Cloudflare takes money from people to protect against. From the blog posts I have read in the past, it seems they appreciate TOR's existence but recognize that in its current state, it is a thorn in their side.

Mitigating abuse while supporting the TOR ecosystem is an open problem and they have certainly done more than any other CDN afaik to explore ways to allow legitimate TOR users past their firewall. Unfortunately, if I remember correctly the solution involves tracking IDs which can deanonymize users.

I had an idea a while back of a distributed, anonymous reputation system with rotating tokens. I still believe this is a better solution than the permanent tracking IDs currently used and maintained by other companies. It would return control to the user.
>Why should those examples of targeting be viewed as any less ethical than, say, ads selling $100 Lululemon yoga pants targeting thirtysomething women in affluent postal codes like San Francisco’s Marina district?

Because one can cause poverty and the other doesn't.
How about a pledge to keep politics out of the work place? I am very tired of people dropping subtle and not so subtle hints about the strong political views they have in professional environments.
Language matters in this case, especially when you're in an advocacy role.

"The government... pick[s] up most of the tab of extended leave" is simply not true. Other taxpayers - including other parents - pick up the tab.
I use a plugin ranger.vim [1]. Although it works for plain VIM, it is very clunky, since ranger is opened with a !command you get a blocking terminal.

The nesting really is tmux -> Shell -> Nvim -> Ranger.

https://github.com/francoiscabrol/ranger.vim
Definitely! I'm completely fine with it though. It's not something I lose sleep over, just a little itch is all.
"Sometimes data behaves unethically."

No, data doesn't behave at all. This is quite a cynical deflection of responsibility for ethically questionable actions taken by people.
French companies often offset the price of the largest meal of the day via restaurant vouchers. The meal is that important to them. I wouldn't cover that under, "disposable income", exactly.
Is that Linux' fault though instead of the Dell itself? I mean, Mac OS has app nap and I noticed the difference on the same hardware after OSX 10.whatever introduced it (I got an hour extra battery life!). When I reboot the same hardware into Windows, I get worse battery life than under Mac OS, obviously doing different things and an entirely different architecture (RPC, COM calls etc.) but I know it's not the hardware at fault.

Is Linux architecture at fault for the Dell? Just curious. I wonder if there is significantly different battery life for the same machine running different OS (eg. Windows vs Linux).
Not sure if thats your opinion as an Apple Watch user, or as someone who hasn't used an Apple Watch at all.

I think its the latter, because the experience (IMO) of "waiting for face to light up" is not at all how you describe.
"We are not Facebook's customer. We are their product."

I have stated that fact so many times to so many people, and yet most people don't care. They continue to use Facebook.

It's almost as if people are addicted to Facebook.
that will be the worst, please don't, of course we still have debian.
Sorry, but did you learn anything new after reading that quote? Seems like a blinding flash of the obvious...
How can a retailer ask for a PIN number on an Apple Pay transaction? They don't even know what account the money actually comes from, since Apple Pay only gives them a one-time use number for that single transaction. So how can they verify a PIN number in that context?
To clarify, the emphasis there is on human. I don't doubt 50+ years from now we will have general purpose artificial intelligences as sharp as humans. They just won't be very human like. Typical heuristic errors like confirmation bias will be quantified and that's about as inhuman as it gets.
The $2.50 boxes are permanently "out of stock" for me.
Literally any other mainstream browser.
I don't understand how a professional in infosec couldn't see the necessity of anonymity in myriad use cases. Overlay networks seem to be the only viable option in many scenarios....?
I see them quite a bit now so they are definitely a smash hit, but I still find that all I ever see people actually do with them is wear them.
Unless it's different with Chromebooks, it's free up to 15 GB.
I wonder why 10S is faster than Pro? It can't be doing anything significantly different - perhaps some .NET runtime startup cache or bypassing many of the Win32 APIs regarding RPC?

I am genuinely curious - ideas?
There's too much self-satisfied spouting of poorly-grasped principles here to address, but for one, you basically provided the fix you feign so much frustration at not having available. Just use an add-on that allows you to specify a user stylesheet and do something like:

p {font-size: 10pt !important;}
For me too, I think that is general, I hope.
I don't get the aversion to cash. I prefer that my bank and credit card company not know literally everything I buy, no matter how mundane or innocuous.

It's nice to buy a pack of cigarettes with cash and not worry that my health insurance company is going to somehow find out.
But do you have the evidence
Not just billionaires.

One of my besties is directly funding early stage Lyme Disease research. Directly to the lab and researchers. Bypassing orgs, foundations, panels, etc.

He has a vested interest in accelerating the process and has already benefitted from their findings.

This direct funding model will become a significant strategy, as it becomes ever easier to find and connect interested parties.
The era of cheap suburban growth and development is over
> Put another way, there's no ethical problem with recommending that people who follow Jay-Z should follow Obama, but there's a PR problem there.

I agree with that specific statement, but I would say there is an ethical problem with the similar situation of recommending payday loans to poor people.

The difference is recommending Obama to Jay-Z followers isn't harmful to those followers, but recommending payday loans to poor people is.
Well, some people need to be losing their law licenses -- toute suite. And permanently.
Then what are you talking about?
She saw a chain email (i.e. forward this to 10 people!) and decided it would be fun to make up her own. Apparently it was successful enough to get somebody's attention.

Edit: To be clear, I would never blame them for wanting to stop a cascading explosion of emails. But I also wouldn't say it's impossible for a child to get an account banned.
In this example, you are better off taking the short term capital gains penalty (I did the math in a sibling comment).

However, your logic isn't correct; no one is arguing that you would be better off having never purchased the stock at all versus paying short term capital gains. What we are trying to figure out is if it is worth taking LESS profit in order to pay LESS taxes. This calculation depends on how much less profit we are talking; as long as the profit lost by waiting until one year for long term capital gains to kick in is less than the difference in tax rate, it is worth it to wait.

You can prove that both situations are possible is easy to show. If your profit before long term kicks in is $10 and the profit after is $9.99, it is obviously better to wait until long term kicks in; you are going to pay WAY more than 1 penny per share in extra taxes. However, if the profit goes from $10 to $2 a share, it is obviously better to take the higher profit and pay the extra tax.
Right..? Does the number of exit nodes even compare with whats possible with simple amplification attacks?
Call your reps, and ask your friends to do the same.

The Voices app will let you call your reps directly,

https://tryvoices.com
I had a BBC Micro 10 years after they were being chucked in the bin. I was poor.

Still, that BBC Basic manual and copies of Micro User were mighty helpful - the manual was excellent! I am sure you agree.
With a drill and duct tape, it can be done
Indeed, Chinatown is often more like Americanized-Cantonese-Town. When it comes to cooking traditional Chinese foods from cuisines outside the Guangdong (Canton) area, you often have to source more widely for seasonings, ingredients, and sauces (the internet helps with that a lot). It's better in major cities where there's some degree of specialization among Chinese grocery stores, in which case you just need to be willing to search a bit for the more region-specific ingredients.
This is a sweet idea... I can imagine this becoming a staple in the EDM community
Cryonics included in Numerai employee benefits
That wouldn't slow down a self-respecting multi-billionaire, though, would it? Couldn't you just set up your lab in Malaysia / Brazil / Belarus? You don't even need a country without regulations against your research direction, just one that doesn't (consistently) enforce any such laws...
This Lisp I code is from 1959/60.

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/mit/rle_lis...

Page 101:

DEFINE
(((COLLAPSE,(LAMBDA,(L),(COND,((ATOM,L),(CONS,L,NIL)),
((NULL,(CDR,L)),(COND,((ATOM,(CAR,L)),L),(T,(COLLAPSE,
(CAR,L))))),(T,(APPEND,(COLLAPSE,(CAR,L)),(COLLAPSE,(CDR,L))))))))

This is the Common Lisp version. Formatted, comma removed, DEFUN instead of DEFINE.

Other than that the code is unchanged. It still works in Common Lisp.

(DEFUN COLLAPSE (L)
(COND ((ATOM L) (CONS L NIL))
((NULL (CDR L))
(COND ((ATOM (CAR L)) L)
(T (COLLAPSE (CAR L)))))
(T (APPEND (COLLAPSE (CAR L)) (COLLAPSE (CDR L))))))

CL-USER 191 > (collapse '(1 2 (3 4) ((5 6) 7)))
(1 2 3 4 5 6 7)

Common Lisp is backwards compatible to Lisp I and Lisp 1.5 in many ways.

Code like that can be relatively easy ported to Scheme (naming and syntax is slightly different). There are examples which are more difficult. But generally simple (!) Scheme is not that far away from that old core.
I can't miss this chance so: When someone uses the word debacle to describe a minor problem I get to rebut with my favorite joke (that only works when you are in Alaska and a nerd): Namely "That's not a debacle the Nena Ice Classic is a debacle."

See definition 3: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/debacle

Also: It's not nearly as good with "bets on a debacle", but it a good bit more accurate.

Also: Yes all of my friends hate my sense of humor.
I did not know that this was a YC initiative until I read about it in the comments. Initiatives like this need all the help they can get in order to stand out above the noise. Everybody's got a manifesto. Only this one has YC backing.

Consider making this a first-class effort.
How would one keep politics out of the workplace? Silence itself is a political position.
I can relate to this on a slightly different level.

I've never really done wildlife photography, but I've done a decent amount of hunting, and spend a decent bit of time near game farms (but never hunted on one). Hunting here in New Zealand is very different from the USA, it requires a lot of walking and actually finding animals, so you end up covering a lot of ground and spend a lot of time looking at things through binoculars. I've seen a lot of animals from far away, getting close to them is a different matter.

In the open, it's seriously hard to get near animals. They have better sight, hearing, and smell than us, and can run faster up steeper terrain than us. This applies to most game animals. It's not easier in the bush, deer stalking is not an easy skill. They also tend to stand in annoying places that are hard to climb to, and wouldn't be very nice for photos.

Wild animals tend to avoid humans, because humans have guns.

On the other hand, one day, we were driving past a game farm, and there was a serious trophy stag just sitting 50 m from the road behind a deer fence, would probably set you back near 10 grand to shoot if that's what you're in to. We stopped and took a couple of photos of it. It just sat there. We waved at it, it just sat there. We tooted our horn at it, and it stood up but didn't move at all. It was not bothered by humans at all in the slightest. We got some rather nice photos of it, photos you'd struggle to get in real life, first because such a stag in real life is once in a lifetime, and second, because you wouldn't be able to get anywhere near a stag standing in an open field with no cover.

If I was in a mind for poaching, it would've been the easiest trophy ever. Without hunting pressure, animals get amazingly placid.

Another thing to note about wild animals (or animals in general), is that they tend to spend most of their day doing boring things, they usually just sit down and don't do anything.
> If you want to be a truck driver, you need at least an eighth-grade education to handle the paperwork, she observes;

Until the computers do all the truck driving, then you'll need a college degree to program/repair them.
are you talking about Surface Book's touchpad specifically or PC touchpads in general ? Also, when did touchpad on the mac stopped being mechanical? My experience is with pre retina MacBook Pro.
>I doubt there are even close to 100 varieties of fish available (in markets) at the coasts, maybe 20 to 40

E.g. I've visited Goa (a coastal state) a few times, and at least at the beach restaurants / shacks, where they lay out the fish and other seafood varieties for inspection by customers, I don't remember seeing more than 20 or so items - kingfish, mackerel, red snapper, pomfret, crabs, a couple of types / sizes of prawns, squid, shark, that's almost it. One place that I went to a few times, had seafood special nights (the owner fished as a hobby), where there were a few more kinds, like barracuda, tuna, mussels, etc. These were in general touristy areas though. Local markets and restaurants may have more varieties.
Yes, this is exactly right. With IPV6 you can give explicit instructions to open up a port because you know what port to open up.

The frustrating part is that none of this should be a problem. It's just that lots and lots of routers don't follow the specs properly. Here it is 2017 and you still can't reliably punch a hole in a firewall.
totally surprised to see that in Capitalist America the
choice of fish was absolutely pathetic

followed by

Then I entered 99Ranch and since then my respect of my
eastern neighbours has gone up significantly

Because a supermarket founded in California is not part of America?

Not to mention the fact that the antecedent statement is just factually wrong -- my local grocer offers at least 20 varieties of fish as well (including about 5 or 6 different Salmons) and is a plain-as-day "American" market.
Ah yes with the breaking of spring the annual SIGGRAPH paper flood begins
> Let’s assume Facebook does target ads at depressed teens. My reaction? So what. Sometimes data behaves unethically.

Stop right there. Data has no behavior. You behave unethically. Data informs a decision, but you are making the decision. Take responsibility.
This isn't too surprising, because most of the schools listed are far larger than the relatively small IL schools (ASU is, if not the biggest university by student population in the country, then very close to it). I'm surprised the University of Washington isn't listed.
It's really weird, isn't it? NeverAgain is a pledge based on data collection and mass deportation. "The Tech Pledge" is essentially a pledge to provide large-scale data to the government, so long as the "correct" process is followed, and to defend the rights of immigrants who happen to work for tech companies.

The connection between the two pledges is pretty unmistakable, so much so that you can read comments on this thread about how random the two issues in The Tech Pledge sound.

Super weird.
I've tried searching on Etsy for specific handmade items that is well known to be sold on etsy, but trying to search for anything on the site is ridiculous. Most of the reason for this, I'm guessing, has to do with Etsy sellers not using the right keywords or tags. IDK, but it needs to be fixed. I think they should try a Model like Not on the High Street where there are standards, guidelines and assistance.

Also, it is clear that a lot of the listings on Etsy are cheap factory products from Asia rather than handmade. People purchase cheap goods on Alibaba and Ali Express to sell as handmade.Why pay a premium for cheap factory goods when the same items can be bought way cheaper at the nearest WalMart? They need to get it together.
And that difference is temporal - in the same way Obama as a person can change and payday loan interest rates and regulations can fluctuate
The Rule of Three
I don't agree with his claims that the following are among "a long list of Truths That Cannot Be Stated Publicly". I don't think anyone would care; I care very much about racism and can't imagine anyone I know objecting to these.

* "people who liked Jay Z were more likely to like Obama"

* "Hispanics between the ages of 18 and 25 probably do engage with ads singing the charms and advantages of military service."

(I'm skipping the other example because it's an issue of economic exploitation, not ethnicity.)