skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that farm its own people out for cheap wages and horrendous pollution

I feel it bears reminding that this is all done so that the west can have lots of cheap stuff. You should blame China for being the factory of the world no more than you should blame western companies (big and small) for outsourcing manufacturing to China.

As for the other things, the West does more-less the same, just with slightly different methods.
He said that it might be. No need to get worked up mate.
This is great. There are so many enormous open source projects that could really benefit from modern tools like GitLab. Ruby is another example.
Well nobody is forcing you to do anything. If running your tech on your own infrastructure is better for you, then by all means keep on doing that.

> they got your back as longest you paid them to

Yeah, vendor lock-in is a problem, but depending on the size of your operation it might make sense.

With GraphQL based solutions it's less of a problem though.
You're totally entitled to that opinion and I myself largely agree with public choice theory, but the post to which I responded began thus:

This piece does a fairly good job of presenting the conservative point of view: that there are mountains of waste in government to cut rather than hike taxes. I agree with that perspective.

And it was that agreement with conservatism as a political philosophy that I asked to explore. It's not that your opinion is invalid, but that it is unresponsive to the question that was asked. I am not interested in having an argument with you, I'm interested in knowing where that other person was coming from.
way to at least try to engage with the issue. best of luck.
> I would rather pay a little more for manufactured goods and retain at least that last item.

If you're in the bottom third, living paycheck to paycheck, and forced below the poverty line by ACA premiums you don't have much of a choice but to fuel the race to the bottom by spending on the cheapest goods and services available which will invariably stem from globalized production.
Read their FAQ:

There is absolutely no backdoor in Tor. We know some smart lawyers who say that it's unlikely that anybody will try to make us add one in our jurisdiction (U.S.). If they do ask us, we will fight them, and (the lawyers say) probably win.

We will never put a backdoor in Tor. We think that putting a backdoor in Tor would be tremendously irresponsible to our users, and a bad precedent for security software in general. If we ever put a deliberate backdoor in our security software, it would ruin our professional reputations. Nobody would trust our software ever again — for excellent reason!

But that said, there are still plenty of subtle attacks people might try. Somebody might impersonate us, or break into our computers, or something like that. Tor is open source, and you should always check the source (or at least the diffs since the last release) for suspicious things. If we (or the distributors) don't give you source, that's a sure sign something funny might be going on. You should also check the PGP signatures on the releases, to make sure nobody messed with the distribution sites.

Also, there might be accidental bugs in Tor that could affect your anonymity. We periodically find and fix anonymity-related bugs, so make sure you keep your Tor versions up-to-date.

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#Backdoor
My understanding is that the initial police report can carry a lot of weight in these situations. The fact that you weren't lucid on the scene also suggests that you may not remember the event, whether that's true or not.
+1!

The way I see it, this is a "toy" (for the time being). The "2013 devices" makes me thing that this is a "toy" for people like "us" that have a Nexus rotting away somewhere and "it would be cool to fool around on your 30-inch screen and nothing more!

It would be better if they would up-front say "this is not secure", "this is a demo", "this is a toy", "this is not the OS you're looking for".

Imaginary CEO-CTO dialog:

CEO: hey! I just read that we can throw away the PCs and replace them with some old phones that we can buy for $50 on ebay! START!!!

CTO: but.. let me explain.. I quit!!
Regarding the contamination: Why are property developers, especially factory/industrial ones, not required to post bonds or insurance that provides cleanup and restoration after a company bankruptcy?

The current model shifts all the liability to the taxpayer or worse to new developers as contaminant presence is a significant barrier to redevelopment of unused areas. Or in case of nuclear, the public is stuck with literally hundreds of billions of euros with cleaning up nuclear plants - no one sane believes that the energy companies have enough cash to cover for it.
For those who think it can't happen here, there was a recent case in Silicon Valley where a group of small business owners was keeping slaves. I actually ate at their restaurant and had no idea what was going on.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2015/11/20/plight-of-saratoga-hum...
Not everyone wants to be in the parking-lot business.
Yes Braeburns are mealy. Cortlands are what you are looking for -- very crisp, with just the right mix of tart and sweet.
Nice article. I got a bit lost at the section explaining the left-to-right technique, and wanted to ask about that here, but now I see there's pseudocode and even illustration of the technique. Great that you've gone through the effort to add those, they are really useful to clarify and take away any misconceptions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...

Abraham Lincoln, percent of popular vote 39.65%

John Kennedy, percent of popular vote 49.72%

Bill Clinton, percent of popular vote 43.01% (1992) / 49.23% (1996)
I think that rather than deny access, it feeded the app with randomly generated data.
>The only sound that plays is sound that you specifically asked for, like [...] sound from badly behaving apps.
I was answering in the general sense about what was wrong with DRM not anything specifically about Netflix, I even prefaced my comment with "It hasn't happened with Netflix on any large scale, yet".

But why can't I use their service on a device of my choosing at a resolution of my choice? Why is my perfectly capable Ubuntu machine limited to 720p and a windows machine isn't?

Having some kind of standardized access where I didn't have to put up with their BS would go a long way towards making that easier for me to deal with.
after installing it change the password on that user. red flag fixed.
Resident parking, €20pm in Lyon, France, knowing that the public transport is excellent. I wish they would ban cars entirely in the 500,000ppl area, but you need a car from time to time, when you're pregnant, old, have a sprained ankle or back, need to carry an iMac around or to just get out for a hike in the countryside. Still, one-day pollution permits would be better than taxing only parking.
We do this using Ansible (Written in python haha). So we have that covered there =)
The hard part is finding the things their audience would believe someone did or said out of all the things that actually happened.
Apple HT207798
An obvious candidate is the tight coupling between access to medical services and income. Some link, naturally, exists elsewhere - but it is much higher in USA than anywhere else in the first world.
It's actually pretty interesting that at ~55 weeks, RCB, DCB and DgCB are in very close proximity to one another, then, suddenly, the non-carbonated beverages (DgCB, water) take a huge drop over the next month, with a bit of a stutter on the DCB and a continuous rise on the CB. I wonder if the significance they see in this study is due to an exogenous reaction with the extra CO2 (eg, an environmental factor).
Can you be more specific? Do you mean producing their original content? Or rendering renditions for each bitrate, and then pushing those renditions out to their custom CDN appliances? (OpenConnect)

I can most definitely get behind original content production being hard. But pushing a couple hundred TB (or even low double digit PB) of data out to CDNs doesn't require a fleet of devs.
Apache Commons Compress 1.14 Released
I downvoted you for bullshit
> I know if you grow up poor you just can't afford to buy healthy foods b/c they're too expensive

I feel that's a common misconception. Sure, you can't buy fresh, organic foods but I'm able to build muscle on about ~$10/day and stay healthy as a horse.

Frozen peas (most frozen veggies) are $1 for 4 servings; canned black beans and chickpeas are $0.89 for 4 servings; whole-wheat bread is $3-4 for 18 pieces; 1 gallon of water is $0.89 (if you faucet water isn't drinkable); etc.

You certainly can eat healthy on the cheap. It's just that most people don't want to make the sacrifice.
This really isn't about attaining some impossible standard of perfection. If it was your child being treated like that, what would you do? Would you hope that someone who witnessed your child being treated like that would say or do something?
Modern Machine Learning Algorithms: Strengths and Weaknesses
He is at least aware that what is happening was not quite right. It is concerning that he cared more about rich friends feelings than the woman sleeping in dirt but there isn't really enough here to label him a sociopath :)
I suspect there is no one-size-fits-all solution for obesity: some people experienced sustained weight loss only after undertaking a vegetarian diet, some only by a ketogenic diet, some only by getting into sustained exercise, and some only by a laproscopic band. For some people, obesity isn't even associated with poor health.
Live Stream: Embedded AI on Ear Computers?
> I think your advice falls into the "much easier to say (from a great distance) than do" category.

What of it? You still don't allow people to remain in a state of slavery when it is within your power to free them with just a phone call to the police. It doesn't have to be easy to do to be unacceptable not to do.
"Tests, meanwhile, have found arsenic and selenium in the soil on the site."

Why did they even bother testing? Perhaps it was required by law or as a condition of sale or permitting. But it's all liability and no benefit.

Obviously the site should be expected to be contaminated. Train your workers, give them proper equipment, and enforce safe working procedures. Cover and contain the soil. Use a reputable soil disposal company--i.e. one that also assumes the soil to be contaminated and directs it to safe usage, such as filler for road construction. As long as a developer does the ethical thing, why expect him to risk his entire investment? It's not just his money stake--everybody in that community has a stake in the project's success.
It wasn't computers and information that fueled globalization in goods trade. It was containers and fax machines.

Containers made trade both cheap and reliable. It costs about $1000 to move a container from China to the US. (Yes, port charges, trucking, etc. add to that. But that's true of any transport. The long-distance transport is not expensive.)

Fax machines made it much easier to do business across language barriers. Purchase orders and invoices on forms can usually be puzzled out by both parties. The paperwork now preceded the merchandise, so you knew the shipment was coming when it started transit. It used to take weeks to track missing rail and ship shipments.
If this means that PR comments can now be displayed in-line from the editor, I am switching from Sublime Text. I bought ST3 outright, but I'll switch in a heartbeat to display comments and feedback.
Self driving vehicles will make this a lot more accessible since the car can essentially operate like Uber without a driver. Hail a car via App (or schedule) the car picks you up and drops you off where you need to go, and then its on its way to pick up the next person. It doesn't require a human to park the car or find the car to pick it up. Far fewer cars will be needed to move people around efficiently, if all the cars aren't parked at offices all day long and at your home in the evening. If there are just enough cars that you never have to wait more than 1-5 minutes to get a pickup, and its significantly cheaper to share I could definitely see a lot of people forgoing ownership.
What occurred to me reading this is that one of the biggest costs to urban farming is the real estate. But with self-driving car-shares on the horizon and potentially much lower needs for parking structures, perhaps this might be a good way to repurpose some old parking garages. Lots of sq.ft., structural support for heavy inventory, open to air and sun, etc. Might work.
I just tried it out and the UX is ridiculously broken for me. Whenever I try to focus one of the Git or Github panes, the content of the panes completely vanishes, since I'm unfocusing the file the content was about.
I don't know - why do you need to own a car 100% of the time?

Why not have a car drive to pick you up for your commute maybe with someone else heading your way - then it goes about and picks up people who are heading to the shops, have doctor's appointments, are heading to the airport.

You might even part-own that car - you get priority on your travelling hours - and the lease company does a daily valet before the car comes to pick you up.
> This isn't exactly a hardened product

Bolting on security later seldom works well.
NuCypher using proxy re-encryption to lift enterprise big data into the cloud
Ironically I hadn't even realized that r/drama existed until at some point I noticed it being mentioned in r/subredditdrama threads. I'm not sure what the history between those 2 subs is (r/subredditdrama has 270K subscribers vs. r/drama's 32K). But r/drama seems to involve a lot more shitposting and personal-scale conflicts, e.g. a Prius driver having a history of anal-retentive commentary. Whereas r/subredditdrama is for when an entire forum goes apeshit. Or at least several impassioned commenters.

I think the difference in quality is actually more of a testament to how the mods run the community, even though both r/drama and r/subredditdrama have large overlap. But the latter seems to have instituted a culture of determined understatement, so threads have titles like "A visitor to /r/JapanTravel is adrift after he discovers that Japanese girls don't care about him". Whereas r/drama's current top post points to a Twitter account and has the title, "Orange ameriburger goes full retard...again"
the funny thing is that there are already "seefood"s out there. Among others:

https://www.infino.me/hungrybot
There is great risk of 'creative' and 'knowledge worker' type jobs leaving the rich countries. But, that wave won't appear for another 5-10 years.

Why? Because there's just too much free capital floating around.

It's the same reason why a upper-end software engineer can ask for $175k in salary and get dozens of job offers, but if that same engineer asks for $200k or to work remotely, most companies will look away. Or, in other words, there's an imbalance of capital to competition. Currently, most companies can get away with shunning financial analysis.

There are many weak, unserious products out there that are still making lots of money. There are lots of mediocre companies that are worth $150M. That demonstrates that there is too much floating capital in the system. But, eventually, things will bounce the opposite way, and it's gonna HURT, HURT, HURT.
Spin (propaganda)
The first time I got Opal apples my comment was "this is what Golden Delicious wants to be when it grows up."
>Coming from a site with a name like "Open AI" I expected some software to help promote research

Really? I'd expect some stuff that helps me integrate AI into whatever it is I'm building.
All of those but Sony are brands from western countries.
Everyone basically needs their cars at the same time. They all need them to commute. Not owning one will mean ride sharing or extremely high prices. My guess is that people will continue owning their cars forever.
Sure, a fantasy. I doubt you can be convinced, but let me try.

I was always sure that if someone broke into my home, I would confront them - lethally - if necessary, despite any complexities. Dignity is important to me, and I'm willing to take risks to keep it. When I was a sweet summer child I used to think that was the default state of adulthood.

Well, recently someone did break into my home at 3am. Coincidentally I was sleeping on the couch right in front of the front door. My eyes opened to the sight of a strange man in dark clothes standing inside my home. I went from half asleep to awake and armed faster than I've done anything else from deep sleep. If they had shown me any signs of aggression I'd have shot them. Fortunately for both of us they panicked and fled.

You're right, the action itself wasn't a thing I deliberated on or decided in that moment. I told myself I'd do it, but the way I responded in that acute moment was instinctual and adrenaline fueled.

There are actually some weak parallels between a home invasion and finding out your friend might be a slave owner.

I can understand why some people would respond to a home invasion with submission. For some folks, that doesn't even touch their personal definition of dignity, the function is life > stuff and I can respect that completely.

Yet, when you see your friend possibly engaging in slavery, and mistreating them to boot.. it's like home invasion with the personal stakes all lowered. Your life isn't on the line, just potentially the life of the victim and your friendship. Not only that, but the time frame is extended from do-or-die adrenaline to days of deliberation if you want. I'd have to work real hard to come up with some complexities that shake my confidence on how I'd react here. Basically the maid would have to be skeletor or a war criminal. I really wish more people were backing me up on this. I'm pretty blown away.

But yeah my knees would probably buckle and i'd let them continue with their evil so things wouldn't get awkward. Lol nope.
The dimension of the input and output arrays needn't be different, right? There's no reason you can't input a image into a convolutional neural network and output an altered image of the same size.
Abuse is rampant in Singapore as well though. For example, if a maid becomes pregnant, they have to leave Singapore immediately and the employer gets fined -- so it's common to lock them in the apartment 24/7/365 for however many years their contract is.

Legally, they're supposed to have one day a week off, but in practice this is not enforced and the maid has no leverage: many have paid large sums to brokers and need to work several years just to repay their debts.
Even though it comes bundled by default, like everything in Atom, you can just disable it as a default package in the settings.
I think car sharing will be very regional. Areas that are rural will not see the same level of car sharing as urban areas. Many rural people are too used to the freedom of personal car ownership to give it up.
I think the attitude you have is really common among doctors, too.

I will say thought, that this is a really typical path in the US, at least:

* 4 years undergraduate ($200K debt, high competition/workload)

* 4 years medical school ($250K debt, high stress/workload, 50% odds of not being accepted)

* ~3 years residency (pay only $50K/yr, famously high stress/workload, possibility of being separated from loved ones or making hard choices in residency match)

So assuming starting undergrad at age 17, you have had a tough 11 years and are at least $300K in debt by the time you are 28 and getting your certification. This is ignoring specialties with fellowships. I don't have the time, but I'm sure it's possible to estimate the quality of the time sacrificed to education and lost compensation during that time and then amortize that over a typical career.

And the field is different... after all of that training they get to spend an inordinate amount of time doing paperwork/fighting with insurers, which (seems to be) leading to more group practices with workloads like those described in the article.
Maybe one policy for an urban area doesn't fit for a rural area, and vice versa. Maybe... life is complicated and there's no intellectually easy solution for everything.

(directed at both Fricken and valuearb)
There's at least one other possible outcome:

Workers take their compensation in a variety of ways. On the high end, Google famously offers perks like food and nap pods.

But even on the low end, people are interested in things other than immediate cash on hand. For example, learning and mentoring to grow their skillset and move up in life.

Some of these opportunities come for free, and even immediately bring benefits. Other costs the business money.

Without a minimum wage, employees and employers are free to choose different trade-offs. And especially young people early in their career might be willing to put quite a premium on mentoring.

With a minimum wage, a big part of the space of possible trade-offs is unavailable.

Now---this isn't just idle talk: there's a bunch of studies about how one effect of (increasing) minimum wage is decreased social mobility and people getting stuck at the bottom. (Sorry, not enough time to look them up now. But can do, if there's demand.)
I believe GP was saying that they'd go Slack-only in their org if it had linux support for screensharing/video. Slack is pretty much everywhere now and has the mindshare and platform support for chat and collaboration. Having everything in one place makes things easier, ergo ditch hangouts and have it all in one place. Hangouts is missing crucial features to even begin to fully compete with Slack, including decent chat, collaboration, integrations, reasonably good mobile apps, and trendiness.
You miss my point - 30 years ago we knew how to create machines that would last - have we lost that skill, or has it been deliberately discarded?
Choosing 50 FPS instead of 60 was because needing to dedicate more CPU to each frame, or because another reason?

P.S. Impressive demo, kudos :-)
The problem is fitness alone is not a cure for obesity. I think diet is the biggest factor in American obesity, even though lack of exercise is obviously a big problem as well. Portion sizes are inflated compared to other countries, soda is cheaper than water in some places, and high sodium and high fat foods are consumed daily by many people. Not to mention high-calorie "coffee" from places like Starbucks.
Interesting that the author and his siblings had empathy for the servant. In most American Slavery stories the entire household, including young children, are portrayed as being evil and unforgiving towards the slaves. In these situations I wonder if there is any sort of innate feeling of compassion and decency and how that manifest itself in a culture where slavery and cruelty is the norm.
Except Chicago in the runup to the Civil War had population growth of 274% in a decade:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago

Well over 10x what Silicon Valley has experienced during another world-historical boom:
http://siliconvalleyindicators.org/special-reports/populatio...
Piketty says that industrializing countries can develop at a rapid pace until they catch up. Then they're stuck at a max of about 5% growth, reflecting technological progress.
The first AI to really blow my mind as a kid and - between that and Conway's Game of Life - no doubt responsible for the first 5 years of obsessive my all-night hacking and sneaking into university libraries to supplement lackluster CS education in high school at the time.

Person: WHY DID YOU DO THAT?

Computer: BECAUSE YOU ASKED ME TO.

^ cue adolescent nerd frothing at mouth
Solar Powered Condenser Turns Ambient Humidity into Drinking Water
Indeed. I think private property is one of the foundations of civilisation, but I'm not entirely convinced that IP is a legitimate form of property.
Scala Android