skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the time these were either misunderstandings, or wilfully misleading scare stories: These services need some sort of license to work. Even just to show you your own photos, you need to give Google/Facebook/Apple/whoever a license.

That license was usually quite liberal, i. e. "a non-exclusive, royalty-free perpetual license to perform your works...". That scared people, and suddenly everyone thought Facebook owns all you photos. But the [...] usually contained the conditions, or the reasoning. So, for example, they had the "perpetual" license to those works because it would have been difficult to securely eras everything from every backup. But you still had/have the right to stop their showing of your photos.

And they certainly never had the right to "perform" your works in the way that copyright is usually turned into money. They cannot, for example, sell your photos. Google never owned all the copyright in Harry Potter, even if the manuscripts were all sent via Gmail. Otherwise I'm pretty sure we'd have heard about it (It wouldn't be enforceable in court anyway, no more than some ToS clause transferring your house and firstborn).

What they can do is data mining. So Google can show you ads that match your inbox, and Facebook can train object recognition on your photos. But I'm not even sure if they need a license for that–it's just reading, not performing. They probably only need your consent for privacy reasons.
Yes, I realized after a while that it was in fact a Java application since context menus have the default Java look and feel.
Well, my general impression is that the average person lives their life in a mental fog, with vague notions of right and wrong and a heavy dose of "that's too complicated to understand". It probably does take a special brand of crazy to get past that web of lies and conditioned responses to something meaningful. But I like to think everyone has that capability, e.g. the ability to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory and apply it to this thread.

And you don't need to be autistic to get extreme levels of disconnection from reality, just do some Zen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_in_Buddhism
fair enough, although I personally don't think that cutting bread and eating more potatoes is that big of a difference overall, it is a difference so hey, for all I know that might have influenced things. As I was saying above, n=1 after all.
This guy gets it. This is one of the reasons that the best way to sell product online is to create a cheap front-end product that delivers insane amounts of value to the Customer and then make profits with the back-end sales over and over, i.e. Repeat customers (because now you have their trust and good will).
Everything about the article contradicts the premise it puts forward. There genuinely was a "Golden Age" in the Supply-Demand-Means dynamic. Now, any nobody can jet set off to Raleigh-Durham.

Air travel sucks now, and it's mostly to do with the cattle car mentality. Thanks a lot, actuaries. Short sonsofbitches.
A lot. We use clojurescript and ES6 in production.

(the clojurescript is now considered 'legacy')
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For reference, the average household income in the Phillipines in 2015 was 22,000 pesos per month (https://psa.gov.ph/content/average-family-income-2015-estima...). Regardless, 48 hours a week of this sounds like a horrible job at any salary.
That only works on goods that have a high margin. Many times a company does that with a product, a competitor will notice and start selling the product at-cost: hence causing their competitor to loose money on the deal. Of course some then take that hit as a loss-leader, but that only works if the products are cheap. That why you'll often see "we guarantee you the lowest price, if you find cheaper elsewhere * excluding apple products * excluding online stores" etc. which I think most consumers notice and end up disregarding the "price guarantee" => however some don't, which I have a hunch might be the most profitable customers anyway....
I think it's the whole copper atoms[1] that get liberated and bind the proteins.

[1] https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v308/n5960/abs/308667a...
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Can anyone compare this to average pay for outsourced unskilled labor?
Violence and dead bodies are a part of their daily life.
Well, I agree the discussion is pretty awful. But this policy is a bit unclear to me (and otherwise unwritten, AFAICT):

> not making insinuations about astroturfing and shills, unless you have evidence

That's confusing: What evidence could users have? In my comment, one of the ones you objected to, I cited some strong patterns in the discussion. That's going to be the best evidence that users have access to unless it's very clumsily executed. The astroturfers aren't going to out themselves; looking like ordinary users is the fundamental requirement of 'astroturf'.

So if there's no possible sufficient evidence, do you really mean, 'don't bring it up at all?' I understand not accusing individuals without evidence, but nobody even should point out the general possibility, saying for example, "it seems like something odd is going on here; all these talking points look the same and are made provocatively ..."?

There is no doubt astroturf happens here, simply because there is overwhelming evidence that it is rampant on the Internet and HN isn't exempt. If users can't discuss the topic at all (probably not what you meant), that would shield the bad actors and be a recipe for it to happen unrestrained.

EDIT: some clarifying edits
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> The only purpose of freedom of speech and thought is to protect unpopular, evil, and straight up false speech.

This is patently false. Did you even read the paragraph I quoted? I'm not sure if I even need to get into details here. There are hundreds of historical examples where non-hateful, and non-evil speech was censored. But you're being incredibly disingenuous by lumping in "unpopular" with "evil" -- the two are not even remotely the same.

You're trying to put an equal sign between, e.g., Communism (unpopular) and an anonymous post doxxing a rape victim on social media (evil). Give me a break.
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Considering these priors, Bayesian inference quantitates your ignorance.
I have a hypothesis that all the negative effects associated with increased salt intake are really negative effects of overeating. If we measure the salt intake of people who primarily eat fast food -- which has a constant salt content -- the amount of salt ingested will be proportional to the amount of food ingested. So the person who eats five Big Mac meals a day will ingest, roughly, five times as much salt as a person eating only one, but I would claim the adverse effects associated with this are related to overeating, not the increased salt intake.

Is anyone familiar with studies that study the health effects of salt with this in mind? I.e. keeping food amounts constant over different groups, while varying only salt content?
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He/she sounds just like the bright-eyed high school student they are, and the only douchebag here is the one who can't pick on someone his own size. Would you please stop creating accounts to break the site rules with?
Ask HN: How does Austin compare to other tech hubs?
I am a developer in the Washington DC metro considering moving to Austin because the DC metro area tech seems to be many years behind the other tech hubs. I was if people had insights or stories they'd like to share about moving to Austin.

How do salaries compare?

Is it easy to get a job if you're an average
engineer? (ie. not from Google, etc.)

What is the tech culture like at most companies? (Here most companies wear suits, etc?

Do most people work crazy hours?

Is the technology a few years behind SV?

Please share your thoughts
I was about to throw away this napkin. Glad I hung on to it for a little longer. When I see things like this, I often ask myself "Why would people take this job?" and some times I find it's because it pays very well from the perspective of the local economy.

1. £1.36 = 86.68 Philippine Peso (according to Google)
2. average annual family income ... 267 thousand pesos [0]
3. 267000 / 2 = ~133500 yearly person income
4. There are about 2,087 work hours in a year [1]
5. yearly/hours 133500/2087 = ~64 Philippine Peso

* Average Guesstimated Salary: 64 Philippine Peso/hour
* Facebook Censurer Take Home: 87 Philippine Peso/hour

That's about 30% more then the average take home.

Let me crunch the numbers again for the top 10% earners [0] bracket.

1. (786000/2)/2087 = 188 Philippine Peso/hour

That means a person in a top 10% earners household is only making about (188/87) 2.16 times what you make.

According to Investopedia the "average household income for the top 10% of earners is higher, at $295,845". which means that running the same numbers...

1. (295845/2)/2087 = 70
2. 70 / 2.16 = $32 USD/HR

Since they are earning 2.16 times less then the top 10% bracket I'd guess that taking (top 10% hourly wage / 2.16) would give you a localized approximation for your economy. Doing this job is the local equivalent of ~$32 USD/HR in USA money for reading Facebook posts and deciding if it is terrorism or not.

I know I've definitely gotten some stuff wrong here. Please correct me if you know better.

[0] - https://psa.gov.ph/content/average-family-income-2015-estima...

[1] - https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-admi...

[2] - http://www.investopedia.com/news/how-much-income-puts-you-to...
Sounds like a way more expensive version of SoDis [0]
Why use expensive copper when you could instead recycle, otherwise useless, PET bottles to do a similar job?

The only potential drawback I can think off is that some PET bottles seem to leak "hormone-like chemicals" [1]. Tho, reading trough the comments copper pots also seem to have some toxic effect on the water.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_water_disinfection

[1] http://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134196209/study-most-plastics-...
Nice article. The lack of native iOS looking components would be a deal breaker for me.

I wonder how stuff like navigation is built? If that's all in dart I'd be interested in seeing how the back stack looks in the hierarchy explorer. I.e are precious screens rendered still.
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not if you're the people who sell blood pressure medication...
and that's what I meant, when I said niche use cases. You can replace all operators with names and still have no difference. At some places code will be verbose, but on whole code will be more readable. Another example if you want is http://www.scala-lang.org/api/2.9.2/scala/sys/process/Proces.... All operators can be replaced by completely readable names like run, build, read, write.

Scala on whole is optimized to have lesser no. of characters in code, in contrast to verbosity of Java. Case classes and lambdas are what good came out of it, I understood the concept and now I can use them. Operator overloading and Implicit are what move pendulum to other side, they are not some novel concept and make very readable code, unreadable.
Based on that logic we should outsource this work to Syrian refugees. C'mon, think a bit harder before posting. :(

This sort of content is troubling for anyone to be exposed to - that's the whole reason why Facebook has to filter it. How can you possibly justify it by saying someone should already be desensitized? To child porn? Beheadings?
What follow-up has there been on this since the 2012 publication in a rather obscure journal? Most importantly, is there a source of copper vessels in most countries that is as inexpensive as other means of reducing bacterial load in drinking water?
I have a solution for #22 with 2 mirrors left over: http://i.imgur.com/XB4QwLy.jpg
I'm willing to commit to a serious effort in this area if anyone wants to collaborate - email in profile. I've been digging in to real time logistics for my existing business recently anyway, previously founded a 3300+ hotel reservation network and contributed a lot of Wikipedia content around PNR records and their political background/intelligence use, so have some familiarity with industry structure and protocols, and built and defended HA 24x7 transaction infrastructure for a major Bitcoin exchange. I would seek people with more experience close to or inside the major booking networks or airlines as collaborators.
Air travel being priced so that you (not to mention I and anyone else) can enjoy it reasonably often seems to be a good thing, not a bad thing.
Nope, not at all. Like I said, we have had autonomous vehicles operating in normal traffic for decades now. Autonomous vehicles do not require AGI, far from it. Waymo, Uber, Tesla and more are all competing to bring autonomous vehicles to the mass consumer market and indeed most estimates claim that we'll have autonomous trucks by 2027: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08807

I hate how everyone thinks they know enough to talk about AI because it's so buzzy/trendy right now.

Modern AI is not pretending to be AGI. No one is claiming to be going for AGI, and whatever successes we have been seeing lately have to do with applied AI in solving specific problems, not AGI.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_autonomous_cars

BTW did you even look at the survey? Because that's the opinion of actual AI researchers across the world.

This is easily Google able info, BTW, clearly your background is not AI.
Hard to call this news

http://gawker.com/5885714/inside-facebooks-outsourced-anti-p...

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14432749 and marked it off-topic.
Why Go’s design is a disservice to intelligent programmers
After being chased one too many times, they inspired me to learn to hunt waterfowl. I get back at them every year now >:)

They're actually delicious though. I like duck, but I can't eat very much because it's so rich, but goose is a less flavorful, but still gamey type of meat. If you haven't ever tried it, I recommend it. Be VERY careful when you are eating it though, biting into a shotgun pellet can crack a tooth.
* Lack of generics
* Lack of exceptions

I don't see these items as being shortcomings. Go is simple and simplicity is elegance, and simplicity is something that cannot be found in most modern languages. Just look what happened to C++, It has become more like C# and Java.
Regarding Nim, I believe it's a nice language and I have done a few small projects using it but just like what I mentioned there are 10000 ways to do a single task and that sometimes is confusing.

BTW C/Go/lua are my languages of choice
That depends on their definition of 'short lived'.

How many posts can a user visit in, lets say, an hour?

They said they want to avoid increasing the views when a user refreshes the page in a short interval
If we haven't discussed this before, I must have confused you with someone else and apologize.

I've posted about this countless times: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix=true&page=0&dateR....

There are several ways you might have actual evidence that someone was astroturfing, but they're rare, and overwhelmingly less likely than people just making such accusations up because another user's comment pisses them off. The "you must be a shill" trope is pretty much the most popular internet cheap shot out there, and based on everything we know, it's a far greater threat to this site because it's so common and degrades discussion so quickly. Indeed it's a bit like antivirus software in causing the very problem it claims to combat.

So, unless you have more evidence than someone being wrong in your opinion on the internet, you bet it's inadmissible here.
This video convinced me that self-driving cars are definitely going to beat humans at safety. Freaky how early the thing gets that there's going to be a crash and the distance at which it responds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ-d9k6JFA8
A few things I've noticed as I've read about other peoples' experiences:

- Most startups are B2B, as opposed to those in Silicon Valley, of which the vast majority are B2C.

- Things move a bit slower - there's more planning, less hackety-hacking. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, and doesn't mean that you'll be twiddling your thumbs.

- Cost of living is much, much lower, as you might imagine.

- Tech scene is smaller, but more tight-knit. There aren't a vast array of VCs and companies like in the valley, so chances are you'll bump into the same people over time, and be able to build more personal connections within your network, which is probably better than having a larger, more impersonal network.

- A lot of big companies have satellite offices around Austin, like Apple, Intel, IBM, etc. You aren't necessarily locked into working for an "Austin company", if you don't want to.
Did he just assume their gender? Did I just assume his gender?
Right, I'm not disputing that there are obvious biological differences. Why do you think that the statistical difference between men and women at intellectual performance (for which I haven't seen numbers, but I'm not disputing) is due entirely to biological differences? It seems foolish to reject environmental influences off-hand.
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Very fascinating. I think it is Mark Landis that you have in mind:

"It obviously isn't a crime to give a picture to a museum, and they treated me like royalty. One thing led to another, and I kept doing it for 30 years," says Mark Landis, one of the most prolific art forgers in US history.

- America's most generous con artist http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31818367

I think this would make a really good film. An artist who is clever, talented, persuasive, calculating, and just want to do some good by donating 'forged' art to museums.
Another good web game about advanced physics is VelocityRaptor [1]. In the game the speed of light is set to 3 miles per hour, and you have to use relativity to solve puzzles

[1] http://www.testtubegames.com/velocityraptor.html
Why do we use operators at all? We can just as easily write out plus, minus, multiply, and divide.

Concatenating to a list and pattern matching are extremely frequent operations in Scala. Some of the operators they use have been in use for decades in the languages that influenced Scala.

Like many features across many languages it can be taken too far at times and people that enjoy Scala talk about them all the time. That said, the similarities of your example to operators I use at the command line every day makes it nice to read for me.
And it already requires reading five hundred comments.
Though I'd give anything to be able to use Google Maps with CarPlay.
That this with a grain of salt <snort!>

It has been suggested that "leptin resistance is considered a primary risk factor for obesity. It has been hypothesized that dietary cereal grain protein could cause leptin resistance by preventing leptin from binding to its receptor."

"Similar to what is observed in chronic inflammation, chronically elevated leptin levels are associated with obesity, overeating, and inflammation-related diseases, including hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease."[2]

1. https://bmcbiochem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12858...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptin
Ask HN: Can we display comment scores after threads are closed for posting?
Apparently comment scores were initially hidden because mobs would previous cheer on a fight between two polarized views, commenters would say reactionary, incendiary things, and groupthink would generally settle in. So can we show comment scores once threads are closed for posting? The way HN judges comments is a useful signal it'd be useful to have.
I think there are two separate design issues. One is the architecture of the Smalltalk development environment in terms of displaying information about classes and objects and lists of related methods and the running system and so on. That's great and and powerful and entirely orthogonal to the WIMP interface and the particulars of the screen presentation.
Ahhh. That's a misconception on your part. There is literally no difference between any kind of sales email, and spam. All sales email to people that haven't opted-in previously, is spam. 100% of it. Thankfully, some countries have even introduced laws against it.

That's the reason for the FOAD response.
The German Tank Problem guesses the size of a set, given a limited sample and successive serial numbers. If they had randomized the serial numbers it wouldn't have worked.

HyperLogLog is different because you have the entire population (not just a sample), and it's a multiset (the same element can appear more than once). Getting the size of a (non-multi) set is easy, you just keep a counter and increment it for each element; it only takes enough memory to maintain the counter. Counting the distinct members of a multiset takes a lot more memory because you have to remember whether you've already seen a particular element or not.

The tl;dr is that the German Tank Problem is about making an estimate of size when you have imperfect information, and HyperLogLog gives you an estimate when you have perfect information, but it's too expensive to make an exact calculation.
I'm confused by your post, sounds like him and his wife got jobs as soon as they could...
Last I checked, one of Garmin's key mapping data providers is Here Maps (formerly NavTeq). "Here" is owned by a consortium of companies (primarily VW, BMW & Daimler) and licenses its data to a number of companies. Apple can become another licensee.

For its massive cash hoards, I gotta say that Apple is neither strategic nor quick to the table with acquisitions.
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I don't think anyone is disputing the "benefit" to the worker, from their perspective. The outrage is that corporations take advantage. They refuse to employ US employees because they would have to pay reasonable wages, provide healthcare, offer stock options, etc. So they outsource to skirt millions on all of the above.

I'm really sick and tired of "but they're happy to have the abysmally low-paying job, because in their currency it's above-average!". Companies like Facebook aren't outsourcing to "give jobs to the needy"; they only do it because it's disgustingly cheap for them. The destitute, desperately grasping at the crumbs dropped on the floor by the rich, is not a positive thing. It's depressing.

What's next? Do we defend companies who hold immigrants' passports hostage, enslaving people indefinitely with no way out? After all, they pay X% above average! Those workers should be thankful just to have a job! Who cares that they'll never see their family again, and likely die while living in squalor?
Consider if you are over thinking / over planning this. Much of life is a crap shoot. I'm sure you will do well wherever you go and be glad that you made that choice. I remember one very successful professor who admitted he got his degree at Stanford because he liked the weather. Loosen up a little. The benefits/costs of any choice are down in the noise. You can't make meaningful decisions with this precision.
This article has a few issues.

First, you spend the first half of the article explaining a signature scheme that isn't based on cryptography. It isn't really clear what that part of the article is actually about.

> "Signed by John" <- John encrypts this line using his private key

This isn't how message signing works. It has all the problems you described in the first part, before you introduced asymmetric encryption.
RE long distance running:

Actually sled dogs way outpace humans at long distance running. Like they can do a marathon a day for a week straight, while pulling a sled.

Humans are second place tho I think.