skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Hunh? Care to elaborate on a) what specifically AirBNB does to facilitate racism, and b) what you'd expect them to change about their 'platform' to stop people from being horrible?

They are aware of a problem with some hosts discriminating against certain guests. Here is an article describing some things they're trying to combat this in California in particular.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/28/airbnb-l...
Secret court rebukes NSA for 5-year illegal surveillance of U.S. citizens
Underpaid and overburdened: the life of a Facebook moderator
where your soldiers don't have to do anything that they don't feel like doing....
you basically hit the nail on the head. And if Obama did nothing about it, you can sure expect Trump to follow suit with inaction as well. The consumer's only hope here is the EU.
I for one hope driverless cars take a hell of a lot longer than people like Elon Musk expect them to.

First off, I enjoy driving. I identify with the brand of car I just bought. Yes, I have to deal with traffic and competing for parking in my congested city neighborhood... but that's a choice I made because driving and the freedom that comes along with it are, to me, things I value. If you think I'm a small minority, look at all of the car owners in my neighborhood who still choose to own cars despite an Uber being available in 120 seconds, and affordable public transit being a 3 minute walk away. I use both of these services, and I still choose to own a car.

Second - who is to say that autonomous vehicles are the cure for all of our ails? Yes, we'll eliminate some traffic fatalities. We'll also eliminate one of the biggest sources of employment in our society, which I worry will set an entire chunk of the population down a negative path toward bad outcomes like depression, suicide, and drug addiction when they can't sustain the meager existences they already live.

Lastly, I don't like the idea of some self aggrandizing tech entrepreneurs in SV who have decided that they know what the future of the place where I live should look like.
It terms of a hostile 3rd party and not an automated system? 5 times.

Snoopy relatives of women I have dated a couple times, a couple times by PIs paid to track me down, and a stalker once.

So...yeah. It's a real problem and none of these people had a legitimate cause to do so. Even beyond FB, etc. I don't post my face online because of shit like that.

Other people have stopped posting pics of me as well, a couple people have been called based on my name being tagged to things on social media.
Surly an essay about the beauty of puns and ambiguity in poetry can still be allowed a modicum of cleverness in its title?

"Clickbait", especially "a la buzzfeed" also usually refers to the original definition: "10 great jokes that Shakespear hid in poetry–No 12 will blow your mind". And considering they have A/B tested their headlines and you consider the article worth reading, isn't the outcome arguably good, anyway?
" (actually exclusively) "

I guess you didn't check my submission history then. If you want to discuss incivility, trying to frame someone up to meet the metrics for banning seems awful uncivil.
The Protein Leverage Hypothesis
You can use actual programming languages to beat up excel: http://www.python-excel.org/ (I'm sure other languages can beat up excel too)

I'm not saying it's a fix for this particular use case, but I couldn't imagine having to manually update a bunch of excel sheets regularly.. talk about a nightmare. ack.
The problem with them is they force another prompt, which takes time to read, comprehend, and respond to.

Prompt #1: Credit/Debit?

Prompt #2: PIN

Prompt #3: Would you like cash back

Prompt #4: The total is $xx.xx, ok?

This is time consuming, particularly for people who aren't as comfortable with electronics and pressing buttons. And on top of that, many times the terminals themselves are slow.

Pay-at-the pumps are even worse

Prompt #5: Are you a fuel perks member?

Prompt #6: Receipt yes/no?

Prompt #7: Would you like a car wash?

and they're often even slower, the buttons are often hard to press, or don't register a beep and have a delay before the machine responds, so you wind up pressing the same one twice. And most lack a 'backspace', the screens suck, man don't get me started....lol
Continuous shufflers are used in low stakes blackjack to basically make card counting impossible.
Bitcoin, Ripple, Flickr UIDs already use something called base58, which is like Base64 but with ambiguous characters removed.

IPFS is one of several projects adopting the scheme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base58
AFAIK it's mine.

'But' could work, but it feels a little too mutually-exclusive in context.
Google, Facebook etc are surely essentially already trying to build “AI police” to cut moderation costs.
There was this wireframe rollercoaster screensaver that used to be available for Windows 3.1. Seems like I got it off AOL or Prodigy, or maybe even GEnie. It would only work on systems that had a math coprocessor (it worked on my -DX, but not my friend's -SX). I found that it you synced it up to this specific MIDI it would start and finish at the same time as the song, but for the life of me I can't remember what the song was.

It was amazingly primitive by modern standards, but blew my mind in the early 90s. I must have stared at that rollercoaster for hours.
George Orwell was a great fan of Shakespeare, and he wrote an essay[1] in response to Tolstoy's strong dislike of Shakespeare[2]. These quotes are from Orwell, the fan:

- "Tolstoy is right in saying that Lear is not a very good play, as a play. It is too drawn-out and has too many characters and sub-plots."

- "Shakespeare has a habit of thrusting uncalled-for general reflections into the mouths of his characters. This is a serious fault in a dramatist"

- "Of course, it is not because of the quality of his thought that Shakespeare has survived, and he might not even be remembered as a dramatist if he had not also been a poet."

Tolstoy:

- "I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after the other, works regarded as his best: "King Lear," "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet" and "Macbeth," not only did I feel no delight, but I felt an irresistible repulsion and tedium"

[1] http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/lear/english/e_ltf ("Lear, Tolstoy, and the Fool, by George Orwell)

[2] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27726/27726-h/27726-h.htm ("Tolstoy on Shakespeare", by Leo Tolstoy)
Are the "shadow profiles" created by credit rating companies equally unethical/immoral in your view?
Right but.. "redistributive" means what exactly?

Free money for no work, or subsidized jobs? Know what I'm saying?... I personally resist jumping to redistribution with no work attached and would rather see some support of industry that will at least enable people to be gainfully employed.

At the end of the day, you'd be getting money in the hands of those that otherwise couldn't earn it on their own, at the expense of those that can (higher costs for the domestic products produced), but with lesser socially destructive costs of perpetual dependence on welfare transfer payments, food stamps, UBI, etc.

I actually don't see how we have erred on the side of nationalistic policy, yet.. though I see the demand for it now.
While I don't agree with the author's opinion on a whole, one thing to note is that most low level programming/testing jobs are now automated and the skillsets required for programmers have changed drastically.

We use jhipster for spring boot development and it has take most of our work programming for the business "glue". Within few minutes we had to start working on business logic. Traditionally a programmer had to create the dependency libraries, create the controller, services etc but they are all automated now.

What we are lacking is devs who can think from Business perspective and quickly work on it. I am lucky to have two programmers who do think on their feet but it took me close to an year rummaging thru outsourcing websites.

The game has changed, it has not shutdown
I remember when I built my last gaming PC I unknowingly ran a version of Prime95 that could not pass an OC stress test on certain Intel processors.

The combination of instructions it used meant that even if, under sustained 100% CPU load with a normal benchmark, your cooling solution was sufficient, within 30 seconds the CPU would hit 100° and activate it's thermal protection before a shutdown.

I went through 3 water cooling setups and numerous thermal paste reapplications before I realized, since I was driving the CPU hard (4690k at 4.9Ghz with a high overvoltage I recall being considered at the limit for non-LN2 setups, 1.4?) and thought that cooling was the issue
That's not a very nice thing to say. What makes you say it?
Embedded podcast about a giant robot arm bringing you beer
Compared to the # of users -- i.e. orders of magnitude greater -- that's a pretty reasonably-sized team.
This section is completely false:

"Tesla continues to include the Autopilot sensors and software in its cars, but has deactivated the system while further testing is undertaken. The company plans to re-activate it in 2019 or thereafter."

The author might have been confused about the reason for the switch from the Mobileye-based v1 hardware of Tesla Autopilot to in-house v2, which indeed represented a regression in functionality. It is true that the death of the driver was a catalyst in the breakdown of the relationship between Tesla and Mobileye. But there were plenty of other reasons, most related to hardball business tactics. It's false to say that Tesla removed existing Autopilot functionality.

Moreover, even v2 of Autopilot is currently approaching v1's level of functionality. Autosteer works and TACC works. Those are the main parts. I think only minor features like automatic windshield wipers are still missing. (I have only v1 so I don't know first-hand.)

Incidentally, it's rare for The Economist to get facts so wrong. Their articles are usually very well-researched.
This is cool. I wonder how one might get involved.
The Nomad Who's Exploding the Internet into Pieces
No country will give visa if they know about Caste system https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15...
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Walk the talk, people, walk the talk.

When Facebook has pwned everything that's left to pwn, are we going to look back and say, oh, we were warned, why didn't we heed the warning of all those writers... who had "like" links on their page before the content even started. No.
Yeah. Although personally, I think that it's still not as bad as the "James from FoobarSaaS" for the technical products (you know, CI, etc).

It was new and cool a few years ago, and maybe non-technical users find it more trustworthy, personal touch, whatever. But when you get this crap daily, it's just a bit silly. There's nothing personal about spam and I don't even know if the "James from FoobarSaaS" person actually exists (probably not).
That's what we need! A bunch of GPU's and computers carrying a car battery haha. Man that would be crazy. Pre trained before it leaves the factory. (don't know what I'm saying) but I do imagine a man-sized humanoid robot with a bunch of GPU's, hard drives.
This was one of my favorite startups. :(
I never said it was ok to treat people like that, or that I agree with that line of thinking at all. Describing something fascist doesn't make me fascist. Just that I suspect that is the calculation that goes on when a person decides to overlook this kind thing (which would normally be dealt with as a criminal action). Also tried to point out that there are countless stories of American diplomats and security teams behaving badly.
The Mission might be worse, but there's nothing especially nice about TL, either. I still recommend arrivals to steer clear of it.
I'm saying that large businesses, governments, banks etc. are able to borrow in large quantities, at relative lower rates.

Governments often borrow in astronomical numbers.

Anyone who does this (think of taking on massive debt to finance a real estate business, building apartment complexes for example) has incentives to prefer inflation, QE, devaluing the currency.

Over the course of lets say 30 years, they collect rents from tenants. They can increase the rents over time. Their payment on that debt will stay the same. So in "real" terms, the payments decrease over time, while the rent collected at least matches inflation.

Do you see now how those with ability to borrow large amounts to finance.. whatever.. have incentives to prefer inflation.

Think about the renter. Or the saver. Their dollars are going down in real value. The renter's monthly rent goes up.

Wages? They are sticky. They stay flat for long periods, which in real terms implies a wage cut.

"Inflation is taxation without legislation"

- Milton Friedman

“the arithmetic makes it plain that inflation is a far more devastating tax than anything that has been enacted by our legislature. The inflation tax has a fantastic ability to simply consume capital. It makes no difference to a widow with her saving in a 5 percent passbook account whether she pays 100 percent income tax on her interest income during a period of zero inflation, or pays no income taxes during years of 5 percent inflation. Either way, she is 'taxed' in a manner that leave her no real income whatsoever. Any money she spends comes right out of capital. She would find outrageous a 120 percent income tax, but doesn't seem to notice that 5 percent inflation is the economic equivalent.”

― Warren Buffett
Someone needs to build an ultra portable (more or less) full size keyboard, then it would be enough. ;)
Is anyone getting 403 Forbidden on this whole domain? I had to read the article through Google cache.

edit: I can load it over 4G on my phone though. Wonder why they would ban a random Japanese ISP?
Not really "going from". More like adding to the list of devices that will run their OS.
He's proposing that they put up the money for there to be an offer that is sufficiently attractive that the market will solve the problem. No one needs to be forced. They can take the offer to remove the body if they think offer is attractive.
A new Linux kernel source code cross-referencer inspired by LXR
Should the Sherpas be forced to buy insurance as well? What about the ones going on these dangerous recovery runs?
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Yes, but right now the actions being taking in response are substantially less than going to war.
lmao is this satire? how would you accurately type commands with such a tiny keyboard without tactile feedback? and how would that be faster than tapping on an icon?
"As of January 2016, 45.4 million persons were participating in SNAP."
https://www.snaptohealth.org/snap/snap-frequently-asked-ques...

https://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/SNAPsummary....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/...
I'm waiting for Mr. Erdogan's next visit to the United States.

I plan to travel to D.C. then and stand in solidarity with anyone who wants to express their freedom of speech within the borders of the US.

Mr. Erdogan and his thuggish retinue insulted the very nature of his hosts, who have been far too gracious to some very undeserving guests.
It doesn't read as sponsored, it'd be more circumspect. More like, the reporter found it and thought it was cool so he interviewed "Dr Julia Powles" about it so he could write an article on it. You can ask him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/joemillerjr
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I'm not so sure about "complete". There are missing polygons around areas of East LA, Boyle Heights, Monterey Park, Rosemead and Baldwin Park. But the polygons that are there seem credible to me.
"Public" TCP port is incorrect. It listens to local connections.

(Not saying that's great either.)
Mustard comes closer to becoming India’s first genetically modified food crop
Same on mobile chrome, in mobile or desktop mode. Very frustrating.
I'm still using an iPhone 4S 64GB from 2011, which my dad bought for me as a graduation present.

Partly because I'm too poor to upgrade, and partly because it still meets most of my needs.

The biggest problem I face is software rot in iOS 6. That would be the same regardless of OS. I can't use WhatsApp any more, or Kakaotalk. Facebook used to forward my messages to email, but now they demand that I use a Messenger app. Instead, I just check Facebook's website using the browser.

There haven't been any really significant apps that I needed that have been released in the last 5 years. I've made a list in case I ever update my OS. I don't need BBM or Pokémon Go. The messenger apps are the worst for forcing software updates, but I hope that people will eventually move back to email and SMS, which just work.
Some people on reddit mention it's listen on 0.0.0.0.
Yep! Shoot us an email and we'd be happy to explain it in more detail.
No, the massive income Facebook generates only imply that the people spending money on targeted ads believe (!) these ad are working.

It is not a prove per se these ads really are worth their costs.
FWIW, there are 2 or 3 libertarians / voluntaryists / anarcho-capitalists / whatever left hanging around... so not everybody is pro-government here.
There are a lot of these maps, most of them generated by Google MyMaps, by gang members themselves.
Is the source a credible github project?
Neural Networks for Integer Linear Programming [pdf]
That's basically it for me. Sometimes, I generate data from some very large programs and it's more practical and scalable to process that data outside of Python. In addition, most often, I put the plots inside of a LaTeX generated report or slides. In gnuplot, I can generate a piece of LaTeX code that will automatically match the fonts when the document changes. Does anyone know if the same functionality can be found in matplotlib or do we have to change the fonts by hand?
It looks like their Windows PSP drivers open ports on 0.0.0.0. https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6dinzy/why_do_amds_psp....

Note that AMD' claim that it's only local loopback (127.0.0.1) has been refuted by numerous comments, and without further reply from AMD.

Given AMD's refusal to work with libreboot, or document the on-die Arm cores with DMA memory access, these processors should not be considered secure for any layer 3 networking, financial or security related tasks.
Were he still alive, it's likely that he would not be arrested. More likely he'd be shot while resisting arrest.
I don’t have a problem with passphrases per se, but when people make them up via their noggin, they aren’t random and aren’t likely to include many obscure words. Using only common words dramatically reduces entropy. E.g., there are only 1 trillion passphrases of 4 words that can be constructed with the 1000 most common words, but a 12-character passphrase pulling from alphanumerics and the ~16 punctuation characters on your keyboard yield 50 sextillion permutations. That’s 50 thousand billion billion.

The argument I am making is that your average passphrase — yes, including "correct horse battery staple" — could be cracked a trillion times over before a password generated via 1Password would be!
Is there any work being done on making tracking our details more worthless? Like... generating fake data, honeypot browsing behavior, etc?
Looks like a map of future gentrification. It all starts when you see something like this. https://imgur.com/a/iONTY <- photo is a liquor store in gentrification hot spot Highland Park, Los Angeles.
This was created in 2011. I'm viewing on mobile, so I might be missing something, but have there been updates? It seems these sorts of blurry territory lines are liable to change frequently and suddenly.
> You can’t consume a screen saver in an instant. You can’t fast-forward or rewind one.

+1 for this. This is exactly the experience that Apple TV's screensavers gets right. They're just gorgeous, but they're random, slow, and you can't pause or rewind or fast-foward (unless you download the movies manually, which takes the fun out of it).
Extensive discussion of original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14425554
Apple waited to enter the market until it could practicably make a mobile device with a web browser that didn't require mobile versions of web sites. (Sure, mobile optimized is better, but the iPhone could at least load and zoom in on regular sites.)

Whether this was entirely intentional or not, I can't say for sure, but they certainly emphasized it at launch, and they designed a device with a screen that was huge enough, and it worked out great. Turns out the web was the killer app for the internet, and it was the killer app for smartphones too.
Unusual whistled speech may reveal what humanity’s first words sounded like
+1 for seaborn plots. Seaborn makes really pretty plots that are usually better than my lab-mates' in matlab.
I've always found it interesting how the people who enjoy berating the need are always silent when their newfound victims decide life is no longer worth living.

The mentality of the misshapen, I suppose.
The headline?
Earth-observing companies push for more-advanced science satellites
Yeah the market solves the problem by sending poor people to risk their own lives to commemorate the way the first person died.

Just because The Market is making it happen doesn't make it any less detestable.
In the Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake a few years back many of those killed were from the masonry facade of buildings collapsing into the street.

There was even an earthquake a few months earlier that killed nobody because it was in the middle of the night.If something similar happened in SF then the front of buildings falling into the street/sidewalk could kill lots of homeless even if the buildings themselves stayed fairly intact.
This is one of my favorite essays, it also has a great aside about how the appetite for power is more dangerous than the capacity for violence, which has always stuck with me as a particularly astute observation.

The essay is also particularly good because it recognizes that Shakespeare pre-identified faults in Tolstoy's philosophy, in King Lear.

I've also long thought that a lot of the subtlety of language touched on in this essay would have likely escaped Tolstoy in translation.
Ratner effect
> PCs are not status symbols but smartphones are and fashion is a huge component in why smartphones are replaced.

For those who buy the newest iPhone or Samsung Galaxy every year this might be the case but the rest of the world either doesn't care and see it as a tool or simply can not afford a shiny new flagship device and may be grateful if their existing device lasts longer.

> Another driving force is that a smartphone made a decade ago would simply not be able to use many of todays apps because it is missing certain sensors.

I don't see substantial innovation in the hardware space anymore besides bigger numbers on the spec sheet. Chances are high that phones from today will crack the 10 year mark of usefulness. We are already at a point where 4-5 year old high end devices are still perfectly usable for most daily tasks.