skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's worth investing the time. Grammar of graphics is life changing if data visualization is part of your day to day.
>In 50 years, when a couple hundred million Indians aren't having trouble getting enough to eat because their government subsidies were stolen, then maybe it's worth having this conversation.

that's the game played; radical programs are raised and enforced in environments where it is nigh impossible to exist without them so that the corruption and moral negligence caused by such programs is swept under the rug for later generations 'to deal with' (the point being that later generations will be even less capable of reversing such programs as they will likely be even more reliant on them)

see: 'indentured servitude' for similar strategies.
Their obligation to maximize shareholder returns is what drives them to grow as much as possible.

The big 4 just happen to have done a good job at it (or got lucky).
Having grown up with a national ID system I have a very hard time understanding the fear that people who grew up in the US have of a national ID system. However, I think that's because I grew up in a system with very strong privacy protection. Judging by this article India isn't only lacking privacy protection but the government is actively setting out to profit from not having such protection in place. I do think that's a very bad combination. However, you are of course right that this might also solve a number of problems India has many other countries don't and have a hard time relating to. It's a good thing to point out arising privacy concerns. Maybe India could have a national ID and make an effort to protect its citizens data rather than selling it?
Experts tracked a German hacker behind the spreading of Houdini Worm on Pastebin
No, I thought so too initially. The person is just hosting the project looking for a maintainer(he is hosting other abandoned projects too). Debian project is also looking for someone to maintain the package.
But a lot of the reason it's useful/interesting that say sorting is n log n is because we have computers to actually implement sorting. I'm not sure the problem was even posed before computers.
But gccgo already exists, and provides an optimizing compiler backend and extended platform support. And the tools in LLVM's ecosystem seem largely useless to Go (no need for asan et al when you have a GC, and no need for tsan when Go already has an optional race detector). Other than the compiler itself having a permissive license, I see no urgent impetus for an LLVM backend for Go, which likely explains why it's taking so long coming.
The Pis were used in a 24 gym and tanning salon system. They ran a touchscreen for customer interaction, connected to a custom board I built that attached to the proprietary network tanning control systems use, and handled RFID access control.

It worked well, but tanning regulatory changes killed it.
I think the cultural difference piece is hard to judge, but it's very difficult for me (a mostly uninformed reader) to figure that piece out. I think no matter how you try and get the stats, that piece will remain.

I think my main takeaway is that the US has a pretty bad system currently. Our prisons do seem like breeding grounds for criminals, and our recidivism rate is high. One way to end recidivism is potentially with education. Another way to reduce the problem of recidivism is by locking a repeat offender up for life[1].

I'm not sure the answer, but clearly there's room for improvement in the US system.

Our crime statistics are just so much worse in the US, it seems like we need radical, generational changes to try and make our crime rates more like similar European countries.

More Chicagoans have been killed in gun violence since the start of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq than US soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.[2]

In the top 50 world cities by murder rate, 46/50 are in countries that you might expect (Brazil, Mexico, Honduras, etc)[3]. But 4 are in one of the richest countries in the world, with St. Louis premiering at #14. A 20-30% drop by making our prisons universities is not enough to make these numbers tolerable to me. We need massive change (not just with criminal justice... obviously education, culture, economics all play a part).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law

[2]https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/09/08/homici...

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
For those who are unable to grasp the emotional impact of dealing with patients, I would like to mention that Erich Segal's novel 'Doctors' helped me appreciate it better. I found it to be a fascinating read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91201.Doctors
It's a millennia old question, and still the best answer for how to produce collective agreements, on questions we do not collectively unanimously agree on, is simply to count the votes and do what most people want to do.

Yes, the majority has often wanted to do things we now think were reprehensible, and this is certainly an ongoing situation. But Churchill is still right: democracy is a terrible form of government, it's just that it's not quite as terrible as every other form we've tried.

And you haven't answered my question - what should we replace democracy with, and precisely how would that process work - and without answering that question it's tedious to make pronouncements about how much better some undefined alternative would be. G.K. Chesterton: "Revolutionaries are always right about what is wrong, and they are usually wrong about what is right." It's easy to see the flaws in something that exists in front of us. It's very hard to design something that would in actual fact be better.
The Case for the Disconnected Commute
How would you finance and support this endeavor? Also, why wouldn't Facebook ban all such users? Facebook is a private platform and they make the rules on how you get to play with it.
Agreed but even most of the very literate ones does not understand the implication. Everyone is so gung-ho about having a single identity tied back to bio-metric data that highlighting the privacy concerns and historical misuse have no effect.
I think brand new shiny mac laptops are status symbols these days (says the guy who lugs around an 8 pound GPU laptop to do machine learning on it, oh excuse me, I mean "Edge Computing").
man these comments are turning hn into Reddit. no one cares about your smugness here. at the bare minimum explain wtf you're implying with this bs meme response (instead of ya know just showing off to how clever you think you are)
kinda obvious.
The Ubiquiti gear is, in general, great. It's high end consumer gear with enterprise-y features at mid range consumer pricing.

There's no magic bullet, and buying a bigger more expensive AP is, on its own, likely to make no real difference to any wifi benchmarks you might throw at it.

However, what you do get is the ability to easily place several APs in your house, know they will work together seamlessly, as you would expect from enterprise-y gear, and end with a more reliable and consistent wifi network.

(The article goes into detail why raw speed won't be gained by buying the bigger AP, so I won't repeat it here...)
Easy to say - but have you or a loved one ever been the victim of a serious crime? Logic tends to go out the window and emotion takes over.
I'm pretty map-aware and a bit of a pre-planner, but even my usual usage is to choose a destination and have Google give me directions. (Then maybe I'll tweak it or whatever.) Same with my 65-year-old dad who still buys a folding paper street map for each new city he visits. Does anyone still visually plan a route on Google Maps by just looking at the road markings?
I hope 'AF' doesn't become a journalistic trend.

It seems trends bubble up from clickbait groups and then become adopted by actual journalists lately.

Here's hoping this isn't one of the ones to become popular.
This is not true. They munge through the posts. In fact, that is one big reason they can target people so well.
Country level population density is a nonsensical stat since most countries have varying levels of density. Sf/nyc/boston/chicao contain a big chunk of the us pop. Just because there is land in idaho does not mean you can count it.
Teen builds lightest ever satellite – and it's being launched by Nasa next month
Comdb2 - Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS
I am somewhat confused by this. The LLVM project already has an official Go frontend that lowers to LLVM IR:

* https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llgo/trunk/README.TXT
Is it possible to punish and rehabilitate at the same time? I ask partly because I have small kids. When they do bad things, I try to focus on educating them and not punishing. Then again, most of the bad things they do (making a mess, being too loud, etc.) are relatively benign. If they were to do something really horrible and victimize some other kid, I would probably punish them, but at the same time I would hope I could teach them never to do such a thing again.

I think that's the moral dilemma with prison systems. It's easy in abstract to say that we should just focus on rehabilitation and take this utilitarian argument about what's best for society. But I know that if, for example, someone were to harm my children, I would have trouble being convinced that that person needs free college and housing (partly paid for by me). Even if that statistically led to a better outcome for society, it would not seem like justice; rather it would seem that person is being rewarded for harming my family. This I think is a general problem with utilitarianism - that when we just focus on group outcomes, we sometimes lose sight of things like individual rights and justice, messy moral concepts that don't always create optimal group results.

Maybe there is some way to do both things or differentiate between types of criminals. I don't really have a solution. Just posing the conundrum.
>One Amazon worker in the United States told the International Amazon Workers Voice that she was fired for wearing a t-shirt from an old job that had a union logo on it. Corporate management questioned her, threatened her, and fired her for “insubordination.”

Not surprising, Silly Valley is terrified of unions. Engineers need to stand in solidarity with all tech workers. We have way more power than we realize. If the engineers shoveling coal into the AWS engine went on strike with these people, things would change real fast. Engineers are hard to replace, and an "idle datacenter" loses the company money realllll fast.

If you work at AMZN please think seriously and critically about how you can help these people.
Running hard. Pain is a gift :)
These notes are a great example of simple ideas (like summation of integers, basic inductive proofs, etc.), presented with clarity and in an inviting way. It's fun to read the structure of the arguments even though one knows the result already.
Sure, a moderate percentage savings in labor costs will totally make it easy to compete with Google.
I store filtered drinking water in various plastic containers (often used juice bottles or the bottles that I boght store-bought water in). I wonder how health effects from the chemicals leeching in to my water from these plastic containers compare with the health effects from using copper containers, or perhaps ceramic/porcelain containers as those are supposed to be non-reactive.
It's not really a doctor shortage, more like a service shortage: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/upshot/a-doctor-shortage-...

Generally, there's an ongoing reformation of the system. From the perspective of medical insurance, the current medical system is actually too lax, in that it certifies and retains doctors who get frequent malpractice suits. http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?... http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/833141

The solution to that seems like better data on health care (utilization, treatment outcomes, etc.) and accessible analytics (databases for professionals, patients, providers, etc.) and automation of complex/risky procedures/tests (deskilling). But those take time and effort and investments, which have been made but aren't finished/stable yet (somewhere in the middle of Gartner's hype cycle). http://sloanreview.mit.edu/case-study/when-healthcare-gets-a... http://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/using-doctor-ratings-s... https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/the-end-of...

> What would it take to make it 290?

Once people start trusting the system again (which they don't, currently: http://www.hhnmag.com/articles/7802-the-trust-chasm-in-healt...) it might be possible to charge more for services and hence employ more people. But they wouldn't be physicians, the generic trend in society is towards more specialization and more technology. A better question is: What would it take to make it 2.9 physicians per 10K people?
> Finally any Indian in USA simply has no right to criticize Aadhar since the US Visa process requires biometrics from all visitors.

This is BS because getting a visa is a conscious choice, Aadhar is forced upon India's residents. You're attacking people for having an opinion that's contrary to yours.

About your other points - no one is denying the benefits of having a strong unique ID system that lets people interface with government services; the problem is that Aadhar has no safeguards for privacy - which you would've focused on had you bothered to read the article.
It's an easy way to divide population and make them fight internally. This tactic is very effective, because if other ones would put focus on law creators, a division of population makes it so people, at least large part, assign blame for injustice to the other side of the division. In this case, the attack on population is two-fold - on one hand you have women that you convince are unjustly paid lower than men doing "same" job, on the other hand you create perceived injustice on men side, where men work hard both at actual work and at negotiations for salary in companies like google, and then they see women getting same as them without putting any effort in negotiation. Or even worse - they see their salaries sliced to match those of women who didn't negotiate/didn't commit enough to their job.

With attack like this it's hard to see the actual responsible entity, the top some percent of population by wealth, whom are actually benefiting from these laws. They win in any way - if women don't get paid the same in the end, they create tension between genders, that misdirects attention from their excessive wealth, and if women get paid same, it means they can pay men lower, also creating tension from men side.
No - just first initial, last name and a bit of self-deprecation.

Although now I'm upset that I never knew about this until today.
Can't you count intersections instead?
Making sure that work is being done remotely is not much different than in the office, unless it's something physical like making pies which you can see. I can see updates in a repo as easily 1000 miles away as sitting next to the person doing the work.

I also don't care about 8 hours per day, I care about outcomes. I also am happy to pay by the hour or the day or whatever is appropriate.

In fact I am nominally the only person in my current business nominally doing 8h per day, and it really doesn't matter as long as the right goals are achieved.
ETL Is Dead, Long Live Streams
Beauty of natural waterfall
"That both avenues exist, implying enormous incentives, the discriminatory gap should disappear."

But it doesn't. You can talk about "should" all you want but ultimately you need to look at the world.

I don't have answers to all of your questions. Certainly some companies are being hurt by this, and others take advantage. That doesn't eliminate the problem unless you believe in perfectly efficient markets with no friction, barriers to entry, etc.
My best guess is there needs to be a real SIM at the very least, so that the requests come from legitimately different and randomly distributed IPs.

So you need a system that can virtualize all that, but still go through separate SIMs. The cost of developing something like this probably doesn't outweigh the "ease" of just faking it with real phones.

(On top of this I have my doubts about how much "tens of thousands of phones" costs for someone who doesn't care about grey areas)
The Minimum Viable Blockchain (https://www.igvita.com/2014/05/05/minimum-viable-block-chain...) is by far the best introduction to blockchain I have read.
You are the one full of bullshit because if you are okay with surrendering your biometrics to a foreign government (especially the country where Mozilla is based out of) you don't have any right to complain about your own country seeking similar access.

The article is written by people with political agenda, Aadhar is million times better than SSN or other such systems. I am extremely well versed with Security & Privacy related to authentication & identification, and most comments/articles offer no concrete solutions. Biometrics are essential to establishing unique identity.
I'm not sure if size is an excuse. Isn't density a much larger problem. The US certainly had the space to properly house it's inmates. Is it larger proportion of the population that's in prison that's the problem? Why is that the case? The US being large doesn't seem like it should cause that.
That would require some radically inconsistent thinking on their part. DM does occasionally release source code and trained models for other things, and the arms race logic (https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Racing-to-the-pr...) would even more strongly argue for not releasing anything, even research (they're privately owned, they don't have to publish squat), and especially not running stunts like the AlphaGo tournament which cost millions of dollars in order to terrify and impress competitors and heat up the arms race.

A more parsimonious explanation is simply that it's great PR to maintain rigid control over the family jewels and dribble out occasional sample games and bits and pieces while pretending to be generous. (No one has ever accused Hassabis of being bad at PR or not knowing how to milk the media.)
We are all complicit. It's not just smart engineers.
I think one has to include that factor in a thorough analysis of this issue. The US has a much higher murder rate than other developed countries; 3.9 murders per year per 100k population, compared to 0.6/100k in Norway, 0.3/100k in Singapore, and around 1/100k in the major EU countries [1].

I think it's entirely possible that different punishment regimes are effective at different levels of violence in the population. But I don't know that there is a good way of quantifying that point, since we're talking about interventions at the state level. Or it could be that once your society gets the murder rate down to < 1/100k, something else has changed in your society and it doesn't matter how you punish your criminals.

Certainly there's something different about the US; a good analysis here [2], though that is specifically on the mind-killer subject of gun violence. Pinker's "The better angels of our nature" has some interesting ideas on this subject too.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
[2]: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/06/guns-and-states/
Still, Debian packages the (updated) github version.

At least in Sid.
Here's Apple's version: https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/13/facebook-lifts-the-veil-on...

For testing apps :)
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I think the intent is "give developers a cheaper system to get started with" and not putting a cardboard version into production environments.
It's not pointless at all. For long-term maintenance, the community strength and level of active development is just as important (and sometimes more important) than minor feature differences.
Someone's been in jail/prison? Then they apply for a job with your company when they get out? Categorically denying them employment without regard to their previous offense is silly, although it's definitely policy at some (many?) companies. Helping people get back to a 'normal' life is something we all can take part in in various ways - not closing the door on applicants is another thing we can do.

I agree, and here's the thing. Almost all companies I've worked for in the past decade have done drug testing and background checks on me, so if I had had issues in my youth I wouldn't have been hired. And this is IT, I wasn't applying to be a police officer, lawyer, or crane operator.

Pass laws to RESTRICT companies from doing these types of unjustified checks (or have them justify them) instead of unlocking the prisons and letting criminals out. That communities are destroyed is a powerful argument, but I'm sorry, I don't need gangsters running around in my neighborhood. I'd much prefer they serve their time, and be able to work wherever they want (within reason) once they're out.

But in the U.S. we feel that businesses should have much 'freedom' as we call it, to hire and fire unimpeded.

So there's the impasse.
i get it. big brother is watching us. now im going to eat my pizza. big brother can watch if he likes.
No redundancy system in place, sounds like they have an awful tech stack for a company of that size.
Our understanding of the way the body handles salt may be wrong
I don't know what kind of world you live in, where you cannot believe that people can take a principled stand about a policy. Why can I not worry about my family's data being shared free-for-all by random startups that use their "Open API"?

Not everything is about X team vs Y team.
That's how the training in the Greek army works. Every healthy Greek male has to join the army at some point, for a year, usually after school or university.

Training is divided in two parts: training camp (called "the centre") and service time. The training camp is the hard part, in theory. The first two weeks you don’t have time to think or breathe for the matter.

A high ranking official told me late in my service time, that it’s a tactic to avoid psychological breakdown from people who are not adequate.

There are of course suicides every now and then[1]. But all in all, I must say that it works wonders.

[1] The level of psychological pressure in the army depends on many factors and varies greatly.
I've tried to figure out how I can walk back on something nowhere near what I stated in the first place but haven't come up with a solution yet.

So until I do I'll have to answer "no" to your question.
I wonder why likes, stars, retweets and similar counters are not weighted by a reputation in a user visible way. For the user a tweet with 1000 botnet retweets looks exactly like a tweet with 1000 retweets by experts in a given subject.
Uh, copper tube is a common supply piping.
Those questions apply equally to in office employees.
good example. but you are comparing the soviet space program to the US space program. You seem to have good data on the yield of moon rocks; do you have any data on cost per kg? It would be interesting to see!

And even if it did make sense historically, with as far as robotics have come in 2017 I can't see a reason why we would do a similar manned mission in the future.

Thanks for the data!
Sorry, poorly phrased on my part. Thought it was a good spot to link to an amazing and infuriating story.
Mathematicians have a long history of being concerned about computational efficiency. Two examples that come to mind are FFT and Euclidean algorithm. I'm certain there are many others.