skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in 2008 I invented an algorithm for tree structures where the definition of the hash of any node, was "the hash of hashes of all its immediate children". I had invented a way to do 'tree node comparisons' where any time two tree nodes on a tree had the same 'hash' i knew the content (recursively deep into the tree) of those nodes was identical. I never went forward on that algorithm, because i knew it meant each time a tree node was modified, the hash of all it's parents (i.e. path to root), had to be recalculate. But I had explained it to several developers who were all amazed by it. It now realize I had invented blockchain. I am pretty sure i'm not the first one to realize hashing actual hashes (in a recursive or chained way) is a powerful concept. I may add this to my current project SubNode (sbnode.com), and I could pivot that app into a blockchain technology!
That's William Zinsser, who wrote the book "On Writing". I've been recently reading it, and its great, full of useful advice.
So we're not allowed to draw inferences now? It's not like tumblr is gonna issue a press release to spell it out, so waiting for that before talking about the thing seems counterproductive.
And even with incarceration, there are opportunities for rehabilitation. When my SO was working at the county jail, they had "weekend time" for first-time offenders who managed to get themselves some time. You report every Friday night, spend the weekend in jail, and then get released Sunday evening.

The idea is that you keep your job and ability to pay rent, but you still do time. If you fail to appear or do something stupid, you serve the whole term in jail.

She said it was about 50-50. The people who behaved could do their entire term without even losing their job. Unfortunately, plenty of people didn't even show up for their first Friday, and then they'd be utterly outraged that they had to spend all of the next three months in jail. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Aha! Thank you. So it's kind of like a declarative way of plotting.
Your assumptions mean nothing,unless you produce quantifiable data and verifiable data source to proof any of your claims.

Your statement combining the words, hyper, troll, government, modi, sanity, are not backed up by any data nor they hold true for anyone else expect the ones having a biased brain such, as yours.

I can prove point by point how communists spread fake news.

Your assumptions about equating disagreeing with fake news with stamping as fake news, does not matter, it actually makes you a troll who just wants to spread the propaganda; that a person stating a media house as a fake news source necessarily disagrees with it, if he/she has an opinion at all about the fake news.

How in earth did you just assume that fake news = disagreement by the person who finds out the fake factor in the news.

A news is fake, means, it has not got verifiable data to back up it's headline or summary.

Simple and plain.

Why is it so hard for some people to understand?

I would rather communicate with those who don't label people and jump to conclusions.

Good day, and Remember,

Fake News =
No verifiable data source
+
no quantifiable data.

Fake News Defender's arguments
=
oppose all those who find out the fake factor/fact check by abusing them and name calling them trolls "look he disagrees hence he calls it fake news".
One of my observations is a companies profit is often wholly dependent on underpaying women, minorities, and other workers.
> Disgusting comment...Don't spread fake news like the communists.

Your post would be stronger without this outburst at the top. Consider removing it? I think it will make others more receptive to your arguments.
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Aadhaar was supported by the previous government. This government continued it. Most of India is unwavered in their support, since they see the benefits of getting instant bank account or food subsidy. And not being forced to stand in a line for such simple stuff in 40C+ temperature and wasting your entire day.

There are more anti-aadhaar green accounts in this thread than pro-aadhaar. If your only argument is to bring thowaway statements like Nationalism/Russia etc into it, then it just reflects poorly on you.
I imagine asking a major social media platform for permission is not gonna get anyone anywhere. What should stop people is looking into whether the framing is obviously fake.
...they could but are they doing it ? Do you know whom to ask ? Do you know whether you even have the right to ask these questions and get an answer ? ...and if you get the answer that they are not doing it and instead a private entity will handle it, will you have a choice to not link your PAN card to Aadhaar ?
I find it unintuitive when the strength difference between the two players is too high, and I think matter-of-fact statements like in the stackoverflow answer ("Of course, a human assisting a computer player will be stronger than the same computer player alone") need to be questioned.

Imagine a beginner receiving suggested moves from a grandmaster. I can't see how this beginner could be stronger than the grandmaster alone, and they would almost certainly be weaker if they override just one of the grandmaster's suggestions.

From what I read, chess AIs are this far above humans.
Youtube comments are written by people who would, in previous times, barely ever have written anything for general consumption. I'm not sure if the impression that everything was better in the past isn't a serious observation bias.

After all, with the advent of first SMS, then messenger platforms, the average teenager is probably using the written word a few magnitudes more often than the generation that grew up in, say, the 1990s. If you go further back, maybe young people still wrote letters. But there was definitely a gap of at least a decade or two where writing was strictly reserved for unpleasant things. Sure, they're using various shortcuts, emojis, slang, and not enough capitalisation. But it's hard not to see most of that as a rather creative adaptation of language to new mediums.

What has changed is the audience that people with rather strange views can now command. I'm not even talking about youtube celebrities or 'twitter thought leaders'; just your average Joe from Sacramento who thinks it's high times these lying journalists get stomped to ground. He's now writing that down, and maybe 10 people read it, and he reads 10 similar things about jews/scientists/the CIA virus to start the next civil war etc. Where before, your opinions were regularly brought back into something like a mainstream consensus, you can now find approval for almost anything, if you just try.

Let's see how that ends...
Google maps does it in Japan, e.g. https://www.google.com/maps/@35.6738896,139.7673156,18z?hl=e...
They need to start collecting their own map data and have a system in place to be able to make updates quickly.
SSN/TIN is required to open a bank account. Like it's in every other country. Or to get welfare payments.

It's kind of common-sense. To give welfare to someone, you first need to identify them.
> If not, what is the fundamental difference between what I'm doing by observing people that walk or drive by on my street and what Facebook does by observing what its users do on its site?

The expectation of privacy. The window analogy may seem very clear to you, but a lot of people see Facebook as a sort of postal service carrying their enveloped messages to their friends, and they have to trawl through a pretty large document of legalese to find out how it isn't. Facebook is more like one-way mirrored glass.
The UK government (perhaps the relevant one in this case) does not have a stellar track record of figuring out how to make big IT systems and projects successful. This knee-jerk appeal to regulation is unconvincing to say the least.
To be honest this article is not great

Maintenance facilities are usually certified by the local aviation authority

Aviation is also "regulated" by two extra entities: plane lessors and insurance companies. Both won't be happy if the maintenance done at these facilities is not correct
Before you start trying to scale with Scala/Spark, consider if my preferred progression makes more sense:

* < 50 million rows: Can your data fit into a standard RDBMS? Writing all your business logic in SQL might make more sense.

* < 1 billion rows: Can your data fit into a few flat files on disk, with some Python/Perl scripts to manipulate them?

* < 1 trillion rows: Can you use an off-the-shelf solution like Google BigQuery or Amazon Redshift? You can also use this rather than flat files depending on the skillset of your team.

* < 1 trillion rows: Can you engineer smart data structures & algorithms, write some custom C++, tune the compiler flags, inspect the resulting assembly, cache intermediate results on disk, etc. for a small number of core queries?

For anything larger, good luck. You seem to genuinely need a dedicated data engineering team, and similar tools may very well help you scale up. Even so, try to keep things simple. A single binary with well-defined inputs & outputs(even poorly written in C++) is intrinsically simpler than a distributed network(even if the Scala code itself is simpler and well-written), just due to deployment considerations.

If you need things to be accessible in real-time from a website, that may also require a sophisticated solution. Consider if you can queue the query and use one of the above approaches, however. It's even harder to deploy a real-time distributed query system with worst-case performance guaranteed to be queryable from the front-end of your website.
> Aadhar isn't risk-free, but if the majority of the country want it

Thank you for soberly defending the program. I disagree with one of your precedents (specifically, that Indians are informed about the risks they're taking) but agree with your logic.
It's not emotional, no. After just a few months of using Lisps it feels like parentheses bring some structure and order. In non-lispy languages things feel "all over the places" - there you do have to deal with punctuation - not just parens but: semicolons, dots, commas, brackets, curlies, indentation.

Programming in a Lisp is like writing a prose. Your brain is occupied with ideas, you just need to type them down. You don't need to think about structure (until later), it's a flow - you're looking for right words (functions), you can immediately try them out in the REPL, pretty much like a writer would review usage of a word in a thesaurus or a dictionary.

But to be fair I met a few people who claimed that even after months of using a Lisp, they just couldn't get the parentheses. I dunno, guess some people's brains maybe just not suited. You can call it dyslisplexia or whatever.
Our AIO module which will be available in June/July is a high precision module (0.1% FSC accuracy without calibration) having 4 differential inputs which can be used as current or voltage inputs (several input ranges are software controlled available). There are 2 additional RT100/RT1000 inputs and 2 analog outputs (current or voltage). These modules are not designed for high speed data acquisition but as standard inputs for typical industrial analog sensors or analog controlled actuators. We are using delta sigma converters to achieve the high precision but this excludes high speed acquisition.
Pretty sure PiperChat killed Yik Yak.
Google is a strong proponent of privacy, for Google.
Reading a lot of good writers, and trying to notice and understand why they are good.

I think that's what has helped me the most. Sure a few rules of thumb such as "omit needless words" and "eschew obfuscation" but mostly just reading a lot.
Or, sometimes:

Step 5. We need to hire high quality local team that can take ownership over product. We are willing to pay a fortune. But we can't hire anyone local, because we did step 3 for too long or too often, and that knowledge is locally gone.
One thing I find frustrating in these arguments about Aadhaar is that the people defending it seem to align themselves by political affiliation.

People have to remember that even if the present government has good intentions and the PM is doodh ka dhulla (translation: incorruptible), Governments do not last but these programs will and if there is a way to exploit something at this scale, you better bet it some government (if not today's) will.
> I don't care about a populations' propensity to reoffend at a societal level, I care that a specific individual hurt me and they need to make it right somehow or suffer consequences.

This seems pretty shortsighted to what incarceration can do to say, families. While you say you _demand_ people be punished if they hurt you, you're also demanding their family and kids be punished as well. Did the kid ask for this?

This is the kind of cycle that easily repeats. Children from broken / distressed homes have more trouble in life and are more likely to offend.

And the cycle begins again. Making everyone worse.
Just from last week: CCC managed to break IRIS recognition system by holding a printout of a HD photo in front of a camera.

[0]: https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2017/iriden
There are a few concepts to learn. With a grammar, you can create plots in 5 minutes that would take an hour to create using "the standard syntax". For many people once they experience it, they do not want to go back. You could be one of them.
Calm assertive energy is a useful skill to be able to tap into in many of life's circumstances
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There are certainly this type of thing out there.

SSI or software security initiatives, when given greenlights based on buy in from governance can introduce secure processes.

But before this happens to any meaningful level, risk based anaysis should prove it is cost effective. Guess what those analysis say?
It's not 2015 anymore.
Is there any evidence that IT outsourcing has made matters worse? Or is it only worse if the provider is located offshore?

Arguably, delegating IT operations to a proper IT company could improve security and reliability.

We use a low cost offshore IT provider and we haven't had any security or reliability issues so far (https://gsuite.google.com/)
"I have to wax my cat"

I have no idea where I got that line from, but it's stuck because of it's absurdist hilarity.

I don't say this as a serious reply of course. It's intended to communicate that the nature of the request is such that I feel I shouldn't even have to decline it. In practice usually it just generates friendly confusion, which benefits all parties.

disclaimer: I don't have a cat. Nor would I wax one if I did.
I work in lobbying so I'm on the periphery of something very interesting: The idea of voting blocs, and being able to identify who is going to vote which way, based on discernible facts such as race, gender, culture, religion, occupation, income, etc. This is the new holy grail in politics.

I believe that with the right algorithms and data stream (i.e. Facebook) you can calculate a parties relative strength in the electorate, based on voter characteristics. Then apply layers of other data. For example, apply crime statistics to it. Ex. Murder victim has characteristics that would make it more likely than not they are liberal. Democrats -1. Murderer is caught and has characteristics that they are more than likely Conservative. Republicans -1. Result null.

Terrorist walks into a gay nightclub and kills 49 people who have characteristics that they are most likely o vote liberal. Democrats -49. Terrorist enters a military base and murderers 13 people who have characteristics that would appear most likely to vote conservative. Republicans -13. All +/- a statistical norm.

Very cold calculus... I think government officials and political parties are doing this right now, harvesting immense data to say with certainty: In a particular voting district, we can reasonably say with x turnout we will have a result of y; x1:y1, etc.
Sadly it's what the parents today (who pay the tuition) are demanding. Hence "unique snowflakes" and "helicopter parents." Add to that a healthy dose of media sensationalism to a degree that never used to happen. Everything is drama, crisis, outrage, injustice.
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My folks also loved aadhar because of the cheap gas. Not because of bribes ( i guess its not an issue in Kerala) but because the government would give subsidy to those who had aadhar cards. So people sold their privacy to the govt, in exchange for cheap gas.
> Don’t say anything in writing that you wouldn’t comfortably say in conversation. Writing is talking to someone else on paper or on a screen.

While true, doesn't this ignore the concept of styles and related stuff? And doesn't every word has its own distinct flavor, that may subtly imply something? Like saying "individual" with a certain emphasis on the word, may put some stress on the aspect of individuality (maybe I'm wrong about English, but it surely works like this in my native language).
No kidding about the silver being co-opted by quacks. If "colloidal silver" is taken in any decent quantities, it'll turn you a little blue. This is a libertarian guy who's attempted to run for a couple of different positions in the USA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38297000/jpg/_38297733_bl...
Inconvenienced?

For almost anyone with a career, a life plan, a family, friends or any community or social status etc, being convicted of a crime is already a massive consequence. It will often affect their life forever, even if they clean up their act afterward. Serving time in a real prison is an even bigger deal.

Are you only talking about people that have "nothing to lose"?
Just as others before me have mentioned here, to be a better writer you'll need to put in time doing it. In addition to a lot of writing, I believe reading will also help in making you a better writer.

I by no means can call myself good at writing, but I do learn from books I've read and try to apply what I 'discover' in my own writing. Find an author you like, read up on his works and see how he writes. If you like his works, chances are you like his writing style and it might match what you're hoping to create.
Such a great app. Use it all the time for code comments and readmes.
Are you really trying to imply that poor little Google is being bullied here?
Why just two? The average salary in a western country is many times that in a third world country, and ten times is not that unusual.
> nation level ransomware? Ie not, "give us $300 bucks and you'll get your PC back", but "sign XYZ treaty and you get your country's water system back"?

The lessons from Ukraine to Trump is that, far better than something obvious like tuning off the power, a deniable attack on the political system is extremely effective.

There has been a "cyber war", the US lost, and it's not yet clear how the US political system will recover.
BJP (the current ruling part) is known to have a social media trolling unit: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/27/india-bjp-part....
No I meant biometrics as well.
A modified form of ITIL would do a lot of good for important sectors. Let me put it another way, if the industry won't regulate itself, then they will be regulated by force.
Care to email and let me know which station you're talking about, and what the issue is? Haven't had any other mentions of this that I can see.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style
I was just in Pueblo a few weeks ago. It seems to be thriving selling pot to college kids in New Mexico and the panhandle of Texas.
For years I made a living off a batch file and compiler named Combat, then Son of a Batch, and finally Builder.
I think Merkle got there first, in about 1979 or so.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
What's your point?

If Tumblr doesn't want bad publicity over it then they should tell people why their accounts are being closed.

They can't be bothered, so it's left to rumor and speculation.
The amount of people calling FUD is amazing.

Let's first talk about the implementation: How many cards do we have in India specially for ID purposes? PAN for taxes, Raashan card for food grains and subsidies are the two names I can think of from the gamut of ids. Now a person needs Aadhar to literally do everything not including taxes and subsidies. Why is that? Isn't it enough that people kowtow to babus to get their other cards that we now need this? People praising direct benefits, was it not possible using raashan card? If your answer is well they could be fakes? Then wake up to the fact that there can be fake Aadhar cards too.

Second, lets talk about privacy. Fine there is a new card. Why do they need iris scans and finger prints? What is the need? That too in a government infrastructure which is surely not protecting it properly - http://www.livemint.com/Industry/73F92SKvUKxyngjfx7O0aJ/UIDA...

UIDAI said this:
“It is an isolated case of an employee working with a bank’s Business Correspondent company making an attempt to misuse his own biometrics which was detected by UIDAI internal security system and subsequently actions under the Aadhaar Act have been initiated,” according to a statement by UIDAI. (http://www.livemint.com/Politics/poeRx6xesHcUn6WpOJuJjN/Aadh...)

So it is a system which can be compromised by a motivated employee? What was the benefit again? Oh right stamping out corruption. Lets see how long that lasts.

I have refused to get Aadhar card because I don't want to share my biometric data. Many say what is wrong if you have or never going to do something wrong. I refer to you:
"Don’t confuse privacy with secrecy. I know what you do in the bathroom, but you still close the door. That’s because you want privacy, not secrecy." (https://medium.com/@FabioAEsteves/i-have-nothing-to-hide-why...)

I never wanted one because I am not opting for subsidies by choice. I earn enough and pay my taxes on time. But this forced choice of filing returns only using Aadhar has left me no choice.

And for the tinfoils out there. About some kind of conspiracy about the timing. Same could be said about Aadhar. What is the reason government is rejecting people's concern and supreme court directive of not making this mandatory? If some kind of foreign money is involved is the logic here, same could be said about Nandan Nilekani and his private company which started this all.
Given that a fair few people at EPFL seem to work on it and there seems to be a tendency for thesis projects to be written on Scala or to be updates/improvements to Scala, that alone seems like a decent source of updates (if not for stability, though). Perhaps Scala can run on academic grants (into programming languages research, or just a small portion of researchers' other work)?

Also the work on Dotty seems to be progressing apace, folding the community in quite a bit (https://contributors.scala-lang.org and https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues)
Building the core platform maybe took 100. Optimizing the platform to make money probably takes 1000+.
Explain how Aadhar can reduce corruption? I still encounter government officials who take bribes in order to do the basic duty they were supposed to do. Neither Aadhar nor even demonetization has affected this in my experience.

I can understand how Aadhar reduces the corruption of common people (like in the case of tax evasion). And the government loves to reduce corruption of the common man. However it is very unwilling to lower its own corruption.
https://rethinkaadhaar.in/testimonials/

^ What happens when a centralised system with brittle architecture fails.

For all the nationalistic spiel, the fact remains that even if I have a passport that proves my identity, service providers (public and private, equally) are forced to ask (or just blindly ask for) my Aadhar number (which I don't have) . Ironic isn't it.
Google doesn't like being Googled. Remember what happened when some journalists Googled Eric Schmidt?

http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/technology/google_cnet/