skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Islam will rule the world soon" and "death to the homosexuals" are not radical ideas in Muslim communities, and certainly aren't sufficient to incite anyone in the legal sense.

Radicalization takes place within an atmosphere of complicity, which is part of the problem, but hardly the root cause.

On the other hand, teaching young impressionable men how to make a bomb designed specifically to kill people, and to give them the mens rea, motive and encouragement is radicalization.
"An MIT Expert": http://www.catalini.com/about/

He is not a technologist. His expertise is likely limited to the ability to spin a narrative within the economic ideological framework he supports.
If you want to apply these claims to Go interfaces, you should actually make the case for it by showing that it's an issue in Go programs. This is just snark.
Equating myth and science will focus discussion on that statement.
But the important part comes after that first statement:

Myth and religion are the giants that todays science is standing on.

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." -- Newton

Todays universities where born out of the church. I will just gonna quote wikipedia[1] here:
"These universities evolved from much older Christian cathedral schools and monastic schools, and it is difficult to define the exact date at which they became true universities, although the lists of studia generalia for higher education in Europe held by the Vatican are a useful guide."

Dismissing our past is certainly not the way to go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_university
> I'm talking about benefiting from structural inequalities that favor certain groups over others.

Still arguing about complicity just out of existence. Last time I'm replying to you because you won't understand, but at least now my comment is just as visible as yours.

> And to the degree one benefits, and takes that for granted, and perceives the calling out of those benefits as a form of persecution, then yes, there's a degree of complicity.

Again, calling out unfair benefits is not bad. Attacking the people directly based on their race and sex is. But you do you and keep pretending I'm doing the first, it's the only way you can avoid the cognitive dissonance of your narrative after all.

> Just that they shouldn't be accorded undue advantages to the direct detriment of others.

Yeah, no, this isn't what's being argued here, again. Nobody should have inherent advantages over anyone else, that's a non-starter, it's obvious.

What I and the others you replied to here is calling out is a direct snub on a group of people because of their race and sex. If you don't see that as racism or sexism (or are selectively pretending that those aren't bad things) doesn't matter: It is racism/sexism and they're bad things.
must be some sort of publisher's fad, but a great observation indeed :-)
Recently using windows 10 I observed that the screen flashed every 5 minutes or so, using firefox without javascript, and the same happen in Edge. I used two antivirus: Defender and Karspersky, a full scan doesn't find anything bad, but I think my computer is being controlled. Last time I used my computer for transfering money a strange messaged appeared: The platform is iniciating, I aborted the operation and I am not longer using this computer for accesing to my bank account. I think that my router and my computer can be compromised, so now I only use my mobile phone and avoid using wireless since that could introduce new trojans while updating the phone. I could try to find if there is MITM attack, redireccion of urls in the ip tables, and so on, but I am lazy and if my computer is compromised I think that the hackers can avoid and restore any backdoor. Can you give my any advice about how to proceed?

Perhaps there should be a service able to reboot your computer remotely and scan any hardware device, bios configuration, iptables, init programs and much more, applying machine learning or other tools to detect hidden agents waiting to attack.
“Rick and Morty” is a TV powerhouse because millennials are broke
Sublime Text does this in a limited way by opening up in the state you left it, i.e. including unsaved changes, pane layout modifications, etc.
Heh. I was on a team of Amazon engineers in Edinburgh back in 2007 who were tasked with building "another IMDB that we can sell ads on", and we ended up using a MusicBrainz dump to start up a music encyclopedia website. The idea was to take the raw data but organise it in a more user friendly way, add easy click-to-edit user participation and gamification, etc.

I remember seeing Robert Kaye wandering around the office when he visited us to talk licensing terms, although as the most junior employee I didn't get to talk to him myself. We also chatted to Col Needham, the founder of IMDB, and asked him "so, how do you become a massive media-encyclopedia site?"; his answer was "it's easy, just start 17 years ago."

Really we had no idea what we were doing, and although we got some surprisingly dedicated users (we sent T-shirts to a couple who'd contributed hundreds of thousands of edits!), the site folded after a few years.

I'm very glad to see that MusicBrainz outlived us and continued to thrive :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20111005012125/http://www.soundu...
"a very open-minded country"
cough Geert Wilders is the most popular politician in the Netherlands cough
> If it's utilitarianism we seek, let's send our infectious diseases experts over there. That's where they're needed. Not at the CDC.

Not really, it's a much better idea to have most of the experts at the CDC and simply send samples from Ghana. Then when the experts decide what to do, pay non-experts to implement it.
Why not convert to USD after a token sale and use that money to buy the town? Smart contracts are a solution searching for a problem. To date no one has done anything even remotely impressive with smart contracts except lose tons of money.
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THIS is what Bitcoin is, really: Four ways Greg Leffler is wrong, wrong, wrong
Not to mention the fact that there are regulations and standards that prescribe how this information needs to be displayed in many places. For example, this wouldn't meet the standards for nutritional information in Australia (we have a standardidised table form).
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>That you don't see it is framed as a question.

To restate:

"I'm not sure how saying that a non diverse group is inferior to a diverse group is equivalent to saying that the specific elements making up the non diverse group is inferior[. Could you please clarify]?"

Thought it was implied. Sorry to be unclear.

>Yes, it is, that's exactly what it is. I'd ask you which mental hoops led you to think it isn't but I know every single one of them will be a fallacy so I won't bother asking.

You haven't added anything here, just restated your original thinking that I don't get.

Here's what makes sense to me:

1 + 1 = 2
1 < 2
1 = 1

>You don't get to tell me which definitions to use. And I'm not reading some rant rationalizing why racism and sexism is good based on the target.

It's not that there are more than one competing definition. There are several complimentary ones and ignoring the rest does not promote better discussion.

If you read the third link, that's so not an accurate assessment of it's contents.
You may have been looking at an earlier (private?) draft revision of the guidebook that had those sections omitted.

The draft book that is linked shows RL discussed in Sections 2.6 (pp. 75-79) and 3.3.2 (pp. 122-125), while Neural Networks are briefly covered in Section 2.5.1 (pp. 62-74) with a note about DeepMind's DQN RL agent on p. 91.
Chinese passenger drones are coming to Dubai
Can you stop reposting this?

You posted this 89 days ago[0] and 223 days ago [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13806021
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12777409
I agree that the net effect of general political discussion on HN is negative.

Jacques M did not post his article to HN though - that was someone else. He put it it on his own blog, where surely he's entitled to talk about politics if he wants to.

Furthermore, in the article there's no mention of Trump anywhere. He's taking about the intersection of politics and technology, and surely there needs to be a metaspace to talk about that somewhere, even if that space is not on HN? (For example, SO has a meta.) Otherwise, if we Hackers cede that metaspace entirely then the lawyer types who run the world from Davos will just decide for us. [1]

[1] I don't agree with everything he says, but IIRC I first read that sentiment expressed by Eben Moglen, though I don't
I thought the same thing with the groupthink at NASA.

It's hard to put in perspective just how badly NASA management screwed up though--probably much moreso than here.

I would bet 90%+ of HN user's great grandmothers would not make the same mistake. Of course they wouldn't--it takes a special case of narcissistic manager who can both get himself to the top and also tell his engineers no because he cant admit a mistake and would rather risk blowing up a space shuttle (and it happened).
But how is saying "we want a more diverse group" a snub?
How to efficiently achieve build goals is itself a mostly solved problem. See BOSS by Dave Churchill.

The catch is that "can I build this without dying in the process" is an almost completely unsolved problem. Even "can my opponent just kill me now" is currently only solved by fairly crude approximation. Without being able to evaluate that statically we're nowhere near evaluating it over the course of a build order, accounting for incomplete information and multiple possible responses.

In general, Starcraft is tricky because very small differences in unrelated concerns can cause wild swings in expected outcome. Compare a Terran wall-in that blocks zealots vs. one with a zealot-sized gap. A few pixels of space -- a pathfinding concern -- radically impacts build order concerns.

Come check out the current state-of-the-art (and lots of earlier stage work as well) at http://twitch.tv/sscait
You can effectively do this with emacs server.
Honest question, I don't understand these "IoT servers". Aren't they just standard servers that accept agreed protocol? E.g. HTTP or MQTT? Isn't this something you can do yourself with $5 Digital Ocean?
The coolest thing I saw in the applications page is the Chlorophyll DSL compiler for Chuck Moore's green arrays many-core Forth chips.
>>Being Muslim is not a necessary pre-condition

Since these attacks are aligned with ISIS and ISIS exists within the framework of Islam, then Islam is a pre-condition for these attacks.

So even if the attackers may not have been Muslim previously in their life, Islamic fundamentalism remains a constant factor in all these attacks. At the end of the day, whether these people are sane/insane/confused/rich/poor, it's all done within the context and framework of Islamic fundamentalism. And the model for these attacks is in the Middle East where suicide bombing has been a feature of life there in the past 20 years.

In case you think it's only poor and mentally ill, consider the attackers in the Dkaka, Indonesia cafe. These guys were educated in university and came from well-off families.
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This.

Power vacuum is term so fitting i will be using it from now on. If you do personal research on this topic it becomes very clear. Even the rise of ISIS is possible because how US decimated countries like Iraq. You are left with almost no gov, scared frustrated population and space (vacuum) for new power to emerge.

I mean why are we so suprised that there are terorists from pakistan. US has had drones bombing the place since 2004. I am sure i am not the only one who would try to do something about it (eventualy figure out how to shoot it down). Paradoxically aren't Americans the first ones to take out their big guns from the basement to shoot trespassers - because it is their right?
While not religious, the reasons look similar to gangs in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_United_States#Rea...
No. I find it interesting, several other people do as well, without this repost I wouldn't have learned of the pantorouter.

And you need to stop policing my submissions. Flagged.
I've long wondered how productivity is measured, so I went and found the study these graphs are from: http://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-di...

A few things were interesting:

a) Productivity is measured as roughly GDP/hours worked (with some tweaking)

b) The biggest chunk of the gap is income inequality. The graph that gets used is for average non-supervisory worker in the private sector. The graph looking at all workers is much closer.

c) The second biggest is that consumer goods are more expensive relative to what workers are producing. The term of art seems to be "terms of trade"

d) The third biggest is more returns to capital, ergo profits, was the smallest, only contributing 8.9% of the difference; they note that this part is hard to measure, but the sources of error they describe are unlikely to bump this up beyond 10%

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At the end of the paper they rebut some common arguments and a section I found particularly interesting was titled "Individuals’ productivity cannot be inferred from industry trends" about why using industry-level productivity statistics is a bad idea. Which pretty much argues that actual productivity is not important because worker's salaries will not rise in more productive industries.

They bring up Baumol’s law/cost disease to explain why there is a decorrelation between sector productivity and pay, and I guess this also ties into the "terms of trade" issue. Your barber is no more productive than he would have been 100 years ago, but now he needs to be compensated at a level that makes it worthwhile for him to do it.

===

Looking at this, I don't really come away more convinced that what economists call productivity is what lay people would call productivity. Or that measuring "average productivity" in this way makes particular sense, rather than just being a convenient and available metric.

I also find the graph they use misleading since what that graph is largely (implicitly) showing is that wage gains have not been evenly distributed, but it implies something different.

===

They have a whole other paper on what they see as policy issues that lead to this (globalization, minimum wage stagnation, fall of unions, economic rents to CEOs) and their recommendations: http://www.epi.org/publication/raising-americas-pay/
> (I'm a white dude, just for full disclosure.)

Sorry, this thread is already over-represented by white male commenters and will be closed until more under-represented minorities comment above a specific threshold.
Those 0.1% mean absolutely nothing. There was a comment months ago right here in HN about a guy who owned a secure email provider who had his throwaway Android device confiscated, and who was interrogated for 8 hours on the topic of "give us access to your private email admin panel". He refused and was smart enough to not bring any way of unlocking his admin access with him (whitelisted IPs and/or physical keys which he left at home). He described the interrogators as very angry and that they "advised" him to immediately go back.

We get it, people who comment on sweet puppy Instagram posts aren't under threat. Sure. But the IT folk, especially people having access to sensitive information or white/black hats can definitely expect a plethora of insolent questions at the airport, asked in small creepy rooms somewhere at the back, from people who refuse to even identify themselves. Is that even legal?

Shall we also mention the looming danger of own laptops being banned on flights? Either use a Chromebook-like device (which, I have no doubt, will steal your private data, why else would they setup such a honeypot anyway) or GTFO, that's USA's policy.

I've made up my mind. I am not going to the USA for now. There's undoubtedly a huge pool of interesting people who can make some of my business dreams come true there but I am not sure being recorded in an unofficial "special target" list for life and having my devices every time I go confiscated is worth it. I'd say no.

(I exaggerate a bit of course, but to the average guy like myself losing even a $250 throwaway device is something that I will feel.)
Their output is quite alright for straightforward algorithms (crypto, checksums, simpler data processing, nothing meaty like video codecs, don't know anything about that). Though it is of course a good idea to always check.
Visualizing the Latent Space of Sketch Drawings with SketchRNN and t-SNE
Last I knew __asm doesn't work on amd64 or arm. Still the case?
Same as with Nespresso machines, the machine is cheap (Probably sold at a loss but I have no numbers on that) because over a lifetime the customer will buy grossly overpriced capsules which will make the money back and more. Game consoles work the same way early in the cycle.
Tmux has been getting lots of improvements lately; see e.g.

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/openbsd-changes-of-note-...

and subsequent updates.

"Give tmux clients names. There have been lots of small improvements to tmux over the past six months which haven’t seemed notable in isolation, but shoutout to all the little fixes, too."
So I'm a Dutch-American dual citizen that has lived in both countries. I guess I was born to answer this question :)

A big hint to the difference is that my Black American friends spell it capital-B Black. Almost all of them live in, or are from, majority black neighborhoods. The majority listen to different music, and even have different diets compared to my white friends. They speak differently and have different names and are a distinct group of people. This isn't me making this up either; this is paraphrased from a Facebook post by an American Black friend of mine. There are large parts of the country where they can't rely on help from the police, and a significant portion of the country will actively hate them if they marry a non-Black person. I do have some black American friends that aren't like this. They spell it lowercase-b black, they live in mostly white neighborhoods, and aside from the color of their skin they are indistinguishable from another white person in that neighborhood. But those are a minority. The majority of Black Americans are capital-B Black, and they have much different lives because of it.

In the Netherlands however, there are no large Black neighborhoods. (There are "black neighborhoods" to some degree, but orders of magnitude smaller.) None of my black Dutch friends would "capitalize the B" so to speak. The average black Dutch person has a pretty similar life to the average white Dutch person: there wouldn't be much of a difference in where they live, their diets, or their schools. A black Dutch person won't have to worry that the police won't help them.

That can help you understand the race tensions in the US. To a somewhat lesser degree it can help you understand our LGBTQ+ and gender tensions. Sure, there aren't "female neighborhoods", but there are LBGTQ+ neighborhoods, and both women and non-straight people face discrimination. The Dutch women I'm friends with have pretty gender-mixed friends, while I'm usually the only male friend of the American women I've been friends with. The same for LGBTQ+ people - they tend to mostly make friends among themselves in the US, while my queer Dutch friends are mostly friends with straight people.

Basically, in the Netherlands everyone is the same, but in the US people form groups. A big reason for that is that the American groups formed out of necessity. If you were going to be killed for being gay, well it makes sense to have mostly gay friends. If you're going to be lynched because you're Black, well it makes sense to make friends with other Black people. The Netherlands experienced racial tensions to a much lesser degree, so these groups never formed.
A couple of other points:

1) Kind of self-evident, but variations among individuals is much larger than between populations, i.e. if you meet someone from a population where the IQ is lower, does not mean that person has a lower IQ.

2) A corollary of the impact of upbringing and the environment: if IQ is mostly stable/fixed at the individual level, this is not the case for a population average over time. For example Western IQ was much lower a few generations ago ("Flynn effect"). So it's possible that the populations who score lower today will catch up if their condition improves.
So? How does that add any urgency to our current situation on earth?
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When I first heard about the cheating I saw VW engineers (both management and practitioners) as totally at fault. I thought they were directly detecting that the vehicle was undergoing a test and modifying the engine computer in response. I later found out they were changing the computer algorithm only when the inputs to the throttle and gearshift matched the test protocol. To me this seems like a legitimate way to "cheat." They are using TDD and are passing the test. The test writers should have thrown in a secret or random test as well as the pre-defined tests.
> 1 + 1 = 2 1 < 2 1 = 1

No, no, you're doing a false equivalency. This is what you're saying:

1+1=2 but 2>2 if the second 1 is of a different race/sex/orientation/etc.

> It's not that there are more than one competing definition. There are several complimentary ones and ignoring the rest does not promote better discussion.

... According to you.
It's not exactly an obscure or novel view.
The freedom to create my own job and to be my own boss. That alone brings me happiness. It makes me feel like a I have a much larger purpose in life, from the mission I assigned myself to - to the amount of people who could potentially be impacted by that mission (in a positive way). Last but not least, if it ends up being a successful journey (in bussiness terms), as a founder, I would get the ultimate recognition and satisfaction.

1. Freedom

2. Impact

3. Recognition
"dual-licensed" is normally used to describe 2 Open Source licenses that user can choose from.

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Many editors are capable of that.

What I'm talking about is running an IDE as a server and being able to connect to the same session e.g. from different machines which do not run a copy of IDE.

Imagine running all the real-time code analysis tools on a beefy corporate server while the editor component runs on your laptop. Imagine attaching to someone else's session to collectively debug a problem or review code, right in the IDE. Imagine your laptop losing connectivity / running out of power, being reconnected and recharged, and connecting right back to the IDE that never lost its state. Imagine running the IDE, or parts of it, in preconfigured and isolated containers / VMs.
I know you're joking, but I'm glad you specified random science links instead of random links from Wikipedia.

When I've browsed completely random links from Wikipedia, the overwhelming stuff that comes up are names of places (like every little park or named lake in the world), names of anyone who has ever played professional sports no matter how minor, names of flowers, plants, political parties, parades, events, student organizations, and generally names of places, persons, and things.

Science is actually a tiny fraction of Wikipedia. What I'd call scientific concepts, like relativity, continental drift, evolution, big bang theory, dinosaur K-T extinction theory are an absolutely miniscule fraction of Wikipedia knowledge.
Postponing it because they aren't "diverse" enough is a snub.
Oh, I agree, there's probably several /systems/ that are all-around good.

My argument is that there is no organizational structure that is more likely to product and maintain such a system.

People identify the bad parts of an open-source project and say "See? This is why we need Serious Engineers|Business Acumen|etc". Meanwhile, the bad parts of private project simply aren't made public.