skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Furthermore, if you look at the kind of automation that was developed, you see precisely what workers in the early labor movement were complaining about: being turned into mindless tools of production. I mean, automation could have been designed in such a way as to use the skills of skilled machinists and to eliminate management—there’s nothing inherent in automation that says it can’t be used that way. But it wasn’t, believe me; it was used in exactly the opposite way. Automation was designed through the state system to demean and degrade people—to de-skill workers and increase managerial control. And again, that had nothing to do with the market, and it had nothing to do with the nature of the technology: it had to do with straight power interests. So the kind of automation that was developed in places like the M.I.T. Engineering Department was very carefully designed so that it would create interchangeable workers and enhance managerial control—and that was not for economic reasons. I mean, study after study, including by management firms like Arthur D. Little and so on, show that managers have selected automation even when it cuts back on profits—just because it gives them more control over their workforce.

See, the Luddites are always accused of having wanted to destroy machinery, but it’s been known in scholarship for a long time that that’s not true—what they really wanted to do was to prevent themselves from being de-skilled, and Noble talks about this in his book. The Luddites had nothing against machinery itself, they just didn’t want it to destroy them, they wanted it to be developed in such a way that it would enhance their skills and their power, and not degrade and destroy them—which of course makes perfect sense. And that sentiment runs right throughout the working-class movements of the nineteenth century, actually—and you can even see it today.

- from Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
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Some more info about the implications of latest insights into the age of the rings: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41091333
> At this point any kind of cloud environment should be considered public infrastructure.

Why? Public infrastructure like sewer, or roads, is tightly coupled with the fact that it's close to impossible to gain physical land/space to build a second one. AWS/Azure on the other hand neither blocking you from accessing the land nor implemented any regulatory capture to prohibit you from building your own version of cloud infrastructure.
I thought that was funny as well. If anyone's going to be nationalizing them, it'd be the US, and I'd wager that non-US residents would like that even less.
Try as they might, immigration will win over gerrymandering in the end:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-spends-63-million-re...

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/09/18/441262...
In my opinion, apart from Medicare, Infrastructure, Law enforcement, Defence, Prison System and a few other should be nationalized, not Google/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft etc.
Even better is to make a global var sink interface{}, and assign to it. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14813
Technically this is not aliasing; rather, the large and varied non-linearities of a speaker can act like a frequency mixer, which is why you'll get a 3 kHz sound (the difference) when playing, say, 20 and 23 kHz.
In Canada the threshold is $50 for receiving a T5. You are, of course, still obligated to report it even if you don't get a form.

I actually do bother to look that stuff up each year, but I suspect that many Canadians do not if they don't receive a form.
> At every single step the things the author went through were absolutely ludicrous and indefensible.

I disagree. Even the one that he makes sound the most ludicrous ("IRB required pens, be we were only allowed to use pencils") can be rephrased as: "Your hospital had reasons to be concerned that patients might stab themselves or someone else with a pen, yet you don't even think of giving them pencils as any sort of risk".
I don't know where they dredge up chimpanzees who can look at the glorious history of nationalization in Venezuela et all and say "yeah that really worked out well"

It's pretty pathetic how the internet scum found a startup-oriented board and infested it with articles about nationalizing the tech startups the board was about founding.

Congratulations, you found a thing someone else built and trashed it. Fittingly, now you're posting about using the long dick of the law to seize and destroy some more useful companies. At least we're globalized so they can leave you to live in the shithole you dig yourselves.

Oh well. I was wasting time on HN anyway. At least it isn't fun to browse anymore, makes it easier to focus on building something a bunch of lowlifes can have wet dreams about stealing.
If you want to turn these into utilities, you start with a standardization process that allows the public to utilize them as infrastructure.

Like there is an HTML standard, there would likely be a search standard and a social-network/photo-sharing/messaging-platform standard. People would run their own servers that host their own data that connects to these standards, with other companies creating apps that people can use to connect to them.

And make the standards UX friendly, so that it becomes obvious and intuitive enough to use.
I can see people absolutely hating Jennifer.
Actually, the article is not talking about it, but the topic very much is lossy codecs.

Specifically, if 24/192 AAC is worth it compared to 16/44.1 AAC (and the answer to that is yes, although the answer to 24/192 WAV is no)
Ok. I have only Approbatur in Deutsch.
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I don't think point B is valid. Following your reasoning, the industry would also think that health insurances are a bad idea because they would promote an unhealthy livestyle.
American Red Cross, 2016 financial highlights:

CEO Compensation: $556,772

Total Income	$2,660,138,000

Program expenses	2,435,461,000

Fundraising expenses	$169,676,000

Administrative expenses	$116,402,000

Total expenses:	$2,721,539,000

Expenses in Excess of Income	(-61,401,000)

Beginning Net Assets	1,593,810,000

Other Changes In Net Assets	-546,736,000\

Ending Net Assets	985,673,000

Total Liabilities	2,250,133,000

Total Assets	3,235,806,000
Ask HN: Who chooses the hurricane names?
The main issue I have seen is that people don't know how to configure Android Studio & Gradle memory consumption.

Granted, they should not have to do that in the first place but once done correctly, it makes AS fly even on very large projects.
Ask HN: What to do about a startup holdout?
Hey guys,

An acquaintance of mine has been working on a startup in the social media space for more than 3 years. Early on he managed to build the app and raise some funding, but the product got no traction whatsoever on the user side of things, even after many pivots. The core premise just doesn't resonate with people at all. Anticipating failure, the team left about 18 months ago. Since then he's been living abroad, alone, chugging away at this startup and paying rent from the money he raised. He routinely uploads motivational posts to Facebook stating the importance of perseverance and "never giving up".

I wanted to ask HN - do you know anyone who's a startup holdout? Who maybe should've given up a long while ago, and became way too invested? What would you say to them? Or maybe they're right to keep going?

Thanks!
It's a perfectly fine situation for nation-states to have access to such data, because nation-states already have access to everything inside Facebook and Google. In the US, you only need a warrant to access anything inside those companies.
You might be interested in http://autopsy.io/
That is interesting. When the stimuli is long enough, you get full resolution, but since the receptors are not syncronized I would expect the eye to react to framerates faster than the response time of the receptors, at the cost of resolution.

It is indeed an interesting topic, thanks for the pointers.
Just because one company offers a superior solution, doesn't mean that it cannot be harmful. I also find Google the best search engine for complicated queries (while I use duckduckgo.com for everything else) but I'm still concerned about their market power.

Every monopoly (or quasi-monopoly which Google is in Europe) should have intense scrutiny by regulators and governments. That doesn't mean nationalisation but it means that these companies will have less freedom to further extend their market power.

If Google has an issue with that they could just do what other conglomerates have done before and split up. The same applies to Amazon where synergies between AWS and the core business are not really clear to me. Only facebook really has only one product, the other companies have a collection of loosely related products.
If only current ICO hype could spawn DAPP alternative to github
> The difference is audio is "actually" bandlimited and frequency-based, but images are "actually" spatial.

I.e. audio is sampled along one dimension, while images are sampled along two dimensions. Note that frequency-domain considerations play a crucial role in all optical design, including imaging sensors.
"NOAA’s National Hurricane Center does not control the naming of tropical storms. Instead, there is a strict procedure established by the World Meteorological Organization. For Atlantic hurricanes, there is a list of male and female names which are used on a six-year rotation. The only time that there is a change is if a storm is so deadly or costly that the future use of its name on a different storm would be inappropriate. In the event that more than twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in a season, any additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet."[1]

First result on google btw:
[1] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/storm-names.html
"What would probably really impress the hell out of them would be a supermarket, though."

At the end of Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin's film Tout va bien there is a very long take, a panning shot that sweeps back and forth across a Carrefour hypermarket from just outside the cashiers, showing you the whole breadth of departments: fresh veg, canned goods, clothes, etc. I was amazed by this – the whole hypermarket format commonplace to us today and seemingly a development of modernity, was already completely in place by late 1971 and virtually nothing has changed since (except bar-code checkout).

So, maybe development on that particular sphere of human existence stopped for a long time. We in 2017 know that we might be on the cusp of drone delivery, but if someone from that near future went back in time to the 1980s and showed it to a customer in a hypermarket, that might have blown their minds just like your 1750s guy.
Valid point. The $ cost per month of a personal paid plan is, to me, enough to let someone take care of the hosting for me. I've run my own git servers for a couple of years, and now I want to pay someone to do it.
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The sad thing is that I actually trust Google, Amazon and Facebook (maybe less the last two) more than I do the British government.
Obviously that can change but at least these giants understand tech. Their response in the Snowdon leaks to being tapped was correct. The UK's response to any perceived threat is to question the validity of core technologies such as encryption.

Nationalisation of the big tech services by government would just lead to pointless tail chasing as the they learn in the slowest possible way that the internet can route around the blockades they wish to implement.
Giving the government something like Facebook is akin to giving the reins to some unchecked righteous teen who thinks they know how to make it all "better".
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Maybe giving the option which maps widget to show would be a solution. That way users could also use bing maps or openstreetmap instead of Google Maps. Would be clearly beneficial for the user and technically feasible.
>The 5% is to cover 501c3 vetting

What is that? You mean verifying whether or not the entity is a 501(c)(3)? Because that takes about 1 minute to verify, and if vetting is what I think it is, making the cost a percentage of donations is exactly what you say its not, a profit center, directly taking money away from the 501(c)(3).
https://martin.kleppmann.com/2012/12/05/schema-evolution-in-...

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/designing-dat...
The same reason the postal service does. They still have to pay the bills.
Assuming that you have a perfect DAC (which you don’t), with perfect analog brickwall filters (which you don’t), with no compressed audio (which isn’t the case).

With a perfect DAC, and perfect filters, and expensive headphones, there is no difference between 16bit/44.1kHz WAV and 24bit/192kHz WAV (until you add an EQ, then there is).

With a usual home DAC, and its filters, and at best $100 headphones, there is a major difference between 16/44.1 AAC and 24/192 AAC.

(And guess what the article attacked? The decision of Apple to sell lossy files in 24/192 for home usage. The discussion was never about lossless files, or professional usage)
You should look at the Four Horsemen talk by Scott Galloway. Microsoft just doesn't possess the same power and market cap proportional to its age as these three companies. Note, Apple is also not mentioned.
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Sadly most people have never experienced good sound. When you hear it though. But taste can be very different.
Yes, I've heard people putting the threshold in ~192kbps. Above that it's pretty much impossible these days. I can also tell the difference in 128kpbs, although sometimes it's a bit of nitpicking (can only hear differences in the sounds of hihats and things like that)
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Smart people can be cranks. In fact they are far more likely to be so, perhaps because they overestimate their own ability. See e.g. http://lesswrong.com/lw/j8/the_crackpot_offer/ In any case I didn't call him a crank, but many actual mathematicians do.

>Does he just "claim" or does he give proof? Because if he has the proper system, and he proves his theorems based on his axioms...

I might be misremembering this, but I think his argument was just that "computers have tested all possible counterexamples up to some big number, therefore it's true.

All this talk of different axiom systems is giving ultrafinitism vastly more credit than it's due. It's not a different but coherent mathematical system. It's a "philosophy" based entirely on refusing to accept a result because it feels counterintuitive. And then coming to vastly more counterintuitive and absurd results as a consequence of trying to resolve it.

I mean they really believe that there exists a biggest number and there are no numbers bigger than that. Even regular finitists are kind of absurd, denying the existence of pi or the square root of 2.
How did you find that? I would love to know for future reference.

I did a google site search with the title, then another with the URL, and both missed it.
Men only need a contraception like that if they are actually going to be having sex. What if the future is more men using porn and avoiding actual physical intimacy with a woman? It’s already easy to find in Japan or nerd circles men who think that actual relationships are more trouble than they are worth.
And we failed to incorporate the "concrete jungle" effect
You mean like a set of regulations these companies had to comply with? Maybe with panels of ordinary citizens to adjudicate their application, overseen by a professional expert. Maybe we could call these regulations 'laws'.
meh, I dont care what "debate" there is about it. It was his dying wish. Not for filling that is disrespectful in the extreme.

He wants his legacy to be as static as possible and not pimped out and whore'd to the highest bidder. Fair enough I say.
PRIDE has its fair share of preposterous exhibition matches though, to be fair. But no, I'm not a fan either.
at the top, in the line with the title, there's a link to the domain in parens. that'll bring you to a page with everything submitted from that domain.
Alright, thanks, we have one incident where one student was called a Nazi.

Gonna need some more before GP's comment is even vaguely accurate.
> the insistence on blinding patient's names with the blinding instrument right next to the blinded data

The requirement wasn't that the code should be next to the data, if I understood it correctly; rather that it be blinded and stored safely. Storing them together was the least-effort way he found of passing the requirement, partially defeating its purpose.

So if anything that's an argument for adding even more requirements to the IRB process in his hospital. Because grad students that feel sufficiently aggravated will do things like that.
Things are awful because someone wrote an opinion piece in the newspaper?

I heartily disagree that anyone should "detect a consensus" from leftists preaching expropriation. That's just an ordinary activity for them. Nick Srnicek may be shouting a bit louder than most from his pulpit in The Guardian, but that has as little to do with truth as his article has to do with reason.

Google, Facebook, and Amazon are just fashionable targets for his emotional appeals for a more powerful state. He doesn't write about Monsanto in this article, even though they have an ever tightening control over the food we eat, because they aren't as well understood by the masses.

Bread and circuses. This is the circus part.
> yet it probably wouldn't occur to us to bring it up because fruit at the supermarket is just... obvious.

The author, Tim Harford, has been running a podcast for the BBC called 50 Things that Made the Modern Economy. If you feel inclined, you should suggest this to him as the last development to cover: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4Y4Gn8gbQvp4X87wGLV...

You should also listen to all the episodes of the podcast:

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b1g3c/episodes/downloads
He most likely has sufficient training and knowledge about the ethics given his profession. Curious what credentials you have that might make you more qualified to speak on the ethics of medical research, but in any case I think the point he makes is that it's possible to get so caught up in the letter of the law that you run roughshod over the spirit of protecting people that brought about the laws in the first place. This seems to often be the case with concerns about data sharing and personal privacy. If you read his whole piece he discusses this and you can extrapolate that as the result of the irb stonewalling, as well intentioned as it presumably was, many patients are still suffering from not only violations of the privacy that the irb was concerned about, but those same patients may also have erroneous and stigmatizing diagnoses being included in the information that's being freely shared. The IRB in this case is doing damage by preventing research that might address this. Pinker's made some worthwhile comments on this if you're interested in this topic.

You probably will get downvoted because you come across as being entirely dismissive of expertise or thinking that is not your own. I think you general point about the importance of oversight isn't lost on anyone.
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So currently, you have a choice not to use google/fb/amazon. If they were to be nationalized (a truly silly idea), you may lose that choice.
The Guardian is based in the UK where energy, water, transport and communication are all handled by the private sector.
Exactly! As someone working in medical research data sharing I am sometimes stopped from doing things the simple way by our IRB but I much prefer them being there and saying this is ok and this isn't versus just doing it the best way I can only to miss a detail and then be sued/charged with mishandling information.

I don't understand how a medical doctor can write such a simplistic post. Of course your consent forms need to mention that you will access medical data if you look at diagnosis even though they are your patients! You have access to all kinds of data for treating the patient (so called primary use), but you should have the absolute minimal set of attributes for research (secondary use). Who judges whether these attributes are really needed? IRB!

Of course you need to have you paperwork in order. This is not only your paperwork but also the hospital's! If you fuck up the newspapers are gonna carry headlines: doctors in this hospital leaked patients data. Do you think patients will want to come to that hospital?

Of course your investigators need to go through training on research ethics! In fact you should've put them through more training so that they fill in the damn consent forms properly!

Of course you need to separate personally identifiable information from the actual research and encode patient identifiers. Ever heard of publishing your data next to your research? When someone asks for the data from your study and you would forget to scrub it you would leak data. Encoding it and having it in two separate folders in one cabinet makes data sharing simpler. It protects you from making a stupid error.

Of course they can be next to each other in the cabinet. That cabinet is fucking locked! And it's in a hospital next to other private data. The risk is with publishing it!

Of course you need to fill in New Study Application, describe your study design and consent. IRB judges research studies, how would they do it if they didn't have that? You need to describe that stuff when asking for a grant and most studies are funded by grants so for most people it's no extra work.

Of course you need a monitoring plan and study meeting monitoring problems. If you had one you would notice that the newbies were doing a shitty job! Them doing a shitty job is not only bad for you but much more importantly it wastes patient's time! Patient's didn't come to hospital to improve your credentials!

The fact that there is some less than ideal stuff already used doesn't mean that your new study can be shit. That's like being angry about your pull request not getting accepted cause your indentation is all over the place and saying "but your indentation is already inconsistent". If there are style guidelines that's the way to do it. New code needs to follow them. Old stuff might get fixed or not but new stuff should be done according to guidelines.
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