skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How was SysCoin able to replace their broken link? I thought a pixel once placed was eternal and immutable.
So, let's see: We have a server farm and it is working along. We want to know right along, in real time, if it is sick or healthy. So, we do some monitoring.

There are two kinds:

(1) The first kind looks for problems never seen before. Here we get to use data of two kinds, (i) when the system was healthy and (ii) when the system was sick and we detected the problem, understood it, found out why, and tried to prevent that problem in the future.

(2) The second kind looks for problems never seen before, that is, zero-day problems. Here we have no data on the problems but likely do have a lot of data on when the system was healthy or at least seemed to be, not just on the day of the data collection but also later.

In both cases we have two ways to be wrong:

(A) Say that the system is sick when it is healthy -- a false alarm.

(B) Say that the system is healthy when it is sick -- a missed detection.

So, from (A) and (B), we get two rates and want both to be low.

We can get data on many variables at high data rates.

Now, what do we do?

Okay, it's a problem in, say, data analysis, data science, statistics, AI/ML, right?

Hmm .... What do we do?

Uh, be warned: If the false alarm rate is too high, then the monitoring will be ignored.
For things that have a clean interface, isn't it better to write a higher-level integration test rather than relying on manual testing?

Or at least to write an integration test to mimic the manual test so that you can refactor without having to correctly remember what manual test you did?
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I would go further and say 3b is an order of magnitude too large. Bots aside, If there are only 3 accounts per user, our estimate is at 1b. Now, we take into account malicious agents like bots and spammers, easily carrying a bloat factor of 3-5. The closer estimation might be 100s of millions of unique human users, and maybe half of those users actually care.

TLDR+Edit: Didn't see your other post and accidentally straw manned you. Anyway, I agree it's gonna be "a lot lot less" than 3b unique human accounts.
I think the usage of Latin is very effective in this case; The meaning of the Latin words themselves is not important, the jargon is defined in legal texts and in the law. Meanwhile, the usage of Latin allows you to quickly identify which parts are legal doctrine - e.g. an "ex-parte decision" sounds like legal doctrine, "the judge made a decision without telling the other party" sounds like the judge had a grudge. I think in that sense, using a dead language is very appropriate; our jargon is a mixture of "kinda-like-but-not-quite" terms - memory, inheritance, relational, bus(actually a contraction of a Latin word), master/slave; and arcane words that might as well be Latin(multiplexer! polymorphism! bandwidth!). At least you can't really mistake the second group for anything but jargon.

While people might not have to interact with engineering jargon, they are often forced to interact with legal jargon at some of the worst times in their life; I think it's good signaling if they can easily identify whether someone's entering into a "legal interaction" with them rather than just a regular talk.
Who do you send the RFP to?
So it's caused by fracking? Or does this also happen in non-fracking regions?
Some rights, but not all rights. You cannot (in any country I am aware of) contract away your right to life, nor turn yourself into a slave in exchange for your debts being forgiven.

The latter used to be possible, if I understand serfdom correctly.

Question is, should data rights be alienable or inalienable?
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“... pick up some dope on the design of pistons”

I had to look that usage up:

‘Dope’

“information about a subject, especially if not generally known.”

I’ve personally never heard that phrase in that context. I also learned that it’s original meaning was thick soup. Fun book...
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I built a little Polymer wrapper for stripe elements </plug> unfortunately, it only works with the polyfill. It seems at first blush to be an issue between Stripe's react components and shadowDOM.

https://github.com/bennypowers/stripe-elements/issues/2
I'm more concerned with the opposite problem of how we will behave in response to AI control.

AI has no notion of the Lucas critique. It doesn't consider the perverse incentives it's optimized judgement scheme may create. The costs of looking good to proprietary algorithms are only going to grow.
I'm thinking of the number of government-level identifiers which might be needed / used:

* Tax authority (TIN).

* Pensions system (e.g., SSN)

* Possibly a voting ID, though that's fraught.

* Military or national service ID.

* State tax ID.

* Drivers registration.

* Real estate / property ID.

* Medical records ID.

* Social benefits ID.

* Other registrations, e.g., weapons, broadcast licenses, etc.
That's quite interesting. Was the issue specific to any particular browser/platform/country combination ?

Stripe's server log might record/report failures in loading scripts. Perhaps someone from Stripe can chime in on the issue.
For those wondering how it works/looks, the README has a fair number of screenshots: https://github.com/ipselon/structor/blob/master/docs/README....
Outside of certain tech and alt-right circles it certainly does not have a positive connotation
Yes, it’s annoyingly over-written. Some parts barely even make sense. I also question whether the author knows what the word “capitalism” actually means.
D*mn, that's what I call an answer. Thank you very much !
Knowing what the words mean in Latin doesn't help you in any legal sense. You won't be able to present "at first sight evidence"(?!) in any useful manner without knowing the legal requirements and procedures. What you need to know is the law, and you're right, having that knowledge would help you when presenting a case....but that's a wholly different argument from knowing Latin.
Wouldn't the VM violate the rules even if it's just an interpreter?
Oh God, yes!

I love the attention to small details they're giving here. It's the kind that I absolutely admire but so rarely see. For example, in the section "Less code. Fewer edge cases." - a) the code "image" scrolls in the direction you scroll, and b) the code is actual code, made to look that way through use of a font (Flow-Circular). They could have went with a nonsense PNG with horizontal lines, but instead, they put actual code. They even went as far to leave this in the HTML just above that place:

<!-- This is a trimmed down real Stripe.js v2 basic integration. The full version would be much longer. -->

Hats off to them.
It’s an extreme lack of empathy and also not a well thought through position (it’s one step away from “I only want to pay for healthcare for healthy people”)
Comparison with the NHS seems a little unfair given relative population densities.

> what makes it beloved among many
> conservative policy analysts, is its
> reliance on health savings accounts.
> All workers are mandated to put a
> decent percentage of their earnings
> into savings for the future

If you tried this in America you'd have anti-Communism riots on the street with Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin talking about how FEMA were using the money to set up death camps before taking their guns.
I'm a legal immigrant in the US. The presence of undocumented immigrants has zero negative effect on me.
South Korea has something similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_SGR-A1
Making the device something that is used often is actually a good way around that problem. It's a bit like housekeys. It's not so much that you can't leave without them, but it's a bit hard to return, so you tend not to leave without them....

I'm strongly partial to a worn form-factor. A near-field-chip ring, essentially a modern signet ring, which interacts with various authentication systems, strikes me as attractive.
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Might be worth learning about DAG, Tangle and IOTA too, here is their latest whitepaper:
https://iota.org/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf
Ghana, a coastal African country of more than 28 million still etched with pockets of extreme poverty

Ugh New York times.

On the issue of obesity however, like someone has already addressed in the thread, has more to do with individual choices than the availability of fast food joints. There have been arguments about people who frequent Macs or KFC everyday of their lives, and have managed to stay fit/in shape(Though not an argument for overall good health).
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The efforts of the EU (and other things, of course) have helped the major powers in Europe avoid war for over half a century now, a rarity in European history. Why wouldn't that be worth recognising?

I mean hell, on this page we have people complaining that the prize "only goes to three people when thousands were involved", and here you're complaining that "a group of people are awarded instead of a few individual". Damned if you do, damned if you don't...
I'm curious, what is the motivation for avoiding that stuff? It seems to just be there to make it easier for Stripe to see where traffic is coming from, in this case.
https://blockchaintechblog.com/
> You could mitigate this impact by updating your client code

Where can I read about this?
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DeepMind's blog post (lighter on details than the Wired article): https://deepmind.com/blog/why-we-launched-deepmind-ethics-so...
I'm a collector of antique Natural History and science books.

One of my favorite volumes, of which i have multiple editions, are some books called "Joyce's Scientific Dialogues". They cover a large variety of areas and originate in the very early 19thC but were kept updated. In the form of a teacher in confrontational and productive discussion with the student.

In the 19th C this became a very common mode for educational publications. It was an ancient form of educational dialogue, modeled and illustrated in the Ithaca interaction in Ulysses (different Joyce!). It is narrated in the third person through a set of 309 questions and their detailed answers, in the style of a catechism (impersonal) or Socratic dialogue.
> For the most part, we don't really understand why systems like neural networks make a decision.

...

> Maybe I'm out of the loop but I feel these are more pressing issues about the widespread use of AI that are not being talked about enough (definitely much less than the doomsday scenario).

This is essentially about Fairness, Accountability and Transparency with algorithms. There has been a lot of discussion and research in this space.

http://www.fatml.org
>A teacher lost ~60lbs on a McDonalds-only diet.

He was my Uber driver once and spent the 45 minute ride from Des Moines to Ames trying to sell me his book :) Nice guy.
It really depends on your budget, data volume and nature. So each person can only offer advice.

I did this a while back at my previous employer/startup (it got acquired), we used AWS, PostgreSQL, Hadoop/Hive, using SQL + custom Ruby script for ETL + processing. You can read some of that writing here
https://engineering.viki.com/blog/2014/data-warehouse-and-an...

If I can distill them into bullet points, there probably are:

- SQL is great, stick with it.

- We started with PostgreSQL and scales a long way with it (using techniques like table partitioning, unlogged table, etc), then slowly split into Redshift, and later Hadoop/Hive.

- Handling events/behavioural data (JSON/semi-structure at large volume) are very different from handling transactional data (structured, lower volume).

- Take a more lean/incremental approach to it: get a basic DW setup, load data that you can immediately act on, act on it (build reports, run analysis, show to management), then repeat.

You can also check out my startup: https://www.holistics.io , where I turned those experiences above into a data platform that automating DW + BI.

We allow you to do "lean ETL" on top of customers' DW infrastructure (be it Redshift, PostgreSQL, BigQuery or others). We work with small startup to unicorn tech companies.
At the risk of invoking Godwin, I have to say that this frighteningly reminiscent of the stories that Milton Mayer details in his 1955 book "The Thought They Were Free: The German's 1933-45" .
I've been doing the same lately, I don't know how it would scale to a bigger project but I've been enjoying it so far. I've been running the tests under valgrind as well which has found 1 or 2 issues a lot faster than debugging would. The best part of that is that valgrind shows me actual errors in actual running code whereas the rust compiler shows potential errors.
I'm sure the food industry would love to see the blame pushed onto individuals and away from themselves.
Does closed source not have security issues?
Personally use SS316L now. Hard to find though.
Okay? People signed up for Yahoo accounts so that Yahoo could provide them email, messaging, fantasy sports, and other account-based webapps. How is their possession of the records of those accounts some kind of property crime? This isn't Equifax.

I'd buy a negligence argument, but there's no much to find fault with regarding possession.
Meaning you’ve never been to http://www.straightdope.com? Or just always wondered about the domain name?
The rich can be destroyed by investing more than they can afford as well.

Index funds beating managed hedge funds has nothing to do with inability to invest disposable income in startups.
> but perhaps the biggest problem is one of personal responsibility.

How is it a kid's responsibility when they are fed with junk food from their parents or their school?

Freedom of choice and personal responsibility is all fine, but one shouldn't underestimate the brainwashing power of big food corporations. Mac Donald's and the like devote a lot of energy into convincing people to eat their stuff. It's their incentive to sell as much food as they can, making people obese as a side effect, and they're very successful at it. Apparently this is fine, but if the government tries to somehow counterbalance it, it's viewed as an inacceptable threat to our fundamental rights. I just don't get it.
The "extreme view" I'm referring to with Poe's Law is the phrase "far too much empathy". "far too much" is synonymous with "extreme".

I was saying that "far too much empathy" is not something that goes well with "screw you, you brought it on yourself".
The equivalent C needs a second const -- your first one refers to the data behind the string but not the string pointer, and is more like Rust's `let usage: &str`.

const char * const USAGE = "usage: blah blah";
Thank you for explaining that for me.

That's what I had thought. However, users will lie about a DOB if they will lie about an age.
Your examples weren't so much contrived as incoherent, to the point where I begin to suspect you don't really understand NHST.

"if I try to decide that native Hawaiians are US citizens, and the null hypothesis is that they are, but since only ~0.2% of total US population is native Hawaiian, NHST would conclude that native Hawaiians aren't US citizens."

So what is the observation in this case, and what would the corresponding prediction from the null hypothesis be? The observation that "0.2% of the US population is native Hawaiian" has no relation to your claimed null hypothesis at all.

The rest of your objection seems like one of those confused arguments trying to rule out basic reductio ad absurdam ("but if X really isn't true, then your arguments about seeing or not seeing the consequences of X have no basis!").

(And the central limit theorem has nothing to do with null hypothesis testing: you can do NHST with completely non-Gaussian statistics.)
Hmm, it looks like the Caddy web server got $50,000 at one point (in 2016 apparently). They were the ones who recently decided (in mid 2017) that it was a good idea to add HTTP headers advertising the names of their sponsors to their open source version. Then, when someone forked their project, they filed a GitHub issue one hour later accusing the fork of trademark infringement! See the discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15237923

As to this year's MOSS recipients, Ushahidi received almost $200,000. They're a Kenya-based startup that was the darling of the Nairobi tech scene a few years ago but have increasingly come under criticism for their leadership during a recent sexual harassment scandal:

https://qz.com/1026890/kenyas-ushahidi-is-investigating-sexu...

Furthermore, one of their affiliated startups, who was making a "rugged" router powered by OpenWRT, was violating the GPL and was being quite dismissive and condescending to those of us who pointed out that they should be releasing the source code of their product. I covered this on my personal blog at the time:

https://mjanja.ch/2015/05/brck-in-violation-of-the-gpl/
You're allowed to bundle a custom VM for any language if it only executes code included with the app itself.
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I don't understand. You believe you have the right to have no records of yourself written anywhere. You believe it is impossible to contract away this right. You've given HN an individual identifier for yourself, and also furnished your political views (a specially protected category under the GDPR) to its database.

Aren't all your comments proof of Y Combinator's human rights violation against you? Shall we have HN shut down and its operators jailed? Obviously this isn't the world we live in, but isn't it the one you're arguing for?

Maybe you can't give permission to have data treated carelessly, but it seems absurd to say you can't give permission to have data collected at all. Opening an account with Yahoo is surely consent to let Yahoo have a record of that account.
For blockchains :

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For smart contracts :

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The mailed code list is being phased out since there's no guarantee somebody hasn't opened your mail, taken a picture of it, and put it back.
> intense special interest lobbying

When can we stop to being so euphemistic and just call it corruption? I do not have to wear my PhD hat in economics to say that the relatively high cost care in the US pays for both the lobbyists' salaries and the now-even-higher dividends of the companies that choose to contract those lobbyists. Workers pay through the nose, rich folk get richer. Democracy subverted once again.
Nice feature. If you want more you can use a tiling windows manager in top of gnome.
Because I like FreeBSD and if the kernel's compat layer got the job done, why not?
> a contract to assist the IRS in verifying “taxpayer identities”

I'm guessing they will use the last 6 digits of the SSN for verification purposes.

> the IRS has determined Equifax is the only business capable of providing this service

We all know that isn't true. There is something very rotten with this.

Anyone in possession of the Equifax breach data can get validated as 143 million different individuals.
I guess it's too much to ask for whoever downvoted my comment to explain why they did? Otherwise it's going to look little more than a knee-jerk reaction from some Perl hater.
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> That comment has absolutely nothing to do with what was suggested previously, which was: IF you are in a place with at best sketchy food choices (travelling maybe?), going into a place like McDonald's and KNOWING what you're getting could be an appealing option for many.

Sure it has. Agreed, it's better to know what you are getting, but that doesn't make it a good choice in any way, and it's, in most cases, a false notion that it's the only option except for not eating.

> Sure, if your alternative is: Stay at home all the time, so you never ever have to eat anywhere else, then I guess you don't need McDonald's. Only that's not how most people live.

That's ignorance right there. Home cooked food doesn't mean (and I don't believe anybody thinks it does) food that has been cooked in your home. It can mean a couple of things, but all the meanings boil down to "food where you've bought some good ingredients and cooked it your self (or someone you know) and are not relying on factory prepared microwave food and the likes."

And no, most people don't travel for work, except if you mean pendling. If you do travel, as in are gone from home say for a week at a time, then home cooked meals can be tough, but in that case, there are most likely a lot of better options than going to McDonalds, like going to a more health-focused chain or going to a grocery store and buying some fruits, breads and so on. Makes a perfectly good, healthy meal that's also cheaper compared to fast food chains here in Denmark anyways.

For all the people pendling, which is many times more than people who travel for work, there is no excuse, you could easily have prepared home cooked box meals on sunday and not have had to think about lunch and dinner until next weekend, or simply choose a better, more health focused chain than McDonalds if you don't want good, healthy, home cooked box meals.
I've tried it. It is.
In his lecture “sugar the bitter truth” [1] Robert Lustig talks about the obesity epidemic starting in the 70s. His hypothesis is that the shift from high fat to high sugar diets and excessive use of high fructose corn syrup are likely one of the primary causes for the obesity rates we see now in the western world. It is quite insightful and full of data.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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To prevent re-use of old keys, a key-revocation protocol should exist. There's an existing (though pretty crufty) version of this in PGP, though it relies on keeping your revocation key safe, which is a bit of a stretch as that's something you need ... once.

A "bad keys" registry might be a useful / necessary thing.

Enforcing a regular expiry might also be an option, though ... you'd have to think through that. Keep in mind that technology is continuously improving (or at least has been to date), and there might be a circumstance in which All Keys Suddenly Go Bad, which would have to be dealt with.

(Figuring out ways in which to make such situations Less Obviously a Shitfest could be ... useful.)

When I've very roughly scoped things out at Google Scale (> 3 billion registered Android profiles), and made modest assumptions such as 1% of users lose their token annually, you're looking at ~10,000 resets per day. So you'll have to have provisions for doing this in any system that's intended to be in the least part useful.

As for attacks, I'd strongly suggest finding a good reference of 19th century financial frauds and reading through it. The fundamentals do not (generally) change.

http://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/02/12/3853...
If the IRS thinks that Equifax is the sole source for identity verification, especially after their breach, then the IRS must have realized how bad their identity verification of taxpayers has been for years...
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This is something Backblaze should provide on their side. But kudos and thanks minio for the work. Really impressive!
If viewed as context of a CEO of company or captain of a sports team (or even solo sports) these nobel prizes seem to make sense. The winners are the face of the organisation.