skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comment from economist Tyler Cowen when the same group of journalists released the Panama papers:

Was it wrong to hack and leak the Panama Papers?

Let’s say a group of criminal defense lawyers kept a database of their confidential conversations with their clients. That would include clients charged with murder, robbery, DUI, drug abuse, and so on. In turn, a hacker would break into that database and post the information from those conversations on Wikileaks. Of course a lot of those conversations would appear to be incriminating because — let’s face it — most of the people who require defense attorneys on criminal charges are in fact guilty. When asked why the hack was committed, the hacker would say “Most of those people are guilty. I want to make sure they do not escape punishment.”

How many of us would approve of that behavior? Keep in mind the hacker is spreading the information not only to prosecutors but to the entire world, and outside of any process sanctioned by the rule of law. The hacker is not backed by the serving of any criminal charges or judge-served warrants.

Yet somehow many of us approve when the victims are wealthy and higher status, as is the case with the Panama Papers. Furthermore most of those individuals probably did nothing illegal, but rather they were trying to minimize their tax burden through (mostly) legal shell corporations. Admittedly, very often the underlying tax laws should be changed, just as we should repeal the deduction for mortgage interest too. But in the meantime we are not justified in stealing information about those people, even if some of them are evil and powerful, as is indeed the case for homeowners too.

Once again, politics isn’t about policy, it is about which groups should rise and fall in relative status. And many people believe the wealthy should fall in status, and so they will entertain the morality of all crimes and threats against them. These revelations will of course lead to some subsequent cases of blackmail, against Chinese officials for one group.

I had tweeted “Are your views on privacy and #PanamaPapers consistent? Just asking…” and my goodness what a response, positive and negative. Most interesting of all, many people had never pondered the question before. Somehow “good things” such as “privacy” and “transparency” cannot stand in such conflict because all good things, like all bad things, must come together.

(...)

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/04/the...
I have read "Principles". Good ideas in the first 2 chapters, but I got tired of the relentless, religious-like search for improvement no matter the psychological cost, the weirdness, and, ultimately, the boredom.
He reminded me of a former housemate who was constantly searching for the deep truth when he was talking to his girlfriends. Don't be that weirdo.
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Yea, and even if it were possible, it would still only be the realm of theory until it could be experimentally proven
And Salgari never traveled!
On iPhone X I believe you can just "squeeze" the phone by pressing buttons on both sides to activate this.
NOAA is working on making this happen through the big data project: http://www.noaa.gov/big-data-project

On the NOAA side, there tend not to be loginwalls so that hasn't been much of a concern.

I work with one of the partners on this project, so if you have specific datasets or use case ideas feel free to drop me an email at zflamig uchicago.edu.
I did and I would point out that while they use checkpoints, the training curves indicate this is not necessary, and what I meant is that they do not use the usual self-play (and evolutionary) mechanism of checkpoints from throughout the training history which is necessary to combat catastrophic forgetting (and which apparently wasn't enough to stabilize Zero on its own as it is the single most obvious thing to do but Silver notes all the pre-Zero self-plays diverged until they finally came up with that of MCTS supervision). The checkpoint mechanism there appears no more necessary than checkpoints in training any NN - it's critical to avoid a random error or bug wasting weeks of time but does not affect the training dynamics in any important way.
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http://witheve.com/deepdives/lighttable.html

The maintainer decided that a more fundamental change to programming was required to improve the experience as radically as they hoped.

They're writing a new language and literate programming environment called Eve:

http://witheve.com/

It's early days, but the language has some very interesting ideas so far.
I have an unpopular view, that physics is probably the easiest science. Chemistry is harder, biology is even harder. Heading up the chain into social sciences is just unbelievably hard to get good answers.

With physics, you can build a machine an test to your hearts content to determine what the underlying rules are. That's real tough to do when you're studying, say, an economy.

So, i don't mean this as a slight to physicists. It would never occur to me to use oil drops to measure the mass of an electron. It was a brilliant insight. But, with modern tools, I kinda think i could replicate that experiment in my apartment. Evolution? I mean, golly, that's a really subtle insight. I might be able to do something with petri dishes and poisons, but that seems like a pretty tough thing to detect. I'd like to compare Darwin to Newton, but Darwin is probably closer to Aristotle. We haven't begun to get to the really good stuff yet.

I'm skeptical of phycology, there are issues with replication all the time. But clearly they're on to something. The whole advertising industry is built on psychological insights.

I've dealt with crazy race conditions that make me want to pull my hair out. They're not consistently reproducible. Eventually i work out the logic and things fall into place. But i have access to the source :) I can't imagine how hard it is to get anything out of random interactions of black boxes. Social sciences just aren't for me.

Anyway, yeah, i believe it's possible to model human interactions. We do it all the time. As with all things, some models are just more useful than others.
It's possible to do both. Look at the kibbutzim of Israel. Many after 50ish years have > 1mil/resident in assets. Many are a communist society with bad actors kicked out. and sell their goods in a capitalistic way.

So you get the best of communism and capitalism. It doesn't scale for everyone but it's a good in between.
What do you mean by vibrancy? Are grids of apartment buildings, high rises, and pigeons supposed to be more vibrant than apple orchards, nice houses, and cardinals? Yeah, cities section off squares to be parks sometimes, but it's not the same.

And what's culture? Saying somewhere doesn't have culture makes as much sense as saying you don't have an accent. Where I grew up there's locally made apple cider and other apple products, good farmer's markets, locally butchered meat, the colleges have all the "arts" stuff going on that you'd want if you're into that, and there are great authentic Mexican restaurants everywhere.

Being around people as a mandatory part of the living space isn't really for me.

Maybe I'm just out of touch with the other "young people" my age but I've been to a few cities and I can't say I was exactly "captivated."
Huh, I didn't realize that Android also has an exact, functional clone of FaceID–and not only that, but 5 years ago? Don't you think that in 5 years, Apple may have improved the technology to actually work?
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> I'm a stranger on the side of the road who thought it would be a good idea to offer warn you the bridge you are about to9 drive over is unstable. You have the freedom to heed my warning and find another route, or you can ignore me and drive over the bridge.

Note the verbal sleight-of-hand pdk95 uses (and I don't mean the obvious false dichotomy): he presents his behavior as a kindness to others, the hidden assumption being that his viewpoint (assessment of the bridge's instability) is an unassailable truth that we should not question. Ironically, he is using the same sort of rhetorical trickery as the kind he condemns his opponents for using.

I don't know about the rest of you but the more frantically someone assures me that their statements are totally correct and that I need not verify them for myself or listen to differing opinions, the more suspicious I get. What exactly are pdk95 and people like him so terrified of? Is it that we are not clever enough in their opinion to recognize bad ideas and reject them ourselves?

Take the third choice. Inspect the bridge yourself and make up your own mind whether it's stable.

> Is someone's speech being banned? Free speech does not mean you are guaranteed an audience.

Odd, I don't recall mentioning banning anywhere in my post.
I'd definitely agree that Go is currently clearly the better choice for web apps. I'm not so sure it will stay that way though. Rust has some really powerful abstraction abilities, which can make for super nice apis.

I reckon it will end up like the choice between python/js/php/ruby on the backend, where each have their strength and weaknesses, but none are universally better.
Just one thought about usefullness with your design. Give the user the option to mark/remember names. If the user finds a good name at the first page, there is a good chance that the user can not remeber the name from page 1 on page 10.
> since companies will never know if their dependencies are going to suddenly start charging money

It is more of a risk for some open source projects than others. Look for example at React – I very much doubt Facebook will try to relicense it into a commercial product, simply because they are not in the business of selling software and probably don't want to get into that business. But, compare that to many small companies who have a product (such as a development tool or database or whatever) and they offer an open source version and a commercial version with extra features–there is a much bigger risk they might decide their open source offering is harming their commercial one, and therefore should be discontinued.

Similarly, an open source project run by a single individual or small community is more likely to be closed up than one run by a large community. On the other hand, a project run by a single individual is likely to be a smaller code base, and hence more feasible to fork or maintain in-house.

So, I think businesses should be aware of this risk, but should evaluate that risk for each open source dependency independently.
the article says "his business is making seven-figure profits"
It may have been working fine, and he simply chose to pivot careers rather than scale what he had.
No, they aren't, and no, they don't. Evidence: Facebook and Google cannot summon actual governments with compulsory process and subject them to inquiry, OTOH, the reverse can and does occur.

The EU doesn't submit to decisions of Google regulators, the reverse can and does happen.

Facebook and Google are multinational corporations with considerable influence, and moreover through which other (including state) actors exert considerable influence. But they aren't anything like states, and they don't do anything like ruling the world.

Also, the source headline doesbt mention Facebook and Google, and both the HN and source headline are clickbait because the actual article doesn't support the conclusion that what it identifies as “net states” rule the world. It mostly argues that they are a new significant kind of actor, by doesn't really provide a meaningful differentiation between them and international non-state actors of the past, nor a meaningful way in which Anonymous and Google are similar to each other. They've invented a nonsense category, attributed false attributes to it in the article, and overstated even that in the headline.
The author has fixed it. There was a wordpress plugin doing that automatically on him (mentioned in the comments on the article).
Retail arbitrage is already very popular on Amazon. It might not have much of a future though with Amazon heading towards not accepting those invoices when reviewing an account.

I think the opportunity is probably too small and time consuming for big business to come in and destroy the opportunity. Similar to how small eBay sellers are able to import stuff straight off alibaba and make a profit.
It depends very much on the subtle details:

"He is a terrorist." = claimed fact. Contravention, if false!

"He is a terrorist.", about a person during trial = claimed fact, contravention until the verdict, no matter how the verdict will be!

"He is a terrorist.", about a convicted terrorist = claimed fact, true, no contravention.

"I believe, he is a terrorist." = opinion

"I have evidence, that he is a terrorist." = claimed fact. Contravention, if false!

"For me, he is a terrorist, even though he was acquitted." = opinion

"All soldiers are murderers." = opinion (obviously false fact, but in an abstract, hyperbolic metaphoric way, no contravention - there has been actual trial about this in Germany).

"Soldier Frank Miller is a murderer, because all soldiers are murderers." = claimed fact, but with an obviously stupid reasoning, edge case.

"All refugees are terrorists" = claimed fact, but obviously false and therefore possibly hyperbolic metaphoric, edge case.

"All Syrian refugees are terrorists" = claimed fact, obviously false, but targeted at an ethnic group, possible hate speech and sedition.

It is a very complicated matter. Courts are dealing with this topics every day with sometimes very surprising results.
Is AGPL copyleft? If so, it broadens your definition of "distribute".
People are doing this already. See https://depts.washington.edu/learnit/techconnect/cloudday/wo... for some good info on this.
The Trial. It is a book end on how bleak life could possibly be and has served me incredibly well for the 20 years since I read it.
This assumes that you need to take out a constant amount of after-tax profit, which may be the case for some types of small business. However, it would be possible, and perhaps more appropriate, to introduce some form of tax credit to deal with that; this would be far, far cheaper.

It’s hard to overemphasise how expensive the proposed plans are. You’re looking at adding over a trillion to the deficit. Bush’s tax cuts are estimated to have cost about 1.5 trillion... for his entire term (plus a trillion or so make in Obama’s term when he was forced to extend most of them).
Instead of trying to reduce options for people, why not put your energy toward something positive, like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4
Just curious, why was this flagged? To me, this article on Communism's violent past is as important as some of the other posts we've been seeing on HN on capitalism, basic income, etc.
GOES-16 imagery could be up to every 30 seconds over specific regions, every 5 minutes over CONUS, and every 15 minutes over entire disk now.
Remember Panama papers? The outcome of those was..? Nothing? Or close to nothing? The same will happen to Paradise Papers.

There will be a "public outcry", there will be multiple opinion pieces, someone will create a nice website to show you cool infographics based on data.

A year from now everyone will forget about this ever happening. Which is a shame.
I don't think this is going to be an issue after even a few days' usage and training, but it's too soon to tell. As the brothers point out this seemed to only work on newly reset Face ID phones.

What bothers me more about all this is what a pain it is to pass a phone to my spouse now since you can't intentionally train more than one face. Wife and I routinely use each others phones and while we know the PIN codes, it sure is nice to avoid that hassle.
Back few years ago I was able to make extra $10,000 on Amazon by selling $200 packs of $2 for around $240 + shipping, because everyone thinks they are super-unique. Meanwhile a mere trip to a bank is required with request for a "$200 BRICK". I takes about 10 business days for BEP to ship it to your bank and you can order multiple times, no problem. My best month was December of course with I believe $18,000 in one month because everyone want to have a pack to give out as a x-mas gift. The work took my friend that I outsources about 3 hours a day. I only checked on her on the weekend and if she has any issues (merely). I remember how upset she was at me cause she knew the business but she couldn't afford to get Bricks from Bank herself.

Eventually Amazon banned me for selling currency instruments, but it least 10 months.
Why assume anything?

Chattanooga's municipal broadband exists and delivers speeds as fast as any in the U.S. Salisbury, NC has a municipal broadband service that was grandfathered in before the state law banning municipal broadband.

As far as b: I live in a small town that started a municipal wireless service after Wheeler's FCC tried to override the state law banning it. Fast, affordable, symmetric. I didn't attend the meeting but am certain a clear and detailed cost-benefit analysis was presented and voted on (as well as being made available to the public per state law).
It's up to us to make a change.
No, it didn't cause a Fight Club/Mr. Robot-style overnight collapse of capitalism, but it did force a number of politicians and business people in a number of different countries to step down and face fines. Pakistan in particular disqualified their Prime Minister, in what was called a "defining moment" for the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_Panama_Papers
> A lot of people reading the paper miss this. I guess it's not emphasized enough.

Yeah, it's hilariously underemphasized. 1 sentence, literally. Fortunately I was able to ask Silver directly and get confirmation that it's the tree iteration: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/76xjb5/ama...
Internet? Everybody with 2 or more computers tried to connect them together. Without the internet we'd have BIX, FidoNet, Compuserve, Prodigy, MCImail, RBBS, or any of innumerable other schemes to network computers.

Jet engines? Governments refused to fund jet engine development until they were confronted with FLYING jet aircraft. This happened in both England and Germany. The US government ordered Lockheed to stop working on jet engines and concentrate on piston engines.
Backpropagation calculus – Appendix to deep learning [video]
It's important to note that, in the US, worker __compensation__ has increased steadily. However, __wages__ have not.

A lot of this has to do with employer provided health insurance and ballooning healthcare costs, which are fairly specific problems to the US.

Housing and education costs have also increased much faster than overall worker compensation.
Southern Georgia?
Slovenian Georgetown?
Sicilian Goosefeathers?
Saucy Gobstoppers?
They clamor for justice behind Donald Trump though. He’s used the mass’ frustrations to his own end, and they loved it enough to vote him into power.
From time to time “history” has shown us history in textbook can be deliberatly false because the regime/authors/publishers do not approve the “accurate” version.

In the end, I think education is also the veichel and a platform for students to have the intellect to question and to challenge established facts.
Isn't it a celebration of the government foiling a religiously motivated terrorist plot, thanks to superior intelligence gathering and the torture of some of the conspirators, and subsequently used as an excuse to grant the government more powers to crack down on the religious group? That seems like the kind of thing the people could get behind today.
Huge offshore data leak reveals financial secrets of global elites
Thanks, that's a nice explanation.
Just because politicians stop creating opportunities for mega-corps and wealthy individuals to gain unfair advantages in the economy doesn't stop them from writing all legislation.

Corporations/wealthy individuals can't exploit power which doesn't exist. Adding more complexity and protections to prevent this has repeatedly failed and usually just creates more loopholes, the solution is simplification of new laws and reduction of old poorly written laws (adding more complexity has historically been a one way street in modern government: https://i.imgur.com/pe64eNd.png).

And if lawmakers can't write regulations, legislation, or tax policy which doesn't give particular people/organizations an advantage, by side effect or directly, then they shouldn't write them at all - or just accept that there will be people who sidestep it.

But it's ridiculous to say this will prevent politicians from governing. Yes, it will limit the types of legislation and force them to consider the full implications, but that's a good thing.

This is why people support things like basic income and flat tax. Removing complexity, bureaucracy, and direct government involvement in picking winners/losers. Everyone knows the devil is in the details when you're trying to circumvent a system or take advantage of it.
> politicians get off for things magnitudes more illegal than what they've done,

That indeed demands justice.

> I think isn't a bad thing as long as the poorest among us have some basic level of livelihood. The problem is that in the US, that isn't true, and so, people clamor for justice.

That is not a demand for justice, but charity.

Words have a meaning, please don't misuse them.
In deep learning it is possible to align languages to a common vector space. Any word in any language maps to the same space. So I don't see why it would be hard to map human thoughts from person to person.
If we decide corporations have no obligation to be moral or decent, they naturally will behave as we expect. If we expect and demand (and punish the absence of) more, we can get more. Corporations are made up of people, and people are fully capable of not committing rampant constant fraud.

Spending thousands of dollars to avoid their moral tax obligations instead of paying is in my view fraud and corruption; the fact that it is possible with an army of accountants and massive resources dedicated to tiny loopholes is really of no importance when we weight the ethical or moral judgements of these actions: if you spend millions on lawyers to devise a clever loophole that lets you murder someone legally you are still a murderer. There's a (bad) argument to be made that for consistency's sake we cannot prosecute you under the current laws, but there's no argument that you're not a monster.

Refusing to pay taxes is stealing from the poor (and the general public) who rely on government services; you are destroying the roads, parks, annihilating schools and universities, preventing people from getting healthcare they need to survive, stealing from children, the homeless, the elderly and the disabled, helping criminals by defunding the police and helping burn people and property by defunding fire departments.

If your job is to find tax loopholes for corporations, you are committing fraud even if our current legal system is written by people who think fraud is okay so long as it's a CPA on behalf of a massive corporation doing it. The fact that some judges have decided this is okay does not mean that it actually is.
Lol you absolve frustrated users of all blame. Even if you're frustrated, it's not difficult to be civil.
Facebook and Bing were both Gold sponsors of the most recent State of the Map US: https://2017.stateofthemap.us though in fairness Google was a bronze sponsor

Bing was a gold sponsor of the most recent State of the Map (global conference) in Japan, Facebook silver: http://2017.stateofthemap.org

Bing has for years allowed the use of their sat images for OSM tracing.