skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine social networks where you couldn't just make 100 bots. Through some low friction mechanism the people that you trusted most would be identified to you as such and by extension the people they most trusted would be visually indicated to you. Settings would allow you to completely filter out people that aren't within a certain degree of trust.

Right now adversaries attempt to warp what people believe by pushing them to make connections to more extreme elements, this would be less possible if the social network were built in such a way that would expose fake or low trust profiles.

The web of trust would resemble Page Rank, more than modern day Facebook. For example, Bill Kristol may be trusted by people like Ezra Klein to such a high degree as to not just bring him within your bubble, but to be part of a social network feed that would provide a blend of opinions.

I'm not saying this is easy to get right, but it's necessary if we want to have open platforms like Twitter to survive gamification by nation-states and brand marketers.
The algorithms I browsed make sense, but his coding style is peculiar, and somewhat un-pythonic.

For instance: https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/master/py/SET.py

Why the CAPS name? Why are we defining `test` if we’re just running it on the next line - or rather, why are running the test in that same file as it’s definition, and then running an example 100k times?

Any professional python developer will know this, but when an adventuring friend calls me to help him debug something, with code modeled on what he’s seen in examples like these, I’ll likely just throw my hands up.

On the flip side, this isn’t bad for showing how something works, and the cognitive overload for a beginner to “get to the meat” if he’d used `argparse` or `click` might be a bit high.
I love Rails, but for me, it’s missing the Daniel Kehoe style generators. As a web app developer, I don’t want to configure omniauth, capybara, Twitter bootstrap, rspec.

Add that ability to the command line like:

rails new Blog —configure bootstrap capybara rspec omniauth=github

And then it automatically shows up. I get a landing page where I can login with github and get a skeleton spec directory where I can just start adding tests. And I can start using bootstrap css classes in my erb templates and they just work.

I love Daniel Kehoe’s work (Rails Apps) and I’m surprised it’s not being incorporated into Rails. His work makes Rails even more approachable and I think Rails is missing Daniel’s little gem.

https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-composer
I'm worried that the field of psychology is gaining a monopoly on expression of feelings. We can no longer express happiness and sadness, anxiety and frustration, without being "diagnosed" in a horoscopic manner which has little or nothing to do with science and bears a great deal of stigma.

The psychological disorders of today are the occult of yesterday. We believe that one can become possessed by depression or anxiety. Possessed by psychosis, possessed by a personality disorder, possessed by PTSD, possessed by a history of child abuse. And we have to call upon the psychologists to preform an exorcism.
What is it like to live and work in Bali as an engineer?
"Leopard runs an obsolete version of iTunes, version 10, which is faster and easier to use than the latest version."

I still use iTunes 10.6.3 on Mac OS 10.9.5. It can sync my iPhone 4S over USB, so my contacts & calendars & music don't have to be in the cloud.

It's so much better than the newer versions of dumbed-down iTunes. I'm seriously considering rewriting my own version of iTunes 10 as a web app before jumping platforms to Linux about 5 years from now.
>So if you didn't want Brexit, think immigration is helping demographics, think Princess Di should be laid to rest now and don't think the world is full of benefit scroungers, there is only the Guardian left.

So, we should only read newspapers that agree with our world view?
It would be interesting to know what Altman means by "I’d like feedback on the following idea." It strikes me that (a) YC already has researchers working on this, and (b) there's a massive literature in political philosophy (the work of Philippe van Parijs is a good start) on the subject. So I'm not sure what feedback he wants from a short blog post, through whatever medium Internet people can communicate with him.
In November that did change.

Micro-enterprise tax

It is no longer possible for any company to opt for a profit tax payer status (16% profit tax rate applied to its taxable profits) instead of a micro-enterprise tax payer (1% or 3% tax rate applied to its revenue), even if the company has share capital of more than RON 45,000.
thread i participated in yesterday would suggest about half of HN welcomes it with open arms.
> In ‘The Four Hour Body’ he details the slow-carb diet. In short, the slow-carb diet - one high in protein and fats but low in carbohydrates - is Tim’s suggested approach for people who want to lose weight.

In other words, the Atkin's Diet.

> ...the slow carb diet developed by Tim Ferriss

Developed by Tim Ferriss? That's rich.
Yes! Exactly. Apple could pull this off where Razer failed.
I wonder if they are using deep learning models similar to Google. If so, I wonder if googles Tensor processing units would have been computationally more efficient.

Tangentially, can a neural network that has learned most of human languages somehow some up with a better language?
Unfortunately, the amount I'm capable of investing in SpaceX is not worth Elon's time, so appealing to him is not going to work. I just want a piece of the action in one of the greatest ventures of our time!

Lots of people complain about how unfair it is that the US has billionaires, but without billionaires would we have SpaceX? I doubt it.
Sorry, when I said access to private property I was referring to the right of having private property in general. A poor person can still have private property, I'm not going to play the game of rich vs poor.

Again for the utilization of private property, a person is still able to use their own property without the interference of ANYONE else. I'm not speaking about rich vs poor, I'm speaking as an individual.

Essentially what my entire post has been is about the dynamic of power and victimization when it comes to the criticism of Capitalism. I'm sorry but I really can't subscribe to the idea that it's inherently violent because poor people are oppressed and then the police are used as the henchmen of the rich when the poor act out. Which is why I raised the concept of competency to begin with. A poor person has the right and if they have the ability, they can try to leverage their own way of acquiring value. It becomes violent when resources are scarce and the 'poor' are victimized into believing that the rich are the oppressors aka Maoist China & Stalinist Russia. As long as opportunities exist to move up and down the class/social ladder I don't again think its concise to say that more 'power' is needed and I'd again say that understanding that hierarchy can be achieved of competency is important to remove the idea of victimization.

Lastly to explain my point simply, you might be for those that throw bricks as a display of 'power', but those bricks can be used not only for the skyscrapers of the 'oppressors', but they can be used for the bricks of small businesses and other uses to enable poor people to make a living and in turn create value for others in a capitalist society. How is this related to President Trump and how he became president/what this means for America? I literally have no idea how American capitalism is to blame?

It seems like you just don't like Trump, that's fine me neither. But I'm not going to start raving about anti-capitalistic ideology while I type all of this on a MacBook am I...
"I believe that owning something like a share in America would align all of us in making the country as successful as possible"

This assumes that everyone is cooperating together. I had a discussion with my friend about this and not everyone who plays a game (in this case making the country successful) tries to optimize globally, some optimize locally or just don't care. Ever played a video game and been TK'd?

While this sounds good in theory, I don't think works in reality.
It's not just "watching other people play video games" it's watching competition. In the same sense, real F1 is not just "watching other people driving cars". I don't find appealing those youtube videos with kids just playing, screaming and swearing, but this is different thing - real competition like any other sport. It's just e-sports becoming real thing these days, anyway sports is just a process of inventing artificial barriers and overcoming them, nobody said it can't be done using computers.
This is valid but what can Facebook do? What steps should the company take to ensure this doesn't happen? Do they have the capability to fix the status quo? Is there an algorithm that can prevent this from happening? We don't know if this is an issue stemmed from lacking reviewers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_controversies#Donna_Brazil...

Donna Brazile and Roland Martin[edit]
In October 2016, WikiLeaks published emails from John Podesta which showed CNN contributor Donna Brazile passing the questions for a CNN-sponsored debate to the Clinton campaign.[13] In the email, Brazile discussed her concern of Clinton's ability to field a question regarding the death penalty. The following day Clinton would receive the question about the death penalty, verbatim from an audience member at the CNN-hosted Town Hall event.[14] According to a CNNMoney investigation, the debate moderator Roland Martin of TV One "did not deny sharing information with Brazile."[15] CNN severed ties with Brazile on October 14, 2016.[16][17]

^ Rigging debates. (Dishonesty + Political Gain)

Conflicts with Trump administration[edit]
On January 10, 2017, CNN reported on the existence of classified documents that said Russia had compromising personal and financial information about then President-elect Donald Trump. CNN did not publish the dossier, or any specific details of the dossier. Later that day, BuzzFeed published the entire 35-page dossier with a disclaimer that it was unverified and "includes some clear errors".[21][22][23] The dossier had been read widely by political and media figures in Washington, and had been sent to multiple other journalists who had declined to publish it as it was unsubstantiated.[21] At a press conference the following day, Trump referred to CNN as fake news and refused to take a question from CNN reporter Jim Acosta.[24]

^ 'Russian hooker' dossier (Dishonesty + Political Gain + Sexual Assault)

Coverage of Margaret Thatcher's death[edit]
CNN was criticized for using a photograph of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher with disgraced BBC presenter Jimmy Savile four times during coverage of her death on April 8, 2013.[34] Allegations of sexual abuse against Savile were made public in 2012, a year after his death, leading UK police to believe that Savile may have been one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders.[35] An image of Thatcher with Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was also run during the broadcast, leading some commentators to accuse CNN of bias.[36][37]

^ Selective Editing (Dishonesty + Political Gain)

Rigged debates, lying about sexual assault, and selective editing doesn't sound like Project Veritas to you?

Admittedly I can't find a trespass claim against CNN so perhaps more accurately Project Veritas is a right wing CNN that also trespasses.
>> Schuler’s team is working to build a Bayseian sequence model based on
statistical analysis to discover a given language’s grammar. It is
hypothesized this parsing model can be trained to learn a language and make it
syntactically useful.

I'm not sure who is "hypothesising" this but the consensus in the field of
grammar induction [1] has long been that natural language learning from
examples is intractable [2].

I also see some really funny claims about "rapid grammar acquisition" from
just 20,000 sentences. For comparison, in English that'd be about 2.8 MB of
text (assuming sentences with an average of 25 words and words with an average
of 5.5 characters). So, what exactly do you need a supercomputer for, if
you're training on just 3 ish MB?

Not to mention- 2.8 MB might be OK to train a simple statistical model, but
for grammar induction? Oh, you can forget about that!

I don't see any results either- just some "excitement" about how the thing
"seems to be yielding positive results". So- where are they?

Sorry but I have to say that this article is really a bit rubbish.

________________

[1] Grammar induction is thee sub-field of machine learning that researches
the possibility of learning languages from examples.

[2] Oh, I don't know- try Colin de La Higuera, Grammatical Inference -
Learning Automata and Grammars. You won't find any source disagreeing on the
intractability issue.
SaturnCoin would have a much better ring.
I remember spending a lot of time reading Investopedia the summer after my sophomore year of college.
The strange case of Facebook censoring people protesting a corrupt government
Citation is missing. Thanks for doing the math, very interesting, but I'm still very skeptical! The paper says they observed bit error rates "order of magnitudes higher than previously reported" so should we expect 1 error per week or 1 error per 10 or 100 weeks?
Third-party as in non-Apple. It's taking over my networking so I'd prefer it was baked right into the operating system.
s/bonus/dividend/

Alaska does this [1]. The only problem with the idea is that some things aren't considered GDP while they grow the pie - open source and volunteering being good examples.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund
You might be right, but who should I believe? Bloomberg™ or commentators on HN?
For chess programs there is an almost linear relationship between your search depth and effective ELO rating...

Maybe that's why chess has been "solved" by AI, and as of yet no real problems that trouble humanity have?
I do GPU driver development, and I love GPUs, but articles like this, which are extended statements of the form “GPUs are faster than CPUs” is just ignorant, or a sales pitch. A lot of times I see this process:

1. CPU code is slow;

2. Port code to GPUs; it’s super-fast!

3. Backport low-cross-communication parallel codebase to CPU: it's even faster!

That is, the GPU port forces developers to think about fine- and large- scale threading granularity, and to design low-communication algorithms. However, having done this, the same algorithm runs better on the CPU than the GPU, because the GPU is starved of bandwidth.
I have had periods where my diet totally relapsed but my exercise never did.

When I was going through a divorce over 10 years ago in my early 30s, I was still active (like I said in a previous post, I was a part time fitness instructor) but I ate with abandon and my weight shot up. It was easier back then - eat like a normal
person and the weight dropped.

I could do that then when I was working out 10-12 hours a week. But that wouldn't happen now.
Do you have to trust that the exchanges are telling your price oracle correct averages? Is this a source of trust leakage?
It maintains it's price stability by using other cryptocurrencies as a surrogate to the USD.
> you can get a pretty visceral and convincing facsimile of a high performance car.

What? Higher resolution displays, better rendering, better input devices, and headsets with 360 degree fields of view help the immersion - but a huge part of driving (and other extreme sports you might want to emulate as an E-sport) is the raw acceleration, which you just can't duplicate with a video game (other sports have a physical exertion component, which is also hard to simulate).

You don't feel like you're on a sitting on a rocket. You imagine you feel like you're sitting on a rocket.
P.S. I live with depression and have been recovering over the years.

I really want this to work but I am afraid this Facebook AI based on posts will miss a big portion of people with suicidal thoughts.

First of all, many who are depressed do not like to share and that is why first step of counseling is usually to make the patients open up and talk, not to mention posting on Facebook about their feelings

Secondly, often times suicidal thoughts appear suddenly, making it tougher to detect preemptively. The best way to prevent suicide is for people to be there with the subject instead of messaging/calling. There are physical traits (anxiety, abnormal silence/talkativeness, etc) that can be easily spotted in person. Therefore constant visits is better than relying on Facebook AI.

All in all, I don't think AI is needed for suicide prevention. All Facebook really needs to do is to put, in a user's profile page, a visible "counseling" section providing immediate info about the suicide hotline and nearby counseling/therapy centers. But that wouldn't be as a big of a selling point as "AI for early signs of suicide", would it? If everyone knows the suicide prevention hotline just like they know 911, it would have prevented lots of suicide already.
The Science of Addictive Junk Food (2013)
14 Uncomfortable Habits That Will Make You a Better UX Designer
> Softbank are looking to buy shares at this lower valuation since they are a different class of share to what they would get otherwise

That is a distinction without a difference. What matters is the perception of the purchase, which very well may drive Uber's price up or down. The size of the purchase often is the determining factor, as large purchases establish price. This is a similar mechanism as prices returning to earlier levels after a stock split.
>Maybe it's more that Facebook thinks it's horrible when people kill themselves, and that if Facebook's tech could help prevent suicide, inaction would be immoral.

That doesn't entirely contradict what I said. We generally assume psychologists and therapists are benevolent, but they aren't allowed to disclose private information even if it's in the best interests of the patient. Even if we assume Facebook is perfectly benevolent, this kind of vigilante psychology with no oversight is scary. They've thrown out all established codes of ethics in favor of just doing whatever the hell they want.

And I'm certain Facebook isn't benevolent. They deliberately make their website as addictive as possible. They have run experiments that tried to make people unhappy. If this really is a selfless attempt to help their users, it's inconsistent with what Facebook has done before.
Bitcoin is more of a competitor to ACH/wire transfers than Apple Pay.
A 1% wealthtax is nothing to be scared of (I'm living with it), if you can't make 1% on your capital you are doing something wrong.
I now have exactly one conversion of value between Instagram and cargo ships. I'm not sure this cleared anything up for me.
Can't speak for OP but Tumblr has a pretty big SJW subculture; screenshots from more esoteric or radical discussions get some ridicule on reddit and elsewhere. Check (the equally toxic) subreddit tumblrinaction for a sample of this type of content. I can't tell you how representative that is of the whole site though as I am also not a tumblr user.
In a sense, yes - if all the exchanges are manipulated, Unum is screwed.

The price being sent to the oracle is an average, so manipulating just one wouldn't have that much of an effect.
Just wait for facebook to deploy AI for early signs of other things like dissent, political leanings, borderline stances on important issues, inebriation/likelihood to make impulse buys, etc.
> There's a lot of interesting stuff going on in most races in the middle of the pack too, like "will force india do well, or will they crash into each other" or just watching fernando alonso drive the wheels off of his mclaren, despite it lacking top-end speed.

Yes. Interestingly, I think there have been a few races where the television coverage follows that pattern too, basically ignoring the guys out in front until something happens, and spending a lot more time in the middle of the pack. Watching Force India is 100% fun.

> In terms of leadership swaps and contention for first, it's a boring season. Still: can't discount Hamilton here, he is an amazing driver and clearly the best on the circuit.

As far as the driver's championship, I wouldn't discount the competition Vettel and Ferrari put up, and if Vettel hadn't crashed out in Signapore it's at least possible they would have been fighting until the last race. The thing about Hamilton is that he makes it all look easy.
Search Google Images with "-site:pinterest.com"

You could even set a custom search engine keyword that searches Google Images with the above included automatically.
I'm not sure what you mean by "act of consumption". Aren't we strictly talking about buying investment houses and not primary homes?

Remodeling houses in Cambridge has been very lucrative for some time. One of our family friends bought a small 2-family house in Cambridge (his 2nd property there) for just under 700K. This was a little over 2 years ago. He got a good deal for buying directly from a neighbor (market price was probably 800K to 900K). He spent the subsequent 2 years remodeling (while working at a full-time job). Now the estimate on the house is 1.7M to 1.8M.

And he spent a little over 200K on the remodeling cost. This includes building an extension to the house. The reason the cost is so low and it took so long was because instead of hiring a general contractor, he took his time finding different contractors for specific jobs and let them compete over price.

His example may sound a little extreme, but I don't think I've ever heard about someone renovating an investment house in Cambridge ended up with a net loss.
The American Indian foundation of American gun culture
Metaphors We Live By - Lakoff/Johnson

Philosophy in the Flesh - L/J

Rationalism in Politics - Oakeshott

Erving Goffman – Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Walter Lippmann – Public Opinion

Art as Experience - John Dewey

Plutarch's Lives

G.K. Chesterton – Heretics

(essay) William James - On A Certain Blindness in Human Beings (and its sequel)

(essay) R.L. Stevenson - The Lantern-Bearers
I would happily buy SpaceX stock but I'd stay away from TSLA.
My point being, that the intersection set of group "readers of this WaPo piece" and "voters of Alabama" are already polarized such that the gain from the in-group (i.e., Trump supporters in Alabama) might be greater than publication of the own-goal.

Consider: what if O'Keefe is just a decoy?
In other words:

(1) tax evasion + capital controls evasion

(2) tax evasion

(3) tax evasion

(4) justice system evasion

I mean I get that the laws bitcoin evades quotes here are "unjust". They are still the law, however. Some states have unjust laws, and middle eastern muslim states, well the democracies there make dictatorships elsewhere look good ...

Mostly you're complaining that the moral system popular in the US doesn't just apply everywhere. Fact is it doesn't, and imposing it (which is what bitcoin does), is considered not moral.

If you want to allow this, why bother complaining about a 10% tax rate for the ultra rich ? Or highly illegal drug (e.g. GHB, and other rape drugs) ? You can't have one without the other, and ...
Yet another lesson in how abuse prevention mechanisms are themselves subject to abuse. This is also practiced against LGBT and feminist groups on Facebook, and against critical reviewers and the ASMR community on YouTube.
That makes absolutely no sense. Buying TSLA is in no way a proxy for buying SpaceX equity.
HN Poll: Could you raise $2000 in 30 days?
I don't think an appeal to authority adds much to the conversation here. Mainstream media (and social media, and niche media) should be open to fact-checking by the public now more than ever.
Netflix Stole My VHS Cassette Photos for Its Stranger Things Boxed Set