skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paradox is that Silicon Valley is one of he wealthiest parts of the country and yet >25% of the population is food insecure.
How many poor people have you developed software for personally?
The high CoL states generally have pretty strong tenant protection laws. Talk to friends, family, anyone. Find a couch you can crash on for a week while you find a job. Skip your rent to save up for the move, make a small partial payment and go to court to avoid being evicted quickly. Buy a bus ticket and never look back. Children complicate things and working in a trade that's easy to find another job in makes things easier but the basic workflow is the same.
They already have the Turks there for precisely that reason, and have since the 50s.
Why horses have special power?
That's visionary. Actually the Simpsons got lucky with several of their goofy predictions, it's always amusing after the fact.
This is very interesting but I think there is a bigger context too. My understanding (though I'm not an expert) is that wildfires are a normal, regular, naturally-occurring phenomenon. When humans artificially prevent forest fires from taking their natural course, this causes dead wood to continue building up significantly more, which causes the fires to be much more destructive when they do happen.

So if these fires are essentially inevitable, maybe there should be less emphasis on the thing that happened to kick it off and more on preventing the conditions for it to become huge and destructive.
Sure, I know what they claim to do. My assertion is they in fact do something entirely different while using propaganda to tell you what they want you to think they do.

But, anyhoo, totally off topic.
Fox Broadcast Channel, Fox News, and FS1 are not part of the deal. Fox regional sports channels are part of the deal.
Yes, but then it would not fit with the original story, I had to change the denomination for effect!
> Archadon is an affiliate of the Tibet Rug Company, which has been designing and importing handmade fine Tibetan wool rugs for more than 25 years
That's a much less sympathetic position. It's one thing if there's literally no way to consume a piece of content. The copyright holders aren't losing money there. It's another if there's a perfectly viable method available but you want to put on your toddler voice and say "but I don't want it that way."
Trump Signs Bill Banning Kaspersky Products on Government Computers
Who said it is? Billions manage to do it just fine, with 1/100 the preparation.
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Please re-read my "Sure, but..." paragraph and the sentence after it. You just did exactly what I was describing.
More details on the kidnapping of General Kreipe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnap_of_Heinrich_Kreipe
Debug workflow in vim and neovim
Just to clarify, he’s not with BT any longer, but with IBM Resilient:

He has been working for IBM since they acquired Resilient Systems where Schneier was CTO.
Can we have a list of mispredictions?
Considering it? Sure. Milking it until people are truly sick of them and then producing 3 more? Yes. Of Course.
You can find lists of the BIN numbers for prepaid cards. Also, in the US, most of them fail AVS checks with a 'U' code.
True, if only there was any sane anti-trust regulation in the last 20 years.
Zillow Zestimate dropped 80K in one day
My listing expired and I listed my house FSBO and the Zestimate dropped from 80K. This is clear evidence that Zillow is in it for the realtors and not consumers.
I agree, and for climate economics especially it makes a lot more sense than equilibrium models.

Something I found especially interesting in the LtG model is that the costs of dealing with environmental damage and extracting more scarce resources build up gradually over time, but the way it works out is that economic output keeps growing rapidly, until these costs become overwhelming and it all suddenly crashes down. Everything looks great until you're on the verge of catastrophe.

But to this day, people look at our growing economy and think it refutes LtG, because they assume LtG predicts a gradual decline.
‘A different dimension of loss’: inside the great insect die-off
Really makes that seem like a simpler time when the concern of the day was that your OS came with an integrated browser.
Disney to Buy 21st Century Fox in $52.4B Deal, Shaking Up Media World
Oh it's crazy how much stuff Disney can pull off Netflix, I don't know if they will, because it's in their interest to have some stuff accessible over more than one place, but they own ABC (Lost, Castle, Firefly, etc), ESPN, Marvel, LucasArts, now Fox and their assets, not to mention they distribute on behalf of many publishers (Dreamworks for example), they would probably clear more than half of Netflix's content if they pulled everything.
AI is the overall field and the superset of all of the various approaches.

ML is one family of approaches for knowledge acquisition in AI, but far from the only one (eg. logic based inference is another big one).

DL is a family of approaches in supervised ML. As the author points out, it's a subset of a subset.

But saying that this sub-subset "drives" AI is like saying endocrinology "drives" medicine: not the right mental model at all.
They'll make westerns.
And if you want some ideas on how they managed, it fitness-wise: http://www.chrismcdougall.com/buy-natural-born-heroes-from-t...

(Written by the author of Born to Run).
Very roughly, it works as follows:

1/ Initialise a random neural network.

2/ For any given position, use the neural network to estimate the probability of win (or draw).

3/ Play multiple branches out to the end, to get an estimate of the 'real' probability of win (for the current skill level)

4/ Modify the neural network so its estimate of the probability of win more closely matches the actual probability of win

5/ Goto 2 :)
I have not read the article (yet; it's bookmarked for later), so I'm speaking generally, here.

> it was [possible] the author probably would have just written a single paragraph in the first place and saved a whole lot of time for everyone.

This does not fit with my experience, even disregarding things like YouTube videos which drag on in order to justify longer ads.

Writing concisely is hard, and often much more time consuming than a lengthy brain dump. It's also tempting to elaborate on every point, however tangential. I have to constantly fight this in my own writing; my desire is to be complete, but really I'm drifting off-topic, diluting my point with irrelevance, making it harder to follow.

Based on the comments above, it seems like the tl;dr missed important nuance, but that isn't always so.
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I am a backer of Star Citizen but I am not sure that Crytek's claims should be taken completely at face-value.

For instance, Crytek claims that Squadron 42 was announced to be offered as a stand-alone game in 2016 but I remember this being the public stance of CIG far before that.

It sounds like Crytek failed to secure a comprehensive agreement covering the situation as it has developed over the years and is now attempting to make up for that lapse.

And I imagine it's driven by the desperation that Crytek must feel being so close to insolvency. From what I remember they were also pretty peeved that CIG picked up some of their senior CryEngine engineers when Crytek was missing payroll.
They limit it to low value transactions specifically because it's not as secure. Feel free to dig into it if you don't trust the industry's assessment.
Would be a huge breakthrough.
I think you've read a myth: grass isn't particularly nutritious for humans[0] and I doubt the Celts were regularly eating clover. It's an interesting example you raise though, given the famine was caused by rich people ignoring the needs of the poor.

[0] http://www.health24.com/Natural/News/Can-humans-eat-grass-20...
It's not enough to be stable to be a standard, you also need authority that enforces it. Either because people "respect you" (whatever that means), or because there's a central authority forcing them to implement the standard, people actually implement it. If they don't, then it's not much of a standard.

So, WHATWG is in constant flux, and W3C has about as much authority as I do. _Thankfully_ in practice WHATWG is "stable enough," but just saying that's what "we" consider a good enough standard for something used in creating all sorts of UIs, from trivial to vitally important, is indicative of a bigger problem.
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"Smell you later" replacing "goodbye"
Disney is only interested in the creative/film assets; broadcast distribution and news/sports are being spun off.
No one said it would be easy. You guys added that. It would be difficult and expensive, but cheaper, faster, and easier than man space flight.
> Not always. I've seen tons of critical two- or three-star reviews that were multiple paragraphs and had pictures detailing the issues with the product. Piss off the right person with a shitty product or even an unfortunate lemon, and you'll get lambasted for it.

Because those are irate customers who actually paid for the product and feel ripped off. I agree with OP: far more common are gushing, think pieces about how great this product that they got for free is. Often they disclose this fact but in many cases it seems they don't. The unbridled venality feels pathetic, like monkeys trained to do a dumb trick in return for more peanuts.
I'm confused about what you mean by this. See some background on what exactly?

Edit: I am asking because I feel like your post is suggesting in a very roundabout way that perhaps the commenters in the thread are not "authentic" for whatever reason. (If this is the case, I have to condemn the implication in the strongest possible terms.) But perhaps I've misunderstood.
True! Hopefully they wake up to kill this deal.
Does great Britain? I know the US has the DMCA which among many other things says people can't be held labial for infringing content hosted on their site if they respect and follow DMCA take down requests.
> their worst experiences of in-your-face, constant racial/ethnic discrimination and tension in the US are almost always in the Midwest

i'm asian american.

here's what life is like somewhere other than maybe 3 or 4 cities in the US:

1. constantly explaining to people why i am not white (where i'm from, where my parents are from, why my last name is what it is [it's anglo])

2. children are constantly getting the 'eyes pulled back' and other racist names/gestures at school, and all the adults (teachers/admins) think its hilarious too (it's just a joke! don't you love being the butt of jokes? why can't you just let everyone make fun of you all day and take it silently?)

3. name-calling 'chink', 'gook', etc are normal occurrences, not exceptional events.

4. the general feeling that nobody thinks you're really american. i.e. when discussing whichever asian country is in the news today they'll say "no offense".

5. oftentimes being ignored by people, even when you walk right up to them and ask them a question. for example when shopping in a store.

6. hyperawarneness of the hollywood situation (in tv and movies white people = gods, everyone else = a literal joke)

7. limited cuisine that you grew up with (although this one is changing)

basically it's just non-stop suffering. that's why everything is cheap in the midwest. it fucking sucks unless you are the 25% of the population that its designed for.

quite frankly if i had kids, i'd rather be STRUGGLING in california than outright RICH in the midwest, because i don't think you can be rich enough to actually buy your kids a good enough life to make up for racism. it's borderline child abuse.

the kicker of course is not only do i experience this kind of stuff in i.e. michigan, people visiting from the midwest do this to me in my own home city.
You've got it. And not only is university more expensive overall for these reasons, but a significantly smaller proportion of tuition/housing is coming from state funding.

When education is treated like a business instead of a public good, the costs get passed on to students from wealthy families or to students who take out massive loans.
So .. what is the business substitute for deadlines? Unless you're genuinely a startup with unlimited funding and total freedom, eventually people are going to ask the question "so what are you going to deliver and when?"
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You aren't using that one?
Indeed and this per year. So, you're looking at $700B over ten years?
When I click on a button that says effectively "Purchase" or "Buy Now" and I instead get a page that says "Sign up to stay informed" the page has lied to me.

I fully understand that the design pattern solves a difficult problem that we all have: how to know if someone would really be willing to buy your product. Because if you ask, many people will say they would buy it, but when it comes time to pull out their credit card they don't do it.

But it's still tricking the customer into doing something he or she wouldn't ordinarily do if they had known what the button really did.
The trade off on what food I eat is not a waste. Wasting time on slow payment methods when better options exist is.

Near field is also limited by transaction size so it's far from sipe for anything.
Unfortunately this is all true too. Not only that but the people that are allowed to do peer reviews, at least in biology, are people that have their Registered Professional Biologist ticket. I don't know what it's like for other sciences but for your RPBio you needed something like 5 years of professional experience, your own published, peer reviewed paper and to pay a yearly fee of $10000. Their the ones that get to sign off on projects. I really disliked working in science honestly. The work itself was really cool, but it's so full of politics and people fighting for scraps of money. You get people who manage to do absolutely nothing but sign their name on projects and review papers for a living. They make good money while doing nothing. I've seen prominent a biologist steal the grant money from a park he pretended to be working with, a government biologist straight up owned by a copper mine that was paid off to ignore any damage being caused by the mine and just a whole culture of money first. The science part of doing science was really the last thing anyone cared about.
Post the results on http://ww.gredforge.net?
Hm – I'm not too happy to see most of the original HTML-elements marked "not conforming" and "must not be used", thus preparing for browsers to eventually drop the support. There are still lots of web-sites and valuable information stored and archived in this format. Back in the day, it was thought that basic HTML was a format to last. Who is going to update these documents in order to make them conforming to future browsers? Or are we just dropping a decade of documentation? Is it worth it?

(Consider: Apparently, MS-Word docs or PDF prove longer lived than basic HTML documents! Who would have thought of this?)
Exhibitors keep a large chunk of that $1.54bn.
You seem to have "socialism" confused with some completely different system.
There is a value network which estimates the win rate for the current player from a given board state, and a policy network which estimates the probability that each move should be played. As of the more recent iterations, these networks share their bottom layers for greater computational and training efficiency.

The value network is simply updated to match the real outcomes of games of self-play.

The policy network is updated to match the results of a tree search; for each board position many thousands of lines are explored using the value and policy networks, and then the policy is updated to match (a somewhat 'sharpened' version of) the number of lines in which each move was chosen.

When exploring each lines, at each step the move 'a' is chosen from the current board state 's' which maximizes Q(s, a) + P(s, a) / (1 + N(s, a)), where R is the policy network, Q is the average value network evaluation for lines where 'a' was picked from 's' (with the appropriate signs to match the current player at 's'), and N is the number of simulations in which 'a' was picked. When we reach an unseen board state, it is evaluated with the policy network and a new line is explored from the root.

This is less circular than it may seem because:

a) The value network is trained using real outcomes.
b) Towards the end of the game, the tree search sees real outcomes.

This training procedure allows the network to 'bootstrap', learning progressively more complex knowledge about how to play effectively.
It's entertainment. Why should anything other than being good for shareholders matter? It's not an essential goods company like say food or medicine
This. There are studies supporting this conclusion [0]: "Without adequate prevention measures, forest debris can build up, fueling a bigger, more devastating fire the next time around."

And this [1]: "This leaves authorities with a difficult problem. After decades of successful wildfire suppression, we can now expect fires to be far worse when they finally happen."

[0] http://news.mit.edu/2013/forest-fire-management-1120

[1] http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160722-why-we-should-let-ra...
I don't think a greater concentration than ever of movie studios is going to lead to creative flourishing, no.
I feel like there is a key difference in all the examples people are giving. Taking a picture of a text book for personal use is a only a small part of the complete work closer would be scanning the entire thing. Further assuming you keep it to personal use it's also very different than spreading it to others.
With global warming, it's not far off.
This series make use of (or link to) this very interesting python "tutor" i found really nice:

http://www.pythontutor.com/visualize.html#mode=display

Separate topic:
Comment of the first part of the series:

>Alternative title: I wish Python had tail-call elimination.

I really like Python a lot and there are many features that could be added to Python, but on the other hand, Python is just nice as it is, as long as what you're trying to do fits into its capabilities. There's also the case of some of those potential features threatening to go against the Zen of Python (particularly "There should only be one way to do it" and "If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.")

If you are going to require high-performance * , or things that collide with the Global Interpreter Lock, etc, then simply Python is not the best choice. I'd also liked Python to have Tail Call Elimination, along with many other features I would love Python to have, but for those I simply use Common Lisp, which does have them (plus a ton of other features), however it will not produce code as beginner-friendly as with Python.

* PyPy can only get you so far here.
Tell that to the person that started sci hub

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/scientific-resea...

I thought the music anti piracy people were bad.
It'd be an improvement.
I think the content industry is the one really driving this whole net neutrality thing, even more than the ISP business. If you follow the money, content is around a $2 trillion annual business, and ISPs are only a few hundred billion.
Schneier decided to leave the academic/technical side and become a pundit.

That‘s nothing to be ashamed of, I‘m sure he didn‘t just do it for the fame, but because he wanted to make things better. I still think he‘s a better cryptographer than writer, but he really seems to enjoy writing.

But it feels uncomfortable when people misunderstand his role.

(And he lost some of my good-will and admiration when he ridiculed Randall Munroe‘s comic and didn‘t have it in him to post a correction for what was basically him not reading the comic, but projecting something he already had in mind. That happens to everyone, it‘s a bit embarassing and not really bad, but sticking to it when he knows full well that the masses trust him is inexcusable.)
Thanks for the figures.

There's another general issue with this in that I can position solar panels to be best for receiving light and the bulb best for projecting it. A glowing leaf needs to do both.

Perhaps there are other good uses, if this can be targeted to specific issues with a plant (e.g. make it happen when they're being attacked by bugs, or need watering, or something like that) then it could be used as a signal we can cheaply detect.
Why not go all the way and merge all companies into 1 big one.

Being born on the wrong side of the iron curtain I already saw economy based on monopolies. Communism failed because prices were centrally set. We knew how to build useful things (that don't break 1 day after warranty) but not which ones to build and how many.

(wiki)

A price signal is information conveyed to consumers and producers, via the price charged for a product or service, which provides a signal to increase or decrease supply or demand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_signal
I've been hoping for this for... I mean it must be a decade now.
I am in a small town in Southwest Coastal Washington.
The Logic of the Disney – Fox Merger
Google crippled their rewards for reviews (1TB for Local Guides dropped to 100GB now nothing) as they gained a critical mass of participants.

There has to be a way for Amazon to Mechanical Turk reviews of reviews -- however many layers deep required!
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I read the original at the time and again yesterday, along with Brian Krebs' epic article, and it seems pretty clear that he's talking about the same phenomenon Brian Krebs is talking about.
They limit it to make it secure and make it pointless for the thieves to try exploit it, at the same time covering many quick payment needs - convinience/security balance I mentioned and you ignored. And feel free to think about industry's assessment - they make more and more cards with contactless payment capabilities and it's used very extensively in some countries of the world already.
Ask HN: What can be done about freelance sites?
Hi!

What in the existing freelance sites seem wrong to you, a problem needing solving which is a market opportunity?

Now in general, this market seem to be built in a way that prevents people's progress at every stage: starting out, growing as a professional, starting as a business, growing as a business.

At the begining we have a chicken and egg problem when nobody wants to hire you even if you are brilliant, until you have a stellar profile with a lot of experience - and lowering price doesn't really work, because the lower your price the higher the competition.

When the freelancer is past that stage, he has a problem of low rates in his history which makes him look like cheap labor, rising rates is very difficult.

And finally - it is difficulty to grow beyond an individual freelancer: many clients, for subjective reasons, don't want a company/agency, even those who definitely need one.

On the customer's side, it is a problem of fakes, and false impression of very low rates, which arise from a large number of profiles that bid with super low bids, but never get a job.

So, no surprise first advice to freelancers is usually 'avoid freelance sites'!

I fully understand that this is very hard since it is a two-sided market: to get freelancers you need clients and vice versa. But i think it is possible to make something to disrupt this market.

That is the biggest problem here? Anything you can think of on how to improve the market?

Thanks for inputs!
FUD. Mostly unsubstantiated. Written like Facebook is a pre-IPO company not a publicly traded one.
Every technological revolution has profound effects on society, our brains and our ability to interact. Witness [0]. From the printing press to the internet, a change occurs, it affects our brain and the way we interact, and then eventually we begin to deal.

The start of the vaccine(/backlash/response) to social media has begun.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1227/