skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In any case, you shouldn't neglect the subtle but important sources of bias those pre-crime models can have. Here's an interesting talk about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfThopD7L1Y

Basically, one instance of bias is the fact that many crime-prediction models are trained on police data, which means they will predict crime in places more often targeted by the police anyway. Then the model predictions even amplify that effect, since more training data may be generated from the places now more often policed, etc.

There's lots of resources out there on AI fairness these days. I think everyone who tries stuff like crime prediction should read up on that topic.
"Public Domain" is the term you want
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> Did people expect the dotcom bubble?

Greenspan called it "Irrational Exuberance" in 1996 [1], although I personally don't remember it being that bad then.

By 1999, the word "bubble" was all over the media.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_exuberance
Toggled display from flex, to inline-flex and back to flex and it displays differently. Don't think its working as expected.
> Remember this buffet quote It’s better to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful

Everyone is fearful about the blockchain bubble right now, it seems. Time to be greedy? :)
IPhones start slowing down after a year
> The old option theory bullshit has even less rigor beyond fun mental exercise.

Well, it actually tells you how to hedge and thus replicate the option. That's quite valuable in practice (even if it needs modification from pure theory), despite Taleb's rants.
Perhaps we don't need it in every borderline-relevant thread, though.
AFAIK, right turn on red is universal in the US EXCEPT NYC and anywhere that it's explicitly posted as not allowed. Certainly as a driver I'm not aware of anyplace else where I wouldn't right turn on red absent a specific prohibition.
> In conjunction with the shift in business strategy, the Company has submitted a request to the Securities and Exchange Commission to withdraw its previously filed S-1 registration statement relating to a proposed underwritten public offering, which was filed on November 11, 2017.

http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/long-island-iced-tea-cor...
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As long as we progress, it will always be like that.

Technology is, in a fundamental way, a force multiplicator. It gives you power to do more things that you could do with only your biological body and mind. That power can be used for destructive means too, so it follows that as we get more power, we open new, exciting ways to destroy ourselves.
Because people thought the stock was a tulip.
Comparing it to three random pictures of roads at sunset:

https://pixabay.com/p-280863/?no_redirect

https://pxhere.com/en/photo/118396

https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1165757

The main difference appears to be that the pixar picture is way blurrier, the lines and detail in reality are just way more crisp. Perhaps the pixar picture is supposed to be in motion, but motion blur should be reduced over distance while even the background trees and sky are blurry.

The blacks in pixars image also don't really seem black enough for a sharp sun at sunset. You'd think at least the cabels right in front of the sun would have higher contrast. While on the other hand, some highlights don't seem to be as strong as you expect (the metal railing on the opposite side)

Overall, you kind of expect your eyes to hurt in a situation like this, but it's all very soft and gentle.
The problem with that is that the real gems are, many times, in the comments. But parsing through that is way harder and more time consuming.
So then, in your opinion, what jobs should be open to people who oppose gay marriage? There is a limited number of lighthouses that haven't been automated.
>D.C. is probably one of the best metros,

Oh dear -- that's a scary thought. Here in DC it's unanimously understood that the metro is a train wreck, literally and figuratively.
Not the people buying.
What about decentralised exchanges?
Check the chart at the bottom of the article. It went up 500%, then dropped. Since the article, it seems to only be up 190%.

I imagine that over the intervening period, some value investors independently investigated the exact nature of Long Blockchain's technical innovations in the distributed thirst-quenching space.
> lack of underlying utility / value is does currency have any real, long-term value if there is no sovereign government willing to go to war

You just described the value in your question. A wealth store/transfer platform that does require armies to protect its "banks", as they are distributed/global, does not encourage wars.
The Brendan Eich situation is really interesting. I've personally cited it as a gross overreach into his personal life. But it has been really fruitful to play out scenarios with it and explore my own ethics system, perhaps exposing some gaps.

I personally tend to break conservatively in my views, but I would be equally outraged if a liberal were fired for supporting, say, communist revolution. I certainly understand why people who hold certain views would want that person fired, but I have no problem separating that from their work. I wouldn't want them running my country, but Mozilla is fine.

I ultimately arrived at the outcome that in order to be consistent, I don't think it's OK for any _position_ someone takes to be considered for work performance. Actions, sure, but a position must have absolute freedom. So, if my CEO were to consider people who vote for republicans subhuman (not an entirely unlikely scenario today), but otherwise conducted themselves fairly, I'd be OK with it.

So, did Eich take a position, or an action? Are you really allowed to have a position if you aren't allowed to support it?

I'll say action, despite my bias urging me to say position. Was this action taken to support his desire to preserve something, or to deny someone else of something? If you're one of the people impacted by this action, does it matter?

These questions make it easy to see the tough position Mozilla was in. I'm not sure what conclusion I'd have reached in their shoes, despite my from-the-hip decision that he did nothing wrong.
Out of curiosity, if this piece of news is evidence of a bubble, does they mean that if cryptocurrencies were NOT a bubble, that would somehow prevent this company from changing its name and mission and increasing in value?

I’m not immediately seeing how that would be the case.
I'm going to upvote this, even though it's another in a long line of "I don't understand classical liberalism or the roots of our modern secular society" posts by various authors, both famous and not.

At the heart of a lot of this is the simple question: is our larger world supposed to be one big social group? Some folks think yes. For those folks, if you have a small community, it's a legitimate question as to how much "control" you should have on members when they are outside that community.

To me this is an answered question and the answer is no, small groups and large groups of people are completely different things. Trying to shoe-horn experiences and ideas about one group into the other group leads to nothing but heartache and disappointment.

But since so many folks are struggling so much, it's a conversation that needs to continue for a while. Hopefully it will lead somewhere positive.

ADD: I will, however, admit to having much frustration watching my tech friends struggle so much with concepts that should have been part of their early education. Speaking humorously, I reserve the right to buy an inflatable copy of "On Liberty" and start beating a few of them about the head with it if things don't change.
This person is claiming that the NASDAQ listing proves that they've changed their name. Yet the link itself clearly says "Long Island Iced Tea Corp", not "Long Blockchain".

So, it would show it, because it shows the company name. And the company name is not "Long Blockchain", so the link proves nothing and the gp is full of shit.
I assume GP means the highest value realised so far, and was a bit sloppy on his mental maths.
This reminds me of one of my favorite Flexbox tutorials, Flexbox Froggy: http://flexboxfroggy.com/
No toilets anywhere. They are into that composting thing and they think it's all fertilizer. It smells like a mix of rotting feces, pot, and body odor. Horrible place. Don't move there.
There's also reportedly a connection with bad teeth.
More accurately, this is what happens when a company operates based on illusion and not reality. Sooner or later reality rears its ugly face. Their business was created on handouts and grants, but when that money dried up they couldn't generate their own revenue. Had they focused on being self-sufficient for revenue since their inception they most likely wouldn't have these problems in the first place.
Several japanese retirement funds announced they’re going all in on Bitcoin, according to what I’ve heard.

Even the rumors show that this is going in the same direction.
I think this what happened.. the government has very formal hiring procedures, a government employee can’t just send spurious offer letters to foreign nationals.
NH Representative Wants to Arrest All Crypto Users for Counterfeiting
Ah. That didn't exist when I last had to poke whatsapp. In that case, it's not ideal, but better, than mobile-only things.
Also, you have to pay your taxes in faith based money.
Except of course your Android phone SHUTS OFF when the battery is degraded. Apple has designed iOS to let you keep using the phone (perhaps at a slower speed) even with a degraded battery.

Apple keeps your phone working longer. Why isn't this the story? Because this is exactly opposite to the agenda of people that want to knock Apple. The stories of how Apple designs devices to fail and require new devices is totally false.
I thought it was going say "Soylent Green"
I like the idea and love the simplicity. Not sure if I would benefit from not looking and editing as I write as I tend to do that all the time, but I'm going to try it with this and see how it pans out.

Great job!
That doesn't necessarily imply it's either a good or a bad thing, though.
So what?

Judge people on their behavior and results at work, not away from it.
Whats your average deal size like?
I really liked the Linda concept for concurrency but it doesn't seem to have caught on in general. It isn't the same as what is being presented here but it side steps the threads issues, the multiple cpu issues, all that falls out for free. Seemed pretty cool and I suppose you could layer on cancellations (but I suspect it would be a mess like pthread_cancel()).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language)

http://linuxtuples.sourceforge.net/

Anyone else like that stuff? Or have any insight why it isn't more widely used? Maybe it's because it was a commercial thing?
That’s also a sign that bitcoin could become the worlds most popular currency someday. Recognition and interest need to become ubiquitous.
right is so hard to buy a device from amazon or print some words on plasticized paper and keep it safe, hell you can even memorize 12 words.
Perhaps we don't need a half dozen blockchain stories on the front page every day, it's borderline spam. These threads always rehash the same arguments on both sides.
Any such system is/would be potentially very dangerous. Crime data is not the same thing as crime. Populations that are over-policed are be disproportionately represented in any such data set, leading to higher prediction of crime, leading in turn more over-policing (feedback loop). I implore anyone attempting to build such a system to consider the serious issue of machine bias and it's implications in the real world.

See this tutorial given at this years NIPS machine learning conference: http://mrtz.org/nips17/#/
http://content.tfl.gov.uk/tfl-mayors-budget-2017-18.pdf

Transport for London budgeted 2.26 billion pounds for the London Underground in 2016. Even at peak exchange rates from 2014, that's $3.8 billion. The MTA spent $8.18 billion on the subway in 2017. The London Underground handles about 5 million rides per day, versus a bit under 6 million per day for the NYC subway. So the NYC MTA spends 120% more to serve about 20% more subway riders.
"Not exactly a high bar to clear given the garbage pile Twitter has become. ... It’s the place where being a Nazi will result in the severe consequence of losing verification."

Ummm, what? Defending nazis are we?
> SF is even more different in that nobody owns cars

70% of SF households own a car, so still a majority by a long shot [1].

[1] http://www.governing.com/gov-data/car-ownership-numbers-of-v...
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That may be based on vendor implementations - I think there are a bunch of consumer routers or there that are based on reskinned old versions of OpenWRT.
They are blocking competitors from installing fiber via franchise agreements or requirement that entire municipality is wired.

By doing that your municipality is preventing price competition on the physical last mile which means that Comcast has no need to upgrade service.
Is this what Karl Marx had in mind when he said that capitalism would destroy itself?
That Stonybrook Farms episode is a wild ride! Pretty much the opposite of my entrepreneurial style, but that’s why I love “How I Built This” so much — you get exposure to a wide variety of strategies that worked, including some you never thought would.
Extended results of the Alzheimer's disease anti-inflammatory prevention trial (2011)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21784351
> It is safer to not build the surveillance apparatus in the first place because you _always_ lose control of it sooner or later.

I'd rather be able to watch and data mine citizens for 6 months to a year, before control is lost. And companies do.
Bread and circuses worked for the Romans.
SOMA is So Mach Better than Portland. You can meet other people who work in your field. No one looks at you weird when you get on the bus for work. You can get a real burrito. You can find a bathroom. Don't move to Portland. It's awful.
Yes, and this is obvious when you think about it. Sugar causes both inflammation (actually any carbohydrate will eventually) and sugar is why you brush your teeth.

Fascinating books on this include "pure, white and deadly" and "cancer: disease of civilization" (this one is hard to find, written in 1962 I think). The former was written before sugar fully took over, the latter was written back when some cultures didn't get cancer.
The article makes a passing mention to the British NHS which is universally loved by everyone in the UK.

Why do so many Americans object to universal health care yet complain about insurance premiums? Its something I've never understood as an outside observer.
I highly doubt we're close to that point, to be honest. This is a global bubble. Billions of people around the world. Most of the money invested will flow in a few top coins -- not 200 different equities. The dot-com bubble was US centric, and the market went up to $6.7tn before imploding to $1.7tn.

If, in the mania of the 2000s, things could head towards $6.7tn, I don't believe that this bubble will be smaller in the age of loose monetary policy.

Money is essentially free today. A few weeks ago, Saudi Arabia paid $450m for a painting. If that isn't a sign of how money has lost its value, I don't know what is.

Would I bet everything I own on crypto? No, of course not. Can you still get a 10x return on money you invest today? I wouldn't be surprised. Even knowing there will be a major correction at some point, it's probably a mistake not to own at least some.
I'd really like to read more Chinese-from-China views on this kind of article.

Although the content of the article scares me personally, it would be interesting to have more of a discourse about more plausible reasons why this kind of surveillance is "good" from a genuine different perspective. One mistake the Chinese govt makes is never explaining themselves in a plausible way so it always comes across as Orwellian. Further, because no Chinese national is supposed to acknowledge the govt power, most nationals can't comment on it without getting themselves or their family in serious trouble.

I have a (non-Chinese-from-China) friend who works most of the year in China and he explained the surveillance state as "well, if you've got a nation of more than a billion people and a huge range of wealth levels and, culturally, you value stability of the nation more than individual liberty, yeah, you're going to go to extremes on security and surveillance. It's all about ensuring stability and adherence to 'normal' behavior. Yeah it's creepy but it's _safe_ if you stay in line."

I'm not saying I agree with the exchange of individual liberty vs surveillance but it would be refreshing to read more plausible takes on the "China has it right" viewpoint.
My observation is that a higher probability of being comfortable with who you are is among the benefits of growing older. It doesn't happen to everyone of course, but it seems to happen to most people. It's one of the connotations of "maturity". Having a few hundred thousand dollars to throw at a hobby probably helps people get comfort with who they are.
No, I mean software development. Ethereum has the concept of smart contracts, which are programmable to a certain extent (I haven't dived too deep into it myself, but then again, I'm not a part of that division).

They wrote up a blog post about some practical use cases for it: https://www.blogs.conduent.com/2017/12/05/the-possibilities-...
I'm not comparing people who don't eat meat and people who are gay. I'm comparing the strength of nonviolent opposition towards both those groups, which can be absolutely equivalent. I stand by what I said - when we're talking about nonviolent personal beliefs, passionate investment in your own belief is not a sufficient reason to bar those with opposing views from participating in the community if they can do so peaceably.

There is no heuristic which will let a given party or organization accept only the Correct Views while disallowing all the Wrong Views; as a practical matter, for the sake of diversity, you should limit your shunning to those who espouse violence and those who discriminate in the workplace.
Not the person that originally posted this, but the goals of Ethereum isn't to be a currency, its to be a decentralized computing platform. It implements a turing complete virtual machine that uses the blockchain as verification of the output of the software. Smart contracts are actual pieces of software executed by all of the nodes in the system, and they can communicate with each other. Running your software consumes Ethereum which is used to pay the nodes that verify the output.
$12/year if you just get the digital version. I just signed up.
Allow more autonomy in traditionally autonomous regions.
Allow the free practice of religion including fasting during ramadan: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/china-bans-ramadan-fas...
Take more input from citizens who live there and allow them to have a stake in the governing proccess that includes future changes.
They don't need to read about tulip / dot-com bubbles in every single thread. It's not as if this viewpoint is novel, or some kind of secret. We get it.

> You do realize that economic bubbles rise and fall in the span of years, right?

Yes. And everyone making these bubble / tulip comparisons should acknowledge how the view is unfalsifiable.
They have no point of reference for comparison.
I would love to live in a biking city. It gives you a greater opportunity to live in community. A lot more freedom for the kids, old people, etc. Any chance any city in the USA to be become like that ?
I have a tip jar. You can become a patron via Patreon. In some cases, you can also support my work via whitelisting the site on your ad blocker, in cases where the site has ads.

There are lots of different ways to talk about this.
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How are you building a List of potential leads ?
That's because NN proponents have no idea what they are talking about. Cure for SVitis is make everyone do a stint racking servers, running fiber and opening tickets with a telco to undo effects of grooming on your circuits.
The post by cs1717p seems somewhat reasonable on the surface but causes a massive visceral backlash in my gut as I read it. So, while I haven't given it enough thought to figure out why, I vehemently disagree.

I disagree about the Mozilla CEO comment specifically. If something is antithetical to you and other community members, regardless of the original "purpose" of a community, so be it.
the tyranny of 'freedom'
stocks and commodity holdings are just protocols too though - not technical ones but legal/contractual ones. It's still pretty crazy though given bitcoin doesn't even have a major (legal) use to anchor it.
Maybe it's because personal experience is usually not enough to make such sweeping generalizations? All we know is this person liked the places they lived in Europe better than the places they lived in the US. But what about the places they haven't lived yet?

European cities are not all the same. Similarly for US cities.
That’s always true, or they’d be selling :)
There are a number of fallacies in your statement.
1) Western societies are large populations that eat meat and eat meat more than other large populations, by far.

2) Inuits live 10 on average less than the local nearby populations and 900 year old Inuit mummies also show signs of advanced osteoporosis.

3) Processed sugar is not a health product and is not the polar opposite of meat. It is in the same category of meat as 'unhealthy' and 'causes inflammation'

4) A whole-foods low-GI plant-based diet has been show to open up arteries and that is important for Alzheimers as people with that disease do show blocked arteries to the brain post-mortem. So while not a 100% prevention, it certainly reduces risk and may even reverse issues.
This is the ultimate question -- which is superior: individualism or collectivism? Personally I think collectivism is far superior -- however the forces that be want people to believe individualism is superior, especially in America.

This results in people, individuals, denying their fellow peers access to things. As for the question the title poses, there's no answer, because it depends on who you ask.

I don't think Americans will ever be convinced collectivism is superior until there's some organization or company created within the States that ends up being far superior to everything else. Only then will people see the overwhelming advantage that comes with the "spread", which is the main advantage of collectivism (meaning the spread of burden and the spread of fortune).

The Musketeers said it best:

All for one and one for all.
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Here's a quickstart:

https://serverfault.com/questions/218747/how-to-setup-a-nntp...

http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/newsserver.html

Edit: removed list of dead links. Added article.
Why would I use this over YouTube's transcriber application, which automatically transcribes most of the video and aligns the text to the audio?
"Serverfewer" sounds like the title of the next Neal Stephenson book :-)
>universally loved by everyone

I don't think something can be universally loved. There are many stories of long waiting times and people going overseas for private healthcare.

People like private healthcare because it aligns with America's love of freedom - which includes the freedom to fail.
Sure, but as the prevalence of day trading and even automated trading that buys and sells in short periods of time (which you can tell if you look at the price movements of a stock in a small, say daily interval and notice repetitive price pattern movements), a lot if not MOST stock trading is entirely NOT based on the expectation of underlying value of the stock. Not everyone has a Warren Buffet or Bogle-like approach to long-term investing of stocks.
No, that would be the republican party.