skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Capitalism is actually currently ending the world hunger

There are a ton of efforts, both from state-actors[1], NGOs[2] and individuals, seeking to eradicate extreme poverty worldwide. It is not apparent that it is "fixing itself with capitalism" or that any of the previous actors think it is going to happen.

> trickle-down effects actually exist

Citation Needed because trickle-down economics has been shown to increase inequality and not increase the quality of life for those in poverty.

> Yes, capitalism needs regulation, but it is a lie to say that the entire approach is doomed to be a race to the bottom.

Why is it a lie?

[1]: http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/data/oecd-internati...

[2]: https://data.oecd.org/drf/grants-by-private-agencies-and-ngo...
It's a bit disingenuous to pretend (The) Facebook didn't do anything to connect people. Maybe it's because I graduated High School in 2003, but in early 2005 it was amazing to be able to connect to people you either went to high school with or went to your own university, people who were often living parallel lives but you just didn't know because your high school friends went out-of-state or college was large enough that you would never interact with them. At that point, you could click on anything in anybody's profile and you'd be able to find people who self-identified with that tag, be it music, movies, or anything else. Most of these people were average computer users, they weren't denizens of LiveJournal/Xanga/internet forums, but they were possibly acquainted with Myspace, which was already a ghetto by 2004.

I had friends who were disappointed by the fact that you couldn't style your Facebook page (or track who was visiting your profile). Facebook cleaned up the mess that was Myspace and made it palatable and connecting easy.

Over time, Facebook preferred connecting you to people already in your IRL social network instead of new people, and that's when it started getting boring.
Some magnificent genius has created the perfect bot for hooking predatory telemarketers. "Lenny" is a slightly confused elderly man with poor hearing. He wanders off topic, he isn't sure what you just said and he is absolute catnip for crooks. If you haven't heard a call to Lenny, you're in for an absolute treat. This call from a tech support scammer lasts an exhausting 31 minutes:

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
I wonder where is topology used in comp sci other than computer vision (?) ?
Possibly the OP has got hourly/daily rate gig.
https://decapi.me/twitter/latest?name=realdonaldtrump
It's not subscription to ads, it's advertisers subscribing themselves into sites.
Optimizing for faddishness? Vinyl's been over for years.
> spaghetti, monolithic

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

It can be tempting to declare entire sections of legacy code - or even the entire project - to be an unmaintainable mess that isn't worth fixing. Reading code for a true understanding of how it works can be a slow, laborious, annoying process. Simply rewriting everything from scratch often appears to be easier than trying to read, understand, and fix a legacy pile of spaghetti.

Giving in to that temptation and rewriting a project instead of fixing and refactoring the existing code is almost always the wrong decision. The messy spaghetti probably started out a lot cleaner. The mess that accreted over time is often important bugfixes and design changes. Some problems only show up in the field and sometimes requirements change. The spaghetti of bugfixes, workarounds, and changes might be the most valuable part of the codebase. Throwing it out might be throwing away the accumulated knowledge and experience of many expensive developer man-years.

Instead of rewriting, preserve the bugfixes and real-world experience by refactoring the spaghetti. It can be annoying and tedious, but it's probably less work than re-debugging old problems until the "clean rewrite" accretes it's own spaghetti-like layer of bugfixes and workarounds.
It's the symmetric property of identity inequality. The fundamentally incompatible axioms of some worldviews make communication nearly impossible in either direction, within a timeframe and level of effort most people are willing to expend.
Does not work in Firefox????
Decentralized Apps
Ask HN: Which are some of the best books on Mental Toughness?
2 abandoned Soviet space shuttles rust in Kazakhstan
Their about page is kinda weird. Unless there are a bunch of people not listed, it seems like there are only 3 people in the company who aren't a manager of some kind. For example there are 2 software engineers, a software engineering manager, a VP of technical operations, and a vp of engineering.
Of course. You can and want to adjust aggregate demand by monetary policy. I do not claim that current central banks do perfect job (biggest problem for the last decade has been inability to set properly negative interest rates), but at least to me it is obvious that of you do not manage aggregate demand you end up with massive cycles in economy that cause havoc.
Hello, TensorFlow – O'Reilly Media
The technical museum in Speyer (Germany) has another one, in better condition.
ive spent more than a few summers in turn-shoes, which were a dominant construction method of footwear in medieval europe. mine are modern recreations made in as correct a way as seems feasible.

you absolutely cease to heel-strike in about a day. your gait shifts. when fighting, you take many quick short steps. hills and slick grass are interesting.

i haven’t tried hobnailed boots but my friends who have think they improve traction at the cost of some comfort — you’re basically walking on permanent cobbles. they absolutely destroy flooring.
Paintings aren't really good evidence.

Note that until Muybridge did his first time-lapse photographs, pretty much every single painting of a horse in motion was grossly inaccurate.

Compare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallie_Gardner_at_a_Gallop

to:

http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/fox-hun...
Yeah, flooding 911 with legit-seeming calls for weeks would seem to be an effective DoS on the 911 system.
I never heard of it before, but yes that looks pretty much like what I have in mind
I recall hearing that some American Indians were noted to have a similar stride. If the thin leather shoes in Medieval Europe were like moccasins some tribes wore that might lend weight to this claims made here.
Here's a couple more:

>https://teachyourselfcs.com/

>https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/
I wondered the same thing! But didn't bring it up since complaining about votes is frowned upon. But I really was puzzled. Is it that controversial of a statement/question? I don't see it.
Someone here is trying to increase the consequences for killing suspects and they had a rep from the police union arguing against it because it could have unintended consequences like “people dying”.

I ended up yelling at my radio, “PEOPLE ARE ALREADY DYING!”

What the rep meant was cops dying. But the statement, as worded, makes it sound like cops don’t consider the rest of us to be people. Which is exactly the thing a lot of Americans are terrified is actually true.

In the end I expect he made the case for the people arguing for bigger penalties.
Agree. Had an echo since late 2014 when it came out and now several Google homes. The echo requires rigid language or basically commands you have to memorize to use.

The Google home supports natural language for most things.

I think of the Echo like a command line interface and the Google home like a GUI.
Solar freakin' roadway opens in China: TreeHugger
an absurdly violent culture with too many guns. the culture needs to reduce the violence, and remove the guns already... or simply state how many innocent people you're perfectly fine with being killed for any reason each year, including if that happens to be your own family because you believe guns are fine that it's someone else's issue.
This is anathema to the American self-image of independent/free.

Growing up, in my civics classes, we were taught that police were no more privileged than an ordinary citizen. It was WW2 Europe where your papers were required. If you were being bullied by a cop, you can stand up for yourself and be shown to be right by the justice system.

Of course, even as a kid, I knew this was self-delusion. I have always distrusted police and treated them as super powerful combatants who weren't targeting me, but would put me in their crosshairs if they didn't personally like something about me.
Add support for SMS and it’ll be perfect.
"Reflections on Trusting Trust":
https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley, founder of ideo. Changed my definition of and relationship with creativity.
Security Nightmares 0x12
On the other hand you have Estonia preparing to launch its own crypto currency[1] called estcoin.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/23/estonia-cryptocurrency-calle...
This was a mistaken address SWAT ing.
How was the person supposed to know?

Police officers that shoot ppl should be held liable as well as the SWAT caller.
Some interesting arguments suggesting what he is saying is at least partially wrong: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/74penu/walki...
Well, no you can’t make that equivalent reasoning , that’s my point. People blaming communism makes a lot more sense because it does deal with what the political regime should be (once again, a dictatorship). Who should be in charge, for what political goals, with which privilege, as well as provides all the intermediate steps on how to accomplish that goal.

It is not of the same nature.
According to the article, 96% of Palestinian Facebook users primarily use it to get news.

So why clamp down and fine if you can threaten to fine and help shape what is displayed to who? It seems like a much more effective approach since there are few other sites, sources, etc that everyone visits.

At that point, it comes down to who has the biggest hammer or budget.
A Taser can kill. Removing the presumption that you are shooting to kill seems like it would make the police more readily, and in more situations, use the weapons, so I'm not sure it's clear that a switch to less-lethal weapons would be a net positive (in terms of deaths).
> Once your country has been around for a bit longer,

With the sole exception of the U.K., our government has been around longer than every other representative democracy on the face of the earth. Note that France is on its fifth attempt at a republic. We won't even mention Germany here.

> Or do these not count because they hadn't been US citizens back then?

They were mostly killed by European colonists operating under European rules, just like the atrocities that the European governments perpetrated on every other continent of the world.
This has a lot of potential to compete with Livejournal circa 2000.
This can be generalized to thinking about what happens when X goes away in your organization or team. If Bill doesn't come in tomorrow what will happen? Planning for those cases and covering your bases for a a more effective organization is what makes them last instead of falling apart at the first rip off the seam.
There is a recent scam that targets those in the Dreamers program. A friend of mine recently received a very intimidating voicemail from someone claiming to be from the FBI. Shortly after an email followed.

He figured out it was a scam after he called back and caught the scammer off guard. Then we googled the email content and saw many people reporting the same scam.
Sketch Up Time Lapse and DIY
There was a time when people used to get PhD's for researching on index. This paper actually turns the table.
Until China went state-capitalist Hong Kong’s economy was one-sixth the size of China’s for 1/200th of the population. Now it’s 2-3%...
Sure but there is a coarser option (especially on social networks) - unsubscribe from bad groups and generally keep yourself away from stuff that has proven itself to be an unworthy source of information. It requires some amount of thought upfront but after that, it improves your experience. This is similar to you subscribing to a good newspaper rather than any tabloid rag.
What was your guess?
Will Google Kill Chrome OS and Android in 2018?
That is why I say "hey google" instead as easier to say. Our Echo gets a lot of false positives where the Google home does not. Google made the right choice in terms of usability.
I feel like comments like yours are one reason doctors don't like prescribing it.

I'm glad you are able to be happy on modafinil, but think about what you just commented: (1) alternatives are hard to get, (2) you have to get your substitution from the Internet without a prescription, (3) once you are on the gear you are able to notice the same deficiency in others, (4) you attribute your success to it and (5) "fuck everyone" trying to speak people into drug-free alternatives.

I haven't been to med school, but I can imagine this being a slide they would put into an example profile to stray people from prescribing Adderall et al.
Interesting article I read from Zalando, which in the same vein as the Learned Indexes paper, takes a previously computationally expensive routine (Optimal Cart Pick) and learns it as an approximation to a complex function that, in the end, has faster run-time.

https://jobs.zalando.com/tech/blog/accelerating-warehouse-op...
You know, it's really offensive how this person abused the service that allows you to call the police to come to someone's house and kill them.
It sad to see such an article in the top posts at HW... I wouldn't even bother to reply if not for good people getting the wrong picture on what's going on. Yes, Facebook does delete posts (Nothing new so far), though only ones which violate Facebook's rules. I live in Israel and not once I've been shown some horrible video of Palestinians attacking locals. I'm not here to blame, nor generalize. I'm saying that this case is nothing special, but rather any other case of posts violating Facebook's rules only in a larger scale and at a specific target, Israel. For what it's worth, the hatred being published about Israel does not go the other way around. I, and many others, do respect and have no hate for Palestinians. We do have some radicals though, but just like in any other society. The sad part of the story is we get casualties on a daily-basis. Almost every week you hear of a terror attack in any part of the country. Most of the attackers are of young age, some of them even take advantage of their youth for lighter punishments. Both sides are losing people, no doubt. But at the end of the day, what's happening is chaos in our streets being done by /any person/ from the other side who feels like it and go on a killing-spree and yet we get slandered over false accusations on the Internet which pictures a wrong description of the situation. I've yet to witness the same brutality being manifested against us the Israelis but to Palestinians on the streets. I wouldn't go talking about IDF besides saying you would laugh if you knew how many restrictions an IDF solider has in any situations /even if his life is in danger/.
TLDR; Do not believe /everything/ you read on the internet. Regardless of the publisher's reputation.
In the video he says something to the effect that he learned this from a lecture by a medievalist. It's not his own personal theory.
> it's intended to reward founders and long-term employees of startups by privileging them over the more retail class of investor

It will just prioritize investors with the sense to stick their shares in an SPV (e.g. an LLC or trust) and then sell the SPV with the premium voting rights attached. (Also amplify the benefits of intergenerational wealth transfer.)
No. In the US the top speed is 20mph [1].

The author's bike is not street legal. It's classified as a motorcycle under US and Arizona law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bicycle_laws#United_S...
murder by cop
I think he mentioned that it would be in his new book, but I had no idea there would be over 100 pages of dancing links. That is sweet! I’d love to take a look at it, so I could get a better grasp of how it applies to other problems.
It is the same. Except on Windows 8.1.

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
Emergence of Invariance and Disentangling in Deep Representations

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01350

"we show that in a deep neural network invariance to nuisance factors is equivalent to information minimality of the learned representation, and that stacking layers and injecting noise during training naturally bias the network towards learning invariant representations. We then show that, in order to avoid memorization, we need to limit the quantity of information stored in the weights, which leads to a novel usage of the Information Bottleneck Lagrangian on the weights as a learning criterion"
A situation that doesn't include the "supposedly" qualification you make. A single anonymous source on a non-911 number without corroborating reports of gunfire is not sufficient cause to shoot a man on his porch.

Here's an idea -- fly a drone around the house and look in some windows. Knock on a neighbors door and ask if they heard a gunshot. Establish the identity of the reporter - how does the reporter know what is happening? Is the reporter physically proximate to the area?
The worse outcome is that the innocent bystander is killed. That could be a hostage, or some random person caught up in a hoax. The whole point of the police presence is to protect that person. In this situation they failed in that objective.
I agree with the rest but underpaid, no. For the Oakland Police Department, where I live, the starting salary is $69,912 to $98,088. Retirement starts at 50. This job requires a GED.
So Jewish control of the Internet has become a real thing?
1) The Morning Paper - blog.acolyer.org - A new super interesting paper review everyday

2) This is my personal ritual. Every weekday I check out recent entries in "Hardware architectures" and "Emerging Technologies" section of arXiv.org
Many other sections are gaining traction with me, like Database.

Hope this helps.
This. The Google home gets far less false positives and why the wake word makes far more sense. You also do not then get accidently recorded like with the Echo.
Brittle sounds like fragile. This article reminds me of Nassim Taleb's amazing book, Antifragile.

Fragile organizations and systems break from randomness.
Robust ones are able to resist and stay strong.
But Antifragile ones actually benefit from randomness and volatility.

I highly recommend the book -- it's highly relevant to startup companies who, rather than shooting for the moon, should protect their downside (at first) and place small bets on numerous 10x activities.
At this point, I've basically stopped answering my cell if I don't recognize the number. If it's important, they'll leave me a voicemail (it never is.).

One other thing I did was ported my landline over to callcentric.com, where for $3.50/month or so, I can 'firewall' all calls coming to that number, making it safe to give out to anyone. Their call treatments allow me to, by specific number or patterns (800*), drop, send to voicemail, play the "number disconnected" tone, forward, etc. It's great - no more calls I don't want.
They have to approach the situation prepared for the worst case scenario. Problem is that they typically lack the proper training and the discipline required, and act too hastily. There's also a huge problem with the whole that macho, gun loving, power-tripping culture, it just makes things worse, wrong profile of people gets that kind of job.
This will not be the first case of questionable use of force people have encountered.

If you think the venom around this case is about this case then you’re going to be confused.
You're really twisting what happened here. It wasn't so much "yanked" as it was "replaced". I was initially against the idea, but soon got around to it. It was a very risky and daring move by the government, but it was a good one.
I'd advise against trying to get a "certification" or going on a "recognised course" — I don't think they count for very much. I don't think there are any courses/bootcamps in London (or anywhere) with such a high reputation that they automatically give you a leg up when applying for jobs (whereas with top universities this definitely is the case), so if you think you can gain some actual skills then sure, go for it, but not just for the certification.
That dude has an anterior pelvic tilt so him talking about having good posture makes me think this is BS about how they walked in the past.

But i agree that shoes are terrible for your posture but not if you walk like he describes

And personally i believe that a full foot strike is better than heel/forefoot strike.
If sound tactics get innocent people killed when nobody was under actual threat --- those are shitty tactics.
So if Apple applies those things to authentic emails from the iTunes store (receipts are the context in my dad's case), then how in the living goddamn fuck are Apple permitting obvious forgeries through to an icloud.com account? I find it really hard to believe they're either malicious or incompetent, so what's the alternative explanation?
> But the person most at fault here is the one who lied and called in SWAT in the first place.

It completely mystifies me how people can think that people with guns were justified in fatally shooting someone with no guns. That kind of thing should just never happen, either subdue them or let them get away, why are you shooting them? What could they possibly have done, short of ran to the kitchen to get a knife and then ran back and tried to stab someone? How can you mistake anything someone unarmed does for a deadly threat?
SAS vs. R vs. Python: Which Tool Do Analytics Pros Prefer?
I want to learn formal verification on my own. Do you know of any resources? I got Rolf Dreshler's book on circuit verification, but I would like to master both hardware and software. Would you kindly provide with some pointers?
It's been amusing to watch HN's overwhelmingly negative reaction to cryptocurrencies. Yes, there are absolutely some shady things going on with cryptocoins, but the response to them here seems pretty overblown. What I suspect is that many startup types have sour grapes over how they could have made nearly as much money speculating on digital tokens as they did building their web or app business. It's too bad, since there actually are some interesting technologies beginning to come out of the cryptocurrency sphere. These opportunities will get overlooked by everyone in SV apparently, though.
> Calculus is useless, until it is not at which moment it turns to incredible help.

Yes! And that's why you need to learn to be fluent in: Spanish, Chinese, Russian, French, and some other languages. You never know when you need them!
One of the most important things that came out of The PCG Paper[1] is that tests are stronger as you reduce the number of state bits, and measuring this continuum is much more powerful than a single test. (see Figure 7)

It seems to me that any new non-cryptographic PRNG should be required to test itself in this manner, or else provide a very good excuse.

[1] http://www.pcg-random.org/paper.html
Or is it whoever (edit: in the Wichita police) dispatched them without checking the details of the call, or adequately briefing them that the details were not clear?

Because the guy who shot made a huge and deadly mistake, but the fact that you can call 911 and have someone SWATted is a big problem on its own.