skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something as simple as mandating that all of a user's activity (and with all I mean including e.g. click tracking on FB or external sites) and accessible information (i.e. posts the user can view) can be exported in real time in a machine readable format would basically do the trick.

It'd allow you to basically build your own Facebook app, migrate meaningfully to another service and build other services that meaningfully integrate with Facebook... and effectively turn FB/Twitter into public utilies and enable real competition to Google to appear by allowing users to share key data such as which result they clicked on in response to which query.
Let’s leave aside the question of what exactly are the intentions of Soros’s foundation. I happen to think that “promoting civil society and tolerance initiatives” is pretty much what it says on the tin, whereas you think it’s code for something more nefarious involving world government and importing millions of Africans into Europe. Fair enough — it’s not worth arguing about that.

My question is: do you really believe a $32B fund is nearly enough to enact the kind of change and influence that you’re attributing to Soros? It’s certainly a large personal fortune, but it doesn’t move the needle very much when you’re assuming that he’s actually buying out governments of dozens of countries.

A fund of that size would probably spend 1-2 billion yearly. (He’s not going to blow the entire 32 billion wad in one shot — otherwise, how does he bribe the politicians next year?)

So what does one get with a billion? Unfortunately most of the money spent by the foundations is publicly accounted for, in various boring things like grants to academic sociologists... So let’s assume that 20% of the money is used to buy influence. 200 million is not a lot to spend globally.

In comparison, the Hungarian government spent an estimated 20 million on their anti-Soros billboard campaign last year. They were basically plastering bus stops with large black&white posters of Soros, a wealthy old New York Jew. You may think that was a valuable public service announcement, but maybe you can also understand why people felt that spending public money on such posters was reminiscent of 1930s Europe.
>Ansible playbooks have variables, loops, conditionals, scoping rules, inheritance

As far as I am aware, variables, scoping rules and inheritance don't imply turing completeness and the way it does loops and conditionals could really more be characterized as configuration for loops/conditionals further down the stack (e.g. as seen here http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_loops.html#... )

>you can even extend it by writing custom modules in Python, which is a Turing complete language.

Yes, the idea is that you have the power to break into a (good) turing complete language when it is necessary but you can keep that code - and by extension the technical debt it would attract - to an absolute minimum. I've personally never felt the need to write a custom module in python when using ansible despite using it a lot, so for me, minimum is zero. I'm sure I'm not alone either.

>The problem with not using a real programming language when you're trying to essentially "program" is that you're expressing complex programs without any of the abstractions and tooling support that a real language has.

Yes, this is a problem if you're trying to work within a problem space that is not heavily constrained. If almost every time I used ansible I felt the need to write a python module to do almost everything I would agree that it is a fundamentally unsuitable task. I feel this issue when writing build scripts which I think absolutely have to be kept turing complete, but never server orchestration.
You can buid a riffle by yourself but I can't copy-paste yours, with code that's a huge deal.
In Stockholm, there is one journal system everyone is mandated to use, written in APL (was called Take Care but could have changed name), and completely without access control.

I believe each institution get printed access logs sent to them, which is never looked at.
Utilities are examples of innovation?

It’s funny, I take streaming 4k from Netflix totally for granted but I am genuinely impressed by the way natural gas and fresh drinking water appear in my house as if by magic.
Performing work. Not necessarily doing work, but doing the performance of work visibly where it can be seen. That's why senior managers like open plan offices.
>What would data protection by Chinese companies even mean? They're already comprehensively cooperating with the CCP.

Well even if it looked anything like the EU's GDPR, even then the CCP would still have a carte blanche to collect whatever they wanted, just as the BND [0], AVID [1] et al do so today, and at least the politicians could pat them selves on the back about how they are protecting their people, while continuing to subvert such protections.

[0] https://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2016/09/secret-report-rev...

[1] https://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/02/dutch-government-...
To be honest, whilst reading this article I was more "shocked" by this 'clip' and it kind of took away from the information they were trying to convey.

This looks creepy to me, and I probably would not trust the device enough to use it for important moments. And for the not-so-important moments I really don't need pictures of videos.

I realise the point of this article was not really this specific product, but damn, it did take my focus away from the content.
When a whole concert tries to call at the same time it's usually impossible to call because of saturated lines (t least in eu)
Trump says Palestinians 'disrespected' US
If only it were that simple. There are enough filters, that this is not true IMHO. I haven't gotten around to prove it yet, but I think it could be proven that the playbook language is turing-complete. Others have the same hunch:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40127586/is-ansible-turi...
I'd like to add The Lathe of Heaven to those two.
> I'm just asking how we best cost the external impact of people owning and running cars.

I am not sure what you mean by "external impact" here. You should clarify that first before I can answer your question. Also I hope you will forgive me for not reading your previous posts on other threads!

I get that you are in favour of high taxation. I am not against taxation either. But the question is how much higher is acceptable? 200% is acceptable for you? 300%? where do you put the upper limit? How do you measure the cost of driving cars on the society and environment? was 180% by the Danish government justified in this regard? What was the rationale behind that? I haven't gotten answer to this question from any Danes here or in Danish news papers or in person after talking to many Danes while working in Denmark for 8 months.

May be it is the whole Scandinavian model to blame. Therefore, I am giving you the example of Germany where taxes on cars are significantly low but at the same time salaries (at least in the tech sector) are comparable to Scandinavia, education is free, healthcare is affordable and cost of living is one of the best in the western world.
The whole society is getting short-changed by the idiots trying to make a sacrificial goat out of her/him. Anybody who doesn't understand why s/he doesn't talk, should read Sydney Dekker's books (in particular, "Just Culture -- Restoring Trust and Accountability in your Organisation"). We need the NTSB to do the investigation, they are non-blaming and serious professionals concerned about the FUTURE not the PAST -- i.e. making sure it doesn't happen again.

I seriously want to give a hug to the person who mis-clicked. If you have seen that UX design, you know as well as anyone else, that indeed, most would have mis-clicked over time.

The people investigating this are making a huge mistake.
It's weird but doing less work requires less time. Who'd have thought that?
Why the Academic Left Fears and Loathes Dr. Jordan Peterson
Being poor always costs more. Rich people can shop around for better deals on pretty much everything, if they want to (eg lower interest rates, lower taxes, etc). Many options that are available to the rich are definitely not available to the poor, and that doesn’t even factor in the charges talked about in the article. It doesn’t surprise me one bit, sadly.
My internal model of DNA programming:

- make 1 million sed scripts acting on directory X

- put all of them in directory X

- run all of them in parallel in infinite loops
As I said in another comment, there's absolutely no need for an engineer to have access to live data in normal circumstances.

Learning how to recreate bugs without trace stacks or live data is a debugging skill you can learn. Often it's as simple as following the steps described in the ticket, something some developers seem to not realize, or their reading comprehension is bad.

For really complex bugs, you might need some sort of access to see the specific conditions, but it should be attempted with an anonymized version of the db that you had to request and get signed off on.

If you then really need to put in tracing, if should be temporary, the data access should be heavily restricted and it should be deleted/removed once the bug is fixed.
Taking refugees is not the same as open borders and mass migration. Nation cooperation is not the same as world government.

Your statement is true. But Soros and his foundation supports the latter in both cases, so it's also not relevant.

Here are some quotes to show this is true. Note that I am not Hungarian and don't particularly care about Soros myself. However the criticisms of what he's doing aren't conspiracy theories or the ravings of lunatics. It's quite well documented and open.

For instance, after a memo was leaked from his foundation, the OSF said this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3743479/Left-wing-bi...

The OSF told MailOnline: 'We are committed to making sure that anyone who chooses to migrate—regardless of motivation—is able to do so safely and with dignity ... we support local organizations and policymakers who are working to ensure vulnerable populations are protected, that migrants are empowered to contribute to host societies and home countries, and that migrant voices are heard.

Note the foundation talks about migration in general, not refugees.

With respect to one world government, Soros has said:

“Insofar as there are collective interests that transcend state boundaries, the sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.”

Albeit, this quote is old, I do not know offhand if he's said similar things recently. I got this from a few minutes Googling, not deep personal knowledge. Suffice it to say that he's a big supporter of the EU and its vision of replacing national governments. Note that the EU is currently trying to force Hungary to take migrants (not refugees), against the Hungarian government's will. So that's one reason they don't like him there.

I'm not even sure what the problem with legal abortion everywhere is

I have no problem with it. I used it as an example of the kinds of policies he funds. For instance, to try and change the politics of Ireland.

Again, "likely"... Likely why? What does he gain from migration policies?

Who knows? It seems to be something of an over-reaction to the Soviet Union, perhaps, but I wouldn't like to speculate without more research. However, if you go to the website of the OSF or look at what things Soros has funded, they're all very much in the area of highly controversial or even unpopular policies that have nothing to do with children but which frequently crop up on social media. The only thing visible on the OSF web page above the fold is about migration. So, I'm not surprised people might look for ulterior motives.

In your last paragraph you just argue with straw men. I haven't mentioned the Koch brothers, or even argued that rich men lobbying politicians is wrong. Just pointed out why some people don't like Soros.
Perhaps someday there will be a simple mechanism for looking up such things on one's own.
This question pops up fairly frequently here.
I suppose you checked already, but I will offer the most recent/commented post anyway for your convenience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14727014
As alternative, somebody in the crew could record the concert for then with a crappy phone and let them download it for the next 24 hours using as password some number or barcode printed in the ticket. The "see what you missed last night" experience.
> Or how about this?
> Or how about this?
> Don't act like cellphones have no practical use

sigh Humans have survived for hundreds of thousands of years without cellphones. For any new tech, you can continually imagine scenarios where survival "absolutely depends on" having this tech.

How about this? You're sitting in your ISS sleep capsule and suddenly the station starts to depressurize. You hop into your reentry-safe spacesuit and exit the station, set the suit to auto-reentry and then aero-brake from Mach 18 to 0 and touch down safely in your backyard with your parachute. See? A reentry safe single-person spacesuit is absolute essential to survival.

Your example is that you pass out at a concert with literally thousands of people around and no one helps you. Or you are drunk and a guy is hitting on you. Or your kid is missing.

And you call the person you are responding to ridiculous.

Cellphones have made people into helpless, scared sheep.
"Batch-mode processing is always more efficient."

Not sure where I first heard that, but it applies here. Essentially it is almost the same thing as saying that computers are often set up to exploit economies of scale.

Thus building an index all at once after a large set of changes are made is more efficient than incrementally updating an index as each change is made.
it's a nice story, and that's just what it is. nothing is confirmed by anyone other than a mass media / news outlet, keep that in mind while you read. us democratic party is more friendly with Netherlands than republican party etc.
Now that's not saying that this never happened, but need to stay objective and consider the bigger picture.
You're confused, I didn't just call him confused, I also said why he was confused.
> If you aren’t aligned with a human need, you’re just going to build a very powerful system to address a very small — or perhaps nonexistent — problem.

A common theme in AI research from major software companies who are throwing thousands of developers and billions of dollars at this. AI isn't a giant monolithic application like a search engine. So long as the vision of AI remain around single, closed, data-oriented, monolithic applications AI will continue to be as impressive as it is now. It will get faster as the hardware gets faster, but it won't be what tech evangelists are hyping it up to be.
I kind of glazed over when I saw all the algebraic notation. I'm sure there's a simple concept buried in here somewhere.
If there were reforms to copyright law, it would be easier for a Google competitor to enter the market.
HTML is a markup language and not a programming language.

IMHO you can only "code" in programming languages (not necesseraly executed by a CPU).

A programming language does not need to be turing complete though to "code" in it. You're just limited to the problems you can solve with a turing-incomplete language.

It's interesting to think if using a problem-declaration language is coding.
This is why I left the United States. I live in Germany, and while every place has its drawbacks, I feel safe, have affordable housing, and don't have to worry about healthcare and predatory things like this if things go south.
How worse and for what reasons? I don't understand how phones mitigate bomb attacks
None of my keyboards have Russian keycaps on them. I still somehow manage to type in Russian. Do you look at your keycaps when typing? If you want to, you can put stickers on your keycaps (you can purchase sets for foreign languages, and for APL), or use a quality permanent marker. A reference chart is also an option.
This was the intent of my comment.
> When I'm in China, it's reasonable to assume anyone who initiates conversation with me has some kind of scam in mind.

That's pretty much true everywhere else, isn't it now? If a random stranger you don't know initiates a conversation with you, it's usually because they have something in mind that quite likely is not in your best interest. I believe what you called "having a scam in mind" for China is usually called "salesmanship" in the US.
Why American men are getting less marriageable
DDG works only because Google does if everyone shifts from Google and it’s search results tank because it loses all of the data associated with what and how people search so will DDG.
This is a common talking point of the CCP, but it is not the truth. When the state protects the rights of all people within its borders, those people grow to trust the state; they choose to work openly with the state and each other instead of hoarding wealth in secret. A state which does not protect human rights can not earn the trust of citizens and cannot win their full participation in developing the country.
But I do have understanding. Because I've actually worked in a company with these safeguards. It handled extremely sensitive data of tens of millions of Britons. Normal engineers had no access to live data, 2 senior managers were the only ones in the engineering team with access to live passwords, etc.

It is practical to put extremely heavy restrictions in place between engineers and the live data and they can still do their job. Our normal day-2-day was not impeded in any way.

I only worked there 3 months for other reasons, but regardless of my view on other parts of their operations, their dedication and practical solution to protecting customer data impressed me.
To transmit you’d also need an amateur radio license, although the requirements usually aren’t that difficult.
We currently do use Keybase teams. We love the concept. Unfortunately, we do not consider Keybase production-ready, yet.

Especially the mobile apps are pretty buggy atm, which is one consideration why we’re looking for an alternative.
The business benefits of doing good
> 95 degrees

this sounds dangerous. Just curious, why were you in 60deg water for two hours?
Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care
I don't think an scp ever went wrong for me. But maybe your lan network is different.

When I started doing web things rcp (or scp, or rsync, etc) access was quite unusual. You had FTP and that was it. It failed a lot.

Does webpack handle db migrations too? I didn't know. I was talking about js/html/css assets. Not the backend.

Fair enough. I don't really see the front end asset pipeline as being separate to the backend. It's all just stuff you build and deploy.

That's the nice thing about mod_pagespeed: you don't compile anything.

Well, you do, but you're happy just accepting the mod_pagespeed defaults are doing a great job (which they are). I want a bit more control over things, and I want to do things that mod_pagespeed can't do, which is why I use Webpack instead. A trivial example: mod_pagespeed doesn't do subresource integrity hashes. Webpack has webpack-subresource-integrity as a plugin that can automatically write hashes to your html. That's useful to me. It's good that there are different options for different things, and better that the industry is coalescing around small number of different tools so there aren't too many different ways of doing things.

What's wrong with scripting everything? I like automation.

Nothing at all. Automate all the things! My point is that back in the olden days of making web things we didn't automate things, so it was much, much harder. Today's tools (eg things like Webpack) make automating your build process pretty trivial. It's far better now.
Take money where it is, in poors’ pockets: they do not have much but they are so many!
Take money where it is: in poors’ pockets! They do not have much but they are so many!
I believe conduit is going to support HTTP1.1 by the time it's done.

The http2 and grpc focus was just to get the alpha release out there.
But regulations strike both ways. Your consumption patterns might not mirror the mandated consumption patterns set forth by the government. For instance, this is what folks against socialized medicine advocate - your freedoms as an individual are reduced.

I think this strikes at the heart of my contempt for heavy handed approach to regulation.

I kinda want to take that back and say we shouldn’t be having this conversation at all. This narrative that everything needs to be regulated and the Internet is a something makes me more worried that we’ll be required to do things as much as we’ll be protected in doing other things.

E.g. a relationship between the government and Facebook in any fashion pushes us closer to allowing Facebook as some form of shared trust - perhaps making it an eligible Voting ID. We get to a point where it becomes more hassle than it’s worth, benefiting the Gov and FB, but not really benefiting the end user.

Maybe that’s the real Net-Neutrality: keeping a hands-off relationship between how I consume information and the regulation of such.

Yes, I feel like the regulatory movement is underway, and the narrative is beginning to brew. And, I think we’re having someone else’s conversation.
He got into the news with the message, media is over it. It worked out.

Quitting can send a clear message
5 Must Ask Questions to Your Potential Event Clients
Modern C compilers do enormous job of optimizing C code, despite its shortcomings like the lack of distinction between pointers and arrays. You don't need to worry too much about that, maybe you'll need to sprinkle vectorization intrinsics or assembler code if the compiler isn't smart enough, or to add a couple of memory barriers.
This exists! and it's pretty awesome to use!
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/propellor
"Historical evidence" does not exist! There are new decentralized protocols being launched every ~day now. This is how decentralization really works, it's crazy and wild, and not at all planned by anyone.

Even just an evolved version of this, a ten thousand centralized internet currency marketplace, would constitute a decentralized internet currency system. And this is probably the weakest system that could result.
emphasis mine:

>> At the extreme end...

> If this is your normal way of thinking...
Regulatory Capture background must-read: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
facebook's addiction is that most people love to be heard and seen. they want to be center of attention. I cannot fault facebook for enabling that. If anything it may have brought more people into association with others than any previous internet platform.

for me what Soros and many politicians have in common is they see two very powerful people enabling systems they don't hold sway over. Soros and his type with their money don't have it and politicians cannot control the message.

so both groups throw their wealth, influence, and power, behind efforts to convince people that entities like google and facebook are a threat to the people where they really are a threat to the old power brokers that are loathe to give them up.

it wasn't too long ago they controlled the message, either directly or through sycophants in the media. the internet through companies like google and facebook ended that control and hence constitute a threat
I know this is a dead thread: I'm answering because if you are a clinician you need to know that your understanding of the statistics is incorrect. This statistical effect has nothing to do with publication bias. If you want to continue the discussion please email me and I can explain and give copious references which will show you why.