skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the article. Let's look over this since I see it rather differently.

The article states, "there are hundreds if not thousands of contract soldiers in Syria whom the Russian government has never acknowledged." According to whom and why? And if their estimate is so unreliable as to have an error margin on the order of magnitudes would it not be more accurate to state an unknown number? Anyhow, they not only take their controversial statement as a given, but then go on to offer a completely bizarre explanation for why they were deployed. According to the article, "They were deployed both to help keep the official cost down and to avoid reports of casualties, especially with a March presidential election in Russia fast approaching.". Again according to who? And idea that these secret soldiers are because of an election seems dubious, at best. Putin's approval rating is around 75% with 0 substantial opposition. His reelection is little more than a formality regardless of what happens in Syria.

Let's now look at some of their named sources for which you reference "lots of evidence." One bit of evidence was literally what a source, described only as "a woman from central Russia", said in "a brief online chat." And then they reference what they, again literally, describe as "investigative bloggers." And on top of all of this the article originally stated Russians were killed in the airstrike, when the source actually said Syrians. Regardless of whether or not that was a genuine mistake, it really should make you question their editorial standards for such a key fact to be night and day wrong.

There are many other such issues throughout the article, but let's stop there since I think the point is more or less clear. Look at it this way. Imagine this article was discussing an issue for which you had less personal biases, and from an outlet you also had no biases of brand recognition and trust towards. You would consider it to be dubious, at best. When we read things from sources we trust or that confirm our own biases, we turn off our ability to think critically.

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Granted the above is a tangential issue to bias - reporting quality. But the two tend to be strongly connected. When you want to push a story but the data to support such a tale isn't there, you have a choice of either moving on or turning to lower levels of support for your view. And in times past I think the choice there would have been dead obvious for the New York Times. Citing what somebody, who is again literally described as "a woman from Russia", wrote online is insulting the intelligence of your readers and instills a sense of incredulity for the article in the mind of anybody who's not taking what you write as beyond reproach. Nonetheless, they chose (and have regularly chosen now a days) to go down this path. And this is something new.
Is a photograph really art?

(I don't mean in the choice of subject, etc. but just the process and result.)
> However, we are in a golden age of ML and the Siri on HomePod is a joke when compared to

This has nothing to do with secrecy or lack of user data or lack of algorithms knowledge. What is missing in Siri is lack of high quality gold data sets -- this is often curated by hoards of phds and other domain experts. It takes time to do the curation and Google is ahead of the pack. Amazon has done a great job opening up the eco system to third parties.
JMAP is pretty generalizable to other datatypes! It's a large part of why we split it into Core and Mail. We also have Calendar and Contacts modules in a reasonable state already.

We also use JMAP-style APIs for Files, for Notes, and for all the extra Preferences and group management stuff in both FastMail and Topicbox.
Literally the "walking dead" of internet products
Without looking at any other solutions, I whipped up a one-off 37-line C++11 program that is easily twice as fast as the best D or Rust one, with no special tricks. (Change out the uses of "auto" and it qualifies as C++98.)

I am appalled that a 125-line program to do such a simple job could win. If that was the best they could do, I would have kept the challenge open until something better came in.

I haven't tried the other programs on one-field files, or where the field selected is the first, or the last. Did you?

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <streambuf>
#include <algorithm>
#include <string>

int main(int, char** argv) {
std::ifstream in(argv[1]);
std::string head;
if (!(in >> head)) return std::cout << "input file missing\n", 1;
head = "," + head + ",";
auto sub = std::string(argv[3]);
auto target = "," + std::string(argv[2]) + ",";
auto pos = head.find(target);
if (pos == std::string::npos)
return std::cout << "column name doesn’t exists in the input file\n", 1;
auto skip_pre = pos ? std::count(&head[0], &head[pos], ',') : 0;
auto skip_post = std::count(
&head[pos + target.size()], &head[head.size()], ',');
std::ofstream out(argv[4]);
auto ib = in.rdbuf(), ob = out.rdbuf();
ob->sputn(&head[1], head.size()-2); ob->sputc('\n');
bool skipping = pos == 0;
for (int c = 0, count = skip_pre; (c = ib->snextc()) != EOF; ) {
if (c == ',' || c == '\n') {
if (skipping) {
count = skip_post + skip_pre;
skipping = count == 0;
ob->sputn(&sub[0], sub.size());
} else if (--count == 0) {
skipping = true;
}
ob->sputc(c);
} else if (!skipping)
ob->sputc(c);
}
}
Related: http://tensor-compiler.org/codegen.html. This converts an expression in tensor index notation into executable code.
The time has come to remove Facebook from your life (2017)
A Caravaggio has inherent value because it's a cultural artifact.

I would argue that it has no inherent value because it's a cultural artifact. It's just paint on a canvas. It only has value because the culture thinks it does.

Thought experiment 1: suppose you took a Caravaggio -- say, The Musicians (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musicians_(Caravaggio)), hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- and shipped it to a hunter-gatherer culture in Papua New Guinea. Would they value it to the same degree as the people of New York or Rome?

Thought experiment 2: suppose the same painting (back in the Met) were suddenly discovered to be a forgery. Would it still have the same value?

Modern art is such a subjective field it's meaningless to discuss what is and what is not.

Again, I disagree; almost the entire meaning of modern art is discussing what is and what is not art. Art has followed the path of many human endeavors -- it has expanded over time to fill all the cracks and crevices of the space of what could possibly be art, like a species evolving and adapting to fill every ecological niche. Think of a massive Venn diagram, where each circle represents an individual's view of what is "art". That Caravaggio would probably fall squarely in the intersection of the what the vast majority of (Western) humans would consider art. Picasso? Still very much "art" for most people. Pollock, Rothko? Hmm... How about Sol Lewitt's wall drawings? Anyway, you get the point. What's interesting about modern art (to me) is precisely that it shifts the discourse from "ooh, this person paints really nice pictures" to the much more fundamental question of "what the heck is art?" Modern art is experimental philosophy.

It's a lot easier to answer the question "is music created by AI really music"

How about an AI designed to replicate the work of John Cage? ;)
Vs. a $50-100 cable TV bill that's still small potatoes. It's about the price of HBO but with a caveat that you definitely don't need a cable bundle to watch it.
I'd recommend you to change to DavDroid. It's free and also on F-Droid.
Trick question, considering there's already no consensus about what what "art" means.
"Once we've answered those questions, we can tackle the really big one: When an AI-composed song wins the Grammy, who gets the trophy?"

Answer: If that happens, then 1 million other songs will win as well. The Grammy would be as meaningless as trying to judge which AlphaGo game is better played.
MAU = Monthly Active Users
Is art created by an elephant really art?

https://www.elephantartgallery.com/

Or a monkey, or some other animal?

Sure, you can call it art if you want to, and someone would be happy to sell it to you. But is it really art?

Is there a reason why the answer to the question of an AI creating art is different from the answer to the question of an elephant creating art?

I can't think of one. And the question of animals creating art seems to have an answer. Although people will pay for it, I haven't seen the art world take it seriously. I live in NYC and go to art galleries all the time. Everything is created by humans. Many artists leverage technology in interesting ways to create something, but there is always a human being behind it.

I do think there is a path forward here though: If the art world considers the program itself as a piece of art, then that could be the artwork. I mean, if [Lawrence Weiner][1] can be considered an artist, then why can't Leon Gatys and his colleagues be artists? Contemporary Art is often [conceptual][2], so the concept communicated is more important than the physical form.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Weiner
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art
There are really only two stories: a stranger comes to town, and a man goes on a journey.

-Tolstoy
Disney World. It's two words.
I think you are trying to mix several unrelated things. The amount of violence necessary to change something always depends on the amount of repression imposed. If the repression is light/inexistent, there is no need for any violence. If the enemy is an army that is coming for combat with no opportunity for negotiations, only full scale war will work. In between these extremes, several mixes of diplomacy and violence are necessary. It is just wishful thinking to believe that peaceful protests will always work, in fact in many cases this belief serves only to demonize people who are protesting for their rights.
The scaling problems aren't necessarily only a symptom of decentralization. Proof of stake scales much better than proof of work, for instance.
Hello,

I'd recommend you to change your recommendation to DavDroid. It's free and seems to be much better than the one you are recommending.
That's interesting, because everyone I talk to, including to a one everyone I talk to with any experience in the IC, does assume that Stratfor just made shit up all the time.

Are you sure you know what you're talking about here?
Cluster(Gaur)Beans:Grow Easily in Conatainer and Pots
> Can a Russian, Israeli or Saudi or Mexican citizen in their respective country buy political ads targeting American and favoring or disfavoring a particular American candidate for office?

Yes, lawfully [1]. This is a complicated area of law, which is why foreigners and foreign governments seeking to properly lobby in America hire proper counsel.

[1] https://www.fec.gov/updates/foreign-nationals/
No, because as soon as you can get away with it, it's no longer AI. :P
From Alphabet's 2017 Q4 10-k SEC filing, Item 1A "Risk Factors":

> We generate substantially all of our revenues from advertising, and reduced spending by advertisers or a loss of partners could harm our advertising business.

> We generated over 86% of total revenues from advertising in 2017. Many of our advertisers, companies that distribute our products and services, digital publishers, and content partners can terminate their contracts with us at any time. Those partners may not continue to do business with us if we do not create more value (such as increased numbers of users or customers, new sales leads, increased brand awareness, or more effective monetization) than their available alternatives. If we do not provide superior value or deliver advertisements efficiently and competitively, we could see a decrease in revenue and other adverse impacts to our business. In addition, expenditures by advertisers tend to be cyclical, reflecting overall economic conditions and budgeting and buying patterns. Adverse macroeconomic conditions can also have a material negative impact on user activity and the demand for advertising and cause our advertisers to reduce the amounts they spend on advertising, which could adversely affect our revenues and advertising business.

> New and existing technologies could block ads online, which would harm our business.

> Technologies have been developed that enable users to block the display of ads altogether and some providers of online services have integrated technologies that could potentially impair the core functionality of third-party digital advertising. Most of our Google revenues are derived from fees paid to us in connection with the display of ads online. As a result, such technologies and tools could adversely affect our operating results.
There is also a big difference in how these new devices interact -- they talk to each other in non trivial ways (e.g. watch <--> iphone). Now instead of QAing O(n) feature, you need to QA O(n^2) feature interactions. This is hard to scale and maintain
I agree completely.

Email is a foundational technology within the business space. It exists in common formats, with slow-changing protocols widely compatible with their forbears, and similar across the marketplace. It is the deep, slow-moving tectonic plate on which we build a myriad of other business. It is a (largely) immutable record agreed to across a range of servers. Sure we can resend an email to a customer, but we can't edit the email they have already received. It is trusted, and it is shared.

I have no problem with an app that makes reading emails easier, something which combines long threads of back and forth argument into a simple list of shared understanding, but it is important that all that back-and-forth exists because, years from now, we might want to know how we reached that consensus. We might want to know those rationalisations.

With AMP-for-email we might just need to rely on Google's slick design and their simple response of "Don't worry about why you agreed, just trust us that you did."
House of cards was a BBC show in the 90s. All of this has happened before, and will happen again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(UK_TV_series...
> We strongly believe that our customers stay with us because we’re the best, not because it’s hard to leave

That's why I stay with them.
Costumamente esse fórum só aceita contribuições em inglês.
Quick summary of what’s new in ASP.NET Core 2.1
Personally I'm much more bullish on Bitcoin Cash. It's following the same path that got us to this point today, and they're not opposed to Layer 2. But they have a clear understanding that a currency is only as good as it's utility. If they can maintain that balance of decentralization, utility, and security, while picking up the pieces that Bitcoin Core dropped it's likely we'll see a flippening in the coming year.
They can target business leaders and steal secrets. Not sure how many are using a Huawei phone.
Eh, I agree and disagree. It's difficult to care when you're not paid a lot and other similar jobs are dime a dozen, but morally I can't say it's right. And, really, I have a difficult time believing 16/17/18/19 year olds are going to put in a lot of extra effort flipping burgers, even if they're paid $10 or $15 an hour. Kids are kids, I was one too.
Do you think this is a common opinion? Consider that popular network TV is popular, and that successful means appealing to the widest audience.
The lives not lost because of the drive to discover patentable research would need to be measured against that. (I assume you do not believe there is such a drive, but I think that researchers can have multiple, co-existing motivations.)
Um, well Samsung's president hass been released from jail, but the countrie's last president hasn't...
http://fortune.com/2018/02/05/samsung-j-y-lee-released-south...

I'd say that is a LOT of influence.
Add an expiry to the patent like it is done for copyright. If a patent holder has not hsed or shown significant effort towards commercialization of the product, the patent should expire
I know which ones I'd rather be a henchman for.
That's true, although I wouldn't call containers "clutter", they have multiple uses. But yes, flexbox though easy and logical, still requires messing around if you need to reposition or change the configuration of things. It's not awful but probably slower than css grid. For me, I don't usually need to switch things around too much with layout, I sort that out before build.
Same here. Working slave hours with a newborn is the single most damaging thing that has ever happened to me-- and I have had MRSA, a serious head injury, been separated, and died once before in an accident, and had a serious head injury (snicker).

I was working 12-14 hours a day and coming home to take care of my wife, and then the wife and a baby. Two hours of sleep a night was a godsend. After a year of this, I was toast. Mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.

If I may ask-- what are you doing for work now? I have not yet answered this question.
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Ask HN: Is it reasonable to host a professional event on Valentine's Day?
Today (Valentines Day), I had an important work event scheduled from 7-9pm. To me, it felt inappropriate for that organization to ask people to attend at that time. Do you think Valentines Day (evening) should be treated as blocked off or treated as just another day in the week?
What is it about Facebook these days that every new thing they try is evil?
He's too busy since he joined the resistance...
Sounds like a vulnerability waiting to happen.
I'm curious how you know that, is there a study/dataset somewhere that I missed? That would be awesome.
Wild guess - Lithuanian does not have W, Q and X, but those are on de-facto "standard" qwerty keyboard
Finally HTG! Love the website and it is a gem. (Not sponsored)
Yes, absolutely. Apparently you can become a “better” lucid dreamer by practicing and trying to stay asleep when you feel like you’re about to wake up. Sleep is wild!
Popular and famous art are all single pieces -- they cannot be exactly replicated and that's what makes them invaluable. If all you are doing is taking a printout of a bunch of rendered math equations and coefficients, then: a.) no incentive for art collectors to collect it and b.) you cannot copyright it so anyone can make infinite "originals"
Yes, and you really need to do it well before the police gets involved.
Wow -- there's a lot here! Just to unpack this a bit...

First, there are a bunch of people that you might be unaware of doing important work in illumos and SmartOS (both at Joyent and in the broader community); I recommend taking a look at the actual repo[1], and some of the recent work we've done like LX-branded zones[2] and (more currently) bhyve.[3]

Second, in terms of the engineering team at Joyent: yes, people have come and gone over the years -- but we've grown a bunch since the acquisition by Samsung, adding many engineers from a wide variety of backgrounds. Yes, this has included some ex-Sun folks (we have more ex-Sun now than at any time in our history, if that kind of thing matters to you), but (importantly to me, anyway) it's also included a bunch of people new to the system. These new engineers bring new perspectives and fresh thinking -- whether they've had two decades of experience or are fresh out of school.

Finally, in terms of Joyent and node.js, it might be helpful to see my talk on platform as a reflection of values[4][5]; it offers my perspective on how and why we diverged from the node.js community -- but also why we're okay with that.

Hope all of this helps! Let me know if you have any questions (my Twitter DMs are always open) -- or introduce yourself to the community in #illumos or #smartos on Freenode!

[1] https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnesNFulpPE

[3] https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/tree/bhyve

[4] https://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/platform-as-reflection-...

[5] https://vimeo.com/230142234
While it's important to design bug bounties carefully:

http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13

This one doesn't appear to be poorly designed.
Underground power lines can get complicated in ways that are very expensive to remedy compared to aerial power lines. For example:
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/
well said, and spot on.
In essence it’s cheaper to store than delete.
What's the point in the google voice number? Why not give out your twilio number directly?
Art is overrated
I worked on Google Image Search, and my team was responsible for image quality across all of Search. There are some checks on image similarity, although “de-duplication” is applied in smart ways for different queries. To my knowledge, there isn’t an algorithm that tries to pick “non-stock” images.

In general, Google/page rank favors sites that other people have favored (by linking to and talking about on the internet). It seems that original content is generally more “link-worthy” than copied content, so that might explain your observation.
Google, first and foremost, is an advertising company. Their main business are ads and everything else revolves around creating products that attract users to use their services so they be monetized using their ad platform.

The whole purpose being Google's "ad blocker" is to protect their advertising business. They know that ads are starting to annoy a lot of people so they're going to ban worst offenders and try to stop users from installing an actual ad blocker that blocks all ads.

Apple is not an advertising company and they care about their end users and want them to buy their devices. Providing an unobtrusive and private browsing experience is what they care about.
Planet Money episode on this: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/08/04/541643346/epis...
The argument is not favoring one versus the other.

The argument is that being exposed to any peeping tom is bad, no matter who it is.

If no one can't prove to me that there are no peeping toms at all, then a hotel room with a peep hole is still a shitty hotel. But as second class citizens, for all of us, choosing a room with a peep hole is compulsory. Gee, who's fault is that?

Sorry. If I have to sleep in a room with a peep hole, it really doesn't matter much to me who does the heavy breathing on the other side of the wall. I'm supposed to pretend it's not there anyway, and so I shall.

Can the Chinese arrest me and throw me in jail? No. But, for sure, I could get thrown in jail, based on the contents of an electronic device. Are the people who conspire to imprison me friends? Wait, what are they peeping on us for?
Buying and selling stuff we don’t need is not good for the economy.

Is that true? It seems that the entire economy is based on people buying stuff they don't need.

Does anyone really "need" a 60 inch 4K HDTV? The average car costs $33K -- do people really need a $33K car, or could they get by on a $12K economy car? Do people need a 2500 sq ft luxury house, or could they get by on a 600 sq ft spartanly furnished shack?
I wouldn't call those policies "stupid", both from a security (a JIT compiler means you can't trust NX bits) and a battery-life/performance standpoint.
My Pixel 2 camera seems to reveal IR light (at least, IR in high concentrations) in captured images when reflected off a dark surface. (Not sure if relevant. But I was surprised to notice that.)