skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In grad school scale-free networks were the soup du jour and my advisor was hammering on me to show that the human metabolic networks I studied had that property. "Guaranteed paper in Nature, get on it!", he exhorted. I sensed folks were not using the right statistical tests to show that distributions were scale-free (hint, doing a log-log-plot and doing linear regression to get a slope does not give you the base of the power law if there is no power law in the first place) and found a few notes on homepages that this was the case, but no publications (this was 2006 or so).

There seems to be an attitude in the physical sciences that math is there as sort of a glaze or condiment you can throw on top of bad data to make it palatable. I didn't make many friends in the biology department by telling them their pet model they'd based their careers off of wasn't only bolstered by $trendy_math_analysis but actually weakened by it. People seemed less interested in truth and more interested in appearance and publication prestige.
The one-stop guide to (easy) cross-platform Python freezing
Step 1: find a nearby cafe (the mermaid one should do just fine).

Step 2: ask someone for a charger and meanwhile use the wifi to update the app, also buy something from the cafe

Step 3: enjoy the thing you bought for a bit while your phone charges and you now have a place to wait your Uber without freezing in the rain
So what is your beef then?

Businesses that operate in the EU have to comply, businesses that don't interact with EU residents don't.

As the US has a special relationship with EU (Privacy Shield, ..), it recognizes GDPR as valid.

Don't like it? Focus on China, where WeChat is now your national ID card and is also linked to your personal credit score. Violate any government rules - your credit score goes down. Medical reps now have to register with the Chinese government before they're allowed to enter hospitals and their personal credit score is linked to their behavior. There you go, full data transparency nirvana.

The world is a big and complicated space and big regions define their culture differently. Europe is not business-focused, but puts the citizen first. The US considers businesses as citizens, data privacy a hindrance for profitability - and China wonders what this citizen thing is.
Thanks for the link! I've heard about Tahoe LAFS, but like a lot of these projects (Upspin, IPFS), I don't actually know anyone who uses them!
Ok, we've reached reductio and it's time to stop this flamewar, which you shouldn't have started in the first place. Could you please not do it again? Obviously the topic was divisive enough to begin with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It was Android. I don't exactly remember the message, but it was a forced update message from the app. Maybe it didn't tell me that I haven't updated the app in a month, but it refused to let me do anything without updating.
Inside Russian Troll Farm, the Internet Research Agency (2015)
Conference travel pushed me into buying a case with battery built in to avoid these situations.
You keep making this about yourself. Why do you think this relatively civil discussion is hurting you more than Julia was hurt by the disgusting comments people made directly to her?

> Please consider more deeply the meaning of the word "ratio". You have no idea what the actual number of either harassing interactions is, nor non-harassing interactions, as it isn't even possible to formulate a definition of "an interaction".

Yes, I do. I gave you a link to some actual data. You pulled your "ratio" out of your butt. Please investigate the data, or provide your own source, before you claim the ratio is so small it doesn't exist.

"Roughly four-in-ten Americans have personally experienced online harassment."

"women are about twice as likely as men to say they have been targeted as a result of their gender (11% vs. 5%)"

http://www.pewinternet.org/2017/07/11/online-harassment-2017...

> But there is no scenario in which these interactions are not a vanishing, vanishing minority of interactions.

That statement is flat out wrong, but feel free to prove it.

> No, I'm claiming that what you are doing... You just made it worse.

I harassed you before I commented? I made what worse, exactly? What is the problem you're talking about, and why is it worse than what Julia experienced?

> I consider your post a prime example of what I am talking about.

Please, instead of being hyperbolic and emotional, explain clearly how I or anyone is attacking or harassing you. I am arguing with you, yes, as you are arguing with me. You're acting like you didn't choose to participate here, like something unfair is happening to you. You're acting like your choice to consume media is hurting you, you're acting like your feelings reading about someone else's problems are worse than their feelings about their own problems.
Of course not - but without any kind of objective standard, we are going to have a hard time telling the difference between 'run of the mill intolerance', and 'popperian intolerance of the intolerable'.
My thinking was similar but a bit more cynical: if I'm going to be paying someone for company, I feel like I'd get more (pardon the awful pun) bang for my buck with a sex worker.
I bothers me no end that influence/propaganda operations continuously get termed "hacking the election" or "interfering with the election."

I also think the notion that there's a way to prevent external actors from influencing internal affairs in an ostensibly free and open republic in a networked world is somewhat... ill conceived: a democracy so fragile it needs a great firewall of some kind to protect its citizens from "fake" and "unhealthy" views is probably already on the road to failure.

If we, as a nation, were actually serving our citizens and maintaining the level of education and sustaining the standard of living required for democracy to function across most of the population I do not think these Russian-style campaigns would be very effective.

And of course that's not to mention all the inconsistent double standards. Where's the outrage over things like Confucius Institutes and other similar influence operations?

And that's not even getting in to the whole "do as I say, not as I do" aspect, where we try to pretend that dictatorships and totalitarian states should see our pro-democracy pro-human rights initiatives and NGOs and VOA and such as perfectly fine and friendly and obviously different than RT, etc.

The strength of a democracy should be that its citizens can stand in the battleground of ideas unscathed and our abandonment of that ideal does not bode well.
> Take your facism elsewhere

This breaks the site guidelines badly. Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't do this again, regardless of how wrong you feel someone else is.
This is really just a hilariously (and overly politically charged) small distraction from the real problem.

> I wasn't prevented from exercising my right to vote at all.

Where things get interesting is the way votes are collected/counted in many locations. Electronic voting machines are a mess of proprietary software, and more than a few that have gotten their hands on them were apalled at how inherently easy it is to compromise them[1]. Tapering with an election this way, by virtually denying you your right to vote by not counting your vote, or changing it, is a real concern that we are doing practically nothing about.

1. https://www.wired.com/story/voting-machine-hacks-defcon/
I do only do updates on wifi, however, internet is both expensive and data caps are quite low where I live. I'd rather watch one more Netflix show than download an app I don't often use four times a month.

I agree with the comment below about this being an argument for delta updates.
Everything isn't a scalar in the example you mentioned. sum() is a function and other things are numbers.

In lisp there is only rule, everything is a list and the first element of the list is a operation to the remainder of the list. This is basically the whole language.
Thanks! Updated from https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&....
give me convenience or give me death
This kid (govalidator) is going to release it's next stable release :D
React gets you close. I've thought about trying to write a library to add a command loop and presentations to React, but haven't gotten around to it.
"Uber released new financial data this week, showing full year 2017 GAAP operating losses of $4.5 billion, and an operating margin of negative 61%."

Finally, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles numbers from Uber. And they're awful. Lots of startups whine about having to produce GAAP numbers (all US public companies have to) because they can't exclude "extraordinary expenses". But GAAP numbers are real, not "earnings before all the bad stuff" numbers.

Right now, Softbank is keeping Uber alive. They put in $10 billion at the end of last year.[1] Softbank is now Uber's largest shareholder.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber/funding_rounds/...
How can I pretend to be from the EU so that I get better protection from Facebook? Are there any cheap and trustable VPNs (I don't use Facebook a lot, and certainly not to watch bandwidth/traffic intensive videos) that would help for this? Any other solutions? How can such solutions be spread around so that more users get these protections, regardless of where they physically live?
A-B testing of article titles should be regarded as a breach of journalist ethics.
Learn Analytics. Take the free courses and earn Google Analytics Individual Qualification. Instrument your site and learn how your funnel behaves, how different programs you have in place contribute and so on.

You must know your existing numbers before you can improve them.

Next, look into things which drive traffic (AdWords, Paid Search) or can recapture traffic (Remarketing). You should also consider a Tag Manager, such as Google Tag Manager, or Tealium.

If your traffic is high enough, you could learn how to run valid AB tests, but if your just starting out, chances are you do not have enough traffic to do this effectively.

In addition to the above, learn the vocab. Analytics, especially in a marketing context, can be very dense, and you'll need to understand the terms to get the most from other more marketing focused resources (books / forums, etc).
yes, that's how capitalism is designed to work. the window in which you can make outsized profits is meant to be temporary so companies can't just rest on their laurels.

it's beautiful when it works.
Especially when it comes to products, consumer convenience often seems to be at odds with consumer well-being.

Take everything from McDonalds's fast food, to Facebook's engagement optimization, to overprescribing of antibiotics and painkillers. The products that sell the most, are the ones that cripple the users ability to independently operate, and keep them coming back for more.
Personally, I would like something like sqlite that you can sync like git. Though it probably should enforce its schema more than sqlite does.

I would use it for replicated / distributed storage for data frames (e.g. R or Pandas), which is somewhat related to my other request [1]

The difference here is that there is structure to the files.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16394048
I don't really think the downvotes are warranted on this one - given that the post title calls out the expense, I think a discussion on what you gain (and/or give up) for an additional $10/mo is well within bounds.
Glad to know my switching to Lyft is having the desired effect.
Obligatory link to yesterdays topic

https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-...
I think you actually hit the nail on the head:

> physical violence

Men are much more likely to be physically violent, in my mind, than women are. So a woman getting creepy calls from a man could actually mean physical danger. A man getting creepy calls from a woman would be much less likely to be dangerous. I want to be clear: I'm talking about perception here. There are women who are just as capable as being violent as men, but women as a group are not perceived as being nearly as violent as men.

> Since I am male, I was not threatened but amused

I think it shouldn't matter what his gender is. If a man got a creepy call from another man, then the danger would be just the same as if a woman got the creepy call from a man. I think the original poster was not taking into the account that a gay man could have stalked him, and that could have been dangerous, hence "I am a man therefor not worried" when really it would have been better to say "I was not worried when I got these calls from women."

That's my take on it, anyway.
It is not non-sense or meaningless though, and thinking that is dangerous. It is corporate propaganda and it is outrageously effective at shaping thought both internally and externally (internally being, perhaps, the most important portion). Linguistically speaking, the language we use has a material impact on how we think about the underlying ideas.
Yes, but by unlocking you lose every bit of physical security that device had. Anybody having physical access to your phone can then dump the phone's content to a usb drive in kinutes and without any other tool than a otg cable.
The makers of the alternative recovery don't bother (who can blame them, they are volunteers) and the manufacurers don't care to implement a proper bootloader that would support reliable re-locking after installing a modified recovery.
Besides that, all this alternative software is distributed binary on shady sharehosters by more or less random people on forums. Not exactly a good basis if you wanted to re-gain trust in your phone.
Taking money from Google (or Amazon) can be a Faustian bargain. They gain insight regarding your operations, how much profit there might be in competing with you... and how to defeat you.
It arguably is, but since you were the one who took this thread into an off-topic and deeper circle of hell, I'd appreciate it if you'd reread the guidelines too: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
That's to replicate the study; presumably if the authors released their trained model it would be much less computationally expensive to run it on your own data?
While I think the other commenter on this post stated their point unhelpfully rudely, I agree that I think you're writing the child off too quickly. I'd imagine that giving up on a kid at this stage would only make it less likely that they realize how terrible they are being.

Even if adults don't know that a kid is being shitty, they can still lead by example towards a happier outcome
The only thing Uber can ever deliver is people and things to their final destinations. When Uber shuts down and goes out of business I as a consumer will just roll into the next service, and will not shed even a single tear for all who invested in Uber.

Sorry, but thanks for all the cheap rides.
The word "crypto" has been literally decimated, and I could care less.
Supalist
We don't need a great firewall, just Facebook and Twitter to get their fucking shit together. Also, there's more to charges this than just social engineering. They actually did hack voting commission data.
What Are Snow Rollers?
I'm honestly confused by this. Why are people wanting the full sized image unless they are trying to use it for their own purpose? I use image search from Google as a way to find images, without searching multiple sites. However, I'm not looking to use that image for anything other than "yes, that's what I'm looking for, take me to the site that has that image".

Maybe I'm just being dense and hangry (need to go to lunch), but what are legit reasons for this?
I like to believe coins are at the stage, most relevant to today, as electricity was. Neat new variation of a current tech but entrapped in a new sleeve.
First few miles of any new road you start off slow then as you see where you're going it ramps up.

I see a coins value as just people hopeful it'll find a usecase and fueled by greed on capitalizing on it.

I imagine things like this used to run a public, private, and virtual identity system for all governments. Bundle with another coin as a means for tracking makes models and authenticity of serials and ownership. Maybe even for digital content and distribution. But I don't see how any future uses come from something being sold today with no other value but to appreciate and be traded for another thing of value.
Is your implication that, because you don't harass or troll people, that you live a virtuous and pure life(which is what was asked)?

If you think that's all it takes, seek help.
>>I still chuckle at that quote

That quote isn't one statement. Its basically a part of talk/essay and he actually says a lot of nice things about Lisp in that essay, and then mentions this as a joke to close it all.
First you had the motherboard, processor and ram. Now they are on one board. 3x less control. Plus you want a super slim design so you cannot get a desktop anymore. Actually you've never been more in control of your own hardware. Tiny teams make their own computer like the Raspberry Pi now.
For the uninitiated, McCLIM demo [1] by Jack Daniel is a very good introduction to REPL driven GUI programming using Common Lisp and McCLIM.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfBmRsPRdGg
Don't fear the Makefile
> The products that sell the most, are the ones that cripple the users ability to independently operate, and keep them coming back for more.

Sounds like you are talking about government services like welfare.

(Meta: easily my fastest comment to -4 ever. It took less than 6 minutes.)

Ps, stop complaining about my perceived complaining. I don't care. Its almost a badge of honor to me - even straight out spam doesn't get buried so fast.
You do realize FB has a European headquarters, in Dublin, Ireland?
> Also that they can beat everyone else to self-driving cars and eliminate the cost of labor.

Or ask for regulations, something which apparently is disliked by them (and million others) in the self-driving space:

https://www.popsci.com/self-driving-car-fleets

And today, a coalition of companies—including Lyft, Uber, and Zipcar—officially announced that they were signing on to a 10-point set of “shared mobility principles for livable cities”........that autonomous vehicles (AVs) in dense urban areas should be operated only in shared fleets.”
Uh-oh. This is the kind of thing the popular fakenuz press reads, misunderstands, and turns into bogus headlines like "All millenials are slackers."
This is why I think it possible that we may yet have a text centric app to rule them all, as has China gravitated to WeChat.

Last night I was in a discussion about the whole shift in market power that a central role playing app like WeChat could enable: the premise of debate was that Alexa and competitors are potentially a step towards a new interest in text interfaces. Only our own generation has had our vision occluded by growing up in the command line interface, which is too involving and too complicated for widespread use. The word involving, we chose to describe the experience of working with a CLI, which, having stripped away every attribute we could, we concluded that you had to be involved in a continuous thought process to gain any utility from a CLI. Whereas we figured casual users wish to receive answers to questions, or refine queries without any parsing or precise expressions. So if we had a text interface that was more, so to speak, open ended, then also voice might be workable, and the interface become a widely used interaction. This then could really create the foundation for individual customisation, as local processing power can be applied to learning from the user's total interaction with many different types of connected application, as well as from existing phone voice command systems. We imagined further, that the opportunity might exist for a newcomer to enter this space, as the need for a independent and unaffiliated party for brokering online interaction is potentially a strongly perceived need, whilst we figured it remains one that is subject to the same negative perception of big internet names in a era when I more than my colleagues think that saturation reporting of privacies dying by the thousand cuts has engendered public apathy. We all agreed that public apathy or cynicism, even straight up hostility towards any attempt at selling a "do no evil" message, is a significant hurdle. The question we retired to consider, is how you can organically grow the required trust, in a market where giant capital can leave you alone with outmoded paradigms and entirely whole technologies behind the willing big spenders. As we have seen, there's no marketing to generational segments, when it comes to a web where the generations would not willingly be separated by communications islands - at least presently you couldn't sell a safebook social network to seniors and expect them to get their grandchildren on the platform.

Once gone our ways to home, a few hopeful texts were thrown around, wondering if there was some way to get sufficient a body of technology figureheads to be part of a board approving technologies for some kind of do no harm branding evaluation. This died the moment one of our more cynical lot linked a sheet of the quick results of his rough and ready search for directorships held by the first ten names we'd bandied about. He signed off, "you already know each advertising budget for those."
Others listed are faster but here is another one.
http://volans.airportnetwork.com/JS3D/VolansPublicSFO.html
code-is-data also enables structural editing–instead of typing strings we can transform data–, there are gifs of that here: https://cursive-ide.com/userguide/paredit.html
>Convenience seems to make our decisions for us, trumping what we like to imagine are our true preferences.

It's a good dystopian trope, and one of the more uncomfortably plausible ones. A streamlined pipeline from cradle to creche to college to a cycle of job->transit->housing->transit until you're too expensive to keep around anymore.

It's probably where we'll end up. The constant message in society today is, "you're on your own," and the constant message from other people is, "go away." It hurts, but that's dystopia for you.
I really dislike comments like this because all it’s doing is counting “isms” that are subjective and vaguely detectable, in response to someone sharing their personal story. It adds nothing to the conversation other than to shame and make people clam up and not share anymore, which doesn’t help anyone. It’s bullying.
The problem isn’t the schema, it’s that you must have exactly one at all times. Sometimes you need zero, sometimes you need many. Having a fixed schema in production reduces unpredictability and provides optimization opportunities. The journey to get to that fixed schema, however, generally benefits from more flexibility.
Does Amazon sell at a loss? I'm pretty sure they've been profitable for a couple years now. And how could Amazon be a monopoly? They have larger competitors.
The statement that signing off the transfers wasn't the work of one man is probably accurate.

So, what was this? Was Sissoko acting as a mule for getting money out of the bank and transferring it to other places?

One way to launder money is to buy things after all. Luxury goods like food, wine and art are particularly good for this. If I need to give you $1000 with plausible deniability, then if I go to your restaurant and pay $1000 for a $50 meal, that does the job.

So, someone wanted to quietly move millions of dollars out of a bank, and then gave it to someone who possibly laundered it, and did things like running and airline and buying military helicopters (what other military hardware was he not caught buying?).

Then the US diplomatic system went to bat for him in court.
Black magic or black budget?

(Edit: the spies angle is probably a bit of a push, but I think speculating he was laundering for a bigger fish isn't)
OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble