skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lions share of media workers may have left-of-center leanings

An analysis of the product indicates a clear bias. The left-leaning biased organizations far outnumber the right-biased ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qmiPWgCYb4

since the moment the Democratic Party, led—dragged, really—by Bill Clinton, itself shifted right to form the center-right neoliberal consensus of the early 1990s.

In most western democracies, it's the center which needs to be allied with the administration in order to govern.

The shift isn't to the right. The failed embracing of Identity Politics and Intersectionality by Hillary was the final stage of a massive shift of the Democratic party in the center under Bill Clinton far to the left. Much of that was overseen by Obama.

Throwing out due process and freedom of speech -- individual rights -- is about as radical-left as you can get. In years past, such specific shifts would have been widely recognized as basically going as far left as Mao. It's basically throwing out the fundamental ideological basis of the United States. Now people are trying to convince people that this is "normal" and wanting such foundational individual rights is "shifting far right." Sorry, but anyone who remembers 10 years ago with a clear head can recognize this as a retcon of US history.
Blackberry brings patent case against Facebook
Most property tax is local not state. I don't have the percentage breakdown, but I have encountered this multiple times within my family (anecdotal I know). It's quite possible that this percent is not a majority.

Plus, your link is more like ~14/50 states if you're only considering lower income folks.
>Human society is complex, but it would not normally be considered biology.

Reality is organized in levels of complexity. Society is composed of living creatures, so at least you should say it is life-based. The big debate is how and where you draw the line between the non-living and the living.
Wat?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_neural_network
> I do not think taxation should get singled out as a deciding factor where to setup a business, but could be considered in the round with all the other operational costs.

Simple math. Say, if your venture succeeds, you net a lump sum of, say, $300K - $500K? Plus, in the advanced stages, you'll be paying yourself around $80K - $100K p.a., which falls in the high tax bracket everywhere. The difference between high taxes and low taxes may make a difference between you being able to buy a new home for cash or not.

If you're planning to spend a few years to have fun and immerse in a different culture and believe your venture is likely to fail, sure. If you are there to make money, think again.

Of course, it's not the primary consideration. The primary consideration should be whether there is a market for your products and services.

> Low taxes might seem good, but if the key services are non-existent or corrupt, then your costs of operation will be significantly higher than in a place that has high(er) taxes, but civil society is run efficiently.

That's not necessarily how things work. I live in Singapore now, where the income tax is in single digits and the foreign sources of income are not even taxed, so if you're not an American, you can have your passive income tax-free. The key services are anything but non-existent or corrupt.
This is starting to sound like distributed systems ... how do you prevent deadlock? https://wiki.openttd.org/Deadlock :-)
>"switching to Linux"

Been using Ubuntu for close to 5 years now. I tried, I really tried to love it but the drivers are horribly outdated. Nvidia graphics broke everything in my Dell 9560. Even a fresh install of Ubuntu LTS is practically unusable. Each keystroke takes around 3 to 7 seconds to register. The screen lag is horrible. I tried fresh install and still everything looks pathetic compared to OSX or even Windows 10.

After Windows 10 got native Ubuntu 16, I just moved to it and though I have to run Linux startup services manually I am pretty satisfied with it.

We can't fight the inevitable just because of personal vendetta. Walmart was a small time store once. They got big because of the ease of use. Same with Amazon. To me it's just stupid to go out of the way to "buy local" when it's a losing game.
While a lot of the real advances in language design are not new, popular adoption of stuff like functional programming has happened in large part in the last twenty years. E.g. list comprehensions in Python were not introduced until Python 2.0 (2000, which just squeezes into your range). And Java is starting to get similar features, which is great for companies who have invested in the language.
Ublock origin (Firefox) is showing 52 blocked requests (lol) but I didn't see a single ad?
It appears you're missing the main point of the parent post.

You cannot validate an email address.

You can make a basic excruciatingly simple test for proper form. And should probably limit your checks to that.

For all else, attempt to use the email address provided for validation within your onboarding loop with a sufficiently unique verification URL or code. If that succeeds, the address is ... still not absolutely certainly valid, as it may have gone to a third party who proceeded to verify it. But at least it delivered to somebody.

See: https://hackernoon.com/the-100-correct-way-to-validate-email...
Alternatively there is BITTWENTY (BTWNTY) which is a more diversified index.
U.S. Considers Broad Curbs on Chinese Imports
> Coinbase is charging a 2% fee for what amounts to automating a max of 4 transactions a year.

I came up with some more they do for 2%/y:

* Buy more coins when their fund expands

* Secure the shit out of those private keys
It’s really not. Gdax charges 0.25% (only to one party, so let’s call it 0.125 on average). You only have to buy less than $10,000 worth before the fee is higher than $8
Prototype to production: How to build and design a PCB prototype
That doesn't work if you aren't motivated by shopping.
Pro: more difficult for lobbyists.

Con: voting fraud on roll call votes, AKA "Ghost Voting" when done in chambers[0].

[0] http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/09/23/ghost-voting-cal...
MathWorld is often a decent resource for finding this kind of information: <http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DecimalPeriod.html>, but it's often difficult to arrive at those pages if you don't have any idea where to start.
Yes, the problem of killing innocents via flawed algorithm is noted in this article https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...
Low inventory is also worth it because it uncovers operational inefficiencies. So it not only helps you become more profitable, but also more reliable.
I agree. Crypto currencies don’t behave like company stocks. The value of a stock index fund just doesn’t transfer to crypto.
The EU should force the other countries to lower their corporate tax instead.
> The notion that the Python core devs get to decide when Python 2 should stop being used is not cool.

This is incorrect. They get to decide when they stop supporting it. Of course that's within their rights, and a 2020 sunset date on a version released in 2010 is a very long LTS window.

> It's not particularly nice that the thing that's compatible with what was called Python to begin with is the one that got renamed.

This is how copyright works. Someone else is free to release a MyPython 2.8 if they'd like, but they're not free to call it Python.
The repeating digits in the fractional part are essentially the output of a linear congruence random number generator. Finding the period is almost the same as determining the order of an element of the state space, but by chance you might get a shorter repetition that fits into the longer one.

Finding the order of an element in a group is a hard problem on par with factoring http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GroupOrder.html

I'm not sure about cases where the state space doesn't form a multiplicative group, but I doubt that it gets much easier.
While I don't doubt that strings.Builder does is quicker than += concat for many iterations, to make it a fair comparison you probably need to pull out the string at the end rather than just writing to the buffer. It's also not obvious for example what the difference is with just 2 strings to join if I need to join two strings together 40 trillion times or whatnot.

Nice collection of microbenchmarks though. Interesting to see magnitude differences from e.g. regexp compile
What here is evil?
> But investing in risky businesses needs to be walled off to the wealthy. What we really need is the real consequences for fraud / false financial claims.

Thanks for saying this. So true.
This almost instantly falls down under any freedom of speech challenge. It won't even remotely come close to surviving legally.
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I don't get this from that vibe from this older interview - it sounds almost hopeful:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/24/patagon...
And the current corporate statement says they are continually working to improve on this very topic.
http://www.patagonia.com/corporate-responsibility-history.ht...
> $50 a day at a brick-and-mortar location? That sounds unsustainable, I wonder why even bother keeping it open?

Well, in some cases, there is always money laundering to consider. Many physical retail locations with seemingly no customers in shady areas exist for nefarious reasons (not claiming its the case here, of course).
In which case you might as well be wondering about them already: your father might very well have a bank account in another country, or a chest of gold dubloons buried in the back yard, or a bunch of stock certificates for some company he invested in fifty years ago... you really never know!
They probably don't want to raise the bar any more for potential customers: too many hoops and I'll just use the phone instead; it'll take less time to call than type my CC#
Google Accelerated Science
Interesting if digital records will be quite as permanent as paper record; Will the problem of data loss be solved some day? Hard to know.
Awesome - glad that the folks at the big G are tackling this problem. IMO the field is in sore need of tools that help open the black box - I think it's going to be a big challenge to design such tools in a way that they are both flexible and powerful[1], but composeable building blocks certainly feel like the right start.

[1] This is a big challenge for DL tools in general - if what you're trying to do can't be expressed out of standard tensorflow ops, you're going to have a bad time.
There's an extra > at the end of your link.
No, it's not a formal fallacy. "Apples are red, therefore everything red is an apple" would be. But the word "is" here being used to indicate definition, not characteristic.
23andMe Granted FDA Authorization for Genetic Test on Cancer Risk
Putting all your eggs in a crypto basket doesn't sound like a great idea.
There are a lot of historical records that you'd never expect to have survived for so long in various archives.

There are massive archives of historical brewing data from various breweries in the UK dating back to the 1800s, this guy has a blog all about old British beer: http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com

There are also parish records for births, deaths, and marriages going back centuries in the UK as well as taxation records for centuries.

People love keeping records of things.

If you want to have a look at what weird things we still have records of, have a look at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/, it's a treasure trove of old data.
That also depends if your goal is self-preservation, or living in a principled way.
Nine Questions with the Head of Model Risk Management at Silicon Valley Bank
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Maxwell MRI is building post-scarcity healthcare. We are applying cutting edge AI to thousands of medical images (x-rays, MRI, CT, etc.), test results and health records to detect cancer earlier, predict outcomes and guide interventions.

Role: Looking for a mid to senior frontend engineer to help drive the delivery of our cutting edge AI products to doctors and users around the world.

Stack: javascript, react, redux, rxjs/sagas, canvas, svg and D3js talking to django API.

Offer: competitive salary + equity, all the tools, tech, training you need, opportunity to travel for international and domestic conferences

Matthew Brown (co-founder)
mb@mri.ai
@mnbbrown
Clearly meant to be “contraptions”.
The problem with that definition is there are other types of systems that do that. But it certainly is an essential part of the definition.
Interesting, thank you for representing the argument in favor of making revisions.
What are the owners of those cars supposed to do? Repark them, when there is no parking available? The residential buildings there don't have enough parking spots[1].

This isn't Soviet Russia, it's not like I'll get an extra ration and a pat on the back for turning my neighbour in.

[1] This has gotten better since they've added a parking permit requirement.
I initally paid $5 on fiverr and it was a really nice looking logo too. Unfortunately a reverse image search showed that the designer had just copied the logo pixel by pixel maybe using Google images only. So in the end I just used iconfinder for it and that works just fine for my needs right now.
> Yeah, but then Google, Facebook et al started throwing six-figure salaries to CS graduates to steal your data and, well, that's what happened to hackers' ethics and technology morality.

I still believe that there are enough hackers who would be willing to work for a much worse salary if they could obey hacker ethics and morality. Of course this implies working at a place that is much cheaper than Bay Area. But even under this premise: Where is the money supposed to come from to pay an even much lower salary reliably?
>since they [Coinbase] are not a neutral player

Why do you say this? (The part I added in bracket part is unambiguous in your sentence.)

Coinbase doesn't have its own coin, for example. (That is the main thing that I would think would make someone "not neutral".)

Can you explain your thinking, or tell me what facts I'm missing?
Complete and Voluntary Starvation of 50 days
Cool! Thanks for your efforts. I also enjoy the lead dev’s online persona.
Bitwise has better diversification across top 10 currencies based on market cap. Coinbase has lower entry point of $10k minimum v/s $25k minimum required by Bitwise.
If its anything like BLCN then I'd be interested if its correlation with bitcoin was closer to 1 than 0
I do agree. That's why see many companies like this https://aprl.la are coming up quickly in this space.
I wonder how they processed payments, and what their "getaway" plan was, beyond "let's hope we don't get caught".
Warning: you may want to read up on all the major problems Coinbase have had & are having with locking people’s funds up and going unresponsive before giving them actual money.

Frustrating that they’re still launching new products instead of fixing what’s broken.
I don't disagree. At the same time, the long tail is something startups claim to be good at, generally...
I didn't find "Everybody Lies" particularly compelling. It was an interesting piece of exploratory research, but I didn't see a lot of effort on generalizability. Several of his examples were using rare occurrence rates.

In short, the whole book felt like he got great access to data, and poked around in it until something interesting popped up. Then overarching conclusions were drawn without significant effort to describe whether or not the data was representative.
As atestu's (mysteriously downvoted) comment says, exactly the same is true of retirement savings, at least in some cases.

I have some pension funds and some other investments. All of these are composed of much the same mix of assets -- mostly equities, hence "being used to create more wealth by investing in businesses". The only differences are that the pension funds (1) have some tax advantages, in exchange for which (2) I have to wait a while before I get to enjoy them.

The tax advantages aren't huge, so #1 doesn't make that big a difference to me. I'm not a big spender and don't need the money urgently, so #2 doesn't make that big a difference to me. So in practice my situation is almost exactly the same as it would be if I shifted all my pension funds into some non-retirement-focused investment vehicle, or if I shifted all my non-pension investments into pension funds. But Ruccio would consider me much better off in the first case than the second.

Obviously it doesn't matter a bit what Ruccio thinks of me personally. But if the idea is to measure inequality, then the thing we're measuring inequality of ideally shouldn't be wildly sensitive to changes that have minimal effect on a person's actual quality of life, likely future wealth, etc. I think a net wealth measure that excludes all housing and pension wealth (like Ruccio's) fails that test, whereas a more normal reckoning of net wealth passes it.

(In my ideal world, the measure of wealth we'd use for this sort of calculation would include all assets and liabilities. Not just stuff you currently own or owe, but a bunch of other things that make a huge difference and almost always get neglected in these analyses. Future earning potential: a newly minted Harvard grad just starting a new job at a hedge fund may have negative net worth because of student loan debt, but s/he sure as hell isn't poor in any useful sense. Access to government benefits: some people have negligible assets and no earning power but receive a pension, disability allowance, etc., which makes their situation less wretched. Likely inheritance: children of wealthy families may be much better off than they look if you consider only what they already own. Future healthcare costs: if you are in the US and seriously ill, you are probably much poorer than your nominal net wealth suggests. Etc. But trying to include all this sort of stuff would make computing wealth distribution statistics much, much harder.)
This is the ultimate reason why my friend started this and they have been getting a good traction.
https://aprl.la
>>> There are huge cities where everyone speaks English

Point being, no, there are not! Have a look at wikipedia for the biggest cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_cities_by_pop...

You can go to any of these cities (excluding the UK) and ask your way around to locals. You will be hard pressed to find someone who can understand well and reply you.

People will manage to do a check in or take a restaurant order but don't expect to hold a conversation.
This looks pretty similar to Crypto20, https://crypto20.com/en/. However, Crypto20 is explicit about your token giving you proxy ownership of the underlying assets. I am not an expert so i'm not sure if it's a scam or not, but so far it seems reasonable. Much less stressful than maintaining one's own portfolio, too.
Does graph database success hang on query language?
There is no communist country in the world right now...
The point already made in my post was that there is no way of us knowing that many, or even a few customers actually called and couldn't get a table. Evidence is anecdotal.
I don't disagree, what I see the parent doing is agreeing with this sentiment:

> I think that the issue is just that startups, by their nature, aren't a good fit to less dense environments.

That's not inherently a value judgement, but also, many people don't want to see the long tail get ignored either.
It's post-modernism only if you assume that human beings have no set, general psychological characteristics and are entirely the product of socialization. Otherwise it is pragmatism.
Yep, best example: car dealership.
The eccentricity of Earth's orbit doesn't make for more or less extreme summer/winter differences, but more or less extreme northern vs. southern hemisphere winter/summer differences. This is central to the theory of how the Milankovitch cycles are tied to glacial and interglacial periods of the current ice age.

What makes seasons less extreme is a closer-to-right-angle angle of the axis of Earth's rotation to the ecliptic plane. This angle does vary a fair bit over time.

In geologic time there are four astronomic parameters of Earth's movement, and one for the Sun's, that can affect the climate and life:

- eccentricity of Earth's orbit
- precession of the equinoxes
- angle of the axis of Earth's rotation to the ecliptic
- distance from the Earth to the Sun (which, besides
eccentricity, varies over long geologic time due to
interactions with Jupiter and other planets)

When the northern hemisphere's summer coincides with the perigee of Earth's orbit around the Sun, insolation is at its highest over the most landmass, thus ensuring that ice does not accumulate on land over the summer and that any existing ice melts. This is likely the cause of the start of interglacials, while the opposite situation is likely the cause of the start of glacial periods. The angle of the axis of Earth's rotation to the ecliptic also plays a role, in this, obviously, since the smaller the angle the more extreme the seasonal differences. So goes the theory anyways.

And, of course, the galactic neighborhood traversed by the Sun can make a difference. We don't want to be near stars about to go supernova...
We have been lately going "Organic" when it comes to food. Hopefully, we will do the same for our clothing too.
People Are Paying Thousands of Dollars to Own Pictures of Pepe the Frog
Yeah, at 2% this is more akin to a mutual fund.
Ask HN: People who went from entrepreneur to employee? Why? Was it good or bad?
Assuming the actual work to care for an elderly with non-full-time need is up to 8 hours a day, paid at $12 per hour, the cost would be 8 * 365 * $12 = $35,040 per year. Other family members can hopefully cover the rest of hours if needed.

My question: What are the benefits of going through an agency when the cost could be over 100% higher than hiring someone directly? Hiring direct allows you to screen in person and makes sure there is a good fit of personality and other factors too.
Hi Chris! -- I have four comments:

First, as always, I have to say THANK YOU, to you, and to the other authors, and to your various helpers, for putting this together, with no obvious goal other than the public good. :-)

Second, your idea of (a) taking all activation values in a trained DNN in response to a particular sample, (b) reshaping all these values into a single giant matrix, and (c) factorizing this giant matrix to identify "neuron groups" (i.e., some kind of low-rank approximation) that most closely explain the behavior of the DNN for each particular sample... is a brilliant idea. In hindsight, it seems like an obvious thing to do, but I don't think I've seen anyone else do it before. I suspect this kind of whole-DNN matrix decomposition will be widely applicable across architectures and modalities, not just for convnets in visual tasks.

Third, I think this barely scratches the surface of the kinds of UI-driven "interpretation tools" that ultimately will be needed to enable (non-technical) human beings be able to associate or attribute DNN behavior to "salient ideas," including those salient ideas for which human beings currently lack descriptive terminology. This is exciting stuff, and I can't wait to see what kinds of interpretation tools (and UIs) you and others come up with in the near future.

Finally, I can't help but wonder if the behavior of state-of-the-art AI systems has already exceeded, or is on the verge of exceeding, human capacity to interpret it. For example, what if the number of "salient ideas" current AI systems can discover vastly exceeds the number of distinct salient ideas a human brain can distinguish and work with? What is your view or opinionated guess on this?
No, that's not at all a problem. The problem is how little they bother researching what they write about.
I think I missed something in the article. What is fast fashion?
Clostridium est dificil a batre.