skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but then who is going to pay to use every single website? I'm going to do that. I'd rather they spend all this time attempting to show me ads that I will never see and be able to use great sites/apps for free rather than keep paying everytime I want to go to a website.
What do you do if a decent amount of people use your MVP, but then churn out and don't respond to requests for feedback? Essentially, they don't really care about the problem or solution, they were mostly just curious. Scrap it and start again? From my experience and what I hear from friends, this seems very common.
Well, offloading responsibility gets you nowhere. It doesn't solve the problem, it simply ignores it. What value is there in aggregation if there is no standard of quality?
Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Explained [Updated]
> If you want to be able to simply speak a program’s requirements and watch it happen, there’s already a solution for that: hire a coder.

If everyone had this attitude we'd still be traveling between cities on foot.

Based on their demo, it appears the purpose of the language was to push the "human centered" aspect of it even further, and not to settle for what's possible today.
He did today by congratulating Putin for his election victory. Thanking a dictator for sham elections is quite strong. But then Trump is always congratulating dictators while criticizing allies.
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Scientists suspect a link between the digestive system and problems with sleep
So, what happens with highly disproportionate egress per amount of storage (think public image hosting/video hosting services). I personally ran a service with only 500GiB of data which would push 10TiB+ of egress per month. Would they get suspended? I actually don't like this change since it makes me distrust wasabi (they no longer seem to be able to guarantee a sustainable pricing model)
How about any of Edward Tufte's books: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information, etc?
Really admire your mission. Mass incarceration is one of the most horrific crimes that has been overlooked by the media and society.

I truly hope Phaedra and Diana can help fix it!
Sigh, reading the headline, it wouldn't take a machine learning model to predict the sentiment of the responses.

HackerNews is pretty much turning into an echo chamber itself
around news. Pretty much every announcement is greeted with intense negativity, less discussion of facts, or other solutions. And I'm not just talking about tech companies, even the release of a new language, framework, or tool is often accompanied by excessive negativity.

If you don't want news to make money via ads, and you don't like systems to encourage subscriptions, and you don't like paywalls, than pretty much you need public funding of news by the state like NPR/PBS/BBC to make news a non-profit.

So I propose the following: A national 3% tax on all internet connections: mobile phone bill, cable, etc. The revenue for this to be paid to PBS/NPR/VOA/other public news orgs.
(1) We believe scale will be critical. Also, qualitative and quantitative analysis. I do not think this can be solved only through technology.
(2) Parolees are post conviction. We are focused on people who are incarcerated pre trial because they cannot afford bail.
(3) This is not what we said but really helpful to understand that is how it reads. We will need to think about it. Fundamentally, we are trying to make the system more just. People who can afford bail can get out, only people with less money usually stay incarcerated when they are bail eligible.
Math was one of Plato's main methods of showing there was a reality beyond the physical world that we could access with our minds.
For anyone who is curious like I was, there's a related episode on 99percent invisible that links to a YouTube documentary, although it's in spanish:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/managed-retreat/2/
I agree with you about being very cautious about how this debate gets framed. Big corporations are boss at framing the debate in such a way that the results don't matter. Be very aware of this tendency.
> If Eve didn't come along I wouldn't have believed you could program without loops

recursion?
Many people who are in the day to day see the value. Public defenders who we have spoken with understand the chaos that is created when their clients miss court and they see the value of our product. Sheriff staff who we have spoken with would like to release more people into the community to serve their sentences but want them to have additional support and resources to feel comfortable doing so. Elected official also seem to understand that this is a problem and want solutions. So overall there has been a positive response.
Another person's job is an easy thing to sacrifice.
Very good feedback. Our site is focused on our clients who use very specific language. We will think about how to speak to folks who are not in the system right now.
I think the parent commenter to your comment was alluding to this kind of stuff, a lack of depth in fallback strategies and systems trained to focus on objects in motion over stationary ones.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/uber-...
Is the url carv.io? It's a project management tool?

If so what feature are people asking for?
Probably the human wasn't paying close attention. That is the problem with level 3-4 automated vehicles: a human who is not in primary control of the vehicle has trouble paying attention and is unable to take over control quickly if it is needed.
Man guilty of hate crime for filming pug's 'Nazi salutes'
“Every time a cloud provider goes serverless a Data Engineer gets his wings” says Yaniv Leven, CEO of Panoply.Lol
Rails 5.2.0 RC2
> The main reason for the second amendment is deterring authoritarianism. It works, regardless of force proportion.

No. It's delusion. In doubt, feds will fuck you over and shoot your corpse when they're done. There is no such thing as stopping the police, short of welding yourself shut in a tank, but you're bound to run out of gas, air or food/water. Or being blown up with an RPG, if you do enough damage.

The only thing that works as a deterrence to authoritarianism is masses - but you really need MASSES, as in hundreds of thousands of people, not a couple hundred neckbeards with guns. Hell, G20 Hamburg was in the upper 5-digit range of protesters with a decent amount of experienced and willing rioters and it got royally screwed. I don't nearly see any protest coming near that range of numbers soon... except, maybe and hopefully, if Trump decides to be a totally ignorant idiot and fires Mueller.
Think tanks are basically lobbyist/pr firms in disguise. While I am not necessarily disagreeing with your main point, I don't think this particular incident is all that controversial. When companies hire lobbyists, they expect them to represent their interests. Same goes for think tanks.
Perhaps the market's reaction reflects the widespread belief that this publicity may drive users away from Facebook, whereas Consumers can't really opt out of Equifax's collection.
Where is S.V.?
The choice isn't just between rotting in jail and something like Promise, though. Many of us on this forum could pay bail and face neither. That's the fundamental injustice here, I think.
Guide to Internet Safety and Privacy
Eve doesn't have loops, because the basic unit isn't a variable but a set of variables. So a computation is applied to every element in a value.

e.g.

x = [1, 2, 3]

x + 2

// x = [3, 4, 5]

I have since learned that APL does something similar, expect their basic unit is an array.
This analogy seems out-of-proportion, IMO.

With Cambridge Analytica, the customer data wasn't used by any government, but by a political party. To me, this really is the legitimate status quo of advertising. As a US citizen, it's not clear to me why this is wrong or bad, only that people "don't like it."

I for one am grateful that these services target me with relevant adds. Is that something we want undo? What is the strategy here? Is the objective to be less informed and be directed to information that is non-relevant to our interests?

Now, I'm not saying that the ideal utopia wouldn't be a Facebook-less interlocking combination of privacy respecting, free open source software, decentralized networking, and federated identity. I just feel weird how it seems like "fears of election interference" and "muh democratic system" are being used to effect arbitrary changes in how Facebook does business.
Not to detract from what you say (it was interesting, I originally thought cars were much more dangerous in USA as well and I was very wrong) but from what I can see in 2017 cars were back on top.
You only pay tax on net gain.

As with anything to do with tax, you should consult with an tax accountant or EA who 'specialize' in trader taxation.
"Won't get fooled again."
As part of scheduled plan. Nice try. However, he has been awfully quiet re: CA

Stock Schedule mention:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/zuckerbergs-facebook-stock-s...
Prevent an Orwellian future of machine-learning assisted, personally targeted messaging preying upon our fears and insecurities.

Is this the only option?

Why can't it (not necessarily facebook) instead be a "machine-learning assisted, personally targeted messaging to help support your long term goals?"
This lab at Stanford is working on some similar things (there are also other research centers I can't recall right now): https://hearinglosscure.stanford.edu/

I'm watching them like a hawk hoping that some day my 2 year old son might benefit from their work.
What are your reasons?
Thank you. Our main goals are to keep individuals on track for completing all court mandated obligations and to connect them to services. When we do our detailed intake with participants we evaluate their needs and work to connect them to the appropriate services. That can include drug treatment, mental health treatment, eduction, job training/placement, etc.
Thank you. This is a beautiful answer. We agree on the criteria for evaluating what someone's risk is. Currently, it is primarily decided by the court. We are learning and adapting our own tool based on tools such as the one by the Arnold Foundation but also using qualitative analysis.
P.S.: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/02/20/us-private-probation-har...
Does that mean people who are allergic to dogs aren't allowed to be taxi drivers?
The Play Store gets a “try now” button for games, no install required
> Promise would not be replacing the function of a judge here. That's ludicrous. The judge would be permitting a suspect to work with Promise's system rather than rotting in jail.

Even if their risk assessment plays no role in who gets bail, they still are involved with major decisions impacting people's lives so the point still stands. Which, after three posts you still haven't really addressed. What evidence does Promise have that their product will make things better? This isn't really something you give the old college try and hope to find success.

>When people are able to work and take care of their families who would otherwise be sitting in a concrete box, waiting for time to pass.

And how are we going to know that is happening? This is the type of stuff that is done with controlled experiments resulting in peer reviewed journal articles.
It doesn't take much work

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/zuckerbergs-facebook-stock-s...

I'm not sure there's any real way to tie this to nefarious intent or insider trading. The timing is so coincidental, however, that it's understandably fueling speculation.
I replied a bit further along in the comments. I am the co-founder. Thank you.
[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/zuckerbergs-facebook-stock-s...

[1] https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=fb (check "insider trading") towards the bottom half of the page
Technically, so has Bill Gates for many, many years.
Speaking Scala aloud for the visually impaired
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16623359
> (2) It seems like streamlining and increasing the ability of governments to monitor parolees...

>It seems like the founders want to make a positive impact on society, but there's a whole lot of slippery slope and other ethical issues here.

Only on HN is app-based remote monitoring seen as potentially worse than being IN JAIL.
Ok, that’s much better than relying on convicted criminals as a profit source. It’s a shame how much suffering and scapegoating people accused of a crime in this country have to go through before they even reach trial.
A device with unknown provenance is much more likely to be compromised than one from an organization making good money from a legitimate business model.
You clearly don't understand what it is they've done.
> there's not a damn thing vim can do that an IDE can't

# Edit text without having to constantly move hands off of the keyboard home row to move the mouse or hit keys like PgUp/PgDn.

# Change all the 'X's to 'Y's on the current line in 5 seconds.

# Syntax highlighting for [any language the IDE doesn't compile].

# Pipe text through an external program.

# Start quickly enough to pop open text files whenever you need it.
Is there anyone in advertising who wouldn't want this? I honestly don't see why this is a problem. Many people don't care about what gets shared but do care about the benefits it brings to their user experience.
> The thing that seems really wrong here is that you weren't just granting access to your own information, but all of your friends as well, who had little say in the matter beyond their original grants of permission to Facebook.

Except that those users had granted that permission to the people who then granted it to CA. So, transitively (which is the only way to think about permissions), they had granted it to CA.
Well, if Telegram had end-to-end encryption enabled by default, this wouldn't even be technically possible.
In my experience, the answer is almost always “just apply” - there’s no harm in it and answering the questions can be helpful to consider various aspects of your idea in more detail.
With the rise of the gig economy, I suspect that the ADA will come under severe attack in the next few years. My guess is that most AirBnb apartments don't really have ADA compliant accomodations. For example, many second floor apartments only have stairs without elevators or wheelchair ramps. In addition, there have been some high profile cases such as Berkeley removing free, public lectures because of ADA violations https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/u-california-...

as well as the abuse by some of bringing companion animals onto airplanes.

With independent contractors making a large part of the work force, accommodating is harder for individuals than for companies, and so political momentum may build up for repeal of the various laws.
It's "OpenBSD", not "Open BSD". Please use the original title:

The OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign
Who says anything about a modest return? How much does the U.S. spend on prisons? How much does the world spend on prisons? Say they operate at a 30% discount, how much revenue is that? Off the top of my head, a lot.
Yes, but my point is that the permission grant is explicit.
> For some reason, they refuse to discuss that.

That's because neither our legal, nor medical frameworks recognize an immaterial soul. They would lose that debate.
We are measured by Failure to Appear (FTA) rates, participation in a a court mandated plan, rate of recidivism, ease of use for case managers.
S3 will automatically shard your bucket evenly across your sub-namespace if you use pre-shardable names whenever possible.

This sounds complex but is actually fairly easy to do. For example, if you are not dealing with randomly generated ID's, try using Base64 encoded keynames rather than the keynames themselves. (A more limited character set is helpful, though.)

A better name than user_f38c9123 is f38c9123_user, which will allow a statistically even shard size across the full 16 character range of the first character. As more performance is needed, S3 will automatically shard the second character into 16x16 (256) possible shards, etc.

Also, using a more limited character set such as hexadecimal (that is, [[a-f][0-8]]*) (or just numberic digits) for the first characters of a filename will shard more evenly than a full alphanumeric [A-z][0-9][etc].

Jeff Barr had a blog post on this a while ago.. here it is:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-performance-tips-...

"By the way: two or three prefix characters in your hash are really all you need: here’s why. If we target conservative targets of 100 operations per second and 20 million stored objects per partition, a four character hex hash partition set in a bucket or sub-bucket namespace could theoretically grow to support millions of operations per second and over a trillion unique keys before we’d need a fifth character in the hash."

We actually do exactly this in Userify (blatant plug, SSH key management, sudo, etc https://userify.com) by just switching the ID type to the end of the string: company_[shortuuid] becomes [shortuuid]_company. It makes full bucket scans for a single keyname a bit easier and faster if you use different buckets for each type of data, but you actually will get better sharding overall by mixing all of your data types together in a single bucket. The trade-off is worth it for the general case.
A loss of awareness of the physical body and physical world, and various phenomena may manifest such as visions, sounds, etc. Perhaps it's the hypnogogic state or similar, but some sources suggest it gives access to the subconscious mind.
I'm curious, what prevents your company from becoming one of those companies that care nothing about the individuals being incarcerated? Like, imagine if your growth peters out, your board of directors or your investors pressure you into selling, and one of those companies ends up acquiring you. Is there something about your company structure that would prevent this?
Yes this would be a very interesting and ethical incentive model to explore.
Enoki: a tool for publishing on the peer-to-peer Web
Unless you align incentives correctly, you're not paying your developers to ship software, you're just paying them to write code.

Setting a deadline is one way of aligning incentives (ship by this date or else...) and can work well so long as there is a good conversation around requirements, appropriate milestones are set, and developers are trusted to make good faith estimates. However, it is not the only way.
How do you add hours?
I don’t think there’s any example where privatizing the prison pipeline, for profit, has ever resulted in a more humane system.

What happens when investors come knocking for you to make more money off parolees backs?
It is a judge. However, there is a recent court decision(Humphrey), that is creating a lot of change within the system.
At some point, you have to make people take responsibility for themselves. I think this is well before that point.
True. It’s just going to physically hurt if the hurried demo doesn’t do the idea justice. Won’t be fair to the scope and scale of the idea. I guess just apply is the answer regardless. Thanks!
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> If they are no longer dropping large explosive things

If you were a rocket engineer, would you stake your life on it? Every single launch?
> Any of these old definitions contains sufficient meaningfulness to make "Facebook loses control of data to unauthorized breach" perfectly intelligble.

Sure, but the point being made by the "it's not a breach" people is that Facebook didn't lose control of data to an unauthorized breach. They gave up data according to their own documented and expected procedures to people who were supposed to have it. "Facebook voluntarily and purposefully gives away data in an authorized breach" is not so intelligible.

The fact that "Facebook loses control of data to unauthorized breach" would be a sensible, understandable sentence isn't really relevant when nothing of the kind has happened. Who'd be using that sentence?
Why would you even bother making the comparison between the sum of all black market drug activity on the planet and a single niche website hidden behind tor?
I can vouch for this.

I have always had sleep issues and over a long period of time and experimenting, found that I could calm the bacteria by giving them the right amount of fiber and simple proteins to work on, while avoiding sugar. If I deprive them of nutrients, they release something into my blood that increases anxiety. I have yet to figure out what this chemical is.

I used to think it was a blood sugar problem, but after a lot of testing, determined my blood sugar was fine. It turns out that 700 trillion life forms in the gut can wreak havoc if they are not taken care of.

And to think ... I said I don't want any pets. Turns out, I have 700 trillion of them.
Really? I think he cared about himself with Gawker. Stop looking up to these people who consistently use you and apparently successfully trick you on their intentions.
They’re just working on solving the halting problem, then they’ll get right on it.
I agree that for-profit prisons are not good for society. But does this one (granted, massive) mistake mean that we can no longer try to innovate in this space? Does it mean that the only model is publicly funded rehabilitation? That's obviously not worked either.
RequestBin discontinued their hosted service
If you remove the current state of the token supply, then I'd say that Stellar seems to be relatively decentralized as evidenced by the number of verified validators not under direct control or ownership by the Stellar Development Foundation (around 13% by number; don't know the validator splits by volume).
We love this! Right now the incentives are wrong. Contractors are paid per person, per day, which creates the wrong incentives.
But can you explain how having another choice is dangerous?

Don't forget that Google also tracks online behaviour on an industrial scale. It doesn't matter if that information is only collated in aggregated form or "anonymised" (a meaningless term), we don't know how that information could be mined with AI or machine learning either now or in the future.

In fact, I suspect that even Google hasn't figure all the possible uses of the enormous quantity of user behaviour it has captured and continues to capture. And that ubiquitous data capture starts right from school, where millions of students use a cloud-based OS called ChromeOS that records everything they do.

The tech community's response to Google's online tracking and data capture is not scrutiny or questioning, but silence (or a rush to defend them).
This seems similar to Cocoa's NSNotificationCenter, where you can post messages or subscribe to messages.

One of the better Cocoa books motivates it with the following example:

Say you have an app with multiple windows. You also have a settings pane, where you can change the background color of your windows. You don't want the "background color" component to keep track of all of the open windows in the app, that's not at all related to its responsibility. So instead you use the notification center to post a message "hey the user changed the window background color to blue", and windows will subscribe to "the user changed the window background color" messages. This way the color picker and the windows themselves can work together, without ever caring about the others' existence.
The key word is spontaneous breath retention. Google "kevala kumbhaka". Not BS at all, in fact it is a primary aim of the breathing exercises known as pranayama and is very widely documented within yogic texts, both old and current.
I really enjoyed your episodes, thank you for taking the time to do them
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