skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad you have the perspective that these comments are coming from people who have no clue. Easier to brush off as crazy talk.
I don't grant your premise. All three of those examples were (and continue to be) excoriated by the media for weeks. So far, Facebook has had a bad weekend. We're a long way from media conspiracy.

In other words, nothing here is out of the ordinary.
"problem"...
You should make a distinction between life, independent life, and "potential future person(s)". Also :-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginning_of_human_personhood#...
Yes it uses tickets for attendance but sites like eventbrite are free to use when issuing free tickets.
To be honest, he’s probably too white to win a Democratic primary too. That’s a bigger deal than his being a billionaire.
Show HN: A JS-scriptable graph theory experimentation tool
Its stories like yours that give me the (good) shivers. Just routine 30 minute operations we do now that would be considered miracles less than a century ago. It reaffirms a belief that humanity is capable of doing great things and solving insanely difficult problems.

In a very sincere and unironic way, "my faith in humanity is restored".
Allergies are not universally classed as a disability - it must be severe enough to significantly impair a common life function.
Great that all these articles are coming out defending Uber. Even if (it wasn't) her own fault, these make it sound like "well I mean she was stupid and therefore deserved it".
How the Damned Made New Rose
Not if you believe that there is a 1-to-1 relationship between Facebook accounts and real, living humans.

I find it more likely that Facebook is completely unwilling to admit that many of its accounts are not genuine representations of a real, living person.
So this comment aged well...
Nobel prize winners as well as reserve bank presidents have all mentioned Glass-Steagall lines being dropped as somewhere between a direct cause and significant contributor to the recession. So the impact that you dismiss completely is a matter of strong debate. Personally, I think that that allowing mortgage originators with securities packaging underwriters into the same room in the same company has a lower degree of scrutiny than the same thing happening separately in two separate companies and separate products. But you are certainly free to have your own opinion - the topic is complicated and abstract, and boring.

More arguments on both sides here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall:_afterm...
"'Joyrider' [1] is not a term I will allow in my station, constable. [...] Crime is crime, and should not be trivialised. What next? Are we to refer to grievous bodily harm [2] as 'fun-punching'? Assault with a deadly weapon as 'a laugh and a stab'?"

Standards for comedy were much lower in the mid-'90s. [3]

[1] UK slang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyride_(crime)

[2] UK actual crime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievous_bodily_harm

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqa6H2T4aS0&t=3m33s
You make it sound like tuition wasn’t already increasing at unsustainable rates before GWB. Or that people are just now foolishly pursuing degrees without factoring in ROI.
Yeah it would have been nice to see Genera. It was interesting and distinctive.

It does show SK8, which, although it's not obvious from looking at it, was a Lisp environment.

It was implemented in Common Lisp--specifically Macintosh Common Lisp, which is the direct ancestor of Clozure Common Lisp--on the pre-OSX Mac system. That's sort of obvious if you look at the menubar in Slide 7.

The ScriptEditor shows a snippet of SK8Script, which was the first working implementation of AppleScript. SK8 compiled SK8Script to Common Lisp, and thence to native code. The runtime underneath was Macintosh Common Lisp, and you could open a Lisp listener window or editor window if you wanted, and work directly in Lisp.

The funny-looking window design has a practical purpose: it doesn't look like any other widely-used window design, which means that when you used SK8 to create a Mac application, the SK8 tools always looked distinct from all of the application windows that were under development.

The funny-looking windows are notable in another way: their non-rectangular outlines required a custom code resource (a WDEF), which you could write in Lisp with MCL.

As with all of the other environments illustrated in these slides, there are lots of details that are not obvious from the image. This sample screen shows someone in the middle of constructing a working giant scrollbar by snapping together boxes and arrows and editing scripts attached to them.

SK8 was very direct-manipulation-oriented. You could do a lot of stuff by dragging objects onto the screen, snapping them together, and opening inspectors to edit visual properties, event-handlers, and attached behaviors. You could grab an arbitrary screen object and drop it into a message box to get an expression that, when evaluated, yielded a reference to the dropped object.

It did a lot with containment--for example, you could put objects on the screen by adding them to a container called the Stage, and there was a containment hierarchy that routed events to handlers. The model was extremely flexible; for example, you can see in the Script Editor that the programmer wants an event to set the fillcolor of rj1 to green, but Dave Yost (one of the SK8 authors) used to like to demonstrate setting the fillcolor to a Clint Eastwood movie, which would then begin playing in the background of the targeted object.
That’s easy: if they have a badge, they can’t be trusted. Don’t talk to the cops. Ever.
What about the data from from the tracking device? Is it stored? For how long? Who has access to it, with and without a warrant? ADAs are going to be falling over themselves to get a hold of this data, and judges will give it to them.

[edited out some inflammatory editorializing, sorry]
I think you're missing the point of Apple's cloud services.

They exist exactly and only to make the user experience of their devices better. They don't make sense outside the Apple ecosystem, and that's how I imagine it's intended to be.

I have a mac and an iPhone and an iPad and I just want to be able to text my wife on any of them and have it work. That means contacts need to be synced, and there needs to be an answer for how the messages are synced between devices. Same with notes/calendars/etc. iCloud is hiding beneath all of it, and the whole point is that you don't see it, you just see your contacts list works everywhere you look.
One solution is to relax the qualified immunity clause police officers receive, and allow civil penalties against the department and officers for perjury.

Right now they commit perjury and get promoted, things will only change when they start losing their jobs and pensions.
I have looked into it and I stand behind my statement.
Flagged as well. The litany of clickbait headlines re: Oumuamua has been infuriating.
Productivity as a whole had been in a downtrend every year since it peaked in 2003

Where is the source for this? What is the source for the "long term decline" mentioned in the article?

The first sentence mentions the BLS, so I went there, and this is not what they say.
https://www.bls.gov/data/#productivity

If you dont want to go through the various data, here are some articles with charts:

This one covers since the last recession:
https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-6/below-trend-the-us-pro...

This one goes back further, but only up until 2012:
https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-3/what-can-labor-product...
Really it's simple - a cop found guilty of perjury should never ever be allowed to be a cop again
Want to sell bonds that mature when the group of monitored individuals is NOT incarcerated? I’m asking about the payment logistics... it’s a boring but important($$$) part.
...despite being jewish.
Why should I mail money to an address written on an http site?
U.S. Productivity Measurements Fail to Capture Digital Economy Output
How is that not perjury?
Needs a (2016) added to the title. Article is from May 2016
Author of the blogpost here; the main results are the convergence curves of IWAE-64 and log p(x) in the paper, but thats a good point, thanks. We'll include samples in the camera-ready version of the paper.
Aren't jurors sworn to tell the truth when making such statements?
Yes, it is not only perjury, it is an extreme abuse of power and it is potentially robbing someone of their freedom.
I put a recurring $50 donation when the freeBSD controversy came and went.

I hope its useful, not sure what they use the money for.
It was easy enough to see Trump coming ahead of time though. He’s been talking on and off about running for a long time, and that speech more recently where he called the Chinese “motherfuckers” in particular should have made it clear that what he might do could be effective. Once you accept that he’s running and what his style would be like, it’s easy to see him getting the nomination.

It’s not easy to see Zuckerberg getting the nomination under pretty much any circumstances.
Even without these institutions arts universities of all kinds are overflowing with children from Chinese rich families. It's already a huge, wealthy market. It's just not as funny as a Chinese math genius, so fewer people outside these schools talk about it.
Can't help but be reminded of this:

The Mitsubishi Estate Company of Japan plans to walk away from its almost $2 billion investment in Rockefeller Center, the Hope diamond of world real estate.

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/12/business/japanese-scrap-2...
Funny that they are taking a dump on street level cops but don't seem too concerned about the perjury of high level officials who they publish endless editorials supporting.
TeleRAT: An Android Trojan Leveraging Telegram’s Bot API to Target Iranian Users
Are you offering hospitals as a good or as a bad example?
I've been to at least 10 different county jails and to Florida State Prison twice, and I feel like I know already what you're biggest problem is going to be...

It's going to be the one(s) that screw it all up for the many.

All it's going to take is one criminal in your program to go out and kill and rob an elderly couple for society to force the politicians to end your noble and well-meaning experiment and put those people back behind bars.

I've seen it over and over in my many years of being locked up...programs designed to give inmates and convicts a shot at bettering themselves are totally abused by a few totally selfish and uncaring dickwads that actually enjoy the fact they just fucked it up for everyone else.

But regardless of that, I think your program holds great promise and wish you nothing but success with it.
More incentive for tech companies to move to the UK?
I did quite a bit of dBase/Clipper back in the late 80s.

The resulting code was much cleaner than most of the “enterprise” crap I have to deal with now, but xBase had some serious shortcomings:

Corrupted indices in a multi-user (LAN) environment

No roll-back (since no transactions)

No referential integrity constraints

Yeah, I sometimes miss it, but I understand why it died.
Ask Black and Hispanic voters if they care about that.

Being Jewish didn’t seem to do Dianne Feinstein any good. California Democrats dropped her in favor of a Hispanic candidate, Kevin de León.
To me, this is not a philosophical argument. That is the de facto outcome of such a position. If you call it murder to end a pregnancy at any stage, as the GP does, then women are hostages of a life not yet able to survive on its own.
Self-driving cars are still super safe, even with the Uber death, Report Says
Isn't this rather like Windows Communication Foundation, COM, Soap etc.? Or even Linux DBus or any other remote procedure call system.
Yes, and that's what the update does. Since the bootloader wasn't modified (at least with this particular attack), flashing a known-good image fixes it.
Submission statement: I have previously tried submitting it to not much avail, but the program has matured a lot since then. The repository includes a number of examples (in examples/) that are representative of the current version, such as an implementation of Restricted Boltzmann Machines (screenshot: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blackhole89/graphicdepicti...). Apart from typesetting and layout work, the new ability to essentially associate arbitrary JavaScript objects with vertices and edges generally lends itself quite naturally to the local computation involved in many machine learning applications (as you can associate compute()-type functions with each vertex that read inputs and/or pass results to outputs).
You have a fine substantive point in the middle there, but unfortunately you sandwiched it between two violations of the site guidelines. That makes this a bad comment for HN. Could you please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not post those here?

Sad and bitter experience has taught us that the guidelines violations do far more damage to the forum than the sandwich filling can ever make up for in value. That's why we have the guidelines.

Edit: I detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16632889 and marked it off-topic.
>It sounds like this is a for-profit business. I'm very leery of the trend towards private prisons.

(I completely agree, and sare the same concerns - Especially given the precedent of US incarceration and private entity involvement, which many would consider slavery. However...)

On a long term scale, I believe that Capitalism will become more trustworthy and aligned with demand than government.

Or at the very least, Capitalism will 'pave the road', and hand off to a socialist system upon maturity and consensus.

While the free market is (in its pure form) money driven (ignoring externalities), we appear to be in a new age of enlightenment. I believe that this is bringing about a new form of capitalism which provides a platform for ethics.

In essence, this boils down to "Government is too slow to legislate and bring about change, and doesn't accurately reflect views. The people are tired of waiting and not being listened to, and will turn to the free market for the supply they want".

If Promise and other companies are able to hold themselves accountable to their customers, governing bodies (eventually), but most importantly the population at large (contributing in a meritocratic way), I can see this a) working very well, b) far more quickly than any other system, and c) innovating and maturing components ready for adoption by government.

The alternative could be waiting 50 years or an entire lifetime to get the change people want.
Plan B to me would be governments launching online platforms for democratic (and later, technocratic/meritocratic) referendum systems on a local/small level, then with trust delegating decisions more and more to citizens.

Hard to justify all the above succinctly, so I presume this will not be convincing to all.
Would love to hear Promise's opinions on this.
As an American I'm astonished too.
> Russian ops can't even poison an expat without severe consequences

Only because of the public backlash against the local government last time they were known to have poisoned someone in the same country without consequences.

> kidnapping or murdering people outside of Russia would be an act of war

It would, but that hasn't stopped them before.
Anyone had any luck with Firefox on any system?
>An idea, any foreign country that forbids buying land in their country [0] is not allowed to buy land in our country. Sound equal?

FWICT, they also don't allow their own citizens to purchase land. In that sense, they're treating foreign citizens equally.

Also, this seems to return some useful info:

https://www.google.com/search?&q=how+to+buy+land+in+china

Seems like people have found a way to purchase land.

>I think it's reasonable to leverage our freedom as an asset instead of a liability to be abused.

What do you mean by leverage?
GDP divided by worker-hours, basically. It's a crude metric, but no one has ever managed to come up with a better one.
If this was indeed the overall scenario, there are few factors I could think of that would excuse a human driver here:

1. Another car was in the lane left of the fatal car, blocking its view of the pedestrian.
2. The pedestrian fell back after reaching the curb.

But it looks like both the artificial and the human driver were asleep.
Together, we can fix this. Let's have a call to discuss tomorrow 8am.
What would Espressif be able to do? Somehow retain the entropy it gave to the code that you used to generate the key and then send it to their servers when you reflashed with an unrelated program and connected to WiFi? That seems a bit far-fetched.

Regardless, sure, the Arduino is also a good platform to do this on. It doesn't run MicroPython, though, so I implemented my particular program on the ESP for speed/ease of development.
"""What kind of negative side-effects are you referring to?"""

When one enters that stage of yoga, if they've been a good little yogi and done the preliminary physical preparations (which may take decades (or you hit the jackpot and are born into a magnificent constitution, maybe a few years)), they can begin the real 'yoga', which is mainly just seated meditation. It is akin to performing surgery on the central nervous system and most importantly, its main channel running along the spinal column(shushumna).

If one is not prepared correctly, as an inexperienced surgon performing brain surgery, cutting the wrong cords or becoming stressed/frightened at the wrong time could be disasterous when operating on your subconscious autonomic nervous sytem (and even deeper!) there is a reason everyday humans cant control that stuff voluntarily!

joint damage etc pale in comparison to cutting the wrong wires on that low level state in the nervous system. Think voluntarily giving yourself psychosis or Multiple Sclerosis or launching a schizophrenic rogue subroutine in your body that randomly regulates temperature, making you icy cold one moment, pulling blankets over you, then burning hot 3 minutes later, as you run for the cool bathroom tile floor in the basement to lie down on.

But hey, what else are you going to do in life?
Author of the post here;
I'm not sure what's preventing the equations from showing. The blog are just a bunch of static sites generated by Jekyll, math is from mathjax.
I suspect the title wasn't intended to be clickbait as the top priority, but rather to give the most familiar example of a binary star system in probably any media.
>Biological life began with the first self-replicator

I never understood why people assume that those biological self-replicators were in any way analogous to quines. Quines generate information from within themselves. Proto-life would have to assemble copies of itself from molecules available in the environment. It seems like completely different principles of work.
A relative of mine once overheard a police sergeant rehearse the "story" he planned on telling the judge with his subordinate officers. He told his defense attorney, who basically shot holes through any credibility the cops may have had, and prevented the prosecutor from making anything stick, even when he tried demoting the charges from felony weapons to "disturbing the peace" -- charges my relative was innocent of regardless. I believe the police sergeant was fired, but he was not prosecuted.

In case you're wondering, me and mine are some of the whitest people you'll meet. It happens to black people more, but it can happen to anyone.
It's great that you are concerned with helping people who are convicted of crimes, but I'm very concerned about unintended consequences. This old quote comes to mind:

"You should buy a company any fool can manage because eventually, one will." (attributed to Peter Lynch)

With all respect, the founders seem well-intentioned (though my impression of them is worthless, being based on a few paragraphs) but if Promise succeeds then eventually others will run the company and there will be competitors. As Lynch says, we can't count on the managers.

Prisoners are very vulnerable. As we have seen with the for-profit prison industry and bail industry, they are abused when at the mercy of private business. For example, I read recently that in some prisons, prisoners receive only one meal on some days in order to cut costs. For profit businesses have every incentive to abuse these people and no incentive on the other side except the good intentions of management. Eventually, the management won't be so well-intentioned.

Making money from incarcerating people may be an unavoidably unethical business. Perhaps a non-profit would be a better idea.
You forgot the standup meeting, the pre-standup meeting, the endless slack messages, the text to tell me you emailed me... it's crazy making, isn't it?
That is exactly why a special prosecutor should always be appointed and the special prosecutor should always be someone who would not directly work with any police organization connected to the case.

There is an inherent conflict of interest in having the person responsible for investigating crimes be someone who needs to work closely with the people and organizations who allegedly committed the crimes.
While this is generally a positive step by Google it will fall short in revitalizing the news industry for a simple reason. In a world of near infinite content options, most people can no longer justify having any single news subscription.

A better solution is a fractional subscription model where subscriptions are tiered to one's reading needs. This is what my company http://CivikOwl.com is working on. Hope to make a positive contribution to this important issue facing society.
Kaspersky's 'Slingshot' report burned an ISIS-focused intelligence operation
Well, he lost control of VK years ago and seems to be working hard to prevent that from happening again.

That's part of why I trust it enough to use it (at least for some of my communication. )
Cambridge Analytica: A Randomized Algorithm for Attenuating Voter Signal
Their continued unwillingness to create a US 501(c)(3) entity to receive donations from US donors means that they will continue to lose out on a significant number of potential donations.
> As a US citizen, it's not clear to me why this is wrong or bad, only that people "don't like it."

Hacker News had various articles explaining that the EU soon will have something called the GDPR (https://www.eugdpr.org/). UK is going to exit the EU, but it's not about that in particular. If EU citizens didn't give explicit permission for this data to be shared Facebook is not following this law. As UK is questioning this behaviour it seems they'll probably have something similar to GDPR after they leave the EU.

Further, this was NOT about providing ads, instead the data personal information was shared with a third party without this being explicitly consented to. People have been profiled without this been explicit, further no consent was given. That's what is not ok.

All the other questions seem like strawmans.
That's seems a little abstract to me. All I can say is, a hard-learned fact for anyone who's followed the crypto scene from the early days is: strangers will take your money if it is at all possible. You do not have the protections you're used to having from society. Trust is a weakness that will be exploited.
The police are 100% your enemy once they start questioning you about anything. Record, record record.

Catch them in one lie, and you get off scot free. Source: been dealing with the "justice" system since I was 17, most recently last year where I recorded an agent of the court committing perjury.

Yes, nothing happens to them but most importantly, they've never been able to convict me of anything.
Sure, although if you own the university (also, this is near Princeton), it probably makes the job easier. Unless Georgetown is run by the Chinese already.