skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering what this does for the LA economy. If SpaceX is successful in it's multiple missions, both Mars and global Internet, it would create many high-paying jobs and begin to restore the losses from aerospace [0].

[0] See slides 6 & 7:
https://laedc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/KimberlyRitterM...
An invasive species is by definition something not native to an area.

>if Kudzu somehow (perhaps a form of geological change happens in thousands of years like a land bridge, or continental shift, or maybe the seeds are simply moved by some migrating population of bird) reached these new ecosystems by it's own means, it would still be an invasive species.

If the plant migrated on it's own than that area is now its native area.
Aurora was announced Serverless in December
With a privacy-based cryptocurrency like Monero or Zcash, or Bitcoin anonymously purchased using a privacy-based cryptocurrency.
This particular part of it isn't a new idea though, it's literate programming, been around since Knuth.
I've been intrigued lately by the notion of Japan's "Fifth Generation", and wonder what was the nature of the research being done, its actual results, etc. I'm also wondering if there are possible links that we could try to establish with the current AI boom. One interesting book I found about the subject is this one:

https://www.amazon.ca/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intelligen...

But as it's from 1983 (i.e. right in the actual period), I don't think the historical perspective would be very present. Anyone has other interesting reading suggestions?
> an embryo is not a person
> but embryos aren't in that grey area, not even close.

You're begging the question. You haven't provided any reasons or arguments for your position. You've merely re-asserted it. It's akin to saying "It's true that x, because it's true that x".

How is my judgement that an embryo is innocent arbitrary? What crime has the embryo committed? What did it do to warrant being killed?

The trouble with your position is that you have to make an arbitrary judgement. You have to arbitrarily judge the fetus to be a person at some point. Is it at 12 weeks, 6 days, 32 weeks? The day before it is born? When, exactly? What criteria are you using for making that judgement? Why not the day before? Why not a day later?

My position doesn't require making an arbitrary judgement, or answering any of those silly questions. It requires making an intuitive, simple, straightforward observation: from the very moment that the sperm and the ovum meet and the genetic material between the two is exchanged (i.e., the egg is fertilized), a new human life is formed, with its own ends and identity. If nature takes its course, the person either dies naturally and the mother miscarries, or the embryo continues to develop and is subsequently born.

Further, I'm not just designating "any human cells" as innocent. I can't just designate "any human cells" and make them develop in the way that an embryo or a fetus develop. I'm talking about a specific group of spells, easily identifiable as distinct from the cells of the mother, that act in unison and coordination with one another through pregnancy to further develop the human being that has been there from the very beginning. If that is an arbitrary grouping of human cells, then I don't see how the same point can't be made to you, or to me (simply being an arbitrary collection of human cells), but everyone would recognize that this (you are an arbitrary collection of human cells, in contrast to a fully-fledged human 'life') would be absurd.

In addition, you seem to be implying that we need to use different definitions of murder in different contexts, but I don't see that's the case. How isn't the definition I provided inclusive of every instance of murder?
Well, NDAs/CDAs/licensing agreements/etc can make disclosure to non-authorized 3rd parties very painful for your customers/partners/etc to contravene your requirements for what they do with data, intellectual property, customer lists, etc.

This doesn't stop external attacks, of course, but it can reduce internal risks.

Facebook could have had more than zero control, if it had wanted.
The Real Scandal Isn't Cambridge Analytica – It's Facebook's Business Model
Given the bias inside of Google and the fact they have already demonstrated that they are not a neutral arbitrator

I hear this accusation a lot, but I haven't heard about (or perhaps I just forgot) specific examples.

Perhaps there's a comprehensive rundown of what's being alleged, somewhere on the web?

Alternately, can someone clue me in with examples?
Indeed, there are very few reasons to trust simulations to tell us anything about safety in the real world.
Retailers are hiring more people. One reason: Home renovations
I do think widgets are incredibly useful for a certain set of things. I keep an agenda on one page of my homescreen (no need to open an app to glance at what's coming up) and a widget to control some things in my house (no need to open an app just to dim lights or switch to a different preset).

I liked having the CPU/RAM usage widget in a small corner of my secondary monitor on Vista/Win7 as well.

I think the main point is that whether this kind of functionality is in a pull-down menu, a widget, or a gesture away, I like being able to specify a few things that I can access quickly without opening a fullscreen app.
In my experience demands for working > 40 hours, nights, weekends, etc. almost always comes from management and planning failures.

What makes this scenario occur so often is that the business side wields too much power when it comes to culture, estimates, technical decision making, etc. For them you solve a problem by throwing more time at it and passing responsibility when possible (along with a few extra meetings, for good measure). Not only does this approach work poorly for development, but they are often the "final stop" in the product lifecycle, thus making it impossible to avoid taking responsibility, even for others work (like, say, for incomplete or nonexistent requirements).

Perhaps worst of all is that surviving these crunches makes things worse as the wrong lessons are learned and the process continues to repeat itself as those who push for change become disgruntled and leave.

Personally I've noticed a correlation between the pushing of "team culture" and toxic environments like this. The most egregious example of this was when it was suggested that I work unpaid on the weekend to "complete the sprint work as a TEAM."
Thanks for correcting me on Google Cloud! I wasn't aware, as I work exclusively in AWS.

I stand by my statement about the benefit of multi vendor object replication.
I would slightly disagree. Abortion requires removal/destruction of an implanted embryo. The scientific consensus in the field is that these "embryonic" cell masses used to make embryonic stem cells have no possibility of becoming a human being using current technology. In vitro fertilization techniques implant much earlier embryos than what are used here.
> Yup, just what we might expect -- hordes of downvotes, zero discussion.

You were likely downvoted and flagged mainly because of the accusation that Snowden is a "Putin asset". If you want discussion, then making accusations like that is not helpful, particularly given that these documents being published by The Intercept are documents handed over before Snowden ever set foot in Russia.

EDIT: For context, the comment I'm referring to above, is the deleted/flagged grandparent of this comment which you need showdead on to see.
Seems more likely that they want the database connections than the revenue. Everyone in the Salesforce ecosystem is writing Integrations into other platforms and if they make it easier to ingest data in Salesforce and keep you there it will be more sticky.
Disclaimer: I'm anti-democracy in it's current form so before you down vote me think through my point carefully.

What I don't get about this whole issue, is that we are basically admitting that the average person who uses these services has poor critical thinking skills and the American democratic process is easily gamed as such. I feel we are trying to fix the wrong thing. Sure, regulate FB and any other company that happens to collect lots of user data I don't have a problem with that. My fundamental issue is that FB is mostly an opt-in service. As far as I can see, the shadow profiles they create on a user who isn't signed up for their services doesn't really contain enough data to be of material impact for the type of things that a company like CA is doing (it's mostly to help in it's ad network to sell you more stuff rather and is rather well anonomyzed).

The only argument against the fact that FB is an opt-in service is that it has a near monopoly on social media and seems to either buy or kill any serious threat. More important than trying to regulate FB's data collection and privacy would be ensuring that our antitrust and monopoly laws are being enforced to remove FB's near monopoly.

Further, I'm not here to defend Facebook, but I feel it's being used as a scapegoat for an easily gamed democratic process where rather than biting the bullet and fixing that, we are saying it's FB and CA are the real evil here. In fact they are not. They are for-profit businesses who are operating within the current regulatory framework they've been provided. It seems obvious to me what really needs to be fixed is a broken electoral process.
So is APL easy to skim?
>if/when Facebook decides/regulates that your business is no longer needed on their platform.

That's really my fear, I'm trying to create a critical mass where Facebook isn't required anymore. I took a big hit earlier this year when they decided to stop showing people content from pages. But a huge problem is, any article I write that doesn't get posted to Facebook gets zero hits. Posting to Facebook gets thousands of hits. No one is visiting my site without being provided a link to click on. And my audience is Millennials, which is a demographic that doesn't use email as much as others.

Even pulling all my current followers into the email newsletter, though, doesn't solve the problem of finding a new audience. Right now I can pay Facebook $1/day and reliably get 30 new followers every week. Even though my audience is all within my small town, building that audience on Facebook is far cheaper than even the most conservative physical advertising plan.

That is assuming, of course, that Facebook followers translate into actual readers. And it certainly has been an ongoing struggle to get Facebook to show my content to the people who have explicitly opted-in to see my content.

The two situations I face: either rely on Facebook (which is cheap and easy) until the day they decide I shouldn't be a business anymore, or do anything but Facebook, which is harder and more expensive. That's why people use Facebook: no one trusts it, but it's so damn easy, even when they constantly make it harder.
What do you expect? They're just an advertisement agency. They don't have the tools or skills required to perform advanced searches in a large, unstructured data corpus.

Oh, wait.
I think what he means is that Facebook doesn't filter/censor news stories your friends share if they speak negatively of Facebook.
I agree, along with a huge range of parallel machines.

Parallel machines weren't a great idea in the early 90s, because you could barely get one decent CPU on a chip and adding memory turned it into a large board per core. Now you can have satisfying numbers of CPUs plus memory on a single chip, and even a useful prototype on an FPGA.
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Erm, this isn't a maths paper.
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I do much the same. But I'm still missing local events, news, politics. I haven't figured out how to efficiently get those feeds.
This reminded me of the $560MM "AI Fund" South Korea touted after the AlphaGo-Sedol Go competition [0]. Looking for news now, it seems like they teamed up with Singapore and are taking a less centralized approach. From [1]:

Gwangju Metropolitan City (GMC) plans to set aside US$920 million (1 trillion won) to support the AI Town Project, which is expected to incubate 1,000 AI-oriented startups and educate and train 5,000 for the sector within the decade, starting from 2019.

The 3 sub-projects of the AI Town Project include: (1) Establishment of AI Research Institute, (2) Development of AI-oriented Campus, and (3) Creation of AI-oriented Start-up Ecosystem.

[0] https://www.nature.com/news/south-korea-trumpets-860-million...
[1] https://www.opengovasia.com/articles/singapore-and-south-kor...
Twitch's Glassdoor reviews noticeably started tanking since last year.
$MULE is up 22% on this news.
The controls are agreements that make getting caught doing the unauthorized act painful enough that it might be enough to deter the act in the first place.

If the price is high enough, bad actors will be willing to breach NDAs/CDAs/licensing agreements/etc, but at least then you can be seen as having done more than zero.

Might have been prudent here.
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Eve was a great idea, I’d love to see a community take it up after the business behind it folded. (I think v0.2 was the last version with the whole stack that had been built to that point working; v0.3 had engine improvements but I don't think ever had the dev environment, and v0.4 was a complete rewrite in Rust that I don't think ever got to a releasable state, though there were some demos before they went mostly silent for a while and then closed up shop.)
The parent isn't talking about paradigm/approach; they're talking about how a certain class of people ("statistics-users in or from academia", let's call them) tend to believe in things like the "statistical power" of an experiment, which—while only sensible under frequentism—isn't really a frequentist idea, but rather just a peculiar tradition of academic rigour from before it was easier to multiply large numbers in meta-analyses.

Or, to put that another way: by "frequentism", the parent poster is referring to those people who believe that one thousand experiments on five people each add up to nothing, because none of them individually had enough power to draw a significant result. And by "Bayesianism", the parent poster is referring to those people who just do the five-person experiments and use whatever data they spit out, however noisy it is, because fractions of a bit of information are still more information than they had before.
One of the fascinating things about neural embedding such as these is that the individual component dimensions have NO "real" semantic meaning to us humans. It's better to think of them as single points in a higher dimensional space.

(of course, with a clever network design you could probably FORCE "meaning" onto some components)
It's 270.000 users directly impacted. The friends of those users has also been fetched, but with a limited amount of data most of which is pulic already.
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There's no international law that prevents the UK parliament - or anyone else - from declaring they wish any random person to appear before them.

I can do that too if I want.

Specific attempts at enforcing it may or may not have legal basis, but that's an entirely separate issue.

It's entirely up to Zuckerberg whether or not he decided to appear, but he will need to consider that if he doesn't he might find the UK parliament more likely to take actions that will hurt Facebook later on.
There's because the lowest bidder won on an ever expanding requirement list.
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You presumably do not have to ship the content of the user's query up to the server.
No, the plan is for it to always return to the launch site.
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Whoops, I meant: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I pulled a Dubya!
How often do you need to regenerate your seed? That hour is more than short enough for me.
1990's era "Software Defined Radio" ... sounds like it's running Windows, using CORBA?!
Another example is combining a database with LISP via AllegroCache:

https://franz.com/products/allegrocache/

IBM took the idea further with AS/400 integrating one at OS-level for various apps to use that OS could manage for them.
Id rager their resistance was more an adversion to tech, but what do i knoe, im just a cave man
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I quite like the idea of keeping the website as static as possible - it reduces the attack surface and plays nice with CDNs and you only do dynamic stuff ad-hoc...
I also interviewed at some bulge-brackets - hands down the most difficult interviews I ever had (for quant roles). They kept hammering on really complex math/stats/programming questions. Once you would get one "right", they would hit you with something more difficult. I have read that their premise was to see how you could handle pressure and questions you didn't know the answer to. In one follow up I was asked if I remembered a previous question and if I had looked it up.
Looking at the last quotes, is it worse that Facebook did not protect the data from a violator vs giving it away explicit and intentionally?
Maybe not for the decision, but for much of the consequences.

Especially if you consider that the invasion was authorized by congress, with some of the yes votes still serving.
Don't do it while sitting when first getting started, stand up or lie on your back. Hand on belly and chest, only let belly move and feel your back and ribs expand too, not just belly. Go slow and you'll find truly how large your lungs are.
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These attacks are not interesting. They require superuser functionality. Can't believe this wasn't mentioned. If someone has superuser access on your database, it's game over.

The real solution is not to go around making DBAs' lives harder by disabling all this stuff. The real solution is to not give attackers on the internet superuser access on your database!!! Why is the database exposed to the public internet to begin with?
> So this is about web or Javascript developers

That is merely my experience perspective. The ideal conditions for innovation are the problems you are willing to solve for.

> How do you go about deliberately separating yourself from trends and socially acceptable approaches...

You solve for valid problems that you encounter (or are brought to you) opposed to dreaming up imaginary problems to solve for. This is the kind of madness that YCombinator says to never do: invent a business problem merely to start a business. Trends are not problems you encounter. They are reactionary marketplace hysteria.

> Maybe look for a different job?

I enjoy writing software. I am not going to give this up because there are a lot of insecure developers who frequently whine and cry, as frustrating as that is.

> The question is whether innovation is at least partly a social process.

The question was whether movement to cities is important because innovation is a social process. I am merely suggesting that innovation is better when not dictated by social processes therefore the whole conversation about cities is completely orthogonal. People move to cities for employment, not for innovation.
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These reuters.com writers, sure were in a rush to publish the article: https://imgur.com/a/m1FBF
>> I found it particularly bizarre that social media had become such an important aspect of our lives as to demand a “creation myth” account of its inception.

The 'creation myth' already existed, and just like the 'creation myth' of Apple, what we get down the road is the badly-watered-down, Hollywood version of the 'broken telephone' conversation about the myth...which is a lot of degrees of separation from the truth.

And the problem is, people are going into the theatre expecting certain events to happen based off of entirely fictional past events.

>> The only thing I enjoyed about that movie were the Elo formulae and the soundtrack (the metal rendition of Grieg’s In The Hall Of The Mountain King that runs behind the rowing race is particularly good, as is the track titled “Painted Sun in Abstract”).

I think everyone can agree if there's an upside to that film it's certainly Reznor's soundtrack. :-)
It's a philosophical dilemma that demands rigour. When does a human person begin?
If a few cells cannot be a person, well, adults are only bigger clumps of cells. What is the threshold? If personhood begins when the cells are independently viable, well, most infants are not independently viable and some elderly aren't either. What is the threshold?
By contrast: The moment when it all begins and the DNA is first unique, and the potentiality for an adult is present is very simple and philosophically elegant. If personhood comes later, such as implantation, birth, 7th birthday, etc. it is difficult to give a basis in the philosophical sense. Many philosophers have struggled with this and it's no simple thing.
Isn't regulating companies like facebook part of fixing the democratic process? Or what did you have in mind?
Yeah, it's been a while since this effort has come up on my radar. Now that I'm remembering a little more, these are the same guys who were behind light-table, I think. So I guess it's fair to say that they've thought deeply about the problem. I still think that the path they are exploring will not bear fruit as in my opinion they seem to have a core, almost axiomatic disbelief in the inherent difficulty of software development and a corresponding disdain for the patterns of work that have led to what is actually productive today. I think that software development is fundamentally, irreducibly hard. Poor tooling can certainly makes it more inaccessible and good tooling can certainly make it more accessible, but the real difficultly is conceptual and not due to the nature to any particular language or tooling. Therefore tooling and language alone cannot make it fundamentally easier.

I'm glad someone is exploring it. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this will yield promising results. But so far it seems like every time this kind of work come around again it continues to make big promises without concrete benefit. At best it provides a more gentle introduction for beginners, which is a good thing. But I have yet to see anything that would provide to me as a professional even half the utility and "accessibility" of my current toolset. Typically many of the simplifications they make in the name of accessibility become more of a hindrance than a help as you advance past the beginning stages.