skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quip by Babbage is clever, but Babbage was too early and didn't know what we know. He could not anticipate the digital abstraction, error-correcting codes, compressed sensing, and machine learning.

Modern computing systems have components that produce output that's "better" than their input, at every level. Because we have information theory now, we know it is possible for a machine to produce good output even when some of its input is bad.

Google, incidentally, has aimed to do that for its entire existence. From the first time the Google search engine was deployed, its job was to take in the messy Web, full of misdirection and spam, and show you the useful pages you were looking for. And we can keep hoping for Google to keep doing this as the threats to information become more insidious.
I should probably start bookmarking this stuff. To be clear, the connection to exercise resistance/intolerance is my own speculation. Most of the actual research so far is focused on the relationship between abnormal interoception and aspects of mental illness. A lot of this is also pretty preliminary; as far as I can tell, there's not yet much consensus on even a rigorous definition of which sensory functions qualify as "interoceptive", let alone validation of methods to measure it. That being said, interesting articles include:

Alexithymia, not autism, is associated with impaired interoception [1]

“Lacking warmth”: Alexithymia trait is related to warm-specific thermal somatosensory processing [2]

Alexithymia: a general deficit of interoception [3]

Alexithymia Is Associated With a Multidomain, Multidimensional Failure of Interoception: Evidence From Novel Tests [4]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4962768/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5595273/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5098957/

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824617/
I can't stand the fact that iOS will download updates without asking... even when not connected to a charger. I've been on terrible train station wifi in a foreign land and noticed that an update "is now available!" Absolutely horrific decision from Apple on that one. The only way to stop it? Filling your phone with enough music/video/pictures that iOS can't fit the update in there...
Gah, can't edit that post anymore. Here's the study. It's dated March 21 2018:

"Exposure to Opposing Views can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media"

https://osf.io/a7r6e/
I know many in Seattle who draw an extreme image of the South and for the most part it feels highly political. In that case I remember that Intolerance of other points of view is the definition of bigotry. It's important to not color an entire state of people with specific moral values.
Your chance of dying is 100%. I'd rather enjoy some bacon every once in awhile then worry about single digit variations in my chances of getting cancer. I do tend to buy uncured bacon anyway though.
> 2) Yes. Half or more of the applications I've reviewed are totally unqualified. Either they ignored the requirements or fudge it and flop on the interview.

I mean if you are calling something "entry level position" and have "requires 3 years experience in the field", I'd expect people to apply anyway. I remember when I was fresh out of college all the entry positions I saw required several years of experience. If you don't apply to those positions then you really aren't applying to anything.
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Clone away!

Mirroring or torrenting the packages is also a good idea:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-desktop/releases
For what it's worth, the scrolling experience is way better on mobile. But I don't know how anyone could ever approve the desktop experience, it could easily be used as an example of what not to do with scrolling. It's the worst thing I have seen like this, personally.
> Wrappers like Docker and Kubernetes ...

How's Kubernetes a wrapper? Wrapper on what? The ones you listed are dependencies. What projects don't have dependencies?

> Docker initially wrapped the LXC project without proper credit ...

Docker hasn't been a wrapper for lxc for a long time (at least 3+ years, which is a long time in tech world). Also, the debian package at the time was called lxc-docker.

> Many commentators even today are not clear about containers and think Docker invented containers.

Misguided people are always going to be the majority, especially in the tech world. People actually working with these technologies, they will bother to figure out the differences.
I think should AA be applicable, it should only concern with one's socioeconomic status, not ethical background.
Why does it have to be counternarrative (specifically counter-)? Crooks don't need to be effective to be crooks.
I don't ignore requirements or fudge them, but I do interpret them based on what they want done.

If they want 10 years of Ruby/Rails experience with a focus on performance/scalability, maybe your 5 years of Python/Django is not applicable.

But if they want 3 years of Ruby/Rails experience and you've got 5 years of Python/Django, and feel comfortable with the transition to Ruby, absolutely you should apply for that position.

Be upfront about it and be prepared to demonstrate your ability, but that's what the interview is supposed to be about in the first place.
Normal? Yes. Risk? Probably not that much, tbh. Annoying / unethical? Definitely.

King has had deals with Microsoft for a while now so basically every OS release comes with some of their games pre-loaded on the start screen. Those games probably require certain privileges to function correctly so the permissions are built in as well.
Good point, it was pretty interesting that Facebook was allowed to buy WhatsApp. That just seemed like slow monopoly building in live action to me. Regulators just can't keep up
The best I saw on LinkedIn was "3 years of experience required in TensorFlow". Released in late 2015...
eMMC is actually really different than SD in ways that matter for mobile devices. For example, eMMC supports a very low level hardware booting sequence (boot ROMs on SoCs can clock in data without needing a driver to initialize the eMMC device). Software drivers for MMC and SD add a lot of complexity. They need to query the device determine if it is eMMC, MMC, SD and then query the card status and properties and support quirky cards. MMC and SD have different specifications and initialization state machines (even though there is some overlap). I am not even going to mention secure boot. This is way much more complex than you might think.
Ahem, fare well.
Hey guys, that’s an app I created for myself first. It will save tracks that played in a playlist so you don’t have to do it. Let’s say you’re having friends over and you start playing cool songs, you can have the list ready for you in Spotify. Road trip? Everyone is asking to play something, you can save it all and have it to remember the ride without having to add each track manually. I would love to add more features!
>Code Of Conduct and Kindness

Very mature...
https://share.america.gov/scientists-genetically-modified-fo...
To be fair, self-driving cars don't need any help in endangering people's lives. At this point Uber is basically malware in company form. Or maybe that's Facebook.
Some king games were automatically installed for other users (not me, I think there must be some setting somewhere or I installed win 10 after it happened). An xbox app is also included in the default install.

So I wouldn't be worried that your system had a virus or something, just that windows 10 does a bunch of stuff without asking. But I'm not completely sure.
I get downvoted on agreeable comments on 4 day old conversations....there's definitely bots or something going on.
TensorFlow 1.7.0 released
I made a similar site last August. http://www.hearnow.io/

You can pick a location on a map and it will generate a playlist for pretty much any city. I haven't done much work on it since then, but had a decent response when I posted it to Reddit. I've been considering open sourcing it, but not sure if there is interest.

My approach:

- Use SeatGeek's API to find venues/artists near the user

- Query Spotify's search API for artists with these names to get artist IDs (which you need to do other interesting things with Spotify's API)

- Filter results from Spotify search queries with fuzzy matching between artist names and results

- Use Spotify's API to get the top 5-10 most popular tracks for each artist, and randomly select ~30 to add to a playlist

Spotify's search API cannot be queried in batch which is a pretty frustrating bottleneck. I mainly solved this by caching artist name / ID pairs, but this would only really be effective if I got a lot of traffic (I don't).

Also, SeatGeek's API was a lot more friendly than Songkick, which I considered using. But SeatGeek didn't seem to have data for many venues overseas, so I had some users outside the U.S. that were disappointed that their queries would usually fail because the app couldn't find enough tracks.
Huh? The risks are way worse than they once were. Microsoft ships a lot more broken shit than they did in the past, plus everything is bundled in such a way that it’s easy to reinflict wounds.

Wormable stuff like Wanacry is usually identified and can be addressed as an emergency. Otherwise, rolling out patches in production quicker than 30-60 days is just unwise in a big or complex environment.
"I don't have an issue with the platform used for moral but illegal uses. If it helps people get medicine they need then I'm happy for them."

You really, really should not have said that. It will probably come back to bite you. Even if it doesn't, why even take the risk in making a statement like that in today's climate?
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I own an F-Pace, and it's all for the luxury, not the coolness. Riding in it and driving it is simply a luxury experience. I'd consider buying one of these, except it's quite ugly and has the same dumb wheel aesthetic that BMW put on their even uglier electric cars.
Nope, that's not my "real" IP address

Reminds me a bit of this old story: http://sirkan.iit.bme.hu/~kapolnai/fun/bitchecker.html
There are very few totally distributed applications out there, and no social networks ones that I'm aware that have any traction.

I think Diaspora is the closest:

https://diasporafoundation.org
> If the political benefit really outweighed the costs, then every single billionaire would be doing the same thing, purely out of selfish interest.

Well, they are doing for the selfish interest of feeling and looking good.

And I'm completely ok with that!
I am a manager. I wouldn't look because I understand that online representations of a person paint an incomplete at best and extremely inaccurate at worst picture of the person, especially as it pertains to their ability to work, and that there isn't any solid empirical data supporting assertions like the ones you're making.

Do you actually believe most of what you read on the internet? It's just amazing to me that anyone actually takes these things as seriously as you do.
If that's your first job and you can hold it down for awhile, then I think your next job hunt will go better.

Especially if you start the next job hunt while still employed. That's an important signal to your employer, that someone else was willing to hire you. It also helps to ensure you're not desperate, because your next paycheck is not hinging on the current interview.
It's not limited to visa-cheating; in certain industries, you have to advertise the position even if you already know who you're going to hire. Look at the backpages of publications like The Economist - do you really think huge companies will find a CEO or Senior Executive with a magazine ad? Of course not.
There are, obviously similarities. Yet there are, I believe, also two major differences:

(a) This was 8 and 4 years earlier. A lot changed in that timeframe. While, yes, there were always concerns about privacy, the string of data leaks, and the increasingly obvious power of statistical methods for targeting, have had a strong effect on the general public's attitude towards the practice.

(b) The Obama campaign did not break their contract with Facebook. Facebook did apparently turn of their API limits, either because of sympathy or because that's just what they did for big clients back then (FarmVille got the same privilege). But in the end, it appears that nobody broke any rules back then.

Now this probably won't convince everybody. So let me say this: even if the reaction now is hypocritical, it seems everyone agrees that the current outrage is justified. If so, it would be foolish not take action now just because "your team" got caught while the other got away. After all, the chances of each party being advantaged by such practices going forward seem to be exactly equal.

(Not to mention the vastly larger universe of threats not involving the two US parties)
The only thing holding me back from deleting Facebook is the huge number of acquantainces / old friends on there that I have no other way to contact.

I've heard people say things along the lines of "If you can't or won't talk to them again without Facebook, they might as well be strangers. If you do see them in the future, then you can catch up with each other then". I suppose that's a good way to think about it, but it's still fun for me to be able to see what folks are up to every once in a while even if I have no intention of, like, ever getting in contact with them again.
none of it really counts. What really counts is your skills and ability to confidently talk about them. Or put differently, its your choice if internship or whatever experience really counts. You also have to convince the prospective employer to respect your choice, but if you can confidently represent yourself that may be easier than you think.
There was no iOS SDK that year, it only came later.

Jailbreakers figured out how to build native apps almost immediately, so it's not impossible. But it sounds like that's not what he was talking about.
The use of pesticides in non-GMO crops is likely one of the major factors for a modern extinction event. There's been a 75% decline in the total biomass of flying insects over the last 27 years (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....). This is affecting the entire ecosystem.

GMO crops can be engineered to be pest resistant, requiring far less use of pesticides, without harming the crop's suitability for human consumption.

Ignorance on this issue is destroying ecosystems in agricultural areas.
Bug report: wait for a 4-block line, move it to the far right, and hit Up to rotate. The game first gets the piece stuck then decides that's where the piece is going to sit.

Report 2: the arrow keys control the game _and_ scroll the page.

Edit: My brain isn't fast enough for this D:

Anti-kudos for making pause hide the grid, so I can't spend time staring at it GRR :P
I see. I misunderstood how the app worked.
QUIZ: Are You Fun or Easily Manipulated into Taking This Quiz for Data Mining?
If there is a bike in the road, I want my car to stop; whether a prankster kids push it out just in time or it's a woman pushing it across slowly.
Really... nobody is going to mention the last sentence? [rolls eyes]
What is beam system and how does it work
Beam system is active infrared detector. It is consist of transmitter terminal, receive terminal, Optical lens, LED indicator for light intensity etc. The system works as invisible light wall. When someone is entering into the light wall, it blocked the beams. Then the detector triggers alarm for warning and notice. The beam system keeps working 24 hours.photoelectric beam system
The Bt-toxin from Bt-bacteria is even a certified organic pesticide, because it's produced "naturally" by the bacteria. It's used in organic farming.

https://www.amazon.com/Bonide-Products-803-Thuricide-16-Ounc...
I wish that concise, jargon-free explanations like this one were more common in discussions of theoretical physics and cosmology; thank you for posting.
What is Nokia?

Just joking, Totally agree with you...
I've only glanced at [0] but I'm skeptical on the face of it. Everything about Bloom filters falls right out of the binomial distribution, provided you follow the assumptions for optimal number of bits and hash functions. Given those,

n = 1, k = 2, m = 2

from the top of page 2 isn't even a valid configuration. Among other things, filters in which more than half the bits are set (within some tolerance) should be rejected. In this example a third of the filter's possible states are completely saturated and have to be tossed out. Otherwise you have a 100% false positive rate for that filter.

I.e. if a saturated filter were acceptable, there are 3 states: 01, 10, 11. These have, respectively, a 1 in 3, 1 in 3, and 3 in 3 false positive chance, for a total of 5 in 9 (I assume the 5 in 8 from the paper is a typo). But actually there are only 2 valid states: 01, 10. The valid inputs are still 01, 10, 11, though, so the real false positive chance is 1 in 3.

Maybe I'm missing something.
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I'm pretty sure a vanishingly small number of hammers actually get used for destruction and despair, so I would have no problem being involved in hammer production.

It does not just matter that something CAN be used for evil, it matters how likely it WILL be used for evil.
I don't suppose the FDA/USDA/EPA have ever been known to be wrong about relatively new practices?

But classic methods have been used and proven for centuries. It seems riskier and frankly, backwards, to me to require stricter regulation on what has been proven but easily permit that which is new and still being tried out.
It's obviously damning because it shows that he knows he's potentially facilitating illegal activity.
To be fair, it is wise to think critically about one's own appearance when faced with a large amount of media attention.
Apple doesn't sync secure enclave information to iCloud. Also, not all iCloud synced information can be accessed. iCloud Keychain, for example, can not be decrypted by Apple.
Arsenic is also 100% natural.

"Engineered chemicals" shouldn't be used when you mean "harmful". It sounds ignorant.
Everyone is too busy believing they are different to hear what you are trying to tell them. Maybe after 20 years in the Silicon Valley meatgrinder they’ll hear you.
Agreed that it’s scary if someone actually manages to get it working. CA did not, nor did Obama who was given access to far more data. But the issue is the false narrative being sold by these news stories. If you ask an average person right now what happened based upon these news stories, they’ll tell you that Trump hired someone to hack their Facebook data and then used it to target Facebook ads to them, and that this was so effective that he was able to steal the election from Hillary. That’s what I take issue with - it’s a provably false narrative.
Jaywalking is not the same as walking on train tracks --- and the U.S. (and many other countries) heavily regulate how train tracks are divided and secured from pedestrians to prevent these deaths, and trespassing. There is a reason why yardmen have a reputation of beating homeless.
Where I work, if college kids do well in their internships they get offers before they even graduate.
Vim day in and day out for years. What am I missing from IDE I feel like there's a lot
Revisionist History - McDonald's Broke My Heart

The copy on the website does a much better job explaining the episode than I could.

"McDonald’s used to make the best fast food french fries in the world — until they changed their recipe in 1990. Revisionist History travels to the top food R&D lab in the country to discover what was lost, and why for the past generation we’ve been eating french fries that taste like cardboard."

I like all of the episodes, but this is a fun one to dig into if you've never listened before. Most of the episodes are more serious than this one.

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/19-mcdonalds-broke-my...
That's called influence, changing people's minds with relatively small amounts of money. And it works.
How am I supposed to write a spec so detailed that Junior engineers can build it? To be a tech lead you have to do waterfall development?
> You can grow food however you like, for the most part. If you want to participate in certification, then that's what you have to do.

Yes you can grow as you like but it seems backwards to me that you have to prove you are /not/ doing unusual things. If any regulation should occur it ought to be in doing the /unusual/ things.

> Furthermore, many modern 'organic' methods

I'm not speaking of newer methods. I would have any new method more strictly regulated until proven.
Interesting. Do you have any more write ups on this published?

Also, I love MUBI.
> you can legally create a PDF writer

I just meant Acrobat Reader was free, Acrobat writer was not. (People tried this with the web - browser free, server not - but it didn't work out.) Your point about 3rd party readers/writers is also consistent with sensible and long-term profitable management of a digital standard: your competitors promote your standard instead of competing with it.
Wow. :(

That's kind of bizarrely motivational, in a weird sort of way.
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It seems like making cars is different from making rockets. Perhaps making rockets reusable provides a larger competitive moat than making cars electric. The car business is probably substantially more mature than the rocket business, because of the larger amount of iteration.
> Calling Android “fair use” is the insane argument, as legal experts have said.

Every step of this case, until CAFC, showed the opposite of that, that Android met all four requirements, which is more than enough. That would seem far from insane.

> In any case, Oracle showed that portions of code were either copy-pasted or heavily “recollected,” so I say they did their job showing they have a real case.

They didn't. They showed only that the definitions were the same. Not the methods, subclasses, nor body. Only the API.
It's even sadder to see how they treat others.
A theory is a hypothesis that is well-substantiated by data. Dark matter is such a theory, those who believe otherwise almost always do not understand the data.
I don’t for a moment believe GMOs are in anyway harmful. I do wonder though if they have had the effect of fueling population growth, without necessarily helping the hungry.

It’s often stated that GMOs are needed to feed the growing population, but I get the sense that the most of the benefits go to just increasing population and not lowering the raw number of people who are actually undernourished.

In a world without GMOs would there be fewer total people and would that be better than the alternative?
I thought it looked a bit like they were throwing their human backup driver under the bus as well. Not cool.
It would be nice to use an IPFS mirror. If still no one has mirrored it on IPFS I'll do it when I get home.
Are there cost effective ways for hobbyists to solder BGAs? I remember back in the day, it wasn't that expensive to get an etching kit and create some single layer prototype boards but they all used through hole components. Now-a-days it doesn't seem like that kind of stuff is possible anymore.