skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternative history, if perfect surveillance existed in 1950:

The first private conversation that Martin Luther King, Jr. had about the injustice of his time was captured and automatically analyzed, and as a result he was identified as a disturber of the peace and arrested for unrelated violations long before his message ever reached an audience.

Rosa Parks was detained for disorderly conduct long before she made her stand, and as a result her stand never happened.

There was never a zeitgeist of change in the oppressed community, because there were never any stories of people resisting. They were all prevented from acting in any significant way, or from getting together to share their stories and find support.

The issue of racial discrimination never made it to court because all of the people who could have brought it there were stopped before they could get started.

Perfect surveillance can stop any threat to the status quo while it's in its infancy, long before it amounts to anything. It can probably do it without introducing any new, draconian laws by simply looking through recent history for "questionable" actions and harassing people over them.

The argument that it's okay now basically amounts to saying that there is no longer any injustice and that today's system is a perfect example of virtue and fair play, and that anyone who disagrees is a malcontent who really does deserve to be silenced.

Sometimes the majority is wrong, and it takes brave people willing to break the rules in order to point it out and change things. I'd say that democracy does depend on privacy for this reason.
The point is: can / should it be done on a "visual basis"?
I'm not sure I agree with what I'm about to say myself, but wanted to see how others feel....

The advent of the internet has caused us to question a lot of our rights as a people. We originally felt strongly around our right to free speech and our social networks embodied that to its logical conclusion, and now we're here at a dire state of hate speech and vitriol that threatens the (perceived) stability of our democracy. While the printing press and television have contributed to our partisanship, it's almost undeniable that the internet - and the ability for anyone anywhere to publish anything - has pushed us over the edge.

There have been serious considerations about what we can do about this. One of the issues is that, as a people, we might not be ready to have all this power ourselves.

I'm wondering if that extends to encryption and privacy. Can we, as a people, be trusted with this level of autonomy, power, and security?
Wildcard table queries are very slow in BigQuery, you can see it here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47984438/how-to-speed-up...
Fix housing. Real estate hyperinflation is the problem in this state. Most of the other major problems are caused by real estate hyperinflation.

* Take zoning away from local zoning boards or at least place limits on the power of NIMBYs at the state level.

* Reform zoning laws to encourage infill and mixed use development. If local zoning boards won't do this override them at the state level.

* Impose a stiff tax on foreign non-occupant real estate purchases. Houses are for people, not to act as a proxy financial instrument for non-residents to exfiltrate capital and launder money. (I have no opposition to immigrants purchasing homes to live in. I'm talking about non-occupant cash buyers using our real estate as a financial instrument.)

* Repeal proposition 13. It would require a phase-out over a long period of time, but would add tax increases as a counter-pressure against real estate price hyperinflation. As it stands there is no downside for homeowners to do everything in their power to inflate housing.

* Invest a lot more in public transportation to make more of the housing stock reachable and commutable for more people. Some of the money for this could come from taxing foreign non-occupant purchases of RE, etc.
What we talk about when we talk about monads (not a monad tutorial)
Here are my results: https://imgur.com/a/B26XL

You will most likely have to zoom-in to be able to read them properly. Sorry about that.

Baidu for me returns mostly YC resources, whether on the same domain or not, wiki and HN. However, on Google it's mostly social media links and some regional article (even after being signed out on incognito at google.com/ncr).

It's probably Google returning links that it thinks I'd most likely visit. It's clearly getting it wrong though, I'd rather have HN on the first page of the results, than YC's twitter. But then again, the social media links could just be in my google results and I may prefer baidu's results right now cause I've never used it before.

Nonetheless, can't seem to wonder about the difference between the results. Do you think we need Baidu to participate in english search for a slightly different perspective on things?
> What's wrong with using tons of oil? It's not being burnt so it doesn't contribute to climate change. Are you concerned that it's wasting the valuable oil that would be better used to power a car or power station?

Instead of having a VLCC bringing crude to a Gulf Coast refinery where a large part is converted into propylene for bottle and cap production, the crude could be kept safely in its original well, unused. If the demand for propylene (et al) is reduced, refiners would alter their production to make less, ultimately lowering their crude intake, ceteris paribus.
Couldn't you settle this by controlling for initial mental health in two groups, having one group start using Instagram, and tracking any changes? If your point is that it would take work to separate correlation and causation then yes, agreed, but I don't see why you would think we can't know for sure.
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As people are now I would agree. I meant simply producing enough food for 73 billion people.
There is no source, because it's bullshit. FB has never sold access to their API. Access to the friend's data permission, like all other permissions, was free.
This is a result of NIMBYism in those neighborhoods, not any Jump bike policy.
The code you mentioned, pushTarget in particular, is for semantic checking, nothing to do with purely syntactic analysis AKA parsing. In particular, pushTarget is for break to label and continue to label (the "Target" is a labeled statement's exit or continue point).
Look up China's 'String of Pearls' strategy. They want military infrastructure (civilian airports and ports fill that role) in the Indian Ocean, in part to contain India.
AKA "The Baby-Industrial Complex"
Another data point of one, but when I was in Arizona in March, I tried Ofo bikes. The fact that I could ride to exactly where I wanted to go without having to find a dock was the only reason I thought it was viable. I rode to an açaí restaurant, "docked my bike" then rode the bike to work. My office was no where near where the company would have put a dock so I would say that dockless was an extremely value feature.

As far as Ofo picking up the bikes on their end... that's probably a nightmare. That being said, there is a Data Skeptic - Bike Share Rebalancing[1] episode so I'm sure there are data scientists optimizing the pickup and distribution algorithm to make deckles cheaper or as cheap as docked bikes.

[1] - http://podbay.fm/show/890348705/e/1476457200
Outdated, out-shmated. The concept of a university has changed enough times that whatever "new" view is in vogue now is a repeat of what came before. Once upon a time universities were a place to get relevant vocational training as a cleric, doctor, administrator, and a handful of other fields.

The advice you give - "it is the gateway to a career" - has rather large built-in flaw.

The student loan industry, and the increasingly profit-oriented universities, have basically looked at the overall earnings difference of getting a degree and exclaimed "I want me some of that!"

Young adults who start life $30,000 in debt, for that is the current average outstanding student loan balance per borrower, make for a more compliant wage slave.

Your complaint does not seem to be about universities, but rather concerns the lack of a respected vocational training path. Since you appear to understand the historical context of what 'well-rounded' is supposed to mean, I think your use of 'bizarre' was facetious.

Moreover, you have changed what you are talking about. In your previous comment you were focused on students who "take less-demanding courseloads, in order to boost your GPA for graduate school admissions, and expend most of your efforts training for the MCATs or LSATs." Most people who attend a 4-year college as 'a gateway to a career' do not plan on additional post-college education. As such, they do not have the perverse inventive you described.
This seems like a defensive play against google maps. The most likely future for Uber is to be a route option in Google maps or some other app, where the user chooses the app first, and the transport method first, and Uber will just be an option with a price tag and time beside it, alongside Lyft and waymo and whatever other services are operating.

Bringing other transport methods under the Uber umbrella seems like a play to keep you opening the Uber app when you want to go somewhere, rather than opening somebody else's app and selecting Uber.
So Uber will use no-margin bike rides to market loss-leader car rides. As ridiculous as this sounds you may be correct.
The last motorcycle I bought I had to wait two days to go to a physical branch and get a (free!) cashiers check then go back to the shop to buy the bike. We made the deal on a Saturday and the guy asked for a check and I said "It's 2018, I don't have a checkbook" to which he chuckled but it wasn't clear what I would have used instead. Normally I would just carry cash but I don't make habit of holding on to that much cash. There are billpay methods I could use with my bank but they are not instant, anything instant would have cost something like 3% which on ~$5,000.00 is not feasible.

This is how it has always been (tm) here. It's interesting to hear about the glorious future that other countries have. How do you identify the account you are transferring to? I was technically interacting with a business, do they just give me a phone number/email and I use that?

I think my bank is working on a way to do instant transfers but I'm not sure how any of that works.
And I don’t really see the “problem” with that, insomuch as realpolitik is definitely a thing. The US “cheats” other countries in the same way for its own influence and goals, but living here it’s wrapped up in a cultural superiority complex by our principles which while one may agree with them, are only exercised in as much as they keep the idea flowing. Exceptionalism only really works when you’re exceptional, and in many ways we do things worse.

That said, I’d not want to live under a Chinese culture and it’s Confuscianistic rules.
How was it possible, then, for millions of immigrants to come to this country with absolutely nothing and in many cases escape poverty, or at least set up their children for decent, middle class lives? They had no multigenerational wealth to speak of. Also, studies show that 70% of multigenerational wealth is gone by the second generation and 90% is gone by the third generation. There has been at least 7 generations since the ending of slavery.

EDIT - I would also like to point out that a fundamental point of this article was that the economist discovered it was basically more fair and easier to escape poverty prior to 1970.
A bad "solution" I've seen more than once in health user groups - ban disagreement (but allow contradictory threads.) "If you don't like what you see, just move along to the next thread." This removes any chance of limiting fake news, and takes trolling to a whole new level since the first big lie wins, in any thread. So not that.
Not sure what this comment is supposed to mean.

All of that was covered in the article as well.
reminiscent of any reasonably large state project.
Oil is a limited resource that can be used for way more important things than disposable water bottles, such as medical supplies (syringes, IV bags, etc) and durable plastics components. Plastics themselves are a great resource that should not be wasted, not least because of the amount of energy and water it takes to produce them.

Most plastic bottles are burnt, so they do contribute to climate change; the small percentage of bottles that actually are recycled cannot be turned into new bottles --- plastics are always downcycled; recycled plastics are sometimes mixed in with virgin plastic pellets, but it's usually a relatively small amount of the total.

(I'm setting up an educational project for school classes on the topic of plastic recycling and renewable energy.)
Check out the USA's track record if you are not a citizen. I'm sure the second amendment is a great consolation after your children died in a drone strike.
I think the point is that today OOP is just an architectural choice. The success of the iPhone is no more evidence of OOP being a paradigm shift than other platforms that also implement it (Windows, Android, Rails, etc)
Someone has to roll new crypto, otherwise we're stuck. That said, I know about the potential issues with Telegram's encryption.
Certainly, especially since everyone wants low-cost items. It creates huge pressure for non-sustainable items and processes.
The more useful part about neural net in NLP is that you can train complexe end to end models that end up performing better at their task than anything else composite.

An example of this is neural translation with the Attention is all you need paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762), which is the top of the line in translation.

An other example of this is Microsoft's R-NET (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/mrc/), which are the top of the line at question answering (https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/) (https://research.fb.com/downloads/babi/)

An other cool example of complex end-to-end network are Stanford's Dynamic Coattention Networks (https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01604)
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>> Can we, as a people, be trusted with this level of autonomy, power, and security?

A philosophical question is one worth considering for fun, but it has little practical value. There is no way to stop people from using mathematics to protect their privacy and their data, and any debate around that come from people who are innumerate.

We can discuss the should/could stuff as a matter of interest to waste taxpayers' dollars and time, I suppose, but that's not what lawmakers generally try to discuss. They want to figure out how to do the impossible, or at least lie about it.
I've always felt there was more niche money in marketplaces.
Dont complain, you are not even divorced yet ;-)
Sure, in software engineering you can be self-taught

The rampant security holes everywhere suggest that that isn't as true as was once believed.
That's not true at all. One of the most obvious differences is physical strength. Pre-industrialization men were required for "heavy lifting".

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/4vcxd0/alm...

The ability to give birth is another obvious difference that has nothing to do with nurture but is directly relevant to the topic at hand.
Decolonise science – time to end another imperial era
This looks great! Any interesting articles that you have in the pipeline?
A strong, well-funded safety net protects and lifts all boats.
You may find this useful:

https://leanpub.com/insidethepythonvirtualmachine

I read through it, and the Python-interpreter-in-Python article, and all the documentation of the 'dis' module, while prepping the talk I'm giving at PyCon next month (which is on bytecode). They were all good resources.
> The MIT economist Peter Temin argues that economic inequality results in two distinct classes. And only one of them has any power.

Nobody studies history anymore. This has always been the case, and the ratio of haves to have-nots has only improved with time, as has the quality of life of the have-nots. That ratio may have been a little better in the golden years after WW2 in the USA, but it's still way better now than it ever was before WW2.

Modernity truly is the tide that lifted all boats.
I've had Telegram, Slack and Discord open all day. Currently, they're using: 7MB Telegram, 350MB Slack, and 140MB Discord. Other heavy things I've got running are 160MB Spotify (which is electron) and 1GB Firefox (which is doing actual work with its memory).
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I was taught that long before anyone even thought of OCR :-)
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On Google Maps the airport looks like it only has 2 gates and a small parking lot. It seems like they definitely overpaid for an airport of that size.
Open Source, relies only on Twilio, AWS, GMC, and Apple Push.
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server/blob/master/confi...
This may be nitpicky, but I don't think we should use the phrase "rights of the government." It implies that the government has some innate justification for those actions, and I think it leads to a slippery slope whereby we create rights of the collective. For example, if the government has the right to jail people, the jail is there to protect all of us. As a society, that gives us the right to beg for anyone to be thrown into jail "for the good of society." It also gives legitimacy to any government action: if they have a right to throw people in jail, you can't really complain about it when they do so even if they're clearly in the wrong.
Not understood. There may (or may not) be an argument to be made about the difficulty of sorting between trolls and those with unusual but accurate knowledge, but you haven't made that argument. I'd be interested to hear it, but you've gotta make it.

I've never seen a never-ban policy and can't believe it would work; the conduct of genuine psychopaths online can be truly extreme and not just uncivil, but designed to prevent the forum from functioning. Persistence-bullying is one of the nastier forms this takes.
> selling it to developers

FB doesn't sell access to their API. Many other businesses sell access to their API. FB doesn't.

> Also to say that Cambridge Analytica abused the system sidesteps the issue of whether it was in Facebook's interest to allow this data to be collected and then misused.

It absolutely wasn't in FB's interest as this media firestorm indicates. Also, CA purchased data illegitimately from someone other than FB. FB did not sell your data to CA or anyone else. (FB does sell advertisements, and those ads can be targeted to specific types of users.)

> Despite new restrictions how much about me is already out there? That's what I want to know.

FB is coming out soon with a feature that will let you see if CA had access to your profile.
Or anyone who is willing to spend enough computational power now only needs to crack one key instead of millions of different ones.
> Exceptionalism only really works when you’re exceptional

We’re contrasting a democracy and a dictatorship. Each can be cruel. But one is more stable than the other.
Know that Uber has a pretty high threshold (I believe it's 4.8) that drivers have to stay above to not get kicked off of the platform. While you may not agree with how they're doing this keep in mind that when you rate someone below a 5, or maybe a 4 given that it won't move things as much, you're in a sense voting for that driver to no longer remain in the system.
I'm partway through this one based on a previous HN recommendation— it's a bit of an intimidating tome, but a very easy, engaging read.
I'm pretty sure that's Bear, a great markdown based notes app.

http://www.bear-writer.com/
>What's wrong with using tons of oil?

Plastics are incredibly useful. Tons upon tons of bottles end up in landfills, oceans, etc. Even with plastic recycling, PET yields aren't 100%. There is only so much oil and eventually the plastics we have will cease to be recyclable.

I'm not trying to say that it's wrong to use a disposable plastic bottle from time to time. There's not anything wrong with having a case of water. But no one with access to clean water should primarily use disposable bottles. It's lazy and shortsighted.
I should follow up to say: I do recognize that if the service wants to be able to display content from your facebook feed or youtube channel, certainly it needs to ask for access to that content. I don't object to that; I object to it asking for far more access than it needs, before you're even able to see the product you're granting access to, after making such a big deal about "putting the user back in control" of their data.

I went ahead and sucked it up and signed up via facebook. (There's a "free invitation code" on Dissident's facebook page, if you're curious.) It's... eh. For facebook content it only has the ability to show "Pages", not people -- I believe this is a facebook-imposed limitation, but it makes Dashboard fairly useless for that site at least. You can import RSS feeds and read them inside this app, which works reasonably well. There are dozen or so other services that can be imported as sources (mostly the usual suspects: youtube, vimeo, medium, flickr, etc). In all cases that I tried, the app asks to be granted maximal permission, whether that's reasonable or not. That's about it. The UI feels a little old-school -- it's all nested folders and tiny type -- but isn't terrible.

I dunno. Maybe if I hadn't been so turned off by the awful marketing copy I'd be feeling more charitable about the app itself -- it looks like a not-terrible feed reader, I suppose -- but as it stands I don't see anything here that seems worth paying money for, and I don't see anything that has anything to do with the manifestos and sloganeering.
They're also the world leaders in automobile safety-defects.
Site seems to be down. Google cache link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
How was it demonstrated not to be secure?
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Sure, burden. Like say, Pidgin is a burden to [x network]. Not allowing 3rd party is bad, it always is. It takes away choice.
It's not the only recently built abandoned airport; Spain has one as well. "Don Quijote Airport" (!)
That assumes you are signing things often enough to have a signature that is reliably the same each time, which for me has _never_ been the case.

Also, since developing a disability in my hands, that _can't_ be the case -- there _will_ be variations in stroke speed due to level of pain/stiffness at the time.
Apparently school districts pay teachers more who get a masters. But it seems that having a masters doesn't mean they are able to teach a single course beyond high school level.

Sounds like things are all messed up in what districts pay for. They don't need more money, they need to redirect what they're already paying for.
Any plan that relies on NOBUS ("NObody But US") information - like a global private key - is a brittle design that will fail catastrophically when the keys become public (either Snowden-style, or accidentally disclosed like the TSA master keys[1]). Why should we ignore prior experience and assume such an important, linchpin secret will somehow stay known to "nobody but us" this time?

[1] https://boingboing.net/2015/08/21/make-your-own-tsa-universa...
Even assuming this is possible, which it isn’t, whose government would hold whose keys? It’s not like there’s one government and there isn’t international crime
Do you have any evidence of that? Just looks like they've excluded areas with more tourists.

Irrespective, would still be easy (and overall nicer) if they made that transparent.
That's a problem being solved already in Scandinavian countries. It just takes education and continually improving infrastructure. The more bikers that are on the road, the safer everyone feels riding a bike, which means more bikers on the road :)