skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of this article [1].

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d739jq/can-we-sti...
I've reviewed many relevant stats. Even the CDC concluded guns save far more lives than they take.

Remember: "defensive use" includes simply raising doubt that an attacker will survive, deterring even the consideration of assault. Home invasions just don't happen in my area, because assailants are likely shot and their demise celebrated on the news (further deterrence).
The publishing of data and code openly is just the bare minimum. But from that we can start to build more reproducable science.
For anyone interested in seeing how this could play out in the future, I recommend watching The Congress. It has a somewhat low IMDB rating, but I liked it as it addresses the corporatization of identity and the extent some people will go to live vicariously : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821641/
But then we'd get the rif raff!

No no, much better to start from the upper middle class and work your way up. While making sure you have as much possible visible diversity to hide the fact everyone in the class has exactly the same upbringing.

I went to an ivy league and so many of the minorities were nothing of the sort. Props to the 'African American' who shall remain nameless, but was the grandson of an African general who had killed tens of thousands of women and children, stolen as much money as he could, sent his son off to America before the coup, and had a blond blue eyed former model for a mother. That guy needed all the help he could get because slavery.
Crypterium, by any chance?

I signed up there with crypterium.io@mydomain. Some time after, I start getting blockchain-related spam to that address. I wonder how that happened!

When I pointed out on their Telegram channel that one of two things had happened, a) they sold me, b) they got hacked, I was threatened with a ban. Their fans thought I was a raving lunatic.

I now have a support ticket open. Surprisingly it isn't really going anywhere.

I no longer accept email at crypterium.io@mydomain...
> source: American that is still in shock by septic tank users that have to throw their feces-paper in the trashcan.

What? Where/when/why is that necessary?
The Turing test is not "chess or go". It's the ability to converse with a human about anything, including art, poetry, and yes, that almost certainly includes D&D. Unless you think D&D is easier than discussing poetry, then your point is moot.

I'd argue that if you want to solve the ability to tell a story, D&D is a terrible stepping stone. The arguments in this article are weak (You need to play in person, and physically roll the dice? ReallY?). No serious scientist thinks that's necessary.
That claim is massively wrong.

See my above comment.
If the IP addresses get associated with to many spam reports, unsubscribes etc the gmail etc will start to associate these IP addresses as bad, and will be more likely to just block them no matter what the content.
Facebook Says Data on Most of Its 2B Users Vulnerable
Whether we want to or not.
That reminds me of an interesting tidbit from my youth. In elementary school, the stall doors were removed, I suppose for the same reason. Because of that, nobody ever used them. You just had to hold it. One day, I just had to go. One of my wonderful classmates walked in on me in there, and I was mercilessly mocked for quite a while afterwords. Good times.
Diversity has been shown to be good for performance

Of phenotype and national origin? Has it really?
The tech community has an incredible disconnect with the marketing community here. We all assume buying dumps of email addresses is a bad thing, we all hate it, we all think people are working with us to stamp out the practice.

I have friends in sales in other businesses to who look at their entire job as being "buy Google ads, buy Facebook ads, buy email lists". The idea such a thing might not be ethical is absolutely foreign to them.
Does anyone have any solid basis for the degree to which this discrimination is happening (specifically scope and severity)? I'm curious to know if this is something that is impacting a large number of potential students in a significant way or is only a minor factor amongst many others when determining acceptance.
ugh, I tried to read this but I couldn't make it to the first paragraph
Of course some gun control advocates want a "we've come to collect your guns" law. I never said that no one holds extreme positions.

But that does not mean that everyone holds extreme positions, which is what you claimed.

Arguing that the extremes are the only options is a problem.

How productive would health debates be if the only two options presented were veganism and paleo? If the only sex ed options are abstinence or polyamory?

There must be room for compromise, or there is no debate, only argumentation.
Thanks? I really don't know why I would have the expectation that the views expressed on HN would be representative of the views of a group other than "People who comment on Hacker News".

Same goes for any other site that people comment on...
When people in the US say "Asian" conversationally, they usually mean "East Asian". The admissions process uses the more formal definition, which means an American who can trace his/her ethnicity to any country in Asia (including India, etc).
Wow - It’s an amazing omission how the end of this article skips over any kind of attack on YouTube employees.

> “Then, just after noon, she parked her car at a business near YouTube’s offices. She walked into one of YouTube’s parking garages, and then emerged into an outdoor courtyard where employees were eating lunch.”

> ”Emergency officials arrived at YouTube’s offices two minutes after the police first received 911 calls about shots being fired. When they arrived, they found Ms. Aghdam dead. A 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun, registered in her name, was found at the scene.”

> “By Tuesday night, YouTube, as well as Instagram and Facebook, had taken down her pages and videos...“
The military was also responsible for the miserable state of nuclear power in the United States.
Are you suggesting that each human has a unique anus-print? Or is this just some shitty theory of yours?
> the vast majority of the items that I end up with on the todo list after a review would cost $0 or very little to get right

Agreed, and I drive people crazy with my focus on those things. Thorough design and implementation (including testing) up front cost far less than correcting problems later, and they don't add the enormous cost of downtime and other failures.

But ... I've found that human beings, even serious professionals, have a capacity limit for details, and it's not very high; and if it's for an over-the-horizon risk, attention is very limited. That is my biggest constraint, editing down the details, organizing them, automating them, and making trade-offs to reduce them to a point where others don't throw up their hands. Also, it's hard to get the budget for that up front investment in what looks to others like obsessiveness (it's not; it's carefully considered ROI).

So when you show up for your review (I don't know exactly what you do, but I have an impression), 1,000 details might have been addressed but 50 overlooked. or 1,050 details might have been implemented but there was no capacity for the next 100 - resources ran out, something else came up, etc.

So I can see it both ways.
FB never revealed the content of these ads, so no one other than FB knows.
> Are all these big tech companies spending way too much money on employees and not enough on their actual product, infrastructure and security of such product?

No. They are allocating their money where their business is. The idea of "ecosystems" with 3rd party integrations has been shot down nearly everywhere - all the "big tech companies" have one thing in common: they want people to be locked in their environment as long as possible by any means neccessary and legal, as this is where the tasty ad revenue comes from.

A 3rd party Twitter client, for example, cannot show ads (and, so, generate no revenue for Twitter). Therefore, it is perfectly logical that Twitter makes their API as bad as possible for 3rd party clients (e.g. no polls, images in DMs, group DMs).
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Agreed, I think a lot of people at this point are tired of identity divisions period and just want everyone to be treated the same regardless. It comes down to your principles in the end, I'm really hoping the culture moves in this direction though. Even though some minorities will not receive the same successful outcomes, I feel that indiscriminate treatment of people regardless of their race, gender, background at all levels of society and it's institutions is the only way forward as a collectively multicultural population.
The reason this is a hard problem is how do you fix it when the admissions people are racists?

Part of the reason these policies are based on race and not some other socioeconomic standard was to get around the problem that the people making the admission decisions were racist (or at least biased).
Now imagine the same thing again, but this time in the interview where one candidate has a mid western accent, and the other a deep southern one.

People use race as a proxy for class. But it isn't the only thing. And the more people pretend race is the deciding factor, and not class, the more shitty laws and rules we have in place trying to fix a symptom of a disease everyone wants to pretend isn't there.
Go buy a Windows laptop instead. I don't think Apple is going to do away with it.
God I hate this post format.
For perspective, one teacup holds 150ml of liquid. Nestle will be using 14 535 981 teacups of water.

Is this a relevant comparison? Just as much so as comparing a local watershed-impacting factory to a state's usage.
I'd imagine you wouldn't be lying. You'd be "identifying" as black. And while you're at it, identify as a black woman. It would throw the whole system into chaos (until people start profiling based on names).
If only they would have kept the powe button, that could double a finger print reader, ant the esc button. I wouldn’t mind the oled screen I place of the f-keys.
I think HN users are outraged at everything.
captain: "Can i play it safe on the way back?"

boss: "Yes, authorized."

NTSB: "What do you mean authorized? It's not your decision. Did the captain ask you if he could go the safe way on the way out?"
note: I don't know linux...

Is it possible to get the GPU to copy kernel / system memory to the framebuffer, then read that back with user space app? I.e. can we convince the GPU or framebuffer to give us the contents of protected system memory?
The max IOPS for provisioned EBS is less than 10% the max IOPS of dedicated hardware SSDs.
In social situations, "Asians" generally refers to East Asians. However, most official demographic-checklists don't have an option for "South-Asian", and expect them to self-identify as "Asian". Hence, much of the evidence you see from the above lawsuit, likely applies to South Asians as well.
That’s convenient.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5573875/Street-artis...
This is great if you don't have small children -- I discovered this the hard way... Otherwise, you probably need something with an auto shut off watchdog timer.
I agree with you generally. However, using persistent data structures can sometimes be tricky and can complicate the code. As long as you contain the mutability you can get some benefits: increased performance, reduced memory usage, etc.

I once wrote a SIP client for Windows mobile in .Net. Resources were scarce and .Net would spin up threads if you so much as looked at it the wrong way. I had a single thread reading from the network into a circular queue -- clearly that had to be mutable or memory allocation alone would have set the machine on fire. I then used a reactor pattern in the UI thread: basically on the windows event loop being idle, I read from the circular queue. Because I could guarantee that there was never any more than 1 thread reading from the queue and 1 thread writing to the queue, I could get away with no locking (you drop packets that will overrun the queue).

For me, that's the kind of thing that this graph is saying: mutability is problematic, but if you are forced to use it you need to be really careful about concurrency.
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Is this article from the future?

The first quarter of 2018 brought startling losses to the crypto market. Bitcoin has, according to Coindesk, toppled from its $19,343 December 16, 2017 high to $6,926 as of May 31, 2018
There's a huge difference between buying ads and straight up buying email lists...
> Child porn is terrible, but very few people produce it or want to look at it.

There are many jurisdictions were people who are legally underage engage in sexting etc. There's hardly any "universal standard". Never mind areas where "gay" sex illegal etc.
Same, I’ve had sleep paralysis for as long as I can remember. A lot of stories of alien abduction, out-of-body experiences, mystical visitations by nightmares and demons, &c. strike me as plainly SP. Learning that it’s a normal sleep disorder made the experience less frightening and confusing, and kept me from falling into the trap of thinking of it as supernatural. Now if I have an episode I just relax and wait for it to be over. I haven’t had one in a long while, though, by avoiding triggers such as sleep deprivation, stress, alcohol, and sleeping on my back. Unfortunately, that also means I have to avoid lucid dreams, which are closely related—and yet as far as I’ve seen, this connection is rarely talked about except by the lucid dreaming community (also often rather mystical and full of woo).
Nestle is paying $5200 for all the water it is drawing. I'd be willing to wager they're paying 10-20x that on lobbying efforts.

https://www.bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-nestle-wat...

The county they're in has high unemployment and they make the case that it's all about the jobs they're creating.
IME there are as many interpretations of divine law as there are individuals who believe in a god.
> By contrast, look at the number of coffee shop bathrooms (for example) that use a code system to further keep out the riff-raff, and in exchange generally offer a more private setting - maybe not European standards, but more private nonetheless.

Makes sense if you’ve been responsible for a bathroom that has been defiled. I worked in a retail shop where a homeless person bathed himself from the sink and made things such a mess that the bathroom had to be closed off from both customers and employees. It was, bluntly, gross.

Being homeless should not rob people of access to basics such as a bathroom. At the same time, businesses should not have to fill in for this need. The solution, as I see it, is improving access to city resources with a budget designed to serve the homeless. I don’t know how to accomplish this; it just seems most appropriate to me given my limited knowledge.
Very cool to see this catching on, similar to the Edge features rolling out of Cloudflare and Fastly. I’ve been doing similar things with Nginx + LUA, and I’m curious about the performance of your V8 runtime. Also, where are y’all located? I’m looking for a change and this is a domain I’m highly interested in.
TL;DR:

> an ancient Roman would grab a tersorium (or, in my technical terms, a “toilet brush for your butt”). A tersorium is an ingenious little device made by attaching a natural sponge (from the Mediterranean Sea, of course) to the end of a stick. Our ancient Roman would simply wipe him- or herself, rinse the tersorium in the running water or a small bucket of vinegar, and return it to the stand for the next person to use.

The question is finally answered in the 11th paragraph of the article.
How to live without Google?
Yea, this is vastly better than most discussions of the topic.

Talking about seasonal storage is kind of silly costs are low enough that you can build say 20% more solar and wind than you need on average and they are still cheaper than gas/nuclear/coal. On top of that hydropower is very dispatchable which acts a lot like seasonal energy storage because you are storing months worth of river flow.
I seriously don't understand people who defend race-based admissions. It is, at best, an ends-justify-the-means argument where you're saying some forms of racism and stereotyping are acceptable. I'm aware of the argument that it is to offset systemic racism but it still boils down to assuming someone's life story based on the color of their skin.

I'm very pro-diversity but this is just too high a price to pay. Everyone in the rainbow classroom will look around and know that the bars were different. They just won't say it out loud for fear of social reprisals.

Furthermore, based on my college experiences, the issue with diversity in college isn't even the lack of it. It's the lack of integration. You still end up seeing the various racial groups sticking to themselves. Whatever benefits diversity brings is probably diluted until that is resolved.
That's a pretty bad take away - no one wanted to drive trough the hurricane. The captain thought he was further away from the storm than he was, perhaps because of his use of an outdated weather feed.

A better take away might be, for important decisions, you should deeply understand the data(and importantly, it's limitations) you are using to make the decision.
CONE: The Future of Decentralized Organizations
Not quite. No one is asking for personal content to be judged.

But if there is a one-to-many pattern of information sharing (e.g. an organized attempt to share content) to unrelated parties, then that content should be vetted for veracity. Either FB does it, or they surface it for others to flag it.
Please take note: never build a business which depends majorly on someone's else platform be that free or paid.
Race is still hugely important when it comes to success, even after adjusting for class. See:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-c...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/29/upshot/money-...

A quote from the first article:

> “One of the most popular liberal post-racial ideas is the idea that the fundamental problem is class and not race, and clearly this study explodes that idea,” said Ibram Kendi, a professor and director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. “But for whatever reason, we’re unwilling to stare racism in the face.”
There was an Indian-American guy who did this to become a doctor.

https://nypost.com/2015/04/12/mindy-kalings-brother-explains...
Reading comprehension, friend. They OP stated they don't understand the conservative argument about abortion "since it doesn't hurt others like guns".

They can only hold that view by dismissing the point of view that it does hurt others. By ending a human life. Nothing hypocritical (aka "convenient") about it.

What on earth does constitutional authority have to do with it? Hold the word salad and stick to the meat.
I think those are trimmed off because they're uneven?
I grew up near Tacoma, WA with a septic tank. Every house on the street has one. We had to have a septic truck come out and pump it every few years. Otherwise it was just like sewer.

They did put sewers in about 15 years after the houses were built, and mandated hooking into it on the next septic tank pumping. But the tanks are left underground, as removing them would leave a 20 foot hole in the backyard of each house.

In short, what's this about tossing your stool in the trash?
I am not getting the same sentiment that you are ceeling from the parent comment.

Healthy discourse cannot occur in the dark. How can I discuss an article that I don't know even exists?
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Qualified white gentiles are massively under-represented in the ivy league because white jews are massively over-represented. So the victimology is a little off in your comment. Look into Ron Unz's analysis on this matter. Jews are astoundingly over-represented (beyond any quantifiable qualification) at many elite colleges.
That is the permit application fee (one time, $5,000) and reporting costs ($200 / year). They aren't paying for the water.
> blatant discrimination against Asians at universities

So you mention "knowing what the data says" -

* Asian Americans represent 5.6% of the US population[1].

* The most recently admitted class at Harvard was 22.7% Asian American.

Is that "blatant discrimination"? If it is, at what percentage would it not be?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Asian_American...
[2]: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/3/29/harvard-regular-...
Can you explain why you think these are orthogonal?
It would be great if google did tiding up in the play store. It's filled with knock off and junk apps.
Good stuff, thank you, I can see there might be some way to get a process in place to avoid these relapses.
So they’re already careless, but with better targeting they would be even worse? How does that work?
>Those are pretty interesting numbers. There’s actually a common misconception that more and more apps are being developed using non-native tools so they can be deployed to multiple platforms easily.

>According to our data, that’s not the case.

Well that's interesting.
Another conclusion is to never be in a business that tries to save pennies by not subscribing to life critical data.
We need legal action on this. Reselling data needs explicit user permission with the user being able to decline. This would be very burdensome but it seems to be the only way.
Tests like "Plays D&D" are bad, because you don't need to advance the tech to create convincing fakes. Just like how people wrote a chat bot that was written to "act" like an 8 year old, so if it ever got a question it wasn't programmed to know how to answer, it could just change the subject or otherwise act "childlike" as it's failure state. This was convincing to humans who were not expecting the deceit (from the programmers), but did not mean that the chatbot was more advanced in it's AI than other bots.

You can preprogram a chat bot to pretend to be a stoic monk who says very little, and could probably convince some folks that it was a real human playing the game as long as it took it's turn as expected, and rolled dice when asked.
There’s lots of other ‘free’ and ‘infinite’ energy around that is much easier to collect. You could go to the moon and make strawberry jam and then market it as ‘Space Jam’ but it’s simpler and cheaper to skip the whole moon part.
Waiting for Postgres 11: Fast ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN with a Non-NULL Default
Ok, so cost and cleanability might be incentive so have doors like that, but not incentives to make regulations.

Those regulations likely there for "decency and safety". E.g. to discourage people having sex, or to make it more obvious if someone passes out. That is: the regulations really are there to make reduce privacy.

There might be good arguments for reducing privacy, but that is still the proximate goal of the rules.
Thanks, no idea grandle has 1st class support for creating DSLs and I overlooked the 1 keyword you had in your reply -- my bad. In general I am familiar with dsl's.

Appreciate the feedback.
It is a 10x10 Euler Square. Each cell contains an ordered pair of digits with the stipulation that each row and column contain each digit, in each position exactly once. Further, no two cells may contain the same ordered pair.
How enforcable would that be outside US borders, realistically?