skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relevant blog post on another upcoming Gmail feature:

"Email is your electronic memory": https://blog.fastmail.com/2018/02/14/email-is-your-electroni...
> If so, why do binaural recordings still work fine when compressed as mp3s, given that they depend heavily on phase differences between the sounds reaching each ear?

That's a very good point. If phase information is lost, low frequency stereo sound localization should indeed suffer.

Also discrete cosine transformation indeed keeps phase.

I guess mp3 shouldn't be losing phase information after all.
Chances are if he's a wife beater it won't be in the paper -- the vast majority of domestic violence cases aren't reported.
its most definitely not a tin foil hat conspiracy, refer [1]. a quick google will yield many more.

regarding the HIPAA violations it is true that hospitals cant share the data, that may be the only saving grace for now but are you certain there is no loophole that can be exploited? or may be introduced in next budget? Also its definitely not illegal for FB to do the linking should they come across such data. I'd accuse you of naivety if you assume that not the direction they want to head into.

there are many scenarios I can think of that make the problems exponentially worse especially for people in countries without a well functioning justice system. IMHO the best course of action is to starve the beast.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/5/17203262/facebook-medical-...
But ask a six year old and all that random weird shit is the most
Interesting Stuff in the World (TM).
If a state actor asked me to give them my keys, I'd be really afraid if I didn't comply.

There's always the possibility your own country could request the same thing and act as a proxy.
I might argue that it's a bad thing, because it encourages dependency bloat if nothing else.
"As of Release 1.0, NGINX Unit supports Go, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby on the same server. Multiple language versions are also supported, so you can, for instance, run applications written for PHP 5 and PHP 7 on the same server."

Proceeds to give no examples for setting up PHP 5 and PHP 7 on the same server, anywhere on their site
OP here.

Feature Audit is an analytics tool that gives SaaS owners a quick answer to the following question: “how many people are actually using each of our product’s features?”

It's inspired by this Des Traynor post (https://blog.intercom.com/before-you-plan-your-product-roadm...) that I've returned to many times over the years, and finally decided, "someone should build that."

If you're a founder, PM, or engineer working on a SaaS product every day, I'd love to hear what do you think.
Thought: it might be "state backed and protected interests" there, but it has historically been "vc/wall st backed investor interests" here.

Here the big tech business is ads and data collection, but other creative and innovative enterprises trickle through. I don't doubt this could be the case there too.
USPS. I’m responding to “The USPS has become an ad-delivery network subsidized by my tax dollars.”

I should mention that USPS does get tax money when other agencies use their services, but they’re paying for it just like anyone else does. It’s not subsidized, other than indirectly by their monopoly on letters.
There are at least two solid, though not as mature as maven, dependency managers for go, so it seems even yours is a personal opinion.
According to the spiral plan the chapters get written and re-written in the
order 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. You think you know how to write Chapter 1, but
after you’ve done it and gone on to Chapter 2, you’ll realize that you could have
done a better job on Chapter 2 if you had done Chapter 1 differently

I guess this is one of the best tips in terms of general structured writing.
Yes but they were all built for that system specifically. And they are significantly slower than cars on a motorway.

I don't think cars going 70mph and frequently linking in & out of the cable would be safe.
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"I feel like this 'right to be forgotten' hurts my safety"

A few years ago you had no such facility at all - how did you manage?
Your record just shows you've been caught.

I don't know anyone that hasn't broken laws. Hell, they make new laws every day for us to break.
> it mandated error handling

XHTML 1.0 didn't mandate so-called "draconian error-handling", it just offered it as an optional feature.

XHTML 1.1 (which was released but noone used) and XHTML 2 (which was never finished nor released) did mandate it. I wasn't a big fan of that decision, I don't think it would've worked, but XHTML 1.1 was still very usable while ignoring that one requirement; throwing out the baby with the bath water was a massive overreaction on the WHATWG's part.
> GP said it's more valuable to evaluate a programming language by the projects people make with it, than by reading the 417th piece of perceived strengths and weaknesses of it. I think GP has a point.

And I don't, so let's just agree to disagree on that.

> That's a very strange thing to say.

Does this (or any other) advantage of Go help people who are writing software that cannot have a GC in the loop? No, it does not, so it's really not a valid comparison imo.

Could Rust and C++ have better compile times? Maybe. I'll defer judgement to the actual compiler experts though.
Recommendations engines seem to be pretty myopic in general. Buy shoes on Amazon once, and you are a shoe aficionado. Listen to a single metal album on whatever streaming service, and that's all it'll recommend for days or weeks.
China?? I heard they were bad though?
The article notes that today's youth is more content than earlier generations, so the comparison pertinent to the headline of the article is through time within Japan.
Facebook and Google (and nearly every other social ads platform that evolved along the same playbook) avoid the 'personal'by aggregating users above certain thresholds. It's fairly precise, and often the only times I can spot an individual is if they're flagging something geographic or contextual (e.g., search) that is unique. (for example, I know when my parents visit my blog because I know their network hostname and location.)

when you say, begin to search for trips to disney and start looking through photos on Facebook, it isn't that an advertiser discovers you, gnode, are looking for a disney trip, it's that the platform adds you to an audience of people interested in disney and to an audience of people who are interested in travel. advertisers engage with those audiences, platforms hold the data.
Agreed. So shovel for dopamine?
No one is getting murder or rape convictions removed from the record. This is considerably smaller scale stuff, and the story itself mentions that two men jointly fought to have news of their conviction removed, one who got 6 months in jail, and one who got 4 years, both non violent white collar type offenses, and only the guy who got 6 months actually won. The second guy lost.
This is one of those things where, even if it were an issue, shouldn’t there be about 4,321 better ways for the federal government (much less the president) to choose their focus?

And it’s not like he has to go far to find bigger problems. How about “ordering a review” on poverty and homelessness for instance?
>This realization goes beyond medicine, and is key to understanding why we live in an 'economy' that produces masses of landfill junk while our technology and manufacturing processes keep on improving.

This is the crux of the problem. The current system optimizes for things that are not improving people's lives. It optimizes for waste, unsustainable consumption of resources, wasteful competition rather than cooperation, self-prepetuating inequalities at small and large scale, hyper-optimized psychological manipulation (i.e. advertising) for raw amount of useless shit being sold, etc.

We didn't reach the pinnacle of perfection in systems of wealth distribution with 18th century capitalism. We can do better. We can do a lot better.
I’m a parent. My kids only watch YouTube videos with me. Problem solved!
The browser is the only part of the web-access stack where the user has any choice. I suppose they can choose the ISP as well but that effectively only changes access speed, possibly.
What I hate the most about this is the cute Orwellian euphemism for censorship.
W3C is just too slow and the web needs to move faster.
That comment displays a rather shocking ignorance of the intent behind bankruptcy laws. When a private company is insolvent it's almost always better for the creditors, employees, and other stakeholders to work things out in reorganization rather than liquidating. Removing the option to reorganize would increase the cost of capital, reduce economic growth, and increase unemployment.

While municipal corporations can dissolve, that wouldn't solve anything. County and state governments can't afford to pick up pension obligations on behalf of cities. And we'll probably find that some entire states such as Illinois can't pay their pensions. There's no way for a whole state to simply stop existing.
> China's tech VCs and established corporations (referring to the likes of Alibaba/Tencent) are challenging (and to a certain extent dethroning) Silicon Valley "monopoly" when it comes to investing in innovation/R&D in super critical areas like A.I., for example.

Isn't this also official Chinese government policy?

Those Chinese tech VCs may be literally funded by the state and/or operating under its direction.
Checking Types Against the Real World in TypeScript
Did it actually raise 660m or was that the size of the "market cap" when it collapsed?

if I sell 100 tokens for a dollar then convince someone to buy 1 token for 10 dollars, if I run off with the money I've not run off with $1000 even if it feels like it for the people left with tokens.
I was feeling less safe, that has improved. Why go back in time?
Fair point, but I think it is somewhat orthogonal to the discussion. I don't imagine Cisco cares which DOM spec is used in rendering the application layer bytes of the packets it routes.
As a side note, Scheme originally offered ASET (SET) but not a SETQ equivalent (they hadn't adopted the ! convention yet), saying: "Those of you who may complain about the lack of ASETQ are invited to write (ASET' foo bar) instead of (ASET 'foo bar)."
> Thats a false comparison.

All your argument was that it's too expensive. Clearly it's not. If the manner in which the money is spent (or the feelings we'll have while sending it) is actually the limiting factor, you'll need to actually make that argument.
> quite the contrary, it means you never know when the government will come down on you for violating some unwritten rule.

Isn't bribing your way out of "violations" common in China?
From the standpoint of American government it was never intended to be a democracy. "Democracy" was feared by the Founders, who saw it as mob rule.

As for picking and choosing what laws one recognizes as legitimated, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr put it better than I can:

> One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."

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> If other citizens were to also adopt that policy, we'd literally have anarchy.

My first response to this is that we already follow this policy. Have you ever exceeded the speed limit? Have you ever consumed an illegal substance? Have you ever fixed something in your home that requires a permit without obtaining one? The simple fact of the matter is that everyone violates the law, every day, consciously or not.

My second response is to question whether or not this form of anarchy, where each individual is responsible for their own actions and communities are responsible for establishing and enforces their own standards of behavior through social pressure, is a bad thing at all. I don't believe it is.
> Example of layer: coding skill. I assign weights to friends I know. Now if I want to know if X is a good coder I check what friends of my friends think about it and multiply it by weights I have assigned to those friends (recursive). But it's much more than just having reasonable opinion about coding skill of somebody who you want to hire or cooperate with.

So, basically, your multilayered web of trust is just a popularity contest. Sorry, but I do not think this is a good idea.
I could be wrong, but I've always suspected the only impact of ads like http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/anti-smoking-tv-ads-bi... are the padding they provide to the bottom line of the WPP shops.
> how they like vendoring in Go

Vendoring solves sharing dependencies with your team, it does not solve the addition of new dependencies. You still need to get your dependencies somehow, and they need to be able to specify what dependencies they work with. And your libraries can't vendor their libraries in go because then they'll have a different import path in vendor directory and in the main project and you won't be able to share types.
That's assuming that the truth will simmer up to the top and rise above the push marketing. Also on reddit there are entire subreddits that seem to be conducive to luring people in and performing pump and dump schemes, mixed in with legitimate posts.
They were pretty content back in their medieval eras too.

Go along get along, and such.
Can India’s consumer internet companies become true giants?
Would be interesting if they built something like SMS/iMessage, where within the ecosystem emails were encrypted but when sent outside they weren't.

Of course, hopefully PGP, and not some custom, private API like iMessage.
That's also true. Do you have any material I could read on how this frequency increases with the rate of spacecrafts deployed?
didn't a T-800 Model 101 autonomously decide to run for, and be elected to serve as governor of California for 8 years?
In these situations they sell their bullshit tokens for real money (or BTC/ETH), so they would have run away with the actual money or something within an order of magnitude, not some fantasy "market cap".
> or a fifth of the military budget

And less than the projected increase in the deficit this year due to tax cuts and spending increases
It's mostly people looking at how Bitcoin et al went up exponentially last fall, fueling FOMO heavily. "What if I had..."
No, it's more akin to "don't watch these channels on TV". There is plenty of content served on sites/apps where preventing children from seeing inappropriate things is a primary focus. It's like locking down your TV to only show cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. Besides, putting your child's productive energy into more productive activities that are not watching either TV or online videos will serve them better.
I watched a video just last night, regarding the F35 vs. the SAAB Gripen, it was junk, so naively I clicked on a promising title in the recommendations. The voice-over read the EXACT same script, line by line.
Why entrepreneurs start companies rather than join them
This is an interesting phenomenon in general.
it's still on the server
That's practically the definition of a pyramid scheme.
You or somebody else must have subscribed your email address. We've never added any single email to our MailChimp list ourselves.
> every Ponzi scheme does this

This is what a Ponzi scheme does, in other words, this is the definition of a Ponzi scheme.
But your ability to do that may be directly infringing on the ex-convict's right to make a living or feel safe themselves
To reach 2048 the game works by adding the numbers 2 or 4 at each play with probabilities 0.9 and 0.1, respectively. Then the expected average optimal number of steps to win is 2048/(.1 * 4 + .9 * 2) ~= 930.9. This optimal number of steps occur when 2048 is reached and is alone in the board. In the real case, the larger the board, the more scattered are going to be the numbers, and the number of step will increase accordingly. This result is valid for every board size.
Me too. My only problem with Clojure is that it is not available in a native flavor like most Schemes or CLs. Otherwise it is a very good substrate for the evolution of CL. Despite the functional style advertised by Javascript, at least for me Clojure ticks almost all the points of a proper functional language except one, which is fixed by core.typed. SML should take a closer look at what is happening with Clojure for its SMLnext proposals.
> I assume NPM has gotten a lot better in the last few years if it's being used as example of something to strive towards.

Make sure that you are evaluating the tool not how the community uses the tool or npmjs.com runs the registry.
But in a nominally reverse compatible way, and nobody can really force you to stop using dep if that's what you do.
Yes, treatment should be always the same - the records stay. Two things though - many thigs that are considered a crime shouldn't be a crime, and second, if the crime is minor or irrelevant, the record won't hurt the person, otherwise it's a proof that it's not as irrelevant as you think. For example in my country, you will get even parking offenses (repeated, but still) written in your record. It hurts nobody because nobody cares.
>Creating a public institution with no pressure to make profit is a disaster waiting to happen.

Aren't most public institutions non-profits? Don't many of these work well? What makes you think that a (truly) democratically run enterprise wouldn't satisfy the needs of its constituents?
Because normally there are regulations in place when dealing with USD that protect these people.
Compiling a Lisp into a Lisp Using a Lisp
Defeat your 99th percentile with speculative task
This is kind of a trend I've been noticing, where Europe will try to fix a valid technological problem, but pick the most problematic or poorly implemented solution to do it.

It's not clear to me what the difference is between a government censoring someone directly and a government making it impossible for anyone to find a piece of information. Right to Be Forgotten only works if it becomes prohibitively expensive for a company or individual to locate past articles. So who cares whether or not the original source has been taken down?

It's not clear to me why it's not troubling to European citizens for their government to be in charge of what information is and isn't relevant to the public. Whenever I ask people about this, I get the response "well, that's why we have courts." I dunno, Europeans must trust their courts a lot more than I trust mine.

It's not clear to me why this problem couldn't be solved more elegantly by creating anti-discrimination laws around criminal records. If a company gets 90% through the hiring process, runs a background check, and then immediately says "no", then you sue them.

It's also not clear to me that this will be enforceable in the future. I consider distributed site indexing to be an unsolved problem, but I don't think its unsolvable, and people are actively working on it. If for some crazy reason a distributed web search starts getting used on par with DuckDuckGo in the next 5 years, what do you do about that? Ban the technology?
That is for 2011. The effectiveness of the vaccine is different every year. Some years it gets close to 80% (from memory and probably wrong), some years it is only 10%. The average across all years tends to be 40%.
> (defn

What's wrong with "def"?
Given how often things like this have been happening, it’s no longer “initial,” it’s iterative.
>By people writing code rather than pontificating

Or maybe a both things are important?
Except that most people aren't removing those convictions. With your rigid midset you are punishing thousands of people who have been abused by social media and have done nothing wrong. Destroying their lives permanently.
How do you handle someone like this guy after he gets out of prison:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/04/our-tim...
If we erase his past from the internet - that kind of enables him to do his scam again immediately. It's a difficult question.
> I think it's always strange that the media frames this as "threatening" to shift power.

Why is it strange? That's the purpose of a nation's propaganda organizations. The chinese media does the same thing. Every nation's media does it.
At this point you really can feel no sympathy towards anyone who gets suckered into these types of scams. Same thing with facebook scams or instagram/snapchat pyramid schemes. If you really are that nice word for lacking intelligence or any ability to think for yourself, then you deserve what you get in terms of financial loss or social backlash. There isn't even a target demographic for this, people from all over the board are falling victim. From old people with their retirement savings to young adults who spend their minimum wage paychecks on it, all in the hopes of getting a quick turnaround. That's not meant to come off as mean or condescending, you can only say to someone "It's okay, everyone makes mistakes" so many times before you stop feeling pity towards their poor decision making.

A thing to note in my eyes is that different to social media scams, these ICO scams aren't even being that pushy in terms of advertising. When engaged with a pyramid scheme, people tend to be pretty aggressive in getting you to join. With these scam coins, people are willingly going up to them with little to no previous information and dumping their bucket of pennies in the well.

EDIT: Getting down voted for being blunt. Sucks to lose rep because people don't like to hear the truth.
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I think this ignores whether or not YouTube has a moral obligation to create better experiences for children.

You can have millions of parents address the issues themselves or you could have one company with massive resources fix the program for millions of parents.

Aside from morality, I think it's a clear product / business issue for them.
Tech wonk thinks world belongs to tech wonks -- "Only tech can save us from ourselves!" declared would be cult leader "Just Google it!". Film@11
Because it hurts innocent people.
Google might as well be the official record for many people.

I couldn’t agree more. Public records are technically public, but often opaque and difficult to access. It’s one thing to allow a sufficiently motivated person to find this information out; it’s quite another to make it easy for casual acquaintances and neighbors to do it.

Google makes these records instantly accessible to anyone, and for whatever reason, seems to push more negative results about an individual higher in the search results. One need to look no further than to observe the prominence of Ripoff Report results in Google searches to prove this. The people behind this extortion scheme, which operates under a disgusting perversion of the Communications Decency Act, tout their Google dominance as one reason that their victims should pay them thousands of dollars per month to delete or modify the “reports” against them that appear on the site.
Considering you can get a Amazon Echo dot for $25 - $35 and be plugged into the huge amount of skills for the Echo, it does not surprise me.
Don't confuse the flu with the common cold as many people do. The flu vaccine does nothing for the common cold.

Even at their worst the flu vaccine makes the flu less deadly when you get it.
There's not even an article needed for this:

"Okay, I can go do work and have a very low chance of getting what are considered signs of success in global culture; I can go into politics and be universally hated, or I can go create a company and be generally admired, along with having a chance at shooting a home run and never having to work after thirty if not wanted, and on top of that, getting the satisfaction of creating something cool and possibly helping people . . . Hm. Difficult choice."