skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you make an interesting point: if we use context to train a model to reflect local biases instead of global biases, will that be more just and/or lead to better user experience?

It seems related to the question of whether Google results should be tailored to you. If I Google "did Russia interfere in the election", should Google tailor the results so I always see articles that reinforce my world view?

If we go that route, I think we take the path of Stephen Colbert's concept of "Truthiness", where we judge something as true because it "feels" true. Users will definitely be happier if everything they see reinforces their existing world view. So companies will be incentivized to accommodate this desire. But does this actually lead to a more just society?
Start by switching to iOS, then for each app she installs make sure location permissions are denied. On the laptop, make sure uBlock Origin is installed.
This was happening to me until I removed Facebook and Facebook Messenger from my phone. I believe these apps listen to conversations even when you aren’t using them. I am not alone in believing this.
Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 makes it easier to use Kubernetes
1. Did she discuss looking at houses with you or anybody in emails or social media messages?

2. Did her smartphone location ever correspond with a house that is listed on the MLS in the past week?
Sublime when I can and Visual Studio for the gross Windoes stuff.
I found YNAB to align the most with how I think about budgeting. Zero-dollar, category based that only focuses on the amount of money you have now and not to worry about cash forecasting. However, your description sounds like you need a bit more of an accounting and budget application than a strict budget.
Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy
Notepad++ and Visual Studio 2013
Untangling our Python Code
Long time GNUCash user, but not exactly a defender here.

> there is no widely-used open standard for manipulating your bank account over the internet, AFAIK,

http://www.ofx.net/about-ofx.html

OFX is widely supported (but not universally). The UI leaves much to be desired.

> I don't want a big tax-optimisation program tacked onto my bookkeeping software which I won't use.

GNUCash generally does a good job of keeping things you don't use hidden or at least unobtrusive. Account reconciliation being one of them. IMO tax calculation is not a viable OSS tool, as it's country specific and changes rapidly. Ubuntu ships 18.04 at the end of April. Do you want to file using tax software from July 2017?

> Mobile app and cloud storage: This one is a little tough. You want it to sync up between your mobile device and (presumably) desktop.

GNUCash specifically has problems here. The code base assumes single user transactions and concurrent modification is unsupported. I use a psql database for cloud storage, but if I lose network connection I get a dialog about someone else using the books and have to discard the stale lock. This is problem whether using files or SQL, although SQL is at least a solid backend to some day support it, while filesync solutions would be pretty much a fail.

> IMHO, we don't really have a good answer for the issue of "who pays for the servers?" in FOSS

IMO, we do: the users. There's no reason you can't charge people for a username / password, although, when hosting financial data the liability could get painful.
Did either one of you login to amazon, Facebook, google, etc on one of the other persons device? If so there is likely still a tracking cookie associating you with her device. And your searches are causing her device to be targeted.
did you invite her to come see the open house by texting her "hey, wanna come see an open house"?
I have met several "refugees" from particle physics, that left in part because of flimsy statistical methods. So let me ask: who is going to reproduce the experiment that found the Higgs boson?
You sound like me. But I'm not making a whole lotta money, and I'm afraid I'm going to have to take a real job soon. Then, party's over.
A totally plausible explanation for this (as plausible as any Amazon Echo passive speech recognition ad targeting theory) is that she's been seeing these ads for weeks, but they were completely irrelevant and her mind filtered them out until she happened to have house hunting / martial arts movies on her mind after these events.
Foursquare's Places API
I suggest sending the leaders of aforementioned institutions/non-profits/public sector establishments a healthy dosage of LSD if you hope to persuade them to work with you.
The Value in Learning Yet Another Programming Language
Just revoke microphone access.
> Protecting your own company against both the state and other companies is the CEO's mandate

No, this is a mob boss's mandate.
Yes it does! However, now that the algorithms are all grown up it's about FAST sites with high quality content. There are no more games to be played. It is important to do your keyword research to understand the market you are attempting to reach, but that should only inform your content production and outreach plans.

High quality content isn't cheap and you have to be in it for the long game.
Not really sure how stocks work, but isn’t the percent difference the only thing that matters? If I invest X when it’s $2, I get 90X now. That’s all I care about.

On the other hand, the absolutes are somewhat meaningless right? If they wanted the absolute numbers to be bigger/smaller they can just split/coaelece accordingly.
Is living near a major roadway (e.g. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/brain-pollution-evide... ) also sufficient to cause unhealthy air?

>> Deepening the concerns, this month researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada reported in The Lancet that among 6.6 million people in the province of Ontario, those living within 50 meters of a major road—where levels of fine pollutants are often 10 times higher than just 150 meters away—were 12% more likely to develop dementia than people living more than 200 meters away.

>> Just how the fine airborne particles might travel from a rodent’s nasal cavity to its brain is a mystery. But a research team led by Günter Oberdörster at the University of Rochester in New York has used traceable, radioactive specks of elemental carbon to demonstrate that inhaled particles smaller than 200 nanometers can get through the delicate tissues lining a rodent’s nasal cavities, travel along neurons, and spread as far as the cerebellum, at the back of the brain, triggering an inflammatory reaction.

>>"In 1403 elderly women, the total volume of white matter—the insulated nerve fibers that connect different brain regions—decreased by about 6 cubic centimeters for every 3.5-µg/m3 increase in estimated PM2.5 exposure, based on air monitoring data from participants’ residences for 6 to 7 years before the brain scans were taken. Chen’s white matter findings are consistent with studies of cultured neurons, which show that exposure to PM2.5 can cause myelin—the fatty insulation that wraps around neuronal axons—to “peel up at the ends, like a Band-Aid,” Block says"

I mean, hell, even trees do increase the amount of certain types of "pollutants" in the air (pollen for one). They make the air less pure for one thing.
Maybe because of age (I'm 35) or culture (I'm in Asian country), but I don't get it. To get laid, you need to go through the process of dating: Ask her out, lots of "bullshit" (a matter on perspective), spend time and money, and if you're lucky, you'll get laid.

Maybe what she meant is "in serious relationship"?
If it's a final decision, then most of the cost is in the future, far beyond the reach of the initial quotes.

I've seen too many companies turn extractive (including, of course, that same Microsoft) to ever use the words "final" next to "platform decision".
The algorithm could be simple. Evaluating all failure cases, analysing them, and getting the whole lot approved certainly isn't simple.
Colonization by Indian Leftists–the Downside of “Merit-Based Immigration”
Perhaps it's just their preferred platform. If it weren't for the expense I'd probably prefer it over Windows at least. At any rate, the readme does link to this article[1] if macOS isn't your thang.

[1] https://addyosmani.com/blog/image-optimization-tools/
Soon :)
> Is this what the Internet is like for "regular" people? If so, holy shit.

Presumably. Even with the best precautions (ad blocking, etc) some tracking still slips through the cracks. I don’t want to imagine what it’s like for the average idiot who installs every single crappy app, gives it all the permissions and logs in with their Facebook account into them.
Everyone wants to group people by race or nationality. It's extremely racist and bipartisan.
It's the individual's role to take care of their own mental health. No one is forcing anyone to use FB or Instagram. If it makes you feel bad, stop.
Also the fact that both of them are in the same physical location frequently, at key times, even if your hadn't set your relationship status it might figure it out.
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Am I missing something subtle here

Yes.

or are you actually going "HURR DURR FANTASY FANS ARE FAT"?

No.
It's long past time something like this is a thing.
Also by Russell: A History of Western Philosophy. It has various critics, for good reasons, but it's as good a walkthrough of philosophical developments in the West as anything you'll find.
Because it's deeply within the realm of personal responsibility. Look at the failure that is the war on drugs. You can't legislate behavior.
Ultimately, you will need a doctor somewhere along the diagnostic process so that someone is there to assume liability for incorrect diagnoses.
"[T]housands of lines"? Really? How many private citizens have ever had a return that long? The base form is two pages. Schedule A for itemized deductions is one page. Schedule B for dividends and interest is one page. Schedule D for capital gains is two pages. So, six pages total for your situation. Barely qualifies as hundreds, particularly since many don't even need to be filled out.

US tax code is definitely more complicated than it needs to be, but the repeated assertions here that this complication extends to the simple case are bullshit.
I'd argue that every programmer interested in language design needs to read Wittgenstein. His later work in ethics and epistemology (that the article recommends, Philosophical Investigations) is hit or miss, but his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, which deals with the nature of language as it relates to our ability to think and formulate ideas, is undeniable. He essentially builds a framework for breaking reality down into logically composable components which can be reasoned over in their own right, regardless of semantics.

See this article which was posted here a few years ago: Wittgenstien for Programmers http://www.hxa.name/notes/note-hxa7241-20110219T1113Z.html
You know what it does have? The source on Github. :)
I guess the baseline for comparing the 13% would be the nonspecialist rate of the same.
16 million IPs blocked by the russian goverment. Part of blocking Telegram
Did you guys use zillow/trulia to look up listings?
TL;DR - "While it’s unlikely Chinese winemakers will be threatening their French peers anytime soon, they are now decidedly on the world’s wine map."
Given the introduction, how did Ayn Rand and Objectivism not make that list? It has to be one of the most, if not the most, influential philosophical contributions in the real world in the past 100 years.

Edit: Getting downvotes. You mention Ayn Rand anywhere, this is what happens.
How about this, then... I live in North Carolina. North Carolina is one of the 10 biggest states in the country (actually, #10, I think). 10 million people live here, consuming government services all day - healthcare, roads, parks, welfare checks, etc.

North Carolina's annual budget for providing all of those services is $23 billion - only twice the budget of the IRS.
'Yer ugly and your Echo dresses you funny.'
Bitcoin Mnemonic Codes Solve the Pet vs. Cattle and Zookos Triangle Problem
Why would GCP prices go up?
Maybe none of this ideological bullshit is the real issue? Maybe the major problem is that hard vs soft sciences are subject to different experimental controls and confounding factors, not to mention standards of rigor. If you claim to discover a new particle your n will be in the billions, and a whole community will analyze your results with a fine comb. Meanwhile if you make a claim about implicit bias or the nutritional value of coffee it’s based on tiny samples with huge variability.

It’d be cool if your and the other poster’s ideological spat could try to not use science as the battleground, or at least eliminate more likely issues before going there. Social sciences are hardly even science from the perspective of a chemist or physicist, there’s no need to delve into petty ideology. Methodology is a much richer source of hurdles to overcome than old and sad debates.
What does it even mean to meet the criteria to be audited? I got a letter this year saying that my refund would take an extra 6-8 weeks due to some extra scrutiny on the IRSes part, but they never asked for the receipts or for me to come in so what happened?

As far as I know there wasn't anything especially fishy about my taxes. I did file early (first week of Feb) because we needed the refund, but that alone seems like a poor reason to audit someone's taxes.

I guess the other new thing was that they made me verify my address and bank account numbers to verify that I'm not some scammer trying to steal someone else's refund, but that made little sense because it is the same account I've had the refund deposited in for the past 18 years and my address has not changed in 9. All it did in the end was add an extra month and a half to the refund.
I don't know how this is happening exactly, but I want to add that it has also been happening to myself and to my friends for quite some time.
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That is unreasonable conspiratorial thinking. Please don't believe it.
Which studies are you referring to? If you don't have anything specific in mind, then you can't really judge the quality or compare it to the quality of comparable research today.
Num is a sequence value per account. I'm pretty sure it started off as a check number field, for US checking accounts.
Ok, I read your link. I still think my comments stands. My argument would be that the "Community Analysis and Feedback" section is practically impossible to maintain.

Back in early science days, this used to be a valuable section because the pool of "scientists" was huge and they often crossed disciplines. Now you have all sorts of specialties such that the pool of colleagues who are able to understand and assess your work might be, like, 8 people.

There was a Japanese mathematician who recently put out a huge proof that claimed to solve a major math problem (I am forgetting all of the important details here, so forgive me). The news wasn't so much that he created the proof, but that they couldn't find anyone to verify it!
I cant speak for all mediums, but Spotify's "Related Artists" feature has grown my personal taste in music more then anything else ever has. The ability to easily find similar artists to the one I am currently enjoying drastically lowered the barrier to entry for me and music.
I like the tagline. It's catchy.
Certainly they share a common root, but "largely indistinguishable until fairly recently" is quite an overstatement. They have had distinct goals and methods for at least 50 years, and for the last 20 years the overlap has been minimal.

CKY is from the 60s. Inside-outside from the 70s. Mild context sensitivity, tree adjoining grammars and other similar formalisms from the 70s-80s. Chart parsers that actually work for natural language in real life scenarios from the 90s (Collins, Charniak, Eisner). All that is seminal work in natural language parsing and mostly useless for compilers, just like LR is mostly useless for natural language.
But the accelerations aren't as enormous as they are on Anton's ASICs. :)
if you mean whatsapp, the content of messages is not available to whatsapp/facebook systems (it's end-to-end encrypted).
Pornhub and Verge Cryptocurrency – The Future Has Cum [video]
Another way to measure people by attractiveness or agreeableness or some other attribute that doesn't matter for engineering. The goal is likely to give a certain demographic good grades, like almost all of K-12.
Unsurprisingly, this list is heavily biased towards analytic philosophers.

They don't even mention Heidegger, the most influential 20th Century philosopher in the Continental tradition. Being and Time is his most influential book.

They don't mention Sartre, who probably comes in 2nd. Being and Nothingness is his most famous book (you can tell the Heidegger influence just from the title).

Their token Continentals are Foucault, Derrida, Habermas, and Ricouer... out of a list of 30.

Update: Looks like I misread the title of the article as being about philosophers from 1900-2000, but it's from 1950-2000. Sorry. My bad.
That's why I put "consent" in quotes. (I think GDPR is a waste of resources, even though I have profited from some implementation activities.)
> No one is original anymore, not even you.

Article opens with the quote, but that's the essence of a vast amount of art through the ages: only the thinnest bit of art is truly original, and looking to get rid of the non-original bits generates absurd junk.

I would argue that the cult of original and the cult of individualism-via-consumerism is largely an 1800s ideology filtered through post-war marketing. "only by consuming a unique set can you truly be yourself" is a fascinating and materialist way of looking at the world.

Gently, I would suggest that we are neither original nor should we find our identity in material goods.

Elsewhere in this thread the word "serendipity" is used - this is a true observation in my opinion. The internet removes serendipity, replacing it with "you may also like". While libraries have librarians making selections, they also allow for a free-range wandering over the stacks, rather than keeping you in one specific area of "you may also like". That is something worth thinking about, and, I think, solvable.
I want to second this one, if for nothing else than the fact that in addition to being a wealth of information about the philosophies themselves, it's also a fascinating (granted, biased) perspective about how philosophical developments might map to political and cultural developments, and vice versa. Again, with a nod to its critics.

Also, Russell is, as always, a charmingly witty writer.
On twitter, it was said that affected subnets are:

52.58.0.0/15

18.196.0.0/15

18.194.0.0/15

35.156.0.0/14

src: https://twitter.com/CatVsHumanity/status/985914182959759360/...

Just in case the original website goes down, here's a screenshot:

https://img2.picload.org/image/dogacarr/selection_120.jpg
This is one reason you don't want to go with specialized databases or queues. If you used a managed Queue or Database, make sure you can get that same exact Queue or Database on another cloud provider.
That's a big stretch to go from advertising related tracking to the great firewall of China.
I generally agree. "Nationalism" is often just a euphemism for xenophobia which is not only immoral but counter productive if what you were really concerned about was the national interest. At the same time, I wish we could have a reasonable discussion about what level of immigration, free trade, etc is most beneficial for the people. There are legitimate issues that can arise from these things, but there's far too much toxicity in the debate for any nuanced view to really be politically viable it seems. And the policies that would benefit workers don't really seem to be materializing from either side that claims to represent them.
All that "bullshit" she puts you through is probably her way of trying to figure out if you're someone she could have a relationship with or just another dickhead trying to get laid.
> Business on the other side, tend to be punished by the markets when misbehaving and then course-correct.

That only happens when there are regulations to run afoul of and/or a company is not a monopoly. Without government companies would be free to pollute the environment, cheat customers, and abuse workers to breaking point. The market wouldn't punish those companies if all the companies in the market were doing the same kinds of things, which is what would happen if said bad behavior was profitable.

"Oh you don't disagree with Exxon poisoning community water supplies and using a private army to seize land from indigenous people? Tough luck, Shell and BP are doing the same thing."

Yeah most governments leave a lot to desire in efficiency, fairness, effectiveness, etc. But a world where corporations are the only ones who set the rules would be far worse.
The article's author didn't compile the list.

> the two professors emailed sixteen philosophers in the U.S., England, Australia, Germany, Finland, and Brazil, asking specifically for "ten of the most important and influential philosophical books after 1950."

Edit: parent post was edited. It originally read: "This article discredits itself."
what sort of margin are we talking about and how does it translate to gross margin? Margin of comfort, of happiness?
Adversarial Attacks Against Medical Deep Learning Systems
>It might be interesting to analyze how it is you serendipitously find new films and whether that could be applied to a site like Netflix.

Netflix seems to have a borderline religious obsession with keeping the UI "simple",

A "random film" button would be welcome IMHO. (Or random within categories)
Here’s a radical idea: don’t use Facebook if it makes you feel bad!
fair swap
As part of the roll-out of new initiatives devised in response to attacks on European soil in recent years, the EU is also seeking to improve the security features of ID cards used by citizens of member states in the Schengen travel area. Fingerprints and facial images will be stored on a chip in the cards.

An estimated 80 million Europeans currently have non-machine-readable ID cards without biometric identifiers.
> But NSA surveillance is involuntary. Why are we more worried about a voluntary and foreseeable risk than an involuntary rights violation?

Americans do not broadly support reforming the NSA [1][2].

The reason for that is the same behind someone always posting, when HN discusses Facebook's shenanigans, "why is this news?" The public needs to see bodies to mobilise. The last few decades were filled with cable TV hosts and technologists screaming about existential threats to democracy. Most didn't pan out. The price we pay for our boys who cried wolf is a public demand for tangibility.

We don't have a case where the NSA's activities caused big, tangible, specific and easily-understood harm. We do with Facebook. Moreover, the NSA's leadership responded competently to criticism. Facebook's CEO and even rank-and-file reacted petulantly, which fuelled the fire.

> Don't interpret this as saying Facebook acted appropriately.

I'm glad you say this. Policy isn't zero sum. I, too, want to reform the NSA. But that isn't happening today. We do, however, in state houses, through our Attorneys General and in the EU, have a chance at dealing some heavy blows to Facebook.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/06/11/190638738... (2013)

[2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/19/americans-fe...
Not to the field of philosophy itself.
"by acting like a startup"

What, you mean by loading up with debt and using the cash to buy back stock to goose earnings-per-share? (the question uses data from their 2015 buybacks, but they did a billion $ moar in 2017 and have more scheduled this year)

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Dominos-Pizza-taking-up-loans-...
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