skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It feels like Erlang/OTP is being reinvented right here again.

I thought the same thing. There are some cases like low message passing computational tasks where you can get away with simple async futures + fetch_future (being a computationally oriented language Julia encourages this model) but in the end actors are pretty great at generalizing concurrency.
Structure is needed to accomplish something. You're thoroughly missing my point, let me try an analogy:

I am going to gather 100 fools, and ask each, what they imagine life on mars must be like. I am then going to structure their opinions, write them down in books, and so on.

Replace 'life on mars' with 'human nature'. I fail to see the difference between my example and the presented article.

Now if someone were to go study physics, invent a rocket, get into the rocket, fly to Mars, and have the ability to report back their findings - that'd be discovering life on mars.

I'd listen to his/her take on life on mars with great interest. I'd call that a scientist with an informed opinion.
Another aspect of this is that an organization will create busy work for itself when none is needed.

E.g. the IT or HR department brain farting new things that solve no problem and nobody asked for just because they can't just sit idle.
Hi! Can you clarify? This is a fairly standard use of "context" (http://www.socher.org/index.php/Main/ImprovingWordRepresenta...). While the algorithm can be used with just the covariance of a corpus's word vectors, accounting for the distribution of a context when setting up the distance metric acts to improve performance substantially (https://i.imgur.com/Dnx9c9G.jpg)
Far from being unusable, even without a valid license key, windows will work for 30 days IIRC. With some versions you can 're arm' the license for a total of 90 days of free use. In any case, the license you're talking about is the license to _use_ the software, distribution is a separate thing. Nobody except Microsoft is allowed to distribute the software. Just because they offer a download, that doesn't mean you can download and re-distribute it without their permission. Certain copyright licenses also block you from redistribution unless you provide the source code.

Even so, companies don't bother you with such trivial things as re-uploading an ISO that you downloaded off their website since its usually a waste of their time/money. I'm not sure why MS is even bothering with this case TBH.
Interesting. I'm using uBlock Origin with Chrome and didn't get any such warning -- seems to be working fine.
It's all propaganda. NPR is targeted towards people who like soft voices with their manipulation.
The main thing I took away from this survey is that the state of the datasets researchers pass around is kind of terrible. None of them are very large. The biggest one looks to be a pile of manga of dubious copyright status.

I find myself wondering if it might be worth spending some resources reaching out to independent comics creators to get copies of their source files, which will often have consistent methods of organization and labeling across hundreds of pages, as well as machine-readable text, and building a new dataset or expanding existing ones. Some time parsing the propriety formats these are mostly going to be in (largely Photoshop, Illustrator, and Manga Studio) and/or pulling data out via the program’s scripting/plug-in interfaces might prove worthwhile.

Reach out to “collectives” like Hiveworks or Spiderforest, you can find a lot of artists working at a pro level that way.
>Why "sacrifice" and not murder?

Words are tools. Which label is more descriptive in this context?
I appreciate you sharing your experience -- our commitment to candidates includes regular correspondence so candidates don't go into a black hole of no response -- we know that is extremely frustrating.

We definitely do get a lot of candidates, but that doesn't excuse poor experiences and we truly try to do our best. Hiring truly is an flawed and messy process on both sides.
The movie Apocalypto comes to mind, where that is essentially the plot of the movie. I think you're probably right.
Discussion from 3 years ago (311 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9227541
Thats the difficult part. Then you have an untested (in the wild) system.
They'd still die as they can't feed off the GMO plants.
I can only imagine the problem getting much worse in the future. Wherever I go, I see kids of all ages hooked on cell-phones - either on mobile games, youtube videos or on instagram/snapchat. This is probably significantly cutting down their natural light exposure.
Yeah, that was unacceptable of us. No excuses. We've gotten better with our https://zapier.com/jobs/our-commitment-to-applicants/.
That line reminds me of the old FedEx MBA advert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcoDV0dhWPA

I've certainly had plenty of run ins with young MBA n00bs who have just so little experience in the world that they're not just somewhat a negative, you can't even communicate with them. A company I worked at loved hiring them and putting MBA grads under some managers and giving them tasks. Most seemed to feel there were decisions to make and they were going to make them (hey they have an MBA) and that was that. Some simply didn't show any curiosity about anything, they didn't ask questions so they just never knew and thus their decisions were almost always flawed.

One wonderful fellow was given the task of making the schedule for a call center type environment of about 20 or so people. People would email him schedule preferences and he would make the schedule. This was a fairly straightforward task that had been done for many many years. Except that he never responded to emails and as far as anyone could tell the end product didn't reflect anyone's preferences. It was actually hard to get him to understand that other than responding to his boss's emails... he needed to respond to those who were not his boss. In addition we had to teach him that scheduling someone an overnight shift and then a day shift, and then a night shift and so on was a bad idea.

These guys were so stuck in their MBA world that it really was difficult just to COMMUNICATE with them as there was no shared experience. I don't think he ever had an actual job of any consequence, and his internships were with other MBA type folks doing MBA things with other MBA people.

I've no doubt there are young folks graduating with MBAs who would and will do great, but if you're talking about professional management and such roles IMO most people need a hell of a lot of life experience before they know what they are doing.
I hope it is. If I'll find a subject which I'm passionate about, within a correct environment and context, it can be a good and fruitful experience.
Incidentally, I viewed your above URL for Google Authenticator logo images in mobile a while earlier (after being able to view it fine - with all the images - on desktop PC). And on mobile (Android), amusingly, it seems like Chrome has done its usual optimization of heavy pages (by googleweblight.com or similar means), which often helps save bandwidth and speeds the rendering time, but this time, it resulted in it optimizing out all the images that should show up on that page :) Not a single image shows up, I just get the header and footer of the page. If anyone from Google is reading this, please pass on the info to the relevant team, so they can look into this.
But now a third-party scapegoat which would take the heat off of TSB execs.
>Why on earth would a cryptocurrency-based store have to comply with the same regulations as a card payment processor?

Because money laundering can happen at any level, and specific regulations apply, you don't need to be a card payment processor processing "payments for vast amounts of third parties".

As long as you accept payments, even for a lemonade stand in the corner, you need to comply with these.

In fact you probably misunderstood what Stripe demanded on the parent's situation: they didn't demanded the parent's store comply with the same regulations Stripe does as a card payment processor. They demanded they comply with the regulations a store should comply with.
But it sure as shit might stop the next guy if all his friends keep getting put in jail, something very rare in white collar crime.

If I were Microsoft or any business needing to protect my IP rights, I would not care about a small reparation, I would care about it not having to go to court every 5 minutes because everyone and their mom is printing off fake CDs because it's not getting adequately deterred by the justice system.

Seriously, if you want to bitch about our justice system or even our copyright laws you have WAY WAY lower hanging fruit than this to base a coherent argument around

Nvm: re-read your posts, Windows should not have a copyright on these disks, I do not exist in the same universe as you
Microsoft loses $3.5 (minus the production cost) for each copy Eric sells to his buyers, since otherwise Microsoft would be the one earning that money

Considering that Microsoft wasn't selling those disks before he came around, and isn't selling them now, how can they be losing money on the disks?

If I managed to find someone to pay to get a copy of your post, would that mean you'd lose money?
> he deserves a prize.... for what?

For the Gates Foundation?
> Microsoft now however wants to Double Dip and charge refurbishers for a 2nd license on for the same hardware, that is not just compensation that IMO should be considered fraud, and be illegal.

This part i missed... is this true? do Microsoft actually charge refurbisher? Aren't licensed supposed to be for machines not people. They seem intent on stamping the damn thing on the side of all machines.
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I think this depends a lot of where you have tried this. As far as I'm concerned the university I'm looking to apply to for a PhD is far from this type of concerns. It has other problems, of course, I don't expect the PhD to be a lean experience anyway.
> FWIW I personally hate "Pi Day" as March 14th, as it reeks of numerology. It should probably be the day/time when the Earth has traveled around the sun its distance from the sun

Incidentally, wouldn't that be the less compelling "1 radian day"? Also, to celebrate such a day, we'd have to decide: travelled since when?, and then we're right back to arbitrariness (why choose January 1, or whatever other date/time is chosen)?

For me, while it's hardly an accurate picture of what math is or why it matters, I'm happy enough to have anything that gives people a positive impression of mathematics.
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I make this often to make żurek--a Polish soup.

Basically, instead of putting it into bread you add it to a broth with sausages, bring it to a boil for two minutes or until it gets dense, and it's ready.

One of my favorite.
I think we have to be careful of reading the morality of our own culture into others.

That might sound glib but we have plenty of evidence even in our time of parents killing their children or allowing others to kill their children to save them from prophesied doom.
Completely different scenarios. Stealing an office pen is slightly immoral but basically affects no one. Stealing a lunch ruins someone's day, and is a direct insult to their time and existence. An absolute false equivalence and you know it.
Whether cancer is special in this regard depends on what you mean by aging. I work in this area and consider it to mean "damage (maladaptive changes) that accumulate over time, first degrading function and ultimately leading to catastrophic failure" . This is not the only model but it is widespread.

So for something like the cardiovascular system, chronic stress, inflammation, ROS etc are the triggers, atherosclerosis and endothelial weakening is the damage, and stroke or heart attack is the failure. In the case of cancer, it is radiation or replication error, DNA mutation, and metastasis, respectively.

The key for "curing" aging would be the ability to reverse or repair damage (in this case, to selectively kill cells that are mutated or precancerous). To extend life it is sufficient to merely slow damage accumulation rate.
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The idea is that each of the secret keys (not nonces) would be kept on paper in a well observed location, with only the public keys leaving. The building would be operated by whoever is responsible for generating the keys and showing that their keys aren't (hopefully yet) compromised. They could allow the public to observe and perhaps the boxes could be marked with the range of IMEIs/keys contained within. If the cops want to go in and get a key out of a box, they can get a warrant to do it but everyone can know which few hundred thousand phones have been compromised.

It doesn't completely prevent malfeasance... it just makes it a PITA.
We definitely get a lot of applicants and of course that makes it very difficult to manage at times, but we're also very lucky that so many people want to work for Zapier. We try to be good stewards of that privilege -- which means being prompt and clear in our communication and giving everyone a fair shot.

It does make it harder to hire, but it would be even harder at the other extreme -- if no one applied!
This and the references https://figshare.com/articles/Chemlambda_strings/5751318
You might be right, but you’re guessing. I’m pretty pro-crypto. I’m an anarchist. I am generally oriented towards non-governmental solutions to everything, including violence.

But even me, even with that bias, I still worry quite often about what evil can lurk behind cryptographic structures, and what effect wide availability of strong crypto will have on that.

I don’t know that it will be positive or negative... my gut says positive, but I worry. And so it’s not crazy to me to think Ozzie might be legitimately worried about people’s safety.
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More like: one famous weed smoker is smoking against the law, the law obviously doesn't forbid "talking that some people smoke" but the "normal people" who are actually found smoking (heretics) do rot in prisons or get executed.

One famous weed smoker is protected by the police chief personally for some years... until he loses that protection. The actual parts of Galileo's sentence by the Inquisition:

"because of the things deduced in the trial and confessed by you as above, have rendered yourself according to this Holy Office vehemently suspected of heresy, namely of having held and believed a doctine which is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture: that the sun is the center of the world and does not move from east to west, and the earth moves and is not the center of the world, and that one may hold and defend as probable an opinion after it has been declared and defined contrary to Holy Scripture. Consequently you have incurred all the censures and penalties imposed and promulgated by the sacred canons and all particular and general laws against such delinquents."

"so that this serious and pernicious error and transgression of yours does not remain completely unpunished, and so that you will be more cautious in the future and an example for others to abstain from similar crimes, we order that the book Dialogue by Galileo Galilei be prohibited by public edict."

"We condemn you to formal imprisonment in this Holy Office at our pleasure."

The rest of the sentence is equally very clear. See my other post or Wikipedia for the link. Pope John Paul II, 1992: "The error of the theologians of the time, when they maintained the centrality of the Earth, was to think that our understanding of the physical world's structure was, in some way, imposed by the literal sense of Sacred Scripture"
This is how I view it as well!
Sounds like project management: quality, time, budget, pick one..
What if we make cellphone screens which emit 10,000 lux? Boom. Problem solved.
That statement seems to me to simply state a fact, and suggest taking a different approach. That doesn't mean we should halt all research on anything else.

There certainly exist quite a number of diseases that have nothing to do with aging. On the other hand, there also exist quite a few health problems, including many that represent a substantial fraction of healthcare spending, that do relate to age-related degeneration. Taking that into account would produce a better allocation of resources.
Thanks for the tip, I'll try out Serverless.
> This is the hard question, I argue the group should not give her the right to censor this image.

Sacrificing people's dignity for the supposed common good it very much not a road I am willing to go down. If we are willing to sacrifice an individual's dignity, there is nothing left worth sacrificing it for.

Mind you that this is distinct from limited use for the purposes of prosecution.

> Imagine she had the power to censor that image, then she might be bribed into censoring it.

Yeah, and then imagine I could strip you of your human rights because I value a common good higher than your human rights. Also, no matter what the law, you cannot completely prevent that people will try to put pressure on other people. The solution is not to disregard the individual's dignity, but to create incentives that counter attempts to silence those who suffer. Create an environment where people will come to the conclusion that allowing their picture to be used is the thing they should do, all things considered.

As for your idea of "democratized mass surveillance", I guess it's a nice thought experiment, but not something that could realistically be implemented in a way that would actually be fundamentally better than what we have today. For one, the checks and balances we have today are a sort-of implementation of the same fundamental idea of decentralizing power, but also, total democratization is not a guarantee for humanistic outcomes: Witch hunts, oppression of minorities, and genocides are in a way highly democratic. The problem with the oppression of homosexuals, say, was not that the abuses were a secret, but that the majority opinion was that it was the right thing to do, and such mass surveillance would only have helped with it.
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To put things in perspective, people felt something similar towards Alfred Nobel before his death and the establishment of the Nobel Foundation. He was nicknamed "The Merchant of Death".

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/archaeology-and-history/m...

Andrew Carnegie wasn't exactly a saint either when he was in business.
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I don't know what you're so worried about. What's to stop anyone in the office from running away with your code? I mean you could have some problems if you're hiring in China or Russia - but even then most of the time people just want an honest, steady job. Your source code is not usually something that anybody else wants, it would be almost impossible to find a buyer.

If you're really worried, just stick to people in developed countries with a sane legal system. But honestly finding people with great communication and technical skills should be a much more important criteria to the success of your company. You're company is much more likely to die from self inflicted wounds than because someone sold your source code to a competitor.
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May you get flagged and banned for your pointless, cruel, thoughtless contempt.
There must be some other way. I can often figure out the direct url to a software project in bitbucket, but office365 urls are pages long. I somehow doubt atlassian is as transparent as you say.

Disclaimer: not a web dev
> randomly found and messaged people from LinkedIn

We definitely do not do that. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, I'll double check internally and make it super clear that isn't acceptable.
> Human nature is the reason we had a Microsoft monopoly.

They straight up bribed the regulators. If Office stored data in an easy-to-parse open format, society may well have already created a universal flu vaccine.
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Dude, he's been the richest person for over _two decades_ almost every year starting from year 1995.
Sure, but within a model generation (eg E90 BMW, 2007-2012), the cars are largely the same.
What actually happens when you buy a domain name?
Why would you use anything but a string for User IDs?

My understanding of numerical types is that they exist to perform math. User IDs are not used for math, they're a completely arbitrary vanity system to assist with identification, so they should be strings, equally arbitrary.

Personally, I think E-mail addresses are the best user identifiers these days. Back in the day when there were like 5 websites everyone used, having your username was a cool thing. These days there's a billion websites and nobody uses the same ones and there's zero inter-user interaction on most sites. From the perspective of user friendliness, E-mail addresses are the easiest because you kill two birds with one stone (contact method + username + password recovery).

If you want a numerical ID, what about using a hash of the E-mail address? Or perhaps a combination of things, email, full name, sign-up date.
I can recommend the ShortUUID[1] Python package I wrote, I use it for all my IDs nowadays. The good thing about it is that it makes nice and short human-readable/typable IDs that you can use for all your objects, so you don't care even if you expose them to the user.
> E-mail addresses are the best user identifiers these days

Oh god no. You don't want all your IDs changing when a user changes their email address.

You probably want your ID (e.g. a UUID) and your user-friendly lookup method (e.g. an email) to be separate.
I just think that titling a paper about a weighted bag-of-words approach "Context is everything" really starts the reader off on the wrong foot. In fact there's almost no context in your model, in contrast to most other sentence learning methods!
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I agree, the idea that "intelligence is a property of the group" is an interesting idea that is worth exploring further with respect to AI research.

I think the indie puzzle platformer Thomas Was Alone explores this idea in a cute and approachable way.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/220780/Thomas_Was_Alone/

It's also worth noting that AlphaGo was trained against copies of itself in later stages of its development -- while this isn't "communication" in the human sense, it does enable copies of the AI to learn from each other.

https://deepmind.com/research/alphago/alphago-vs-alphago-sel...