skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MTurk is a godsend for ML research and is a huge game-changer. For every other project where the problem is "that sounds cool but we don't have enough labeled data" the answer nowadays is "just turk it". Sentiment labeling, qualitative comparison, error identification, and tons of other traditionally data-scarce tasks are made trivially easy (at the cost of some money) with MTurk, and it's pretty much a win-win for everyone involved too!

Now the ethics as far as exploitation are definitely important, but I think the design of the site handles things quite well and makes everything fair for all parties. If you feel a task is underpaid, there are enough alternatives that you can just not do it. It's also true that there are many international turkers for whom $8/hour or less is still solid pay. Then there are also many third-party tools that allow turkers to see which HIT (task) requesters have good track records (low rejection ratio, good pay, etc.), and the site's own tools allow requesters to avoid turkers with bad track records. In my experience just browsing through tasks, heavily underpaid tasks don't tend to get done (for example, writing a 100-word summary for $0.50).
"Writing lots of boilerplate and then figuring out how to reduce it seems wasteful."
"You can do the same with much less mucking around with boilerplate by creating data classes first and business logic classes later."

That's exactly what the author is trying to argue against. The authors point is that because business logic changes, and that because you can't always be omniscient, it's hard to write the correct abstractions the first time. So although it sounds wasteful to write boiler plate and then abstract, it's less wasteful than abstracting, then coding, and then later having to change it all because you got it wrong.
There is only two ways of legitimate interest that I considered for my service; "security" and "better user experience".

The data collected under the former is simply the IP and a timestamp in webserver and app logs, usually purged within 7 days and then any user data included in backups, purged after 3 months.

"better user experience" is not really personal data but I included it anyways; browser type (mozilla/edge/etc.), viewport resolution, pageload time, OS. And not stored in a way that allows correlating them.

For analytics that is really all I need.
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Not these days. Without code and reproducibility, most researchers would ignore your amazing demo. You should check out recent feud between Yann LeCun and Sophia.
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"Good public transport" is an oxymoron.

The best you can hope for is public transport that will get you where you're going in time.

There's no public transportation that will provide privacy, consistent comfort, or even a seat. Never mind the most basic problem with public transportation—the other passengers. Any time you get into an enclosed metal box with an arbitrary number of random people, you roll the dice. You could have a quiet, safe ride, or you could end up with loud music, obnoxious body odors, food spilling on you, bags hitting you in the face, or someone vomiting all over the floor. Any long-time New Yorker has their fair share of subway and bus stories.

Public transportation is a vital part of any city. But it's not a "relaxing mobile office," it's not always easy or convenient for the elderly and disabled, and you can't have it as the only option.
It really is all about the Champions League. UEFA should offer a fifth spot for the FA Cup winner if they don't qualify by league position. All of the premier league top 6 deserve to be in the Champions League but we need to give them something to fight over.
class-oriented programming and object-oriented programming are not the same thing, and they don't serve the same purpose.

Class-oriented programming is used to define new types, like std::vector for example, whose caller know about the existence. This is where the coupling between data/logic happens.

Object-oriented programming is all about interfaces (abstract classes) and tell-don't-asks (in one word: 'messages'), and is a tool to define boundaries between modules.

The author seems to rant about class-orientation. Let's not throw the baby with the bath water.
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I took it more as "the promise of OOP is horseshit"
They're not forbidden to so business, they're forbidden to so business unless they adapt their product or practices. I'd say that is pretty much the same as this case?
I think that we will make steady progress towards cars that are safer than the average driver. I think that to drive like a human using only binocular visual cues is less obvious, but a computer can process so much more information and have such a varied array of sensors that it can "cheat" its way into being better without as much intelligence.

I also claim that full autonomy is not required, just sufficient autonomy that it can safely hand-off to the driver when confused (the ability to recognize an untenable situation soon enough to pull over to the side of the road is sufficient for that, beeping 2 seconds before crashing is not).

I'm also unconvinced that it will be economic for companies to make self-driving cars any time in the near future though, because even if they are (for example) twice as safe as an average driver, that's a huge number of lawsuits and juries award much higher damages when the defendant is a corporation rather than a (possibly dead or permanently injured) person.
The manipulation of music and video streaming statistics
Your argument makes no sense. If it's illegal to sell something in the US, then those companies are not "refusing" to sell their products there, they are complying with the law.
A quick run down of some simple browser based extensions to give you back some semblance of privacy:

1. uBlock Origin - best open source ad blocker
2. Ghostery - stops you from being tracked as much as possible
3. Chrome UA Spoofer - Use chrome but set the user agent to firefox, this way custom exploits target the wrong browser saving you from being pwned
4. HTTPS Everywhere - Defualts sites to https if possible

I'd also recommend everyone pick up a copy of The Transparent Society (https://amzn.to/2Lapjw7) as it goes into depth on individual privacy and the right to access information about those in control of society.
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The dogs I referred to are not feral as such. They are pets to someone. It is when they get together in packs that their behaviour goes wild. The owners are often unaware that their dogs have wandered about and partaken in killing of stock.

It is also applicable to cats.
I don’t know how to say this lightly, but it seems to me that many of the “administration” type jobs have become this. Admin jobs seem to have proliferated most industries I can think of that otherwise may not need quite so many (medical, legal, financial, increasingly technical with some of the “Agile frameworks”). Most the of those are likely unnecessary, but they’re there to supposedly abstract away some BS.
I may be overanalyzing this entire "phenomenon", but it serves to remind me that our own understanding of ourselves is incredibly limited. There seem to be a number of processes happening under the surface that are completely unbeknownst to us. It made me wonder what else I have missed or misinterpreted in other aspects of my life. How often have I been utterly convinced of something? How often am I so sure that what I'm feeling or thinking is the "correct" way to feel or think about a problem? It amazes me that something as simple as a good night's sleep (the phrase, "Sleep on it", comes to mind) can completely change my perception of an event in the course of a few hours. Whereas in the prior evening it felt as if my world was caving in on me, in the morning things became more manageable. The event itself did not change, only my perception. I liken the human mind to an iceberg. We're cognizant of such a small part of it while the rest remains under the surface and out of our sight.
You can plug in numbers where the cars are less safe now, but there is a steady rate of improvement in safety once the cars are on the road.
Except EU has always (well, Sweden since 1973) had regulation, if you would gave followed that, you would not have to change much in most cases. Just write some documents and smaller changes.
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Imagine how safe democracy would be if only voting machines used pie menus:

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/dumbold-voting-machine-for-th...
Before it was £250 for each EU country. Now it is £250 to comply in all 28 states (27 soon). So, it saves £6750?
My wording was awkward, but I think the meaning is clear. "...in the EU--the union of countries primarily located in a continent that..." ?

And what am I missing? They were dictators of Spain and Greece respectively. There are millions of people who can remember their rule alive in those EU countries today. What changed in the last fifty years to make a recurrence impossible? Turkey narrowly missed joining, and it's basically there now. Hungary seems well on its way.
> I'm going to burn my eyes out with a fireplace poker.

I hope you’re joking but if not, there is help available for you. Facebook is not reason enough for self-harm. It comes very, very, very close, but close is not close enough.
I'd be extremely surprised if Alphabet does not at some point make an announcement stunning the self driving car industry in terms of capabilities and offerings. Their tech is unmatched but kept under extremely tight wraps. As an Xoogler I'm confident within the next 12-48 months, after much regulation has been crafted does Alphabet release its creation upon the world.
Research that is funded by the public for the public is being put in the hand of for-profit organizations like Elsevier and then held private unless someone pays. Its not criminal but it is also more than just a drain on public benefit relative to free/open journals.

Its like if we paid taxes to build and maintain roads and bridges, only to have the constructor give the rights of the finished result to a toll-both company in order so they could evaluate and rate how good the individual construction workers are and make it easier to promote and hire them in the future. It make no sense for any practical profession to behave like this, and yet thats how academia has operated for ages. It is time that the public get what it paid for.
> In the real world, "0% false positives" isn't really feasible.

-Which, IMHO, is the only argument one really needs against the death penalty.

Having it basically ensures The State WILL murder innocents on occasion.
And for the "interpreting body language" part I recall seeing demos of transcribing sign language, and also of measuring speaker stress levels from video from all kinds of body factors. If it had some widespread commercial application there's no reason why we wouldn't have machines that read body language better than many humans.
you use it to signal that you’re paying attention to someone in a relatively passive/casual way via read receipts on one-to-many picture messages. it’s mostly useful for groups of friends, and (critically) interacting with someone you’re romantically or sexually interested in with plausible deniability.

the ui i won’t bother to defend though.
Apparently this is going over my head. Who is derefr talking about?
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funnily it also applies down the chain, even dollar ESP chips dev boards are 10x the cost of the bare pcb :)
Posted this in another comment but will do so again here:

A quick run down of some simple browser based extensions to give you back some semblance of privacy and security:

1. uBlock Origin - best open source ad blocker
2. Ghostery - stops you from being tracked as much as possible
3. Chrome UA Spoofer - Use chrome but set the user agent to firefox, this way custom exploits target the wrong browser saving you from being pwned
4. HTTPS Everywhere - Defualts sites to https if possible

I'd also recommend everyone pick up a copy of The Transparent Society (https://amzn.to/2Lapjw7) as it goes into depth on individual privacy and the right to access information about those in control of society.
i don’t know what such a resilient methodology might be, because we’re talking about human systems where the participants continuously adapt to emerging conditions.

agile seeks to benefit from the intrinsic motivation of each team member to create something beyond any single member’s capabilities in exchange for empowerment.

when a manager doesn’t understand this principle, that leads to failure (as in your case as well). i don’t know of any systems that can self-correct for this kind of external mis-judgement.
Facebook is actively incentivizing posting of news. I remember over the years they made multiple changes specifically to bring more news to the users. Which is strange, given that they had the bulk of their growth when people were posting banal stuff and game requests.
I find Facebook to be way more enjoyable after aggressively muting people whose posts I don't care for. Now it's really an RSS feed for friends and family, minus a lot of junk
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I don't know how fast the FPGA can reconfigure itself or part of it, but you could also have per process bare metal JIT
writings fpga.el right now ><
You and others here are assuming that VPN provides you with at least some security. In reality, VPNs grow large and open and someone will inevitably bring malware in. Furthermore, people run untrusted software in browsers and VMs that is capable of scanning the VPN and exploiting vulnerabilities. There is no security in a VPN. It's as naked as public IPs.

As for the cost of host security, you have to consider the cost of VPNs too:

- VPNs complicate everything, because all computers inside them are effectively on a crippled, partitioned Internet. Staff that could normally just login via web interface has to fiddle with network settings. High-bandwidth apps need custom configuration to bypass the VPN in select cases.

- VPNs block cheap cloud services. They encourage deployment of poorly secured self-hosted services with on-going administration costs.

- And then there's the latency. People will setup star topology for VPNs, because it's simple and easy to control, but then everyone spends time compensating for the increased latency.

Sure, migration between security models is tricky, but migration to anything is always tricky.
Then enlighten me.
This would be even more fitting, since it's about frequencies. If you blur your eye (removing the high frequencies) you see Marylin, otherwise Einstein.

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~armiller/illusion/einesteinmonroe2....
Likewise. I had "Laurel" initially, but after going into "Yanny" territory, I can progressivley put the slider back to 100% "Laurel" and still hear "Yanny". Less so in the other direction.

Perception is about matching input to pre-conscious expectation. Once your brain has been primed to one word, you keep on hearing it when given an ambiguous signal.

Keyword: "priming", there's a lot of research on the topic.
Interesting. I can see a lot of my countries culture in the dignity culture itself... quite a neat food for thought.
Here’s the blog post: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/05/17/gardener/
> but rather my jaw squeezing tighter and tighter, unable to open, until my teeth began to crack.

I used to have this dream every now and then. It was awful, but I could never be sure if I actually clamped my mouth shut or just dreamed I did. Thankfully it's not happened for years, so perhaps was related to stress.
Multimodality isn't really my field, but there's also a lot of research on emotion detection. E.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.07481.pdf is a recent survey about commonly used methods that I found by quick googling.

We definitely can combine things like detecting crossed arms (and knowing that it's correlated with closedness) with emotion and stress signs in your voice, sentiment mapping of the words you say, micro-movements and your pulse rate (that a machine can detect from video if it's sufficiently good) and various other things to infer your likely emotional state.

The trouble is that in-depth analysis requires excessive external context and a shared worldview - i.e. "being of the same tribe" and knowing how a particular real world event "should" make one feel (and why), which is pretty much a general AI problem; but purely reading what the body language of this moment is telling about your emotions is a hard task but somewhat solvable even right now.
The use of `document.write` for this entry instead of the usual console threw me off at first.
The nvme disks are local, not remote EBS. Latency will be the PCI bus.
Some variant of this seems to happen to organizations after they reach a certain size of people. I used to work at a startup that raised a massive round of funding and began a hiring spree. I joined one of the satellite offices shortly afterwards, excited and eager to get to work. What I found was that the vast majority of our 50-person office was more or less spinning the hamster wheel, so to speak. The work that needed to be done was parsed and diluted across so many people that there was hardly any work to fill a full 8-hour workday. I recall missing a day of work once and forgetting to notify my boss (I had a midterm and was likely in some sort of panic mode). The next day as I walked in he greeted me by saying, "Hey! Nice job yesterday." He wasn't being sarcastic either. The amount of work to do was so minimal that my boss forgot (or didn't even notice) that I wasn't at the office.

I've read some articles recently stating that Netflix and Facebook experience increases in traffic during traditional work hours. It's an interesting data point. I think most jobs don't need to exist. They exist for a variety of reasons: signaling (the company must signal growth), incompetence, inefficiency, etc.
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Nope. But you can try Threema or Wire. They're both pretty good.
I thought the same. Although this would be impossible right?
You mean mostly media talks about fraudulent use cases. Or otherwise, how do you know mostly they are used for fraud?
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The threat of being suspended from the EU and the (potential) economic damage from that? You can’t be a dictatorship and keep the same rights in the union, as per the Copenhagen criteria and Article 7.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_criteria#Political_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_7_of_the_Treaty_on_Eur...
Astronomy has gotten much better at promoting itself than it did in the past. Hubble helped; painting up all those pale objects in gorgeous colors, for example. (For shame!)

Most advances in modern physics are about invisible objects. Most people? given a choice between seeing the fireworks, or seeing an equation explaining how they work?
>I think that is only the case when it is for something where you also have to be in one of the categories. For many people, it isn't A OR B. It is their group, or the other group. That is significant.

You want coffee or tea?
i only made an account to laugh at how the title calls Proxy a "new" feature hahahaaha
I don't think it's a big assumption as the law as well as the guidelines clearly state that point (from "Guidelines on Data Protection Officers" [1] by WP29, pages 16 ff.):

> The absence of conflict of interests is closely linked to the requirement to act in an independent
manner. Although DPOs are allowed to have other functions, they can only be entrusted with other
tasks and duties provided that these do not give rise to conflicts of interests. This entails in particular
that the DPO cannot hold a position within the organisation that leads him or her to determine the
purposes and the means of the processing of personal data. Due to the specific organisational structure
in each organisation, this has to be considered case by case.

> As a rule of thumb, conflicting positions within the organisation may include senior management
positions (such as chief executive, chief operating, chief financial, chief medical officer, head of
marketing department, head of Human Resources or head of IT departments) but also other roles lower
down in the organisational structure if such positions or roles lead to the determination of purposes
and means of processing. In addition, a conflict of interests may also arise for example if an external
DPO is asked to represent the controller or processor before the Courts in cases involving data
protection issues.

In summary, if you have power to decide how or for what purposes the processing of the data is to be carried out you're probably not allowed to serve as DPO. Of course in the end it's the company's decision who to give that role to, but not following the guidelines increases the chance of non-compliance.

1: http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_...
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The effect is still mostly in your brain. It's not that people are completely death to such frequencies, just slightly less sensible. A small imbalance causes your perception to change 100%.
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China does not have many public IPs (v4) in the first place, so I doubt it is in any way deliberate. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_IPv4_addr...:

Country | Number of IPv4 addresses Per Person

US | 4.91196

China | 0.24591
Mechanical Turk is great for "open", public research. We used to use them a lot for machine learning tasks (data cleanup, model comparisons, label annotations), along with similar services like CrowdFlower / Figure Eight. We saw two primarily issues when applied to "non-open" (commercial) projects:

- business-related data too sensitive to share with strangers (contractual obligations, too much risk)

- some tasks required non-trivial subject matter expertise and context to annotate properly (quality control issues)

For this reason, we gradually moved to an in-house team of long-term annotators. It's not much more expensive (moms on maternity leave, students…), but infinitely more flexible and safer for our purposes. YMMV.
Yeah, well... Yanny/Laurel ain't got shit on Brainsteam / Green Needle: https://www.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/8jxzee/y...
Given the enforcement served to whistleblowers, I’d be ok if they took financial benefit from leaks:

Auction leaked data to foreign intelligence or companies, then make the price known. We’ve been warned enough times. That’s the only way Americans will put a price on privacy, and fines for unsecured systems will climb through the roof, with wilful enforcement by both companies and customers. And the whistleblower gets paid, better than rotting in Russia for years.
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>In the real world, "0% false positives" isn't really feasible.

Executing 0% of those false positives is absolutely feasible though, and all civilized countries have already adopted it for decades...
> It’s a fundamental axciom of software security that you can’t trust source, so you must diagnose the binary.

What if you trust the build tool chain and can reproduce the binary from source?
See also the Corruption Perceptions Index:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

For example, Ireland is currently number 6 on the Democracy Index, but way down at number 19 on the Corruption Perceptions Index. Correspondingly, Singapore is high at number 7 on the Corruption Perceptions Index, but down at 69 on the Democracy Index. I would suggest that you should look at both lists before deciding where to move.