skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worse than that. Unroll would just send those emails to the spam folder utterly ruining email reputation for otherwise legitimate marketing campaigns. Not sure if it's different now, but I had a loooot of cleaning up after that service started becoming "mainstream."
I see language verbosity an advantage when reading foreign code for maintenance.

Much better than deciphering some hieroglyphs.
So it’s a “victory” that people in the US are unable to decide for themselves if they want to eat at Salmonella Kitchen Co?

Who made you the arbiter of what’s good for people?

Regulation "deciding" which businesses or services exist or not has existed for eons. It’s why we require doctors to be accredited, or restaurants to pass food and safety checks. Sometimes the balance of power is way out of the hands of consumers and the "free market" needs a bit of a nudge to act in the public’s best interest.
Signal desktop app is based on the insecure Electron runtime. See my report here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1635
Why are they in this format? They look like my grandma took a screenshot, pasted the image in a Word document and then printed it
Am I correct in recalling that the way abortion became legal was an argument about a constitutional right to privacy? I wonder what happened...
Exactly this. "Fluff" for something that does not lack an online documentation experience.
Symantec suffers worst day in 17 years after news of internal audit
What was klout ? (I've read its wiki page, but...)
Why Seattle Is America's Bus-Lovingest Town
I've idly wondered how you could interpret all the mutations in X-Men, but I don't know enough about the families or inheritance to make any reasonable guesses (I've seen a few cartoons and movies and that's about it). I know mutants generally have mutant kids but don't the powers differ? Which doesn't make much sense and I can't retcon it.

I have noticed, however, that in _My Little Pony_ (which I've finally gotten around to watching), it seems like earth/pegasus/unicorn traits are not races or subspecies analogous to human races but instead likely follow a polytomous liability threshold pattern. Why? Because we see the Cakes, two earth ponies, manage to have a pair of pegasus and unicorn fraternal twins, and when queried, mention they have some pegasus/unicorn ancestry. Since the pony type is mutually exclusive (we never see any pony who is both pegasus and unicorn, aside from the alicorns who are special magically-created cases), I don't know of any kind of common Mendelian trait pattern which would give a single type, normally breed true, and allow two earth pony parents with mixed ancestry to have kids who are both unicorns and pegasi (one non-earth-pony offspring would be fine as it would simply indicate a recessive discrete trait, but two different others? I don't see how that works unless you postulate some sort of multi-locus Mendelian trait with dominance of earth trait by both unicorn and pegasus, I guess?). Whereas if it's polytomous liability threshold, then that would be possible albeit unlikely, since they could inherit different fractions of ancestry and get pushed across different type thresholds.
No one has any way to dispose of nuclear waste (except reprocessing, which has significant cost and safety concerns). It sits in storage pools waiting for that day. Lithium batteries have no such issue.
SpaceX flies 'lessons learned' rocket
Yeah, it just needs to work on its tooling and library story. Last time I tried, the OCaml toolchain was such a big pain that the Reason community basically told me to give up and compile to Node. And then there are relatively few native-ReasonML libraries, so you have to figure out how to integrate with OCaml which usually means learning how to _read_ OCaml without clawing your eyes out (I'm only sort of joking).

I'm rooting for Reason, but it has a few nontrivial hills to climb before it's practical.
Paul Simon vs. the World
>And what does congress base this on?

They were created and promoted by the Internet Research Agency, a troll factory run by the Russian government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
Is there any indication of any sort that this content isn't just random ads? Do I have to just take your word for it?
The history of business is littered with companies that got into business to do A, discovered they couldn't make that work unless someone tackled B, did B because nobody else was doing it well enough, then stopped doing A because they were doing so well at B.
Yeah. This is subtle manipulation; I guess Americans are accustomed to loud yelling and namecalling.
Industrial CO2 emissions (building batteries, building power plants, building aluminum) fall under a different category then electricity production emissions, it's not deceptive to claim zero emissions here.
Maybe. Maybe there's an analogy somewhere.
>Prove me wrong.

I can't, I agree with you.

Company "culture" is whatever management decides it is. Unlike real, organic cultures, company cultures are engineered and dictated from the top, and employees don't alter it (as members of organic cultures do) but are merely expected to conform to it. Amazonians didn't create Amazon's culture, collectively, it is literally the cult of Jeff Bezos, and is "peculiar" by mandate.

So "culture fit" is just a meaningless box into which to throw the personal prejudices of whomever is hiring you (or choosing not to hire you) and to provide them with sufficient plausible deniability, because they can't just say they don't hire anyone over 30, or that they would rather not have women or certain ethnicities around, because it makes them uncomfortable.
It's almost as if Google wanted to push its own web browser
When you call an organization a cult,you are essentially saying that the members accept leadership and belief without thinking for themselves and applying rationality.

Theiel's palantir is a good example. A ton of smart people and good products but as it appears not a single person doubts the organization's mission and the horrific impact it has on society. Why? It's a cult, don't doubt leadership,just be a good hacker and hack as you're told.

To each his own. For me, I can't imagine living like that. Even in the military you can doubt and question unlawful commands/orders.

I would rather be an outcast and a failure than succeed, be well connected and accepted by the group at the price of abandoning whatever conscious and principles I have. I guess you can say I am not much of a joiner?
You're trying to make a psychological argument against a sociological effect.

No, a single Spongebob meme didn't sway your vote. This is obvious.

But hundreds of thousands little manipulations of social media did have ripple effects throughout existing communities, and created a more divisive political atmosphere that absolutely could sway peoples votes.

For example: Hillary doesn't really have all that bad a political history. She wasn't a great candidate, but she also wasn't the "Killary" character right-wing media portrays her as. You, however, think that "her record" is self-explanatory, because you keep hearing people talk about her as if she were the antichrist.

I would be curious to hear about "her record" from you, but I suspect you're just going to bring up Benghazi, Uranium One, her e-mails, or maybe even Pizzagate to explain why she was unelectable. This, in the end, just illustrates the point that repeating misinformation constantly will convince people that it is the truth.

At the end of the day, propaganda divided the DNC into two camps and turn those camps against each other, destroying any sense of unity during the election. You chose a side, it ended up being the losing side, and the whole debacle likely cost the Democrats the White House, yet you're still unable to see that you were played.
Do you have stats at hand about people who whine software isn't available for their platform?
For reference, a megawatt (MW) is 13000 humans cranking generators. You might get by with fewer since the problem being addressed is short bursts of capacity mismatch.
Good to hear. Hopefully the massive success they're having in this area can carry them through their car troubles until that becomes profitable too.
If we keep turning off nuclear power plants just like Germany.
Alas, if only there were a way to write native applications in some language other than javascript...
I would die a thousand deaths working in a company like that. How can you possibly build your resume if everything on starts off with, "I worked on a team that did X?" at a small company you can say "I did X, Y, Z".
A lot of the US production numbers peak in 1943/1944, though, and even then, only because we thoroughly outgunned the Axis and didn’t actually need to keep producing at that rate. The amount of ramp up that was politically possible in 1940 was nothing close to what the US was capable of.
Congress introduces bill to block government encryption backdoors
In a tribe you don't neccesarily have to blindly follow leadership. Cult means you accept their values as-is,no questions allowed.
To build on what everyone else is saying:

- Make sure your tiers make sense: The features each tier unlock should be logical, with the goal being to build a "value ladder". Give your customer just enough value to be successful and show them how the higher tiers will make them even more successful

- Charge money ASAP: I've talked to a lot of SaaS startups which are in "beta" and don't want to charge money until they've built up a user base or "finish" the product to be "sellable". What they don't realize is that the quality of potential customer goes down because people don't take free things seriously. Another thing is there is valuable data around how to price your SaaS. Free trials will give you all the "beta users" you want, with a potential to convert if they find value in what you are providing.

- Get Onboarding right: The process of a customer seeing the pricing, subscribing, getting started, to the eventual goal of the customer finding value in the product and converting should have a very clear path. When a customer signs up for a free trial you need to be able to show them that your product provides the value they were looking for quickly or they will most likely wont convert. Step-by-step forms as well as actual meetings with customers can go a long way to improving conversions. A/B test this process for best results.

(I started a SaaS which makes it easier to manage a SaaS, https://servicebot.io )
Frankly, Ruby lost due to the lack of libraries compared to Python. The latter had a few years of head start.

Anecdotally, I've heard the syntax may have been the cause. In those early days, Ruby was too much like Perl. If you didn't like Perl's syntax and philosophy, Python was a good alternative. If you were the type of person who grokked Perl, then why go to Ruby when you have all of CPAN at your disposal?
> Reminds me casinos with the help numbers for gambling addicts posted

At least one of the problem gambling hotlines has an IVR option to redirect you to a hotel reservation system.
It would be interesting to connect something like this to different News outlets and conduct a sentiment analysis to determine objective bias.
If you're interested in the details of how pyre handles generics, unions, etc., you can take a look at the end-to-end typechecking tests, which provide lots of examples: https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check/blob/master/analysis/...
There is no possible reality in which the observation of anything can be explained by absolute nothingness. We know that existence exists, and that within that existence is consciousness capable of perceiving it. These are self-evident axioms upon observing anything at all. I think it's fair to say that we don't know why reality exists, but we know that it is true that something exists at all.
Most of these pages won’t be so forthcoming in their desire to influence. The idea for these ads is to pay for reach and credibility. Send it out there and hope that it goes viral. After which you’ve gathered a whole new army of people who have liked your seemingly innocent page. After that it’s just a matter controlling the tone on that page using bots to create a false narrative. As humans, we are so used to be told what to do that it becomes easy to follow the general flow of your social circle. If everybody you hang out with hates one politician, then the chances that you’re also going to hate that politician is high. So by creating pockets of people who are all there on the page because they have something in common, you can control it and therefore controlling the direction of their thoughts by manipulating their peer circles.
Worse yet: "the opposite policy of my enemy is my policy". We're seeing situations on both sides where people are taking positions in arguments solely because it's the opposite position of their opponents. Because taking any less than the polar opposite position would be seen as "going soft on them" by their electorate. It's a total shitshow.
Then he was not very clever. Account + routing number can be used to make a payment to any merchant that accepts ACH payments. At the very least he should have been able to pay his credit card or utilities with it, without any technical knowledge at all.

If you have a merchant account, you can take direct debits from and account using those numbers. Getting a merchant account underwritten for yourself can take less than a day, and the verification process isn’t all that robust.

Account numbers are essentially more valuable than credit card numbers. Except credit card numbers are at least supposed to be protected by a rather decent security standard. With ACH there is no such standard, you can handle account numbers any way you please, and many merchants do so very poorly. Also, the account number is written on checks that you literally hand out to people, which is pretty much the worst thing you could do with a credit card number.

Your anecdote is meaningless. Any individual can easily commit fraud with an account number, and if they put a small amount of effort into it, they could do it on a very large scale. There is no security standard that protects ACH data, only a short set of regulations that describe how committing fraud will send you directly to prison.
The ads were mostly to signal-boost political groups. They were just the tip of the iceberg.

There were many Russian state controlled political Facebook groups with hundreds of thousands of subscribers who joined because of these relatively tame ads. Those groups then pushed a more extreme set of values onto the subscribers, with the aim of turning those groups against each other.

Sure, an anti-Sharia-Law demonstration doesn't seem so bad, nor does a pro-Syrian-Refugee demonstration. But if the same group is organizing both events to take place at the same time and location, then that group is just stirring the pot and trying to divide society against itself.

The ads are a big deal for what the accomplished, not just for what they read at face-value.
I was being sarcastic. The media, IMO, has learned little. They are useful idiots.
> winner take all voting system

It was pretty entertaining watching people complain about the electoral college system in the 2016 election.

"Why should someone in Wyoming have more of a vote than someone in California!?!"

No mention of winner takes all, though: that would enable a certain basket of deplorables in CA to vote (and have it mean something.)
The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s
Sounds like you had an unpleasant experience, but there are a few things here that make it seem like the bad experience is clouding your judgement.

1) It isn't the bootcamp's fault that speech to text software sucks.
2) What is the state of affairs that would have made the situation better for you? Either (1) they write their own non-sucky speech to text software or (2) they hire a whole new interpreter just for you and only for the duration of the camp. Neither of these things are financially or logistically reasonable expectations.
3) Bootcamps aren't a golden ticket into tech. Build your own portfolio of projects and you will be just as hirable as fresh bootcamp grads.

UC Berkeley had an online public library of lectures but it wasn't subtitled. When someone used the ADA to sue, Berkeley was faced with the enormous cost to either subtitle their entire library or take it down. Of course, they took it down, and now nobody can access the lectures. Don't be the person who burns down someone else's house just because you don't have one.
If you’re like me and try to reduce being tracked by using a private browsing window, you have to do this every single time you go to Youtube. Same with annotations, which I see as pure intrusion.

It’s annoying at least.
Whoever set this up should have taken Introduction to Web Security first
Its a nice thought, but If the NSA is part of the Executive Branch, good luck getting them to police themselves in a transparent matter.
But, if your firmware cares about preventing flashable rootkits, then these registers should be locked such that you can only flash from SMM or during initial boot. The fact that AFUEFI works at all on a System76 laptop is a bad sign IMO.
A human might average 100W per hour over a workday at say 10$ per hour to keep the numbers clean (1$ = 10Wh). 14,000$ per 1,000,000Wh is 72wh per dollar so far cheaper. Except this is instantaneous power so they would need 1,000,000 people to sit around doing nothing most of the day and then occasionally have have some or all of them work, because again that battery caps at 100MW.

Really, people in AU don't pay 14$ per kWh making 14$ per MWh meaningless. They are really paying to keep generating capacity online not for actual power. A backup generator that's never used costs infinite dollars per W, that does not make it useless.

PS: Well under 1 million beause people can generate more power in short periods.
Well, the solution for that exists: subscriptions.

I think it's still a bit too high in friction. I think there's yet another model possible.

Sure, niche markets always exist. HBO makes money out of subscriptions, The NYT too. If you can find a niche audience that's willing to pay for your content, that makes it a viable business model for you.

A lot of those niches aren't advertiser friendly. Subscription kind of works already. There must be something with lower friction yet.

But that doesn't scale across the billions of users on the internet. Particularly when you include the 1.5 billion who are not in rich countries.

I don't see why micropayments couldn't work on adjusted scales. We already have different prices for things depending on the market. Also, it's a problem that somewhat fixes itself, automatically. A website relevant to low-income rural people outside the 1st world won't be able to charge as much as a 1st world website, but it might well be able to charge enough to greatly benefit the operator anyways.
C# `var` syntax, ExpandoObject and the rest of System.Dynamic
Yes, that, but also just not liking someone. I feel that the sexism and racism in our industry are important parts of a larger pattern, which is simply that if someone doesn’t express ideas the same way you do, or look/act how you think a “nerd” or “hacker” should, then they’re not one. Women and non-white people are likely to get caught in that, but so might a white man who just doesn’t talk in a way that codes as “nerdy”. God forbid if they could be considered a “bro”, the nerd’s mortal enemy.

And so you say they’re not a good fit, and that’s that. It can’t be proven incorrect because culture fit is a nebulous idea to begin with. It’s a catch-all for whatever you don’t like, basically.
A vehicle carrying 12 passengers literally increases the bandwidth of the road it travels on by an order of magnitude. Yeah, that sounds acceptable to me. If you have alternative numbers I'd be happy to evaluate them. But "drive my own car" is just not going to work in this realm.
I don't think you heard me say that neonicotinoids don't "diminish bee health".
See the just released paper on Anna, which subsumes the related projects:

Anna: A Crazy Fast, Super-Scalable, Flexibly Consistent KVS

https://databeta.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/anna-kvs/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16551072

Also see...

Peter Alvaro / Disorderly Labs
https://people.ucsc.edu/~palvaro/

Data-Centric Programming: Rendezvous, Bloom and CALM (Joe)

https://ucbrise.github.io/cs294-rise-fa16/rendezvous.html

BOOM http://boom.cs.berkeley.edu/

Paper summary. Blazes: Coordination analysis and placement for distributed programs

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2017/11/paper-summary-blaze...

A functional and logic programming language inspired by Scala, OCaml, and Datalog.

https://flix.github.io/

From Doom and Gloom to BOOM and Bloom [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQKPymcCfA
Can't believe I've gone so long without knowing about sparse files.
Thanks for that. I can confirm that works better than the Greasemonkey Script.
It also consumes power for no reason.
Look on the bright side, the Reinhart-Rogoff spreadsheet error (https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/krugman-the-excel...) was probably about larger amounts than yours
Java, ScriptEngineManager
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/script/Scrip...
But how does this change results? There are still two main candidates. If those leaning toward A lean harder toward A, and those leaning toward B lean harder toward B, no votes were changed as a result of this effort. There is no box to check on the ballot for "I'm really sure, so count my vote twice!"

A great unmentioned step in this whole bizarre theoretical process is the idea that, absent some FB ads, lots of Republican voters would have looked deep into their souls the night before the election and realized that God and/or Rachel Maddow wanted them to vote for Hillary. This idea remains mostly unmentioned because it is really implausible. Those who believe it should examine this belief critically enough to stop believing it.
This is a very nice paper that puts some "meaningful" names in neural network function. I like how eq. 8 neatly describes a neural network as a readout of an energy hamiltonian and an output distribution. They show that real-world data, thats is described by low-order polynomial hamiltonians , needs a small number of units and that "depth" gives the network its compositional/hierarchical ability. Even though some of the theory goes over my head, their main arguments seem to "fit" together very nicely.

So basically a deep network can "cheaply" (i.e. not fatally expensive) describe anything that occurs in nature, which is wonderful. I wonder however what will happen when we move to higher cognition and meta-cognition which requires the readout of network states that are not found in nature, but are generated internally. Would be interesting to know if we need much more brain or a little more. In any case very intersting read.
The ads were mostly for Facebook groups. Once those groups had a substantial subscribership, the Russians were able to push out far more vitriolic propaganda without having to pay for the audience.

The ads are just the tip of the iceberg.
A year ago, a group of us at UMD took a couple weeks to go through this paper. It's got some interesting insights, but like all theory papers right now, gaps remain. The construction they present for learning Hamiltonians of low polynomial order doesn't look a ton like any common production neural network modules, and the justification for why we would only be dealing with that Hamiltonian family in practice is unconvincing to me. That said, overall it's worth a close read. Section 2' parts A and B are the best summary of the connection between probability theory and deep learning that i have come across.
The USSR was largely dependent upon US support for food and industry.
Oh yea. Those were the days those were.

HP 21, 29C, 41CX. Great introduction to computing.