skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that hypocritical? It's really obvious that the author puchased an "im" domain because it looks like the acronym for "Instant Messaging", not because he wants to be associated with a European country or European law. He also purchased his domain name before the GDPR came out.
Why did they need to wait for confirmation before moving on in each 9 hour cycle? Why not just send everything as fast as possible all at once and wait for confirmation at the end? Seems like they would be wasting lots of bandwidth waiting for the ack.
Video of automated robotic grocery warehouse
Or the reviews.

If somebody is reviewing books I have zero interest in (eg: super partisan politics, superhero comic books) then I'm likely to unfriend them on Goodreads.

One of my middle-aged male friends was really into Young Adult romances. Like two books a week. I had to let him go.
Robert Anton Wilson, in the introduction he wrote for some other book, pointed out that, of the regime changes to occur in the last century, well over half of them were the result of some sort of coup d'état. In other words, conspiracy is the norm.

"Lesson number one: trust no one. The minute God crapped out the third caveman, a conspiracy was hatched against one of them."
Google has no shared it was real and not scripted.
I commend you for writing this levelheaded reply. I was about to write one with essentially the same arguments but a much more aggressive tone.
The 'free eth' business is booming cuz twitter is too inept to ban domains that spam its site and ppl are too stupid to know better.

https://medium.com/@robertyusert/there-are-free-ethreum-spam...
And replaces it with "Don't be naive".
I just made it get the job done and email was the easiest way to do it. Also, I get emails pretty quickly, there isn't even a delay of 5 minutes.

Thanks for the concern :)
It had a little round rocker switch that acted kind of like a d-pad, but didn't turn, I think.

But maybe there was a model of iPod or some other device that had a knob that you twist a little bit in either direction, but didn't spin -- I can't quite remember.

What I do have terrible memories of is the misguided cocaine-addled skeuomorphism in Apple's Quicktime player, which earned its eternal place in the User Interface Hall of Shame.

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/qtime.htm

>the quicktime 4.0 player contains many examples of how the software must adopt the limitations of the physical device it is based on, but the first example the user is likely to discover is the volume control. since a real-world hand-held electronic device typically employs a thumbwheel to control the volume, the designers concluded that it would work just as well in a software application. what the designers failed to realize is that a thumbwheel is designed to be operated by a thumb, not a mouse. watching new users try to adjust the volume can be a painful experience. the user invariably tries to carefully place the cursor at the bottom of the exposed portion of the control, then drags it to the top of the control and releases, then carefully positions the cursor again at the bottom of the control, drags upward, and well, you get the picture.

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/images/qtime/qtvol.gif
>Today, most young people encounter classical music not as a popular art form but as a class signifier

I'd wager that most people encounter classical music whenever John Williams lifts Dvorak/Holst/etc.
”we are not claiming to be mathematicians, we're pattern hunters.”

“Searching for interesting tautologies” or “Hunting for patterns” are good descriptions of what mathematicians do.

Mathematicians do mathematics because they want to be sure that a) they caught a pattern and b) that it is interesting. That’s what’s being discussed here.
So the article ends by confirming that the "don't be evil" phrase is still in the code of conduct, admittedly just at the end after a rewording. Its title is entirely misleading, despite reflecting the original article.

Can this submission's title be changed to something like: "Google Deemphasizes "Don't Be Evil" Motto in Its Code of Conduct"? That'd at least frame this change accurately for discussion.

[Edit: I see the change was made. Thanks!]
The idea that our measurement of progress only needs to be binary (did we or didn't we progress?) shows indifference to the endless problems yet unsolved. Better than yesteryear doesn't mean good enough. Far from it.
“Don’t you think making AI that poses as a human is unethical? Isn’t our motto don’t be evil?”

“You’re right Johnson. Take that don’t be evil line out”
Just made it to see if I could :)
Yeah, but... Its Oracle. Did you think that their evil didn't permeate down to a personal level or something?
Well, if it turns out that "genocide is actually good" is correct we're all doomed.

Less flippantly, we may not have any special access to moral rightness; in fact if there's one important conclusion of 20th century moral philosophy it's that there's no exogenous moral truth to be found; but we definitely do know a number of things are wrong and lead to moral disaster on a colossal scale. This is why you have to ban racial supremacists. It's happening all over again with the Rohingya.

There is certainly a large band of "extremism or acceptable questioning of the status quo", but anyone running a discussion forum has to be aware that they can't disclaim all moral responsibility for hate spread on it.
Gee, thanks for the boost in confidence. :|
> I do like the idea presented of having a transpiler track and a JS engine track. Keep the ES spec for the JS engines simpler and hoist all the syntactical sugar onto the transpilers.

Alternatively, if you focus on getting web assembly up to speed, you can compile any flavor of JavaScript you want directly to web assembly. You wouldn't need transpilers at all except for backward compatibility (which would eventually fade).

At least that's the future I'd like to see.
Facebook asking for root permissions
Yes we often agree with the Russians too. We think it's because we'll agree with the truth wherever we see it, but it's quite possible that you know our minds better than we ourselves do.

Do you think we're in an "information war"? If we are, who are our most dangerous opponents?
A loss for the internet?

Its a symbol. It has as much meaning as you ascribe to it.

Its a publicly traded company, not a crusader for internet goodness
I have a few friends from large universities (waterloo, stanford) that have left their current job to specifically study for a new job.

My assumption is that there are a lot more people who are studying for these interviews than you think, which is why the proxy is failing (or producing homogeneous results)
As someone who grew up with bee hives, while "activity level" is generic, it's also very interesting at the same time. Spikes in "activity level" (like the chart shows at 4pm) would be very useful to me, meaning "Something abnormal is going on".
It is better to keep it as a lie. Time for Google to grow up.
These situations are incomparable. The author of the article is being criticized for choosing not to do something that may be illegal. If the author continued to run his service in an illegal way, then he should be treated the same as marijuana growers. But he has chosen not to run his service. The equivalent situation in the United States would be a bar that decided to close after Prohibition and restart their business in Canada. This is a perfectly reasonable reaction to new regulation.
Early on, a lot of Google engineers (peering in from the outside, through news and correspondence) seemed to take it to heart. And to be heartened by it. Individually, and in groups.

That it's now called "marketing", speaks to fundamental changes at Google.
Assume 100 for "average"
You mean 24/tau^2, right?
Or maybe it's just that good :D

jk...
I wrote some code to replicate this in the console, overlaying A054521 (in colors) onto their triangle (using _ and #) for any N. The output from running

./prime-triangle.py 74

is included as x_output_74.png. It's not fancy, but it could save you some time trying to figure out what the actual formulae are.

https://gist.github.com/mortehu/ccca0bafc7a9caa26d6008379057...

Edit: Other than 2, 14, 20, 30, 38, 44, 50, and 74, the two patterns match perfectly for every even N up to at least 600.

Edit 2: Looks like this is related to Linnik's theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linnik%27s_theorem
Sure, chat support is usually fast or you can have them call you. The cheap, outsourced labor is actually very good at English.
I was always extremely scared of that happening to my account. I was making fairly good money, but it was hard to trust it with all of the random shutdown stories I read about. I tried several alternatives, but none paid anywhere near as much. They effectively had a monopoly on the online advertising market.
Vaccines and other infrequent medical interventions. Something you can pop once a day for the rest of your life is much more lucrative then a cure or once every 7 years booster shot vaccine.

Chicken Pox is a type of Herpes virus. There's a vaccine for it, but not for the two strains of herpes most associated with the term herpes.

Development of one seems to have been embroiled in... well lets just say some trouble based on unethical experiments. But really, apparently 90% of people are infected with either type 1 or type 2 herpes simplex.

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

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/health/fda-halford-herpes-vac...

Likewise, Lyme Disease, has a vaccine for animals but not for humans, because production stopped in 2002. https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/prev/vaccine.html

Oh, and while there is a non profit foundation for it, reversible male contraception like RISUG/Vasalgel seems underfunded. https://www.parsemus.org/
what value do you get from keeping them for years? Are you actively analysing and re-analysing them for any particular purpose, or is it more of a 'well, you never know...' sort of deal?

"they change often" is arguably a good reason for not keeping them. What advantage do you get from knowing that 10 years ago $IP was sending you spam if it's been though 20 different re-allocations and tens of thousands of 'actual owners' since then?

Imagine if google or cloudflare were logging every since query to their public DNS and correlating it with other access logs or google analytics or whatever. They'd be able to relatively trivially deanonymise huge numbers of actual people's identities and browsing history (beyond what they can obtain already).
Please don't misinterpret my comments as telling jacquesm to keep quiet. It's a fundamental right to make a fool of yourself. Please continue!
Maybe it is good to know that within the sequence of all prime numbers there infinitely wide gaps : take (n+1)! +2, (n+1)! +3, ..., (n+1)! + (n+1)

That is a sequence of n consecutive numbers none of which are prime.

Not sure how that would map in this triangle shape yet.
99.99% of the time, Windows works just fine for me.

Stuxnet only needed to work once.
what @weavie said. :)
Sure, "As simple as possible but not simpler", as once said by a guy with sparsely connected neurons.
> So you can't just run your business from Canada with no special emphasis on EU and call it a day.

You really can, it says that it may make it apparent.

Does your use of English make it apparent that you are intent on selling to the UK? No. Italian, might I suppose. French wouldn't if you were based in Canada.
placed randomly in a sentence at the very end vs. being the entire core of the message is a rather significant change IMHO.
End at Cambridge Analytica: failed rebrands, fleeing clients and nerf basketball
It's a devil's bargain. In the long term it means that innovation is restricted, massive taxes are levied, and peoples' livelihoods are captive to the whims of the Apple App Store.

The times I've dealt with the App Store have horrified me. The US Internal Revenue Service is more responsive and has superior customer service. I am not exaggerating. We've had apps approved then denied requiring appeal on later minor updates because some reviewer spotted something and checked a box. We had to appeal to get past that, and the whole thing has a very arbitrary feel to it. Your software is at the whim of something resembling a Terry Gilliam bureaucratic dystopia.
Time Warner Inc. – American Company
A simple authentication mechanism that can be hosted by anyone, to enable "Login using Ethereum" - just like we use "Login with Google" around the web
I largely agree, but to add another perspective I have always viewed sports themselves as simply action-driven drama. It can be entertaining to watch, but ultimately the end results seem inconsequential to me compared to things like scientific discoveries.
Or this: you spend 4 months on a project and belatedly notice schmidhuber proved a much better result in 1985 and yells at you and you get kicked out of academia
Your point about the deviations is taken - the gcd triangle is not an exact fit for the pattern. Working on an updated version this evening. Specifically for odd n it does not work and there are occasional asymmetries.
I believe that last one is known as tinnitus.
> So everything should be written out explicitly, because you'd rather complete a checkbox-ticking exercise rather than thinking about it and do the correct, ethical thing in good faith?

What if my opinion of what is ethical differs from what regulators decide? Opinions are notoriously inconsistent, subject to bias, and easily used to discriminate.
I always thought the slogan was odd. In my mind evil is the absolute negative end of the spectrum of good vs evil. Why not something more positive sounding like "Do good"?
file an LLC and get an EIN
You generally need to be familiar with making arguments about aggregate complexity (e.g., every element will only be visited X times because... so the complexity is O(N)) to show complexity for a recursive solution, as opposed to the iterative solution where the complexity is generally more apparent ime.
A friend recently told me that Time Warner started at one point as a funeral home. I decided to look up the history of the company and found it pretty fascinating. Turns out there is some truth to what he told me along with a lot of other interesting twists and turns.
Oops, good catch! So it's not like Alfred E... Sorry about that, chief. Fixed.

It took me a while to learned to spell Shneiderman without the extra c. It helps to have a good mnemonic. Newman is new, and Wiseman is wise! And Weiser is wiser, but spelled wrong.

I heard a funny story that Donald Michie once overheard his secretary telling someone on the phone how to pronounce his name (in a Scottish accent): "It's Donald, as in Duck, and Michie, as in Mouse." He was so pissed he refused to speak to her for a month! ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Michie
> Doesn’t need to be legal enforcement. The FDA could simply start taking its time when issuing new drug approvals, study registration, etc, for bad actors.

The FDA can't take longer because it doesn't like a petitioner. If that were demonstrated, the petitioner would have a case agains the FDA on their hands. Rule of law, and all.
Be kind of evil
Well, you caught me. I copied and pasted that line from Go Source comments :D

But hey, you can use 1h4ms6ns as intervals :D

Maybe I should parse days... Thanks for the Idea.
"Epigenetics is heritable information that is not encoded in DNA base sequence." I agree with this. Combined with the observation that temperature-dependent sex determination occurs within a specific window of time, after which sex cannot be changed for the remainder of the organism's lifetime, I believe it follows logically that somatic cells (certainly those within the sexual organs) must be receiving heritable information not encoded in DNA base sequence from their adult stem cells. Thus environmental sex determination must occur through epigenetics as you have defined.

To the best of my knowledge, DNA methylation patterns, histone binding patterns, and histone modifications all have causal biological impacts solely by their causal influence on "how the genome is read". Epigenetics is "how the genome is read", as well as more beyond that. But how the genome is read is substantial portion of epigenetics and, for better or worse, the aspect of epigenetics that receives the most attention when discussed with general audiences. I think it's inaccurate to deny the role of "various readings" of the genome in a definition of epigenetics.

I'm unsure how your citing of KDM6B is related to or addresses any confusion in my statement on temperature-dependent sex determination. From what I can understand, you point out that KDM6B histone demethylase acts epigenetically and that it regulates temperature-dependent sex-determination, both of which are consistent with what I said earlier...
We should always try to see more irony. It is a good antidote to the bullheaded self-righteous certainties that seem to plague these sorts of threads.
One way to get this data might be to contact the person at the company who signs off on the saas purchase and asking what the 80% use case for the product is. LinkedIn might be enough to find such a purchaser.
Source title is misleading clickbait [0]: as the text of the article makes clear, Google rewrote one section of its Code of Conduct in a way which, among other things, removed the phrase “don’t be evil”, but retained that phrase in another (more prominent [1]) place.

[0] which is necessary to pretend there is anything even worth having as a story here at all. “Google updates Code of Conduct; reduces number of repetitions of phrase ‘don’t be evil’” is an obvious nothingburger.

[1] the final line; in any long document, the very beginning and very end are the most prominent.
Here is a Dropbox link to the Mathematica code. Thanks to some of the input today we have found that this pattern does not exactly match the gcd triangle - which actually makes this more interesting in a way.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d2dfwhxdmzkp4y4/a-pattern-in-the-p...
1. The only thing that really comforts me deeply is the fact that we were here and we lived. I've had a really great life overall. I've gotten to enjoy a lot of what makes human life great. Much more than most people and that luck is never lost on me. Nothing can take away the life I've had. It happened. It's been great. It's a beautiful thing. The fact that it will end in tragedy is unfortunate but it doesn't alter the fact that it happened. I was here. You were here. We lived.

2. As for meaning, the only thing that makes sense to me is to help yourself and others live as great a life as possible (See #1). In the best case you can not only help yourself but you can also help other people have better lives too. Any contribution is great. If you can't contribute at all, that's okay too. We should all just do the best we can, with no judgement or negativity for people that can't contribute. Bill Gates has spared millions of people from terrible suffering, that's an example of a huge contribution. Ideally everyone would live a great and long life. Anything you can do to help is meaningful, however small or indirect.

3. Humans in the future won't suffer like this. We will evolve, using technology, to be superior beings that are likely immortal and beyond all forms of suffering we're currently aware of. Star Trek and beyond is inevitable if we don't blow ourselves up. This is comforting because it means this terrible situation won't afflict our descendants and it's upsetting because we won't personally make it to the promise land and we got pretty close.

4. Humans are very much alike. It's reasonable to think of humanity as a single entity in some ways. So humanity itself is kind of immortal already, and that means all humans are kind of immortal. Almost everything that makes you special exists in other humans too, in different combinations but it's all there in the DNA and culture. You will die but humanity will live and what makes you special will live on within it.

5. On a practical level, the best thing to do is ignore our ultimate fate and focus on having as good a life as possible. Living in this "ignorant bliss" is a necessary coping mechanism and nothing to be ashamed of. The luckiest people live in this ignorant bliss most of their life. Focusing on being mentally and physically healthy is the first step towards having the best life possible.
> This stuff hasn't been battle tested in the field long enough.

There is a circular dependency: TC39 wants new language changes to be prototyped and proven in compiled-to-JS languages but the transpiler developers don't want to implement language changes that are not already on the standards track.
I agree. That's why I'm not calling for the submission to be killed, just changing the title to be more accurate. My suggested verb of "deemphasizes" is consistent with what you're saying.
You could maybe provide your users with a pre-filled request form for various companies they indicate they're a customer of, and have them send them directly.

IIRC there are services along those lines for various 'contact your $REPRESENTATIVE' political and activism lines. I vaguely recall something about how the US has specific laws allowing certain requests to be ignored (or maybe even criminalising the sending of) generated or form-letters, due apparently to this sort of abuse.

Can't remember what the exact context was that I saw it, but it might have been FOI or something data- related
ISPs are a natural monopoly unless you want this in your neighborhood:

https://news.lovepattayathailand.com/wp-content/uploads/2017...

I also must point out that fighting a patchwork of local regulations is more expensive than building out the actual infrastructure. It's a slog through political and bureaucratic molasses.
For lack of another comparison it reminds me of dirty cops pulling over a suspected criminal or known criminal and acting like they are doing the person a favor by taking all of their drugs, money, and loose possessions. It's a fucked up and weird world we are living in. Gotta protect what you can how you can.
actionscripted, you are a wizard! How did you guess that? :D
publicly traded companies do not have to be evil.

investors often enjoy investing in companies that they can relate to.

one hopes that most people ascribe to do no evil.

a+b+c is not a bad combination

in the end, i agree it's a symbol.. but also scrapping that symbol reflects on the company that no longer wants to be associated with said symbol.
Does anyone think that ‘don’t be evil’ is enough? Evil is basically the worst someone can be. You can be bad, wrong, repugnant, reprehensible, vicious, and malignant and still not be evil. Honestly, why is there so much credit given to a company for saying ‘don’t be as bad as you can possibly imagine’ which is a pretty reasonable translation of ‘don’t be evil’.
> So why remove something that's been so closely associated with the company for so long?

They didn't, per the body of the article (contrary to the headline.)
It's the mission statement, not the intention, that's described as Orwellian. "Delivering services beyond those the City of San Francisco can provide" is a really weird way to say "chasing off homeless people and delinquents."
Exactly. SubmitHub states 55k/MRR.
I've definitely done it to interface with old scsi drives externally by cannibalizing old power supplies and connectors — and also because I was cheap... [read: poor].
It really depends on the kind of problem. For example, recursive solutions to linked-list/tree/graph problems are typically substantially easier to understand than their iterative counterparts, in large part because the data structures themselves are recursively defined.
I would say that the next logical place is Instagram stories. Instagram is already used as a more permanent & curated version of Snapchat, and Instagram atories is basically Snapchat stories, but within the Facebook walled garden.
Same here. They won't do anything about a wrongful ban unless you're someone making decent money.