skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, there's currently a post on HN frontpage about malevolent personality traits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17685733

I would file this under 3. Moral Disengagement - A generalized cognitive orientation to the world that differentiates individuals' thinking in a way that powerfully affects unethical behavior.
I've got no great love for telemarketing or the advertising industry, but as a point of fact it's not true that if you make something people want they will seek you out to find it. If you make something that people want but do not make any effort to put it in front of them or argue for its merits, it will likely end up ignored and forgotten.

"They're just fine without it" is a pretty good counterargument, not just against marketing, but against speaking your mind, applying for a job, asserting yourself in any way, and the pursuit of science, knowledge, or advancement of any kind. If the status quo is good, it is only because someone improved it from what it was before. It can be improved again.
That makes sense, and I like your level of focus.

How are banks responding to your services? In insurance, we’re having a very soft market due to all the capital sloshing around the system. I imagine it can be challenging for lenders to impose significant risk controls when there’s alternative financing so cheaply available.

My wife works on climate change advocacy on the nonprofit side. Are you working with any advocacy organizations? Presumably they’re an important part of your approach.
"Can you imagine how the world would work if this was the norm?"

It think this is normal through electronic communication. It can be used in rapid form, but it's natural for there to be a long delay too. I prefer email and text for anything remotely important.
Yes and a lot of companies are going automated. Much easier to have a programmer write automated tests, than to teach QA how to program. Guess who would be in high demand once they get that experience? OP!
> 1. I know the guy who, pre-Snowden, actually designed many of the pieces of network gear needed for the dragnet. His perspective was basically: Yes it's wrong, but what do I know? I just design electronic circuits.

In case anyone wonders, this is why so many engineering schools are increasing their focus on teaching ethics.
I don't think I was particularly rude or pushy, I just stated my opinion and asked them to expand on theirs.

>add in the tendency of HN to tear to shreds (however well-meaning) any code which gets presented

I don't think HN is this bad unless the code in question is actively doing harm (e.g. bad crpyto). I'll always be more critical of good closed source software than bad open source software.
It's not really unethical but in that vein: I made a program on the TI83 that you could punch numbers into in order to get results on an electronics exam (this was in high school).

I made it for fun, not really to cheat or anything, but once other students found out about it they asked for copies of it. Within a day or two the whole class had a copy of this program.

I didn't understand operator precedence, nor did I bother to test the program. Everyone used it in the exam and the whole class flunked due to BODMAS shenanigans.
Agreed, it's pretty much what we (programmers) do. A cleverer boss will use his people to make more profit, instead of fire a bunch to reduce costs, but cest la vie.
lol no its not.
Not only that but they quite possibly could face jail time? Security clearances are pretty serious business!
I feel like decentralization is once again a necessity because companies like Facebook can't be trusted.

I feel most people would jump ship if there was a viable, easy to use, alternative where you had ownership of your own data.
I would encourage you to watch this APM demonstration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbpCLqryN-Q , give https://www.engadget.com/2014/10/24/starcraft-2-and-the-ques... a read (600 APM) and consider how much of an advantage the computer has.
Do you want to live in Russia for the rest of your life?
Thank you for your feedback! I am also interested in conducting experiments on extrinsic tasks such as text classification. In addition to word embeddings, Wikipedia2Vec also contains entity embeddings which are likely beneficial for these tasks, so I would like to design a model that uses both the word embeddings and entity embeddings.
>It's one thing to sell these things to an allied government, it's quite another to have them on the open market.

Honest question...why?

The result/intent seems the same whether done by a state or nonstate actor. In fact a state actor seems more likely to use it because of a greater feeling of moral justification.
That's what I'm thinking.
First part of the sentence, sure. Last part is debatable, so many things are outsourced or contracted, any product is largely contributed to by non employees.
Stefan Gotteswinter also does some very fine and interesting work, though his videos are a bit more long-form.
The problem solved by Github's centralization was establishing a namespace, which could have been done in several other ways. (In fact there are a number of other namespaces orthogonal to Github's but pointing at largely the same resources.) The problem Github solved that convinced lots of OSS people to use it was a reliable offsite that was free as in beer and less obnoxious than Sourceforge. So far it seems like some combination of VC cash and paid usage sustains Github's free service, and several other firms' free services as well. The centralization bit doesn't seem so important.
The Industrial Revolution could shed light on modern productivity
At a previous employer we used the data referenced in the question. We bought the "anonymised" telecom data from one of the big providers in the USA. We would then analyse that data to figure out where the phone spent 6-8 hours during the night to determine where the phone owner lived. Then we'd pull the USA consensus data(free!) so the system would know what demographic the user probably belongs to. We got a
surprising amount of data from the consensus, we had things like ethnicity, income, age.

Then we'd loaded all this in google maps and let users of the app figure out what demographics frequent particular locations on the map. For example a use-case of this would be a coffee company figuring out where to open a new coffee shop.
Just because someone is willing to, say, torture a rat, I should be the one to do it? That's a non-sequitur.
Our school spent loads of money security their network with some Novel boot thingo. I bashed in some DOS interrupt keystrokes and was able to bypass it completely.

The whole class was playing networked DOOM about 10 minutes later.

I thought I was going to get suspended or expelled, but instead the teacher in charge of IT came to me and said "I know you did it, if you show me how you did it you wont get in trouble."

The look of disappointment on his face when he saw how easy it was... I'll never forget it. I wonder how much the school paid for that 'security' :)
If this is high-school hobbyist project, congratulations!

Otherwise, it is a simple univariate function evaluator, not really a solver -- it doesn't handle multivariate equations, nor give numerical solutions to implicit equation systems F(x) = 0 (typically calculated using the Newton-Raphson method).

As far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to "solve" at all -- it merely evaluates the RHS, given a set of parameters.

It is definitely not a CAS or anything like that.
Did you get busted?
Who said anything about graphics?
Ha. Remembering that one. Is there something about the French language that lends itself more easily to great wit and very usable idioms?
If it didn't cleanly compile and run on linux, it was a autofail. I found a discrepancy in MPICH2 the hard way: it would correctly implement my leader election on my mac, and on my little raspberry pi, but not on a Solaris linux!

Lost 5% of my grade to that bug.
There are more specific cases where open source tooling outperforms Mathematica than where the opposite holds. This especially true when you move away from basic calculus and towards research math. For example, many number theorists don't care about Mathematica at all because it has virtually no functionality for modular forms and L-functions which Pari/GP and Sage on the other hand support very well.

However, nothing open source currently comes close to Mathematica for symbolic and symbolic-numerical calculus (expression simplification, symbolic integration, solving PDEs, etc.). Also, one of Mathematica's main strengths is providing a lot of functionality in a neat package where diverse components are very easy for the user to glue together, with automagical interfaces where the user doesn't need to know what happens behind the scenes (or at least that's how Wolfram PR spins Mathematica being closed source).

Meanwhile, Sage combines a lot of functionality but you can't go very far before you run into visible duct tape, API inconsistencies and things that don't quite work together automatically when you think they ought to. Its documentation is also not as good (Sage has very detailed documentation, but often not well structured). Many of the same issues that exist in open source software in other fields, really.
Certificate of Need Laws: How CON laws affect medical spending
I'm excited to see what blockchain solutions will come about for this
I don't know anything about the current architecture or third party trackers. It's been over five years since I did any work with Grindr.

I will say that when I worked on Grindr, Joel (CEO, founder) was adamant that we would not track location history. We only stored the most recent location we received from a user.
Student of knowledge
Love to learn and make the most out of life. CEO of DO Enterprises
Paypal does this. I don't know how it's legal or your bank doesn't care.
Learn JSON Web Token(JWT) in 10 Minutes
@lainon now I am curious why you would ask such a question :D

What are you going to do with the answers?
I'm happy to share more by DM -- please reach out. Email is in my profile.

Quick and dirty take of what I would do differently now (because I think a lot of readers here live in SF and I want to help, but without mongering too much fear):

- Don't be out alone at night on Market Street/near BART stations, especially if you're a woman

- Don't engage with homeless people if you're alone (day or night)

- Don't let a situation escalate. Just avoid areas and people that cue "trouble" for you (this one is context-dependent and will be different for everyone)

These might sound painfully obvious, but when weird stuff is completely normalized like it is in SF, it can be hard to discern what's a real threat and what isn't. I hope this helps.
If everything goes to hell, can you afford a long court battle against your partner? If the answer is no, don't even think of doing it - joint ventures like this have a peculiar tendency to become non profits. If the answer is yes and if they are willing to make a large cash payment up front (to compensate you for your time), make sure to get very clear terms around what expenses are allowed to be charged to the joint account.
Moral of the story: use Mastodon, but keep it unpopular?
May I point out the Wikipedia page listing hundreds of plant and animal species whose names are prefixed with the word "pygmy" to describe their diminutive size?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Pygmy

Seems unlikely that those adjectival usages are causing "tremendous harm".
Private trackers like What.CD and its successors.

r/DataHoarder, for how to store everything.
I can relate, people have always told me that I seem to think too much before answering a question. Some say I'm a slow thinker, others that I'm smart for measuring my words carefully.
The former. I wondered if the comment might be misconstrued. These were cases of individuals revealing their prejudices.
> So I believe the answer to that question is to build better, easy to use, decentralized platforms. I think that given a real choice, people would be happy to use open systems. Up until now they haven't been given easily usable alternatives that do all the things they want to do.

The problem is that decentralized systems are always going to be less usable than the centralized systems they compete with. Centralization is what makes better usability possible.
174,000 mostly-trendy tech people? Someone wants to market to them at low cost.

https://mastodon.social/@usercount
This is the premise of the book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman. Among other things, he explains System 1 in terms of popular cognitive biases. It's a good read.
Whether the AI teaches us or not, once it surpasses us, we will not catch up. This is the case for every game AI that has ever surpassed human performance so far, and there's no reason to expect that this will be different in the case of DotA.
After Jared Kushner originally bought the New York Observer, I was hired to lead the tech team, which I did for a year and a half in house then for three more as a vendor. He asked me, out of band, to blackhole articles critical of his commercial real estate colleagues and I complied.
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_conjecture
Is it being characterized as a major discovery somewhere in this article? I see it described as an elusive problem, and it's claimed that the solution is a major paper worthy of publication in Annals of Statistics, but mostly it just comes across as an interesting story about how this proof came to be.
Sadly, Google seems to like it a lot as a substitute for hiring their own in-house support team.

They even reward their "top contributors": https://topcontributor.withgoogle.com/
Is this a sarcastic token? I think you would like this token.

https://uetoken.com/
> I dislike the Uber company morals.

I totally agree with this statement and the one preceding it, but since when did we start (or stop) using a company's products and services based on the company (or individual CEO, founders') moral behavior?

If you did deep enough, you can find plenty of immoral behavior and moral shortcoming on almost every major company and/or CEOs, founders. Even Apple (CEO Jobs was famous for not donating even a penny to charity, being a "d*ck" to his co-workers... etc). Does that mean you stop using iphones? Or stop filling Gas because Chevron and Exxon 'don't care about the environment'?

By that notion -- judging a company or service based on moral behavior and deciding to not use them -- one cannot properly function on a day to day basis in the modern world.
What about phishing? @isl@isl.tld and @is1@is1.tld look pretty similar.
https://tox.chat/theme/img/client/antox.png

Definitely made by some memesters
It's a lot more than just a reliable offsite -- it invented collaboration features that didn't exist in pure Git. Github's pull request and code review workflow has become pervasive in the industry.

It's also not sustained by VC cash anymore -- Microsoft is buying the company.
Russian infiltration of the United States' electric grid
Hospital admissions for self-harming girls double in 20 years
Thanks for the link to Kerry's talk, that was an excellent insight into a cool project that I didn't know I wanted to see until I was seeing it :)
Cool little project, I would put the gif of the graph at the beginning of the Readme before the advanced example. This shows off the application a bit earlier.
Vim being universal is pretty meh. Try using vanilla vim, you'd hate it after using non-vanilla for a while. It is like a whole different world.

At that point why not just use sublime or w/e.
Nice work, I love exploiting unicode characters to "draw" in terminal environments. You seem to use '╰', '╮', '╭' and '╯' to approximate non-straight lines, interesting idea, I haven't seen this before.

Another approach is to use block characters, like U+259A or U+259E (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements), but unfortunately it is hard to do when you want to support colors as it doesn't go well with intersections.

//edit: HN does not like block elements, but your 21th century terminal will print them
Paranoia, sure. But the SCP organization uses D-rank personnel for things that regular research labs would use rats for.
Is this counting registered users? Who cares? What's the RMAU?
Show HN: Select the best web fonts for your next project, without the hassle
> it's not true that if you make something people want they will seek you out to find it

If you solve my problems I will find it, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. You can't imagine the number of times I've searched Google or asked friends about solutions to problem X.

> do not make any effort to put it in front of them or argue for its merits

If your product solves problem X, make a website or blog posts explaining that and let Google do the rest. Post it to Product Hunt or Hacker News. Reach out to journalists/bloggers and offer them a sample for review. Even buy some ads - sure, ads are cancer and will be blocked on my side, but I still prefer them compared to telemarketing.

> it will likely end up ignored and forgotten

If your product is so revolutionary that you feel it's OK to interrupt people by calling them and trying to sell it to them, then this is not something you should worry about. Such a revolutionary product will become mainstream in a matter of days. ;)

If your product isn't that revolutionary, then maybe you should instead work on making it revolutionary instead of paying monkeys to spam people. And finally, if that still doesn't work, then remember that nobody is entitled to any business and that interrupting everyone else just so you can have it your way is still not right.

> is a pretty good counterargument, not just against marketing, but against speaking your mind, applying for a job, asserting yourself in any way, and the pursuit of science, knowledge, or advancement of any kind

Seems like this is a pretty good counter-argument to a bullshit marketing model as well. Why improve my marketing model if the status-quo is good (as long as it's not me getting spammed)?

Speaking your mind, applying for jobs and asserting yourself is something you can do by yourself without bothering anyone. This kind of bullshit marketing does bother everyone - I haven't met a single person yet who was happy to receive telemarketing calls - I think this says a lot about what you're preaching. ;)
what is an MBE?
Reasons to Be Cheerful About Lotus Notes/Domino 10 for Developers
With e-mail there is a way to migrate without losing your identity, if you own your own domain, and point its MX records at your provider (who is a real e-mail provider and not a "free" walled garden like GMail or AOL). Unfortunately owning a domain is not as accessible for 95% of the population as it ought to be.

This concept of digital identity mobility is important to ensure that one's digital life is not tied to a single service provider. XMPP provides this capability as well, through SRV records. Bizarrely, given its aim to free users from walled gardens, Mastodon does not support SRV records [1]. The developers give some excuses about the WebFinger protocol, which basically means that if I want to own my own Mastodon identity, I must run my own server (either Mastodon or a WebFinger redirect).

Apparently Diaspora made the same shortsighted decision [2]. I'm surprised and saddened that the concept of identity mobility is seemingly not well understood by those developing decentralized social platforms.

[1] https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1931

[2] https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/1109
Census
The fact that Disney researches materials science is not really the point. The linked page contains a well-produced, interesting video.
I was under the impression the endowment effect and loss aversion were synonyms.

Is there a meaningful difference when these are used as psychological terms of art (as opposed to pop psych just-so explanations)?
Maria Mitchell at 200: a pioneering astronomer who fought for women in science
It's good that Periphery catches the unused code.

But if that's the only reason it catches the problem, I think it could have room for improvement. For example in one place the error could exist, but at a different place, the real function could be called because the variable is declared as a LazyGreeter. Then Periphery wouldn't catch the problem.

One way to fully catch it would be to give a warning if a base class implements a protocol but a derived class doesn't. I'm not sure how many false positives this would have. Possibly you might only do this if the derived class tries to override a function from the base class's protocol.
This is probably why it's not only the Daughters Bell and Comcast encouraging FCC to stomp the brakes on modern radio tech. MPAA et al. also like to keep network consumers in a weak position. Really though it's silly for us to expect this sort of ecosystem to thrive on phones. It would more naturally thrive on the doodads that plug into TVs. That's where Kodi mainly is now, isn't it?
You could identify the song and then subtract it. If you add which noise it raises the noise floor, but won't effect overall decoding that much, because there is such deep knowledge of which phonemes are likely to follow in a given sequence. You have to assume there is a model trained for each participant, e.g. using telephone intercepts, other listening devices.

Maybe if you simultaneously played back segments of dozens of conversations of the participants talking. That would certainly be confusing for the participants.
Mostly sharing for nostalgia although the Node.js integration and move back to an external developer (HCL) are both interesting.
Is Uber so different?
I can relate. I used to be mostly a listener, formulating thoughts slowly and independently of my situation.

Like you, I also tried to be a quick thinker/talker in situations and disliked who I was becoming. But nowadays I've learned to be ok with it... because I found value in trying to be charismatic so I can rally people around my cause.

Put me in a completely new situation and I'll revert back to listening and thinking slowly. But talk to me about something I'm really passionate about, and I'll be a quick talker. It feels like a flow state.
How often are two random integers between one and three, not the same?
The Monty Hall problem/answer = How often are two random integers between one and three (boundary inclusive), NOT the same.

Can this be the clearest way to distill down the Monty Hall problem/answer down to its essence? I contend it can be, because of the fact that it only makes sense to NOT shift to the remaining door, if you actually happened to have guessed correctly initially, but that only happens 33% of the time, so you are always advantaged by switching. So in attempting to distill that down even further, success rate in shifting to the remaining door would be the same as the probability of two random integers between one and three NOT being the same, which would be 2/3.

For me the above was the lightbulb in my understanding of the problem, and let to the further distillation summarized by the opening paragraph.
You’re actually suggesting being a sociopath is a good thing because it’ll make all the bad ideas eventually die by us trying them. This is simply not true, we have to make bad ideas die by reason and logic, before we do too much harm.

I suppose doubling down of fossil fuels and burning of rainforest is great, we’ll just have to adapt quicker to the super extreme weather. But we can adapt with more aircon! Yay!

Maybe we are just monkeys who can’t actually learn from things that we haven’t experienced but then we’ll be replaced by nature any day now. I’d rather learn things the easy way, if at all possible.