skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your bias is showing.

How is it not political when someone else says a man surgically inverting his penis into his body cavity magically becomes a woman?

But when I point out that the man still has the wrong chromosomes to be a woman, it’s somehow political?

Who’s arguing ideology and who’s arguing science in this scenario?

If that’s your idea of “intellectual curiosity” just ban me now. Please.
> No they don't. They really don't need to know any of that. They don't even get a pass on tracking because they're providing a free whatever - I pay for a subscription to the NYT. The business, or a meaningfully substantial core of it, is viable without tracking.

Clearly they disagree. Or maybe you should let them know that they don't need that.

To say it without sarcasm, what you feel you are entitled as a paying customer and what they feel they need/want to understand their customers are clearly at odds. Ultimately, what you think matters nothing in isolation and what they think matters nothing in isolation. What you two agree upon, is the only thing that matters. That is to say, if you think they shouldn't track you but you use their tracking product anyway, you've compromised and agreed to new terms.

I imagine you could come up with a subscription that would adequately compensate them for a truly no tracking experience. But I doubt you two would agree on a price to pay for said UX.
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You can do all of those analytics server side, there's no reason to deliver it via JS and have the client do the computation. You're already sending all the required info to track that sort of thing via the request itself.
Many private companies sponsor research and conferences. They'd be happy to pay and universities can self organize to do blind reviews.
Financial accomplishment during Trumps admin?

It's just crumbs! https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/11/nancy-pelos...
Comcast, Charter dominate US; telcos “abandoned rural America,” report says
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Not sure about others, but in my field, it's probably >99%.
> This is a pretty lousy comeback to my argument. A better comeback might have been, "Why would economic penalties for fraud be effective if you're arguing that economic self-interest doesn't have a strong effect on the actions of humans?"

The statement which I responded to, that capitalism begets fraud as a feature of capitalism, is wholly untrue. Fraud exists in any economic system, and the punishments for any crime, whether economic or otherwise, have nothing to do with an economic system. There isn't any other rational response to your claim.

> The question is not, "Can humans rationalize decisions?" The question is, "On balance, is 'economic self-interest' a good model for predicting human behavior at any given scale?" No one here is arguing that humans can't rationalize.

My stance is that economic self-interest is broadly irrefutable, it doesn't require perfect rationality or all (perfect) information.

To a consumer uninterested in something other than price (ie, all motivations in which they care about being equal), power company A (nuclear) selling power for $0.01/kwh vs company B (coal) selling power for $0.005/kwh, the consumer is likely going to choose power company B, due to cheaper price, unless they have some pathological reason for choosing A (it could be that a higher price in itself is perceived as being higher quality, which is the case for many products).
FcBk's PR spin is based on a) the very real political influence it has and b) the current appetite for international cyber security theater.

It takes a sense of the magnitude of the potential threats to understand that banning 8 pages does not make for security, it makes the case for exploiting the signals detected by your antenna.
I use the latest winamp with Bento_Classified skin - resembles the v2.
> I think it's about time humanity decides to stop the ego trip and declare english as the earth official language.

Will the explanation be English? This wouldn't work of course. Would it be in a local language? That would be a self defeating paradox. Not constructive at all.

Edit: I mean language has to be self referential. And not just understandable, but understanding. How about you learn Spanish, Japanese or Arabic ... All of them for inclusions sake.
Yes.

༼ つ ◕ ◕ ༽つ GIVE BAN ༼ つ ◕ ◕ ༽つ

These are free websites on the internet that cater to the lowest common denominator of media we have today. Being banned is not a big deal.
>I hope Taobao expands to the US, e

If you noticed, Chinese dotcoms are extremely bad at overseas expansion, unless they are the only fish in the pond (original alibaba.com)

I personally know the man who was singlehandedly responsible for 70% of Alibaba's overseas revenue, and he quit the company because after 5 years of hard work, he was not only not promoted, but got his position superseded by a guy "with big business cred". Soon after, their overseas revenue flatlined.

This tells a lot of their culture in the company.
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You'll probably have to read some of Taleb's work (i.e. Antifragile) to better understand his point.

In any case, I hate absolute terms. Pick the best one depending on the context.
I'm not sure that's quite right. They wanted mania, and used tactics that would contribute towards a Clinton loss, even if the chances of it were remote. Hence, they heavily pushed Bernie Sanders and the Green Party, and once he became the Republican candidate, Trump. As far as I'm aware there hasn't been any Russian-created content found that supported Clinton, despite the fact that it would have helped contribute to the overall mania.
Could it be that waking up the discrete GPU, on laptops that in some cases disable it by default on battery power, takes more juice than rendering in software on the CPU?
Though I wonder how many MBPs in circulation have the dual-GPU configuration...
I used to go to the IBM Somers campus semi-regularly (IM Pei pyramid-shaped buildings essentially.) It was filled with these weirdly shaped conference and other rooms that made pretty bad use of space.
This is, indeed, a silly way to frame the argument, a better approach would be to restructure the malpractice law so that doctor's insurance premiums are lowered and they (hopefully) pass that on to the consumer. Let the malpractice lawyers eat some of the cost of the savings, not the doctors.
Yahoo Finance launching live video streaming network
Trains didn't "lose out" to the truck, they're both widely used, along with ships, pipelines, airplanes, bicycle messengers, and every other conceivable means of transporting goods.
"This site uses cookies." is the new "Hot singles in your area!"
>The only thing they really stand to lose by banning blatant conspiracy theory whack jobs and divisive hate speech is some ad revenue associated with that stuff

Facebook is at or near monopoly status and as such the largest risk to their business is regulation. That's why this is such a sensitive issue for them.
I would be careful with dimenhydrainate as it is found to be related to dementia likely due to the fact that it's anticholinergic. It's basically the opposite of a nootropic.
Incredible technical work mechanically, electronically, photographically. Amazing artistic talent and personal drive.

3:19 and 4:22 remind me a lot of a tumblr page with animations like these. It's exciting how trippy they are. His direction and animation is beautiful, knowing that it's real light is something else.
The Dell XPS 13 is what a mac book pro is supposed to be.
Because they've provided evidence, and other intelligence agencies and governments across the world have confirmed their claims.

At a certain point you start arguing "why believe anything" and that's literally not a conversation worth having.
> People really hate autoplaying video

Yes, this a billion-fold!

Every single newspaper site I peruse uses autoplaying video.

The experience goes like this:

Load up the front page of newspaper site.
Select an article of interest and click on its link.
Article loads.
A video player pops into existence on the lower right hand corner of the page, and the video starts playing.

Most annoying. However it gets more egregious...

The video player floats when you scroll down the page, until you reach the part of the page where it usually resides - and warps over into its little area - until you scroll past - whereupon it pops back up on the lower right hand side of your browser again.

Aaaaaargh!

Just as egregious : after viewing a video you might even have been interested inviewing, another video is automatically loaded onto that same player, 99.9% of the time on some completely unrelated subject.

Y'know, someone, somewhere, woke up one morning and thought "Great idea! Let's do <what is described above>!" - why can't the message that "People really hate autoplaying video" get back to whoever makes the decisions on user experiences, so that they just quit doing the above bullshit?
Hint: TCP/IP & UTF-8 are fundamentally along the same principles as APRS. So yes, really you are.

As far as photojournalism goes, I can think of thousands of reasons why the predominance of photojournalism has been pernicious to civil society. The strategic use of the identifiable victim effect in atrocity propaganda being the most obvious.

However, with that said, I'm not arguing that visual media is entirely unnecessary, but rather against the idea that every user needs to download a 1680x1050 image when a default 600px width image or even the horror of having the image as an external link would be more than adequate for the overwhelming majority of users, particularly those in rural and developing areas that can't afford to waste their total allotment of monthly mobile data on "What Chance the Rapper’s Purchase of Chicagoist Means".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identifiable_victim_effect

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/opinion/culture/chance-th...
90% of that can be accomplished with server-side stats. Do you really need to track mouse movements and follow readers with super-cookies across the web to find out what articles people find engaging on your site?

> The idea that tracking is purely or primarily there to support a business model of selling user data

Purely, no. Primarily? You can bet your sweet ass.
Just open in a separate chrome window?
Looks like your link is down
Static analysis tools for common languages are getting fairly good at detecting many types of concurrency defects.
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The OS/2 2.0 debacle is one of my favorite topics, BTW.
It did take me to the site but I guess if you have no idea about the genre it can draw a blank. Thanks for the reply!
No they aren't. Monopoly status for what? It's just a shitty website. Take a step back and think about what Facebook is. It's no different than the forums of old. It's the same recycled technology with a new interface.

For a while you might have said that they were approaching some kind of weird monopoly status because you had to use FB to login to third party sites/services, but that didn't last long.
If Dan Brown sells 80 million copies of The Da Vinci Code, he has probably worked something out with his publisher that he gets some amount of money per book sold. If Michael Jackson sells 45 million copies of Thriller, he probably gets a cut of each sale. If, for some weird reason, a million people pay $35 to download the CRISPR gene editing paper, Jennifer Doudna is probably not getting a penny of that. It's surprising to many people not in science that the usual model of "I pay publisher $x for a bunch of bytes, then publisher gives y% of that to the person who came up with that sequence of bytes" doesn't apply in science.
For the first, it's sufficient enough to just look at the number of page requests.

For the second, I never got explained to me how UX analysis really works for news sites. Isn't it enough to put 2 or 3 people in a room and show them a few variations of the UI? There isn't really much to publishing text, images, and a few graphs. Graphs are a very well explored field, I don't think you can learn more about them by just watching hot maps and click through rates.
But you're just defending the ad/tracking part; even without all that pages are still relatively huge and slow.

And I sadly don't know either what else apart from whining and moaning the average user could do.
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It's still an impressive amount.
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> in Linux land, what is a good alternative to VirtualBox

Qemu/KVM + virt-manager. No Oracle nonsense about closed USB drivers and the like.

> Are there any that can do proper 3D acceleration to play games at a reasonable speed?

Just ditch Windows and use Wine, it works very well these days especially paired with DXVK.
Your are confounding two issues. One bit of IP is the copyright assignment for the article itself. Typical for-pay journals require assignment in order to publish (i.e. they at minimum own the publishing rights moving forward).

The various bits of IP that can be assigned for the work/discoveries you did vary very much from institution to institution, and may vary with the source of funding. Nothing is really simple here, an it runs the gamut from the investigator owning everything to the investigator owning nothing other than attribution, etc. rights
Fear of flying is actually fear of not being in control. You need to work on figuring that out - why does the lack of control freak you out? Why can't you just "go with it"? It also helps to learn some of the basics of modern aviation.
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We just had solar installed (yesterday, actually!)

I worked with 3 companies; a local large-ish San Jose company, a much smaller local company, and SunRun (national).

Ultimately most of the quotes and sizing came back near identical; the very local company had a really nice guy come out and pitch pretty convincingly and ultimately tell me "even if you don't go with us, don't use SunRun, please.." and showed me some negative Yelp reviews and stuff.

Well, I was leaning towards that guy because I liked the idea of using a local company, but after a fair bit of digging I started finding some suspicious stuff.. I had contacted one company, but he presented a business card from another contracting company, and so on. Ultimately there were 3 company names, it was hard to find reviews, the address looked more like a freight forwarding company.. and when you start digging into contractor licenses the guy's associated with companies in SoCal that had been apparently sued out of existence.

I think the problem is, there's such a gold rush in solar, that everyone is just jumping in. The margins must be good, and demand is high. I don't actually think the guy was an outright scammer, I just think there are a lot of third rate contractors trying to set themselves up as solar experts and just over-promising and under-delivering.

Thankfully, this helped me end up with the larger, reputable local company that seems to have the size and professionalism that comes with it, while still helping me feel like I'm able to support a local company, with real local employees, everything under one roof. But you have to look.
What's confusing about it?
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This statement terrifies me:

> It’s an arms race and we need to constantly improve too. It’s why we’re investing heavily in more people and better technology to prevent bad actors misusing Facebook

To me this sounds like "We need to make sure who is real, so we need more information for our AI algorithm; lets gather more data."
where did you get 1.9% inflation from? This indicates 2.9%:
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infl...

And if you use the constant dollar report from the bls, it says wages decreased by -0.1% (for all civilian workers):
https://www.bls.gov/web/eci/ecconstnaics.pdf

So according to the BLS, you've actually overstated the increase.. there was no increase in inflation adjusted pay.
Nintendo used to be a company that made card games back in the early 1900s.
It's already painful on less-than-ideal hotel WiFi where, worse, people tend to go to new/uncached content such as maps, weather sites, and regional stuff.
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You could write almost the exact same post about a philosophy degree
The alternative to a cultural standard is custom pieces. In this case, the cultural standard is right angles. It could have been 60 degree angles and we would all think hexagonal rooms are ideal.

Chairs, tables, desks, bookcases, shelving systems, and all the things that go on top of them. Paper. Boxes. Books.
FYI: 9370 has smaller battery than 9360 while having same panel and most of internals
http://archive.is/9Cldg
Nature explicity states the opposite for its group of publications. You can post your papers on your website, on arXiv, wherever you want.
That I don't know exactly. Anything that requires interaction with people makes me want to avoid it even if I actually want/need it. It's possible something in my childhood affected me but I don't know what (no one in my family is like me)
Not the same article.
> I am sick having to use MacOS every day. It is a great OS for an everyday user, but not for a developer.

Could you expound on that? I'm curious as to why OS X isn't satisfying for you as a developer.
Pictures are still a huge pain in the ass on mobile connections. Try looking at Facebook or Instagram or Twitter on a flaky 2G connection. Although you don't get to see them stream in line by line like you used to in the good old days - they just take forever to download a muddy blurred version of the actual image first as a placeholder.
At the risk of sounding insensitive, what closure do the families need at this point? Do some believe the passengers are all living on some island? The only closure I can think of is technical, learning how it crashed so it could be prevented in the future.
1M Jupyter notebooks analyzed [audio]
I haven't used it but try:

"Scroll Reverser is a free Mac app that reverses the direction of scrolling. It is available for macOS 10.4 through 10.13.

It has independent settings for trackpads, mice and Wacom tablets, and for horizontal and vertical scrolling. "

https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/
That's not whey they have 3 year vs 4 year courses. The 3 year vs 4 year debate is a legacy of philosophical differences about what qualifies a liberal education that are far older than standardized national secondary curricula.

Universities in the US have entrance requirements for classes completed in high school. They do the same thing English universities do when admiring American students--they require specific general education classes were completed in high school.

Because of this even though the US doesn't have national standards, virtually ever university bound student will have already completed the same general education classes that students from countries with 3 year universities would have. Universities her don't force students to take English, math, and history classes because some substantial population of college bound high school students haven't taken them.
The video is not actually the problem (for me). It's the audio.

Why can't my browser (Chrome) still not give me appropriate control over audio?
It is, however the two are somewhat inseparable in this case.
Typically I do use Wine+PlayOnLinux, but I have a specific old game I want to play (Facade), that is incredibly picky to get working on any computer, let alone through some semi-emulation like Wine.
You mean virtualbox extension pack, right? As far as I'm aware, guest additions don't require a paid license.
Are you sure you mean "Guest additions". Guest additions is GPL licensed however the "VirtualBox Extension Pack" requires a paid for license to use commercially. And since Oracle make it very clear what licenses are needed [1] they are well within their rights to hunt down your company for revenue which is due.

[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ
Paul Graham used to have fear of flying (ptesophobia?). When I met him at an International Lisp Conference, he said that he was dealing with it drastically: by taken up hang gliding. There's an account of it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/magazine/y-combinator-sil...

I assume he has a pilot's licence by now.
Stop visiting the sites then. There is nothing else you can do. Except maybe write them an email they'll ignore because their metrics (more like a "business analyst") tell them to autoplay videos.
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You know what else looks fishy: €1,060 pledged of €1,708 goal on Kickstarter.

$15k/month?? My bet is he tries to fake it till … he fades.
I don't have kids, but I can imagine how having my hands full my stuff, plus my kids' stuff, plus trying to have a hand to drag them along so they don't run out in traffic, could make it difficult to be tidy 100% of the time.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/43117638_The_Pace_o...
They provided 'evidence' for 'weapons of mass destruction' to justify the Iraq war too, and governments around the world confirmed their claims.

We now know that to be a lie.

Again, why would you trust intelligence agencies that haven't been trustworthy throughout US history?
Thanks, I'll have that in mind
What gets my goat about all of this, is following the 2000 election (hanging chads) the state by state push to modernize election systems was full of fraud by election companies and politicians. They lined the coffers of for-profit companies who demanded non-disclosures, proprietary software, were protected from ever having their systems audited while in place, and tons of those businesses went out of business.

And all the computer science geeks told them so, in advance, that this would happen. And where we are. Those same politicians accused knowledgeable people of FUD. But it takes a uniquely stubborn person to think it's a good idea to buy voting machines that have at best a 10 year service life. That's not better than mechanical voting machines that lasted ~40 years or more.

And what the hell are voting machines doing with WiFi and voter accessible USB ports? The sheer stupidity involved in this... Who cares if it takes three days to count paper voted for an election? The media probably helped push for these systems because they love selling all kinds of hype including that of election results for the now, now now political culture we have.
1. The actual people who choose to be here.

2. The reasons they choose to be here.

3. Good moderation, in part because it is paid, but in part for other reasons. (I know a forum where, in my opinion, the paid staff are The Problem.)

4. "Table Stakes" -- for some people here, there is potentially a lot on the line. This means the most influential people have intrinsic motive to reign themselves in and cooperate with the moderating staff's agenda instead of taking some big stand on principle etc.

5. The nature of those "table stakes" probably helps to combat classism, sexism, racism, etc.
Why would economic rationality assume that the decision made will be made with perfect information as to resulting utilities and disutility and maximize the net lifetime experienced utility?

This seems like a non sequitur, and a really silly assumption. Wouldn't economic rationality assume that the decisions of actors are rational rather than based on perfect information about their consequences?
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