skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point, there needs to be a backlash about our right to be shown advertisements. I mean, if it creates a nice discount and shows us relevant services - please DO track me.

Honestly, if I go to a website and later see a related ad to that website -- that's a good thing, right?

Maybe instead of removing tracking, we need something like an industry code where the browser has a great green bar around it saying you're being tracked and here are the benefits.

It reminds me of another situation. I play free game sometimes and I always shake my head in disbelief at the wasted opportunity when they show the interstitial ads that are uninteresting me. With a bit of intelligence, they should be showing extremely high value ads around software security (a personal example) that could lead to serious business. But no, Apple doesn't allow for that.
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All of those require a training step, and that is the same error minimization as curve fitting.

Basically they are curve fitting in a high enough dimension.

Even theory builders can be thought of as curve fitters. The error metric is greedy, the curve is not differentable, but that's it.

That said, of course there is much more to it, than training. (And as we saw with OpenAI's dota bots and DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero, with good feature engineering, adversarial learning setup, beating human performance is only a matter of processing power.)
Huh? Never had a problem with VPN there. Used OpenVPN to my own VPS mostly, and the cheapest PIA offer in February this year.
Hey Jasdeep,
How did you went about doing marketing for your product? Direct mails ? Adwords ?
I'm in the same boat as you, but I've got a late 2013 15". I actually picked up a Toshiba Chromebook 2 to run Gallium (xubuntu) on for when I'm outside of the house. I'm half-paranoid about something happening to this macbook pro.

As a graphic designer, I used to be 100% windows -- and even somewhat against the hype of apple products. A friend had an old 2008 macbook pro collecting dust. I figured I'd try out OSX for a time, purely in an effort to fix her laptop. I fell in love with it and picked up the 2013 a few months later.

As time goes on, I don't doubt that we'll see the 2015 maintain its resale value.
> The term "psychopath" is fascinating to many, due to the cultural references linked to it.

Given that (in popular culture, not necessarily in reality), it's also associated with cruelty and lack of empathy, this scares me a little.
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Seems to me that licensing and production cost should also go down withe less watching.

It shouldn’t be that hard though. Just keep a reasonably diverse catalog and give people tools to browse it.

Speaking of diverse, now a days I turn to YouTube when I want to watch something interesting. I wonder how much of that type of content they could add to their catalog.

Not specifically the random user generated content, way to much hassle, or “be amazed” crap, they have plenty of that already, but there are a lot high quality channels targeting some niche on the long tail.
A foundation like for a skyscraper and they can get pretty big if the ground isn't rock.
I disagree, I think it’s interesting. But then, I’m interested in that sort of thing, I mean, I spent my entire Saturday trying to understand how the world would look if you were colourblind. So maybe I’m just weird.

What’s more interesting is the comments though, there sure seem to be a lot of tabu around this topic. I wonder why that is.
One thing that the paper does not address is MTurkers becoming professional survey takers who recognize typical psychology surveys thus skewing the responses.

Personal anecdata: I took many MTurk surveys for about a month in 2012. It is mind crushing work.

There were countless near identical surveys presumably by psychology undergrads.

Pretty much anything in Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow was there.

Very quickly you recognize the typical priming experiment and then is your response any valid?

If you know the idea behind the baseball bat and ball pricing question then is your correct answer made in a split second helping?

Most survey givers wanted MTurkers with high ratings.

If you think about it, those MTurkers with high rating would have likely seen all those survey questions already.

Thus experienced MTurkers would really distort the answers compared to a random sample of undergraduates.

Maybe you can compensate for that somehow.
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This is sort of true and sort of not true. It definitely does currently work, but if companies like Google and MSFT decided to, they could make it not work by providing search engines that actually helped you find products that are a good fit for you. But that will never be their focus as long as they make money off of ads.

Instead they create search engines that find a series of products that are relevant, though not necessarily a good fit.

I always thought this would be an interesting product that apple should work on. An iPhone search engine that finds products for you. They have the entire market to themselves and bucket loads of money to spend on it.

Apple never was good at that kind of thing, sadly, mostly because they can't attract the best in AI because of their secretive ways. They don't value their employees enough, like Google or Facebook.

MSFT could probably jump into the market to, though, if they made it a part of their OS.

Amazon is unfortunately screwing themselves by going backwards by making money off of ads. It's the beginning of the end for them I think as they get more addicted to that money. The more they leverage it, the less useful they become. Instead they should focus more on fixing their fake review problem.
Well, if the person's life was hanging by a thread, you would want to get the person out of the water asap, right? A 200-300m swim back while pulling someone will take a while.
If the drone is there already why not let the lifeguard hook the person to the drone and let it fly back.
The law in question specifically makes the publisher liable. (It has been applied to newspapers in the past.)
The lengths at which you are going to rationalize racism just astounds me.

Answer me this. How on Facebook you would expect an excluded person to be able to know about the sale?

They wouldn't. The housing listing doesn't exist for them.

How do you see this as fair?!

I am blown away by all the casual racism all throughout this thread.
Well, the classic reference is Adorno, "The Culture Industry". But you're right, it is a just-so story. I don't think it's possible to do a fair treatment of the relation between culture and politics in a hundred-word post, and my own limitations have made it still less rigorous.

To add some more unrigorous, allusive examples to the mix: the typical Al-Qaeda member is not a imam, but rather an engineer. Technical capability by no means implies ethical capability- so if you imagine a whole society of highly developed technical abilities, and highly under-developed critical capacities, it's a scary thought. And you don't really have to look far into history to find lots of examples.

Consider the V2 rocket, for instance. One of the most amazing technical innovations of the century, but equally, utterly pointless on every other level, even the military one. That's the kind of thing that nations with deeply stupid official cultures tied to deeply brilliant technical cultures make.
>The authoritative tone of your comments bothers me. What are they based on?

A moderately extensive reading of the popular and professional literature on psychopaths. I know this is an internet message board, so it’s best to doubt such claims, but that’s the answer.

>The claim that psychopaths pursue long-term relationships doesn't jive with the antisocial nature of this condition

You’ll notice that I prefaced that with “high functioning.” High functioning psychopaths often come from financially and emotionally stable families/backgrounds, which help inhibit what we’d think of as overtly anti-social behavior (e.g. violence). And as you say, psychopaths are not without reason. Given a set of sufficiently pro-social developmental circumstances, some can learn to delay their “gratifications” to obtain greater “rewards,” just like anyone else.

>I'm also troubled by your view that any engagement with a psychopath is wasted.

It’s not so much wasted, but about reducing your exposure to harm. And it’s not my view, you can find the same stated in the work of people like Hare, Stout, and Babiak.

>A premise of your views is that you are able to unambiguously diagnose psychopathy in others, and that it is appropriate to treat those people radically differently based on your casual diagnosis.

I claim no such ability. I’m speaking only to a fuzzy heuristic intended to reduce my own exposure to psychopaths after damaging experiences with people who quite consistently match their patterns of behavior.

>To be frank, I feel like I'm reading paraphrases of Pieter Hintjens' self-help book "The Psychopath Code" which is quite popular with this website's users.

I’ve never read this book, so I can’t speak to it. Again, you’re well warranted in your skepticism because it’s the internet.
I can recommend Athena Walker's (pseudonym of a psychopath) answers to Quora questions. [1] However, one must always be careful with the writings of a psychopath. These people are cunningly manipulative.

[1] https://www.quora.com/profile/Athena-Walker
Discovered (re-discovered?) in 2013 by Steve Mould, as shown on its youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dQJBBklpQQ
I think it should actually. Go’s module system should not have to give consideration to the particular transport you want to use.

Its references are canonical and it’s up to you to set up the relevant process for it to retrieve the source for those references.

I get the impression that that’s what the proxy stuff is about - you’ll just set up a proxy which deals with retrieving the code.
Wherever do you and your friend live?
Upvoting black and white blocks.
>some kind of nationalistic pedestal of overdramatic belief systems that make you Korean

As I said think of it more like regional pride in barbecue. People from memphis don't think their barbecue is their identity, but if you insult it or say that Memphis barbecue sucks they defend it about as much as I have seen people in Korea defend fan death when my friend questioned it.
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Yes. Large corporate networks often still have (some) production systems that allow password-based authentication. I don't know how widespread it still is, but I still encounter it frequently at clients (which may be a skewed sample).

Just to be sure: PasswordAuthentication does not need to be enabled for the PoC to work, and username testing can also be used for software enumeration by testing for common/default non-SSH users, .g. "_tor", "debian-tor", etc. (I apologize for repeating here what I also stated in other comments in this thread, but this aspect should not be overlooked.)
The bits of the transcript about having to wear a mask in order to function, having to internalize algorithms of human behavior that are totally unintuitive, and realizing that one’s deepest interpersonal instincts are out of sync with the rest of your kin remind me strongly of some individuals I’ve known with Aspergers/severe ADHD.

Additionally, her descriptions of not feeling fear, processing emotions at a lower intensity level than others, needing constant stimulation, and having a cognitive, but not truly emotional, understanding of romantic love and empathy ring true to my experience knowing these people.

I wonder if there is a legitimate grey zone at which these disorders overlap.

Or, alternatively, maybe my friend is just a psychopath.
Bless your soul, lukehero, you are a hero!

On macOS Safari Version 11.1.2 (13605.3.8), I can scroll horizontally (it's cute, I can see all the flags coming) and I can't really search the website. I put in values, hit return, and nothing happens. Works amazingly on Chrome.
Is there a recommended process or guide on the best way to switch from dep to modules?
_internal_ usually implies inside your own company
cry me a fucking river, Facebook.
I imagine you'd be considered an accessory to the act in question. There are also laws like this [1], although they don't apply to this situation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law
How do you spot them?
As you point out, Facebook targeting is not anything qualitatively new; it's the same old tools, just cheaper and more fine-grained. And the law was written to prevent those same tools from being used to discriminate.

According to Code of Federal Regulations 109, for example, your hypothetical would indeed be discriminatory (https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/DOC_7781.PDF, search for "Selective use of advertising media or content")

Quoting the relevant section:

> The following are examples of the selective use of advertisements
which may be discriminatory:

> (a) Selective geographic advertisements. Such selective use may involve the strategic
placement of billboards; brochure advertisements distributed within a limited geographic area by
hand or in the mail; advertising in particular geographic coverage editions of major metropolitan
newspapers or in newspapers of limited circulation which are mainly advertising vehicles for
reaching a particular segment of the community; or displays or announcements available only in
selected sales offices.

(The rest refer to selective use of the "equal opportunity" slogan and logo, and to selective choice of human models to e.g. exclude children in housing ads.)
No, but that was the soonest I got lab confirmation. I was feeling Loads better within 2 weeks. I could stand making dinner. Backache and headache disappeared. And so on.
I don't know if Acer manufactures Thinkpads but Wistron is not Acer.
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When you join a room the room name is hashed and you join a WebTorrent swarm based on that hash. So it's a collection of WebRTC peers who are connected to eachother based upon the shared hash of the room name. Not every peer is connected to every other peer.

So "when a new room is created, this has to be broadcast to all users" is not quite right. A new swarm is created when a user joins a room-hash for the first time and anybody who joins that same room-hash will be introduced to the same swarm. People who have not joined the room-hash will not be part of the p2p swarm.

Currently the hash-based WebRTC signalling that WebTorrent does to introduce peers is quite centralized but the actual communication channels are decentralized. The communication layer is implemented as a WebTorrent "extension protocol" extension. This is the same model dreamtime: https://github.com/chr15m/dreamtime

You are correct that every chat line is broadcast to everyone in the same swarm. In fact, every message is re-broadcast multiple times redundantly by every peer who receives it for the first time, because the WebRTC swarm can be fragmented. Not every peer can directly see every other peer so we must re-broadcast everything to make sure everyone sees each line.

So basically for each room you have a set of peers (browsers) connected together loosely with WebRTC data links and messages between them are sent multiple times redundantly.

Thank you very much for your interest and for trying it out.
I've just upgraded the server :)
As a parent, I would not enjoy having my child commuting to school in a "mouldy, musty cellar".

Stockholm doesn't have less homeless people roaming around than New York because they've been driven out by how clean everything is, it's because Sweden has a working welfare and health care system.
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Self driving version: There is TCBY off your route, you have been diverted to see it.
Actually, targeting of ads to certain publications is illegal in the field of housing; search for "selective use of advertising media or content" at https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/DOC_7781.PDF
The WebRTC signalling can take a long time (I've seen up to 2 minutes) because your browser has to find a way that other browsers can tunnel in to your network. Once you're connected messages seem to go through fairly quickly.

The fastcast.nz error is because that signalling server is down and has been for a while but you can safely ignore it.

The "ICE failed" error might be because you are behind a very restrictive firewall.

Thanks for trying it out!
I don't think they cause as much harm as you seem to be implying ... If you could produce some sources
The law on housing discrimination is quite clear and even-handed on this topic - ad distributors are liable for discriminatory ads they publish (the law specifically includes "publishes" in the list of criminal verbs, and this was actually enforced in court against the New York Times in the 80s); and selectively-targeted ads are discriminatory (see Code of Federal Regulations section 109.25, down near the bottom of https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/DOC_7781.PDF)
Thank you!

My sever has just been upgraded. Can you confirm if you're still having issues or not?
Thanks for testing & for your feedback! I'll have a think about how to make that clearer.
Or, it's solved, and people stubbornly refuse to believe, that it's not much. A software that runs in your brain that makes you think that you are conscious, gives you the feeling of agency when your predictions and the world match up.

The hard problem is how to wire up adaptivity and the specialized faculties.
Maybe there is a good reason for psychopaths to exist. Maybe it keeps the community from becoming too trusting, and then later having one person completely take advantage over the whole community. Psychopaths could be a vaccine to keep humans wary of the negative possibilities. It also reminds me of the fact that having small amounts of disturbance (e.g. environmental) in a biological ecosystem keeps biodiversity high.
Remember undertow -> swim parallel to the beach. If you watch the video people ~10 meters to the side were perfectly fine.
Matrix is a great project! I believe it uses a federated model which means that it relies on people donating their servers and bandwidth and messages pass through those federated servers rather than directly between peers as with WebRTC.
Probably their demeanour, and if you realize that somebody is trying to use you, alarm bells would start ringing.
Can we attach such things to the high buildings? Thus we can build low cost distributed systems across a city.
That happened to me, once. So yeah, I think my anecdote is cancelled out by your experience.
Can you describe a psychopaths demeanor? I'd like to be able to spot them too.
Maybe not impossible, but things have to go really downhill in the West for us to bend over this far. Look at with how much pride we show off our democratic and free society, mentioning it whenever possible to underline our superiority to China or other countries. You don't give that up over night just for some economical benefit. You have to be close to starving.

I'm more worried how we start to undermine these very values ourselves in the name of fighting terrorism etc. While everyone's busy looking at how China is supposedly threatening our freedom, our government is already busy taking it away slowly, not heating up the water too quickly so the frog won't notice.
Ask HN: Should we create a Crypto Bank that issues bank notes?
Some people have created "bills" and physical "coins" that actually contain crypto. I haven't seen anyone creating bank notes that are simply backed by a bank that stores the crypto for them. What do you think about the idea?

I believe it could be useful for people in some developing countries. My initial idea is to create a branch in Colombia/Cucuta, oriented to support people from Venezuela crossing the border forth and back.

Pros about such a bank:

- Crypto bank notes enable off-chain transactions with zero cost.

- Bills/notes enable use non-gov backed currency (may fluctuate, but won't have inflation) without requiring internet.

- A "current" crypto bank account also enables you to forget about taking care of the security side of crypto addresses, where it's also easy to move money to an Ethereum address or back to other currencies like colombian pesos or dollars.

What do you think?

PD: I'm based in Europe, but I've been to Colombia.
How much I enjoy my over 10 years old non drive-by-wire, no in-dash navigation (just buy a 300 EUR navigation with free lifetime map updates), no hybrid, no engine-downsized car. I'll not let it go until the wheels will start to fall off.
As someone who lived and moved around Europe for the past 2 years, I think that Europe can do tech but the problem is that they are not very well placed in terms of marketing. They don't have influence over the global media like US companies do. Maybe that explains why the Blockchain sector is thriving in Europe... It bypasses the typical media funnel that companies nornally have to go through to acquire users.
Experiential effect? Most of visible debate in western ASCII media is people who feel net visible economic downturn and ignore the huge material improvement in emerging economies?

I've been lucky enough to travel worldwide for work, for the last twenty years. I think things are getting better and my experiential sense is fed by global homogeneous materialism. You can get a better flat white coffee in Kathmandu than in Quebec City.
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I'm a bit skeptical.

They looked at scientists (citations), artists (painting prices), and film directors (imdb ratings). The question is whether the works that they're looking at are actually independent.

For scientists, it's rather unlikely that, having discovered a rich vein of research, a scientist would put out a single perfect paper and then never revisit the topic. Instead, I'd expect several papers exploring aspects of the research, which would get cited where those aspects are applicable; that pattern would produce several highly cited papers which look like a 'hot streak' but are actually just one piece of work.

For film directors, the Peter Jackson example the article gives is similar: the three Lord of the Rings movies are a 'hot streak' consisting of the director repeatedly putting together the same actors playing the same characters in the same story.

For artists, they're using the art market, in which prices are determined by
the opinions of critics, gallerists, and other experts herding towards a consensus about importance and quality, as a proxy for quality. A conclusion that "the stuff artist X was doing during this period was important" would naturally produce a cluster of works escalating in price.

My expectation would be that after such effects are accounted for Einstein's anno mirablis that produced four transformative and unrelated papers would once again appear to be extremely atypical.
In DSM-V (2013), asperger's is no longer being diagnosed. It is ASD ("autism") or not, and ASD is a spectrum. ADHD might very well be related to ASD (there's talks to merge the two, though I don't have an online source). People with such diagnosis are (neuro-)atypical. Someone with ASD likely has hyperfocus on certain subjects, and is oversensitive and undersensitive to certain stimulus (certain because it differs per autist). A psychopath can find common ground with an autist on the undersensitive aspects, insofar that they could be friends or that the psychopath only needs to wear the mask on (certain) oversensitive aspects. A psychopath might also very much enjoy the hyperfocus of an autist.

Disclosure: I have ASD diagnosis.
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I just find the touch experience on Surface to be completely lamentable and the hybrid desktop-tablet interface boggles my mind. I agree the hardware is fantastic but I find Windows 10 intolerable.