skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost every larger company these days has done something bad like that. Lenovo had superfish, HP had a keylogger, Dell had its own superfish, Acer still installs search toolbars and browser hijackers, depending on how far back you want to go Sony had the BMG rootkit and a camera backdoor, ... Who are you going to get your laptop from now of you ignore all of those - especially if you're going to reinstall your OS immediately anyway?
One reason I think Netflix has a lot of those 1-season, low budget, 4-8 episode flops is that producing them is a lot lower risk. Unlike a TV network, they don't have to take up time that could be filled by something else, nor do they have to lose money on advertising slots to promote it. And if the show flops, they have no real reason not to keep it up on the site.

For a Netflix-produced show, the first season is almost like an extended pilot who's only judge is the viewership instead of some network executives.
Quantum Spring: The Race to Dominate Quantum Computing
The behavior of JAMA Editor-in-Chief Howard Bauchner is appalling and frightening. If he's so unwilling to deal with fraud in his publishing, what is he letting people get away with in his position as Vice Chairman of Pediatrics at Boston University. He seems far too keen to sweep things under the rug.
Hills aren't available everywhere (see e.g. the Netherlands).
But it is one time cost for 30 years. Everything has an initial cost like creating traditional plant, building water reservoir (concrete too and ground formation work), photovoltaic panel grid.
Benefit here is abundance of material - existing concrete waste.
So? Are the ads in the selected publication forcefully shown to a person otherwise not choosing to read the publication or forcefully denied from a person choosing to read the publication?

Discrimination, in this regard, only occurs if somebody is made to consume or is denied content on the basis of a protected class status.
I manage just fine in Europe and cross wherever is convenient, just like everyone else (except the Germans!). The concept of jaywalking is pretty alien to most of the world.
I'd get a Dell XPS instead, but agree with Arch Linux or Fedora.
As a Mastodon instance admin, you just made an argument for me to never have a clearly-defined and legally-binding policy. Thanks.

The main thrust of my user agreement is "hi I am queer lady who is out of patience with people being jerks and wants a nice place to talk, if you piss me off you can go find a new instance or start your own". It's not much more formal than that, either.
The slippy slope here is already in operation. It's the entire rationale behind prohibiting targeting based on zip code: demographics change from zip code to zip code, so the HUD concludes that targeting by zip code is de facto targeting by demographic.

What logical basis is there for stopping at zip code targeting and not applying the same logic to other demographic correlates?
My argument is just that not all laws are good, and following the law does not equate to doing the right thing.
Trump alleges social media censorship of conservatives
I think you either missed or ignored the point the parent comment made regarding their reasons for avoiding Lenovo as a company, rather than strictly wishing to avoid spyware in one's own laptop.
As much as I dislike the inability to repair or upgrade the new mbp 15", I have to agree. Mine works great.
Height, weight, age and current salary. Yikes.
Ah, I finally begin to see what you mean. Sorry if I've been a bit boneheaded in this thread. I finally started googling instead of speculating, and I found this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/3pv8bh/is_it_really_tr...
which seems to confirm your ideas about the significance of benefit corporations. It looks like the key legal case happened surprisingly recently - 2010.

Apologies again: you were right and I was blinkeredly literal.
Way less dense than concrete. So less energy stored.
I'm looking at the new Thinkpad P1 and it's everything I hoped the last Macbook Pro update would be.

Way things are going I'll be very surprised if my next machine is a Macbook when my 2015 needs replacing.
They should. Allowing large commercial entities to facilitilate discrimination and only going after individual landlords would be an extremely inefficient use of limited resources.
> That is what I am saying. The movement of capital in the stock market has no meaningful form of utility.

I know that's what you're saying. And you are utterly wrong.

> Do not underestimate the power of human stupidity.

I.e. you're smarter than everyone in the financial markets. If you're right, you'd get a Nobel Prize in economics. But I suppose the Nobel committee is too stupid to do that, too :-)

> I'm going to print out a bunch of useless paper and start selling that paper for 100x what its worth.

Go right ahead and do that. There's no law against it. Please post back how that works out.
Having lived in NYC briefly I learned the exact opposite.

Also I was taught to hold up a particular finger while crossing a redlight as a courtesy to the drivers.
I would be interested in seeing and reviewing your asyncio work gwillz! I have a small (750 sloc) network service implemented with asyncio and ran into some design problems around modularly handling healthchecking, exception handling/monitoring, and auto recovery/restart. I was unable to find much in the way of large software written with asyncio to learn better patterns from, so ended up with what, to me, feel like mediocre solutions. My email is in my profile.
There isn't a law on the books prohibiting hardware stores from selling knives.

There is a law on the books prohibiting publishers from publishing descriminitory ads, even if they didn't write them.

That's the difference.
Pumped hydro has the downside that water evaporates too.
A lot of really bad policy gets enacted because advocates don't honestly ask themselves, "What are the foreseeable consequences of the policy I'm advocating?" That is, a failure to ask the question "And then what?" results in a lot of unnecessary misery.

Your comment essentially restates the HUD's complaint. It doesn't engage with my discussion of the fundamental incompatibility of the HUD's regulatory regime and ad targeting in general. Nobody was ever convinced of anything by someone typing "FYI: [restatement of original premise]".
Did Apple refuse to hardware swap after the owner of the device performed a fresh install of macOS to see if the issues went away and they didn’t?

Hardware defects occur. Get it replaced. If Apple refuses, then make a stink.
A true sign of a troll is when they write 100 words about the one word in your comment they disagree with instead of the 99% they agree with.
Yeah, that's the heads up.
Optic [0] caught my eye. They seem to have made possible a new kind of abstraction in code. Something that's different from both functions and macros. It's a kind of abstraction that can be arbitrarily customized at each call site, yet retain its identity across all of them.

Example:

foo = do_a()
bar = do_b(foo)

Example 2:

foo = do_a()
bar = do_z(foo)
baz = do_b(bar)

Example 3:

foo = do_a()
bar = foo + 10
baz = do_b(bar)

The three examples have strong similarity in their first and last statements. There is a pattern there, but that pattern cannot be abstracted into a single macro or a function. So this pattern does exist, and is recognizable to the human eye, but the language does not allow one to express it.

What Optic seems to do is to recognize the pattern, create a single model out of it, and allow you to re-use that pattern elsewhere, or even transform it into new ones and re-use those new patterns elsewhere.

Again, this would be a new kind of abstraction. One whose leaks are easier to fix. You can have your cake and eat it too!

[0] https://useoptic.com
Is it wrong to publish an ad on the Wall Street Journal website and not run the same ad on the Teen Vogue website?
Even if you assume a "manycast" or "broadcast" type of communication rather than point-to-point, e.g. some kind of technology which could radiate information-packed gravitational waves traveling at light speed in all directions of 3D space simultaneously, and even if you assume hundreds of thousands of independent intelligent civilizations throughout the universe are doing this right now, it is likely humans will never, ever detect any of them, due to the sheer size of the universe.
First never a Lenovo ever again. Second that model doesn't have an Ethernet port, so that's another strike.
The Mozilla foundation wants to "do good in the world" but it hires interns in San Francisco; anyone who wants to hire people in San Francisco should be able to do it, but they should also sponsor a bed at the homeless shelter as an offset.
This is a story worth developing further and reporting on
We simply have laws for these.

If the laws still do not deter then increase the penalty until they’re adhered to. Such that it will leave no such question as to whose responsibility it is.

If we do not want such laws then repeal them.

Only the rule of law will prevail here.

Simply know the rules, or pay the penalty.
I think you may have missed the goal of the exercise friend. I think this is a larger metaphor about walking through the waking life without really observing what’s going on.

Disclaimer: I meant this constructively in case it comes of wrong.
You also notice that when you go hiking on the mountains: it takes a lot of struggle to lose the weight that you gain with very little food. If you bring ham sandwiches, your net gain is probably positive...
But you can hope right? Or are you happy with your communication, content, attention and ideas controlled for profit?
ISPs do warn people about copyright infringement.

And in some countries, VPN usage is quite common. Indeed, I've heard that NordVPN runs TV ads in the US. So arguably they're no longer fringe.
We need to go by the law here, which indicates an ad publisher is guilty in addition to the one who placed the ad. You may argue an opinion about the law, but it looks like Facebook is in violation of it.
My personal custom LaTeX template isn’t that different, but I defined all the sections and items as macros in a separate style so I can keep content and format apart.
You can have multiple accounts on multiple servers.
I disagree, DNA is pretty much the source code. any differential DNA expression are due to histone modification, proteins, or RNA (and rarely CpG DNA modification in humans) so DNA in the purest form is indeed the source code.
> Our legal system will not hold Facebook liable for a case like that.

I have to disagree with you on that. I'd put money on targeting a housing advertisement toward someone with a preference for organic food to be ruled discriminatory within five years. It's an unavoidable logical consequence of the logic driving today's complaint.
> if lucid dreaming wasn't just another vapid fantasy about being able to control one's brain.

I can do sexual things in real life. I can't fly or walk through walls in real life though.

Why do you think that lucid dreaming is not real?
>to display/not display ads to users whom Facebook categorizes as interested in a particular place of worship, religion or tenet, such as the "Christian Church," "Sikhism," "Hinduism," or the "Bible."

It says "such as"; I'm interested if this list includes "synagogue" or "Torah". Is there any place the entire list is included?
I don't understand how this is any different from believing in God.
Patty describes what this means in the article.
Funnily enough, it's unavailable for me at the moment (location: EU).
Quick question: how does the electricity get from the train (in motion) to the grid? Using the rails as conductors could work, but I'm not sure how efficient that would be.
DNA is not input data, it is simply the source code. Epigenetics is the state/memory. The environment is the input data.
Cybersex toy industry heats up as infamous “teledildonics” patent climaxes
> He’s developed a machine that can mix substances that cities often pay to get rid off, such as gravel or building waste, along with cement to create low-cost concrete blocks. The cost saving comes from having to use only a sixth of the amount of cement that would otherwise have been needed if the concrete were used for building construction.

Notwithstanding the misspelling of "of", it seems like if this becomes popular, such "waste" materials will increase in price, making the plan unviable at scale.
The difference is that the law shouldn't even be on the books imo. The person discriminating is the private property owner/manager they engaged in the advertising. Facebook did not.
That is true. However such gravity storage can be multiplied and distributed on flatland at any nearby solar or wind source.
Same here except I ended up in CS. Solid job prospects and I have found other ways to engage with my love of history
The issue I see with this is that it implies anyone who isn't doing work high-profile enough to get independent labs to try to reproduce it isn't doing science.
The patent in question: https://patents.google.com/patent/US6368268B1/en .
So, what are you watching instead?..
My wife has a MacBook Air and I have a new Pro and there’s surprisingly little in it when it comes to weight, and it would meet his resolution requirement.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/review/mac-laptops/macbook-pro-vs...
The problem is that there are too many scientists chasing too few dollars- something's gotta give, and on the extreme side of things you end up getting fraud / faked data. This could be mitigated by open science practices and reforms to the review process to some extent, but these only address a symptom and not the root cause.

The primary solutions I can see (not necessarily mutually exclusive) are to a) reduce the costs of research equipment and staff substantially so that competition for funding becomes less relevant, b) provide a larger pot of state-sponsored scientific funding (industrial science tends to favor refining research more than performing tentative research so corporate funding would be an ill-advised solution), or c) to discourage young budding potential grad students from even going into the grad school track in the first place.

As an individual, option c) is something that I personally feel like I can make a difference with. Professors in undergrad can be really terrible about conveying the exact career options you can have in science without necessarily going for the PhD. Invisible support positions like HPC system administrators, research software engineers, and even to some extent hospital lab workers don't require hefty commitments to grad school but still allow one to live within the world of scientific discourse and contribute to the advancement of various fields as an enabler (perhaps less so for hospital workers). Unfortunately, the invisibility of these professions is a major problem, which is why there are organizations like UKRSE [0] that strive to generate more recognition for at least Research Software Engineering (curiously Google in the States seems to have been quick to recognize scientific programmers as distinct professionals relative to PhDs and other programmers, while academia in the US has not done so nearly as much). Also, for some support positions in IT there are non-science options that are much more lucrative.

[0] https://rse.ac.uk/
Mastodon defaults to a character limit of 500. Instance maintainers may change this - mine's got the highest limit of any I know at 7777, for instance. (And mechanisms I won't get into to make it so that you can't spam someone with really long toots.)

You can talk about bad ideas without retweeting them, too, you know.
My point was your premise is making up imaginary scenarios that aren't actually happening as a way of creating an issue with the clear problems outlined and this isn't helpful.

Creating an imaginary general problem as a way of attacking the specific issue is disingenuous.
You would be surprised how many serious studies you will find mturk as a data source of you dig into them. It's usually buried and sometimes I think they likely omit that little fact all together.
I don't really see how this should be against the law.
It is only advertising.
This is a meaningless deadline, given that nobody is actually paid to support Python. Third party vendors will support it for years to come.
Of course Facebook should allow racial filtering. Not understanding this is a fundamental failure to understand minority businesses. Let's say hypothetically you're selling a product that is highly ethnically selected, like beauty products (before any criticism keep in mind that the first self made American female millionaire, cj walker made her fortune on beauty products) - should you be forced to buy advertising impressions for the majority that has no use for your product? Basically this would create a huge disadvantage/drag to minority entrepreneurs seeking to capitalize on a niche market and grow.
The inefficiency of the process shouldn't be a deciding factor. Should be the justness of it. Facebook isn't discriminating. We don't punish shipping companies when their resources are used for drug smuggling. We punish the individuals involved in the illicit act.

edit: Not entirely sure how arguing that our system should be a just one more so than one that goes after what is easiest is getting down voted so much but ok.
This is the polar opposite of my experience in NYC.
Netflix really doesn't have much insight into level of engagement. I leave some shows running while I do chores around the house, and that looks like I'm obsessively binge watching them. I take months to finish watching other shows I enjoy a great deal. I appreciate having a supply of garbage shows to leave watching while I do the dishes, but I wouldn't be paying Netflix money if they didn't supply a lot of new content that engages my full attention.

It seems like they're deliberately moving toward a shallower understanding of why people watch.
Well, rains or winter temperatures.
If somehow it was not clear, the numbers were referencing (in the case of employment) and being driven (in the case of violence) by the recent surge in refugees Germany took in. The 75% comes from Aydan Özoğuz, commissioner for integration, refugees and integration in Germany [1]. The upper end comes from recognition that they're taking an optimistic view of things. As of the start of 2017 Germany had taken in 1.2 million migrants, and from government numbers 34,000, or 2.8%, were employed, with a fair chunk of those in temp jobs. [2] Getting to 25% employment from there in 5 years is perhaps not impossible, but it's extremely optimistic.

[1] - https://www.ft.com/content/022de0a4-54f4-11e7-9fed-c19e27000...

[2] - https://www.thelocal.de/20161219/so-far-only-34000-refugees-...
Sure, discussing this topic is important. Let's not act like it's not discussed and researched daily, in my experience the entire narrative of migrants is completely dominated by this particular debate, we barely discuss anything else when we discuss migration. I agree the discussion isn't always objective, but if anything I find it errs on the side of over-attributing issues to ethnicity or cultural background.

A lot of the issues tend to be connected with policy today and in the past, but get attributed somehow to the ethnic of cultural background of the individual migrant. That's not an objective discussion either. Unemployment is a real issue, indeed, but not granting a work permit, not recognising foreign degrees, expecting new migrants fleeing a civil war to pay language education to the tune of many thousands of euros (e.g. the Netherlands) as part of their path to citizenship while not being allowed to work, and then exclaiming they're a net cost to society and somehow their issues aren't related to our policies, but rather their cultural background, is a myopic view of the situation as well.

Irrespective of root causes though, I'm always struck by the irony of the right saying immigrants are taking our jobs and lazy parasitic welfare receivers at the same time. Which is it?

Anyway, I'd point you to the academic literature in Western-Europe, there's been quite a lot of carefully researched studies on the economic benefits of migrants. I can't say there's much of a consensus, some see a small net benefit, some a small net loss in terms of taxpayer revenue / cost, but there's certainly no overwhelming evidence that migrants are a long-term economic issue, quite the contrary. Most economists will say we need migrants and need to invest more in integrating them into our economies, which means be more permissive rather than restrictive in granting legal status like a work permit.

Some reading on the particular case study you referenced:

https://www.dw.com/en/when-refugees-want-to-work-in-germany/...

https://www.ft.com/content/bea8507e-64cb-11e8-90c2-9563a0613...
Or perhaps that if the law is bad, we should engage in civil disobedience.
It varies by jurisdiction. TFA says,

> Ng’s quote itself suggests he doesn’t understand crosswalk laws. Every intersection is technically an unmarked crosswalk

And that's only true in some places too. Laws vary from place to place:

>> Nine states and the District of Columbia require motorists to stop when approaching a pedestrian in an uncontrolled crosswalk.*

http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/pedestrian-cross...

Laws can also be changed, and laws are not synonymous with norms.
From when I lived there it basically boils down to two opposing forces:

1. People believe that there should be support systems in place so that homeless people don’t just die all the time.
2. (Kind of General American thing): the government must never give money, healthcare, welfare sufficient to have a place to live, etc to anyone. Because handouts result in “dependence”, “welfare cheats”, etc

Anyway, part 1 means that if you are homeless, for whatever reason, you’re better off being homeless in a place like SF (esp given its relatively mild climate). But once you are homeless it’s incredibly hard to stop being homeless.

That’s ignoring other issues :

* the group that wants to ensure homes for the homeless intersects heavily with the group that fights against new housing/“gentrification”
* many of the well off mostly want to force the homeless to go somewhere else, and don’t want any of “their” money being spent on providing homes

Etc, etc
This is the other side of plagiarism. In third world countries, promotions depend on publications, so they just copy others papers. This is easy to catch with software with enough access to all journals.

In experimental fields, one just pulls data out of thin air or one just discards observations that are contrary to the hypothesis being tested. This attitude is so rampant in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and disciplines that use statistics.

I’m quite sympathetic to some guy in some random university in Pakistan, India or China. His plagiarization involves submitting his publication to some fourth rate publication.

The real abusers are in the first world, their primary tool is experiments and data.
Yea, nobody cares about mastodon and they really need to change the name, all anyone is going to think of is the band when they hear this.
As time goes by I don't see much of a difference. If I spent six months building something for client A and then a year doing something entirely different for client B, I will have to puzzle out what my intentions were a year ago just as I would have to do maintaining code anybody else wrote.

Truly agile developers approach development by building a working system that can run but is far from the requirements and then making subsequent changes to the code to satisfy them one by one. Each "Sprint" is just a round of maintenance. Even the first release to production would have been rehearsed on a staging environment so that release might not be such an emotionally charged event because it is not a chance to slow down but instead start fixing bugs and adding features...