skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless you're doing this for free, it's a pretty lucrative way to make money. Isn't it? I think we do benefit from it too.

I'd think about people who didn't go to college to study CS, who end up working in a factory or a grocery store. I wonder if they feel like pawns... Engineers are totally fine ;)

Now, in 2018, do engineers get treated like resources? Of course but that's another problem. Expensive resources still.
FWIW, Whatsapp works on my Blackberry OS 10 device, which has an Android compatibility layer. I don't know the details, but I'm fairly sure Google Play Services isn't included.
Don't you need to be endorsed to post on the archive? https://arxiv.org/help/endorsement
You are right. Selling, when done by an individual is considered evil, especially when the cost to the seller is so low (i.e. not sitting everyday in a physical shop, not coming door-to-door to one's house, not managing a factory with unsatisfied employees).

I guess this is something that can only be fixed with time.
The point sonusario is making is that your assertion about the future behaviour of the Sun is based on our understanding of physics, and physics is itself inherently inductive - it's an abstraction and formalisation of empirical experience. If we'd consistently made very different observations of the world, we'd have come up with different physics, which would make different predictions.

In my view saying things like "induction is invalid" is a bit of dead end, rather like Cartesian doubt. It's not that it's wrong, more that you can't go anywhere interesting from there, unless you abandon your own principles and start wibbling about God and the natural light and pineal glands.
I recall a bit of scifi, the title escapes me, where they placed an opaque cloud between our galaxy and Andromeda, to block any form of communication, so they could have FTL without violating causality.
Impressive specifications, and nice to see a lightweight larger laptop, but personally I've been hoping for an upgrade to a 4K screen in the X1, not a laptop that's several inches larger.

I also hope this has the option of a 4K non-touch screen (rather than a choice of 4K touch or 1080p non-touch), and that it's possible to get the 4K with integrated graphics.
Google made it into a feature with the location timeline. Does Microsoft even let me see what searches or locations I've shared with them?

The point of the article is that Google is storing your location outside of the Location Timeline, and labeling it in ways that don't plainly indicate that's what's going on.
Thanks. That’s the answer I was looking for. I guess there would be no way to verify privately.
Elon Musk's plan to take Tesla private is a pipe dream
I think we have to shape demand. Right now people use eletricity whenever they feel like it. I think people will need adjust their lives around when energy is cheap - eg wash clothes on windy days, A/C only runs during the day, have cooler houses on cold, windless nights.
I’d say, as an academic and reviewer, single author papers are extremely suspicious in both my current area of computer science research (computer vision and machine learning) as well as my previous area (compilers).
How's your experience with clojure been so far?
Doesn't going paper-only make it difficult to switch to alternative voting systems like RCV (as Maine is) or multiple-member districting at anything beyond a local level? FPTP is fairly simple to count by hand and other methods can be more labor-intensive as the total number of votes increases.

I am all for having a paper trail, mandatory audits, and secure infrastructure. I agree with those who thing the current private sector systems for voting have huge issues. What I don't understand is what I see as media pushing a false choice between paper or digital.

Estonia has been using e-voting alongside paper ballots for years without serious issues. (Of course, they have national ID and have digitized a lot of their gov't functions, so maybe this is a special case.)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/estonia-the-di...

There are a lot of ways to improve our elections, from social engineering (France's media blackout a few days before elections, moving voting day to the weekend, making it multiple days, or just using the mail system) to improved systems like Scantegrity or increased use of optical scanning.

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

The cynic in me fears this is a push designed to make it harder for us to use things like RCV and entrench FPTP.
> Tech businesses, as long as they are Chinese, operate under an assumption of semi-impunity as long as they don't cross political boundaries. So healthcare fraud is in bounds, and if they get caught, they'll just get a slap on the wrist.

Wait. So are you arguing that Chinese tech businesses are under state control, or that they aren't? Your examples point to a horrible compromise: political censorship with freedom to defraud the public.
Thankyou - that was entirely deliberate, you can only get humour past the HN voting system if either it's totally deadpan or you explain the joke in the same comment.
I make games and can't use the incredibuild server at home, so a workstation with even 16 cores would be amazing.
>I once had, and never used, an idea that the consequence of using such technology was to accelerate dark energy, so that the more civilizations used FTL travel, the greater the energy requirements became. As if seafarers had to deal with the oceans expanding just a bit every time they were crossed.

I believe one of the aborted ending ideas (and dangling plot-threads) for the Mass Effect series was something like this.

Like use of "Element Zero" (the exotic matter unobtanium that powers everything, including FTL travel) releases some kind of "dark energy" that is bad for vaguely defined reasons; one of which being that it destabilizes stellar fusion and makes stars go nova prematurely.

So the "Reapers," or big-bads of the series, were an ancient civilization that set up a recurrent process of culling nascent advanced civilizations to prevent them from growing and using such technology to problematic levels.

They ultimately scrapped it and went with an "AI and Man can't coexist" angle instead.
tl;dr "Oncologist Samir Parekh and his colleagues at the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine in New York wanted to change the treatment paradigm in multiple myeloma. So they developed a system that uses an algorithm to match up multiple myeloma patients with drugs that are already on the market to treat other cancers. They tried the resulting recommendations in a group of 21 patients with treatment-resistant multiple myeloma and got positive results in all but five—a response rate that’s so high Parekh believes the idea could be extended to many other cancers."

The title makes it sound like what IBM aspired to do, but it's more of a statistical algorithm than "AI".
How to Read 100s of Millions of Records per Second from a Single Disk (2018)
Fairytale about performance in web application
Came here to make sure someone mentioned these. Might not qualify as great fiction imnho - but the technical detail more than makes up for it. And the books are entertaining.

I see people's mentioned Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon" - while I loved "diamond age" and like "snowcrash" - I much prefer Singh's "the codebook" on a similar theme. Thrilling non-fiction.

On the more fiction side, I enjoyed Bruce Sterling's "The Zenith Angle" a lot.

And second the recommendations for Mitnick's books - both the autobiography "ghost in the wires" and the more free form "made up examples" in "the art of deception" (like many of the stories in the stealing the network books, "inspired" by true events...).

Other than that there's of course:
https://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

(and to a lesser extent "homeland").

And others mentioned the non-fiction book detailing operation sun devil:

"THE HACKER CRACKDOWN
Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier",
Bruce Sterling

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101

[ed: I think maybe "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge deserves a mention too. And maybe "speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon]
Let's also agree that violating the right of innocents just because you might eventually accidentally catch a bad actor is completely unacceptable.
I think that this covers the general situation pretty well.

I would also consider who you want your audience to be and the scope. If it is something that you want a non-expert to read, consider a blog post. On the other hand you may want to consider something like a patent if it is something you want to monetize. Lastly, consider peer reviewed journals if it is intended to be consumed by domain experts. All of this is from physics research perspective and may be different depending on your area.
Undecidable problems in physics
I think there's a good chance the 2016 US elections were in fact manipulated, and the upcoming mid-terms are not gonna be any different.

"[The hackers] wouldn’t need too heavy a hand... just a couple of tweaks here and there." [1]

Sadly, it's in the interest of the ruling party to look the other way.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-russia-could-steal-...
Additionally, it has pretty much been a feature before, because tracking was used to implement the "live traffic" feature in Maps and create their WiFi AP to physical location database.
People have been saying this about video games, heavy metal, tv, rock-n-roll... for 70+ years. Older generations fear new technology/social change. That's well documented.

It's interesting to hear about phone obsession and compare it with video footage of The Beatles landing in the US for the first time with hundreds of fans screaming to the point of delerium. Is there even anything that powerful that exists in our culture today?

EDIT: Could someone please explain why this is flagged? If you disagree with my statement, I'd love to hear why.
Sure! shoot me a note at scotter@asana.com
They dont get pensions if they die early hence contribute more by not collecting
The Defiant class's warp nacelles are angled slightly toward the bow of the ship, at least in some parts of the canon. Some speculate this is for the same reason - a fixed-nacelle design that prevents this damage without a speed limit.

Tangential - comparison of warp coils in different Starfleet ships: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXAoIGTQEBY
If you think self-publishing is the domain of cranks then you'll never find the people worth looking at.

Submitting to a journal is fine, but own your work on your own site.
Dropping the ethernet is more reasonable to me given how common wifi is now. Also, the latop form is expected to be mobile and not tied to the wall.
Induction is a heuristic, it establishes a pattern but not it's necessity.
How hot is this thing going to get
The hard parts of voting systems are keeping 1 ratios 1 of voter and vote and preserving individual voter anonymity. Blockchains don't solve either problem better than paper, and if you're not careful you end up introducing subtle new voting problems (you should not be able to prove who you voted for -- _even_ if you hold a special credential) and shiny new operational problems like key distribution. All of this is at best a ton of risk for ostensibly very little benefit; at worst, your democracy is now owned by some rando with an Android 0day.
I personally think that particular term has been subverted to the point of being absolutely devoid of any meaning or humor and should really just not be used anymore.

[Edit: I was not a down voter, but perhaps the down voters shared my perspective]
for me elixir does to erlang what php did to C.

it dumbs it down extremely. which is not a bad thing. one doesn't have to grok erlang processes and message queue for most elixir real applications. just like nobody have to care about pointers to shared memory on a high concurrent php application.
Also 'requester pays' on Amazon S3 buckets.
> People have been saying this

What is "this", in this context? The article isn't 1% as shallow as your pre-emptive dismissal of it.
We took "comprehensive" and also "Show HN" out of the title.
VR – Review for Pixel Ripped 1989
Then what form of reasoning was used? You stated that we cannot validly claim that the sun will rise forever just because we've observed it rise in the east every day for the last few billion years. Then you cite stellar observations that we use to claim that the sun will become a red giant and destroy the earth. What are the differences in those observations that make one invalid induction and the other not?
Missing tons of companies but still nice!
I was in a similar position, really tied to all my tools on OS X but didn't want to spent 3k on their desktop line.

Instead I built an awesome Hackintosh with 16gb ram, 8 cores, nvme drive and 1080 for like $1600 that runs High Sierra. It's definitely more work to set up initially but pretty low hassle afterwards. No regrets.
In Accelerando, there was a similar plot device. The anisotropies in the CMB (or maybe just minor aberrations) were caused by waste heat from Type IV/V civilizations running gigantic computations (trying to probe/find vulns in the laws of physics, if I remember correctly).

I thought that was a cool idea: that something as studied, ubiquitous and generally accepted as a natural phenomenon as the CMB is just a landfill, we just don't know what we're looking at.
Ad hom nonsense. What's discrediting to journalistic integrity about stating the fact that he stated this? His "intent" doesn't matter, that is precisely what he said, verbatim and clear as day on national television: https://youtu.be/3kxG8uJUsWU?t=39s
It’s hard to consider the changes in files alone because files are so different.

For instance, I may have to edit a project or UI component and generate “churn” just because it decides to reformat some XML for a minor edit. Or, in code, some styles are clearly more “vertical” than others, comment paragraphs may or may not have changed, etc.

Then there are tiny edits that have a huge amount of “churn” in the actual project, such as “#if 0”.

While lines of code is not an entirely useless measurement, it would definitely be good to have at least a couple other things measured. For instance: compiled binary sizes before/after edits, number of bugs logged per month, or something. Even then of course, these additional measures can obviously be affected by external factors (how good is your compiler, what kinds of bugs actually appear in reports, etc.).

My takeaway is that measuring productivity accurately is hard, and if you want good accuracy then you have to put a lot of effort into the measurement process. There are no easy 10:1 rules for these things.
There are a large number of technical issues with blockchain voting. The thing about public key cryptography is that it is easy to create a new identity. But in a voting system you need to trust that each voter is a citizen and that they only vote once. This means that public keys of the citizens need to be securely collected by a government authority (for example your local DMV).

Plus we would need culture changes around key management, so that non-tech-literate people can create and protect keys. Which means the people would need some standard for secure hardware to generate keys and sign ballots. Which means we'd need some government standard for "trusted hardware", and that would quickly become an attack vector.

Only after all of that would it be possible for the government to trust votes via public key cryptography. And as Jacob says, the important thing is that the _public_ has trust in the vote, regardless of what government officials believe.
In the context of a discussion of Goodman's "The New Riddle of Induction", the word "induction" means inductive reasoning. Mathematical induction is a completely different thing, notwithstanding that the same word is used to label it.
This argument, including the "will the sun rise tommorow" example, is these days most associated (at least in philosophy) with the 18th-century philosopher David Hume. See here for example: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9662/9662-h/9662-h.htm#mnum21
Yeah, Microsoft created a dashboard last year that let's you view all the privacy info they have on you https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/10/microsoft-privacy-dashbo...
I think the articles subtitle sums it up:

> How psychology is being used as a weapon against children

My dismissal isn't pre-emptive btw, I read the article (and many others like it). I stand by my original comment.
Did you read Freedom(TM)? It's a "sequel" but is really the second half of the novel. Addresses your critique in a very interesting way.
Black Edge is on one the largest insider trading cases ever prosecuted. There was no real hacking or advanced cyber crime (maybe just some social engineering) but was an interesting case of how some bad hedge funds operate.

There are some great books on this thread! I've read a bunch of them and going to come back for more.
I keep wondering about the Solar Sinter project by Markus Kayser *

What if instead of manufacturing artwork, it manufactured a mechanical energy storage, large enough to store either daily variations or even yearly insolation?

Perhaps glass blocks (filled with sand) as weights for storing as potential energy (how deep would a shaft have to be to store daily or yearly insolation, assuming the weight is ideally half as tall as the shaft?)

Perhaps storing compressed (even liquified?) air? How airtight is the resulting sintered glass?

Perhaps making 1 upper reservoir and somehow digging a narrow shaft (making the walls glass while digging/blowing up the sand through the already vitrified upper part of the shaft? Then somehow building the lower underground reservoir from the inside out, and store potential energy in the closed system containing water (condensed from air?)

Solar panels, wiring, cheap plastic Fresnel lenses, control electronics would need to keep getting supplied to attach to newly built energy storages. But as much as possible, especially things that wear out should be renewably built from glass onsite (for example scoops to move and redistribute sand)

In example consider an NxN square of already completed storage, sites then there is ~ 4N adjacent sites under construction so the project either could speed up by actually building ~N/4 circumference layers at a time, or start delivering ~(N-4)N of renewable on-demand energy (since the storage site height was chosen to have enough capacity to store daily, weekly or yearly insolation)

* https://kayserworks.com/
Thanks a lot, this answers my questions very well.

And as I only want to contribute and am not necessarily looking for fame, I really do not have any problem with having co-authors.
> If you think self-publishing is the domain of cranks then you'll never find the people worth looking at.

Why you think that the people who self-publish are more worth looking at than people who publish in journals?
As opposed to Disney's or Coca Cola's or Mattel's psychological war on kids? Hollywood's psychological war on kids? Is it only a war on kids if tech does it or is it just another clickbait ( medium's psychological war on parents' for ad money )? It's ironic that an entity dependent on ad money would create such a title.
There is no standards body who formally define and enforce terms like "CMS" or "WCMS". It's probably not worth battling over such terms, other than in a speculative sense.

I've spec'd out potential CMS features, and there are a lot of features that various orgs may or may not need for their Internet sites and/or intranets. I don't see any solid line(s) between CMS and "CRUD": it's often a fuzzy boundary. CRUD tends to be for a specific domain need, whereas a CMS is intended to be more general purpose: for different departments or groups in a org. What's a show-stopper in terms of missing features for a given org depends on the org.

Slapping CKeditor on top of a database or dynamic file/folder creation system can get you a quick-and-dirty self-rolled CMS. You can add groupings and org hierarchies as needed using typical relational modelling. But in the longer run, one tends to end up reinventing wheels already found in formal CMS's, I find.
I mean this:

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

which is what the OP is about. Totally different from this:

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

which is logically valid.
Elon Musk’s mystery Tesla buyout funder is Saudi Arabia
Many more details in this piece on Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/de/pascalemueller/mobbing-max-planc... (german though)
Anecdote from Alan Rinzler about editing novelist Tom Robbins:

"On sticking with it until it’s right

“Challenge every single sentence for lucidity, accuracy, originality, and cadence. If it doesn’t meet the challenge, work on it until it does.”

While I was editing Jitterbug Perfume, Tom would read me a passage aloud to see how it sounded. Sometimes I’d comment, sometimes I wouldn’t. But each time I heard it again, it had changed. I saw how many times he would rewrite a passage and how much he relished doing it.

“Sometimes 40 times,” he told me.

He took the process of conception, research, trial and error very seriously, moving things around, changing voices and pitch. He wrote slowly and carefully, revised constantly, refining and evolving the novel over the course of about two years."

https://alanrinzler.com/2013/07/happy-birthday-tom-robbins-t...

YMMV
Electronic voting without paper trail should be illegal. Flat out.

But it won't ever be so, which is curious.
To recycle some musings from a similar article a few months ago:

> Layperson question] Looking at that moire pattern shown in the 1.1-degree rotated sheets, I find myself wondering about quantum-tunneling. No good reason, just the visual appearance of relative "voids" when the sheets are in-sync.

> Is there any known (or theorized) relationship between superconductors and tunneling? Does the "pattern repeat distance" of those 1.1-degree-twisted sheets come close to some important threshold that relates to electron-tunneling?

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/82avjf/comment/dv9...
Ian re-ran all of the affected tests after discovering the mistake, but he also kept the data for later analysis. Those results aren't in the review yet.
I'm not a Tor user but from IP blocks of ISP with low reputation, the Cloudflare Captcha irritated me too much. Now I'll close the website if I see one and looking for Google cache or archive.
A warmer world means a greater risk rain lands on snow, triggering floods
I guess I've studied enough history to know what real dystopias look like and how they come about to realize that this just isn't it. Society is inherently adversarial, but the amount of actual violence is going down.

Violence doesn't just disappear, it just morphs into another form. As the internet has slowly spread, it's allowing a lot of people's inner turmoil to manifest, this is the cause of the current political environment. Since this turmoil is chaotic and undirected, it's being harnessed by people who do have agency to serve political ends.

It's worrying until you realize that this is how politics has always been done. Democracies have always been mob rule with an aristocratic backbone to fall back on when things get too unruly.

I'll take the current political climate over that which generated the French Revolution any day of the week.

Spy networks also have a long long history. They used to be the tools of autocrats to enforce social order, and still are in political entities like ISIL. I'll take my computers spying on me for economic ends over people spying on me to actually literally control my behavior any day of the week and Sunday too.
NSE was an awesome development environment when it worked. Unfortunately, it often became corrupted and suffered a lot of down time. Just a touch too much cleverness for the systems at the time.
Strike When the Iron Is Hot
> while others benefit from it?

I might have felt a tinge of that until I tried being an entrepreneur myself. Risk is a real thing.