skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CNN is exclusively supportive of the Leftist and Liberal agenda. They are absolutely a fair game comparison to Fox.

CNN has spent over a year covering the Russia investigation, breathlessly accepting any shred of hearsay that could possibly maybe implicate Trump in collusion, however it seems now that there has been no collusion whatsoever and the entire issue is fake. CNN has been pushing nonsense this entire time!

In fact I've watched both Fox and CNN my entire life and Fox seems to me much less biased than CNN as of late.
> There is a scene in the movie Casino where there are two guys collaborating and cheating at a table game. One of the internal security people dressed discretely in a suit walks up with a cattle prod.

It's a movie, that would never happen in any big casino (for one, way too many witnesses).
Thank you for this - Can you clarify why OO derailed us? But if that explanation might be a long story haha so what was before OO, so I can do my own research
Thank you so much for your apology, change of tone, and helpful hints! <3

Do you have any suggestions about which font to pick? I like Federant because it seems rustic/"farmy" yet modern at the same time.

As far as the logo itself, I meant to play around with making it a responsive SVG (https://tympanus.net/codrops/2014/08/19/making-svgs-responsi...), but it would take me quite some time to climb the learning curve to do so. Unfortunately, the designer who made it for me did not provide an SVG file.

Again, thanks for your help!
Well the original gif showed part of his face, he has since removed that from his repo and history, but there are several forks where it is still visible. So, anonymous fail.
Yeah, but finding Maui's canoe would be even cooler
I probably wouldn't feel welcome at Fox News. Can I force them to become more liberal in the name of "diversity of thought"? Or does that meme only work when it's trying to promote people on the right?
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You are not effectively making the case that your approach is simpler or easier.

Currently, clocks automatically change twice a year.

In your proposal, all schedules for businesses, schools, transport, etc need to be entered into multiple online services. Plus each person needs to use one of those services and tell it about all of their plans. Then they need to be notified by that service whenever anything changes, and when hours change in a way that's conflicting, they need to manually resolve that.

As an example, I was just talking with someone who has to pick up kids from two different schools; the route involves two different transit systems. All work meetings must be carefully scheduled to match, and there are inevitably errands that will involve zero, one, or two kids and getting to some place before they close. This is hard enough when hours are stable. Now imagine it with schools, transit systems, stores, work clients, and work vendors all potentially adjusting operating schedules 2 or more times per year.

Google Now can't do that, and probably won't before the Singularity.
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Try actually watching and reading them, they're not as "terrifying" as you've been trained to think.
because writing to one location causes the data to change in another (a system register) you don't want the compiler to assume that data in an IO register can be cached in a CPU register
Early Decision !== Early Action. Early action is non-binding and is less popular in top-tier colleges. Early action is generally binding - https://professionals.collegeboard.org/guidance/applications...

There's also restricted early action, which restricts what schools you can apply to along side the REA school, but is non-binding
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I really dislike the tone these sort of things tend to take, which is “here’s some stuff you think but you’re wrong about.” The reason people get stuff like this wrong (and names, and addresses, and and and) is because it’s really hard to get right. And it’s added difficulty on top of writing code which is already pretty challenging.
I was responding directly to:

"I don't really understand why the entire known mathematics is not automatically proven yet."

Which I believe is going to be related to English (or whatever natural language) if we really want to talk about what is meant by "entire known mathematics".

edit: I mean it's a crazy proposal, so you get a crazy response. I think somewhat intuitively we know you can't prove everything.
I can well believe that those employees believed those results were 'prejudiced' and 'inappropriately prioritized'

I personally find it hard to believe that the average Google employee doesn't know and didn't, by that time, know, that Google's algorithms -- which introduce a selection pressure for content that causes outrage (in the name of greater "engagement", and that's been pretty thoroughly demonstrated) over content which contains facts -- were promoting awful things.

I find it very easy to believe that the average Google employee simply didn't care about that up until the moment it started affecting their friends and colleagues (the "Muslim ban" would have impacted some Google employees' ability to travel). Up until then, "politics" was something that happened to other people, and so they didn't have to bother about it.
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The math community can't accept a new result is true without a good proof. As part of good, the proof has to be readable by peer reviewers. Net, if the writing is tough to read by some of the best qualified peers, then the writer has more work to do, in particular, to learn to write better.

We have lots of examples of good writing in math from Bourbaki, W. Rudin, P. Halmos, H. Royden, and more.

Sorry 'bout that: No one wants math to miss out on a great, new result, but the writer has to do their job first, in particular, do good math writing.
Unfortunately this is a false assessment. CNN has been caught plenty of times lying about stories and making up news, many examples on Youtube can bear this out, as well as recent stories they’ve had to retract. I’m no fan of Fox News, but CNN’s hands are not clean, they are in fact one of the worst offenders out there.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks in case anyone wanted the source.
I don't think this was covered by any ToS.

NCIX abandoned the data. They left it to this fate. It's more like... "Grab your personal belongings and get out. Your employer hasn't paid the rent"... than... "We need to keep the lights on and staff on-site to protect this data!"
I am intrigued by the fact that they managed to get funding before finding product market fit. I was always of the belief that most VC's would only invest in companies that had traction and an initial revenue stream, i.e. that they already have PM fit to a certain extent that they have customers and a plan to get more of them.

Is it a case that some VC's are willing to take the extra risk to fund companies that are still in the stage of finding proper product market fit? With the associated possibility that this might never actually happen?
There's a 'rule' that requires broadcast TV and radio to give equal airtime to candidates[0], but no such thing exists for whatever facebook is (social media news, maybe? shrug).

If congress folks actually cared, rather than ask 'tough questions' and put on 'we care' theater, they could work to make this rule a law and extend it to cover whatever category facebook would fall under. But here we are, with all theater and no substance.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule
"Defense" is the age-old refrain of the attacker.

And from a neutral point of view, both teams are doing a lot of attacking - while also seeing themselves as being under attack.
Given the circularity, taking a step back and analyzing the larger picture intellectually is the only way to possibly win!

It's funny how we could see the sensationalism of the news cycle as it ramped up in traditional channels, but now that much of our media is our own social echo chamber, it's less perceptible.
Google's algorithm is biased toward recency. In a universe of "Foo Badbar", "Foo Neutralbar" and "Foo Goodbar" -- If a person searches for "Foo" after there's a bunch of stories in the press about "Foo Badbar", the results will all reflect that topic. For something like "Latino", it's crazy for all the results to reflect the border wall and not at all controversial for Google to want to promote "Foo Neutralbar" and "Foo Goodbar" to balance the results.
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IANAL, according to Section 1(1) in [1] for UK, the threshold is for two persons to agree to have the law applied to them. It doesn't require all to agree. And from 1(1)(b), it's not necessarily for the conspired act to be carried out under some circumstance.

For U.S. [2], the threshold for conspiracy against the U.S. government is similar or lower. Item (2) "they interfere or obstruct legitimate Government activity" sounds a lot like what the Google employees were doing.

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/45/section/1

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_against_the_United_...
> the Times is not going to print a story based on anonymous submissions without any further vetting, or investigation. They're going to seek independent corroboration

Citation needed.

Here are some counterpoints to your assertion that they would not print a story not independently corroborated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair

http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/28/media-double-down-after-...

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/columbia-and-new-york-...

http://ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=4379 [duke lacrosse reporting]

https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/wrong_wrong_wrong_w...

A great example of the Times and their “anonymous” sources (and lack of corroboration) http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/02/maybe.htm...

Suggesting that the Times “isn’t going to print a story..without further vetting” is based on some idealistic view of the Times, but not necessarily on a reality based on their history. Didn’t they also just print an anonymous op-ed, providing zero opportunity to challenge or verify any of the claims contained therein?

The Times is a reputable as any other news outlet, but Reuter’s they are not. They are laced with a history of subtle bias and outright dishonesty when it suits them.
I think this may not be the right forum to ask such a question. There seems to be a lot of arrogance around here, myself included unfortunately. That being said I would suggest you are already on the righteous path by being aware of your short commings and trying to deal with them. Maybe religion, or self help books? "How to win friends and influence people" seems to be a good seller.
Except... it's not a fetish. Paper books have many advantages. It is easily annotable. (none of the current ebook types are easy). It provides tactile feedback, which can be used for organization - folded corners give you two types of indices (top/bottom outer corner). The entire structure of the book as a stack of pages gives you immediate visual feedback where you are, and it's effectively random-addressable. ("Yeah, it's roughly a third in, check there"). Heck, you can color page edges to make it even easier, and that gives you three spatial indices on top of the two tactile ones. It's not as unwieldy as screens. It is flexible, which makes it nicer to handle. It doesn't need to be charged. It doesn't break when you drop it. (Not to mention you can kill a fly with a paper book, ebooks don't work)

Yes, e-books have other advantages - but calling it a paper fetish basically means you're making an uninformed call, because you're not even aware of the advantages.

The second, you could have easily addressed by proposing a markup if it were easy to do so. The fact that you haven't, and aren't even aware why people think it's hard, means you're again coming from an uninformed position.

And you thought the resistance was surprising?
Mux wrote a blog post about this too: https://mux.com/blog/how-we-used-machine-learning-to-predict...

Using machine learning to parse text helps, but it's still not a perfect solution.
Imagine if Linus Torvalds was a mathematician, that would have been even more interesting to read.
This app looks beautiful. I agree, Forms is very solid these days. The docs really underplay the capabilities. The library that they built in this article looks awesome! I'm pretty surprised that horizontal scrolling is not natively bundled. A lot of things are still in "alpha" for years, good to call out. I want to see more new components shipped with Forms. Webview is another oldie that hasn't gotten any updates.
The Semantic Web would never have worked IMO. All you have to do is take a look at Soundcloud's tags. People will tag their songs with whatever tags they think will help their music get hits.
Couldn't really parse out the website for what Clustrix actually is. Is it basically a leader node that distributes writes to key-value stores, and then the reads figure out where the data is by a partitioning scheme, with the benefit of MySQL protocol? Similar to CockroachDB?
Not true.

I use WhatsApp without doing that (on iOS), but it does require other people to contact you first before you can have a conversation.
The short answers are “complexity” and “targeting” essentially. How do you stimulate or inhibit what you want to target and only what you target, especially when as you point out we’re bags of mostly water? Looking at something like stimulating a specific region of the brain, how do you keep yourself from imaverdently stimulating neighboring neurons? Not only that, but far more isn’t understood about the exact functioning of the brain than what is known. Barring luck, it seems reasonable to expect that comprehension of the system needs to precede fine control over it.
For quick scripts, I do all my date math with seconds-since-the-epoch, retrieved with "date", and then convert back at the end. The final date benefits from the latest timezone package update, so mostly I do OK.
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Agree with this. Don't think there are too many mathematicians who can really argue for or against a really important theorem. My prof has come up with one for Riemann hypothesis[1], but he is not finding anyone willing to engage in a discussion. Most mathematicians seem to believe that the Riemann hypothesis is unsolvable and I don't think it helps that my prof is currently not associated with any reputable university. It's as if proofs can come from only reputable universities and reputable mathematicians.

[1]https://medium.com/@nutanc/the-final-and-exhaustive-proof-of...
I'd previously done OCR work with Twitch streams, but the reliability of the Tesseract libraries for custom fonts had stopped me from going any further with it. Since HQ uses a standardized font library, I'd imagine character extraction would be more successful when recording from screenshots because it would likely be closer to the library's training datasets.
> Deliveroo was in financing talks last year with SoftBank Group Corp., one of Uber’s major investors. The negotiations abruptly ended after SoftBank concentrated on backing Uber.

So Deliveroo wanted a loan, but Uber convinced Softbank that they shouldn't be loaning money to their competitor so that they put Deliveroo in a bad position in which Deliveroo may have no choice but to take Uber's deal.

Sounds like a nasty move from Uber, but then again, what else is new?
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Checking in from Dunedin ;)

Too bad it sounds like Endeavour will stay up there, but what an amazing find!
LOL me too. Has to reread title three times
I have this exact same amount of care about the opinions of others (my wife + children matter to me very deeply; everyone else can go fuck themselves) and it hasn't exactly endeared me to others, but personalities are hard to override :)
Mathematics is this beautiful and terrifying field where, much like swimming in the Ocean, the further into it you get, the deeper and infinitely more vast it becomes. Now consider that most people can only really swim in one direction at once and this Ocean goes off in all directions.
From your blog:

>"But reflect that neither Vladimir Nabokov nor James Joyce, the best writers in English since Shakespeare, were considered worthy enough for the literature prize, and any illusion that quality is of overwhelming importance to the committee evaporates"

So let me get this straight, you think think Dylan's lyrics are gibberish but you understand Joyce just fine? This is patently absurd. Are you just trolling?

Finnegan's Wake is perhaps the most famous piece of gibberish ever published. It's widely thought to be incomprehensible even by scholars. Lets take a typical passage from Finnegan's Wake:

"Otherways wesways like that provost scoffing bedoueen the jebel and the jpysian sea. Cropherb the crunch-bracken shall decide. Then we’ll know if the feast is a flyday. She has a gift of seek on site and she allcasually ansars helpers, the dreamydeary. Heed! Heed ! It may half been a missfired brick, as some say, or it mought have been due to a collupsus of his back promises, as others looked at it."

How's that not gibberish? You can't have any idea what any of that means. The book was so inscrutable it came with its own glossary. You "get" that passage but you can't understand the lyrics to "Blowing in the Wind" or "Mr Tambourine Man"? Right. That's laughable.

And honestly who care's what Kurt Vonnegut said about Dylan in an interview in Hustler magazine. It's hard to think of a more disreputable source of meaningful discussion than a Larry Flynt publication.
> It takes me about 3-4 months of being around someone regularly before I'm able to hold a conversation that's more than direct answers to direct questions.

I had trouble with this for a time, I just tried to take my answers a tiny step further. If someone says "Wow, it's cold outside", instead of just responding with a "Yeah, it is cold", try and add your opinion on it. "Yeah it's cold, I love this weather", or "Yeah it's cold, I hope it gets warm for the weekend, because I was planning $outdoor_activity". Anything along those lines will make you seem more personable.
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Third, you can't force people to use the correct semantics. They'll use them wrong on purpose for fun and profit. Mark some disturbing content as wholesome, mark it as whatever is popular at the moment to get it in front of more eyeballs, mark it as something only tangentially related in the hope there's a cross over of market, mark it wrong because they don't actually know better.
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> I don't see what's controversial about that

Really? You don't see what's controversial about a pro-life employee seeing pro-choice results and deciding to alter the search results? Or what if a republican employee decided to scrub prejudiced anti-republican results and pro-democrat results? What about a chinese employee seeing prejudice "tiannamen square" results and deciding it needed to be removed? You don't like prejudiced results but you are okay with prejudiced google employees creating prejudiced results for you?

> It isn't objective and it never has been.

Actually it was. Google of the 2000s was nothing like what it is today. Google used to be fairly agnostic and served the results honestly when they were desperate to gain market share. Now they are intentionally altering results for a political agenda. That is very dangerous.

But you are right. The headline is incorrect. It should be "Prejudiced Google Workers Discussed Tweaking Search Function..."

Google used to be an honest representation of the internet. Now it's just a prejudiced representation of their prejudiced employees.

> Absolutely. But using a headline like that just plays into conspiracy theory.

Stop it. It isn't a conspiracy theory just because you don't like the truth. We have actual video footage of google leaders and their employees openly talking about manipulating the public. We know they tried to manipulate the 2016 election. They are pretty open about their agenda.

It's one of the reasons why I use duckduckgo. Better search results and less spying and less data collecting.
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Hey thanks for the update!

But I'd encourage you to do a bit more investigation.

According to Bitcoin core, there is an inflation vulnerability.

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/20/notice/

So maybe you weren't too far off from independently discovering the vulnerability yourself.

Edit: apparently you were credited in discovering the vulnerability yourself in the very discloser that I linked.

Congrats!
BSD is actually worse, it doesn't handle leap seconds at all, it simply ignores their existence and assumes the clock was simply inaccurate.

That's fine as far as it goes, but make sure never to use a BSD machine as an NTP server or you will cause a lot of confusion for any servers downstream.
> My working hypothesis is our brains are always learning - literally everything

Slightly tangential, but my favorite post on this topic:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-unc...
I've been recently wondering if there's another, better way. The big usability win of the web is that you can run applications without installing anything. Is there a way we could build a new platform that would get us the advantages of the web without all the awful cruft?

I'm imagining starting with webassembly for sandboxing. We can then expose through to webassembly a useful set of API primitives from the underlying OS for text boxes, widgets and stuff.

Apps would live in a heavily sandboxed container and because of that they could be launched by going to the right URL in a special browser. We could use the same security model as phone apps - apps have a special place to store their own files. They have some network access, and can access the user's data through explicit per-capability security requests.

That would allow a good, secure webapp style experience for users. But the apps themselves would feel native (since they could use native UX primitives, and they would have native performance).

Developers could write code in any language that can compile to webassembly. We could make a bundler that produced normal applications (by compiling the app out of the sandbox). Or we could run the application in a normal web browser if we wanted, by backing the UX primitives with DOM calls, passed through to WASM.
i'm from Singapore, what QR code transaction are you talking about? Never heard of it. Are you confusing us with China/WeChat?
The new course only teaches deep learning. His machine learning course is a totally different course (though it covers neural networks for 1 week).
I believe the main (and only?) purpose of Clustrix is sharding, which MariaDB Cluster doesn't provide - with the provision I suppose that multi-master is strictly -not- the same as sharding.
Aussie here, who is this Cook guy? /s

I recently had a short conversation with an American high school exchange student in Sydney who was annoyed about how much we are taught about Captain Cook and his voyages in Australian schools.

I tried to point out that Cook and the Endeavor were pretty damn significant to The United States also, but he was having none of it, and insisted that Cook was unimportant in US history. sigh.