skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you're open mindedly looking for context, thecut managed to get quotes out of 5 guys on the list:
https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/stephen-elliott-moira-donegan...

and hmm daily (they're new) has a piece on the sue-er just today:
https://hmmdaily.com/2018/10/14/who-is-stephen-elliott/
It's kind of a sad, losing game to compare atrocities from different time periods, and then task ourselves with saying "this time period was worse than that time period". Unfortunately, it's the game we must play to determine whether things are really getting better over time. Since most crimes of repression were not reported in the past, it becomes a game of asking "which book has more words per page?" when one book is water-damaged and the other is burned to ash. I guess any claim that isn't too certain is reasonable.
True. The more you're willing and able to pay to avoid advertising, the more you'll have to.

This does, of course, have the effect of keeping me from feeling the least bit guilty for 'pirating' their content by reading it in private-browsing mode without paying for it.
This is common worldwide, I think. Ryanair in Europe and Spirit in the US come to mind.

Spirit actually sells ads on everything it seems, even on the exterior of the plane: https://skift.com/2014/03/11/spirit-airlines-brings-advertis...
Law is a humanities subject, though?
>Ferraris should be plastered by LCDs with ads

TBF, the Ferrari IS the ad - for Ferrari and whatever aggregate-lifestyle-image you are promoting.

"Hey everyone, look at how I have succeeded to the point where I can drive car [X]"

Not that there is anything wrong with that, though.

For example - I like to wear the same hiker-couture gear everyday to feel comfortable, functional and good about myself appearance. I am an advertisement for my thinking and decision making capability.
That's common on European low-cost airlines.
Prague: The Musical City. Malá Strana – The Blogging Musician
People have gotten promoted off their 20% projects.

It's not all sunshine and rainbows, but to say you understand the internal dynamics of Google and the decisions that Larry and Sergey make is certainly some kind of delusional.
The Unsolvable Problem
The concept of free speech has a long history, sure. Just as long is the history of that concept being totally divorced from the types of things you can actually get away with saying in any given situation. You can basically think of the freedom of speech as guaranteed by the first amendment as an approximate upper bound on pragmatic free speech. It is not (at least in the minds of most people) an optimum that we should be striving for in all contexts. It's just the level where we don't think anyone should be locked up or fined for exercising.
72h is a lot of warning?

It's about 71.5 more hours than they'll get from an enemy.
Cool! Put your new project on GitHub ;-) What is it written in?
Because you are still paying for news even though you are seeing intrusive ads.
Is it even possible to measure the latency by Intel's definition? I think "operational" definitions that correspond to something you can actually measure (and by extension apply to measured performance in real code too) are far preferable.

In theory "it is complicated" because an instruction might have N inputs and M outputs and the latency matrix might have different values for every element in that N x M matrix, but in practice instructions have 1 output and the inputs are usually symmetric with regards to latency so one figure is enough for most. It's worth calling out the exceptions though, and uops.info is supposed to do that I think (an example would be great).
This is true. There is no distributed Pony at this point. It was a high priority early on but when we looked at everything we thought we needed for a 1.0 release, it didn't make the list.

There is Sebastian's thesis which has an approach idea... https://www.ponylang.io/media/papers/a_string_of_ponies.pdf

And Sylvan and I spent a good amount of time discussing how to implement. Then a lot was learned while building Wallaroo over at Wallaroo Labs, we'd certainly lean on stuff from there as well.

If anyone is interesting in working on distributed Pony, we'd be happy to help support you. Come by the IRC or developer mailing list. Let's chat.

But, its not something that anyone is working on right now.
Many government contractors give private offices due to the nature of the work. Sometimes they default to it even if working on non-classified work. There's good work/life balance since you fill out a timesheet. And the work can be very interesting. Maybe look into a contractor that deals with non military entities like NASA?
I recognize that I only have read the last post and had searched in the past for royalty information about CRAM and never found it. Thanks for your answer.

In my opinion, there is clearly the need to assess both solutions with clear and meaningful data, not only in terms of performance but also in terms of patents. Conferences are a great place to do it and thus, I completely agree with you.

However, I don't see an MPEG standard as evil (or ugly) and I do think that both types of standards (CRAM and MPEG) can coexist. Every company should decide (based on factual information) what is the best solution for their needs and if the MPEG standard brings some advantage, a company may use it despite the licensing costs. The same happens for video coding standards, where the patent heavy HEVC is nowadays used in some scenarios (e.g. iPhone) and the royalty free AOM AV1 is used in others (e.g. streaming video). It is up to the market" to decide. The main problem with MPEG-G is that the licensing information is not known yet since it didn't reach draft international standard yet.
No, I'm not going to retire my trite remark.

You can't stage a protest in a shopping mall, no matter how much it looks like a public space. There's no expectation you would have freedom of speech there. The liberty of property would seem to be the most powerful of all.

If your life looks more like a shopping mall than a public square, I don't know what other expectations any modern person or Athenian alike may have.
The drug war has been disproportionally devastating along racial and to a lesser extent economic lines and ineffective at its stated goal. Why would we want to reuse this failed strategy to fight another kind of crime?
That is a strange issue. I have all of my music (sans the few tracks not on Spotify anymore) saved in a Starred playlist which I started 7 years ago when Spotify saved music via "stars." Even there though, I only have 7K tracks - how do you have 10k?!
Hehe in the same boat (- Elixir being a day job). Pony looks really interesting.
> ...but because nobody's making that offer...

You've just described Google Contributor [1], "An ad-removal pass for the web". You load your account up with credit, and for each article on a participating website that you view, they'll deduct an amount from your credit. You can choose which websites you want to use your credit on, and which ones you want to see ads.

However, from my experience as a beta tester, no websites are signing up to participate. There were some large newspapers in Australia that signed up, but it seems they've since left the program. I guess that means those newspapers are earning much more than 4c/pageview in advertising revenue from the kind of people who would be prepared to pay to join such a program.

[1] https://contributor.google.com/v/beta
dang, you say we should avoid those two topics, but don't say what you think it would be productive to discuss instead, much less give any examples yourself.

I could be wrong, but perhaps this is because you would rather that modern China simply not be discussed at all.
I've worked at a large software company with a similar review system in place and I think this attitude makes it sound like everyone is walking on egg shells and can't state what they really think for fear of offending someone in power. That's hardly the case.

If someone "below" me had a problem with my scheduling or some things I was doing, I'd like them to tell me and not just act angry later on.

People work together and generally try to be accommodating in large companies. But it does require people communicating their needs to each other and being fair. The poster sounded like he was holding a grudge against people and trying to power through things instead of having a frank discussion with other people. It sounds like they have talent, but they need work in working with others.

I get that sometimes you know your ideas are much better than other people's, but at the end of the day you need to work with others and give and take a bit.
In the US, there is a big problem with trying to get more balance in the STEM fields by introducing humanities education, in that the humanities in higher education are massively skewed to the left.

https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind

Conservatives may understand human nature better than liberals:

https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/haidt/haidt-co...
> we are being forced to pay the onerous data price even by companies we have no contractual dealings with and that provide us no services whatsoever.
The vanguard transfer pricing thing is my favorite conspiracy theory but it's actually true story on the internet.
Yes. The concepts are applicable basically everywhere. For example: do you know how systemd restarts your service if it crashes? How about how k8s behaves when your health probes fail?
It’s everywhere. Build it to crash fast if it has a problem. Have a higher level entity that monitors it and automatically restarts it/does something when it does crash.
Now go meta and have supervisors watching supervisors and controllably crash or restart bigger parts of your system. (This is based on the “crash early”, “keep state consistent”, “have you tried turning it off and on” principles. It’s not new and you’re probably already doing it tona certain degree)
> Stop writing code. Start deploying apps

I find this is close to sarcasm.
DocuSign: Connect your System of Agreement to blockchain technology
You raise a good point, but in the end the situation is not similar.

The situation in the article can be very well explained in layman's terms. Most people know enough of the ground-world and air-world to understand how things hit and what's important about hits.

However, the article uses an overly specific term, and on top of that, it overloads it with a meaning which is not the one found in literature. Notice that Wikipedia's diagram of "ILS" shows it as an airport-sized system made of several components, none of which is called "ILS".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ILS_diagramsimplified.png

This doesn't make understanding possible, unless you know what "ILS" means in the lingo.

In IT terms, this is akin to saying "A sysadmin tripped over a CISC and fell". To someone familiar to the terms, this translates to "someone tripped over a silicon chip with a CPU, most likely an Intel".

Meanwhile, a layman would look up "CISC" on Wikipedia and be confused about whether someone trippped over a computer box, an instruction set, or a processor. All of this is confusing and irrelevant to the point, which can be understood by anyone: someone tripped over a few cm wide piece of silicon.

Back to the aviation article: "A plane hit a few meter high tower housing an ILS antenna." conveys all the information, but doesn't leave anyone in the cold.

I stand by my initial complaint: any speech that obscures the actual topic behind lingo available only to a small group of people should stay in that small group or improve.
Obligatory Chickenshit Club reference: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Chickenshit_Club.ht...
I make no claim as to whether competent science ethicists exist. Clearly this anecdote is a good example of what professors of humanities should try to avoid if they aim to fix problems in STEM.
Deep Learning with Keras: Structured Time Series
There was a year of full time development when Casualty existed as a company to support Pony. That got Pony to the starting line. Since then its been a volunteer effort. A lot of people have contributed many great improvements.

If we had lots of paid folks working full time, we'd be further along.

What is the effort? A lot. Not trying to be pithy, but it really is a lot of work.

We'd love to have more volunteers to help out. And for folks who can't contribute time, we've started accepting donations so we can pay for hosting and other costs: https://opencollective.com/ponyc
When do they measure the age? I worked at a company that took 20 years from conception to IPO. So is it the conception age or success age?
Of course, but it gives a first order estimate.
I remember the frequentist approach taught in introductory stats classes never making sense to me. I didn't want to shove "stats" into the back of my brain and just focus on graduating. I genuinely wanted to understand the world a little better.

I began to research alternative approaches to modeling and conducting inference a few years ago. Discovering Bayesian Inference has had a large impact on the way I think and conduct research. There's a lot of hype and uncertainty about what "Bayesian" actually means. Here's a compact definition that I hope will attract some interest:

Bayesian Inference allows you to explicitly quantify your prior beliefs and get a more complete picture of uncertainty when modeling something.

If you'd like to learn more, the links below should be helpful.

Introduction to Bayes' Theorem (short):
https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2015/2/18/bayes-theorem-wi...

Bayesian A/B testing example (short):
https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2015/4/25/bayesian-ab-test...

If you're interested in spending some time learning about applied Bayesian Inference, I highly recommend Statistical Rethinking. The book doesn't assume a strong mathematical background and its filled with practical examples.
https://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/

McElreath is currently working on a second edition of that textbook, due around 2020:
http://elevanth.org/blog/2018/07/14/statistical-rethinking-e...
What part of the humanities do you think would be helpful to engineers?

I so far hadn't seen anything that would be useful enough to make me not disdainfull of humanities, but i would be happy to be proven wrong.
I don't know where to start with this, so I'll just shotgun my answers:

* The vulnerability we're talking about, like all G+ vulnerabilities, has no half-life. It's fixed decisively the instant they deploy the fix to prod. There is no user response we're looking for to mitigate the vulnerability.

* The incentive problem isn't eliminated just because you only target Google with the new norm. When we demand that "high-profile" companies disclose vulnerabilities, we create the sentiment, across the industry and in low-profile companies as well, that vulnerability discovery is a bad event, to be avoided. The exact opposite thing is true.

* Internal vulnerabilities in high-profile applications are discovered so often that people will quickly tune them out (until someone sets out to take a scalp). It could even wind up benefiting companies with actual breaches, whose announcements will be lost in the noise, and more easily PR-spun.

The basic problem here is very simple: found- and- fixed vulnerabilities aren't breaches. A vulnerability and its successful exploitation are not the same thing. It does not matter if the vulnerability is "leaked eventually", so long as it's fixed when it's found.

If Google had discovered this vulnerability and then just decided to ignore it for 6 months, that would be a story. That's not what happened.
> Why is it acceptable on the web?

It's acceptable because it's the only thing they offer.
The 1024-moves is very addictive.
Hi,

I'm the VP of Engineering at Wallaroo Labs. Pony existed prior to Wallaroo Labs using it, but we have been very instrumental in pushing the language and runtime forward. We've contributed a lot of code to Pony.

If you are interested in the early history of Pony you can learn more from Sylvan's post here:

https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2017/05/an-early-history-of-pon...
Thanks, so what your saying is this can be done locally, and probably shoukd since there's no reason to involve Google cloud for small data like a local photo collection?
A co-worker (and a great friend) of mine gave a lecture at University of Nebraska–Lincoln, on bridging the gap between the liberal arts and the tech industry.

He talks about the value that liberal arts can provide the tech industry. In my opinion he is also giving rhetoric against this notion that you are tied to working in the same field that you studied at school, and that you have to follow the "correct" path that other people tell you is "marketable" for your career.

We both studied liberal arts, and we both work together in tech. He got his PhD in Classical literature, and works on the strategy team. I am in my final semester for getting a BA in Philosophy, and I'm on the engineering team.

If you listen to the lecture, around the 28min mark he says "I asked him, do you regret majoring in Philosophy?" My response is still the same now as it was when he asked me. I don't regret it, and I don't regret choosing it over computer science or a related major. I believe having the philosophy background helps me live a better life, and helps me do my job well.

Ask certain academics in the philosophy department what exactly philosophy is, and they'll tell you something like: "the systematic testing of our rational beliefs about the world." This to me, is where philosophy and software engineering intersect.

Link to the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-wNv9FHLqM
> that's what collaboration is for

"Collaboration" is a poor model for hard R&D. Some problem domains, like video coding, require PhDs with extensive domain knowledge. These folks don't work for free. Community projects don't have the resources to pay for systematic, concerted research efforts in these areas.

Which is why entities like MPEG-LA exist in the first place. If collaborative projects had developed these technologies first, the companies behind MPEG-LA never would've gotten their patents.

> Instead, some like MPEG-LA are doing concerted effort to extort money and prevent competing technologies from emerging.

Note that the key competitors to the patented MPEG technology is coming from "benevolent monopolies" like Google. Those alternatives are unsustainable without those sponsors. So in reality, "open collaboration" is not one of the options. It's a choice between R&D bankrolled by patents, or R&D bankrolled by Google's search profits or Facebook's social media profits.
There are others, but we at Wallaroo Labs are the only ones that I know of that are talking about it.
Ads on the back of he seat in an airplane are very common in European airlines. One of the most obnoxious, intrusive, literally in-your-face ads as it’s 40cm from one’s face with no real option to get away from it.
https://brohrer.github.io/how_bayesian_inference_works.html

https://oscarbonilla.com/2009/05/visualizing-bayes-theorem/

https://plus.maths.org/content/maths-minute-bayes-theorem

http://www.sumsar.net/blog/2017/02/introduction-to-bayesian-...

http://www.yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes
IMO they did come up with a solution for it, via support. I think it is interesting that people (seemingly) won’t try the solution because it involves talking to support and that has such a connotation of being a costly time sink from people’s terrible experiences with support contacts in the past.

Maybe that means Spotify needs to rethink their solution? Apparently they lost at least one subscriber to Apple Music in this thread because that person was adverse to contacting support and would rather switch services altogether. I wonder if that’s a real trend among people now.
And that's the problem of a private list. The accused don't get a chance to rebut the accusations, so anyone can fabricate an entry.
I'm fairly certain Xperia is a Sony brand.
Like everyone else. Consumers don't really have a choice.
For trays, yes, but 6-packs are shrinkwrapped in plastic: https://i.imgur.com/VmHhQph.jpg
Yes, but there are so many classes an undergrad can take.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

Always resonated with me as a good summary.

Where a (naive) frequentist might assume, for instance, that after a 90% accurate test comes back positive the hypothesis is likely to be true, a Bayesianist would ask how likely it was to be true in the first place; all the test did was make it ten times more likely, which may or may not make it probable.

You may enjoy https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XTXWPQSEgoMkAupKt/an-intuiti...
Surely the response plan for a hurricane is different than an enemy attack?
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I totally agree. I don't think the idea of "talent" is meaningful. For the most part, at least with software design, you can learn all this over time, but it requires you to have the right attitude (i.e. a growth mindset).

You can tell when people don't have the right attitude because they stop trying to learn things or listen to outside perspectives. That's the attitude that causes people stop learning and stop growing.
I see. So you are discussing the importance of listening to the accusers. I’m sure we’d agree on many points there.

I see a lot of other people here talking about something different. Specifically I see other people here talking about the potential misuse of sexual assault accusations as it relates to Washington politics.

It’s pretty hard to separate “believing the accuser by default” and “being concerned about false accusations as a means of slander” as they both relate to largely the same discussion. But I also think a lot of confusion and misunderstanding occurs when one party is trying to talk about one of those ideas, and the other is trying to talk about another. They’re not necessarily exclusive, but I don’t think they’re identical discussions.
Here in Denmark I haven't seen cans joined together using plastic rings - Carlsberg or any other. The common format for six cans to be plastic wrapped as a whole unit.

As there's a deposit on cans they're normally collected, but any packing might be left behind. These glued cans will both save on plastic waste and reduce litter.
My take on the subtleties, in painstaking details, with source code so you can reproduce my experimental results: http://loup-vaillant.fr/tutorials/monty-hall

I consider several kind of Monties there, including an "enemy" that will try to open the prize door if he can.
I'm all for heterodoxy, but what about people who are just not ideological? Who do we pair them up with?
Every ABET accredited engineering school in the US is required to give a class on professional ethics as part of the degree. Doesn't seem to have much effect.
Hmmm..."wildly implausible"? That's pretty strong wording. "They might not want to do it this way", I could believe. But that the individual(s) in the government concerned with a particular intelligence hack might not have thought through all the consequences for China's chip manufacturing industry, is not so far out there as to be "wildly implausible", I think. Which doesn't mean, of course, that it did in fact happen (this way).