skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point was that you had to unquestioningly obey the government's orders for a minimum period of time and could be permanently denied the franchise for the smallest act of independent thought which upset superior officers during that period. As you point out yourself, the book freely acknowledges that the people who had completed their service may not have accepted significantly more risk and weren't on average better people afterwards.

(Henlein backtracked in the face of criticism of the book and
a shift in his own view and later claimed that his service was mostly non military, but this is unambiguously contradicted by the text of the original book)
Don't they have more than enough data by now? What are they waiting for?
The data suggests otherwise.

http://www.washington.edu/news/2015/10/07/new-uw-report-pain...
I am more talking about reality then opinions of book characters.

The part about not voting while in service does not oppose anything I said. First, you must not be strongly anti military. Second, you have to be indoctrinated and adopt military values and habits. Practically, such widespread militarization of civil life was one of factors in Germany in Hitlers reach for power. (See Richard J Evans and his Coming of Third Reich book). The military values in civil service and life played role and not for the better.

Of course military discipline does not imply responsible decision making and such stereotype is even unheard of for real world soldiers. Neither does going through something grueling. Lastly, beyond doing something grueling, military service often requires you to inflict grueling on others and you are forced to make peace with that.
Check the budget. Bills.
> […] it's not necessary to drop a service as long as you get to control how it works for you

I agree with this, and this is why I still have a FB account (for now).

> The data mining and shadow profiling are the cost you pay for a free service

I believe the OP was saying that “the way FB mines your data is the cost they charge for their service”, not necessarily that this has always been the cost of every free service, or that this is a cost that everyone should be willing to pay.

It’s more like “if you manage the notifications so it’s only a part of your life when you want it to be, and you understand and are okay with the data mining and shadow profiling they do to support their service, then there’s not much to be gained from deleting your FB account.” At least that’s how I feel (again, for now).
I recommend Raph Koster's latest book "Postmortems" for a digest of his experience developing Ultima Online, including some background on the ecology that never shipped. https://www.raphkoster.com/games/books/
Not an expert, but this really seems like something a teenager that recently acquired a drone and was showing off to his friends would do.
I need to read this but as a beta and long term player of UO, the bugs made the game even better.
Deleted it in 2017, still deleted now. I've grown tired of having a "footprint" online. I miss the old days of anonymous handles. I no longer use the same username for different services, or emails either.

I would delete my hn account if I could - @dang.
I'm not sure i'm understanding you, or i'm not sure I agree. Humans, for instance, can learn from substantially less data than (most) machine learning models, if the data is presented in a way that we're optimized for (e.g. human facial recognition).

If we can devise ML algorithms capable of generalizing from substantially smaller datasets, while data will still be relevant, it will be a less important bottleneck in the process than it is now.
Human beings can be smart in using a fairly small set of data. Humans have an enormous store of data to work with but when confronted with a bit of new data on a new subject, they can sometimes do very well.

This is a result of the ML paradigm essentially starting new with whatever data set it is trying to "solve" but overall, the paradigm doesn't have to be that.
It depends on the team size and scope. A team of many individuals working on parallel streams need some discipline to manage, especially across many repos, and things like this help.

However it does seems like a github/gitlab/whatever feature away from irrelevance.
I still don't use it.
I thinks this is more something like ATDD (acceptance test driven development) consisting in capturing specifications in acceptance tests and use them in a second loop to drive traditional TDD. Outside-in TDD or mockist TDD following Martin Fowler’s vocabulary is just a TDD technique extensively using test doubles in order to define how actors collaborate or interact with each other to achieve the specifications.
> So I found a fax number for their office and with a handy little script...I showed them what it was like to be flooded

That is fantastic. What did the script do? Did you roll your own fax software, or use some third-party/open source binary? I'm curious because every 2-3 years I'm required to send some stupid fax, and I never really found a good (free) way to do it.
I like starship troopers as entertainment, but the way people take political lessons from it is scary. I used to believe that politics of book should not matter because people are clear in difference between reality and fiction, but this book convinced me otherwise.
Yep, the original "serverless" was using FTP to upload CGI scripts (Perl, PHP, or even C) into your /cgi-bin directory, whereupon your webhost would magically execute said script each time a client sent an HTTP request. No provisioning required!
I'm curious if they're aware of the strong recommendation against this in the Tor docs https://tor.stackexchange.com/a/433
ADT through the looking glass – lenses, prisms and other optics in Scala
He probably merely deactivated it and thought deactivation equals deletion. It does not.
What will happen is that we will move toward an agent-centric system like Holochain, and put all data about our environment there.

Only when people will realize that transparency is better than privacy, will they start putting all their quantified self data on there.

This will become a Decentralized Artificial Intelligence network, from which consciousness and AGI will emerge.
I deactivated it for a few months. I've reactivated it since. I live in a small town of about 300 homes, all the city information is posted in the city facebook page. It doesn't suck time from my day anymore since I broke the addiction (now reddit is my only addiction left) and I have the firefox container extensions and ublock origin so i'm satisfied it's not tracking me.
I know there has been some research in this area over the decades, but I'm wondering: how practical is this approach nowadays?
ReactJS. ElasticSearch.
Not disappointed.
Oh he'd definitely win a few hundred bucks.
Https://ProductManagerJobs.com
"consumers prefer processed foods, sodas, chips, things placed in boxes and plastic"

These things also last on the shelves for a very long time. Grains can store well, but other products like meat, fruits, vegetables, quality baked goods, etc. don't.
I never made one in the first place. I still don’t understand why it wasn’t immediately obvious to everyone else that Facebook was toxic and a bad idea. I truly don’t understand how other people did or recognize that. It was blindingly obvious to me.
Best way to hide a conspiracy..
"serverless"...
PlayStation has just released a brand new, free Lemmings game for mobile
USDS/18F have done such incredible work and I'm glad the Trump admin hasn't killed them off completely. Given Trump's total-war attitude toward all Obama initiatives I'm somewhat surprised they still exist and haven't been gutted like CFPB.
I have been reading HN since... 2008 maybe (I cannot remember) after quitting Slashdot. It was such an elegant place compared to Arrington's and Siegler's website. Now it seems that heated debates are everywhere. Maybe I am getting too old or too Swiss...
No, they attribute to me the most extreme bad views imaginable

Yes. It’s partly why I’m banned, and why people call my behavior monstrous even though all I’ve done is point out inconsistencies in HN’s moderation.

I’ve built a 12 year reputation on this site, and it was destroyed overnight at the whims of a moderator. I haven’t broken any rules.

Ultimately, no one cares about the fate of those who fall to authority. And why would they? If Dan is willing to utterly ruin a 12 year member of HN for merely asking “why was I penalized?” then imagine what he’ll do to you.

As far as I can tell, he penalized me for some opinions I expressed (even though they were expressed thoughtfully and non inflammatorily). When I pressed the issue publicly, I was Game of Throne’d.

He dressed it up as a “90 day probation,” but of course it morphed into a permanent ban.

At this point it seems like my account has been marked unvouchable, meaning none of my comments even have a fair shot of being resurrected regardless of how many people vouch them.

Pretty interesting to see all of this stem from me expressing a few opinions. But, I chose this life partly to highlight the absurdity.
yup.. didnt use it for months now.. and felt right to do it this year.
Definitely. They are better than PDFs, but still have lots of room for improvement.
No, I deleted it years before.
Most people do not count calories. They eat until they feel full and this usually worked out okay.

But now things like white bread, cereal and pancakes have become a regular staple of their diets. These high carb, low fiber foods have a lesser effect on satiety, so people consume more calories before they feel full and the excessive level of carbs in their system discourages their body from burning the fat they already have.

An important thing to realize is that the physical fat that you have on you is fuel. When/what you eat determines whether or not your body uses that source of fuel.
With the lack of evidence, the media attention, and the nature of the incident, I have been wondering the same thing.

The cynic in me suspects that the result of this will be zero convictions, but legislation taking all but the smallest drones out of consumers hands.
The 'Future Book' Is Here, but It's Not What We Expected
Yes; I was living in the UK when I created the account, but am Dutch. I now live in New Zealand. Does this matter?
I've previously seen his videos on the SCP Foundation and the mouse utopia experiments - recommended.
I am not the domain expert on this project, but here at the Internet Archive we ended up developing our own system (not dissimilar from this one, albeit with significantly less automation) at a fairly low cost. Some links for details:

https://archive.org/scanning

https://archive.org/details/tabletopscribesystem (links to additional detail pages there)

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/jp5kjy/saving-hum... (a few years old)

We've found that high-cost implementations are less appealing to smaller sites and libraries (which may have mandates that books not be shipped away), and we can achieve high scanning rates through parallelism rather than single extremely high-throughput stations. Additionally, many books are much more complex, valuable, fragile, or simply not amenable to automatic methods whereas skilled scanners can move through them with ease.
I deleted my fb account in 2015. I was a heavy user until the day I quit. One of my best decisions, never looked back!
The reason your friend suggestions were still there is because your email or phone number is in your friends contact list on their phone, and that data is shared with Facebook. This indirect information about you is called a shadow profile, deleting your FB account does not delete the shadow profile because the data belongs to your friends, not you.
I didn't deleted it yet, but I still didn't accept the GDPR terms.
> Deleted my account permanently two months ago. In the beginning it was interesting too see how it had become a habit to write the url almost without thinking, and for three weeks I found myself opening a new tab and writing the Facebook.com address every time my mind started wandering.

I've deleted my account in 2017 when I realized that I only care about ~10 of my ~1,000 friends. The behavior you described also happened to me -- a lot. It was quite scary to realize how often I absentmindedly type in Facebook's url every day.

The hardest part about deleting my account was that I had a few deceased people in my friend list. That held me back for a good while (years actually) – because it was a terrifying thought that, no matter if I change my mind and come back, they could never accept a new friend request by me and I would never be able browse their profile again.
Yes. I did it for the privacy issues, and for being personally opposed to advertising in all forms. But I also did it because social networks are harmful even beside that. They are attention suckers, they distract, and they also depress and mislead you. All in all, I feel measurably worse for having them in my life. I feel it was doing me harm, to my mental health, my free time, my overall well-being. The (small) benefits, which I can mostly replace with messaging via other services, do not outweigh this harm. That's why all the posts about "an open-source/distributed/decentralised facebook substitute" don't really appeal to me either.
The facts entering public record are what distinguishes "arrested" from "disappeared."

Do you want to live in a world where people are yanked off the street and not heard of for months or years, with no ability for the press/friends/family to find out about the situation, "out of respect for their privacy?"

If the police refuse to disclose whether they've grabbed someone, I'm going to assume I'm in Soviet Russia.
> Many people working on compilers will have a PhD in the subject.

There is some truth to this, but as someone with a PhD in compilers, let me say that this area is very accessible to people without PhDs. The first time I met @dannybee, I asked him where he went to grad school. Turns out he went to law school. Didn't stop him writing the GCC alias analysis framework though.
That's one very effective way to get people to no longer want to act in reconstruction videos.
I thought both were good, if you liked secret city you may possibly enjoy pine gap even more
honestly, with this administration's turnover and record number of still-unfilled positions, I'd bet there's a very real chance that it still exists because it hasn't been noticed yet. because it sounds exactly like the kind of thing the Trump admin would hate, seeing as how they've already pulled a lot of data out of the public eye like climate change reports, white house visitor logs, etc.
I suppose your from the IIT/NITs, getting into Flipkart is not easy otherwise.
What about the data you unknowingly share from other browser tabs, your cache, your other apps on your phone if you're a mobile user, etc?
I read another article yesterday that said the drone "buzzed" the Air Traffic Control Tower. There's misinformation going on somewhere
Digital health: increasing focus on quality evidence?
I doubt people are going to start planning their day around escalator policies. Can you imagine the conversation?

"It's a domestic flight? You should still leave early, you're not allowed to walk up the escalators anymore!"
in the real sense of the word
I worked for a company that did this. We chopped off the spines to turn them into looseleaf, which could be rapidly scanned in an automated fashion. Then disposed of the original materials and mailed our clients CD-ROMs of high-res scans, optionally OCRed. Obviously there are downsides to this approach, but for situations where fits, it makes a ton of sense.

Please don't take this sentence out of context, but I kept a lot of severed spines as souvenirs when I left that job.
Cisco DocWiki has reached EOL and will be decommissioned late January 2019
That's a great point - and they seem to consider themselves as morally superior for their willingness to sacrifice other people for whatever they perceive as the greater good. Such people are very helpful for the likes of Torquemada, Hitler and Stalin.
Surely this just takes the feel/romance away from cooking (More generally rather than referring to this toaster in particular)?

$250 feels like a lot for what is ultimately a gimmick. A sous-vide immersion circulator costs less than that, and that's actually ~useful~
I've dreamed the same thing.

Since every law is a trade-off, having both positive and negative effects, I wish each law would enumerate the expected/possible positive and negative effects. In other words, I want the trade-off to be explicit and for the lawmakers to express why they believe the positive effects outweigh the negatives ones.
This is a difficult question (and I think you're right in a technical sense in your implication that there isn't a true difference). Colloquially, I think of "scripts" as programs distributed as ASCII or UTF-mumble (or other widely-used string formats) source code that have to be evaluated by different programs installed on your computer, e.g. most JS, Ruby, Python programs.

It's a murky distinction, because it's very common to preprocess programs before distribution to the extent that the original code is hardly discernable; for example, using Uglify or transpiling ES2017 to ES3. And you can package programs in both Python and Node such that they actually don't depend on your system having a Node or Python interpreter installed. And I doubt people would refer to C programs as scripts, even if they're distributed in a BSD ports- or Gentoo-style packaging system that defaults to distributing source code rather than precompiled binaries.

But I think a decent rule of thumb is that if you can run the original source code file(s) directly by adding the right shebang to the top, it's a script.
No, I deleted it in 2017 and I don't regret it.

In 2018 I got rid of whats app and the smartphone. This one involved a sacrifice, being farther away from my friends. But I got so much in exchange. Time, presence, big reduction in anxiety, contact with people, compassion. Got my life back.

I get to call and visit my friends and really enjoy talking to them.
Given that planetary scanners are used for rare/fragile/valuable books (for common ones, it's best to just disassemble them and scan the individual leaves), turning the pages automatically at ludicrous speed is exactly what you don't want to do.
> Long ago when I had two young kids, they would sometimes pick fights, for example on long car trips. One might start singing, to which the other would complain. We might agree that singing is too much for such a small space. Then the first might start to quietly hum, which we might decide is okay. Then first might hum more loudly and triumphantly, while the second might writhe, cover their ears, and make a dramatic display of suffering.

I love this example of bad faith complaining.

There's something grotesque about adults doing this in internet comments. Like watching a grown man wear a diaper.
So you’re saying that you prefer extrajudicial copyright proceedings? Seems like an awful idea to me.
> Quitting Facebook may not a choice without severe consequences

You know you're living in a time of peace when not having Facebook is considered to have severe consequences.
> Next up will be Linkedin

Linkedin is a tough one for me. Although I can't say its social networking has ever provided a lick of value, the Easy Apply and One-Click Apply feature for job postings is incredibly nice and has been pretty effective for me. Maybe I'll get rid of my account once I land my next gig soon.
We almost demolished teen smoking, and JUUL reintroduced it back
Yep. I used https://deletefacebook.com/ which made it straightforward and easy.
They have a plan for users to buy content. And yes, you can buy news-ships for some game mechanic that is not even in pre-alpha.

The only time there was talk about user-generated content was when they had a "design a ship"-contest. Designer teams jumped on it, designed a ship that you could visit in the hangar instance but it's gone now...because they needed to rework things there. I wonder what because that ship was never playable....This is SC for you.
Wait until you realize it's easier to just soil yourself, rather than use a toilet.
For the first question, we were looking at it to perform distributed matrix factorization in the immediate use case, but were planning to use the platform for more advanced techniques later on. We also tried to implement a quick and dirty distributed ALS algorithm and that's where we used the RDD API came in and my subsequent hatred for said API. Kafka was our streaming platform through which all our customer data was sent.

For starting out, the tutorials on the spark documentation pages are pretty good actually. However for streaming sources it seemed hacky to use spark with our kafka use since we had to basically scour maven/google for a package that did anything useful with avro-serialized data. Even after finding relevant packages we had to copy and paste some avro-to-sparkstruct lib code into an internal library since it didn't play nice with our versions of spark in it's public form. We were using structured streaming so that we could leverage the dataframe API which is much easier for data scientists to use and grasp coming from pandas/R. It's a lot nicer for a data engineer as well (imo).

JSON-serialized data worked okay actually, so we ended up using kstreams to deserialize the avro data and output it to another topic that was JSON-serialized since spark handled that better (read: more easily). Then we used the dataframe APIs to implement some of the higher order operations such as building interaction matrices and factoring them out, then outputing the resulting factors to cloud storage for collaborative filtering to use as a recommendation system we had elsewhere.

I guess to me it seemed wholly immature for Kafka-sourced data and it made me think that if we dumped into Hadoop and then operated on microbatches it would have been much easier.

About Scala vs Java vs python... We saw that python still wasn't the first-class language contrary to what they say I'm the docs and that to utilize any newer, fancier algorithms that would come up it would be beneficial to use Scala since that is the language most developed against (as of our use of spark). There are plenty of libraries to connect with Kafka in any language so Kafka didn't factor into the language decision at all.

I will leave out some details about managing the resources on a cluster as well as implementing CI/CD. That could be a whole blog post on it's own.

Hope this helps. It may be the best tool at the moment for what it offers, but it was painful to use and I hope someone makes something better with the knowledge gained from the usage of spark.
> it's a product of its time in the 1960s

You might have cause and effect somewhat mixed up. SiSL came out in 1961, and he'd first started writing it in the late 1940s, if I recall correctly.

Heinlein's first attempt at a novel, in the 1930s (before he started writing seriously for money), has most of the tropes that define his later non-juvenile novels from the 1960s into the 1980s.

It seems to me, that the attitudes of "the 60s" might have been pushed somewhat by the popularity of SiSL itself.
Neat! What I really like about the system I posted is that it appears to be a lot quicker because it does not require the book to be pressed against something to flatten it. That is a time consuming step, introduces yet another source of optical errors in to the path between the camera and the book and might get dirty.

It looks as if the pages are turned and fixed by air after the 'thumb' on the right hand side releases the next page. There is a long screw that turns slowly moving the 'thumb' down at a rate that release about 4 pages every second, the system then scans the image the moment the page is fixed. Quite clever.