skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't find a great description of the deal terms. I did find mention that at least some of the guarantee needed to be paid up front. I suspect the guaranteed payment was contingent on some level of traffic though -- if AOL had turned off the placement, or lost a huge amount of users, then they probably couldn't keep the money.
In academia, those sorts of tests would still need to be approved by the human experimentation ethics board. There are no exceptions for trivial tests.
This bill just restores the rules from the Open Internet Order of 2015.

Last term the Senate, controlled by Republicans, voted in favor of restoring those rules when there was an attempt to use the Congressional Review Act to cancel Pai's FCC's repeal of them.

The Senate is slightly more Republican now than it was then, so it might have less chance now, but it is in no way a foregone conclusion that this Senate would not vote for restoring those rules.
The limiting factor of automation is still, the amount of human labor you still need. Can it be reduced to zero? Why do you even need the farmers if that's the case?
Income taxes in the US applied to a much smaller segment of the population before WW II than they do today.
I'm surprised at the criticism about 64-bit only. Are people still using 32-bit operating systems?
Should have been milliard-electron-volt, right?
I work with a bunch of people in oakland, where comcast flickers on and off like a light bulb during a wind storm in the 1920's. So the only way to have a quick chat is over email?
> I'm not religious, but maybe exploration of the self and mind is more warranted than our society currently expresses. Of course, it's easy to slip into quackery, but I almost wonder if it'd be worth a few more nut jobs if we collectively self analyzed more deeply.

I think I get what you're saying, but I'm bewildered why recommending more philosophy within society warrants insulting people who are religious, grouping religion with quackery, and grouping philosophy with quackery. I'm not religious either but this was a weird direction to go with your point.
The top 1% of earners today earn a dramatically larger share of total income than the top 1% in the 1950s.

If taxes kept up, they would have noticeably higher effective tax rates than they used to have.

P.S. The “Tax Foundation” is a right-wing “think tank” (i.e. activists masquerading as researchers) funded by billionaires and corporations.

I would however recommend reading the whole paper they cite, http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/PSZ2017.pdf

> Government redistribution made growth more equitable, but only slightly so. After taxes and transfers, income in the bottom quintile stagnated (+4%) over the 1980–2014 period while it grew a meager 21% for the bottom 50% as a whole. That is, transfers erased about a third of the gap between macroeconomic growth (61%) and growth for the bottom half of the distribution (+1% before government intervention). Taxes did not hamper the upsurge of income at the top, which grew almost as much as pre-tax.

> The top panel of Figure II provides a granular view of who benefitted (or not) from growth, by showing the annualized real growth of pre-tax and post-tax income for each percentile of the distribution over the 1980–2014 period, with a zoom within the top 1%. There are two striking results. First, the vast majority of the population—from the bottom up to the 87th percentile—experienced less growth than the (modest) macro rate of 1.4% a year. For instance, the 10th percentile declined by 0.6% a year pre-tax (+0.3% post-tax); the 30th percentile stagnated pre-tax and grew 0.6% post-tax; the 80th percentile grew 1.2% pre-tax (+1.3% post-tax). Only the top 12 percentiles of the population achieved a growth rate as high or higher than the macro rate of 1.4%. Second, even percentiles 88 to 98 experienced unimpressive income gains, between 1.4% and 2.2% a year—in most cases less than the macro growth rate of U.S. incomes for the preceding generation, from 1946 to 1980. The only group that grew fast is the top 1%, whose average income increased 3.3% pre-tax and 3.2% post-tax, with growth culminating at +6.0% a year for the top 0.001%. The top 1% has pulled apart from the rest of the economy—not the top 20%.

etc.
Metomic Privacy Bible
With a compilation, you are able to find the original sources, but with a GAN is it even possible to find the original sources based on an output result alone?
Helvetica’s relatively less popular but ubiquitous cousin, Univers also got a facelift in 2010 after 30 years before Adrian Frutiger passed away under the name “Univers Next” [1], the most prominent aspect of the redesign being the return of 16 degree italics blessed by Frutiger himself.

In my view, Univers evokes a deep feeling of sophistication unlike any other font. Helvetica has the “grunge” and New York aesthetic after it took over the graphic design scene in the 70’s and 80’s whereas Univers was silently used in engineering manuals, control panels, branding, keyboards(Apple), movie credits [2] and UI without much fuss. It never became cool and edgy as Helvetica, never tried to be something it is not and doesn't have a following. I was lucky enough to visit the archives [3] in a obscure drawer at the Museum fur Gestaltung in Zurich, seeing the original manuscripts of Univers was an extraordinary feeling. Created in 1950, it is truly timeless and sits along with other giants of contemporary typefaces such as Futura and Eurostile, perhaps in the back row towards the corner.

Univers was, is and always will be.

It’s my favorite font.

[1] https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/univers-next/

[2] https://www.dafont.com/forum/read/5633/what-s-the-font-for-m...

[3] https://www.eguide.ch/en/designer/adrian-frutiger/
Bipartisan Bill Would Ban IRS from Making Tax-Filing Free and Easy
This actually might have interesting connections to ideas from differential privacy.

Maybe the work is derivative of a particular training image if we can easily predict the presence or absence of that training image given only the trained model?
Over the parent dictating? No, I wouldn't worry about it.
Remember that IBM had a long history building time clocks, card punch / sorter equipment and cash registers. All mechanical devices. Going from that to a device with a few moving parts that shot bullets was not a huge leap.
This is a very objective thing, probably some can do it more or differently than others but I don't think we are just describing the same thing differently.

For me, I can picture whatever you might think of, enough to be able to copy what I imagine on paper or sculpture. However, this does not overlay with what I am seeing with my eyes as other people have described happens to them. What I see with my eyes, and what I imagine in my mind are in two different places. When I dream it can be very very realistic, as high detail as real life, and I can think it is real life (if you cannot visualize in your mind, what are your dreams like?). But when I wake up and open my eyes, there is no longer confusion. This is real life.

I also very very frequently can remember someone's face, how they act, what they do, and not remember their name. I can remember a whole conversation with them in video and not remember their name. But it feels like this type of visualization is different than picturing a sphere or some imaginary thing. It is a memory, a memory that I can manipulate, but based on reality.

Something I have always wondered about others, when you speak, is it just your thoughts in your language that you voice? Like, is your thought in language? I must translate my thoughts into language, and it is sometimes very difficult even though I am good at expressing myself. I do not usually think in language, unless it is some basic thing I am repeating to myself. It feels like some other people actually think with words.
I thought so too but dang's post history shows knowledge of type. Maybe dang is saying that calling this a grotesque font is name calling and poster should post more on why it is one.
Cool, go ahead and open a PR. It says they are welcomed.
If an A/B test leads a site to adopt bad shit, then ban the bad shit. Don't ban testing.
Calling it a "religious" donation is pretty reductive IMHO.
I was a paying user (at least a donated to them) before they started breaking extensions, putting tracking in, putting DRM in, rewriting things in rust and working on crap like webasm that will make the web even more user hostile.

At this point paying them to literally do nothing all do would give me a better return on investment than the direction they're heading.
I am surprised that nobody mentioned pineal gland. As Descardes, it is where soul sits. Pineal gland also called "third eye". Pineal gland gets light information from skin and eyes and produces melatonin. Melatonin is a serotonin-derived hormone that modulates sleep patterns. People who has aphantasia also report that not having dreams. Calcification of pineal gland is proved scientifically and mostly caused by fluoride. Aphantasia might be related to this.
Does your codebase date from 1995? Because some of Yahoo's does. Time to send Jerry a nastygram about not adequately preparing the codebase for arbitrary color changes 25 years ago?
I mean if you watch the documentary Helvetica they do a pretty good job of explaining both the political statement the typeface was trying to make, the backlash against it as it was adopted/hijacked by corporations, and then the post-backlash period where we are now.

If you look at the new typeface it's clearly designed primarily for the needs of consumer products and advertising. They could have instead created a typeface that was purposely designed to look bad on consumer products and in advertising, but that's not the direction they went in. That's not an accident, it was a deliberate design decision.

Whereas the goal of the original typeface was to create a better society, the goal of the new one is basically to make it onto a Starbucks cup. It's not even a subtle difference, even though it's supposedly just an updated typeface the two are really night and day.
I completed a bunch of courses at Udacity before they introduced the Nanodegree programs. I enjoyed the experience and gained useful knowledge in areas that my regular degree program didn't cover (brushed up on Stats, Python web programming, JavaScript graphics, etc), but free courses doesn't seem like a viable business platform.

The Nanodegree programs are not free, and from the courses that are included it's clear that you would gain valuable skills, but are they recognized as a qualification in industry at large? I'm sure some employers would consider them, but would enough employers?

Regardless, it's a fantastic service that they offer, and I'm grateful for it. Hopefully they can keep the ball rolling and pivot to a place that is profitable enough for them to continue.
I thought the Apache Foundation was where projects go to die, or to wallow in irrelevance, or something. Is OpenOffice still there?
The point isn't that Chrome doesn't do things to help privacy. But having a monoculture web built around Blink is terrible. We know this from experience with IE. Brave uses Blink. Chromium uses Blink. IE now uses Blink.
Interesting. I wonder if the musical practice led to the mental music. I am also a musician, but I'm not certain whether the mental music began before or after I started playing (I started playing more than ten years ago as a teen).
The best comparison is with the energy used for gold mining which far exceeds bitcoin energy costs. If you look at the giant trucks used in gold mines, you will are the energy savings.
Considering how abusive the human relationship is with the land and the animals, why don't we have an agricultural revolution and creates 10s of millions of jobs for farmers? Modern human imagination is so constrained to think that this is impossible. But really it's just political and as easy to do as it is to automate millions of jobs away.
I file with TaxAct as well, but it's worth noting they're a member of this industry lobbying group:

https://www.americancoalitionfortaxpayerrights.org/

Interestingly while looking this group up I found this entire report prepared by Elizabeth Warren's staff about these types of industry groups:

https://www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/Tax_Maze_Repor...
Remix is looking for front end engineer to help build better public transit
Sounds like a lobotomy experiment. Successful at the time, but 50 years later doesn't seem like such a good idea anymore.
Reminds me of Bicentennial Man: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0182789/
It's a good point in the whole discussion that they are having on twitter.

After all, what's the point of statistics in ordinary life? It's easy to know those cases where money is directly related (e.g., probability of cards), but to make it signifficant to the average person?
You dont need a separate law for slavery to exist. If 1. freedom of contract is unrestricted and 2. parents are allowed to make decisions for their children and enter contracts in their name, then:

* Someone can sell themselves into, or otherwise enter, slavery.

* When that slave has a child, the owner can order them to enter a contract in the childs name that makes the child a slave.

Serfdom started in a similar manner, at least in some places: A free peasant agreed to become a serf in exchange for protection, then their descendants inherited that status.
Yeah, Firefox predates Chrome by quite a few years. Even more if you count its Netscape lineage. I don't know how you could honestly claim it's a clone of Chrome.
Fortunately you still have the option of not keeping up with modern web standards and just writing some html 3.2 into a text file.
Porting Tableau Server to Linux, Part 1
Interesting, also what do you mean by "status of actors"?
One of my most surprising moments in American history was learning about 'black wall street' and the race riots of Tulsa after WW1. I'm going to share a link here -- I'm not sure of the source's meta-bias, but this article I think is a balanced read.

https://www.theringer.com/2018/6/28/17511818/black-wall-stre...
Do you have some resources on novelty functions? Google, like usual recently, is useless at finding something I haven't found before.
You're right, we have a choice. It's just that when my mom or dad download an app from the browser and it says, app is from an unidentified developer, they're just not gonna no how to turn it off and Apple knows that about a lot of its user base too well.
Yeah, it's a bit like how your mind fills in the blanks for the blind spot in your vision where the optic nerve is. You don't even think about the fact that the data is missing until you go looking for something in that spot.
Uber plans to sell around $10B worth of stock in IPO
I guess it depends how big a circle you draw around local.

For me, I prefer near, but I'll settle for in-state and ultimately in-country as "local"

Buying phillipine bananas and pineapples and thai rice, I want to understand why. We can grow all of these locally and very probably sustainably. If its food-as-aid purchase for regional trade, I can be there. But the assumption "because its cheaper" feels to me wrong. I suspect the reason the shops are selling imported bananas is not because of aid to emerging economies: its because they make more profit.

(to be clear, I'm in Australia. I believe that California (for instance) which was a food garden faces pretty intractable water issues. As do the various people who depend on the River Jordan. Australia has water issues too, but its more about equitable distribution than a complete lack of irrigation sources. We're not facing starvation due to lack of locally grown food in the 10-20 year horizon, climate change permitting. If you want to racionate to 'thats the bigger problem' I won't disagree)
I'd love to see this for other large tech companies like Amazon and Microsoft
I wonder if they recognize that luck plays a significant role. Right place, right time sometimes matters more than anything you can predict or control.
Yes. There's a bit of survivor bias in this story and a tendency to look back and think the outcome was inevitable. Although, if you look at the story of the PC Division, there are similarities even though the scale and risk are different. Both the S360 and PC were new creations built by empowered teams that addressed issues with existing technology. Standard interfaces and extensibility were a big part of the success of both stories. Not "open" in the sense we use the word today but standardized - the ISA bus allowed the extensibility of the PC via any number of peripherals, just as whatever the cabling spec of the S360 was for disk, tape, card punch, sorting and tabulating equipment. Enabled by software. A lot is made of the hardware story here, it would be interesting to have part of the operating system development story.
I'm curious why you were trying meditation and mindfulness. I would have theorized that those with the ability to visualize have a greater need to control the incessant waves of distractions running through their minds, where your mind would naturally be clearer. In essence, that this medication doesn't work on you because you are not sick. But since you sought it out, there must be a reason you felt you needed it.
Gotta say, the f and the t in the micro font are not good. At least while looking at it in my browser (firefox nightly on linux). They look like something out of comic sans.
Yes, Helvetica is truly a joy to watch - I mean that genuinely - and thank you for the explanation of your analysis
Consent only applies for things you wouldn't be allowed to do without consent in the first place. What if Walmart decided to have the greeters at half of their stores be rude to customers and compare sales numbers? Would that require advance consent? Clearly it wouldn't because there is no law against bad service. The fact that the click whores who call themselves journalists (who are also competitors of FB) call it "psychological experiments" to scare non-technical people is irrelevant.
Reading the fine article I can see that the program continued to be in essence the program I participated in, with more responsibility on the participant's part to keep MSFT informed of why one might deserve the award, and less support of late for folks posting intensely technical material such as DDK.
Day Parts Are a Part of Life
A perception of less time spent overall, perhaps. Or less loss/dropout from not being able to achieve A (for lack of B). I personally prefer "a, b, a", so I have to imagine.
but the person who executed the GAN is a human, they are an artist who's tools are just different
Although I also despair the lack of choice in web browsers nowadays (not to mention certain coworkers of mine who try to spin "standardization" on Chrome/Chromium as a good thing), I wouldn't go so far as to claim there's some moral component to one's choice of browser. While I have strong feelings about this, I can't judge people who choose the path of least resistance when picking the software they use. Sometimes you want stuff to just work. People's priorities are their own and not everyone has the luxury of being able to be different because of their views. Some people just need to get things done.
Congress can pass laws that do this. For example, there are laws limiting foreign ownership of TV stations.
Please turn this on if you have an iPhone: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208090
One of the things I love about .NET is the monoculture. It means that I can jump on any .net stack and have extensive experience with their ORM, their IDE, their language, their sql database, their mvc framework, their front end language, and even their mobile stack. It's one of the few stacks that truly allows you to be a full stack developer with ease. I love solving algorithmic problems, I love data modelling, I love learning about the domain, I love solving software engineering problems to deliver useful software people love. I dont like spending time going through documentation and learning yet another technology that accomplishes the same thing.

98% of projects can be accomplished just as well with react or Angular, typescript or Vue, mysql or sql server, hibernate or EF, asp.net mvc or Nancy, c# or f#, git or tfs, Asana or VSTS. These decisions don't matter nearly as much as the expertise of the team. So it's nice to be able to field or join a team of experts on every part of the stack and focus on solving problems with technology and not the technology.
Can you compare Google Run to App Engine Flex? They sound similar.
Never use Plaid. I’m guessing the apps that would apply to most on here are Venmo and Robinhood. Square Cash probably use them too.
Actually, I kind of like that. Brings back memories of them.
> Assumptions are fine if they're reasonable

I would assume so...
Wow. I don't have this, and I don't think I can.

I have an almost pathological hatred of silence on the outside - because when there is, there's also silence on the inside. Unless I actively think about a tune, or decide to hum or whistle a song, there's no radio. So I'll only hum/whistle or sing a few bars or a chorus and distract to thinking about something else.

So sitting in silence quickly becomes wearing. I have to keep thinking of stuff, and music, to fill it.

Now if I go fell walking or find myself in a forest or on a deserted beach, there's always enough sounds of nature that it doesn't feel silent. Not like a house, class or exam room or office can. It's only that which quickly gets oppressive.
The future of hypersonic weapons: defending against super-fast missiles
Is all 800mb resident, and just for that app? On osx people often just look a the 'Memory' column in activity monitor, which says slack + the slack helpers are using 1.4GB of memory (OMG Electron sucks!) - but it is using 633MB of real memory. So not great if you are used to bitchx or something. But not terrible - half of what it initially looks like. Memory management is complicated.
Mind explaining this more? I love EF and how quickly you can get spin up a database and get started writing LINQ queries against it. Also how easy it is to get code reuse which is a pain in the butt with sql, or throw together a multi tenant app with global query filters.
I think these skills are to some degree learnable.

That orchestra conductor probably spent a large part of their life studying music. Part of learning music is ear training: the ability to name/write chords by hearing them, and conversely to "hear" them in one's imagination given the name (or from written music). No different than the way many people "hear" words in their head when reading.
Think about blind people. They can still know where things are, and project forward in time that if X, Y will likely happen. Neither spatial reasoning or causal reasoning are tied to visualisation. That's what it's like for me to think both about the past and the future. I can't even imagine why you'd need to visualise something to knowing where it is - it's such a total foreign idea to me.
There wasn’t enough innovation. What they offer is replaceable instantly by any single university in the world which offers a course for free and hosted on YouTube.

I don’t have a solution but I think online education has not been solved. Clearly there is a lot of innovation but nobody is making it.
Truth is its a very typical salary + equity package for established cos and competitive late stage startups in Bay Area. With CoL it’s comparable to making $150k in almost every other major market outside maybe NY.
I like their model of education which focuses on highly targeted technical skills to be completed in 3-6 months. Continuing education is an interesting beast. The transitional educational opportunities are often out of sync for a working professional. We don’t need a second bachelors or a masters but rather an in-depth course to get us up to speed where we’re lacking.
Sophisticated spyware hidden for five years