skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Google treads on censorship as it regards political discourse. I’m not referring to things beyond the pale. I mean they will censor seemingly small things like bury a politician’s peccadilloes or surface something that stains an opponent. That’s dangerous.

One obvious search query string is: reddit + candidate and see some surfaced and some less so.
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I made http://hexopress.com to run my blog from Google Docs. Simply because it's neater to have all my docs in one place. Also, I could blog right from my comfort area, instead of using the editor that comes with different blogging platforms.

Most importantly, I want my data to stay where I want it to be, instead of getting scattered across apps. I've written more about this here - http://hexopress.com/@joe/blog/2017/03/05/hello-world/
Many just call them duck or ddg now. They bought duck.com
If you want Google search without tracking, you should try StartPage

https://www.startpage.com/
Please also see the linked Nature article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0463-3.epdf?refer...
Same results different entities.

Outlaw ad tracking in some way.
I agree with you that words matter, but Trump and his administration use of words can also be condemned. His use of the phrase "Fake News" for every unflattering news piece is just as terrible.

Unfortunately, we are in a race to the bottom with what people say in this new social media/Twitter world.
But it minimizes conflict of interest.
Umm, I think you're getting this wrong. First of all, you are literally arguing against what literally every biography of Turing says (that he was convicted for engaging in homosexual acts).

But if you want to quote the Wiki articles, that's fine, but it seems like you're missing the most important parts:

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing (emphasis mine):

> During the investigation, he acknowledged a sexual relationship with Murray. Homosexual acts were criminal offences in the United Kingdom at that time,[131] and both men were charged with "gross indecency" under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.[132] Initial committal proceedings for the trial were held on 27 February during which Turing's solicitor "reserved his defence", i.e., did not argue or provide evidence against the allegations.

The above flat-out contradicts what you are saying.

Just in case, here's what the Section 11 of the Criminal Law act says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Law_Amendment_Act_188...:

> The clause provided for a term of imprisonment "not exceeding two years", with or without hard labour, for any man found guilty of gross indecency with another male, whether "in public or in private". No definition was given of what, exactly, constituted "gross indecency", as Victorian morality demurred from giving precise descriptions of activity considered immoral. In practice, "gross indecency" was widely interpreted as any male homosexual behaviour short of actual sodomy, which remained a more serious and separate crime.

Nowhere in any of the above does it say anything about him being arrested or convicted because his partner wasn't at the age of majority, and all of the above say that it was for homosexual acts.
I know that we use MTurk at the Linguistic Data Consortium (and that others in NLP use it as well). I know that those involved with it put in a lot of work to make sure we get good, useful data - there are many papers and strategies on the subject of crowdsourcing.
I kind of agree- A rigorous solution to this problem would probably involve running large numbers of (human?) cell cultures with deep analysis fed through ML systems. i.e. we first need to have a full understanding of cell chemistry/physiology and then scale it up to larger organs and the whole human organism.
It's a nice solution if you don't have any experience with a database. I know this has been my reason to use it in the past.
> Google’s search is fantastic

The author's proposal, making Google's index publicly accessible, would leave Google search intact. Google's algorithm would presumably remain proprietary.

For people who like Google today, nothing would change. For people for whom Google falls short, there would be new options. Looks like a clear win-win for consumers.
It might have been for free, it's unclear they bought it

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137369/duckduckgo-duck...
I think a machine learning algorithm wouldn't care about that, because with a large enough training data set it would start to account for that and be able to accurately predict energy output based on the image alone.
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Yeah, I've always known it as "the Johari Window".
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This has happened in every state I've ever lived. I had always assumed it was the Post Office that was responsible.
And really, that seems like a good cutpoint to me. Search might be a natural monopoly. But advertising sure isn't. A lot of their ad stuff came via acquisition; what was bought can be spun off or sold again.
There is some value in a public record of whom owns what land. Minimally it would create stronger property rights where things can’t be sold twice over like they are in other countries. One might also want to know if the owners are foreign entities.

Of course wealthier owner get around this: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/nyregion/stream-of-foreig...
Yes. Most of the time people don't get that behind these products there are very well paid and perhaps world's best designers and engineers - many of them.

So these paid products more often than not would be much more superior in terms of experience.
Not really. In English, "X, but Y" translates to "X, except that Y" - Y takes priority in importance over X.
I would agree that ML is just statistics, but I also kind of think that a median approach to statistics in medicine are currently at an even poorer level of quality than the low bar set by typical ML, so there could be an improvement nonetheless.
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Can you go into more depth about mind maps, and specifically how they help you?

I'm building an information repository (of a sort..) and my plan for retention is spaced repetition (ala Anki/etc), but I've been unsure how to fit mind maps in it. I've got an inkling that I can automate mind map construction based on a form of labels, but tbh I'm not sure what problem I'm solving with mind maps. How do you find they help you?
IMO we should never teach proprietary software in any education system that runs on public money.
> what seems like the most obvious way to split up Google, separating their search and ad businesses

Given the complexity of (a) Google's search and ad integrations and (b) the adtech landscape as a whole, this would be difficult to do legislatively. That leaves settlement with the DoJ, a costly and time-consuming path.

The author's suggestion is not exclusive against a break-up of Google. Its moderation and basis in precedent, however, make it something multiple agencies--not just the DoJ--could implement. Including Congress.
This idea is a pipe dream. It would be nationalizing property, it's never going to happen in the US.

If you want to enforce anti-trust actions against google's app store policies, I'm all for that. But forcing them to give away property is insane.
True but DuckDuckGo doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily. If they named it “Poodle” it’d probably get more traction as silly as it seems.
> Again, no. You need to be able to decode byte sequences that have particular encodings into strings of characters.

You keep reiterating this, but it's not feasible. To avoid exposing the raw values, the language would need to support all possible encodings.
Well, honestly...

If you believe that the future of the world depends on reducing consumption, a presupposition which is not necessarily true, then you are asking people to reduce their quality of life. That’s not to say that people cannot be satisfied by a reduced quality of life, but asking people to sacrifice things that bring them comfort, convenience or satisfaction is by definition asking them to reduce their quality of life.
Where did I say that 10X productivity means 10X more code? That’s pretty much the opposite of what I’m saying.
I'd be very surprised to find any authorities using such a recent version of Windows.
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The verb form "to duck" would be sublime. For instance "I ducked this guy I met".
Been happening for decades. When I got my driver's license (in the 1980's) in Iowa, they misspelled my name - Soseph instead of Joseph. I asked for a corrected license. They typed up another one but didn't go back and correct the record.

So, I got solicitations in the mail for months for Soseph Altmaier. And that was before computers were used much.
Authoritarian left? Please provide some detail.
The whole point of MTurk is to get data you will use to train your models. Using some artificial means to make money on MTurk would be circular, and probably easily spotted - if not, your model has effectively solved the problem domain anyway!

We do language related things on MTurk (crowdsourced translation, for example). It's very easy to spot those who have used something like google translate or other artificial means - it's quite rare for a sentence to be translated exactly the same way twice, for starters.
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I know it's hard to get definite proof, but what really makes you think Google employees (only a subset of whom have production access) would go out of their way to censor websites or results? If I search for [any US candidate] I always get both a news carousel and their official website. Maybe this happens in other countries where Google can throw their weight around without anyone noticing?
Thanks for helping! :)
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Microsoft said the same thing about internet exploror and it's operating system..
Perhaps shows the state of Britain's economy/relative worth compared to the rest of the world, since I used them (true, only occassionally) late 90s/early 2000's, but they must be worth much much less now, due to inflation, not to mention that referendum thing. It's not because prices are low in Britain aka Treasure-Island, that's for sure!

$100 bills are more than common, for example, and similar (actually quite a bit more) in value.
You say,

> “This is straight up the opposite of what they're describing”

but then your supporting quote below that suggests the opposite. The quote about cutting scope (from a product manager’s point of view) is about cutting useful scope, like paying down urgent tech debt, in order to cram in more features or hit a shorter artificial shipping deadline despite no actual impact on any bottom line.
As a renter, you have to provide several verifications (email, linkedin, google, phone number). I think you can get away with a single one. Sometimes, you'll be asked to provide a driver's license or passport for proof.

80% of the rentals I've been in weren't their primary home, so even if someone was to rob the place, there wasn't much to take. The most valuable thing would probably be the TV, but most places only had a 32-40" tv which goes for a few hundred bucks new.

While people aren't robbing Airbnb homes, there are several cases where they are getting completely destroyed.
No sure if relevant but I've hated google's search for a unique reason: I find it horribly slow, especially compared to what it used to be. It's so slow, I've designed + partially implemented an alternative for my own use: https://github.com/Jeffrey-P-McAteer/dindex

I've only tested with 1000 records, but the query times are all <200ms.
Usually the passive eavesdropper is Eve, while the MITM that actively modifies messages is Mallory (she can be defended against by non-malleable cryptography). Also, Charlie is sometimes Catherine, as there is a tendency to alternate genders (Alice, Bob, Catherine, Dave, Eve, etc.).
The Dynamic Embedded Topic Model
I definitely would have said no if my boss told me to go reclaim a car from a ring of Chicago car thieves.
> Microsoft said the same thing about internet exploror and it's operating system

And breaking Microsoft's attempted browser monopoly required the DoJ.

To be clear, I believe we will eventually have to break apart--at the very least--Google and Facebook. But there are advantages to the author's proposed tactic of making the index public. It's a cleaner, cheaper, and quicker solution and doesn't harm the odds of a future break-up.
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I'm not exactly sure why, but I absolutely love this type of post.

Actually I do know why, it's because I get the warm feeling of knowing I get to be a smartass and point out Hofmeister Kinks to other people all over the place.

And for anyone else thinking "that would make an awesome band name"... it seems a duo from Adelaide with 66 likes on Facebook have beaten you to it.
Are they that hard to use? Last time I used Avis, I did the reservation on my phone, went to pick the car up, which consisted of signing some papers and then taking any car I wanted from a certain section of the parking garage.

Enterprise is just as easy and they'll even bring me the car.
There's some subtlety to the arrangement of the words. "off-topic, but interesting" has the implication that 'interesting' is preferred. "interesting, but off-topic" implies that as interesting as something might be, it is still off-topic and therefore might not be permitted.
I'm not sure I understand your example, do you want a string of FirstNames? Did you mean something like:

class FirstName extends String {...}
You could ask the API to get the UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding. You could ask the API to get the unicode character id. But how it’s stored internally, you’d never care
See Milton Friedman's Thermostat: https://themonkeycage.org/2012/07/milton-friedmans-thermosta...
What is this G3 Cube? G4 Cube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube)

Alas the speakers that came with it have a custom USB wiring, so they can't be used on any other computer.

Otherwise it was an excellent machine - just a bit under powered. But really easy to upgrade - just lift it out
of the enclosure via the click-out handle and the whole machine was available to upgrade RAM and install a wireless card (when that was a novel thing...). Design was nice, fits on a desktop and was mostly silent except for the HD.

Jobs' love of the Cube shape can probably be traced back to NeXT : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTcube
> You make sure that all plastic garbage actually ends up incinerated.

Oddly, this seems to be the most difficult part of the equation here in NYC. Containerization needs to be adopted in order to make the system more efficient and sanitary. Containerization would prevent refuse from spilling into the street, into the storm drains, etc. The current system (curbside pickup of plastic bags) falls over (literally and figuratively) in too many ways and the sanitation workers aren't interested in picking up the slack -- they ignore anything not secured in a plastic bag.
Why generative adversarial networks aren't a threat
Has anybody else noticed the complete conversion from generalized subreddits on r/all to oddly specific ones focused around calling people out from a placae of "moral high ground"? I really hate it now.
You should definitely roll your own, to be certain that the government is not stealing your secrets. They can send the information to computers on the internets now without your knowledge.
This isn't exactly crispr, it's more an application of Cas9 and friends. These are sometimes modified. The DNA and RNA binding capabilities of these proteins is opening up a lot of new possiblities!
This doesn't contract those biographies, it adds an additional detail. I guess to really know whether it was a significant detail you'd have to be an expert in 1950s British law. Maybe someone can find the judge's verdict, if he wrote one.
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My Biology Professor wants to use Neural Networks but needs students to build the whole model. Is there a simple GUI tool she can use to build it herself??
> “Frankly, I don't see why an engineer would know what the customer wants better than a product manager”

The engineer usually spends much more time investigating customer usage data, help center feedback, product features and competitors, all while also having greater familiarity with the engineering implementation (to know what’s feasible / reasonable) and greater quantitative skill to determine the implication of evidence in terms of what actions to take.

One lesson I learned a long time ago is to develop product management as a career growth track for engineers who are interested, because the best way to be an effective product manager is first to be an engineer of that product for a long time and leverage the engineering skill set as the primary skill set for product management.
Do it. You'll learn a lot. But afterwards you'll switch to an already existing password manager. Mainly because you can't think of everything, and they have years of experience (and frequently external audits). As other commenters have said, not everything is the storage of data.

If you use the appropiated hash functions (PBKDF2, bcrypt, scrypt, not "AES-256") you are not rolling "your own crypto".
> This idea is a pipe dream. It would be nationalizing property

The author references precedent in the 1956 consent decree with Bell Labs [1]. If anything, that was more extreme. AT&T developed those patents.

The author's proposal doesn't involve Google surrendering its algorithm. Just the index it compiled from public resources using a publicly-subsidized Internet infrastructure. All without content owners' permission.

[1] https://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/how_antitrust...
It is actually very easy to do legislatively (laws tell the companies what to do, not necessarily how to do it). The technical challenges fall on Google.
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This position erroneously presupposes that life satisfaction and quality of life are the same thing. Many people are satisfied with a lower quality of life, and are more than happy to invest tremendous effort into things that others may expect to be more convenient. But the point of view in the parent comment is essentially “if you do not derive satisfaction in life from the same things that I do, then you are wrong”, which is remarkably arrogant and closed minded.
> I never heard the phrase "Obama regime"

That's seems to be a sign of either extremely limited reading (biased to left-wing sources out of the mainstream) or extremely selective memory (rejecting or inventing facts to fit a right-wing narrative).

While both “Obama regime” and “Trump regime” seem to be used mostly originally by outside-the-mainstream media (the right and left fringes, respectively), the uses of the latter don’t even seem to get quoted much in mainstream sources, while the former (though not particularly frequently) do, at least from reviewing and, in the case of mainstream results, reading through results from the obvious phrase searches on Google News.
Personally, Bloomberg seems owned by some behind-the-scenes communist group: how can they propose such anti-free-enterprise drivel unless for sensationalism-driven pageclicks or they're pushing a funded agenda? I seriously wonder that.
> It is actually very easy to do legislatively

It would be easy to write a law, not to pass one. Generally speaking, when a law is unpredictably disruptive it becomes (a) difficult to pass and (b) time-consuming and costly to defend in court.
Subjective well being is a function of how well your neighbors are doing. Most millionaires in the U.S. report that they don’t feel wealthy.

What you may be suggesting is that our policy should care less about subjective well being and more about objective well being, but this goes against the progressive milieu.
I heard a recent McDonald's CEO started at the fryer. No idea as to the accuracy.
I agree with you but in a different way :) (what follows its a long text written in bad English but I hope I'll manage to make my idea clear)

Regarding your idea that "By any standard of effectiveness, this is not looking good for pharmaceuticals": This is a very complex topic and I don't think anyone has a clear and objective view/explanation about this.

For example, we have a big problem with the antibiotics. We eat a lot of meat from animals that where treated with antibiotics. We "overuse" antibiotics. Etc. Because of this, new antibiotics-resistant bacteria appeared and classical antibiotics became less and less effective in fighting against them. How should we categorize this issue? Should we see it as a proof of the fact that medicines are not as effective as advertised? It's not a problem with antibiotics per se. Or as a proof that modern medicine is overrated? Medicine correctly identified the problem(bacteria) and the treatment(antibiotics). In reality it is a problem generated by mostly by the rising popularity of automedication, lack of basic medical/pharmaceutical education and urban myths (antibiotics are good for anything), medicines used on animals (which is not a problem of human medicine), and, I would say, only a tiny part of the problem is the treatments that unnecessarily include antibiotics and are prescribed by medicine doctors.
But, let's say that we don't know anything about the above mentioned facts and we study some statistics. What would we think when seeing a clear correlation between the increase in the number of antibiotics and decrease of the effectiveness of the treatments? We could see it as a proof that "the quality of medicine drugs has decreased resulting in an increase of ineffective treatment".

The point I'm trying to make is that the reason why the effectiveness of many treatments decreased and now we have a decline in life expectancy it's a very complex issue and it's not fair to see it as simple as a fact failure of pharmaceutics or/and medicine.

Regarding your last statement, I think that we are not seeing improvements because our modern environment and life style has changed and is changing in such a rapid and unpredictable way that medicine can keep the pace. Medicine it's improving, but it's improving too slow.
It is as out environment and lifestyle is traveling by plane while medicine and pharmaceutics are traveling by bus...
None of the rules he sets out for access to index are true for ICs within google trying to run over even the top/smallest tier of pages in the index.
Real estate transactions are public records. Companies monitor for sales and market to the new buyers. The same happens when you start a company. The company registration is a public record.
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Qt is decidedly not native, but can attempt a "native look-and-feel".

wxWidgets actually wraps native GUI widgets though...
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Saw that recently in Copenhagen also.
Those things you describe are more or less fundamentally individual endeavors, however. I'll concede that there may be narrow domains where such work can be a net positive within a larger organization but it's not the way to bet.

The fact of the matter is that the tech industry is based far more on collaboration and collective innovation than individual acts of anti-social genius.