skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netflix also has however many thousands of normal users there.
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I think he plays violin so it kinda makes sense ;)
This is more insidious than I think even most HN readers realize. In the intelligence community, the big black sheep people don't really talk about is psychological operations, or psyops, units. They are the same breed that used research from MK ULTRA style programs to learn how to deprogram humans (some claims on how to reprogram them), and part of that is a scientific analysis of mass social community discourse. Previously, domestic propaganda was illegal, though it was often engaged in anyway now that the law against domestic propaganda has been rescinded that means the remnants of older programs like Operation Mockingbird, where the CIA inserted people into news outlets across the board for intel gathering and disinfo pushing, have now evolved to a level where they are actively manipulating public discourse on all kinds of subjects.

A very good example of this is the post JFK assassination issue. It's pretty clear to any intellectually honest person that there are some very large issues that were never addressed regarding the assassination, because the CIA purposeful put into action an operation to discredit any alternative theory's as "conspiracy theory" and anyone who talked in that manner was labeled as a crackpot "conspiracy theorist" and then a large campaign to undermine any logical discussion of "conspiracy theory", essentially by putting it, as Chomsky would say, "outside the accepted range of debate".

Wonder why the fourth estate, aka journalism is in such a sad state of affairs? It's because the state has reached (quietly) so far into it that even the handful of real journalist are having a hard time.

They have keep up technologically to keep sources safe, which proves almost impossible these days. They have to deal with pushback from the editors bosses of a glarily political nature, they have to deal with being cut off from sources if they happen to piss off the wrong people with a too-strong story.

This is another reason the surveillance society is so insidious. I have said it before and I will say it again, surveillance, censorship, subtle covert influence of public discourse, are not about security.

It's about control.

A lot of people argue about 1984 vs Brave New World. What I say is that it's a Brave New World, unless you attempt to resist, then it's 1984. This is the state we live in, the real question is "Are the people going to let this happen?"

I'm no longer so reliant on the "long arc of justice", and am getting pretty pessimistic.
The "usual suspect" discussions about NSA are something like 10:1 against NSA. If there's an NSA sockpuppet army trying to influence HN, it's a good one, because there's no evidence of it.
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A number of years ago my media filenames were getting out of hand and after a drive crash I decided to start naming all media files manually with a basic structure. It worked quite well and I've kept to the same basic idea for a number of years, with more than 10k files named this this way when initially saving the file.

It follows a fairly loose mental structure: Broad Category - [Sub-category -] [Series Title -] Name/Media Title (Creator, Source, Short Description/Tags)

Which usually looks something like:

* Keyboards - Keycaps - Warmaster (martinyeah, geekhack.org) - 2.jpg

* Paintings - Market In Cairo (Leopold Carl Müller, Middle Eastern desert).jpg

* Themes - Android - Themer (mycolorscreen.com) - Wrong Way (Victor Burgoa).png

* Trailers - Godzilla (2013) - Comic-Con Teaser.mp4

* Typefaces - Lettering - Gospel Waffle Sunday syrup logo time-lapse (Lauri Johnston).mp4

The basic idea has been to organize the filenames by broad to narrower info from left-to-right, which helps with quick filtering/searching and allows many categories of files to be kept in large single directories while being readable. By adding the creator and site where needed it also allows me to trace the source. Not a perfect naming system but it only takes a little longer to save while adding considerable value long-term.
Way ahead of his time
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One of the difficulties this kind of output has is that it runs very quickly into issues of semantics and model labeling.

We humans each build models kind of like these when we interact with one another, so when I ask somebody, "do you think <name> is an agreeable person?" and they reply "sure I think he is!" they're consulting that model to provide me an answer. Humans can even do a kind of pairwise sorting on that model and tell you if person1 is more or less agreeable than person2.

However, even if our individual models may differ a bit, and the results of these kinds of questions to each other might differ a bit, there's an inherent "humanness" to the results because people generally have a pretty similar semantic understanding of what "agreeableness" means.

However, what does Watson think agreeableness means? I have no idea, nobody really knows. Watson can't really explain it. All we know is that there's a model that produces a scored (and thus rankable output) when asked to score a corpus on that model and somebody somewhere labelled that model as the "agreeableness" model, perhaps based on some heuristics or parameters that were intended to define that notion.

It's thus very hard for humans to trust scoring like this because when it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense for reasons that no human would have about the matter. For example, I would personally say pg is far more agreeable than I am, yet Watson scores our respective collection of comments exactly the same. I can't explain it, Watson can't explain it, and thus it feels "wrong" and now I can't trust the scores that Watson provides me.
Ah, ok makes sense. I don' cycle much so I didn't think of the hand signals.
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>If the US had better policies for maternity leave

Why only maternity leave? What happened to equal rights?

1 year maternity + 0 year paternity = should we really hire this female candidate over a man? She might get pregnant.

6mo maternity + 6mo paternity = Who is the better candidate?

Not only that, but why should women be the only ones raising the kids? The joys of child rearing should be shared by both parents.

Why are things so hard to fix? Because quick fixes everyone suggests are poorly considered.
Like anything in life the devil is in the details. What measures and metrics could possibly be used to determine the score? If you go by mortality rates alone you risk creating an environment where no one wants to operate on the most at risk patients. You'll quickly find that the best surgeons aren't necessarily the most surgically skilled, but instead those who do the best job of pre-screening surgical candidates. If this continues, soon you'll have patients whom doctors flat out refuse to cut open. If instead of mortality rates, you score the doctors on skill of movement in their procedures, again, you'll find doctors gaming the system by picking healthier patients with lower body fat percentages.

Fundamentally, if a system was in place to score surgeons a lot of checks and balances would need to be enacted to avoid lowering the quality of care by ensuring doctors, hospital staff, and administrators couldn't simply pick and choose what surgeon gets what patient. I really see this as a neat data science project after the fact, but if implemented could have a significant downside impact on patient outcomes for some.
Big companies cultivate the mindshare of product fans and employees who then feel naturally inclined to argue for their favorite companies, that's not always meaningfully different from astroturfing, but this doesn't necessarily mean that what you are reading is coming from some Conversation Control Department. Sometimes lots of people on the Internet just disagree with your opinion.
same thing for facebook, criticise the effectiveness of their ads and watch what happens
You don't need the entire blockchain for this.

And new blocks are "only" ~400KB in size - at 1/10min, that's less than 700B/s. (Of course, it'll be more in practice. But still, not much.)
I posted this the last time a similar article came up and a couple people seemed interested. I'm still trying to gauge whether anyone would be interested in a podcast about this kind of stuff. I've started putting together notes for this podcast here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nn01yDS5PkiegHq4Oxz43xUQ...
I haven't built a full CRUD app myself, mostly some small hacked together tools and various silly stuff. Personally though I did end up just experimenting with basic stuff to get familiar with the language and tools for a couple of evenings before I got anything even half-useful done.

So I'd say, if just want to get a simple CRUD API app out quickly, use Python and Flask or something similar as it's something you already know well. If you wanna use the CRUD API app as an excuse to play with new languages and technologies which will hopefully lead to a expanded skill-set, then go for Go ;)

As for Node.js, if you already know Javascript, it'll fall about 30-40% of the way between using Python that you know and Go that you don't know.
Imagine using this "worm simulation" as a real world "computer worm" to do your bidding!
Thanks for doing this. It is hard to judge the data, but I just did a quick check for agreeableness, and it seems reasonable. The person rated highest for agreeableness top does in fact seem way more agreeable than the person at the bottom.

Most agreeable: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=StavrosK
Least agreeable: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dragonwriter
Negative comment, 2 karma and this is an only comment you made... You look like a sock puppet to me :)
> A fair argument, but what's the gradual approach?

Site blacklists (a list of sites that should be secure.) Start with all of the banking and payment sites. Then add in sensitive topics to the person's country (eg atheism, homosexuality, piracy, etc.) The list would work a lot like the phishing/malware blacklist.

If anyone has the algorithms and data for that, it'd be Google. Of course, they'd then risk it being easier for governments to demand browsers block content for them. So it's a double-edged sword.
But what if it's used in a company? It's not nice for the company to force an employee to use this.

We're talking one line in a description (and possibly the name, though that's less impactful). Changing it doesn't change the programme. Why do some people get so sensitive about something so trivial and not want to change it?
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We made a mistake and published a list of top 100 commenters, not leaders. But we'll be updating this in a moment.

Sorry for the confusion.
What, however, can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice?

More diversity (in neighborhoods, in workplaces, in schools) would certainly help -- the transition from "us" and "them" to a unified "us." And yet, it's disappointing how segregated America still is today. One fairly in-depth study [1] offers an example of how "today" came to be. (This report is not about any current events, but rather a detailed account of city zoning over a few decades.)

[1] http://www.epi.org/publication/making-ferguson/
maybe you are the sockpuppet?
Yes, the core team is based in Cambridge, UK. However we do intend to be a truly open-source project, with an open and distributed development process which would involve arbitrarily geographically distributed third-party contributors.
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The thing I like is the reference to Aristotle. Today, there are some people who are too quick to brand anyone who disagrees with their enlightened views as a "moron" or worse. There's no winning hearts and minds that way. It's better to gently point out the mistakes of those who are otherwise worthy of respect, in the hopes that this will spur others towards self-reflection, than to castigate and put people on the defensive. We could use more of that.
I was always impressed by his stand against zionism.

http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/old/einstein.htm
Well, the solution proposed in the article is to keep the scores hidden from everyone but the particular surgeon. That is, have the score be a motivator and guide for personal improvement rather than an external quality indicator. They report on trials where similar scores were published in NY and the end result was that the highest risk patients got shipped off to Ohio, exactly as you describe. So it's critical that the data is not shown to anyone but the surgeon in question.
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Very interesting. There are some other articles by Einstein there as well. The Science and Religion one is particularly interesting:

http://www.onbeing.org/program/einstein039s-god-einstein039s...
Persistent, ridiculous gaming of discussion media would be good for society, as it would force it to become gaming resistant.
A social group implies at least 2 persons.

Even if two people are in a room, and they start having a conversation what you find is that they will try to

* Censor / Re-Imagine themselves to present their POV in a better way

* Censor / Manipulate the other person to force their POV unto them.

The online is a complete extension of the offline, so its perfectly normal for all this to happen, even all the time !
The 2-4 main cores will be derived from the UC Berkeley Rocket core generator https://github.com/ucb-bar/rocket. Currently this is single issue, in-order though it is designed to be a dual-issue in-order core (i.e. superscalar).
All the discussion here pointing out possible shill armies aside - is there some way to actually stop it.

How do we move conversations - Forward.
My bet is that it's the Police Security Service that's behind it.

After all, they have been behind the vast majority of illegal political surveillance in Norway after the war, and they were very dismissive when asked about trying to identify who were behind it (claiming it'd be difficult and pointless; so either they're unwilling to even try to do their job and/or are incompetent, or they know more than they let on).

Spying by foreign powers have certainly happened in Norway, but the Police Security Service (or technically its "predecessor", the Police Surveillance Service) was found to have carried out extensive illegal surveillance of left wing politicians for the better part of half a century in the mid 90's at a level that no known foreign plot have gotten anywhere close to.

If not the Police Security Service, I'd bet on the US with the tacit approval of the Police Security Service.
Summary (from TFA): "...there is now extensive experience of all forms of privatisation [with] many studies of... comparative technical efficiency... results are remarkably consistent across all sectors and all forms of privatisation and outsourcing: there is no empirical evidence that the private sector is intrinsically more efficient. The same results emerge consistently from sectors and services which are subject to outsourcing, such as waste management, and in sectors privatised by sale, such as telecoms."
This[1] paper from Google also covers how SMART stats relate to drive failures. This line from the conclusion kind of wraps things up:

> We find, for example, that after their first scan
error, drives are 39 times more likely to fail within 60
days than drives with no such errors.

So basically, if you are getting SMART errors, you should make sure that data is backed up (if it isn't already).

Another interesting section is:

> Out of all failed drives, over 56% of them have no
count in any of the four strong SMART signals, namely
scan errors, reallocation count, offline reallocation, and
probational count. In other words, models based only
on those signals can never predict more than half of the
failed drives.

So, while monitoring SMART errors is a good indicator if your drive is going to fail, it's hardly failsafe, and chances are you drive will fail without any notice. SMART stats are interesting, but not the ideal measure of the health of a disk.

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
With some fringe chances it's OPEC or BP or some other oil related interest.
I'd say the real problem is that too many people want to live near other people (and near their jobs, which also happen to be where there are lots of people); this naturally drives the prices of houses/apartments in cities up, and there often isn't much more land to build on...
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Can somebody compare Kubernetes and Marathon+Chronos?

Why would somebody choose Kubernetes over native solution provided by Mesos?
I was being silly, technically.
More diversity (in neighborhoods, in workplaces, in schools) would certainly help

Maybe instead of forcing segregation, or forcing integration, freedom of association could be tried?
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if you haven't seen this, there's even some math to explain how "today" came to be.

http://ncase.me/polygons/
Except for your constant defence of them of course
1) Sometimes big life decisions are no-win scenarios: there isn't always a solution that leaves every party happy.

2) It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that what you're doing is 'harder' than what others are doing. Everything is hard if you're pushing your limits.
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The elephant in the Bitcoin room is that it simply cannot scale up to high TPS rates.

What is it about Bitcoin that makes seemingly everyone, no matter how unqualified, re-iterate the same naive knee-jerk trite at no end, at every opportunity?

Can we please stop repeating the same old debates on every article with Bitcoin in the title?
This is reassuring - I'm happy to know that you've bet your personal business on it, and really glad that they've got you and Steve on board. Looking forward to great things from Rust, and excited to get more involved!
The difficult thing is figuring out how much of it is insidious and dangerous and how much of it is The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Mandreel doesn't avoid garbage as much as emscripten output does, but it does create less than "typical" JS, most likely. However, it still can create plenty of doubles as garbage on the heap, on JS engines without nanboxing, such as v8, which is a factor in why v8 loses here.
Rayiner, to his credit, engages controversy without fear. I'm sure it leads to some interesting voting.
Changing how you perceive yourself can change a lot about you. I used to consider myself a scientific-technology type with an artistic bent - after all, I have worked in high tech for decades and have a degree in physics.

But this past year I started thinking of myself as an artist who happens to work in tech to pay the bills (I act semi-professionally and write for fun).

It's like something shifted inside and all of bits got into phase with each other. Remarkable, really.
I find it also depends a lot on the genre. Music without lyrics, whether that be trance, classical, or jazz can be great for focusing because it drops into the background but the beat drives you forward almost subconsciously.
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Thanks for the answer. I am really not familiar with the mathematics of hash algorithms and I ask just to learn.

Why is length essentially a weak hash? Isn't it an additional constraint that works orthogonal to the hash? It serves to restrict the space of collisions and hence directly reduces the exploit surface. Moreover, the length can be independently verified of the hash function, and its space & time complexity is negligible.
Guess who makes them cool :)
You don't need to launch your product at all. Start small. Monopolize this small subset of customers and make them love your product. Don't waste your time trying investors and accelerators before market fit.
If I understands correctly, the fan is the heat-sink. I never seen this in a computer.
It's not nice for a company to force an employee to use a library that may or may not offend them but it is nice to ask the person who created that library to change their work to conform to the company for which they likely do not work? That sounds a bit self-centered.

"Why do some people get so sensitive about something so trivial and not want to change it?"

You're joking, right? You're sensitive about the name of something you didn't create and want it changed but it would be wrong for the author to not want to change it because you're sensitive about it?
But how is it decrypted after booting? Is the service down until they login and mount the drives manually?
I am humbled by the sincerity and humanity of this writing. Thanks for sharing.
Unfortunately, once communities start out segregated, they stay segregated.
"More diversity (in neighborhoods, in workplaces, in schools) would certainly help"

I'm not so sure. I went to a very diverse and large high school in NJ and what ends up happening is self segregation. All the ethnic groups would mostly end up hanging out with their own types.
Interesting that his views on race in America are now mainstream, while his views on Zionism are rarely voiced outside the far left or far right. It seems to me that his views are based on a consistent application of principals, while American politics isn't.
It's not mature enough to be a contender for Ruby/Rails or Python/Django yet, but assuming it gets there, it may offer incredible performance.
Teepee (a Rust HTTP library under development) put together a page that explains the current state of affairs: http://arewewebyet.com/
“We love your music,” the public seems to be saying, “but we aren’t going to pay for it anymore."

This is utterly and painfully familiar to me.

Before I dove into retraining as a programmer, I was a self-published tabletop roleplaying author.

Tabletop RPGs are an incredibly small space, and part of the reason they are a small space is that no one pays anyone for anything. I wasn't even self-published because I didn't have publisher interest in my work: I was self-published because when publishers approached me and I sent them quotes asking for less than a penny per word, they would still balk and tell me it was too much money or just stop responding to my emails.

And yet, when you talk about this publicly, when you discuss that maybe the reason so many of the industry's most legendary designers all leave and write for video games is because they literally weren't making enough to live, people react to you with hostility and derision. You may as well be spouting Marxist propaganda on the street corner, all for the crime of suggesting that someone actually be paid enough for their work to make it worth doing.

You hear new ideas, things like pay-what-you-want, or free-ebook schemes, which conveniently all seem to involve giving them something for free with the understanding that somehow this will magically turn into more sales.

It rarely does. IF you're big enough and visible enough, or when you first make a splash on the scene, some of these tricks can work for a short time. What actually happened in all but one occasion was that a whole hell of a lot of people just decided they were more happy to get something for nothing and my sales actually went down (though downloads of course, went up.)

Patreon is a great model, in theory, when it works. But it irritates me that this is what we've come to in the creative sphere of our society. Artists literally have to beg publicly for money, to resort to what amounts to a medieval patronage scheme, just to survive at all, all because the audience has simply decided en masse that the value of all creative work is effectively zero.

They're still all too happy to watch/read/play the hell out of it, and tell you how amazing your thing is.

Just don't ask them to give you any money for it.