skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bottom line is that a well made algorithm with a sufficiently large [1] data set cannot be fair or unfair. It can only optimize with an estimated accuracy.

If the numbers show that poor people are more likely to respond to payday loan advertisements, then that's what the numbers show. If the businesses are truly predatory then they should be regulated. It doesn't make sense to show ads for them to people who are statistically unlikely to respond to them, nor does it make sense to show poor people ads for institutions that are statistically unlikely to grant them loans. Algorithms aren't the problem here, the nature of the businesses is.

And in fairness, I notice that when I watch certain tv shows late at night I'm much more likely to see payday loan ads than when I watch during prime time. I've long suspected that this is because the kind of person who is watching "30 Rock" re-runs at 1am is less likely to be employed and more likely to need a payday loan. So if it's fair for a media buyer to select audiences that are most likely to purchase a product, why is it unfair for an algorithm to do it?

The article makes the point that algorithms are opaque and people often can't explain exactly why a decision was made. That's fine, as long as the results can be shown to be accurate with out of sample testing. It's good to understand why, but it isn't always necessary. The point of using advanced statistical modelling is to expand our level of capability beyond what our brains can easily perceive. The ability to draw reliable inferences from tens of millions of data points is a very powerful and wonderful thing, quite a leap for evolved monkeys who use lobes of fat to perform calculations. It's new, it's different, and it's definitely worrying. But the sooner we can adapt, the better off we'll be as a society.

[1] in this case "large" probably means two or three orders of magnitude larger than you were thinking
I'm not sure I see the XSS vuln, or rather, a site might have an XSS vuln and long sessions would make it worse, but I don't see long sessions causing XSS. MitM would be possible without TLS, but not with it. Malware is always a threat, but if it can read cookies it might be able to read cached passwords etc. too.

Sure you don't want to constantly bug the user but not every site needs to do that. Especially for sporadically-used sites, "receiving email" could be less of a pain than keeping track of passwords.

A session can be long-lived without being indefinite. We might decide that any authenticated site visit within the last week is new enough not to repeat the passwordless process, or we might say two weeks or a month or whatever.
Setup system across from office entrance a month beforehand. Drop the tag into the target's coat at restaurant coat check. Trigger remote system based on proximity. Someone's probably already done this in a spy movie.

It'd be a much better idea to simply have a remote controlled system, using tech that's been around for decades. Though I suppose if you're truly paranoid, you might be worried about signals tracking. Maybe have it connected to the Internet and use thermite to wipe out the evidence after shooting.
The main disadvantages mentioned in this article relate to the fact that many SPA today don't replicate the traditional routing mechanism. Which, in my humble opinion, is the wrong thing to judge it on. You can easily have a single-page-application on a... Single Page. The actual url can just preserve the current state of the app, instead of a location.
Yup, as soon as I read 'free hardware, free to install' I immediately though 'Service model'

Also I don't think this data is particularly attractive to anyone except competitors... and even then its not like its an email list or anything, merely traffic.
For companies that size, the really important services probably have a distributed ops team, with a team in Europe/Asia alternating 12 hour oncall shifts with a team in North America. In an emergency, the non-North American team could take 24 hour shifts to keep the infrastructure alive.

Though of course if headquarters was really wiped off the map, there'd be huge problems with communication, tribal knowledge that only existed in the heads of senior engineers in Seattle, and so forth.
I live north east of Vancouver and have lived my whole life without even a shake. Most of my friends (from all over) have never felt one either. He didn't say "everywhere", just "many places".
Afaik Paypass/Paywave can't be cloned as well (http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/21982/can-i-clone...) so their "solution" is going to be interesting. The purpose of chipped cards is exactly to prevent against clones/skimming, so these devices should die pretty soon. If they don't go the Apple Pay way, which probably costs a huge amount of time and money.
You could do the same after the fact.
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Journalism:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/us-cuban-twitte...

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-secretly-created-cuban-twi...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/usaid-effort-t...

There's a bunch of programs like these. CANVAS for example works with the US government to stir dissent in VZ. Similar to how the US then uses crackdowns on its clandestine programs as illustrations of a corrupt VZ government when the Cuban government cracked down on phones due to US messaging programs (both to SMS and through apps like ZunZuneo) it was criticized by the US government for cracking down on civil rights. This is also similar to (project UNITER) activity by the CIA in organizing the Euromaiden protests and for shell media companies in Ukraine, and the following cry about the crackdown on 'civil society' there.

These things are incredibly smart, of course, and I'm glad our government has these capabilities and is so good at it. But there's also a level at which some debates need to be had and while specific programs and details hurt national security a general conversation among the people on what sorts of tactics they approve of and what boundaries should be in place in this murky area of law should be a good thing.
It may be worth noting that the Nexus 5 came out more than two years after the iPhone 4S (Oct 31, 2013 vs Oct 14, 2011), and as of now it hasn't even been 2 years since the Nexus 5 was released.

That said, it has been less than 4 years since the iPhone 4S was released; they shouldn't be failing yet, and that reflects poorly on the iPhone (as well as iOS) in your case. However, I'm also not yet convinced that the Nexus 5 will be operating well in late 2017 - that's yet to be determined.
ready.gov has some basic steps. But, they don't have enough emphasis on having clean water, IMO. Having a storage sharing agreement with friends within a day or two's walk could be useful, so if your home is destroyed (along with your emergency supplies) your friend's might still be in good shape. And vice-versa.
Minmal amount of people live along the border. You can get most of the benefit without a political union. Free movment of goods and people can be done with bilateral agreements. No need for the EU.
what is "path-dependent UX/UI evolution" ?
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How do you get performance and not lots of nested queries out of GraphQL?

GraphQL looks nice in theory, and surely in practice regarding Facebook's storage architecture, I just wish it can be used on smaller project with DB backed data.
Don't forget the elevation change from the subducted plate falling back down. Personally, I'd look for a motorcycle and head for the hills.
It seems a system that produces different outcomes for two individuals differing only in their racial identity, or other "irrelevant factors", is unfair. The question is, of course, what factors actually are relevant.
It's not a legal free speech issue, but it is a free speech issue for those of us who like free speech.
What office size? 10-50 people on a managed switch? Sure. Once you start talking larger corporate footprints, you have an entire local network to manage, gear throughout a campus, SLAs to meet for local users.

Reduced portfolio. Hah!
As far as I know the MSRT is just a virus and or malware scanner. At the moment looking for old binaries it beyond its scope. But that could change.

The closest thing to that is this, Securia PSI:

https://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
Andrew @ Density.io answered this for me.

The sensor wires in to an electrical outlet. Andrew specified that the wire is custom length; indicating it is manually handled at install.
The best thing about bash, and by bash I mean sh if we're going to argue and I mean bash if we're not going to argue, is that it's already on every system and you can just plan on being able to use it with no further work. Pipelining is definitely awesome, but you can make furniture out of gluesticks using enough bash (and all those two letter commands that aren't bash but always infect the system along side it)
What are some examples of applications that succeed in this?

The only one I can think of that is successful is Google Maps. Though lately I seem have all sorts of problems navigating it, so maybe it's no longer a success.

"Feeling like you're no longer in a browser" isn't really a customer goal or a product goal. It could be a means to an end, depending on the application, but I don't see that many people executing it effectively.

The more common case by far seems to be people who want too much control, without realizing that they are actually degrading the experience (i.e. by messing up navigation, hyperlinks, copy-paste, accessibility, latency, etc.)
I'm from Poland. We have Donald Tusk (D. Tusk) here, who is the President of the European Council since 1 December 2014, and previously he was Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2014. It would be funny if that had any connection to this issue.
Right. So for the exact same problem domain, one company might use Java and another might use Haskell, purely because of history, the candidates they can find, and any number of other possible concerns.

None of this has anything to do with objective technical superiority of one solution or another, assuming you could make that case definitively. And if one could make that case, technical superiority is only one input into a much more complicated decision-making process.

Again: there is no one true language. There never was and there never will be. Our entire industry, hell, all industries, operate based on tradeoffs, whether those be business, technical, political, or other. Why would programming language selection be any different?
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In addition to providing the look and feel that users expect, native UIs are the most practical way to achieve accessibility for people with disabilities, e.g. blind people using screen readers like VoiceOver (iOS) and TalkBack (Android). You can implement the platform accessibility APIs for a non-native UI, but it's a lot of work; just ask the relevant developers of Chrome and Firefox.

Addendum: If your app uses a web view, it can be accessible, as long as you use standard semantic HTML elements and/or add the appropriate ARIA attributes and focus behavior for custom widgets. But in this comment, I was comparing a native UI to something completely custom.
They should put in the terms of service that everything becomes public 100 years after death. It would be an amazing social history.
I wish I could find some definitive resources on whether or not a building would be considered safe in a tsunami, and if it would be better to go for higher floors or lower floors.

I imagine that after such a large earth quake, many buildings would be unstable and potentially open to collapse from the force of a tsunami. I'm sure going to higher ground would be a better idea if possible, but say if it was iffy to get there in 10 minutes, should I spend that time looking for a high building instead or just get as far inland as possible?
There was an interesting observation on moz-dev last month:

Firefox users like to download videos. A lot. 15 of the top 40 add-ons downloaded this week are video downloaders

So they certainly know what users like... and then ignore that data.

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2015-June/002...
Sure you can. Just look for the keys to the main breakers to those buildings. Of course, paying for that amount of vacation for 15 days is probably not entirely feasible for any company.
The ECB has been keeping Greek banks alive for many months now. If you missed the news, there are long lines at ATMs and plenty of Greeks moving money anywhere but Greece - no bank can survive a bank run.
Andrew @ density.io answered this for me.

It can determine traffic direction; which is a leap beyond current technology i.e. a break beam, which cannot.
Read fractional-reserve banking. They only have a small fraction of deposits in the form of cash. Since the bulk of the Greek economy depends on imports, it means they are constantly importing stuff and exporting cash.

And their dependency on actual physical paper money in the day to day economy has really hurt their economy more in the last two weeks than anything that's happened since the 2nd bailout; it may turn out this current period injures the Greek economy worse than any of the austerity measures.
Couldn't it take a guess based on previous actions? If it does this every weekend and keeps getting the same results, ease up a bit? If it tracks individuals, it should be able to tell when it see it diverted someone, only to have them end up in traffic.
It is likely a scala program running, no buffer overflows to be found. In a modern language, you have to be very careless to allow RCE.
We made our own AIR door counter, composed of a few distance sensors. It can tell us in which direction a person is passing, and gives a distance profile that we process to distinguish individual people. Technically, we measure your circumference to some degree, but you might agree that is far from enough to compromise your anonimity.
This exemplifies my love hate relationship with HN. I love that I now have something new to read that is extremely interesting, but I hate that you've just destroyed my productivity for a time span of not minutes, but hours, or even days depending on how deep I go into this rabbit hole.
That is my biggest thought. If this is oriented to hackers, let me own the thing so I can do some really cool stuff with it.
Let them try if they can get away with that.
>In my opinion, the lack of defense of broad copyright infringement from 1920-1980 should be grounds for copyright invalidation.

This is one of the strongest arguments against automatic copyright renewals. If a copyright holder wants the full term offered to them under the law, they should have to affirmatively exercise that right (preferably at some non-trivial cost).
That sounds mostly right to me. Barely floating or even running in the red (making shit for money) also provides financial incentives. But beyond the monetary there are plenty of types of leverage - legal, "human", and access to information (in reddit this is probably also not as strong leverage). There's also rewards that can be given to individuals who have some say in the direction of reddit. For example Pao was on the board of National Defense Thinktanks in Washington - an opportunity to both give a small stipend and for conversations to open dialogue and for perception.
The DiRT drills include the simultaneous loss of whole offices, including the complete obliteration of the Bay Area. Participants are instructed to pretend that they've been eaten by zombies and not communicate with anyone in a remote office, and that's backed up (as described in the article) by cutting the network links to & from the Mountain View corporate office.

Now, there may certainly be larger systemic effects over long time periods caused by eg. the death of the company CEO, the loss of new product development, or the complete destruction of the company's market (in, for example, a global thermonuclear apocalypse that sets us back to the stone age). But the tests absolutely do simulate the simultaneous death of 15,000+ employees, destruction of the Mountain View headquarters, and loss of all datacenters, data, and power in the Bay Area, and verify that remote teams can continue the day-to-day operations in such an event.
The current minister of finance in Germany had to resign after accepting 100,000 DM from an arms dealer, and is director of The Institution for Growth which he suggested 50B in Greek assets be transferred to. More blatant corruption would be hard to find. Yet somehow he has the chutzpah to lecture Greece on financial probity.

https://www.kfw.de/KfW-Group/About-KfW/Vorstand-und-Gremien/...
I think that Facebook only serves HTML5 video to Windows 7+, so I'm not sure why your Chrome 41 on Windows 7 test didn't work.
Skiing: Putting a camera on a tripod, unattended, on the piste? Then get the lift up to the top so you can ski back down towards the camera? Again, I can't see this ending well for the poor old camera.

On the other hand, this represents a great business opportunity for ski resorts. The ski resort has a few soloshots mounted near the snowboarding rail park, and $5 lets you wear a tracking armband for 5 minutes. Drop it in the bucket at the end of your run, get an ID number which will allow you to download your footage at the end of the day.

In fact, if a ski resort wanted throw a ton of money at this problem, they could put soloshots along the entire mountain, and you rent an armband for an entire run down the mountain. That would however require sophisticated software on their end to collate all of the camera feeds and stitch together a single video file of your run down the mountain.
I'm so happy to hear someone from Greece say that. I think the alternatives were all worse and this is the best of a lot of bad options.
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$50bn is an overly optimistic assumption. $7bn is realistic.
Not quite sure I understand your question. We store counts, not individual object IDs, so at an individual granularity it would be the same as your IR device counting one person.
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So it looks like there's not much of a worry someone has from looking through those files themselves.

Personally I have looked through these files and have not run into any malware issues pointed out by the article.

I found it very informative and interesting to look through the intelligence files. One of my favorite finds are the docs on CANVAS and some of the US destabilization operations in Venezuela and color revolutions.
> Without a certain minimal degree of luck, you would have no scientific progress.

A minor disagreement on this point. I think often our intuitions are shaped by experience, and lead us to conclusions that we don't have a rational line of inference to (at least one we can explain). Science acts as a good filter, saying "we don't care how you came up with it, test it and we'll agree if it turns out it's right". This isn't a random guess, but it's far from reasoning you could convince anyone else with. This is different from a lucky guess. Your brain has been seeing a lot of the data, and is picking up on patterns, in other words your intuition is correlated with the phenomena, and that's what leads you to the theory you want to test.

Second, sometimes purely rational arguments lead us to theories from other data. This isn't random chance, but it is exploiting regularities in the world around us to predict new things. For example, kepler's laws of motion weren't the direct result of observation. You can't observe equations that guide the motion of the planets. In between observations, the planets might have jumped all over the place. But it was assumed that the planets weren't doing that, and simple equations were inferred from the data available that fit the evidence. There is a step here between "observation" and "prediction" that doesn't involve a lucky guess.
Yeah, the presentation format is annoying but argument is good, in fact, the argument is really important.

Machine learning is about approximate reasoning but with no real guarantees of the approximation. Even if the approximation is usually very good, being occasionally bad can be "deeply problematic" when we don't have control over exactly how exactly the bad recommendations are created.
Nope, Webex it doesn't work on:
* Android (tested 4.4.4, app opens chrome on a page that asks to install the same app, when opening with firefox it says that it is not supported) - why app would open a browser is beyond me
* Linux 64bit - screen shared by others is not visible
People have absolutely made that argument before.
How about the fact that in case you use API keys for the back end, the API key has to appear in the client as well. e.g. If there are third party clients using your API server and you want to issue keys for them. (They could just as easily use the one that is used by the main website)
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If you're curious about Meteor + React, this is a great place to start:

http://info.meteor.com/blog/meteor-the-missing-infrastructur...

The integration isn't totally settled yet, but a lot of work is being put into it at the moment and Meteor is a perfect companion to React, much simpler than implementing your own Flux or Relay backend.

For further info, you can also look here:

http://react-in-meteor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
It's true, not all ideas are good and it's important to be flexible-minded about these things. But as I mentioned, the Airbnb founders knew from their own experiences using their product and from their user base (albeit small at the time) that Airbnb felt like a good idea. I've seen founders give up based on the equivalent of these 7 rejections from investors so I wanted to remind people to persevere. I'm sure glad the Airbnbs did.
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It is not only OK but expected to distribute the JRE with your apps.
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> 4. Weird, unnecessary utility, like copying text to the clipboard.

The JavaScript document.execCommand() clipboard APIs are available in Firefox 41+, Chrome, Safari, and IE. More discussion (in the issue tracker for ZeroClipbboard, a popular Flash clipboard utility):

https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/580
Large parts of downtown and the area between Queen Anne and Capitol Hill ( where the Amazon campus is ) are built on fill, and are likely to be subjected to liquefaction in a major seismic event. It's entirely possible that whole sections of Capitol Hill could slide into downtown too.

The hills shake and the mountains dance, and then comes the tsunami; this sounds much more exciting to read about than live through.
I agree that more debt is disconcerting. But the alternative of going "cold turkey" would result in a humanitarian crisis. This is a country which imports most of its food, energy and medicine. The banks are bust and the government doesn't have the money to pay next month's public sector salaries.
This is why Germany and the baltics wanted reform up front - it prevents Greece from screwing around for another 3 years and not making any changes that get it healthy over the long run.
1) It's expensive. Greek industry itself has moved to the balkans, and china. Many greek businesses run through cyprus to survive (low tax).

2) laws not being enforced in places where they should.

3) lets just say, the greeks have been spoiled by a decade of easy lending and dont have the greatest work ethic.

4) Many hotel chains have been sold in the past decade. Tourism doesn't make as much as you think.