skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except this kind of behaviour is very likely to be illegal in Germany. Sure, violation is hard to prove if it isn't blatant but this kind of regulation prevents the behaviour from becoming socially acceptable.

Case in point: try asking an employee in Germany to give you a urine sample. There are very few jobs where a legal case can be made for mandatory drug testing and even fewer where the employer is allowed to receive medical information.

It is my understanding that in the US photos on resumes are generally frowned upon and often sufficient grounds for rejection because of the high risk of anti-discrimination litigation. How can it then be acceptable for a landlord to take your social media accounts into consideration before making a decision?

Yes, public social media content is public, but the same argument can be made about anything you do in public. Yet nobody would think it acceptable to follow you around in public and take careful note of everything you do or say in the open. That the Internet makes the digital equivalent of this behaviour easier doesn't mean it becomes more appropriate.

But such ideas of basic decency and common courtesy appear to be lost on the generation that made "doxing" and revenge porn a thing.
Success rates in the last 3 months are north of 60%. You can expect this to continue.
Which entire meta-categories of horrific errors do you ascribe to software development for jets? Commercial avionics, while not error-free, is surely one of the most stringent sectors of software development around today.
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good thing we were born lucky 🍀
Just a friendly reminder that no matter how bad your startup is doing, or how much money you owe to who, or how much shame you feel.. life is worth a lot more than money. You can always earn more money, but you can't come back from the dead[0]

[0] - Provable with current scientific tools
Update - so I wrote scripts to do this and now I have 5 apps live which are "generated" from the same code base.
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Erica Joy is totally free to write what she wrote. Wired should have gone an extra step however.
The Wired article has a video of the test on the busy public roadway.
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I'm about to try the same thing in Mexico but reading that made me really home sick [sic] for Vietnam. Almost looking forward for when my visa in Mexico runs out and I have to leave...
I hear you, I got my $50 refund, got some credit for finding a share link for Plastc and felt $100 was worth it for my single attempt at using the tech.
This is a good point. I experienced something like this years ago when I was at a company where I was one of the older employees (not even 30 yet!) To my knowledge, nobody complained about my productivity during the main development cycle, but I never felt like I was keeping up with the younger rock stars (who really were amazing).

Then the product development cycle was near the end and testing was underway. At one point during a meeting someone actually complained that I had no bugs in the tracking system assigned to me while most developers had hundreds. My boss actually spoke up and said "I've noticed that too, but it's because nobody is finding errors in his code."

I spent a few months helping other developers find and fix their bugs.

I think if you invest in quality, in the long term other people will see and value it (in most environments).
I'm currently learning Elm[0] and OCaml[1]. Elm is a nice introduction to the ML family of languages (and FRP!) because you get to do so in the context of client-side web programming (something I'm familiar with). I'm then pivoting this knowledge to help me learn OCaml.

I find the ML languages fascinating in their approach to programming. I think there is a pragmatic side to MLs that gets ignored due to their background in academia. The way you set out to model your programs is interesting and a nice change coming from languages like Ruby/JS where you tend to run around with your head cut off.

0 - http://elm-lang.org

1 - https://ocaml.org/
one day we will write about the experiment story. one thing that is true for all startups is things never go the way you expect. 😏
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It's important to remember that "80% chance you do X" also means "20% chance you DON'T do X". And "20%" means "1 in 5".

We like to conflate large percentages as "practically 100%" but even ".1%" just means "1 in 1000". For large groups even low percentages can represent a significant quantity.
yes. But it wasn't obvious at the time. Part of the reason it turned out to be hot air, because communists failed to execute on this strategy, at least in part because they had to fight against non communists. It was a dynamic system, not a static one
Many people truly believed at that time that countries re-forming into Communist states could build a kind of momentum, like a row of dominoes tipping over, and that allowing Vietnam to fall would inevitably lead to the US fighting off a "Red Dawn" invasion from the rest of the world that had gone Communist.

As with other wars, the justification was "fight them there, so we won't have to fight them here."

This works, because young military recruits are not often skilled at the skeptical, rational questioning of authority. Many of them literally believe that the invasion and occupation of foreign territory makes the US safer. It isn't until much later, if ever, that they face down the cognitive dissonance and accept that they were just pawns in the game of global politics.
>I hate that wage disparity is being heralded as a gender issue.

If wage disparity follows gender lines then it is a gender issue.
>There's social pressure to drink alcohol, eat fast food, keep up with celebrities, etc. and there are plenty of people that don't do it.

And when social pressure increases, more people drink alcohol, eat fast food, keep up with celebrities, etc.; when it decreases, people do these things less.

Going against the social current entails loss and risk of loss. It's strange that libertarian types don't understand economic incentives, since they expect them to alone hold society together.
Here is the source code on GitHub (I'm not the author): https://github.com/MohamedBassem/getaredis
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? Do you think people who are handing you the keys to at least 100k worth of property, with 2 months rent as a deposit if that, do not want to know who they're renting to?
Now someone should write an S3 storage backend for ceph and it's ready for production deployment in AWS!
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But sunlight reflecting off a random planet (including ours) is not useful. Sure, you can detect it, but it doesn't say anything about whether the planet has intelligent life or not. It would just be noise in the cosmos, no signal.

I'm not a physicist, but my understanding is that all EM frequencies -- visible light, radio, infrared, etc -- travel away from earth at the same speed (c). Since space has (almost) nothing to slow them down, then they'll just keep going forever. Thus, "strength" (however you want to measure it) is largely irrelevant so long as the signal it produces is detectable apart from all the other outgoing information. So the "light" broadcast from a TV tower is the same as the light from a spotlight at a shopping mall, in terms of its ability to travel through space and get noticed by aliens.

The only exception I can think of would be our atmospheric interference. Some light may penetrate our own cloud layers better than others. So all light may not be created equal, in that sense.
I got a (brand new, of course) corporate card from my employer last year, and it only works via magnetic stripe.
Every research project has an existing community that wants to support it. The challenge is connecting the two. In a truly efficient world all projects would be 100% funded.
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What is an MTT player?
You are not your work. You are so much more. Stay strong.

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Edit:

Fred Wilson speaks more eloquently here:

http://avc.com/2014/01/you-are-not-your-work/
Yes, we were also surprised by the difference. We'd like to try with OpenJDK 8 instead to see if it's performance was better overall, but the charm for Cassandra doesn't include that as an option yet.
I've been playing with Swarm and like what I've seen so far. WRT Kubernetes, on a platform other than GCE, is Flannel required for networking?
It's pretty nice to work with for internal CRUD applications and prototyping, once support for stored functions [0] is completed it'll be tremendously more useful.

0: https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest/issues/114
Forget Rocket Fuel: This Spaceplane Will Use Microwave Beams to Reach Orbit
Multi-table Tournaments. World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour, etc.
And how are you getting on? Any problems, ie not being invited to friends' events because they're only announced on FB?
> The USA is really behind in credit-card tech.

It's not so much the USA as it is the American financial sector. Finance moves at a glacial pace.
The Conservative Party has introduced thought policing to the UK [Telegraph]
one anecdote does not dismiss a compelling theory.
How to get a global team communicating using off-the-shelf equipment
All of this is possible only because Chrysler, like practically all carmakers, is doing its best to turn the modern automobile into a smartphone.

I think this is the biggest problem. Stop making "smart" cars with all these unnecessary features. Even if you can't resist adding entertainment or navigation, don't ever physically connect those systems to the critical systems like engine and transmission computers except through a one-way (to display information) link, like it's done on airplanes.

I'm happy to have a much older vehicle with none of these "enhancements". It has a physical throttle, hydraulic brakes, and steering linkage for which remote hijacking is physically impossible. I can add navigation and entertainment with a smartphone mounted on the dash. It may not be as fuel-efficient or safe(?) as the cars today, but maybe the tradeoff is worth it. That also suggests there could be a market for new "dumb" cars which have all the modern improvements to engines and safety, but none of these "smart" exploitable features.

(I'm not so paranoid as to get a mechanical EMP-proof diesel though...)
Oh certainly. I thought I'd explained my thought process but what I meant was that "Since the same number of colors exists then a arrangement may exist" and given that it may a brute-force type approach was taken to confirm that one indeed does
Ahh, I skipped right over it to the text. Woopsies. :D
It is as real a particle as any other, no? If you look closely enough all particles are just waveforms in particular fields (e.g. an electron will "interfere with itself" in a double-slit experiment).
haters gonna hate, indeed.
My bank card expires in a couple of years, so we'll see if my next card is chip and pin (or chip and signature). Hopefully, things will have changed by then.
I totally agree, the first half about progress in air travel and computer science is great, the rest not so really
Not trying to criticize here, but i've never cared for the term "stay strong" it's like telling someone who's depressed to "just be happy". I get the sentiment though, just something about the phrase that irks me i guess.
In what sense was it hot air? Saloth Sar (better known as Pol Pot), radicalised by the French communist party, trained in Moscow, Belgrade and Beijing, took over neighbouring Cambodia, aided by the communists in Hanoi. Indeed the Cambodian Communist party was an offshoot of Viet Nam's People's Army (the armed forces of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam).

The domino theory was a good one, because, as you point out yourself, it described the explicit modus operandi of the communists. Where it failed, it failed primarily because the communists received serious pushback.
Its the soft dictatorship concept. If you want to eliminate free speech you can do with with secret police and firing squads, but a more advanced, civilized, and more importantly, cheaper, way to do it is implement intensive self censorship. Sure, you can say anything you want, as long as it offends no one on the entire internet. What little is left is no threat to those in power. How bout the weather out there?

Its like the old problem of how does an aristocracy keep itself in power? Well the expensive, crude, and unreliable method is lots of soldiers and aggressive top down force, but a more advanced, cheaper, reliable method is to propose two identical figurehead leaders with wildly varying PR campaigns and convince the public that selecting between the identical figureheads is the definition of freedom.
That wasn't really my point here.

Explicitly exposing facts is the attitude I'd expect from this community, instead of ridiculing and wrongly correlating it with ideologies.
Even to the extent that the ways putative future AIs might "make decisions" might be more like the way humans do than the way existing products respond to stimulus and produce results, out body of liability law, thanks in part to the legacy of less egalitarian times, already had ample precedent for the treatment of responsibility for results of human decision making by entities that are legally property rather legal persons.

To the extent that more enlightened times might see actors with that kind of independence as legal persons even if they are manufactured, well, we have personal liability law already, which also addresses agency relations, etc. where one legal person might be responsible for the acts of another.

So, again, rather than vague handwaves at poorly defined distinctions, I'd like to hear those arguing that liability law is a real imminent problem with AI that will require major and fundamental change to do something to specify the specific ways in which existing law is inadequate.
As someone looking for an apartment in NYC right now, who has lived here for edit: the entire time social media has existed, this has never happened to me or anyone I know. I don't think it's a "thing," as the article implies.

Edit: 26 years -> the entire time social media has existed, to please the pedantry.
Doctor says I don't get enough exercise.
Rebuilding Gondor on Kubernetes
Frankly I don't see what asking for someone's Twitter handle adds except for a high risk of (intentional or un) discrimination.

Who are you trying to filter out? Credit checks are likely already required so you already know their financial situation. If they're lying about anything critical, the contract likely already has that covered.

If anything, it's a tone-deaf sociopathic attempt to "get to know each other".
I think "cats" in this context refers to all the stuff on the web that doesn't seem important, but that people actually like to use the web for; including pornography.
The Dogs of War was made into a movie with Cristopher Walken and Tom Berenger, featuring the Manville gun as a kind of super grenade launcher.
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Laos, Cambodia ended up Communist (though, ironically, it was Kissinger and the USA who ended up tolerating the Khmer Rouge as a pawn against the USSR and Vietnam, and Vietnam who ended up removing the Khmer Rouge from power and replacing them with a puppet state). It's also worth mentioning that Malaysia was fighting off a Communist insurgency, though that was pretty much dead by 1960.

And, perhaps most importantly, Indonesia had the largest (non-ruling) Communist Party in the world, with a seven figure membership. Had Vietnam been re-united under Communist rule, it's hard to anticipate how it would have developed. (1965 ended any chance of Communist revolution, there, though, with the US-supported mass murder of 500k+ CP members and Indonesian Chinese).

Even India and then-East Pakistan had to deal with a background level of Communist terrorism. We've got the benefit of the present to be able to poo-poo others' choices, but it was a genuinely big deal back then, and even now I'm not sure how things would have developed differently with a united Communist Vietnam in 1960.

ETA: Thailand and the Phillipines also had fairly active Communist insurgencies, though it seems their governments were able to put them down without too much difficulty.

ETA Again: As another counterfactual to build intuition: had the KMT beaten Mao in the 1940's, would there be a Communist Vietnam? A North Korea? The latter almost certainly not. The former is less definite--I'd personally expect an authoritarian anti-colonial regime. Something like Burma, with better outcomes than it because of regression toward the mean. A Communist Vietnam conditioned on a Nationalist China seems highly unlikely to me.
Get a German car and you will not have such problems from what I know from my people. ;)
I was just about to write a similar sentiment. The first part is really great, also the parallels and the lessons to learn.

But the second half was not so great. While I agree with the overall sentiment, the concrete examples always slightly miss the point.

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The first such passage that caught my eye was the example about Windows XP:

> Rather than offer users persuasive reasons to upgrade software, vendors insist we look on upgrading as our moral duty. The idea that something might work fine the way it is has no place in tech culture.

The problem is that Windows XP is not working just fine, especially when connected to the Internet. It is full of malware and helps establishing botnets, DDOS attacks and thus feeds mafia structures. So we, as a soeciety, do have a moral obligation to retire Windows XP.

Also, nobody is forced by law to use Microsoft. There are plenty of alternatives. Most of those will run smoothly on your old hardware, such as MINT, Ubuntu or whatever. And for normal Office and Web stuff, this "jump" is surely less painful than switching to the latest Windows version.

Of course Microsoft is still to blame here, but for something entirely different: For closing Windows XP support. For not applying serious security fixing to it. I bet there are plenty of companies and people that are more than willing to pay for ongoing maintenance of Windows XP, but the only company that could offer that service denys it.

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So the author missed the real point, even though this point is totally in line with the overall sentiment of the article. And it goes on and on like that, in the second half. That makes it a really annoying read.
Can't wait for io.js to switch to this version. It means that fat arrows are finally usable without Babel.
To add to discussion, I've found this interview with Malte Schwarzkopf to be quite enlighning to understand how Omega, Kubernetes and Mesos fit together: https://blog.kismatic.com/qa-with-malte-schwarzkopf-on-distr...
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Most of Apple's cloud services are down
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Because trawling your social media profiles is the only way to find out the relevant bits of information to base such a decision on? I wonder how landlords have dealt with this problem all that time before we had social media.

The words "false dichotomy" come to my mind. By your logic landlords are just handing contracts out at random if they can't stalk you online.
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The malicious firmware could just omit all that stuff.

I guess the disconnect could be physical/mechanical and require physical intervention to reconnect (but cost, etc.).
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I don't think the people requesting her information are landlords so much as leaseholders whose home she would be subletting, and they are concerned about subletting to someone who would destroy all of their property.

Standard New York landlords who are leasing empty apartments as a business just run a credit check— they'd probably exposing themselves to problems under fair housing laws if they asked for much more.
Yes! Not just coding, but I have been struggling to turn my mind off from work to sleep. I think about the new feature I'm coding, about new ideas on how to reach out to more users, etc... I really felt it started to become a serious problem in the last months, so I then cut my evening coffee (only have it in the morning now) and started to swim/gym around 6pm.. But the main thing is not to use your laptop as the last thing you do before sleeping... Even if you're working late, get rid of it and do something else for 40 minutes before trying to sleep.
They didnt have to do this on a public highway. A large parking lot would have be sufficient. Why should other motorists be subject to harm because a couple hackers and a reporter want to make a story. They could've easily gone on one of the 24hr news channels to scare the masses.
Spending money on getting a healthy lifestyle has diminishing returns. Sure, if you are holding two part time jobs and barely holding yourself above poverty line, getting an extra $100 per month to put into fresh produce (or simply keep into your bank account for the peace of mind to let you sleep better at night) will do tons of good to your health. On the other hand, if you prioritize health over frivolous consumption, there are few and highly specific situations where making a 7-figure income will ensure a measurably better health outcome than a 6-figure income.

On the other hand, jumping from 6 to 7 figure incomes requires more than raw talent. You need to consistently push yourself to comply with social expectations above and beyond what most middle class people would consider "normal". Whether you are serving bosses or clients, your perceived value added will go up if you go the extra mile in whatever you do.

When you are young, in your late 20s to early 30s, you can afford to pull off that kind of thing without (much (perceived)) costs to your health. The thing is that the more you exceed expectations, the more unreasonable the next round of expectations are going to be, even if your compensation grows at the same rate.

And to tie this up with the OP, let me say that self control is a tool. Its not good or bad in itself, but you can use it for fair or ill purposes. You can use your self control to assess when you have reached enough success and stay there, or you can use it to push through whatever personal problems your unsustainable success is causing you. Most people disengage too early and never realize their full potential, others (the over achievers among us) tend to keep going until they burn out or worse. Few people are wise enough to stop near the sweet spot.
To establish in a semi-rigorous way the (btw obvious) relationship between coarsening in physics and in stacked neural networks, as was done long after the latter became a thing [1][2], is at the same level as observing the analogy between Black-Scholes and diffusion. It's cute, but it does not turn the subject into physics.

It should go without saying that you can not, by definition, resolve fundamental questions about mathematical physics by experiment.

The APS took a stand on climate change years ago [3]. It was clear enough to make Harold Lewis [4] and Ivar Glaever [5] resign in protest.

P.S. Belief propagation was first proposed by Judea Pearl in 1982 [6]. The closest connection to physics one could realistically claim is that Pearl got a M.Sc. in physics before turning (back) to electrical engineering and then AI.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3124

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3831

[3] http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/climate/

[4] http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/a-physicists-cl...

[5] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatecha...

[6] https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1982/AAAI82-032.pdf