skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building internal tools can give the company enormous competitive advantage, became a product etc. You can't do it with cleaners.

Using term cost centre is so damaging for the culture that it can kill the company.
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http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/twitter.com.html
It's up now.
Is there a template alternative? Whenever macros seem essential in C++, there's usually a better way without macros.
or has he...? (SCNR)
Charity shops. Often when an area starts to fail as a shopping hub and retailers close when landlords can't get a new business in and have a void they still have to pay business rates. The way to avoid this is to charge rent to a charity shop which doesn't have to pay business rates, so they win even if the charity shop is paying lower rent than the business before.

For example Muswell Hill.
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I have always considered it to be a good practice to use disk encryption on laptops (or other mobile devices), but after thinking about the burglar scenario, I think it is better to encrypt the desktops as well.
There's a big difference between the power of a newspaper and the power of a constituent.
>The NSA has not tried to use this to suppress political dissidence.

False. They did with Martin Luther King Jr.

To quote the Senator Church of the Church Committee which investigated this:

>In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air. Now, that is necessary and important to the United States as we look abroad at enemies or potential enemies. We must know, at the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left such is the capability to monitor everything—telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide.

>If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.

>I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.
The market capitalization of Bitcoin has NOTHING to do with the value of its technical solutions.

A low tech solution like the good old check (ink on a piece of paper) can be worth more than all Bitcoins.
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No, he's suggesting that MPs should be able to conduct business in secret because portions of the public have concerns that they have good reason to raise with an MP yet where even the mere knowledge of the basics of the conversation might negatively affect their lives.

E.g. lets say a drug addict who has successfully managed hid their addiction wants to offer their perspective of new drug legislation to their MP. Or a paedophile who wants to gather support for promising treatment option. Or someone with family or community ties to extremists of some shade or the other wants to propose ways of reducing their influence.

There are a multitude of situations where there might be bad fallout from public knowledge about what a persons raises with their MP even if what they raised is positive for the wider community.

Yes, secrecy also allows for negative effects, but it's not nearly as simple as just writing off the benefits of being able to guarantee privacy.
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The author of the piece should add a times series on violent crime and shootings. These should decrease with time if the area is "up and coming"...
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The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia currently has Einstein's brain on display. With all the controversy surrounding how his brain was stolen against the will of Einstein and his heirs, it would be ironic if all one really needed to recreate his genius was his fecal matter.
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Really? Nothing? If the technical solutions were worth nothing wouldn't the value tend towards zero? Surely sustaining a market cap in the billions says something about the economic value it represents.
Personally I just like having a workstation and tend to want to do work at my desk. Portability is not a major need for for my computing. It is good to have a laptop but I don't need a killer one.

I have a Mac mini, which I purchased a few years back before I got into coding and more seriously interested in computers. Now I am planning on upgrading over the next couple of months and have been learning about building my own PC. If you are married to Mac OS, buying an apple may be the way to go (I can't speak to the merits of a hackintosh), but I highly recommend learning about building your own pc. It's a lot of fun and pretty easy.

If you're interested, let me know and I can send/post some getting started resources.

Finally, desktops are just going to be generally more powerful. For example, if you want to run 3 4K monitors you're really not going to be able to do that on a laptop.
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I took this post as more of an exercise in data science. Data on jogging per neighborhood is a bit harder to find then coffee and chicken places.
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BitCoin is $3.7 billion.

That's about 1/14th of an Uber. It's literally nothing on a global scale.

The value of all "bitcoin companies" is larger than the value of all bitcoins themselves.

there are very few economic and political problems that the blockchain can say nothing about.

That's just crazy talk.
Is there room for Pandora to sign artists directly, which would be similar to Netflix producing original content? Is it even permissible given how the rest of their business is structured?
Tell HN: I have a domain I no longer want invoicejet.com
Hi guys/gals,

I've been working on this project before a couple of years, I bought a nice domain for that. Its invoicejet.com

Presently I'm working on couple of other projects and I lost the excitement for this project. I was going to kill the server and let the domain expire.

Since, I find the domain memorable, I would like to transfer it to somebody who would put that to good use.

Please comment with the link to any of your existing projects related to invoicing. I'll be happy to transfer the domain to someone I select.

Cheers
As a person not very experienced with JS there's literally no where that I know of that combines and explains modern day JS infrastructure.
This might be helpful:

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/
It's not clear in the article but do they earn their money from Youtube ads or by featuring specific products in their videos ?
This depends on what you want to use face recognition for. Maybe I should say more clearly in the README who this project is for. I could have released trained classifiers on 10,000 celebrities, but I focused the projects towards providing an easy way to train new classifiers with small amounts of data. I think this direction allows for more people to use and benefit from the library.

For example, check out our YouTube video of a demo training a classifier in real-time with just 10 images per person at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZJOTRkjZA4. This demo is included in the repo and the README has instructions on running it.

Also note that there is a distinction between training the neural network, which extracts the face representations, from using the features for tasks like clustering and classification.
I know Google Photos is not open source, but would that be the solution if you could get it on your own machine?

How would you upload the files? Through web interface? What about backup?
> at least under the left-wing redefinition of the word racist as any mention of race at all

The overcautious avoidance of race as a subject does exist, but is nothing to do with left/right in my experience. I associate it with people who don't live in mixed areas, they tend to be more awkward about mentioning race and certainly aren't more left wing on average.
If that kind of bio bothers you, stay away from Quora :-)
Wow, thanks for the downvotes, everyone! Maybe I'm simply in the wrong community? I thought some intelligent discussion would be welcome, but let's try this:

Go driverless cars!

Microsoft Bad! Google Good!

Javascript Javascript Rah Rah Rah!
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If nothing else, an interesting murder mystery.
I hear what you are saying about clean and elegant css being possible with preprocessors that add abstraction capabilities. I have never ever seen it in practice, at least nothing on par with the abstraction abilities of code. Can you post a medium scale example of clean & maintainable css that we might study?
Yes, $3.7 billion is less than some things are worth, but it is more than most things are worth.

The valuation of Uber means people believe Uber has future growth potential. Similarly, the high valuation of BitCoin companies means people believe BitCoin has future growth potential. Rightly or wrongly, I guess the future will tell in both cases. Obviously I think rightly.

That's just crazy talk.

Ok.
Let's not forget the most important content addressable storage: your brain.

You remember things by contents, then all the contents are interconnected. Brains don't have primary-key based lookup tables.
Exactly what I said, just don't attribute it to Ben Franklin.
> There is NO law requiring death from eating pork!

I don't see anywhere in the article that even remotely suggested there is. And I certainly made no such claim.

Eleazer is a hero in Maccabees because he chooses death rather than violate the Mosaic law.

The eating of pork products was a key point of differentiation between the Romans and the Jews, not because the dietary laws relating to pigs are more important (to the Jews) than the other laws, but because the Romans ate a lot of pork products and the refusal of obedient Jews to partake was an obvious sign of their refusal to fall in line with Roman culture. It was not the only such point of contention, but in an article about eating pigs, it stands to reason that the pork issue is going to get a mention.

> Pork simply has nothing whatsoever to do with it!

Eleazar was killed for refusing to eat pork (or more accurately for refusing to pretend to eat pork). I think pork has at least something to do with that.
Well, both this label was always meaningless (not "outdated", as this would imply it was ever worth something), and all parts of a company are expected to create wealth.

The reframing of the discussion as about competitive advantage is a good one.
> If the technical solutions were worth nothing wouldn't the value tend towards zero?

Nonsense. The value of Bitcoins is not the value of the algorithms behind it. People agree to trade Bitcoin for that amount of money and that's it. Market laws.

Just like the value of cash is not determined by the technical solution behind it (essentially colored inks on a piece of paper).
Topological data analysis is amazing, too bad all the hype around DL is leaving it in relative obscurity.
Political parties need to have their own private communications in order to function; it's impossible to do strategy if you can't conceal your hand even slightly.

Treatment of constituents issues needs to be private as these are often sensitive and personal (housing, family law and benefits issues).

Official business should be on the record. In part the Alistair Carmichael trial is about the boundary between political and official.
I would argue that they're not a fashion mag at all, at least in a clothing sense. The apparel they sell with a logo on it, that's definitely marketed towards women. But the magazine is supposed to keep men interested. They themselves have admitted that it's a loss leader.

Playboy used to be something you could keep on your coffee table, engendering sex-positivity while having tasteful and interesting gentlemanly articles. Interviews with MLK and others come to mind, as well as serializations of good books like Fahrenheit 451.

They no longer do this, unfortunately. It was easy enough to cruise on money, and now Playboy is a guilty pleasure for people who remember what it is and don't know how to use the internet for porn.

I want the tasteful Playboy back. I don't care so much about getting rid of the nudes, I just want something interesting to read.
This is something I've struggled with... most of the stuff I do is in JavaScript and I think the web is cool, but I hate most modern bloated websites and prefer simple text-based ones (like HN!).
hmm, this is local.

for cities in central europe like berlin, munich, vienna the indicators for poor neighborhoods are mobile-phone repairshops, internet cafés and kebab/döner/falafel places. immigrants from the south-east, from turkey to afghanistan shaping these areas.

as nicely illustrated in the current episodes of Homeland.
UK is still a EU member. Article 20 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of European Union states that "Everyone is equal before the law". Article 21 further expands on forms of discrimination prohibited by the charter.

The UK has legally incorporated the requirements of the Charter via the Human Rights Act.

Even if the UK were to exit the EU, the UK is also a member of the Council of Europe, and bound by the European Convention on Human Rights, and discrimination under the law is also prohibited by Article 14 of the ECHR.
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That's a false dichotomy. There are plenty of groups that can take on the responsibilities that government now assume.
This might not contribute much to the discussion, but I just want to add:

I for one welcome the coming arrival of ECDH over curve25519 in TLS everywhere.

(And I really hope that comes to pass.)
I meant to refer to the ability to zoom in on images for the purpose of observing greater detail (which I did not include my comment). I do not disagree with your comment.
Obama to delay withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan
I love it. It wasn't even that long ago that I used to spend countless hours building everything with the sliding doors method and doing weird hacks to make things work in IE6 or (gasp) IE5. There was a lot less to know, and things were certainly simpler back then, but it was also extremely tedious.

Nowadays I can focus my effort on problems that are actually interesting. There's been an explosion, and with the variety, things have gotten complexed. I understand that it can be cumbersome to those entering the field, and a lot of the time it's total overkill for the problem. But... once you get over the hump, there's now a lot of really cool shit you can do on the web that was completely unrealistic or unimaginable just a few years ago.
Since the article ends my mentioning Missouri, it is worth mentioning that his cofounder Jim McKelvey used his Square success to found Cultivation Capital, which is a VC focused on parts of the midwest often ignored by the coastal VCs (e.g. Missouri, Indiana, Southern Illinois, etc.)
There are a few interesting anecdotes about this huge story -

This is the same leak that Glenn Greenwald describes to Edward Snowden in Moscow (-> -> -> -> POTUS), meaning this story has been in the making for at least 1.5 years.

Second, this quality and quantity of leaks is incredible and can only be attributed to a news organization that takes security as a paramount consideration, setting up proper secure channels to enable technically apt whistle-blowers to approach them with confidence.

Props to The Intercept for some fine journalist work.
Very good article. Reminds me of this Cal Newport gem:

http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/10/16/the-passion-trap-how-t...
Very interesting, i recently worked with OpenBiometric [1] and made a guide how to use it very easy [2].

How different is OpenFace vs. OpenBR?

[1] http://openbiometrics.org/

[2] https://github.com/kevinsimper/face-recognition
This picture shows what's under the table:
http://tmg-trackr.media.mit.edu/publishedmedia/Projects/2013...
> Saad screamed at Zainab to get in the car. He quickstepped to the driver’s door, twisted into the seat. But Zainab hadn’t moved, just stood there, frozen. Saad probably didn’t realize that. What man leaves his daughter to get shot? He slapped the gearshift into reverse, cranked the wheel hard to the left, stomped on the gas. The BMW skittered backward in an arc, a jittery half circle.

No ordinary 50 year old engineer does that. That guy had training. And not in STEM.
Yes, the processing pipeline first does face detection and a simple transformation to normalize all faces to 96x96 RGB pixels. Then each face is passed into the neural network to get a 128 dimensional representation on the unit hypersphere.

For a landscape, face detection would probably not find any faces and the neural network wouldn't be called.

And an image with multiple people will have many outputs: the bounding boxes of faces and associated representations.
Or skip all that and go use React and Webpack.
Aside from whether their technology actually works or not, the central premise that cheaper, easier and more frequent testing will improve outcomes is unproven. There are many potential downsides. It might increase health spending through extra doctor visits, the need for repeat testing and more invasive and expensive investigations. But will it actually make anyone's life better? Bear in mind that even a single, obvious test performed in a high risk population to screen for say breast cancer or ovarian cancer, either barely moves the needle in saving lives or ends up being useless. What effect does Theranos think indiscriminate widespread testing will have?

With all these competing risks, this frequent testing strategy needs to be evaluated in randomised double blind clinical trials. Before that though, Theranos needs to submit their tests for independent validation in many thousands of patients, and publish the results.

I note this single study which compared Theranos' CRP to a conventional method [1]. The Pearson correlation was 0.85, which I don't think is really good enough.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4091290/
I'm not sure why this is getting downvoted. We are talking about stereotypes here, and this is clearly a stereotype that's around - see the "hipster in coffee bar" "memes" in which portrayed people are exclusively white.
In addition to the people working multiple part time minimum wage jobs to get by, there are other time costs associated with being poor.

Poor often don't have a personal vehicle, so many hours per week can be spent on a bus, bike, or walking, especially in places with less public transport.

Now the following probably doesn't apply to poor in cities, where you often have amenities in easy walking distance, but in the area I live they are quite applicable. Every time you need to go pick up groceries, you have to take public transit to the grocery store, and you can only buy what you can carry back, so you'll have to go more often than someone who can load up a trunk. Add on the fact that many low end housing rentals don't have washer/dryer units, the nearest may be miles away, so you get to take public transit with your laundry and spend a couple hours at the laundromat.

Where I'm at, those two things alone could easily eat 10-20 hours of your week.
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>Banks quite often convince people to by into funds they know won't perform

Please provide an example where a bank "convinced" people to buy something it "knew" wouldn't perform. That would be fraud. I'm sure it occurs, but certainly not "quite often".

And, no, Goldman Sachs going short securities it sold as a market-maker isn't an example of such.
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I think the second big take away is that this was only made possible because the scientists willingly shared their "dark data"-- data and lab notes from failed experiments. I wonder how much data is hoarded privately and never opened up and analyzed like this.
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We didn't get hired "as a team" but I started a gig about a year ago and during the interview process we talked about other types of roles they were hiring for. One was a perfect fit for a buddy of mine so we had a quick discussion about the benefits of hiring us both. It's a remote gig but my buddy and I are local to each other and have worked well together on previous projects. They wound up hiring us both but put us on separate teams. I felt they really missed out on having the two of us mesh well right off the bat with little social ramp up. They never explained why they split us up, so I can't begin to speculate.
Thanks for the offer! Our original model `nn4.v1` should perform OK on your data if you're interested in trying to automatically predict people in new images.

Training new models is currently dominated by huge industry datasets, which currently have 100's of millions of images. My current dataset is from datasets available for research and has ~500k images.
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How does this:

Higgins had played an important role in surfacing the use of chemical weapons in Syria by the regime of Bashar al-Assad

relate to this?

"Serious Questions about the Integrity of the UN Report"

http://web.mit.edu/sts/Analysis%20of%20the%20UN%20Report%20o...
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Article is behind a paywall.
Not sure where the data for the article came from, but I'd guess that there is some interesting socioeconomic skewing around the type of business and whether it can be readily found on Google maps or Yelp, since much of the data is crowdsourced.
A lot of data is hoarded because scientists often have to compete for limited research funding (at least from what I've seen in the US).
I agree. The NSA is probably mostly investing in the five-dollar wrench.

https://xkcd.com/538/
occasionally, I wonder how much more advanced our world would be if scientific and government data were simply available as a default choice. then I smile at my own optimistic viewpoint and come back to reality.
So all market valuations exist in a vacuum, and say absolutely nothing about how much something is actually worth? And how do you think this economic theory applies to the stock market or commodities markets? Are shares in companies and commodities inherently worth nothing but the price people agree to pay for them? Don't they say something about their collective belief in that asset's future?

Market valuations can become decoupled from intrinsic value, but that doesn't mean the intrinsic value is zero. In the long term if something really repesents zero value its market valuation will approach that.
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I think it's a more wide-spanning change. Investors are realizing that you can easily kill a promising company by giving it too much money.