skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How do you solve the problem of "cold call" with a trusting system ? [...] That's why I'm not convinced that trust will solve the abuse of messaging.

You can't remove "trust" or "reputation" from a viable messaging system. The concept of trust always exists whether informally or formally.

When the internet was a small private network between universities and government, how did a new unknown scientist "cold-call" an email? It was not an issue. The scientist just sent the cold email. There was already implicit trust within the system to allow that scenario. Everybody trusted that researcher@someuniversity.edu didn't send a million emails about Nigerian money transfers to researcher@army.mil.

Back then, email users didn't need "spam filters". The trust was informally created because the institutional "system" outside of the email system vetted email users. (The "system" being the hiring procedures of SomeUniversity, DepartmentOfDefense, etc.)

All those gates for reputation are gone when we expose that simplistic email architecture to the general public. Trust doesn't go away. You now must recreate trust at a massive scale.

>Spammers could create million accounts at once and fake trust build up between them.

That's not the type of "trust" people are talking about in this thread. That type of incestuous "trust" between bad actors won't work because it doesn't have an initial authority (good actor) to "bless" them which starts an acceptable "chain of trust". The concept is similar to Certificate Authorities. We trust Chrome because we trust Google Inc; and in turn, Google Inc trusts Verisign; and in turn, Verisign EV-certificate processing trusts government offices that register businesses.
Just some more data to support your point. Some research by Institutional Venture Partners in 2013 showed that in companies over $150M in revenue, around 30% revenue growth per year was the median, so 155% per year (16.5x growth over 3 years) is incredibly keen.
Right now yes, to open a bank account in Estonia you need to visit a local bank physically (although then it is very easy). Part of the money laundering regulations common in Estonia. Luckily this law will change in spring.
This kind of stuff only happens in very small nations in my experience. They often have very little to lose, and the barrier to make major changes is small. This has been true in many of the smaller nations I've lived in, but I can't see the United States and other larger nations ever being efficient with the transition to this.
Is there any evidence to suggest that cash assistance to poor families is wasted at anywhere near the rate you're describing?

There are 53,809 NYCHA housing units in Manhattan alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Housing_Authorit...

Assuming an average market rent of $2,000 (a huge underestimate), and assuming dormitories could be provided in distant brooklyn/queens/bronx for $700 (an overestimate), that means we are wasting 70M/month on luxury goods for poor folks in one county alone.

Are you really trying to claim that the cost of administration would exceed $1300/month per housing unit?
Nothing like that appears in the plain text license here. Are you reading it from somewhere else?

In any case, almost all warranty disclaimers start with "TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW" which, under consumer laws in most countries, requires the company to provide a product that can work as shown in all its advertising materials.
It is quite simply the worst neighborhood in Detroit for crime. It's got 6% of the cities population but leads for shootings. For any given year you have a 1 in 7 chance of being a victim of crime.

There are plenty of places you could go in Detroit, have a good time and be relatively safe compared to most major cities. Despite this safe haven restaurant this neighborhood isn't one of them.

Here's a neighborhood crime map, darkest blue is safest:

http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mi/detroit/crime/

The two gray areas are not Detroit, they're Highland Park and Hamtramack. Belle Isle (island in the river) since it was taken over by the state is now crawling with state troopers and is one of the safest areas in the city.
Well Osama was making and releasing tapes, referencing current events, up until 2011 after which AQ acknowledged his death. Which lends credibility to a) his being alive up until 2011 and b) that he died then. You'd need to come up with a reason for the US to announce his death and AQ playing along...
There you go: http://en.arguman.org/the-gpl-is-more-free-than-the-bsd-lice...
Then why is it a big deal to have a white actress play Tiger Lily in the current Pan film?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/07/tiger-lily-pete...

Would you have been happy with a white south African playing Nelson Mandela?
Blurring or mosaicing is not very secure at all [1]. To be more safe block out sensitive information with solid black. (Just remember to not leak any information in the metadata, like an embedded thumbnail.)

[1]: https://dheera.net/projects/blur
When is it better to use something else?
Yes, but VAT is not part of your revenue.
I really appreciate your sharing this.

I'm sure you've sought help, but it would be remiss of this community if we didn't suggest that it might help you to speak to a professional.

Personally, i can recommend reading what Julian Baggini says about happiness. His perspective is quite refreshing and unexpected, to me at least.
It's interesting, I thought about it.. It seems to me that agreement can break when you aren't forced to reveal your model of the world. (For example, you may not even agree to use Bayesian statistics or logic.)

I think it could be useful if we forced the opponent in the debate not just to present argument, but also to reveal their model of the world. That way, they couldn't just poke holes into the argument from an inconsistent position.
I'll be more mathematical.

By Carnot's theorem, the maximum possible efficiency of a heat engine = 1 - (T_cold/T_hot). Using very rough figures, T_hot = body temperature = 37 C = 310 K and T_cold = average temperature of the earth = 16 C = 289 K.

Thus, the maximum possible efficiency is 1-289/310 = 6.8%.

To get 99% energy recovery, assuming human body temperature remains the same, would require that the cold side of the heat engine be at 3.1K, or only slightly warmer than the background temperature of space.

The only possible way to achieve that difference is by radiative heat transfer to space. However, we can use the temperature of the buried lunar regolith as an estimate of what the the "average" temperature of the earth could be without an insulating atmosphere. http://www.asi.org/adb/m/03/05/average-temperatures.html says it's -35 C = 238K.

Even if we could use -35C as the cold side of our heat engine, that would still only be 23% efficient, assuming maximal thermal efficiency and, you know, no air.
(sorry for the late reply)

You can't guarantee that AWS is doing. You have to belive it. That's why hospitals & co keep the data in their own servers. And, if in the cloud, they try to avoid US companies as much as they can.

the username if not directly linked to someone (e.g., not an email) usually does not fall into personal data. But, since many usernames are reused by people they may identify the person. This is a a case which, honestly, i would not know how to deal with. I'll try to get an answer.
Black people first came to the British isles during the Roman occupation.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/blackhistory/
The trick is to open your shop 40 years ago and be nice towards the kids who will grow up to commit all sorts of crimes. But because they've had a rapport with you since they were kids, they will avoid directing their criminal activities in your direction.
Nothing is intrinsically a 'resource'. Something becomes a resource when it can be used to further some human activity. Iron wasn't a resource until iron forging was invented. Without humans, no resources exist.
Threads like this just need a fucking huge [citation needed] and "stop using your anecdotes" banner.
Nice to see you read my entire post which does very much reference point 2. The whole "they knew in advance" thing is getting into massive conspiracy theory territory where a shedload of relatively junior people know a massive secret and have all managed to keep it. Whilst also of course going and telling a load of civilians about said secret.

On the radar point I've love you to explain why it is ridiculous. Ground based radar is sited in a way to reduce the blindspots created by terrain features. Given Pakistan has viewed Afghanistan as a client state essentially since the Soviet pullout, yet is terrified of India it is surely credible that detecting low flying aircraft coming from Afghanistan is not top of the priority list when it comes to siting their radar?

I like that your conspiracy theory involves a government secretly being much more competent than it claims to be.
You can still verify deductions, even if you disagree with the axioms.
How does an upscaler in your TV work? How does it create information out of nothing?

Imagine that you are learning a deep neural network on a huge amount of movies. You have access to all of the lovely Hollywood movies. You downscale them to a 480p resolution, and then try to learn a deep neural network to upscale the thing, maybe upscaling only 16x16 blocks of the image.

It works amazingly well, and looks like magic.

Maybe there was no visibility of pores on the face in the 480p downscale, but your model can learn to reproduce them faithfully.

Sony has access to billions of movie frames in extremely large resolutions. Their engineers are definitely using this large amount of information to create statistical filters which upscale your non-hd, or maybe your HD to 4k HD. These filters work better than deterministic methods in this article. Why? Because the filters know much more about the distribution of the source (distribution of values of each individual pixel). They have exact information that one instead tries to assume (author in the article assumed that something in the source - be it noise or something else - behaves according the to Gaussian). If you know how to find the proper distribution, instead of assuming it, you can move closer to the information theoretical limits.

Just imagine how fast these filters can be if you put them on an FPGA, it also explains why TV sometimes cost more than $2k.

If you knew that your images would only contain car registration plates, you could definitely learn a filter that would be very precise in reconstructing the image when zoomed, you'd now find CSI zooming a little bit more realistic :D
Maybe it's also worth clarifying that familiarity doesn't mean or lead to understanding. Sometimes quite the opposite (hint hint: newer generation using smartphones, social networks, etc without understanding them at all and then some from older generations remarking how they can be dangerous and upsetting).
Just like medical devices or military hardware don't cost X to manufacture the cost is in the degree of certification required. Your MVP might look like it does all the same stuff but it is about proving things like mean time between failure, climatic conditions it can operate in etc.
I applied to this and I am receiving my card from their consulate in Athens, tomorrow. I spent 50 euros for the application.
You don't need a full blown ORM here. A rather thin access layer would suffice, as much I can see from the API.

What I can see here, is that the data store is just a big JSON-file. So the implementation does not scale well (every save just writes the whole database and the database must be read in total to access any tiny bit of data). For any even medium sized application, it would be better to use a more sophisticated basis.

Maybe as configuration database -- but even for that, I guess there are already better choices in existence.

Edit: Upvoted the OPs post, because of the Vietnam-Link -- good read. Still, I would not throw RDBMSes totally out of the window. I think, we have learned a lot from them and in many, many cases they are just right. There are some cases of course, where object oriented schemes are more appropriate.
Evolution is constrained by its history. There could be more efficient mechanisms to use sunlight to drive metabolism, but it's simply not reachable through evolutionary means.
A good article on cubic filters:
http://entropymine.com/imageworsener/bicubic/

I think you mean the "B-spline" filter.
sqlite is thread safe?
I didn't know about these, thanks.
In this case, any up-front costs, such as certification and R&D, can be amortized over each unit sold in the dramatically expanded market. If the market suddenly goes from a few thousand units per year to a few hundred thousand, the contribution that each unit sold must make to recoup up-front costs gets very close to zero.
Bambum+Livada+Bileyicili+Kesme+Tahtası+::+Çelik+Sipariş
Able yes, but at very high risk of deadly instability through destroying most of nature and accordingly higher dependence on technology, and smoothly working social structures?
"because the population growth rates or even the populations are already declining."

The population of both the us and w.europe is growing. (Immigration)
Future of health tech – The diagnostics revolution in India
Every year 100 million people are pushed into poverty and another 150 million severely affected in the world due to catastrophic costs associated with illness, mostly from developing countries in Asia and Africa. Even in a developed country like US, 12 million people are misdiagnosed every year, i.e., on an average a person is misdiagnosed thrice in a lifetime.

Many start-ups and even bigger companies are now trying to solve parts of these problems, and make healthcare delivery more efficient. IBM with its Watson is using supercomputers to make clinical decision support systems, Theranos is using microfluidics to provide cheaper blood tests, we, at Medd are approaching the problem from a different point of view. We are trying to use the available resources and make the system more efficient to deliver more consistent health out comes at more affordable prices.

The problem we identified was that doctors in most self-pay healthcare markets take a commission or kickback from diagnostic centers to refer patients to them, artificially increasing the prices by up to 100%.

We believed that since many people were aware of this malpractice they would be willing to go to a different lab which provided a high quality service to them at better prices. Our premise was simple, but considered impossible to implement by most in the industry – doctors, diagnostic centers, hospitals, investors.

So, we tied with the best labs in the city with NABL (ISO 15189) accreditation and in four years, along with college we were able to grow it from 1 center with almost no patients to 15 centers and over 100,000 patients a year. With the model being successful, we presented it at the prestigious 14th World Congress on Public Health, demonstrating an 80% reduction in cost for a patient using our services.
https://archive.is/EU35A
Yes, this is an all-too-common tactic with legalese. I assume that's why in some places even including certain provisions in a consumer contract or failing to advertise certain information about consumer rights is in itself against the law now.
See my other post containing the actual text (all-caps). You're right about the 'permitted by law' bit but who knows what that actually covers? I've never seen a clear summary anywhere.

License agreements are long, the consumer laws are probably an order of magnitude bigger (and that's assuming you even know which bits are relevant)
Maybe the cause and effect is reversed- every place may start off like this, and then they get robbed, so they put up security.

The ones that randomly have never been robbed end up with no security.
I do have a therapist, but not a counselor. I will try and find one. I have a very supportive spouse.

Thanks for your kind words.
The people that can prevent overpopulation don't suffer from it, the people that suffer from it can't prevent it. So it's more of worrying for once children's children.
Israeli engineer designs grounded drone delivery service
Except this would be infinitely more traceable and would still require quite a bit of development work, whereas bitcoin mining is really easy.

And using a botnet to do this offers no benefits from just running it on your own hardware. Unlike bitcoin mining, running spotify clients isn't resource intensive.
You are not going to get any validation this way.

If your product is ready, I would create a landing home page, which shows a video demo or at least a screenshot of what it looks like, before I can be persuaded to sign up.

If your product is not ready, say the truth on the landing page, add some fake screenshots (how the software would look after it was ready).

I am perfectly fine with helping you validate your idea before you write any code. In fact, I would suggest everyone do that. But not this way - just a simple login / create account form makes me think that this is just a scammy way of lead generation for you.
Why is this considered hard? A date flexible return flight from Toronto is $935 ($725 USD). Compared to what a developer can make in really any Western country, I don't really see what the issue is.
Just think. Those machines ran a search engine. Today, only one--perhaps two--would be capable of running a web browser, even then extremely slowly.
> You don't need a full blown ORM here.

Precisely my point, you don't need an ORM with this LanderDB, but you'd need it with SQLite (unless you like using raw SQL, which is a fine preference too, of course).

> What I can see here, is that the data store is just a big JSON-file.

One possible use-case for this I recently discovered is storing bookmarks in Chrome (https://klibert.pl/output/jq_and_chrome_bookmarks.html).

I'm not saying LanderDB is the best option and as smt88 wrote there certainly are many alternatives. I'm just noting that LanderDB doesn't seem to occupy the same niche as SQLite.

EDIT: oh, and I'm in no way involved with LanderDB, I just saw it a couple minutes ago :)
> If you wonder why the "unintuitive" imperial units have such staying power,

Or perhaps because the SI are not thought since the kindergarten
If you are getting the wall, here are few other sources:

- http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/17/us-ibm-china-wsj-i...

- http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/18/wsj-ibm-china-source-code...

- http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/18/why-ibm-lets-certain-count...

- http://fortune.com/2015/10/16/ibm-source-code-china/

- http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/16/9550315/ibm-source-code-r...
Unsustainable to me means 'unable'. If you can't sustain a model in the long term that means that sooner or later there will be a crash. Whether the number of people we can sustain long term is 10, 20 or 50 billion people is currently not known but most people that have spent significant time on this problem put the long-term sustainable number closer to 10 than to 20 billion. Now, as the article states we've consistently under-estimated these numbers but even very generous allowance for errors would cap the number that we could long term sustain in any form well below 100 billion.
I will definitely try and follow your advice. It's not easy though. Quitting HN is all the more difficult. You have mentioned it twice. Thanks again!
Yeah, I remember reading about it a couple of months (years?) ago and being very surprised and impressed. The details: https://sqlite.org/threadsafe.html
Ohh okay I din't think that far. But it actually works and we have over 100 users. I like your idea about the screenshots. I'll add a screencast of its working on the background. Will that work ?
CVE-2015-5291: remote heap corruption in ARM mbedTLS/PolarSSL
I will be watching this case with some interest, as I don't see what legal grounds Amazon could possibly have to sue these people. Reviews are free speech, and as such it will come down to whether or not Amazon can prove that these reviews, whether or not they were purchased, contain demonstrably false statements of fact (only then would these reviews be considered fraudulent by a US court). One cannot be sued over their opinion.
Eric Schmidt was one of the authors of Lex (not the original version) when he was an intern at Bell Labs.

He has a deep understanding of software. I've met him, he asked about my project, and his level of detailed questions showed he understood a great deal about software.
And yet that doesn't really happen. The death rate in Vietnam per inhabitant is only 2x higher than the U.S. which is pretty much all explained by the fact that they drive motorcycles instead of cars.
A quarter of my ancestry is from Ireland but I don't consider myself Irish. I find your post weird, how are you considering "world Irish population?"

The famine was a political issue anyways, the English oppressors could have released the abundant stores of wheat to feed the starving Irish but didn't want to depress the commodity price of wheat and were also content to let the Irish die. The Irish potato famine happened during an abundance of food withheld, which is the real tragedy.
Those are all valid points, but it isn't Apple's job to solve them, so it simply puts 'permitted by law' and moves on.
But the iron was already there before we declared it something useful. Ants use 'resources', so do bacteria so without humans resources definitely do exist and are being used actively, whether we declare something to be a resource to us or not does not change the fact that it was a resource before our wandering eye fell on it.

Asteroids are a nice example. They're 'untapped resources', objects we one day may use as resources but which for now just sit there because we haven't found a way to make tapping that resource cost efficient.
How's that? Can't you think of a pixel as the average value of it's subpixels (=blur)?
Show HN: Whatscarrier – Lookup friends mobile phone carrier
AltaVista was my favourite search engine when I was a teenager... I remember how back in the day I refused to change to that newcomer named Google... Amazed to know it was running in only 5 servers with those specs! It says it all about how many people was connected to the net in the early days of commercial web. I'd love to know the concurrent connections they had to deal with...
That same story is playing out a on a much larger stage with medication and food as the elements and much of the third world in the role of the Irish. Money is a great tool, but like any tool it has good uses and bad ones.
How does it differentiate itself from say scoot or other such apps ?
Ok my assumption of trust credit working model was inaccurate. Could you give an example how trust could be used to control abuse ? If a user is given initial trust credit, how can one prevent spammers to create million of such "trusted" accounts and let them be banned after the hit and run spamming ? That model us used in messaging systems like Twitter but has its limitation. But is known to have its limit. Or did I still got it wrong ?
As more data is indexed the system "learns" what makes a relevant search based upon the words in each document. Though I agree the definition of learning in a machine learning context is kind of grey.
well, now is the time to give it a try again.
Last week they released Houdini 15

https://vimeo.com/135607909
Compared to what a developer can make in really any Western country.

In my Western European country, we make less than $20k/y on average, so that is kind of high (~ 2 months' rent) for developers on the lower end of the scale.

I'm not arguing against you, just pointing out that salaries for devs are very variable even in the Western countries.
PHP-CRUD-API now supports PostgreSQL 9