skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have a look on Wayra: http://wayra.co/en/
Basing his opinions on blogs and a particular internet community. Rather than acquiring an understanding from the scientific source material on these issues.

I expect that approximately 100% of the people who argue for vaccinating children are doing exactly the same thing. The number of parents personally familiar with the scientific evidence and qualified to make an independent judgement is probably tiny.

This then leads to the argument that non-experts should respect the scientific consensus, but then how does a non-expert evaluate the credentials of a commentator to determine whether they are in fact an expert and part of a real scientific consensus? Bad science abounds in the media, and there is a lot of money to be made from peddling it, and some of the people presenting it are very convincing because that's what they do.

This is a fundamental problem with any debate about policy based on scientific merit: at some stage, there is always a degree of trust involved for anyone who is not personally an expert in the subject matter, which in practice means almost everyone. This opens a gap for the critics and sceptics. And crucially, this is a legitimate concern. There is room for the "science" to be wrong, and sometimes it has been.

The rational point is that it is far more likely that a consensus among large numbers of people who are probably scientific experts will be correct. When that is the best information we have to go on, as it nearly always will be, we should probably make our decisions consistent with that consensus rather than in opposition to it to give ourselves the maximum chance of a positive outcome.
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Because they're curious about it? The same as they might be curious about the geology of Mars and the history of the world since the Renaissance. Maybe just for the kick of it, or because they have a side project in mind.
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Theoretically yes, but it's not as simple as that. Every identity can have more than one email associated with it, and emails can change over time. So "username == email" is fine as long as the concept of a username mutating is fine.
By your logic we should also have tiered rates. Ie. Data in prime time costs more than off peak.

The reality is privates companies want to increase their profit, they figure (and have convinced folks like you) that this is a fair way to increase prices.

The reality however is over time it enables price increases for everyone.
And stadiums. and hotels. and presidential palaces. and airports in the middle of nowhere. and presidential palaces in the middle of nowhere.

At the end of the day, any method will have its cons.
"and then to see those same Americans"

Same Americans? It was sixty years ago; those responsible are either dead or so old that "shaking their heads in moral outrage" is physically difficult.
Persona is a most promising idea because it will eventually lead to secure passwordless login everywhere. Keep the pedal to the metal guys!
My understanding from reading a few 'adversarial example' papers is that it's also possible to talk about the classifier as having a poor margin between classes. An acceptable output classifier for the convolutional net would be to place the decision boundary arbitrarily close to the known examples, but this doesn't make much sense given how large the semantic differences actually are.

There are multiple options to try to enhance the distance to the decision boundary (such as the adversarial examples referenced in the post), but I think the recent work from microsoft (I think it's published Dec 2015) on replacing pooling layers in the convolutional neural net with something analogous random forests might be the best option so far. More or less each decision tree will end up pushing values to 0/1 in the non-linear region, which mitigates some of the concern about overly linear systems and it places the decision boundary at a somewhat arbitrary location between classes. In aggregate when these locations are combined the resulting classifier has a larger margin without explicitly needing adversaries. So instead of sampling the image space, you're effectively sampling the classifier space.

If you want, I can dig up the citation, but searching for deep neural nets and random forests should get you to the paper all the same.
>I don't think any humans are going to be fooled by this procedure, so what algorithm do people use to classify? There must be other algos out there that are more plausible as explanations for what humans (and animals) use?

Personally, it seems very plausible to me that humans and animals use generative modeling (which was behind the "human-level concept learning" paper published this month) rather than discriminative (like typical neural networks).
Services that don't require email for functionality shouldn't require email addresses at all. An excellent example of this is reddit.
- Can Mozilla set up a kickstarter for this project?

- Is it technically possible to create a Bash/SSH integration? The Linux world pretty much has SSO now, it would be an awesome argument to have this and Persona extend each other.
I do think the US is more religious than other developed nations. Take high GDP places like Scandinavia and Swiss and Netherlands which are atheist. That is why. And I agree with you about the influence. I do not understand how educated people think this can work and why the US with smart people works like that.
> Anyone with access to your email account can simply reset any password on any site. The right solution is to make your email account very, very secure.

No, the right solution is to stop using email as sole identification for password resets. Yes, there are other solutions you can implement right now without waiting for some big company to save you.

The most obvious one it to create a second factor of authentication just for account resets. It could be via an SMS OR simply by asking user to print out/write down a special randomly generated "reset" number.

"But SMS costs money!" No, for most providers you can send an email to a special address reserved for the phone number. It will get translated to SMS automatically.

"But users will forget/loose their reset number!" Maybe, maybe not. It's a cultural thing. You don't expect them to loose access to their email, but that happens all the time.
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An app that lets parents call their children posing as Santa Claus.

I posted it on Show HN the other day[0] but didn't get any comments yet. I am not complaining though, considering the scope of this. I would be very happy if someone would give us their thoughts though.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10783251
Interesting. So most of the training points for Blue were in the "bulge" near where they were surrounded by the Red class, but at almost every point, the network believes that moving further "deeper" into the Blue "zone" increases the "blueness".
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The email could be used for authentication purposes and not for actual email.
Or it means that among the hobbies you have that consume your free time, there is 'tech' as a line item. There's nothing wrong about doing research in tech in one's free time if that what they enjoy doing.

It's really annoying to read replies like yours that systematically suggest all people who spend time researching and side-projecting stuff about tech are doing so because they have lot of free time or are cannon fodder. If you prefer to spend your free time gardening or brewing beer, that's fine. It's equally fine if I enjoy spending my own time learning about more tech stuff.
I don't get why people (who haven't worked at these companies) think everyone works 10+ hours at these companies. I have worked at one of the big tech companies before. I probably got 6 hours of real work done per day (including meetings), the other 2 being spent eating, snacking, or dicking around.
Why? Because one group got protection but not the other?
We know the human brain doesn't learn via backpropagation of errors. Biology can't implement a "global" algorithm of that sort, it needs a local, cell-to-cell learning rule.
I don't see a problem, it just means you can login with multiple emails then. They're still unique to you. LinkedIn and Facebook and other services already do this.

A username/real name can still be used as the "name" if this is an online community or something similar.
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For the abovementioned reason that life is too short, did not read the entire tl;dr thread linked above, but the core objection seems to be that email accounts are fungible. Given the operational experience with Cydia, I will accept at face value that this is a serious real-world problem. What seems wrong to me is throwing up our hands and casting our lot with either of two giant incumbents whose main motivation here is obtaining a constant stream of information on people using their authentication interfaces.

I think it would be highly useful to have a successful open standard for this not controlled by a commercial third party with a financial interest in the implementation.

To the point on account recovery and its pitfalls, any argument that reduces to "System A is better because (in my opinion) those accounts are changed/deleted less often" seems like handwaving. This argument can make any proposal the winner, I myself have no hard data on account churn for any major service, although I accept that email accounts are probably higher turnover than services that introduce user lock-in ... by things like supporting a single sign-on (i.e. Facebook Connect). But WHAT IF an authentication system relied on email accounts, for example. Perhaps users would then be motivated to maintain such accounts for the purpose if it being their auth key.

Finally on the topic of recovery, many services already support the use of a mobile number for this, since these are portable. Implementing this as part of a Persona implementation would seem to address the 'I/someone else threw away my key" problem.
Functionality such as "forgot password"?
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How is that any different than an employer forcing their laptops provided to employees through a VPN (where the user is subject to inspection/blacklist/whitelist/etc) all the time? In both situations you have a machine provided to someone for a specific purpose (business/education) that likely describes extremely particular acceptable use cases. MITM traffic on whatever network seems like a valid way to enforce that. Doing your banking on your own machine.
How much did they pay into the public schools? Did they spend as much as public schools around the Washington DC area (best in the country?) And, how much was it compared to what they would pay to private schools?

Yah they didn't pay enough into the system.

A real system is a lot more expensive than what they think.

The solution to the education problem is: spend more money.
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The callbacks to Episodes IV-VI were a bit excessive. And it reminded me of the Poochie episode of The Simpsons, where Homer suggests that whenever Poochie isn't on the screen, all the other characters should be asking "where's Luke...I mean Poochie?"

I wish Kylo Ren got more of a character arc, but the Sith rarely do. They're basically just cardboard foils for the heroes except for Anakin/Vader. JJ, are you listening? My money is waiting for an opening day ticket to the Kylo Ren prequel.

Overall, it looked and felt like a Star Wars movie, more than the prequels ever did. But it was a 2015 Star Wars movie by JJ Abrams instead of a 1977 Star Wars movie by the director of THX-1138. The First Order was more organic, more believable than the sterile, efficient sci-fi bad guys of the Empire. Kylo Ren's temper tantrums wouldn't have fit into George Lucas's Star Wars universe, but it added depth to his character. It gave him a weakness. It humanized him.

Another case in point: motion control cameras and Steadicam were cutting edge filmmaking when A New Hope was filmed (I think Steadicam was only used for the speederbike sequence in RTJ). Shaky hand-held cameras are a JJ Abrams trademark.

I love the new diversity to the Stormtroopers. Hopefully it'll draw more die-hard fans from all walks of life into the family. It also contrasts them sharply with the Clone Troopers. The Jedi built an army of disposable cannon fodder. Who's the bad guys here?

It wasn't a perfect movie, but neither were Episode IV-VI. It was still fun for all ages and I just may duck out for another showing today since I have the day off.
Any "conventional" physicists here who can comment on this topic? The article came across as being pretty favorable toward Woit, his arguments seem compelling. I would love to hear the HN counterpoint, if there is one.
There is just another YAML-to-TEX-to-PDF Resume generator I created a while ago: https://github.com/QuteBits/resume_42

Even back then there were plenty of Resume generators. What still haunts these tools is a too complex environment setup and unappealing template designs.
Feels awfully defensive. And I'm tired of people saying things like "why the negativity?" Just because you don't like what someone says doesn't mean it's negative, but besides that it should be okay to say negative things.
Gecko is what mostly benefits from the optimizations, and Gecko is the largest component shared between SeaMonkey and Firefox. I don't believe SeaMonkey at -O0 is an acceptable experience.
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Don't be so dismissive. That's a huge part of the problem. Your average engineer at Google (or anywhere, really) does not have a good sense of product design / product creation.
From an encryption point of view though, they're relatively useless. Said three-letter agency now doesn't need to block the app, they can instead MITM the traffic to it or compel the organization to inject additional client-side or server-side code to complete the backdoor.

Certificate pinning helps against the MITM problem, but code integrity for downloaded client-side code is pretty tricky. Browsers could add some form of signed code pinning for power users, but it'd be tricky to be able to distinguish between legitimate updates and nefarious activity.
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Same. Definitely doable. It did take me a guesstimated 1.5h though.
Sorry for the confusion, virtually everything on Eager is open-source. You can find the code here:

https://github.com/EagerApps/Snow
https://github.com/EagerApps/SnowPro

Eager is an app-store for installing things onto your website, if you are interested in it, you can see more apps here:

https://eager.io/apps
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Completely optional. Like HN for example.
Unfortunately, that's a lot like real life.
You can use a dedicated e-mail address for accounts.
Wouldn't a new email be as unique as the old one? I mean mutating is only a problem if usernames collide.
> Google Web History already creeps me out :-)

You know that you can turn off most of their tracking by doing a privacy checkup? I can't guarantee that they don't know a lot about me and that they're still not tracking me, but I can guarantee you that my Google history is completely blank.
I'd add that they have really good visualization - which helps more as a marketing thing than anything else. The consultants drive the business...
Brazilian here.

The situation has always been dire. We're just more aware of it now.

In fact I'd argue that it has been much worse in some sectors (remember hyper inflation? That was just less than 30 years ago).

The problem now is the growing pains and the polarization of opinion we're creating. We risk becoming a nation of black-and-white issues like, erm, the US.
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You can get the pro version for free with a tweet. You can also find the source of both plugins here:

https://github.com/EagerApps

Eager itself is a platform to allow non-technical website owners to install the all of the open-source and SaaS tools which technical people already have access to. If you already know how to add JavaScript to your page, Eager is more about convenience, not necessity.
Why just hack the news, why not hack everything.

Follow this link with Chrome to see reviews on Amazon. Also notice that the title is highlighted and there is an annotation telling you how to get the book for free.

https://via.hypothes.is/www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019FS8BU8
That depends on context, of course. As an obvious example, if you're actually selling something, you very much do need to know the real name and possibly real address of the person you are contracting with.
I very much agree. A while ago I spent some time making an extension for MediaWiki for Persona, in hopes of maybe bringing Persona to Wikipedia at some point, but after Mozilla abandoned it we sort of lost hope on that front.
There is zero reason to do something like this (if you're doing it at all) with a chunk of javascript hosted by a another party.
You're exaggerating for dramatic effect. First of all, 1-2% is not uncommon for truly early employees. Second, it's quite typical for founders to work for free for a significant length of time to get the company off the ground. If the founders got the company to a 200M valuation with money in the bank to pay salaries, explain to me why employees deserve to be in the same order of magnitude shareholders as founders?
> as if it is a children's movie

It is a children's movie.

EDIT: That's not a bad thing, but it's really freaking obvious that Disney aren't going to suddenly change this massively lucrative franchise to be 12+.
There is significantly less risk in selling the information than using the information.
I'd definitely say that the trustworthiness is the reason since a large chunk of Internet is not really satisfied with the way Mozilla adopts things.
Just to clarify, Snow and Snow Pro don't to anything of the kind. You can view the source here:

https://github.com/EagerApps/Snow
https://github.com/EagerApps/SnowPro
I didn't even realize Persona was shut down. It was a good idea.
So what happens when I want to change my email? I lose all my accounts?
On the site it is written that GoshawkDB doesn't support membership change. Since you system is based on single decree paxos then you can take Raft's joint consensus and apply to plain paxos. Probably it's the simplest and easiest to change membership in paxos cluster.
At the moment, lifestyle (nutrition/fitness) & social connections seems to be the key to living to 100.
Eager is to give all of the non-technical website owners access to the JavaScript tools we use every day. If you do know how to install a script manually, there is certainly less of a reason to use it.
The problem Facebook Connect solves isn't just logging in to multiple accounts but also signing up with them.
Yes, I was only talking about usernames and how they're often unnecessary for most sites, especially the login process.
> They didn't have the animation or feedback systems that made iOS so pleasant to use.

Yay, glitter is the only thing that matters!

> None of them even pretended to offer a real web browser - it was WAP if anything.

Worked fine from what I remember.

> Everything before the iPhone was qualitatively and quantitatively inferior, even if it happened to have a janky plastic touch screen.

At least it wasn't the capacitive junk that all of them are now.

> They sure as hell weren't running slimmed down desktop operating systems with fully-featured frameworks.

iOS is definitely not a desktop OS. Where are the files? Multi-user support? Terminal?

> They ran whatever software your carrier deigned to offer at vastly inflated prices.

As opposed to whatever software Apple deigns to offer at vastly inflated prices?
Very cool to see such a robust community.

As far as self-compilation, I haven't seen anything on how to compile a ClojureScript project without Java, is there an article somewhere on how to do so?
You... just update your email. Or add the new one if the service supports multiple.
One thing I would love to have that could be a solution to the worst case early boot encryption issues is an external crypto processor that generates and stores long term keys, implements authentication, and only releases temporary keys to the main system (to which it only connects via a simple serial connection). It has enough of a screen and input to receive a password and query the user before performing various actions. That is, something like Bitcoin Trezor but maybe a little more complex input and for more general crypto use. Ideally, such a device could even physically store the trusted stick (or several), although that trusted stick shouldn't interact with the rest of the system differently than any other device for maximum reliability. This way the most sensitive crypto is not performed on a general purpose system and the user could authenticate to the device once and then the device can authenticate the user and provide keys to multiple independent systems without hastle. It is an additional expense so hopefully wouldn't be necessary, but would be one way to solve the early boot encryption problem (if needed and less expensive solutions do not work) in a not completely special purpose way.
Irene,

Wouldn't it be cool every ad for Microsoft Office had a link to Open Office?

Of course, now it can.
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I did, though I might need to recheck it, since they used the word "paused" instead of "disabled" :-)
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This is the same horsehit they sell graduate students. "Ah, we're paying you a pittance,but the experience is worth it!" But you can't eat experience, and all of this - grad school, the startup ecosystem, etc. - is just a way for greedy assholes to exploit naive young people when they are at their most energetic.

Don't accept sub-market pay and long hours in exchange for 'experience'. Other people (i.e. investors) are making money off your work. Get paid.
SMS is an awful point of failure to inject into a protocol. It is plain-text, monitored in many countries, and can be unreliable and expensive in emerging markets, and just no.

"But users will forget/loose their reset number!" Maybe, maybe not. It's a cultural thing.
Really? Can you cite anything here that indicates this is the case?

Users treat email access differently, seeing as how it's bound to user identity, usually across dozens, if not hundreds of services.
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