skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like the actual police reports I guess
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-...

I realize this is a highly politically charged issue and Assange is a hero to most people (and me) but there is merit to these charges, which will never get cleared up in a court room because of US shenanigans with backdoor rendition hanging like a dark cloud over the whole thing. I can appreciate his work and not his character, just like I can appreciate the Unabomber manifesto argument without endorsing his personal actions.
Europe is more dangerous than living under ISIS?:) Well, looking at how things are going it might just be the case very soon. Back in the days before the collapse of Soviet Union there was an attempt by the party to turn the tide by claiming "to fix the socialism's shortcomings we need more socialism!". Now Europe is trying to fix refugees and ISIS problem by calling for "more refugees! more ISIS!"
So far nobody has been able to give me a real reason why not to use jquery other than "because it can get really slow if you use it for the wrong thing."

This uses jquery, and isn't really slow. Why is it the wrong thing for this project?
I've been hearing the "2 more years" line since 1979.
OK, we shouldn't get too hung up on this; "unacceptable" is obviously hyperbolic! I won't bother with a point-by-point rebuttal, just summarise by saying that this is clearly a blog post, and PDF is completely wrong for a blog post. For the author to get something relating to usability so fundamentally wrong in a post about usability just entirely undermines their argument.
Even cheaper, just solicit bids for utility scale solar, (and write so distributed roof top solar is allowed to compete).
A stellar example of a security researcher responding to abuse
Most annoying for me is that I seem to respond to 'do you want notifications' before I've processed whether it's a Chrome or OS prompt. (It's not that obvious anyway.)

Result tends to be duplicate notifications...
it sure didn't dip much in 2008.
The only real alternative to a UK bank that has actually launched and actually works is Monese. 20,000+ app installs in under 4 months since launch and an active community of users http://www.facebook.com/mymonese http://www.twitter.com/mymonese with plenty of reviews to read here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.monese.mon... Euro accounts will also be landing this year, and transfers to a range of European currencies are supported at just 0.5% !! Plus the account is currently free !!!!
Regular reminder not to treat well-meaning security researchers like dirt. (Not that most HN users would, but I think this story is worth sharing!)

Epilogue: https://twitter.com/_mr_me_/status/695366241045729280
It didn't work well in safari unfortunately. I use Tableau often so I'd like to see a competitive offering.
A friend of mine died almost a decade ago before linkedin became a thing and I see those occasionally.
Someone must have done the same for him.
Hmm... https://frinkiac.com/?p=meme&q=gamblor&e=S05E10&t=1151749&m=...
Given that it's never noon/midnight across the entire country, do you mean that at each point independently, usage is double at local noon vs. local midnight, or do you mean that there exists a single point in time where usage is double another point across the whole country?

If the former, if we had a better CONUS-wide grid, that could distribute power East/West more efficiently, how much would that help?
> There's nothing to force LinkedIn to change the negative aspects of their service

Yeah there is: a $10 billion drop in their stock valuation.
I fear it is not possible to prevent people from setting up computers/virtual machines that play certain songs 24/7; and I'm surprised that there aren't services yet that offer to do that on scale.

This might mean that Spotify's current business model can not work longterm?
And why is that?
Serious question: does pushing everyone to become a "coder" further cheapen the notion of working in "IT'?
> My guess is that some VCs were leveraged and had to liquidate positions.

VCs cannot just sell public stock on a whim, these things are scheduled far in advance and can only happen during trading windows.
And ... I can't be the only one that thinks Google search results just aren't that good anymore.
previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10592754
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And cannot choose to just liquidate these shares whenever they want. There are rules, and these things require multiple months advance warning and lock in.
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But it does. The Wikipedia numbers [1] give a mass density for compressed air storage of 40 kJ/kg and volume density of 8 kJ/L. That's 0.011 kWh/kJ or 0.0014 kWh/L. So a 10,000 L tank gets you only 14 kWh, or ~$1.50 worth of energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_energy_storage#...
there is an obvious use for it in helping stop attacks

It's not that obvious to me. Can you explain why you think this is obvious? Because in order to stop attacks, you need specific, actionable intelligence. Indiscriminate collection of data just muddies the water.

I was going to do a simple calculation here, but wikipedia already has a nice illustration from Cory Doctorow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox#Discuss...
The Aquos Crystal X is the best-looking Android phone I have ever seen...and I can't seem to get it here in the U.S.

:(((
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I tell people every day that you don't win friends with salad. Glad I finally have the images to go with it!
This perpetuates the crime against usability that is discrete scrolling by cell. Continuous scrolling, people! Continuous!
Never heard of DevExpress but just by going to the website it feels far less intuitive than Tableau. Tableau is so freaking easy that you don't need to be experienced in BI to be user.
> everyone was expecting poor results.

Maybe the people buying yesterday didn't expect poor results. Or at least they expected the kind of poor results that would make the stock go up. Definitely it did come out "a bit worse" that they predicted.
The point is that everything at scale as an impact that looks big when aggregated... if you don't actually look at the scale.

135 out of 1B isn't big at all, it just looks big because of the biases we have when interpreting big numbers. Not mentioning the fact that the aggregation isn't very relevant (it's not like 135 people will have their entire life wasted while the others are not annoyed at all).
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There are very strong competitors in the German and French speaking worlds.
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you're correct. it is a huge cognitive dissonance. many of the most vehemently pro-gun anti-government people in the U.S. only selectively apply their views to "keep the government away from MY PROPERTY". they are often also enthusiastic supporters of aggressive, militaristic foreign policy and all kinds of really nasty shit including but not limited to assassinations, drone strikes, extraordinary rendition, torture, extra-judicial detainment, and persecution of whistle-blowers on the ground they are "traitors".

it makes me sick to think about, but thats how it is. the U.S. is a country of many contradictions.
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This is flat-out misleading. PostgreSQL is also designed "from the ground up for high availability and scalability," it's just optimized for a different -- and far more common and useful -- set of system assumptions and constraints. Unfortunately those assumptions and constraints don't make good blog or product marketing material copy. "We have a typical LOB app," "our data needs are nothing extraordinary," etc.
The AWS RedShift integration was a really good move, as one of the reasons we did not adopt them at my previous company was the requirement that the data set fit in memory of the server.

With RedShift, you offload the actual crunching to the db that can handle billions of rows, and then visualize the results.
Crapple batteries are a world of pain! Trying to source a solution for my 17" mbp, I eventually gave up and moved to Linux and x86 has hardware.
blogspam, dupe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040362
That's... actually a really interesting idea, but you have to consider who you're building the system for - governments, or normal everyday people?

There is a principle, that I think has basically been proven at this point, if not academically:

A: In any non-optional system used by n people, the bad actors using that system are < n/2 (read: not a majority)

B: It is impossible to prevent bad actors from misusing any system.

C: Trying too hard means the system necessarily damages good actors.

Therefore:

D: Any system that punishes bad participants more than it helps non-bad participants is degenerate.

Bitcoin can be seen as a rejection of a system suffering from C. For perfectly legitimate businesses and people, sending money is an unmitigated pain in the ass, substantial bites taken by middlemen, arbitrary negative action (c.f. civil forfeiture, paypal freezes) and so on. Bitcoin solves almost all of those problems, but makes lives easier for the bad actors too (but not enough that it substantially increases corruption in the world - bad actors gonna bad act)

Now, if your hypothetical system is strictly opt-in, perhaps with social pressure for politicians and such to use it, then I'd have no trouble with it. Were it to become the de facto currency, on the other hand, the problems we have with government overreach and data mining just become a lot worse.

If we accept B as true, then it makes more sense to design for the case of innocent, law abiding people first, out of fear of harming them due to C.

Put another way, I'm a lot more worried about government misusing things under color of law, than I am worried about government corruption. At least regular people can oppose the second one in good faith, while the first one always comes with the "it's legal, so?" baggage.
PostgreSQL HA is not that difficult to setup, repmgr makes the task pretty easy. If you are talking about automatic failover then that's another story entirely, because it is simply not appropriate for relational databases unless you are using shared storage (expensive, painful) - but if you want to go that route corosync and pacemaker have your back.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11040362
So let's take the conservative end of this - 1,000 lane-kilometers.

Assume a lane is about 4 meters. Thus we have 4 square kilometers as a target, if we assume a square meter of road is exactly as good as a square meter of dirt.

http://www.france-agri-invest.com/property_for_sale/91.html
A Stunning Estate of 404 hectares near Toulouse
Price: € 4,130,000 € including all fees

About 1€ per square meter. For farmland on the expensive, 'stunning' end of the spectrum.

Put it there. Whole program. Forget about the roads. Now you don't have to shut down FOUR THOUSAND KILOMETERS of active traffic-bearing road, or employ an army of thousands of installers, or repeatedly install it because it "lasts up to ten years". You don't have to deal with an extra layer of glass-polymer tile on top, you don't have to run all of the wiring in the least efficient and least maintainable manner possible, you don't have to do a bunch of things that become necessary if you stick it in the road.

1m^2 of solar panel at 20% efficiency achieves about 200 watts at theoretical best insolation. Solar panels are presently priced around 0.25€ per watt, so we arrive at a cost of around 50€ per square meter panel, or 50x as much as the land to place the panels on.

4 million Euros wouldn't be more than a tiny fraction of a program like this. Using the roads has the potential to increase costs by a factor 10x-1000x over using simple panels.
You can shift electricity 1,000 miles each way before losses stack up. So, geography is not really an issue.

ED: Currently, ~4,300 mi is about the limit on economical power transmission. But, that's a long trip.
In the context of all his wealth, yes. Most definitely 2% poorer.
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I am in the recent days having the impression that Google whatever it is doing is focused more and more in presenting to the user google biggest clients, and hoping that it will be useful.

Because I am having more and more trouble finding what I want, people used to consider me a master of google fu, finding whatever random stuff they wanted, now I am struggling, specially after google changed the + and "" meaning (+ went from "mandatory" to mean "google plus search" and " went to mean "literal string" to mean "a sort of mandatory thing")

If I need to find some obscure term, I know now that google won't find it, despite finding that same term in the past, finding pages with a certain information on it never happen anymore, even using the "" thing.

For example I own a ASUS N46VM laptop with nVidia Optimus... this laptop is terrible, and I am always having to look online how to make it behave properly, before the "+" change, I could type +N46VM and be guaranteed I only would get relevant ifnormation... recently I was desperately searching for some stuff, and found out no matter what I input on google, it returned completely bogus results, where the string N46VM was nowhere in the page, not even in the "time" dimension (ie: if I load the page on archive.org for example and scan every version of it, N46VM never had been on it, google just heuristically decided the page was relevant and gave it to me wrongly).

EDIT: I am having some success with DuckDuckGo

although their research system is clearly cruder than google, having much less heuristics and whatnot, frequently I find the stuff I want easier on DuckDuckGo anyway, after some pages of browsing results... while on google I browse 40 pages and all of it is completely irrelevant and unrelated (while on DuckDuckGo it shows me 40 pages with the term I want, but in the wrong context).
Author here, thank you for posting!
I'll be around to answer any question :)
Doesn't work for me. Keep getting spammed about not being signed in.
Following my habit for evaluating VR-infrastructure projects: Ctrl+F, "latency". No mention of what the latency is.

There's a big difference between how Google and Oculus approach VR. Oculus' position is that it's bad to show people VR experiences that are likely to make them sick; they refer to it as "poisoning the well". They're very cautious in how they label things, and they've invested a lot of effort and talked a lot publicly about how to get things exactly right.

Google's approach is, instead, to keep expectations down; they call it "cardboard". And, well, what's going on in the Cardboard world kind of freaks me out, because Cardboard's documentation never seems to mention the problems, Google never talks about the work that needs to be done or the problems Cardboard has, they just sort of pretend that VR is VR is VR. It's like they're really trying to poison the well (though I don't think they'd actually do that intentionally).
I'm not sure this does it for me.

> The answer is actually quite simple. Julian Assange has not been charged with rape in Sweden.

But under Swedish law (and, for that matter, the law of most nations), one does not need to be charged with a crime in order to be arrested.

> Asylum is an international law which is binding on all parties.

But I don't know what anyone involved has done to violate the international asylum norms.

1. Asylum is not a get out of jail free card--at most, it is a legal basis for Ecuador to not return Assange to the U.K. The international law of asylum does not prevent the U.K. from arresting him is he returns to U.K. This is why...

2. It is debatable whether a nation may grant asylum through its embassy on foreign soil. The more customary approach to asylum requires the would-be asylee to be within the borders of the nation granting asylum.

> Assange is forced to either give up his asylum or his human rights, both of which are inalienable.

1. What human rights? Again, there is no right only to be arrested after being formally charged with a crime. In the U.S. the usual standard is probable cause and in many countries, including Sweden, it is also well accepted that one can be arrested for investigative purposes. Of course there are limits on how long one can be detained without charges. But here, Assange has only been "detained" in excess of these limits through his own actions. If he had cooperated, he would have been either released or formally charged long ago.

2. One's right to asylum does not protect one from prosecution outside of the country granting asylum.

I think we agree that your points about the case in Sweden did not bear on the decision here about arbitrary detention. I frankly don't have much of an opinion about them, except to say that these factual doubts about the Swedish case do not invalidate the Swedish arrest warrant. The proper way of ventilating these issues is through the investigation and, if necessary, trial process--not by fleeing the country to avoid arrest.
you have a point there
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We've had artificial intelligence since you could play a computer at chess, but the expectation has always been a mechanized Arnold Schwarzenegger or Hal 9000.

The difference today is the scale at which it operates in our daily lives, and the accelerated rate at which it is growing.
...ended with a link to his new project selling washing machines. Presumably why the article has been resurrected in the first place.
You'd probably have more luck marking them as spam in your client. If you're using a webmail service of any note, you're helping to train the filters used by others, and as a bonus, your own profile means you're less likely to get them in the inbox in the future.

Also, if you're in the USA, you should report those messages to the FTC.

If you try to unsubscribe from an email list and your request is not honored, file a complaint with the FTC. via https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0038-spam
There's an export contacts feature, which was restored after removing it resulted in a user backlash (http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/25/linkedin-brings-back-tool-...). But if a competitor tried to create a one-click feature for programatically exporting contacts from LinkedIn and importing them into their own database, they would probably get banned. And for the vast majority of users, explaining how to export/import a CSV manually is not viable.
No that's not what he's trying to say. We know why gradient descent and back-propagation works.

But no one understands what an actual trained neural net is doing. You can look at the weights, and you can watch the inputs and outputs, but it is very difficult to understand why it does what it does.

It just fit a model to data, but there is no explanation why that model is best. The weights are not interprettable by humans.

There have been some attempts at making models which humans can interpret. One program named Eureqa fit the simplest possible mathematical expression possible to a set of samples. A biologist tried it on his data and found that it created an expression which actually fit the data really well. But he couldn't publish it because he couldn't explain why it worked. It just did. But there was no understanding, no explanation.
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I submit I know of no one who can honestly and verifiably say they understand quantum spin without equations either. It just falls out of the math that way and is highly verifiable by experiment.
The irony in the description of Google Trends page inside in search
Well the question really is, how do the masses start to use this? If only couple of smart people understand it, it won't help much. There are already lot of "like bitcoin, but anonymous" coins, which haven't gained that significant success. If most of the people can't understand why this one is "the shit", they aren't going to see difference between this and the other privacy-promoting altcoins.
Premining devalues future work done on a cryptocurrency because the underlying idea is to decentralize money, and the coins found at the start of a blockchain are easier to generate because the target difficulty for finding a block is significantly lower.

The most famous case of premining I can think of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinye (ltc clone), where people started mining it after dogecoin began. Dogecoin was in its first few weeks of release and had an extremely active number of miners; and was even more profitable to be mining than bitcoin at the time. There was speculation that having a celeb figure attached to a currency could bring the cryptocurrency movement mainstream; but when the block explorer for kanyecoin was released it was found that a very large number were premined by the developers, and few people considered it was worth dedicating mining time towards. The devs basically dumped all of their coins onto an exchange and abandoned the currency soon after. Premining is bad for building up a community of miners towards which an altcoin can be established for both trust and future earnings.
And I absolutely hate that they track which profiles you view and then display that information in the side bar under "people who viewed this profile also viewed". Unless you're looking at high profile person with millions of views, the "also viewed" list becomes a list of friends and not people in the same field or similar job profiles. If I ever have to click on a LinkedIn link, I always go into incognito mode.
I saw MeshBird[1] on GitHub the other day and while I haven't tried it out yet I really love the idea.

[1]https://github.com/meshbird/meshbird
This is very interesting. As late as 2008, Google said they don't use any machine learning in search. Everything was hand engineered with tons of heuristics. They said they didn't trust machine learning, and that it created bizarre failure cases.
Let's suppose the solar panels are durable enough for heavy vehicles to drive over, and modular so as to make re/placement reasonable.

There is no way its durable enough to not be scuffed and offers a safe level of grip in all weather conditions, and is transparent enough to offer anything near a normal solar cells efficiency, AND is cheaper than just building a regular road and installing a solar panel that doesn't get driven over.
Batteries are becoming cost-competitive as well.

And as I said earlier, the economics don't need to work now in order to justify pilot programs and research, due to the long timelines involved in radically changing how the grid works. The assumption that the economics will work in the foreseeable future is enough.
Thanks for the response.

> People have been grinding on what the definition of a set should be for a century, trying to build the best possible abstraction, and they have all of the same problems coders have. You assume to much, it's not very general. Don't assume enough, there's nothing interesting to say that's unilaterally true.

This is a great point.
Nick Bostrom is a peddlar of the apocalypse who has made his name by spreading fear about a fairy creature called superintelligence. He's convinced people to go looking for weapons of mass destruction in snippets of math and code. But the WMDs aren't there any more than they were in Iraq. Nice work if you can get it.
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