skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't affect the math, but the artist is showing the wrong chamber position as being the next to fire (the next is at the 10 o'clock position, not 12 o'clock).
LinkedIn Plunges, Torpedoed by Fears of Slower Growth
Perhaps that's the case, but isa's comment was the first comment for 4 hours after it was posted. Round about two hours ago, it suddenly dropped down to the fifth slot, not the second or third.

I don't know what HN's policy is on resequencing; I thought I would ask to see if I'm not understanding something correctly.
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Heh- just like Marissa Mayer's Yahoo layoff "joke" when she said there would be no layoffs that week.

http://nypost.com/2016/01/18/marissa-mayers-job-safety-joke-...

They had massive lay offs the following week.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/02/technology/yahoo-earnings-la...
If only AT&T had come out with true System V/386 a few years earlier, SCO never would have gained traction.
> Your end goal might be laudable, but the path to reach it requires corrections

If you think it's a good goal, how would you would try to achieve it?
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> No one talking about white privilege says it means white people can't ever have a tough life.

False. Many people who speak frequently about white privilege actually do sometimes make the argument that white people's lives are so intrinsically easier than POCs, that we need not ever worry about harming any white people.

This mentality is most visible when a gang of righteous ideologues are waging a vicious doxxing or "harass their employer until they fire them" campaign against an accused white person.
I'm not sure it was over-engineered. Recall when Touch ID was introduced there was huge media backlash: Apple is stealing our fingerprints, how do we know there isn't an NSA backdoor to the fingerprint storage, and so on.

The Secure Enclave system was set up exactly to counter those concerns.

Interestingly, when other phone vendors later implemented fingerprint unlocking there was far less outrage. Even when the fingerprint images themselves were found as unencrypted raster images on device storage.
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The real question is: is a repo purge going to follow from their internal purge? Will they start deleting projects with diverging political views?

It's not exactly paranoia: there has been precedents; see Gamergate.
My understanding is that Mersenne Twister is kind of a gold standard for non-cryptographic PRNGs. Linear congruential generators are known to be rather poor, and only ideal where speed is critical and the quality doesn't matter.
True fact: I get all my comedic material from Hacker News comments.
Vmprobe – The control panel for your cloud's memory
Isn't it a bit more like saying that because I don't want to be an alcoholic anymore, I should try hard every day not to drink?
Congrats, this works really well! The placement of the AR content is really quite robust and snappy.

Technical question: What are you using for scene recognition/localization? Any particular image features? Any off-the-shelf libraries?
This is very much what Lua has done.

Major version switches not only don't retain backwards compatibility, but have in the past drastically changed the language. With v5.0 they finally seemed to hit on a good combination of features, syntax, and semantics, and the pace of new major releases has slowed noticeably.
The tape was from the collection of the Computer History Museum, inherited from the collection of their predecessor, the Computer History Museum in Boston. It had just never been digitized. There's a blog post on it here: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-1986-acm-conference...
OK, both of you:

Bitcoin isn't easier, at least not ATM.

Then again:

> sending legitimate money from point A to point B could not possibly be any easier than with this service

- is this patently false as long as I have issues sending monies to Pakistan using PayPal.
I was putting the number of deaths into context, not the cause of it. Laws are sledgehammers, not scalpels, and keeping things in context is important. Cyclists die every year from being car-doored, yet we don't seem to be so passionate about fixing that, nor inconveniencing the whole demographic of car drivers because of a few idiots.

As for your last sentence, if you re-read what I said, you'll see "by itself". It was put there there along with "Australia has a problem with drinking and violence" to suggest that you need to argue with more than just what is actually a very few deaths. It's like you wilfully misread me.

As for "no you're not", do you mean you're not claiming that 20/100k are deaths from alcoholic assault? I can't see something else I said you were doing. Then why the hell did you bring it up? Who was talking about long-term effects of alcohol on health?
Luke 14:34-35
I should have said analogy - your analogy to breaking apartheid was shitty and didn't imply that you had any good arguments, and perhaps were arguing that people against the H1B system were simply racist. Your follow up post appears completely unrelated and doesnt justify the initial analogy in any way.
Sure, you could be one of those that gets addicted to AA and goes to three meetings a day.

Or you could just put it out of mind and not drink.
Killerliquid
I'd be very interested to see the source images before processing, to see how the resulting images differ from the originals. FWIW, http://turing.deepart.io/t/8.jpg has a URL visible in the middle.

One thing I did find interesting is that I did the test initially and got 4/10 (most felt like guesses to be honest). I repeated the test before looking at the answers (though obviously knowing the score introduces some bias), but zoomed the page so the images were about 2-3x bigger than the default. My score increased to 9/10, and I was much more confident of my answers whilst selecting them.
> That’s very unlikely.
> Any logical system based on the concept that human life is worth existing on its own (no matter what the person has contributed to society) automatically ends up with the necessary conclusion that things like subsidized healthcare are mandatory.

If you start solely from that premise: "that human life is worth existing on its own (no matter what the person has contributed to society)" you're very unlikely even to reach taxation (a forced contribution to society) let alone forced subsidies or making anything mandatory. Most of government is based in the notion that someone's only value is in what they contribute to society -- from "tax-dodgers" to "benefit leeches" the vernacular is all about the amount of cash that gets paid into the social coffers.

Much as I appreciate subsidised healthcare, it's not an "automatic conclusion". It is a negotiated compromise, and largely based on nationalism not the value of the individual (eg, the NHS came into existence post-war, as part of the national rebuilding. It's beginnings very much relied on the war effort and large scale conscription having devalued individual freedom amongst the public).

It's become more popular since then because it turns out to work pretty well as a system. Not so much from pure logic, as that healthcare gets more expensive over time (effectively, healthcare can exert a rent on people's lives) and social control of healthcare is a way of putting a cap on its costs at the expense of those in healthcare who could charge much more (eg, watch the NHS junior doctors complaining about the contract changes).
I don't think that would solve the underlying problem of the TouchID sensor being compromised. The device would potentially be venerable to software based attacks that re-anbled the compromised TouchID sensor.
What's stopping you from posting 140 character quips on Facebook or G+?
> I'd love it if racism were to just disappear too. But wanting it to happen doesn't make it happen.

The point being made here is that making the system even more racist is going to make the problem even worse. It's bad to assume Neal DeGrasse Tyson is a shoplifter because of the color of his skin. It's also bad (it may or may not be worse, but it is in no way good) to assume a person will discriminate against others because of the color of his skin.
I was a holdout on editing because I thought there was an integrity importance. But I've totally come around. Twitter needs to do this immediately.
"People today are unhappy. Our working conditions are deteriorating and we are starting to feel like slaves. Our rents or mortgages are massive and we cannot afford to lose our jobs. People are no longer allowed to be themselves because saying the wrong thing to the wrong person might have serious negative repercussions for their careers and livelihoods. People are turning to video games and drugs to give themselves the feeling of fulfilment that they desperately need."

When has this not been the case? "The good ole days"?
Actually they do. There is a similar problem in New Zealand with radiology staff. Employers are trying to get staff but without offering more money. They can't find any staff. They are now pushing to change laws such that staff who currently aren't qualified to operate the equipment will be allowed to. The staff they want to operate the equipment have no training. Zero. The employers who are keen on the changes have not tried offering to pay more. They are ideologically opposed to those low down in the ranks being paid more.
I say show a message whenever Touch ID is activated. Then again that would be really freakin' annoying. Still better than bricking the phone.
Starts at 4:30, direct link: https://youtu.be/SN--t9jXQc0?t=270
American culture is such a bummer when it comes to how it shoves people into categories. We need to start learning how to simply NOT THINK about race, and NOT MENTION IT. There is simply no excuse at all to mention it. People CANNOT be categorized based on skin color at all, AT ALL. People cannot be categorized based on culture either. Virtually everyone is multi-ethnic and multi-racial at some level. To identify even yourself as belonging to a distinct "color" is just a fabrication of American culture that is an unfortunate outcome of the history in this country.

Nope, the left won't let that happen. Leftists have to categorize to divide, conquer, and marginalize their enemies...all under the guise of compassion and the other bullshit they make up to further their agenda.
Connected via HDMI? And goes into YPbPr mode because OS X thinks its a TV? And has no override.
Task warrior costs nothing. And does a whole lot too.
Possibly brigading downvoters then, I don't know.
Nope. But I don't know what you're getting at.

As a programmer, I just care that you write good code. In fact, I might as well be interacting with your mind across the internet, and don't even have to look at you in the face, and we will be collaborating just fine.

Why does it matter for someone who deals with 0's and 1's what the color of the skin of your coworker is? Once again, if you're a programmer and you're swimming in abstractions and code, my coworker might as well be a robot, and I could give two shits.
This could go two ways. One way would be where people appreciate your efforts and change their tone. Another way this could go is that people will stop participating. Either way you will likely get what you want.
What falsifiable predictions does critical race theory make?
Sure, but that emphatically does not mean abandoning principles of merit and equality and letting bullies and shakedown artists run your companies, as Github and too many others are doing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11042278
Well, yea. It says as much on the page:

"one is painted by a human and another one is generated by artificial intelligence based on a photo and a style of a painter."

I find this to be easily "beatable" by simply judging which one is most likely to have its origin in a photo (vanity, and such) with a fallback on the one with a lot of repeating patterns.
There is a variant of hot code reloading (dynamic binary program patching) for C.

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hollings/papers/apijournal.pdf

And there even older one (I cannot find because search in my blog (LJ) is broken).
A skilled carpenter can work very fast with a hammer, sinking nails with one blow. But an unskilled laborer can work just as fast if they use a nailer. So I'd guess it's more about saving money than time.
> People CANNOT be categorized based on skin color at all, AT ALL.

People are categorized in that manner every day. Perhaps you're trying to say that's regrettable and inaccurate?

> To identify even yourself as belonging to a distinct "color" is just a fabrication of American culture

Certainly, but it's a culture which still exists. It doesn't go away just because you announce that it's illogical and unfortunate. I think you may be falling prey to the is-ought problem[1].

(To be clear, I'm not expressing a view on Github's actions, but I think it's somewhat naive to suggest that there aren't real problems out there.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
I would say it is not a Turing test primarily because it does not involve a dialog between the examiner and the subjects.

I don't think programs written to imitate a craft, or even to learn to imitate a craft from examples, count as AI, no matter how impressive.
For us it was a combination of things. It was never really service/uptime related, but I can't count the number of in-app Javascript errors or weird UI decisions they made. The issues were just not good enough and the web pages were continually slow/bloated to load.

Every time I'd open a support ticket I felt like I was a second-class citizen or that the issue I raised wasn't important to them. Continual, multiple years or bad support from them. I get that we were paying $25/mo but I just couldn't deal with it anymore.
What if there are other ways to overcome those biases other than stuffing the office full of people from every kind of (oppressed) minority?
That's not at all what I said. I'm saying the US is the only country which prefaces descriptions of people with info about their skin colour. It seems (to someone not from the US) a truly strange cultural behaviour.

[note - edited for clarity]
As a fellow loser at the bar, how is the knowledge that I am extra unlucky supposed to make me feel towards you? Am I supposed to consider myself fortunate that I had a greater chance at winning even as we both sit there with no chips? Am I supposed to buy you a beer because you had less of a chance?
Yes, I'm mostly a liberal, but I agree that it fails completely to see certain truths if the truth even remotely violate political correctness.
Yes, I alluded to that by way of the sixth bit, I just had no reference to whether it was something they chose to do, or had no other choice at the time.
That never actually happened; it's a legend that was already found in songs from the 1100s. The 1361 or 71 date is from an invented marginal comment in an edition of Montaigne's works: http://gatinais.histoire.pagesperso-orange.fr/Chien_de_Monta...

Judiciary combat probably wasn't that common in the late 1300s, although it still existed.
I don't recall hearing that much in the context of Eich, but it certainly is a common go-to argument more recently among those who want to see people punished for having incorrect political views. It came up a lot when Strangeloop kicked out Curtis Yarvin, for example.
"We’re trying to build a new kind of enterprise company where the playbooks of old won’t always work,"

Code for, "lots more money to be made here, move over hackers, let the ^professionals^ do their work". I'm not surprised, the hippy dream of work as you please is no more. Take and want the big money? don't be surprised when big money dictates how the company will be run.

Big question, will github be run to the benefit of users or share holders?
100% on this, and found it pretty easy to tell the difference. The main 'tell' was that the ape images had individual brushstrokes that were erratic in thickness/pressure/amount of paint, whereas the individual strokes in the artist images were generally more consistent.
Show HN: Hangman in 3 lines of Python
Thanks, though I'm still getting authentication errors. I don't want to use the JS library since I'm not working in Javascript.

I'd kill for a working code sample, in any language. I tried looking at the JS source, but it's minified and thus quite hard to read.
$40 per year is OBSCENE???
Isn't that whata debit card does
If you scroll down a single comment, you'll see one from me pointing out at least one issue with the religion question on the census.

Your own link shows another - the option for 'no religion' has historically been obfuscated or separated. Once upon a time, it didn't even exist. The whole point of your linked article is about how that question can be played with in order to fudge the results.
Happy to help! GitLab actually offers several options:

* Self-hosted CE (free)
* Self-hosted EE (paid)
* GitLab-hosted EE on GitLab.com (free)
* GitLab-hosted CE or EE on GitHost.io (paid)

We use the self-hosted CE, and it's a breeze to set up and maintain
This seems to bring RTM closer to feature parity with Asana. Used to use RTM back in the day, but Asana was such a 10x improvement at the time that it was a no-brainer switch. Now the answer to which one to use is less obvious.
Well... Things like affirmative action do help price in the advantages race have given people, at least for a while. A stronger safety net works too.

Obviously in combination with "magically getting rid of all racist/sexist thoughts".
Likely cause of death: A thousand cuts from Ockham's razor.
> Nothing here is worth living for.

Hey, very scary to hear you say that. My email is in my profile. Write me anytime if you want. Lots of people on HN love to help other people. Don't be shy about reaching out.
You forget that most often such a lane is as wide as a bicycle + 10 cm on each side. Meaning that if a car passes fast enough it could even push the cyclist around just with its air flow. Plus, at lower speeds bikes tend to go less than straight, so there is a fairly real danger of bumping into, e.g. the mirror on a car. Additionally a cyclist is obligated to handle things coming at him from between parked cars and such, which is really tricky since a cyclist is often much closer to those than a driving car. Those and more i don't have in mind right now are plenty important reasons why taking a lane can make traffic safer for everyone.

Having been in the situation often enough, i can also tell you: I wouldn't mind if cars passed by me in narrow situations if they slowed down while doing so, but more often than not, cars pass by at full speed instead.

Lastly, keep in mind that this situation only happens in narrow side streets, not on big streets with better separated traffic flows.

Sport cyclists taking a whole lane while ignoring a dedicated bike path are just assholes.
For once, I do appreciate the downvotes. It means racist bullshit is unacceptable.
The point is to not ignore racism by pretending it doesn't exist.
It's a truth and a lie depending on how you want to interpret the meaning if meritocracy.

For many people it means, atomically, when you're filling a position, you're not just going thru the motions to get your buddy, mate, someone you owe a favor, your cousin, etc. in and not doing due diligence in finding someone capable of executing the position. For many people merit does not equate to reversing historical injustices, but it does mean not being unjust during this process. That's to say you don't disqualify people out of hand, just because.
I hope that scientist find an alternative system to CRISPR, perhaps by continuing the research that lead to the discovery of CRISPR --- how bacteria fight off phages. It would reduce the value of the patents on CRISPR.
this is great work kidzik. looking forward to see more about it. hi-res are quite good, that even if in the uncanny they can be quite a success for deepart lovers.
sorry, I accidentally mobile-downvoted. It's a good comment.
If you have a secure enclave within the device, then any hardware which has a direct connection to that secure enclave must be authenticated. It doesn't matter about aftermarket replacements.

The entire purpose of the secure enclave is defeated if it trusts any hardware connected to it.

I'm not saying they didn't test what happens when it fails. I'm saying they didn't do user testing on what happens when it fails. I'm sure the engineers tried out the hardware authentication system. They just didn't test the whole scenario once iOS was sitting on the end product.

So yes, it was put in place to stop any hardware that could not be trusted from accessing users' secure data. But no, it was not done to prevent aftermarket replacements.

The only reason I can see Apple caring about aftermarket replacements is because they are often low quality, and cause customers to go back to Apple with unauthorised repairs. (I've witnessed this more than once in an Apple store, someone coming in who had their screen replaced outside Apple and the touch digitiser was failing. Apple just sends them away.)
Good. They're just making the case for bitcoin.
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Hey hey good joke! If every web service was as bad as g or fb we could all enjoy a internet that acts more like cable television...
The poor oppressed privileged white males with fabulous high-paying tech jobs.

Spare us with the preachy self-righteousness please.
>Our working conditions are deteriorating

My paternal grandfather, in common with many of his generation was sent to work in a coal mine at the age of 14. Had he not died from a dust induced respiratory disease a few years back I can well imagine him dying from laughter on reading such a ridiculous statement.
Do you think a link to a Bitbucket profile would be ignored?
LOL. The other comments stand for themselves, but I'll add that not a single person operating in my industry uses bitcoin. This is delusional thinking once you get outside of the hardcore tech sector.

The businesses I deal with enjoy US dollars and simple tax situations. Not the opposite.