skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Predict the DOW closing value to within 1 point, 1 day ahead, at 50/50 accuracy.

Predict weather 2 weeks out to within 1 degree at 50/50 accuracy.

Do face recognition well enough to identify people from surveillance videos. (from the set off all known criminals with 50/50 accuracy including false positives and false negatives.)

Program a computer well enough to replace a Jr developer.

Write a book good enough to become popular on its own merits.

Replace in person translators for real time language X to Y langue translation at the UN.
No they don't. But that doesn't answer the real question here: is the new UI better enough to outweigh the amount of time and productivity so many people will lose while adapting?
I used AS3 at that time and completely hated it. It would have been a terrible approach for JavaScript to adopt going forward. TS is much more suitable for the dynamic nature of JavaScript, IMO. I know that AS3 had dynamic features, but they tended to have a lot of very strange limitations in actual use (it actually felt more limiting than pure Java code in some cases).

I haven't tried Babel, though. It easily could be a better path forward. Does it have some equivalent of the typescript type descriptor files?
It shows a lack of imagination. You see this and want to be surprised. Learn about some fantastic unknown Malaysian film that blows doors...

I overuse a half learned Nietzsche quote from the beginnings of "The use and abuse of history..." - actually I think a requote of Goethe - along the lines of 'I hate that which merely instructs me without increasing my vitality...'

Butchered I am sure but I think that is the gist.

There is literally nothing new on this list.

Again - I am not a film buff - but I have seen movies in the past 3 months that are better than many movies on this list.

Glengarry Glen Ross comes to mind. Slate article is dead on about the omission of Ozu and Ackermann. What about documantaries like "Once were kings" or Errol Morris or for historical purposes, Leni Riefenstahl

I see things like this as an indictment of a dangerous lack of imagination in liberal US. Its killing us.
Feel free to ban carrying out any of my hobbies in the proximity of forest fire control operations.

Let's make the silly analogy more accurate: Firefighters ask witches not to bring black cats and mirrors to active house fires. Witches outraged, no one else cares.
No it wasn't, that commenter was _guessing_.

A tweet above says it was on a GTX 980 in 1440
>Long ago, Rosa Parks declined to give up her seat on the bus in favor of a white passenger.

And before her others did the same (such as Claudette Colvin), but they weren't considered sympathetic enough, and so nothing happened. We need to remember that Parks was a calculated political tactic, less we find ourselves with a bunch of Colvins and not a single Parks.
It's not just the Real ID that makes you able to go to Mexico and Canada without a passport. It is that the ID is an 'Enhanced Driver's License.' Currently this only applies to licenses issued in Connecticut, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, South Dakota, Vermont and Washington.

Florida is Real ID compliant, but not an Enhanced Driver's License, so you cannot use it to cross international borders. For that, I use a passport card.
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They can't, and they know they can't. The TSA failing their own tests is in the news every now and then. So they pile on more layers of security.

Also worth noting, they care about the appearance of security in addition to the actual level of security. And boondoggle projects are great cover for otherwise unsavory projects.
Indeed. I'm not quite sure why people think the government doesn't already a "national database of citizens" between social security (theoretically assigned to every citizen) and taxes (ties SSN to address yearly).
A basic understanding of JavaScript technologies, as described in my book http://pipefishbook.com/
JavaScript libraries should be authored at all... c++ master race!
Support for HTTP/2 in AWS ELB?
Not anywhere close to 3%. And anecdotally, I've never had anyone complain when I handle them a bundle of $20 bills.

Many banks don't charge fees for using machines that count coins that are dumped into them. However, some big banks are charging customers who deposit lots of cash. At one major bank, there's no fee for the first $10,000 deposited. After that, you'll pay 20 cents per $100. [1]

[1]: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/banking/sneaky-bank-fees.asp...
In Finland, there's an initiative called "A home that fits", letting young adults stay cheaply in the homes for the elderly: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/21/europe/helsinki-seniors-ho...
Git Remote Code Execution got accidentally announced, before the patches
Are you sure? DMV page says otherwise:

http://dmv.ny.gov/driver-license/about-federal-real-id
That's so really impressive stuff. The problem is though, that asset creation remains massively expensive.
I don't think you understood the point of the article - it was targeted at library maintainers, not all users.

Types often end up a part of the documentation, and internal typing is often needed in libraries to keep track of model state, so having it at the foundational level in the library itself adds tremendous benefit.
Not going to happen. That would shut down air travel. The TSA will not be allowed to shut down air travel.

The TSA isn't even allowed to blanket ban people from traveling without ID documents in the status quo. (Surprised? https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification)
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Shades of the Soviet Union, which required passports for internal travel.
Beyond mistakes - consider political persecution.

Have an unpopular opinion about the current governing political party? One click later a bank account might experience a "technical difficulty." Named to an unofficial secret list of troublemakers (e.g. "no fly list") by a faceless bureaucrat? ditto.

This applies not only to individuals but also to corporations. The ability to freeze (or "disappear") a corporation's finances with a keystroke could be a powerful political weapon.

From Apple to the EFF to Amnesty International... and the faces that represent them, this could open an entirely new political warfront.
It's really difficult to generalize the situation in the US due to the size and diversity, in terms of industry and business scales, of the country. In general, I would say that you hit a ceiling in career development within 10 years on a technical track. (Of course, there are exceptions in industry sectors and a small number of geographic locations. But, I'm looking at the aggregate.)

However, management is no panacea. The pay is higher, but you can easily be stuck in mid-level management limbo with no say on budget or technical direction. Of course, you are "empowered" (read the remainder of the sentence with an abundance of sarcasm) to do reviews, deal with resource allocation issues for projects, operations, support work, and not to mention the coveted verification that your team does mandatory training on sexual harassment and the like. My manager is a prime example. He sits in many meetings. Ostensibly, he has a voice at the table with the "big wigs". In reality, he controls nothing and has the boring administrivia to handle. Mid-level management is also the first layer to be cut in a down-sizing.

If you stay on the technical track past 10 years, it really has to be because you love the ability to create something and see it used. I've been on the technical side for 25 years. Much of my job I find boring and intellectually vacuous. But, the times when I can actually create something still thrill me like the first time I wrote a program and saw it run.
Typescript really isn't comparable to coffeescript
In a lot of European airports you're not asked for ID. At least as long as you don't leave the Schengen area.

This certainly applies for Zurich, Vienna, Düsseldorf and Warsaw.

You just scan your bording pass, or barcode on the phone and enter through an automated gate. Same, mostly applies, when you enter the plane.

This is not a recommendation not to carry an id, because there's always the possibility that some official, or airline staff wants to see it.
Obama 'picks Supreme Court Nominee' – Merrick Garland
I'm getting this error when trying to install wordsmith-mode using package-install: `http://melpa.org/packages/wordsmith-mode-20140203.427.el: Not found`
My experience of being in a water-filled sensory deprivation chamber
Sounds like they heard the feedback a month ago? See the "Official Response". https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/adobe...
> JohnKacz 14 minutes ago
He also asks backers to send in their suggestions for the list "because of course there's going to be stuff I left out."

It's really amazing the degree to which many of us white dudes, over-represented in intellectual compendiums everywhere, react when we feel the slightest, feeblest threat.
I didn't even notice there was a change until I saw this post.
In fact, New York is one of the states NOT issuing real IDs by default, so good luck flying to any other state with a NY license. You'd need to get the other version of the license, which I suspect most people wouldn't get (I know I haven't in the past).
Yes but the point far above is that computers don't have their own ends, they only do exactly what we tell them to do. So there is no analogy to humans, early or otherwise.
Except the headline is wrong. TSA is, as a consequence of the REAL ID Act, going to require REAL ID compliant IDs in 2018. These are predominantly state issued identification cards (typically a drivers license). Passports are an alternate, valid ID.
>If students can do it, it can't be all that expensive.

That's not really true at all. It comes down to man-hours and how much time it takes the artist to do the work. A student isn't incurring that cost when they do work for themselves, but a company would be.
That's pretty harsh man. He's a kid and doesn't deserve 15 years for tearing down a poster. Look at the humanity in it regardless of how factual NK behaves.

The kid simply doesn't deserve it and it's the _right thing to do_ to help him.
> "People are more aware of Trump than they are of, say, John Kasich."

This is as anecdotal as it gets, but to your point. In a recent political discussion one of my co-workers had no idea how to pronounce Kasich's name. If he was all over the news, this would not be a problem.

> "Be outrageous. Be different."

Or be a Clinton.
If you look at how people voted for Clinton, I think it has a lot more to do with how those people got their information than deciding based on policy. People who get their information from the Internet tended to support Sanders. Those who got it from TV (usually 60 year olds, which is the networks' main audience), tended to support Clinton.

Also there was a huge awareness gap between Clinton and Sanders when their campaigns started. Sanders has had to catch-up this whole time. He was only given 10 minutes on TV the first 9 months of his campaign. Trump got 23 times as much.
Your affectation of the old terminal-style backspacing joke is way more distracting than "gentleman's agreement" could ever have been.

And anyway, I think you'd have been better off just saying, "I wish we could all agree...."
The grant process is terrible. Let's fix it.

Or are you implying that for some unspecified reason that would be impossible?
Apple destroys govt. claim that it’s using encryption debate as a marketing tool
This wreaks of elitism. Media is not consumed, nor as influential, as you are suggesting. Never denigrate the intelligence or incentives of others. To dismiss others' intelligence, experience, and/or process for developing their preferences, you miss out on understanding their motivations and needs. You may miss out on opportunities to develop friends, family, ... or customers.

Despite not having a deep warm-fuzzy for Trump or Hillary (thus increasing their favorability ratings), they represent something to their acolytes. It makes sense and defies scapegoats like "they are media sheeple!"
For sure, and on a more philosophical level, I would think that 'knowing who her citizens are' would be on the shortlist of things a nation-state does.
>It isn't that they don't care

They don't care. While Oliver was able to ask questions to revoke a current response, you could ask similar questions that preyed upon the 'anything to catch the bad guy' mentality and you would see people handing over their rights. The core of this is that the people have been conditioned to hand over their rights and have been conditioned to not realize they are even doing such. Oliver exposed the latter, but the former still exists.
Exactly, and already happening in China.

Bank secrecy was here for a reason.
Google is not listed on the customers list of vidyo BTW
The GP claims most people on HN, which seems likely.
Not to downplay the criticism (I agree with it wholeheartedly), but this argument can apply to literally any piece of software used in the business world, from Photoshop to Windows to Office.
TiltBrush came close to this for me. Particularly the dress form scene. As soon as I found it, I picked the widest brush and started sketching an outfit around it. There's no fabric simulation, though no reason there couldn't be eventually, and it was still fun.

One hit application could be an outfit designer, especially if it can export to physical clothes. Even if it doesn't, it's a powerful artistic tool that also reminds me of The Sims.

Besides that, I can see lots of 3D modelling work done in VR. It seems like a natural boon to architectural design.
Randomly-generated passwords still have to be legal strings
Gemba Kaizen: A Commonsense Approach to a Continuous Improvement Strategy
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Follow the money.

ID checks prevent people from reselling airline tickets. That allows the airlines to make more money from change fees and abandoned tickets. Making the security people do the checks allows the airlines to look innocent in this.
Social graphs help solve and prevent crime.
> 4-5% is the base rate of the ADHD in population, the 11% is the false positive + true positive rate. It's always going to be a number like 11% you dolt, it's harder to get lower than that. Again you actually didn't get the bayes rule example! It's not possible to get the fundamental rate that much. Because of how the numbers multiply out.

I'm honestly taking that as a concession since you simply don't understand what I'm saying.

> I demand you concede verbally.

There isn't anything to concede since you keep tilting against a windmill and failing to understand my issue is medicating 4-9 year old children with such a large percentage of false positives.

The methodology and the difficulty doesn't matter, the end result does.
Robots will never feel emotions, that's what separates us from animals and robots. /s
If you're on Windows, having EMET and/or MBAE are also good ideas.
> You will quickly notice after speaking to people outside your bubble

The irony.
"On top of vanilla js" meaning node.

I understand what you're saying, but it's completely contextual. The title of this article is "All javascript libraries...". Maybe it's just that I'm not a front-end-only developer. I have no clue about the development process for exclusively front end libraries, but I don't see many people develop them without node/npm. Hell, JQuery has a package.json, and:

"In order to build jQuery, you need to have the latest Node.js/npm and git 1.7 or later"

https://github.com/jquery/jquery
Yes, but that fire still happened in earth gravity. They main statement says they are interested in a large scale zero gravity fire. Fire has been shown to burn differently without gravity. Take a look at how a candle burns in space compared to in your home.
I wrote a little bit more about Chocolatey packaging, there is quite a bit of confusion about it because most folks only see the packages on the community feed (https://chocolatey.org/packags) and think that is the only way that Chocolatey works. https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/wiki/GettingStarted#what...
"The Real ID Act created a national standard for state-issued IDs. Some states initially refused to comply, fearing that the federal government would make a national database of citizens."

Aren't Social Security numbers precisely that already? Not asking this question facetiously. Genuinely curious as to the distinction here.

I just generally assume the federal government has a database of citizens, and perhaps several databases. Not stating a political opinion on this one way or the other; just saying that it seems laughably naive to assume they don't, or that they don't already have the means to create one.
Congratulations Jason. Sorry that I won't be able to be there for the party.

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I can understand people complaining. The dialog UI you linked to is a horrible grey text and grey, it's really hard to read. The rest seems to be a case of "flatten it, because it's modern", it really don't make thing more visible or clearer.
I assumed it was all in his 'mind'. These didn't act like AI robots, seemed clear from some of the exposition that there's a mind in there that thinks it is human. Notice the different choices different robots took - one ripped the covering off it's arm, in the big crowd you can see different robots reacting differently - one pushes another out of the way for instance. I'm pretty sure there's reasons for how they acted.
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. It's an old, but a good one.
Sorry about that aggressive comment, it was intended to be humourous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule
It's a huge boon for administration - auto updates, no install procedure, cross platform...
I still don't really see the argument. It can already be debugged in its native form. I'm not sure how making the final product less readable helps with that.

WebAssembly is primarily useful from a performance standpoint.
Yep. Both sides are bluffing and it's just a question of who's going to blink first. And the IRS tie-in is just weird. OK, so they might refuse to issue you a passport if you have more than $50,000 in unpaid federal taxes. They put people in prison for that sort of thing, saying you're not allowed to fly is pretty minor by comparison.

The whole article has a breathlessly conspiratorial tone.
Then why isn't your argument against code size rather than performance? Seems like an odd position to take. The fast path would also be branch predicted in an AOT case.

The only difference in this hypothetical is that the slower path would run faster.
You don't have to have a social security card I don't believe.
You cannot have a right to rebel against that which grants the rights. If the government is what grants rights, then there is no problem with any rights violation as long as they declare you don't have that right.

But we tend to agree that rights are not granted by the government, and while we may not agree what does grant it, the right to rebel against that which does not grant rights does still exist.
This was solved years ago.

All banks, including Swiss banks, now require client identification first (no more "numbered accounts"), and they are disallowed to open accounts for some categories of people.
They have to get their information from somewhere. TV channels are media, too.

Most people don't know Bernie, Hillary and Donald personally, so the only way to get an impression is the media.
This arguments boils down to "they are free persons" which is besides the point and doesn't tell us anything.

This is not about where you start from (totally free, their own time, can do anything) nor about whether they can be forced to do X or Y.

It's about what kind of community and software they (we) want to build, and what would be the best practices and suggestions.

Developers aren't forced to package their libs for npm distribution, write comments, ensure they play well with latest browsers, etc. either, but they do -- not because they are forced to, but because they agree that it's a nice thing to do.

FOSS developers do all sorts of stuff to make their software better for users already -- writing documentation, packaging for various platforms, evangelizing it, conforming to certain standards even when they don't personally use them or care for them etc.

Software development, especially community OSS is not about proving how "individual" one is, and doing everything for fun. It's also about wanting to contribute to a common cause and build some common foundations and best practices for a platform or language etc. Most projects agree to that idea, or at least pay lip service to the idea.

In this case, the TFA is not about forcing anyone to do something they don't want, so your reaction is besides the point. It's about suggesting what the author thinks is the better way for developers to do going forward.

>There is no way anyone should be forced to comply with any standard when they are freely sharing their code.

Force them not, but nudge them towards complying, or convince them to comply, yes, there are TONS of ways. Advocacy for some specific practice, like TFA does, is one.
> Do you sometimes get frustrated with not being allowed to park close to the office in the handicap parking spots? Do you feel jealous of your handicapped co-workers?

A handicapped parking spot is an accommodation to help compensate for a disability. It is not comparable to having a child.

> What about co-workers who are addicted to cigarettes and get to take smoke breaks?

You don't have to smoke to take breaks. Companies don't offer exclusive breaks for smokers anymore.
In theory, yes. Though SSNs aren't unique. Which was a problem for me, though I guess the other holder of my SSN has passed since I haven't had any issues in years.
At work our entire front end is TypeScript, and thanks to source mapping I've never had to look at JavaScript even when debugging problems. Typescript simply adds type annotations so you can get error underlining when you misuse a variable, and even more importantly (productivity wise) you get auto-complete members as you type.

Don't want types? Fine don't use them, and you have JavaScript code again.
Bias need not be coordinated or conspiratorial to exist in media. Trump and Clinton each have more than twice the earned (free) media coverage than their nearest competitors. The amount each campaign spends on bought media is a small fraction of what is bestowed by news editors and producers.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/03/15/ny-times-trumps-mamm...
How so? Anyone can contribute to javascript but only a very small subset of javascript developers can contribute to the typescript library.
Javascript will be around and in vogue as long as it's the ubiquitous browser language.
Typescript? Who knows - some other language transpiling to js might be in vogue in a few months and then nobody would be around to maintain your libraries.
Do you have a link to the original?
Except that in the USSR the checks existed because many people simply weren't allowed to travel, you can still take other modes of transportation without a passport, and this passport requirement has a roughly zero chance of actually happening.

I'm no fan of the airline security apparatus, but let's be realistic.