skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has some major growth potential. As long as its secure, of course.
Respectfully, I disagree. This is not about ad revenue, or saving the news industry. It's about the ALL websites that get ad revenue, completely losing their minds over ads and desperately latching on to anything that pays, no matter the consequences, or how awful it makes the browsing experience. Something has to give, but it's not going to change until someone forces these websites to act more responsibly.
This is definitely a valid concern to have.

Based on our research we think the guts and functionality of the product are portable to other use cases in the legal system. We might have to tweak the data model a bit, but the guts of the application should stay the same.

Also, although the market for PDs is "small" in the grand scheme of startups we think there is still plenty of money in it to at least generate enough cash flow to start a company that builds this class of solutions for high volume legal practitioners.
This is described in The Singularity is Near (edit: or How to Create a Brain. I dont' remember which) as the Law of Accelerating Returns, and is exactly what this journalist falls prey to. Human brains are accustomed to viewing the world linearly, not exponentially. Cascading technological breakthroughs are exponential, and therefore highly unlikely to be able to be predicted correctly without accounting for that bias.
We're talking about exceptional circumstances. With hundreds of millions of autonomous vehicles on the road, 1 in a billion is next Tuesday. We can minimize the need for this decision, but leaving the behavior undefined will just lead to headaches when it does happen.
It seems like a well thought compromise, but it doesn't work for many users. Moxie must have plans to support certificate-based identification/authentication in order to remove the number requirement. There's no reason you need a SIM card to make voice calls, video calls and text chat.
The vast majority of hedge funds have high water marks on fees now. I'd love to see the source on "almost all of them lose money" - since my experience doesn't tie up. I'm assuming you're talking about returns vs passive indexation after fees?

Of course any reported results on hedge fund returns are kinda funky for the reason of bias that you mention.
It depends on what orbit you're trying to reach. Looking at the raw speed needed doesn't tell the whole story, because now that the space race is over and most launches actually try to do something besides set a record, you can't just launch into whatever orbit is convenient.

If you're going for something highly inclined then it doesn't matter at all. Launching to the ISS from Baikonur is no more costly than launching to the ISS from Canaveral or Guiana. Launching into a high equatorial orbit, like for a comsat, is far more costly because you can't naturally achieve an inclination lower than the latitude of the launch site, so you need an expensive plane change. If you wanted to launch into a low equatorial orbit for some reason then it would be even worse, and the high-latitude launch sites would become impractical.

And actually, Israel is far from the worst case. The worst case would be something like launching into an equatorial orbit from a site at one of the poles. This would require something like 25-30% more delta-v, which because of the rocket equation means vastly more rocket for the same payload. But for a polar orbit, launching from the poles would be fine, actually very slightly better than an equatorial launch site because you wouldn't have to cancel out the speed you get from the Earth's rotation.
The author did compare their performance with captcha-solving services. His accuracy is comparable to the service with no extra cost to the attacker.

From the paper: "We compare our performance to that of Decaptcher, the (self-reported) oldest captcha-solving service. We selected Decaptcher for two reasons. First, it supports the image reCaptcha, charging $2 per 1000 solved captchas. [...] Interestingly, some of our summitted challenges rejected due to the service being overloaded, and had to be resubmitted
at a later time, and received a time-out error as the solvers did not provide an answer in the time window
allocated by the service. 258 challenges (36.85%) were an exact match. When taking into account the flexibility,
321 (44.3%) of the captchas were solved. The average solving time for the challenges that received a solution was
22.5 seconds. While the accuracy may increase over time as the human solvers become more accustomed to the
image reCaptcha, it is evident that our system is a cost-effective alternative. Nonetheless, our completely offline
captcha-breaking system is comparable to a professional solving service in both accuracy and attack duration, with
the added benefit of not incurring any cost on the attacker."
> Note-taking with a lead pencil, first mass-produced in the 17th Century, just isn’t so different than using a fountain pen, patented in 1827; a ballpoint pen, patented in 1888; or a felt-tipped marker, patented in 1910.

Writing long notes using lead pencil or ballpoint pen was painful experience for me. You have to press the pencil against paper to leave a mark.

Then I discovered fountain pens and high quality rollerball/gel pens. Fountain pen is still the best writing instrument there is. The ability to let the pen rest on the paper on it's own weight and just move it around makes long periods of writing comfortable experience.

I have picked the habit of writing drafts and making notes by by hand again if I have to learn new things. It's interesting how much better memory works with physical things. I have lots of hand written notebooks laying around and I seem to remember what's in them much better than what's inside text documents I have written.
Those are not simple problems. Generalized Chess is EXPTIME complete, so I'd say it's pretty hard.
@hnpedant I'm afraid your comment is full of logical fallacies, and I'm not going to point them out to you, suffice to say that no, that is not what I am saying.
>That being said, I think we are finally at the dawn of "useful AI"

Were AI systems that outperformed humans in solving complex differential and integral equations useless? Were systems that diagnosed diseases better than doctors useless? Were systems that handled logistics at scale never possible before useless?

All of those were created in the past (60s, 70s, 80s).

The problem with AI was never the lack of results. It was the hype that far exceeded the results, however useful and practical they were.
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Not just YouTube, over 200 websites including daily motion, vimeo and, well were all adults here so I'm just gonna say it,pornhub. Supports authentication. And you can download with any format using -f flag. Also I'm not sure about that, but I thing you can use apt-get to download it as well.
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You get the same sort of problems jessedhillon was talking about.

That is, you lose absolutely nothing - just changes its semantics.
I know jdownloader. Have been using it in it's early days for 1-click hosters on a separate machine. Don't trust it at all ;)
Submitter here.

Over the last number of months me and a friend have built a website (www.seenonset.com) for finding and buying furniture and decor that's found on the set of movies and TV shows. I have a technical background and he has an interiors background.

The website isn't particularly interesting from a technical view point - it's a standard ASP.NET MVC web application hosted on Azure. But on the business side it's a bit more interesting; we're trying to provide a new approach to buying household items that ties in with peoples connection with media. We think it's an especially good time for something like this since online sales for furniture is growing and there is a real lack of brand awareness when it comes to furniture which we want to change.

Anyways, I know the furniture and interiors market isn't a typical interest of HN but I was hoping for the usual critiquing in terms of the business model (we rely on affiliate sales for the moment) and website design, along with any other thoughts you'd care to share. At this point I might just note that the site isn't mobile optimized yet.

Thanks for having a look.
For 9, I would just go with youtube-dl -f 140 (or 141 in some cases). No reason for lossy->lossy conversion.
If the source is open you can verify/test both ways, if it isn't then you only have the external testing option.

The code being publicly available does not guarantee security but makes insecurity easier to find which on balance indirectly increases security.
This interesting approach just raises more questions than it answers; experiments with sample size n=1 being run by non-medically trained individuals are unorthodox and generally suspect in the modern medical climate.
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Highly relevant SMBC - http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4073

But who wants to make themselves look bad? To be fair, I do see occasional posts from people who are seemingly going through a perpetual rough time.
Even if the Govt forces their own certificates on people it won't work with modern browsers because they support certificate pinning (and hence will refuse to visit a site with the wrong CA).

So then they'd need to force Govt browsers on people while also trying to censor browsers from the rest of the world.

None of the above is viable in the short, medium or long term.
Hansen, at this point, is about supporting his preconceived notions rather than trying to understand what is actually going on with the climate system.
The second interpretation is that the point is to create state power to imprison anyone they do not like while giving plausibly legal excuse for this.

The pattern typically goes like this:

1. Create an inane law that no-one obeys

2. Do not enforce the law

3. People forget the law, and behave as they've always done

4. Now, to jail anyone you don't like, just set a police to watch over them and observe any number of the every day tasks declared illegal

5. Congratulations, you now have a seemingly legal mechanism to jail anyone you don't like. Good job!

Lot's of legislation end up stupid because people are not perfect, but since silly all-encompassing laws have been used historically as a tool for oppression one should have as little as possible charity in the interpretation when a silly law is observed.
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>Though it will be fun to watch the insurance companies push back when pot is prescribed for whiplash, colorblindness, and genital herpes.

Why do doctors face no backlash for prescribing painkillers willy nilly. Americans use legal painkillers more than any other country in the world.
I wonder how if this was IPv6 if this problem would still entail and if IPv6 has design aspects that would negate this issue?

Would the lookup be different or the design aspect that produces what many would class a edge case instance, one that as companies grow, is only going to become more common.
This is a practical idea. With capital I think you might even be able to recruit existing talent (video series on YouTube or specific person/team who makes them) to help consolidate the utility. I've seen first hand how educators of different levels strive to find good, usable content online in a variety of subjects. The hard sciences is of particular interest.

Related idea(s) for revenue: Purchase of 'supplemental' course materials (PowerPoints?) and/or "asset packages" that bundle relevant, high-quality graphics for educators to use in their own classrooms.

The layout is straightforward and I appreciate the tags for the type (Tutorial, Math, Chemistry). Feels just slightly busy but it's easy on the eyes. Hope it goes great for you and the team!
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User for >4 years. Absolutely love the nifty little tool. But I hated opening up a terminal each time I wanted to initiate a download.

For PopClip[1] users on Mac, I made a little YouTube-dl extension[2] which lets you initiate the download just by selecting the video URL (best when done from browser's address bar) and clicking a button. Been using it as my primary ytdl client for past 5 months now.

[1]: https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/

[2]: https://github.com/k4rtik/popclip-ytdl
They already do. That's why it updates pretty much every time I do a homebrew update.
Oh man, that is REALLY cool. I may actually have to use Bing now.
most annoying captcha ever tbh. im logged into my account and solve it 10x per day (slowly as fuck) and it cant tell im human yet?

fucking fuckers.
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The warnings are mostly about NIFs you write yourself, which you typically
avoid if possible. And jiffy itself goes quite a long way to cooperate with
Erlang VM's internals (at least so I've heard).
Quite interesting how the authors even mention that this strategy is very economically viable.

From the paper: 'Assuming a selling price of $2 per 1,000 solved captchas, our token harvesting attack could accrue $104 - $110
daily, per host (i.e., IP address). By leveraging proxy services and running multiple attacks in parallel, this amount
could be significantly higher for a single machine.'
7/7 being a score that no practicing crypto engineer would be likely to come up with for that application.
The low-end camera market has always been dominated by "good enough" right from the beginning. Things like box cameras have always been enormously popular, see: the Kodak Brownie line. Disposable cameras were another "good enough" product, and actually remain extremely popular in less affluent parts of the world to this day.

And the thing to remember here is that the smartphone is displacing another "good-enough" product, the digital point-and-shoot, not high-end DSLRs. It's just a matter of convenience to have it in your smartphone instead of two separate devices.

Smartphones do not replace a high-end camera system - but those were never something that everyone owned/carried in the first place. The vast majority of cameras out there have always been the cheap variety that mom uses to snap pictures of her kids.
The same way I feel about potential employers giving candidates a take home exam.

I don't like it but could care less what they choose to do. I just don't participate.
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No, and the burden of proof would be on you if you're claiming it's likely that they're lying.

Edit: my broad claim is basically that companies won't lie about what their products do, if their claims are specific. In this case, they released a whitepaper with technical details.

If a company makes a broad unspecific claim, it's possible to be wrong or misleading without the implication of a deliberate lie by the company. In this scenario, it's not possible for it be wrong without a direct decision to lie, and therefore I think the reputational damage would be great if exposed, and it would be easily exposed by analysing network traffic before long.

What I'm claiming in the specific here is that "the system implemented matches what the whitepaper says". I wouldn't put it beyond facebook to backdoor it in a way that's hard to figure out (with the backdoor included in the whitepaper ala Dual_EC_DRBG), but I'd consider that to be unlikely (firstly because there are actual humans behind it at the end of the day, and I'd hope that they would feel that "claim to release encryption but put a backdoor in" is morally worse than just not releasing encryption at all, and secondly because Whisper systems is involved). But all of that could arise in an open source system as well. What I have high confidence in is that the system matches the whitepaper. (There's also the possibility of an implementation problem that preserves plausible deniability for them, which I also consider unlikely.)

All in all, reducing their grade by 1 point to account for additional risk in closed source seems reasonable to me.
I have worked pretty damn hard to get where I am, but it occurs to me more and more that there's no good explanation that in a country as wealthy as ours that you need to work yourself to the bone just to get a moderately good lifestyle. And then we brag about the fact that we worked 2 jobs through college or whatever like it's some kind of badge of honor to be a voluntary slave for a few years.

I'm not saying a Cadillac in every driveway, and there should definitely be reward for those willing to put in the extra hours and what have you, but you shouldn't need to put in extra hours just to claw your way to what would be considered a basic American lifestyle. I think that's silly.
>Bundles do not have anywhere near the same flexibility and nuanced capacity that patches do.

Interesting. That's basically what the people who suggested bundles (a Hg feature) said about patches.

I've used both as appropriate. Handy that Fossil has both.
Anyone else annoyed with the grammar errors on the paper?
It's usable natively on OSX, but Docker isn't.

Surely running youtube-dl inside a docker container inside a virtualbox VM created by boot2docker isn't easier?
I actually have a small node program that downloads your entire Favorites collection by just providing your username as a command line argument if you or anyone's interested
I will admit this has the same freaky uncanny valley eyes as a Rembrandt painting. So, if they can leave the program alone and produce and endless stream of these things it is different than a single physical imitation.

However, I suspect this was highly supervised, and curated aka they picked the best example. So, it's much closer to a painter using a new brush type than an independent thing.
Well that was kind of meta.
At which point you might as well just let someone else compile it and look at their binary.
Not currently, because it conflicts with CSP. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10311020
I'm American, and I generally understand 'to table a debate' to mean 'suspend discussion'. Use of the word 'suspend' is probably more common in informal use, but I often hear 'table' used to mean 'suspend discussion' when the point of the discussion is to reach a formal decision.

For instance, my local paper might report that 'discussion on the proposed ordinance was tabled after hours of heated debate at City Council'. If we've been talking about a point for too long without reaching a conclusion at work, somebody might suggest we table it.

I first encountered the 'present for discussion' meaning in Model U.N., which I found very confusing. The BBC World Service uses that meaning, which is extremely confusing when they are reporting on American politics.
A verification of security is always based on an attacker model. There is no general security.

The actual point is not security, but trust and certainty. Being Open Source does not change whether some messaging app is secure or not. It changes our knowledge about the code. It also makes me have a little bit more trust in some company for revealing their stuff.

Even if WhatsApp open-sources the clients, there is still the problem of US jurisdiction. NSA can force them to silently including a backdoor or send everything to NSA-servers.

Trust is a difficult thing.
Your message history is lost unless you back it up yourself. Your contacts receive a message stating you changed the key once you send them a message or they send you one. I'd presume any messages that were sent before you activated the new key, but not received yet, cannot be decrypted any more.

I do not know how this works with push messages though; it used to be such that these can only be sent as-is so the server would need the key.
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The new O'Reilly book "Fundamentals of Deep Learning" by Nikhil Buduma (available on Safari for a while now) is good at the fundamentals- very clearly explained, nice diagrams. It it relatively close to the path of my Neural Networks classes (although those were 20 years ago).

It necessarily shorter on detail in terms of the tricks of implementation that have radically improved performance of these techniques over the past 5 years, and might serve as a good read before diving into this via Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville.
With the exception that if you drive to store and back home for a single item, you'll have the item inside of an hour. If you live close, inside of 15 minutes?

When I know I will need batteries in a week, I'll buy a box on Amazon and get it in a few days. If I need batteries now, I'll have them within an hour. It's certainly not "like going to the DMV."
So, if the government is capable of developing contingency plans for handling droughts and doesn't, it's the drought's fault when shit hits the fan?
Especially if you don't use it elsewhere or the task does not justify learning it. Like here.
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True, but the point of the Apple store is to sell Apple products, and the Google Play store only sells google devices. Amazon supposedly sells everything. It wasn't created to only sell Amazon products, and it's misleading to consumers to not be more open about that.

Case in point - they sell iPads. Why don't they just sell Kindles? The inconsistency comes off as sleezy.
every chrome map function starts with this line.

array = Object.wrap(array)

Object.wrap does

foo = {}; for(i in array) foo[i] = array[i]`

its always gonna be slower than any other anything :o
This kind of concern trolling seems to ignore the idea of loosely coupled nation states which have already implemented a variety of superior health care systems. Costs less, their people are more healthy. What I like to call "existence proofs". Just because ACA is a terrible idea for one nation doesn't mean that sole implementing nation should then hide behind exceptionalism (NIH) or weird textualism legal constructs and pretend what meager progress has been made so far is in some way radical.
This is exactly why I love FOSS. The main functionality is there and every user can customize it to best suit his needs.
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You comment almost comes off dismissive - saying that there is only one path to the singularity; by mapping the brain first. If you look at discoveries in several areas, it's happens in leaps and bounds. Think about jet engines, radar, atomic weapons, the computer and mobile phones. All happened in huge leaps, not just by adhering to one rigorous standard and making small inroads here and there.

I'm pretty sure the singularity is a long, long way off, but it will happen. Humans have to evolve, and at some point, we won't be the top of the evolutionary ladder anymore. Whether that means evolving to something more cyborg like, or creating another race of robot humanoids (where you're going to have inherit conflict), it will happen. The dinosaurs didn't last for 65 million years without evolving several times themselves.
You can compile the binary yourself and match the SHA1 against the binary downloaded from the store. It seems quite trivial.
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Don't you need to be dead to have a ghost?
I rarely/never use that phrase, but I've often used "let's just table it" to mean "put off indefinitely until we forget about it."
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It is if you have the raw computational power. At the moment our best computers are still a few orders of magnitude off the raw computational resources of the human brain.

Of course the downside of doing this is we have really no idea of what the AI is thinking or why. This may not be the wisest way to create an AI.
Stealing that
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Could a function with a body like just

for(;;){
}

be preempted?